They should invent pen pals again. Imagine how cool it would be to get a letter from a Friend.

🌊🐉 #illustration #BRArt #fantasyart #kidlitart

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

Amid some big news at CES this week around solid-state batteries, we look at why they show such promise—and why they haven't happened yet despite years of R&D: insideevs.com/news/749893/...

#contemporary #photography

Here's a critique that gets at just how wrong The Economist is: www.thesling.org/the-economis....

Just Passing by Chinese-Canadian artist Yehan Wang (born in 1959). #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I can’t believe these tech finance demons figured out how to blow up prices on the PC market AGAIN except this time it’s basically every component except the enclosure aaahhhhhhhh

“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

We need to do something about this shit. Props to @bennjordan.bsky.social for pressing this issue so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

Artist: Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941) Title: "View of Aarhus Bay as seen from the south" (n.d.) Medium: oil on canvas (68 x 59 cm) Private collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

You don't see yellow on white like this too often!

Andrew MacCallum (British, 1821-1902) 'Old Trent Bridge, Nottingham' (1849) Oil on canvas, 71 x 94 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Megaman robo boss in 2025 would be like... Heat Pump Man

I feel like hand-making postcards for the holidays would be cool if it wasn't for the fact that idk what to do with post cards, and I don't know what other people do with them, and I wouldn't want to put hours of work into something that just gets thrown out after a few seconds.

Antonio Leto (1844-1913), Italian painter. Title: "Estate caprese." Medium: oil on canvas mounted on cardboard. Dimensions: height 39.5 cm (15.5 in); width 25.2 cm (9.9 in). Signature bottom center: Leto. Source/Photographer: Bonhams, London, United Kingdom. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Young Loggerhead Sea Turtle 💙 #ArtAdventCalendar day 14 I loved painting this in watercolor. My composition is inspired by visits to wonderful @montereybayaquarium.org. #art #ArtShare #ocean #nature #watercolor #Monterey #Stunday 🎨 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com/collections/...

It is absolutely shocking to me that windows does not ship with basic PDF utilities. It is 2025, I should not have to pay Adobe to merge a couple of PDFs into one file. Every desktop Linux distro has been able to do this since like 2004

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Very early morning sunrise over Pemaquid Point, Maine. Plein air watercolor. #pleinairwatercolor #maine #summerlight #watercolor

Woke up to this at dawn…

As I read in a popular science book long ago, "space is cold, but not in a useful way"

What a weird change for bluesky to make it so that muting someone immediately removes their post from your feed. I used to use that to mute and then select "show less like this" in one fell swoop.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Flow 🎨 acrylics on canvas 12x12”

You ever think about how conscious time is basically the most valuable thing we have and it’s been commodified for us to labor for other people’s benefit and all the objects around the world are the embodiment of people’s lives spent on this process :)

Very cool radioactive fungus news From @chelleraiser.bsky.social www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...

Happy #WorldLinguisticsDay from Indiana!

Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!

Throwback to launching our very first merch this time in 2017 (!!) Silky scarves with characters from the International Phonetic Alphabet on them! Originally only in red, navy, and olive these scarves became so popular we later expanded to other colours and subfields lingthusiasm.redbubble.com

I want to learn to make steak tips... Can't stop thinking about those.

Alex Nizovsky (American Artist, born 1977) "California Hills", 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 76.2 × 101.6 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Hi i'm Robbie, i'm an artist based in London! I love doing paintings that have lots of mood and emotion ! I'm currently looking for work as a Visual Development/Colour Artist and Background Painter. 🎨http://artstation.com/robbie-aldis ✉️[email protected] Some of my recent daily paintings!!

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

It's weird bluesky doesn't (usually?) let you zoom in on images.

First day as a doctor: Okay, the X-ray shows your bones are all still there, so you’re probably fine.

genuinely think the USPS would make legitimate money selling serious merch via collabs with fashion brands

engineers are basically professional understanders of complex systems. When someone I respect sends a PR I trust that it reflects a reasonably complete model of the system in their head. AI doesn't have it, it has an educated guess with varying levels of plausibility.

One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI. Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Whipping Through Ancient Greece 8"x8" acrylic on stretched canvas

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

You can tell an account is a bot on here bc it'll have 🇨🇦 in their bio

I wish every time I got a cold it didn't last for a MONTH

Bugs are so small they can probably taste individual carbohydrates huh

Oh my GOD??? 20 THOUSAND times effectiveness??? I didn't read the study itself, just this article, so hopefully there's nothing sneaky going on. But on its face this sounds like a profound breakthrough.