But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...

Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.

Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine: www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...

So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.

This reminds me of the story my parents had of when they were young and they wanted to breed finches, so my mom went to get a pair and came back with two pretty ones saying “they had these little ugly ones, I don’t know why anyone would want those” and my dad was like “those… were the females…”

That was generations before the internet, where basically everything is either a lie or lashon hara. Where milliseconds after anything happens, there is more misinformation about it than the entire library of alexandria, pumped directly into your brain.

This whole thread!

In Judaism, there is a whole huge, massive framework called Lashon Hara, evil speech. Lashon hara is *not* a lie. It is a true statement, that can be interpreted to give a negative impression of another person.

Dundas St E garage door art-walk. Between Jones and Pape, artists have worked with homeowners to take a drab line of fences & garages and make them vibrant and beautiful. This is just a fraction of the work, take a moment to stop and enjoy them when you're nearby. #leslieville #toronto

The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

2013, NYC. Laurie & Lou meet Pee-wee Herman

(not) sorry to keep hammering the point, but this really is the thing: as AI-generated video becomes more sophisticated, it will only become harder for non-experts to tell what's real and what isn't based on incongruous details, but an old-fashioned "source??" will always give the sloppers away.

no one asked but just so everyone who follows me knows, real psychrolutes (blobfish) look like this normally

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long & close read of Wake Up Dead Man, particularly its focus on “religion, faith, and grace”. [reactormag.com]

I can't see this video without thinking about this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR6...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music

This is a good piece

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

This reminds me of a trick I learned here: if you want Google Translate to use the informal "tu" in French instead of "vous", plus the associated verb conjugations, you must swear or use insults. Try "You must put the book on the table" versus "You must put the book on the table, you twit".

Hell World. Hell World. Hell World.

This has been a truly tragic weekend. Can't think of a single damn thing to say. Need the breath of music.

Progress shot of the latest #embroidery! I always find depicting water reflections to be an interesting challenge, and it’s a bit part of this one.

What a loss. Mass market paperbacks are the ideal novel format.

🎵 (Christmas) The snow's comin' down (Christmas) I'm watchin' it fall 🎵 #12DaysOfDarleneLove

And for those who heard about the Biblically-accurate angel. BE NOT AFRAID

The image you may have seen today that showed a polished, yellow-orange Dick Van Dyke sitting with a cartoonish 100th birthday cake was AI slop. The 30-year old image of him with Mary Tyler Moore that is linked in the post below is a real photo taken by the real photographer Annie Leibovitz.

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

Portrait of the Painter Anton Peschka, 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24856

watch me draw an extremely realistic struthiomimus in under three minutes* *like 70 minutes irl

Hey, y'all. If you bought bread in canada between 2001 - 2021, you probably shopped at a Superstore. You have until 10 pm MST to submit a claim to the folks handling compensation: www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca?_gl=1*1ebxqu....

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

So. We’re doing alt text discourse again. COOL. Welcome to a primer.🧵 If you're unfamiliar with what alt text is, what it means, and how it's used around here, the following may be helpful. Although it's still a very underused feature, users can add "alt text" to any image 🧵 [1 of 9]

It turns out that putting Peewee's Breakfast Machine over the Murderbot intro works *so* well, people don't recognize it's a gag. Anyway, read The Murderbot Diaries.

Seasonal reminder that raisins are extremely toxic to dogs and cats, just a few of them will kill your pet. Christmas-themed food, which is often packed with raisins, and then handed to small children, *will* end up in a pet's belly.

Tomorrow!

complaining about paywalls when so many journalists are being laid off and there are fewer market incentives to do great reporting and in-depth investigations, data analysis and features is also wild when everyone understands you need to pay for electronics, streaming services, and utilities

This is a great feature from Inori Roy and Duane Cole about the Line 6 LRT launch this weekend, examining how the line could affect the people who live and work along Finch West. More irreplaceable journalism from @thelocal.to

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

i am not going to idly sit by while everyone trashes wonderful christmastime. you're all going on a list

I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵 I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.