Finally! Releasing our first 2026 episode of WHAT'S YR READ, with featured Book: Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow ❤️📖 @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social #LoveMinnesota #FuckICE

You can thank the "Rattlesnake King" for its reputation today. www.iflscience.com/snake-oil-wa...

Wow - that was fast! Thanks, everyone. The account has been removed.

Well, it looks like someone is impersonating me on @bsky.app. Please report @cflourish1122t.bsky.social. This is NOT a backup account, as it claims to be. 🫠

One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS

A carpal bone from the right forefoot of an elephant at the site of Colina de los Quemados, identified with the Iberian oppidum of Corduba,has yielded a radiocarbon dating between the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. The find’s context is intimately linked to the events of the Second Punic War in Hispania

If ever there were three people I wanted to have a drink with, it would be @k8lister.bsky.social, @goingmedieval.bsky.social, and @anatomicalcat.bsky.social! This is gonna be such a great event 👇

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Meeting the contemporary safety standards in #earlymodern Europe by wearing a helmet - decorated with plumes. Safety first, #skystorians.

tbh this is part of the greater modern "everything needs an image" disease of the internet. just use text! "hero images" are a blight on society. and like, i get it, i also notice more people engage with my posts if there's a picture. the trick is to stop caring so much about engagement

Depressing to see AI used in the Olympics opening ceremony. So much of it was showing off Italy's artistic work and people only for the theft and soulless regurgitation of art to be included

A friend who runs a blog had the nerve to tell me that he uses ChatGPT art because he respects artists so much and can't afford to pay them what they deserve. I told him to pretend it's 2010. There was a time recently when we didn't have this technology. Do the work yourself or don't do it at all!

Jack comes knockin'. Acrylics on canvas. Available for purchase. #caricature #art

It's been heartbreaking seeing so many people I know use ChatGPT to generate "caricatures" when I am married to a living, breathing caricaturist. This technology was built off theft. It's soulless & bland. Here's caricatures by @tealcartoons.bsky.social to remind people what human art looks like.

No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images. world.hey.com/jordanacosta...

I spoke with Drs. Azoury & Davis (two plastic surgeons) about my book THE FACEMAKER - about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI. His work was utterly transformative. You can listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2411976/epis...

A friend who runs a blog had the nerve to tell me that he uses ChatGPT art because he respects artists so much and can't afford to pay them what they deserve. I told him to pretend it's 2010. There was a time recently when we didn't have this technology. Do the work yourself or don't do it at all!

It's been heartbreaking seeing so many people I know use ChatGPT to generate "caricatures" when I am married to a living, breathing caricaturist. This technology was built off theft. It's soulless & bland. Here's caricatures by @tealcartoons.bsky.social to remind people what human art looks like.

As an historian I often wonder how people learned nothing from the twentieth century and how we have fallen into the mess and rise of fascism yet again and here we are. People simply *don't care* that they are in a military alliance with and dependant on a fascist state when capitalism requires it.

Don’t forget we have two live #Betwixt shows coming your way in May! We’re in Edinburgh on 23rd May and London Town on the 25th. Get our tickets through the link in my bio or go to fane.co.uk/betwixt and I will see you there!

Even more troubling is how much explanation is offered in the article about the Mona Lisa itself, as if it’s not one of the most famous paintings in the world. We really are getting collectively dumber.

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

I spoke with Drs. Azoury & Davis (two plastic surgeons) about my book THE FACEMAKER - about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI. His work was utterly transformative. You can listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2411976/epis...

Good news for authors from the @britishmuseum.bsky.social security guards this morning. Nodding approval at the content of my bag, I was told ‘books are trending’.

My new, free-to-read article might just be my Substack swansong. It's about how we caricaturists need to raise standards in our art-form. I'm hoping to start a discussion with it, so please share it around, if so inclined. Thank you. #caricature #art open.substack.com/pub/tealcart...

@tealcartoons.bsky.social and I are going on BBC Radio Northampton to discuss our kids' book. He told me I didn't need to worry about my appearance since it's radio, so naturally I spent all morning getting ready.

If you're free to listen late morning, @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social and I will be chatting with @berniekeith.bsky.social on the Beeb at around 11.40 this morning. Tune in here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

When your anti-leftist campaign fails hard 👀

What's great about Tim Burton is that he looks like a Tim Burton character.

Given the WaPo news, a PSA from me and @katecarp.bsky.social:

Blueskis. There is now a video. 🐝🐝🐝

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

I saw this model by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo in Paris on Saturday. He was a wax modeller who worked with a surgeon in Genoa, replicating his dissections in wax. Only two of his models survive from the end of the 17thC. I’ve posted photos of the one in La Specola in Florence before - this is the other

Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

I've been punching up the detail on these guys today. #caricature #art

I’ve never heard a real medical practice describe itself as “functioning like a real medical practice”

Gerard Ter Borch The Smoker 1663 - 1665 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

The Purgatory Chapel of St Michael’s Church in Untergriesbach, Bavaria displays a small collection of bones, included skulls that have been painted, usually with the name and dates of the person, sometimes their occupation, and other decoration.

This is a set of four dissecting hooks with ebony handles. They were used to hold flaps of skin in place that have been cut and pulled back during a dissection to reveal the underlying layers.

This is a saliva ejector used to remove fluids such as saliva and blood from a patient's mouth during procedures. #TriviaTuesday

Yay!! @booksky.bsky.social

The Japanese artist Shinji Nakaba is a master of creating skulls and other anatomical forms from pearls no larger than the end of a finger tip. Nakaba considers these works “wearable sculptures,” as each pearl takes the form of a ring, necklace, or pin.

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

Painting of the mighty Frederick Douglass. #caricature #art

Over my more than 30 years as a creative professional, I have slowly learned to be very wary of people who put a lot of time and energy into creating and nurturing a public persona. I have often found that there is something really bad hiding behind that persona.

Need a distraction from the 24-hour news cycle? Check out "Balloon Dog Anatomy" by the great Jason Freeny.

Happy Groundhog Day to people who reject climate science, but do believe in weather predictions from captive rodents.

It's the end of the era of the mass market paperback. This makes me sad. As a kid these were the first "adult" books I read, the fantasy and sci-fi, and part of the reason I could grab them and gobble them was because they were so CHEAP! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Neil Gaiman picking now to declare his innocence while elevating an anonymous handle (“TechnoPathologist”) as a “journalist” is where I’m out. Read the f-ing room.

Pencil study of Billy Connolly. #caricature #art