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Drop your 4 favourite foreign language horror films. (Honestly difficult to limit this to only 4 films.)

OP includes a link to the apartment listing, this isn’t a phony screenshot. I am horrified and amused.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

This is why, to every student's displeasure, you have to practice diligently and apply a great deal of rational analysis to your learning. Your goal is to learn how the building blocks of your art – words, notes, colors, etc – fit together, so you can eventually assemble them effortlessly

I made some little horses for this update! I love how the glaze came out on them. They’ll be available this Friday, February 20th at 8pm Eastern time.

Happy Horse Year #art #DarkArt #horror

Ok back to older-than-10 minutes baby seal content before I hit the road again. Need a ruling on this 10 meter blob scoot(scootle?). Mama is CLEARLY THROWING here, but the rules are the rules? Baby wins? @sickoscommittee.org 🦑 🦭

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Oooh! Kilauaea is fountaining right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

I didn't grow up reciting "with liberty & justice for all" every morning at 7am just to be called "radical" for actually wanting liberty & justice for all ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25”x46.25”, charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

The first #kakapo chick for four years hatched two days ago (on Valentine’s Day for those who like to anthropomorphise!). Here’s Tiwhiri-A1-2026 in Yasmine’s nest. 📸: Deidre Vercoe. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds

Angry bird. #birds 🌿

RISO Global has been fuming for years that everyone keeps using their machines to make zines and avant-garde art prints rather than their intended use, giant institutions that want to print 500 copies of something as cheaply as possible but also for some reason really need to use fluorescent orange

Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

All jokes aside. As an autistic adult myself listening to the anti-vax “vaccines cause autism” adults essentially say “I’d rather run the very real risk of my kids dying than turning out like you” was very much a punch to the gut.

“Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city.” Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.

I think it's @livraineysmith.bsky.social who when I send pics of sea creatures likes to ask "did you touch it?" Surprisingly large baby sea cucumber. Touched.

Ooh! This is any easy question to answer! Everyone. Everyone needs a bright smile from Piglet.

During the Eocene Epoch, 25 million years ago, parts of North America as far north as Oregon were covered with a sub-tropical forest that was nearly identical to the one found in Central America today. These large Brontotherium teeth only hint at the majestic size of a well preserved, adult skull.

A magnificent set of choices led to this. What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Pulled out a Spider print to reference the foreground texture for my current piece. When carving it can be easy to lose sight of the tone you're aiming for in the finished art. Being able to glance over at my prior work helps keep my line spacing in check. #art #woodcut #wip

We all need a a timeline cleanse! A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom. A lovely weekend to all of you 🐸 📷Cleveland Museum of Art

ASTORIA OR! Home of The Goonies. Suuuper excited to be involved with this killer lineup on Valentine's Day (SAT FEB 14th) at Fort George Brewery's annual Festival of Dark Arts!! One day, three stages on the festival grounds!!! More info TBA.

happy valentines day to the lovers and the biters 💗

The government just threw these in the trash. What a find!

So anyway here’s a new photo in my collection from one of my favorite genres: Toilet Detective.

If you want to know a little bit more about my process, I also made a public post on Patreon about referencing my prior woodcuts. www.patreon.com/posts/150689...

I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Tonight we ride!

Paper print of BURGLAR ON THE ROOF (1897), a Vitagraph comedy featuring a housebreaker being set upon by the broom-wielding women of an apartment building. Paper prints of every film frame were deposited for copyright purposes and have become an accidental means of preservation.

This is how I learned Borden used to sell irradiated evaporated milk as perfect for making baby formula!

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

Past issues of NESS have featured lush interior art through and through, so yes, doubling up on said interior art would be terrific. (Artists credited in the alt text.)

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein. Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

Fam, is it bad when sitting Republican Congressmen post "I am not suicidal if I die it is murder" messages to hundreds of thousands of followers?

Pulled out a Spider print to reference the foreground texture for my current piece. When carving it can be easy to lose sight of the tone you're aiming for in the finished art. Being able to glance over at my prior work helps keep my line spacing in check. #art #woodcut #wip

It's hard to grasp how large this grouper is until you see it in comparison to the ship's toilet on the left. This appears to be an Atlantic goliath grouper or 'itajara' (Epinephelus itajara). They can reach 800 lbs (350 kg) & 8 feet long (2.5 m) Let's talk about these gentle giants.

Incredible news!! @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social's 2026 crowdfund funded in a mere 29 hours, and is about halfway to making the goal of double art.

For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Sometimes I make stuff that’s even sillier than my usual lol #3Dprinting

Usually, not cause for alarm.

When they say arresting all the people in the Epstein files who aren’t victims would collapse the government/world economy, I think: Let’s test that thesis.