My first foray into oil painting and I clearly have no idea what I’m doing. My current painting method consists of equal parts guesswork and profanity. But here’s an in-progress look at my attempt at the @taskmaster.tv - apologies in advance to @alexhorne.bsky.social when I start his portrait.

Very proud of @trunkmanuk.bsky.social ‘s incredible work with @cosmicshambles.com and creating this amazing documentary series www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Still plugging away at my Primitive Empire Strikes Back, I’ve finished up with Hoth. A lot of tauntauns didn’t make it. youtu.be/iCAwONvkFE4?...

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Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

I really ended up liking this sequence from my little Primitive Empire Strikes Back project.

yall this thread is everything good in this world 🐝

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

Fanuza Kadirova of @pwhlcharge.bsky.social is such a great player and deserves her own bobblehead figurine. So I sculpted one in ZBrush and 3D printed it - then chickened out on adding the bobblly spring part because I thought I'd mess it up. Still, it was fun! #pwhl youtube.com/shorts/LOxLw...

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

Outrageous

@thepwhl.com Petition to name the expansion team the Detroit Speed so the players can be called “Vroommates”

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Happy Birthday, David Attenborough

Cake

Come on Spelling Bee embrace innovation

Raising Ruby can be a challenge

I’m not saying my book on Chernobyl is radioactive but when I started it there was only one black cat on my lap. Is this cat fission or

How Entenmann’s would conquer the world

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

@smotus.bsky.social lays down the case for being an AI-teetotaler and I am here for it

This might not be the time but I really wonder if they had to specifically style Cindy’s hair in the Brady Bunch because the intro song’s lyricist couldn’t think of another rhyme for “girls.”

Well this is a right bi’ a Barney

Tell me, when you drop bombs on giant crowds of peaceful protestors, are you the good guys?

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

What a beautiful moment.

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

Just...in general

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

We are lucky to have Katie Mack

Spelling Bee, in another attempt at wresting creative control from Nature, denies the existence of methane

We have so many cat beds in our house

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

Of or relating to bacon. Spelling Bee consistently refuses to expand our jentacular vernacular

Still some hope left

Cat scratch school

Lovely youtu.be/WLhaPQvCExs?...

Katie Mack could write stereo instructions and it would be a must-read.

Tactical crab

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.