#WIPSnips Beyond Seattle

Nooo not the Dinotopia guy

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

happy #fossilfriday! this is postschizotherium, a rather strange hyrax that lived in the pliocene and early pleistocene of russia and china. weighing over half a tonne, recently described skull material indicates that it likely had an amphibious lifestyle like a hippo (art by @somniosa.bsky.social)

since it's appreciate a dragon day, meet thanatosdrakon, the so-called dragon of death 🐉 this azhdarchid - known for its appearance in JWE3 - is known from two specimens, one of which is relatively complete by the standards of the clade (art by vikasrao)

I missed again #PortfolioDay 🎨🥲 Raquel here, illustrator and comic artist, I work both with digital and traditional techniques, always open for commissions (altough I am quite busy lately 😅). nekroticism.portfoliobox.net ko-fi.com/nekroticism #illustration #adar #trop #oc #ghash #blasphemous

YAS MIMMOTHS!

This zombie hand (not yet painted) is my new favorite hand I've ever made. I've made maybe ten sets of hands over the years for various projects. I really enjoy making them, I get a little better at it every time, I figure out new little tricks that help most times; it's nice, it makes me happy.

#Whistpr #flower

@juliebeth.bsky.social this young woman plays squeezebox!

Interesting trying to tell the same story in different mediums. You lose something, and gain something, in each. Also I forgot Joel was journalling and that's going to annoy me now. Evie and the Afterlife #25 bsky.app/profile/mumm...

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

On the drive home I was idly thinking about what changes I'd make, if I could, to our system of governance after this administration is - ideally - gone. I suppose in no particular order, here is a list of what I'd do, sorted by the mechanism for doing it.

Was in the shower. Remembered this song. Felt compelled to share this bit. I can't do much about much about the world. But I can bare witness, try to help others not feel alone and unseen. And hopefully be able to do something to help the actual situation.

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Growth is not always light. Sometimes it is pressure, confinement, a tightening silence. Insects and threads build a living structure, a cocoon that protects and suffocates at the same time. A fragile boundary between survival and rebirth. #darkart #liminalspace #psychologicalart

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New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Her return 25x20cm Oil on board At Claremont gallery www.claremontcontemporary.com/wp-content/u... #art #news #painting #classical #travel #naure

prehistoric sea creatures 🌊 #art

Starting a series on Open Social! Hoping to spotlight some of my favorite atproto projects :) And your favorites too, so tag them in the comments! There were a ton of logos in this video, so I've tagged everyone in the comments #tiktoksale #opensocial #atproto

Komodo Dragons can grow up to 10 feet, but most have only four. #joke

#SciArt folks might enjoy this one!

we often talk about “what anime would you adapt into a movie” but here is a reverse: what movies would you adapt into an anime?

To take a completely different tack: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, as a Ghibli film. In fact, all of Terry Gilliam's "Ages of Man" Trilogy (Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) would work, albeit not all as Ghibli-style films.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

thinking about New Mexico this morning

incidentally i once wrote a story about the new and old gods of the river fighting it out: highflyingpoultry.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/a...

Season 6 Trailer #3: Nurse's Log youtu.be/AS22xFib-k4

That is actually what sold VCRs in the first place, and there is a lot of important history there when it comes to the legality of recording copyrighted content for personal use. Court cases and all! I think it's important that we don't forget that history given how we don't get to own anything.

♪♫♬ Internet Rabbithole Time ♪♫♬ ...what if the earliest domestication of animals was a much wilder time than we imagined?? A fascinating interpretation of the 3,500 yo Hierakon tomb painting involving antelope-rustling and literal attack lions www.sumerianshakespeare.com/hierakonpoli...

A commissioned sketch of Dracoraptor, discovered on the southern coast of Wales in 2014.

rock paper scissors

Feds release plan for Colorado River if states don't strike a deal The Bureau of Reclamation released its proposed plan for managing the Colorado River if states fail to strike a deal. The plan offers a range of options for operations at Lake Powell and Lake Mead. www.fox13now.com/news/colorad...

Larry Levis

This is so, so huge. Hell yeah. And fuck these thieves. Particularly love the "lossy compression" comparison; I'd seen the German lawsuit results but not much analysis of it and that's such a perfect technical analogy.

Big new piece: @alexreisner.bsky.social presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces training material—it does not "learn," not really. This could have substantial legal consequences for the tech industry.

standing on business

Just before Christmas we published a new rangeomorph genus #Aninoides, the first new rangeomorph genus that has been introduced for a while I believe. I promised to explain the name after the break so here we are! Happy New Year and happy #FossilFriday!

Stay angry, Lord Homo 💜

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The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Safety in numbers, terror in hordes #art #animalart #sciart #darkart

I am going to do abstract data art forever and no one can stop me

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