thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Me, about to be disappointed: I wonder what's going on in the world

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

I wrote this after the election but it might be time to repost it, because it’s even creepier now, and more on-point.

IN CASE OF METHODISTS HIDE DOWNSTAIRS

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

When Andrew noticed a little old man among a group of new arrivals at his prison, he instinctively knew that the man was Korean. He went over and greeted him. From there, they formed a powerful bond: "He needed help navigating incarceration. I needed a father."

Ever been curious about World Anvil? It's like a wiki for your worldbuilding with a super active and friendly community! Here's three worlds I highly recommend checking out to see what you can do🧵 (note: I am friends with these people, it is a friendly community after all)

US Chemical Safety Board posted a new video. It is a good day

Lol I just found this random bsky account that posts hourly photos of E18 with a (presumably LLM-assisted) caption 😂

my favorite thing to do is to sit in one spot in my house and give expository dialog to anyone who walks in uninvited and talks to me

Been struck by a sudden desire to try a rose hip. Unfortunately all the spring roses in the backyard had been pruned, but I spotted a Bengal rose with green hips and a Rosa canina which might bloom later in the season. Here's hoping 🤤

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

We must reject the cold equations

Agreed, it's really more a thought exercise for critics, lit scholars, and wannabes in each camp. Writers need not commit themselves to neatly categorizing their own work. (Also, per Nietzsche and others, categories only exist in our heads.)

i love the concept of space whales so much, i had to include them in solaris. an article about the leviathans, their friends, and the great migration: an event that occurs every four centuries during solar maximum www.worldanvil.com/w/solaris-nn... [ #art #solaris #worldbuilding #featurefriday ]

This is interesting! Some climbing nightshade (solanum dulcamara) climbed all the way through a bush and is now happily fruiting on top of it.

my dad wants AI to be the next new thing, for it to be clever and smart, and so he gives it opportunities to be clever and smart. like a kid he wants to help show off, half feeding them the answer as they're pushed infront of us. a construct of a construct, a mechanical turk but you're the turk too

Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris, engsmelle)! It's a common wildflower with a very distinctive shape that gives it its name. Spotted in Sweden near Örebrö.

Collected sightings of various swedish plants on the swedish trip :)

"Listen, we're not on a studio set. We're not on the backlot at Sony. We're in New York City, and it's going to feel like it." for @defector.com, i talked to the team behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign videos to learn their secrets (see: a lot of sincerity; and a dash of Tim & Eric)

"To date, almost 50 cats reside with their imprisoned owners, each discovering a life of love while avoiding animal control’s death penalty — ironically, in a place that still allows capital punishment for people."

the future is now

Look at this crocheted crab pouch our lab tech made me ahhhh! 🦀🦑

Occasionally I'm made aware of a really good exchange from the Apollo mission transcripts and i've been mumbling "Menkent's a good star..." under my breath for the last week

It happened again

sorry to share twitter screenshot but im wheezing

RIP to a legend who besides giving 3 generations of my family a lot of joy also outlived his obit writer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

A croissant is essentially what you get by making a samurai sword out of butter

ANYONE WANT... PLANTS? I love the apartment courtyard with its successions of plants over time 🥰 Each in their turn throughout the seasons

One would hope the obvious fact that a crazy racist billionaire can reprogram an AI bot to also be crazy racist in the blink of an eye will make anyone pause just a sec before they open up any other AI tool and treat it as gospel.

this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career

google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity

I must become a wild strawberry expert 🍓🌱

about six weeks ago, I started running a play-by-post real-time "logistics wargame" I made, called Cataphracts. It started with 5 players, now it has 23. I've tweeted about it a bit, but here's a short blogpost with more thoughts and observations ⬇️ (link below)

Obsessed with botany, literally it can be a random weed and I'm so into identifying it 🌱🌱🌱 (Also so many toxic carrot plant family members 🥶)

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

Using this to break ACAB down for anyone who still doesn’t understand. Let’s agree the shooter is a bastard. The others should have prevented him from firing, and after he fired he should have immediately been taken out. He felt comfortable enough to fire because he knows he will get away with it.

Carnivorous plants have evolved over and over again through millions of years. And while some get big, none have ever reached Audrey II size. In my latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, I look into why. 🌱

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

If you are an author, what is about to happen is that your assets (your IP) are about to get divorced from their debts (royalties owed). This means that your IP can be sold and the only payment you will get is whatever share of your royalties you are allowed from the sale of assets.

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

almost touching

How to professionally estimate your tickets

This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.