Had the May art bug again, seeing my #Mermay pics from a couple years ago made me want to create more. Can't go wrong with a classic red head mermaid! Having some fun choosing my colours with the physical color cube palettes from @sarahrenaeclark.bsky.social too. #fantasyart #traditionalart

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Enamelware now on sale in my shop! heikala.com

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

much respect to everyone looking for a way to permanently uninstall the 4GB LLM file Chrome is force-installing on users, but I have the one trick Google doesn't want you to know that will FOREVER get rid of that stuff: Step 1: stop using chrome oh my god and install Firefox Step 2: vibe

DARK MAGICIAN GIRL 💞

Happy Mermay! Have an oyster

And in doing so will squeeze you for every penny to your name.

I could really go for an afternoon of walking around the edge of a pool with some friends to make a whirlpool and then struggling to turn and walk the other direction.

Some little paintings thinking about iced lattes.

The Connoisseur. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Dreaming of autumn... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Pyromancer🔥

Hawaii is poised to become the first state to use its legal authority to drain corporate money from its elections. Every state should be doing this. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.americanprogress.org/article/addr...

man is it just me or are the French on a total roll these days Paris leading the war on cars, dropping countless new metro stations. The country phasing out nonrenewables fully by 2035. Now they're feeding grad students for une balle ???

time to announce stuff . my short comic NOWHERELAND will be coming in June 2026! (hopefully, lol) keep your bayonets mounted and your gas masks tight . 100% human suffering #comics #horror #art

Wizards of the Coast declines to voluntarly recognize game worker union. "Management claims to be committed to ensuring every person is heard, valued, and supported. However, when we spoke up about our desire to unionize, they responded only to the press." www.gamedeveloper.com/business/wiz...

still have a few slots I am hoping to fill for groceries and bills. consider a little guy!

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

happy star wars day to this tweet in particular

sketching!

another weekend, another fun font project. i present: ✨The CrABC’s✨ 🦀 *crab rave intensifies* 🦀

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Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

When we first met

Things that are @dftbarachel.dftba.social 's fault: I heard we were doing alphabets? The #MerMay prompt for day 3 was Handmade, so....

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

Farmers are coded "working class" as rural white people, even though they own their means of production. Meanwhile, I have a PhD and teach at a liberal arts college, so no one will ever call me working class, even though I earn a lot less and depend on wages. It's gendered vibes, all the way down.

GroveBound: Relax, Chop, Explore and more gdogames.itch.io/grovebound

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We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Death & The Maiden 💀💃🏻✨

It is my duty to inform you that there are baby capybaras at the Sacramento Zoo

Second Sentinel ᵔ -ᵔ 💛

BTW

just 4 Chicago wards have seen permits for 100 or more new homes this year which ones are they? after guessing you can ask for a clue

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Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

Blade of the Laer 💜

We created this world. We created this world where children have fewer and fewer avenues of unstructured play or unsupervised existence in public spaces. We have also created a society of paranoia through apotheosis of the 'right to bear arms'. A fucking felony charge.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

One of my pieces from a few years back. I usually try to keep my ghost art on the cuter side, but I really enjoy when I have the opportunity to make something creepy. I also had a really fun time running around the woods taking reference pics #art #artist #painting Prints at artoftranifer.etsy.com

Passing this along - fucking scammers leveling up, here's a new one to pay attention to.

Got some new mechanics working this week (and drafted up a non-functional HUD). Weapons now deal different amounts of damage & break after a certain amounts of hits! #screenshotsaturday #gbstudio #gameboy

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#Mayllennial day 2: digital pets your neopet needs attention

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Last chance to apply for this fantastic PhD opportunity this week. Please get in touch for the full project details and application process.

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.