papercraft Vision Boar and his miniscule son :)

Periodically my dad will show up to my house unannounced and do “is my daughter still insane” inspections. Usually I fail. Like the time there was a horseshoe crab* living in my kitchen? Yeah. I failed that time. That’s on me. If he comes by any time soon I am definitely going to fail inspection.

Are there any fantasy artists seeing this who sell blank greeting cards of their work? I'm in the market, having run out of them. Yes, I still send cards. Paper ones. Through the mail. And I need more cool ones. No AI. Cannot stress that enough. Links to shops appreciated. Reposts are good, too.

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

Help my 9yo daughter! We walk past this oak every day in the way to school. This morning she noticed a mysterious gash at the base of the tree. We’re trying to figure out what caused it. Is it a human or a wild creature? I say human but she hopes not.

when people ask "what's the wildest thing you've ever pulled out of a sewer?" i'm going to just start answering "tree."

Todays ALT #BirdOfTheDay theme and it's #green. #birds #birdphotography #europeangreenfinch

My interpretation of the Higgs potential! A "cathedral" of spontaneously broken symmetry! #SciArt #MathArt #Physics (Watercolor pencils)

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I saw a headline which ominously noted “Prehistoric killer superbug discovered in 5,000-year-old ice is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics, study warns,” but do not worry for it is in ice, so you only need worry if that ancient ice starts to melt.

Who wants to see something completely horrifying

Why on earth would you watch *that* video when you could watch this video? #sqrlpix

It is Shrove Tuesday! Again! And, as is tradition here at Surprised Eel History & Maps, here's your map of established pancake timezones in the US, and your reminder that the UK is in an exclusionary zone meaning that griddle cakes of all sorts are acceptable at all hours today.

This is the only correct response.

This is one of my A4 size artworks, my largest size. This oxeye daisy landscape in a lively yet peaceful composition is made with oil pastel on black paper. folksy.com/find/item/85... #Landscape #OxeyeDaisies #OriginalArt #PastelPainting #OilPastels #Painting #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #bsnm

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John Smith Thorpe & his three sons - William, Thomas and John, with their oak tree guardian from a few years ago All died between 1865 & 1874, the boys likely of typhoid Buried at Nottingham General Cemetery

It is a day and maybe you could use a goldfinch, so here, have this one, totally free

Good Morning ☀️ 🏜️ Growing up in Michigan, this is NOT what I thought the desert looked like…

If you've ever wondered what it's like working with a top international feline model... well..

Yellow-throated Toucans hanging out in a tree #birds #toucans #CostaRica

This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care […]

Beautiful fern leaf coasters. Each unique and made from streaky green and white glass with black enamel fern leaves that are fused together in the kiln. Available as single, two piece and four piece sets. #ukgiftam #ukgifthour #shopindie samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/4456...

Got outside this morning. Saw some sun. Saw some gulls. Saw some frozen lake bits. Saw some weird ducks. It was a good morning. (Camera wasn’t happy about the light, distance, and cold, but 🤷🏻‍♀️). #winter #LakeErie #birds #WeirdDuckSeason

Austenland - May 5 Midnight in Austenland - June 30 Christmas in Austenland - September 22 Two entirely new editions with bonus content plus a brand new novel, all with deliriously gorgeous covers by Kimberly Glyder. Welcome back to Austenland. 8/ preorder: bloomsbury.my.canva.site/austenland

Welcome back to Austenland! Literally so excited to finally announce this that my tummy is squelching. I published Austenland in 2007 and Midnight in Austenland in 2011. The movie premiered in 2013, and after that I had outlines and intentions to pen a third, but so much life got in the way. 1/

I know #portfolioDay was yesterday but I just want to add that I would be 100% delighted to be commissioned to make more medieval-esque bullshit this year! 👀 I haven't got my vgen sorted yet but I do take comms so email abistevens@btinternet if you're interested! 😁 #artistSupport #commissionsOpen

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Artists, quote with something silly!

Artists, quote with something silly! Gar illustration using non-dominant hand and MS Paint! From the old #MSpaintYourScience trend: eos.org/geofizz/expl...

Artists, quote with something silly! Alien portrait no.2, 2025

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

You stumble upon an uncanny aluminium necklace. It turns the user into a gaseous cloud and once belonged to an orc.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Northern Elephant Seal pup annoyed with a Western Gull taking advantage of its nursing mother. 🪶

This is absolutely INFURIATING because it is so relentless, and yet it's still... it's still KIND of funny because honestly who is out there trying to get money from WRITERS, that's like holding a cup underneath a Bigmouth Billy Bass and hoping for caviar to come out

The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England). 🐡🪶 #birdingNortheast

Aquariums: for when you’d like to walk into the sea but just a little bit

Okay remember yesterday’s gorgeous scene with vapour wisps hating over (mostly) open water? Well… what happened overnight hasn’t happened in some 20 years around here. Ice as far as the eye can see. The view from the end of the spit is wild. Some ice must’ve formed later, didn’t gather falling snow.

Scribble through a train window. #sketchbook

Sticker of the Day! This is my holographic sticker based on my painting, "Content Kitty"! www.joyousjoyness.com/products/con... #art #sticker #cat #orangecat #gingercat

#hourlycomicsday 2pm-3pm Bus-spotting on the trip home #hcd #kidlitart #comics #art #hourlycomicday

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it. It has: ✔️beer (lots)! ✔️hijinks! ✔️weird occult Nazis! ✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!" Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

...fortunately I preserved the original zombo.com flash on welcometozombo.com, and will do so for as long as I live

Good morning Snowkyo!