Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Let's get #ArtAdventCalendar rolling! It's December 1 somewhere right now. Saskatchewan Supercell 32x40in 81x102cm Oil on Canvas 2019 #Art #Painting

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

## Important Do not use Google Lens to identify medications. The AI results are wrong. This used to be very reliable, taking you to websites with images and the correct information, but now it's AI slop.

Decided to do yesterday's meditation sketch in colored pencil. "Argethea the Wonderer" (now in Technicolor)

Making camouflage nets for the War Department, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, Calif. Dorothea Lange, 1942 In 1942, Lange was commissioned to photograph the U.S. Government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Her negatives were impounded by the Army; she did not see them until 1964.

Hey US-ians (and anyone else who wants to brave high shipping costs)! #INPRNT has a major sale going on so if you want some quality art prints of mine, now is the time to grab some! www.inprnt.com/gallery/inky... #prints #PrintSale

Paisley was 18 years and 1 month old on VE Day. Thatcher was 19.5 years old. I'll gladly piss on their graves, but not for this reason.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Some more sketches from FACTS

We say: AI is theft Diversity promotes innovation If you won't fix this planet, you don't deserve a new one There is no such thing as a "self-made man" Extremes of wealth encourage madness Reject terror Defy censors Remember, you are here:

As a San Diego Wave FC supporter, I extend my admiration to the Valkyries for their position. We may cheer for different teams, but we share the same values.

The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

My alma mater has decided to abandon its principles and go over to the fascists. A pox upon these people.

“In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.” Free-running ladle nozzle.

I think that when future historians look back upon this era, their analysis will be "too many circuses, too little bread".

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Or you can hire Inky to create some art for you. I promise that you won't regret it.

Jerry Pournelle was a guest at a gaming convention in Austin sometime around '79 or '80. We had a huge table set up with a massive Sniper wargame. He sat around the table and BSed with us for a couple of hours.

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

Hello Michael! I'm Debjit and I'm a freelance artist. Congratulations for this level up and thank you so much for this artshare. 🙏🫶

It's Alex Morgan's jersey retirement tonight at the San Diego Wave FC game.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

A new fountain pen arrived today - an Ackerman that uses regular nibs and any ink. I have a G-pen nib and just some standard india ink loaded up and had to try it out. I recalled this sketch I did last year, so I decided to ink that.

It's utterly disgusting to see a beautiful golf course ruined by an unsightly wind turbine.

I grew up on these streets.

I feel that I owe some French cruisers an apology.

The stupidity of forcing out tens of thousands of person-years of experience from the finest space organization in the world is doubled by the history of the US hiring thousands of lesser Soviet scientists to keep them from building rockets for third parties in order to put food on the table.

Damn. This hit hard. My mom is 84.

On my 2025 bingo card, I did not have "the dictionary trolls the fascists with shitposts".

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

This is cool. #navalhistory

Incredible work from @wgbh.org here.

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

Age verification? Filmstrips.

Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian mechanical dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. Met Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

I want to go back to school to earn a paleontology degree, just so I can write a book and get Gabriel to illustrate it. If you haven't seen his work, check it out.

Phillies made a hype video for their ball boy Adam, who is on the ballot for the ball crew at the MLB All-Star Game. Hell yeah!

I have worked with Inky/Anne in the past on publications. She is talented and professional. You can count on her to meet the deadlines and to deliver pieces that are beautiful and ready for use. In short, she is low maintenance and high value. Do yourself a favor and hire her.

This is a nice look at some truly memorable acting.

The major goal of my career is to enrich our understanding of the lives of tree. Here is the most important sketch of a tree ever made. It is Charles Darwin's first attempt to create a tree of life. He drew this in 1837, 22 years before Origin of Species was published. He wrote "I think" at the top.

Thanks for this. FWIW I did a summary of all this earlier and hit this point about predictability. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

My son and I this morning.

Tired: go outside and touch grass wired:

Investigating the transmundane in style ! #art

Damn. This is a read.