Bohemian Waxwings for day 23 #ArtAdventCalendar

The weather service is so confident in potential tornadoes that it placed San Francisco in a rare marginal risk for severe thunderstorms three days in advance (both in yesterday's forecast for Dec. 24 and today's for Dec. 25), the first time the agency had done that for the city in at least a decade

wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE

It's never surprising how many of these right wing fucks that keep firearms **ON PRINCIPLE** where the principle is that they need to threaten the government to keep them from overreaching actually end up having very specific reasons to be afraid of very reasonable government reaches.

Journalists posting screenshots of the Epstein docs should not crop out the control number in the bottom right corner. These docs are not an "exclusive," you don't have to make it harder for people to find and validate the original information.

People have been brainwashed into believing that government in 🇺🇸“doesn’t work,” and never has. But it does, thanks to institutions like the Government Accoutability Office (GAO). This is a key hinge to be smashed, for the self-fulfilling prophecy of making government not work.

Here's to better, more compassionate, and more just humans in a better, more compassionate, and more just world.

Day 21 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. Another painting of a BC Ferries funnel, created back when I was taking the ferry to and from art school. This one is more graphic in style than the one I shared earlier this month. Something like 24 x 36 inches. Oil on canvas.

Day 22 of the 2025 #artadventcalendar. A 6 x 6 inch painting of a creek rushing down rocks. Oil on canvas. This is one of a set of three paintings of creeks and rocks with the same size, colours and style.

Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected

And for the afternoon, an illustration from a forgotten occult textbook. Thanks to @taliskimberley.bsky.social for the scholarship and research.

And all the menstrual care needs as well. I stock up on that Honey Pot.

Rural Arizona Rapid Response Resources RAZE’s Protect Our Pueblos project shares tools and guidance tailored to rural Arizona communities responding to immigration enforcement activity. buff.ly/3Dl3eOa

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I am thrilled that this manuscript is now out in the world! If you saw my talk at #Evol2025 you may remember me discussing how religion, politics & war shape urban evolution & now you can read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Why are we still allowing scammers to ruin people’s lives? This is a solvable problem. www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...

Three short whistles if you see ICE in your area; three long whistles if you see ICE kidnapping someone. 3D printed whistles can be found for free at just about any local/independent business in the twin cities. (We more flyers in Somali, and Dakotiyapi/Anishinaabemowin)

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

This is the winner of my heart

Welcome to the world, monarch butterfly. 🦋

With a bit of focus and a measure of effort you can ensure that you will not need to bring work with you when you go on vacation. And with a bit of focus and a measure of effort you can ensure that you will not wind up bringing viruses with you when you go on vacation.

Alex always makes our traditional Solstice cake for both Yule and Litha. Recipe in the Alt Text.

natasha tretheway AGAIN, THE FIELDS

Faileontologist. Hee!

this is so stressful for just like, normies trying to figure out which Zoom meeting transcription service to use without destroying the rainforest. limited-use tools we had before LLMs took over are now tagged as AI and it makes being an ethical consumer so much harder!

Pelican soars at sunset on the Oregon coast. #ArtAdventCalendar

Starting to run low on pre-2025 Waymakers birds, but man, this year multiplied the count by so many! For #ArtAdventCalendar today here's one of my favorites from this year, a Common Loon. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar This year I'm observing the 12 days of yule between the solstice and the new year. I love the idea of a time to celebrate the dark days with fire, seasonal foods, crafting...

do you have an extra $20 but feel immobilized by the number of Gaza fundraisers you see in your feed that all deserve support? feel free to take this post as your sign to give the $20 to the next one you see

This is just a note to say that I have eaten the falcon in a widening gyre and that you were probably saving for anarchy Forgive me it was delicious so rough and full of passionate intensity

Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper. #ArtAdventCalendar

I've given what I can, and am not in a place to give more right now. This is my Xmas wish too. Please give some money to people who are struggling to access food, shelter, and medical care!

My final project of 2025. Untitled cow skull. Acrylics on natural bone, leather strips. Explanatory notes in alt text. #art #painting #womensart #bones

we're gonna have to care harder harder than we were told we had to and yes, harder than we think we do already

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

the brightest version of the future has you in it, thriving, existing as who you want to be. Let the adults fight for that world - what we need is for you to survive to live in it

It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months. It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar "This Way" mixed media collage.

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22 Anyone else experience The CW presents Reign, a fever dream of a show about the perils of holding an interminable speed dating event at a RenFest? #linocut #artsky #art #crafts #traditionalart #prints #blockprint #ink #printmaking #printsky #fanart #rats

Here's a start, #ArtAdventCalendar Day 20: A series of greeting cards that I did while working as the mate/chief mate on this boat. 5"x7"ish cards, summer 2021

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

New quest unlocked

Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

That tree is mega haunted (complimentary).

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery depicts the neurological fatigue of post-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark symptom of #MECFS: neuraesthenia (2017).

Yep, assholes like Dawkins and Coyne are loud, but they're the minority.