One week until my carbon dust course starts. There are still some spots available. This technique combines drawing and ‘painting’ using a dry brush to apply layers of ground dust to achieve realistic 3D illustrations. #SciArt, #NaturalScienceIllustration #CarbonDust

You’re never too old to start drawing.

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

this exists it is called thinking

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Hi come to costumed figure drawing in beautiful Lexington Kentucky! 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 6-8pm. (I used @trueref.bsky.social for reference :)

Important: today my cat did a 10/10 perfect loaf and followed it up with a little shrimp pose. 🍤

I did the wildlife one :) you could channel your righteous anger about, you know, everything, into purchasing some nice art with important messaging. If you want. I’m not your boss.

As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us. Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects! Get some to hang in your neighborhood! Squidfacts.net

Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.

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Hey so uh, dozens of countries refusing to ship anything to the US, that’s pretty bad right? Like not in a consumerism way but in a no-contact-with-the-outside-world way? At the same time he’s occupying cities? And Internet ID laws? That’s all pretty bad, right? Right?

I finally had a chance to hatewatch the Ice Cube vehicle War of the Worlds and it is hypnotically bad. Amazon product placement? Bad. Out of date references? Bad. Written when they assumed NASA would still exist and women would work there? Bad. Just terrible all around. A must watch.

We're definitely entering an era where the Internet is so hollowed out, so untrustworthy and compromised, that real world interactions, things identifiably done by human beings, will take on greater value and purpose.

We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

i love gay art made by gay people

Isopod says Trans rights! #bug #comic #comicoop

I’m terrified of the city and I need a robot to write my emails for me. I’m the strongest toughest little conservative soldier there ever was

I literally can’t look at a seal without thinking of that arrested development bit where buster looses his hand.

i think straight men can get laid if they have like a lot of pictures of bugs maybe? like in their wallet

I don’t care if it’s the South Park guys making fun of Trump, generative AI still sucks and I won’t applaud it. The funnier bits are the collage-animation anyway. #NoAI

Every now and then I’ll open this app to find a bunch of new notifications when I haven’t posted in a while and it always makes me nervous. But it’s usually people being real nice to me. ❤️

I got to make some cover art for your new favorite podcast!

Some speakers would go “boop boopbedoop boopdedoop doo doooo” before your cell phone rang.

I’m teaching an intro to Procreate class! It’s aimed sci artists, but all kinds of artists at all skill levels are welcome. We’ll work together to discover how digital art can fit into the art practice you already have - or start a new practice. Please join me! #sciart

The right hates bodily autonomy because it wants your body to be a curse. To a fascist the body is just a big bag of things that they can use to sort you into one of the two categories: “person who matters” and “prey”. If you take power over the accident of your birth, they’re fucked.

Tonight!

Notifications are okay but turning them totally off on every social media (heck even your email) is what’s up.

I lived in MacArthur park when I was 20 and the worst thing that ever happened was this pigeon that would dive bomb your head when you walked by its nest. That bird was relentless, it got me and all my roommates on a regular basis. The best thing was the lady selling tamales door to door. Fuck ICE.

The other animal feeds have thousands of likes, but the invertebrates feed only has around 600. Invertebrates are roughly 95% of all animal species on this planet, so they should have millions of likes to be properly proportionate to those other, less diverse animals. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I used to have such a robust sketchbook practice that has been mostly abandoned for a decade now. Getting back into it tho. #sketchbook #drawing #mixedmedia

I host costumed figure drawing at The Void Sake in Lexington, KY. Our next meeting is Tuesday July 8, from 6-8pm. Come by and draw with us! This week we’re drawing a clown :)

some people are gonna need a few days in the fetal position and some people do best when immediately given a task and some people need to immerse themselves in joy and comfort we have to let everyone grieve and feel this shit however their own nervous system needs. this is gonna be a long fight

Needed this reminder today.

America is cooked but maybe it will help to look at these cats.

It’s a great time to re-read The Monkey Wrench Gang.

I love how everyone on motorcycles waves to each other. Yeah, that’s right Mr. Hog Cranked Harley you just waved at ME a queer little WEIRDO. We are in COMMUNITY together whether you like it or not. You’d help me if I was broken down and I would do the same for you.

Then a second special shout out to lesbians just because I think you’re neat.

Yes please. We actively need things that are stupid and frivolous right now. It’s important to have a little fun in the face of all the horrors.

I feel like a one-trick pony lately. All of my archival energy is going towards the first lecture in the Indelible Identities series. This page is from the introduction essay on the history of Queer tattooing- the final image is from NYC's TRON - part of the future of queer representation in tattoo.

Desk time with my baby.

Did you know you can tell fireflies apart by their blink pattern? #sciart

Bluesky discover page always delivering the worst fucking tattoos I have ever seen.

Today is my first day as a ✨freelancer✨ and I made a big list of things I need to do and not one thing on the list is “make art.” What the fuck.

Stay safe and stay sharp gang.