Microsoft Sam has an important message. #MicrosoftSam #SAPI5

I remember drawing a cartoon like this at the local pizzeria. This is more complete and pointed!

They say today is World Anteater Day... so here is a standalone picture of Giant Blue Anteater, made in 2020! #WorldAnteaterDay

🌐 #art

Sharing my realistic Tamatoa around again for no particular reason. #moana

If people ate up the How to Train Your Dragon remake... what confidence is there to have that people wouldn't also eat this redundant slop up?

Lol, this reminds me of “Demonic Furby”!

Somebody shared with me on Discord my most popular post on Twitter before I left there in November last year, preserved in an Instagram post. It's about volar pads in human fetal development and their apparent homology with toe beans in other mammals.

DO NOT SHARE THIS INSIGHT

When I first saw this, it HAD to be fake. It HAD to be some kind of joke, or even satire unhelpfully passed as truth as is common on social media. Then I read up... I... fucking... 😶

Prepare to be amazed when people aren’t aware that generative AI scrapes other people’s stuff — writing, art, photography — and believe that it’s some magic, self-contained machination rather than a statistical bullshit generator.

Abolish the damn Senate. Uncap and vastly expand the House.

An Ode to The Jellyfish: Thicker skin than autocrat Trump, More spine than Democrat chumps.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

CHUCK SCHUMER, TAR AND FEATHER!!!

Happy publication day to @cmkosemen.bsky.social, whose extraordinary book All Tomorrows is officially out today, in the first-ever print edition in English. This has been a long time coming but we hope it has been worth the wait for all the book’s supporters and fans (1/3)

I just preordered two copies of All Tomorrows through Barnes & Noble. If you are in the United States, click below and order as many copies as you can afford! For you, your friends and family, for your local libraries... Order it now! Order it today! And seize your copy of All Tomorrows!

Per the latest Infernals dev diary, Mycons have hope yet. This portrait, the best fit for the Mycon, can adopt the Volcanic Nesting civic, allowing their homeworld to be a volcanic world as proper even while not being of the Infernal species type. Now let's see if they can do Hyperthermia...

Robby's Retort #microsoftagent #msagent

This lizard waved at my general direction. I wanted to think he waved at me — but he may have been waving at his reflection instead. Incidentally, he later laid a large droplet of lizard urine that immediately absorbed into the concrete before taking off.

I had an acquaintance ask me how I was able to find all the insect fauna I was photographing years ago. You just have to keep an open eye with a curiosity for the natural world up close around you, and you’ll find all sorts of interesting little critters. 😉

Some more good news, the vaquita have been seen having babies! www.tumblr.com/alphynix/799...

Uranus completes its revolution around the Sun every 84 years. So too has this massive asshole. Rest in depleted uranium, you vile sack of scum. Your legacy of a million dead Iraqis, horrible birth defects in Fallujah, and the ultimate creation of ISIS will never be forgotten.

Oh shit, it's happening. 🤦‍♂️ It was only a matter of time. This bubble can't pop soon enough!!! 🤬

The very first thing I did when I started playing Stellaris was recreating the Mycon from Star Control. With the Infernals DLC: "Finally! The Mycon will get the lore-accurate treatment they deserve!" But not only can this portrait not get infernal traits, they did not make a fungoid infernal...

A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors. The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.

THE WRATH OF URAKU, BY KYRE FISKROF -- coming to a bookstore near you! #scifiart

New Tira video dropped! You know, I've thought about what term would be a suitable extraterrestrial analog for "anthropology", since 𝘢́𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰̄𝘱𝘰𝘴 strictly means "human being"... I've thought "xenthropology" as one candidate. Then I looked up words and saw "xeno-", "exo-" and "astroanthropology"...

Launch these people into the Sun. Now.

After I created the username "Giant Blue Anteater" on Wikipedia in 2006, I searched to see if anybody came up with a similar concept; I found a website called "Blue Anteater" featuring a blue anteater in business attire. I would learn today that it was a recoloring of one of UC Irvine's anteaters.

I've spent the past two days and nights revisiting these guys on my Windows 10 computer, after about 15 years... #msagent #microsoftagent

My old painting of a brown dwarf. This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system. #Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets

The redhead larvacean is a deep-sea climate hero 🌊💙 These tiny animals build mucous houses to filter marine snow sinking from the waters above. When their filters clog, they abandon their homes, which sink to the seafloor packed with nutrients and large amounts of carbon: youtu.be/7swiAc8rZbk?...

My partner’s disability review is tomorrow and WV’s new qualifications may disqualify her despite her being incapable of working. On top of that, WV is likely not paying out EBT in November due to the shutdown. If so, we’ll be losing over $1,000. Please donate if you can. ko-fi.com/sophiesaurus

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Outside of Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend, we know something like this could never happen in the United States, but one can dream...!

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

It’s interesting how this outburst, if solely related to RFK Jr.’s Tylenol hobbyhorse, has again illuminated how weird we Americans as a culture are about circumcision. But discussing this complicated matter and its history in a 300-character medium where quips have more currency is impossible, so…

One of several homepage footer images for my upcoming website: a juvenile space behemoth siphoning an inhabited planet of CHONSP matter into its tripartite chompers and then some — entire ecosystems, entire empires, entirely eroding continents as it draws in everything from shore to mountainside.

A dear friend talked me out of this and suggested I do an “egg diet”; two eggs for breakfast, two eggs for lunch, etc., as well as a “water day” where I consume nothing but water for just a day — rather than try to replicate this feat, and without the medical supervision Barbieri had at that.

Starting today, I will begin a months-long fast, inspired by the one undertaken by Angus Barbieri between 1965 and 1966. I will consume nothing but multivitamins, antioxidants, salt/electrolytes, a meager source of protein, and water. My reasons: health, wealth and figure.

let the gourd times roll

Hey #Ohio Friends, Proton VPN is Free. Ive had 2 friends tell me it does work for this. This is going to keep happening state by state, until a big enough stink and civil disruption makes it stop. ▶️ protonvpn.com/pricing ◀️

I remember being a university student with unlimited access to papers, including paleontological ones, helping me research chordate evolution — and the sad feeling of that access being revoked a year after graduating. This will be the next best thing! 📑

This is game changing for the amateur paleontology community.

The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an arachnophobe.

Someone is remaking Space Station Silicon Valley (first game I ever worked on) in Godot and making a devlog ❤️ youtu.be/Uw62v5-CuVo?...

Remember when Ohio was a purple state and not the MAGA hellhole it has become? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Anyway, I will be not be risking fascist state surveillance under the guise of "protecting the children". I will be using a VPN from here on out as long as I live here.

The State of the First Amendment, 2025 AD

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.