New brushes and new textures, inking to burn off some stress. WIP of Runnymede from a favourite book of recent years, Winterset Hollow by @thisone0verhere.bsky.social

Harvested 20lbs of potatoes yesterday

Every time you use 'raptor' for a dromaeosaurid a baby hawk, eagle or falcon dies

We said this was going to happen and we're called luddites, but the front covers of kids science sets, and board games and gift cards was bread and butter work for millions of artists. Now all thrown to the sidewalk for dogshit looking (and likely copyright breaching) ai slop.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Home from a whirlwind 2-week ride around Northern Belgium & The Netherlands. Hard to pick highlights but a few were: Seeing many old things, canals & windmills, biking 23km to a beautiful castle, and seeing the Bernissart Iguanodon fossils in person.

My very first attempt at short-form video and it’s Humblewood shenanigans 🦉🌳

Been making short-form content at work, it's great fun! This is my colleague @sebastianyue.bsky.social and I can't believe this is their first go at making videos like this?? It's so GOOD

Participating in fun pre-vacation activities such as: replacing major parts on our BBQ

Glioblastoma is currently without a cure. It's taken away several people I love, as well as prominent public figures such as Gord Downie. If this is successful, it's simply mindblowing.

I do very serious work at my job

It's a splendid day for my air conditioning to conk out

The Big Snit is peak cinema and I will never be convinced otherwise

Stunning 😍 I can't wait for this season!

Want to know more about SHIFT? Join designer @madeofcartoons.bsky.social and community manager @sebastianyue.bsky.social for @enworldrpg.bsky.social's Not DnD show! Catch us today at 10:00 pm BST / 5:00 pm EST on Twitch and YouTube! 💜 www.twitch.tv/enpublishing ▶️ www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done. We got more than 1000 people.

instead of vowing to take itch down with your justified anger, redirect that anger at the institutions who are directly responsible for strong arming every single platform that sells adult and/or queer art:

I have become the person that everyone gives their MTG dinosaur cards to, and I feel this is a peak achievement

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The garden is GIVING this year. A bumper crop of snap peas just finished up, and now we're deep in zucchini, blueberry & yellow beans. Pickling some of the beans and freezing a lot of the berries for year-long enjoyment, but enjoying everything fresh as much as possible.

Important:

In my reach-ahead summer school math class in grade 11, we all finished the curriculum and exam a few days early so the teacher brought in CUBE. Claimed it was a math movie. It... well, it sure did have math in it.

Three projects I worked on are up for awards this year! Please consider voting for them! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/in...

I've seen firsthand the amount of work and passion that's gone into these projects, especially Big Bads as that was one of the first marketing projects I tackled at HPP back when it was a monthly Patreon project. Throw us some votes if you can! 🙏

With all due respect to Gareth, this is bullshit. If Prehistoric Planet and DeadSound’s Dinosauria and Sauria shorts are any indication, people still love dinosaurs. We just need new, younger talent to tell newer, more creative stories about them.

Bring it back! ♻️ 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Things that are great about biking to work: 🐢

The dire tarrasque says queer rights 😤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride!

I just finished this game and I need ten more just like it. It's so good!

Like it’s actually way more complex and challenging material but I feel like a lot of people treat it like this whimsical, almost exotic or Disney like ideal that glosses over the ugliness it acknowledges. It’s about the good with the bad

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

So proud of our books! Big Bads in particular is super special to me, so glad to see it doing well. 🥲

I'll be there on Saturday! Join us at the table and try out SHIFT!

A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza

if you repost AI slop into my feed for any reason other than to complain about said AI slop, I will unfollow you aI-generated images of politicians are a good example of unnecessary slop. Dressing Trump up in some dumb costume is not worth more wildfires so knock it off

“We’ve met before” • boring, vague • heterosexual • relationship depth unspecified “We’ve crossed swords in the past” • thrilling, mysterious • studied the blade • implies a long and fraught history

I am no longer with Polygon, my home for nearly 13 years. I am proud of what my colleagues and I have accomplished over that period, and I am especially proud of the role the @voxmediaunion.bsky.social and @wgaeast.bsky.social played in it all. Organize. Now. I am immediately available for hire.

The way my jaw just unclenched

Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)

Hey #InverteFest! My latest skateboard is a bright, defensive praying mantis. Currently up for bids for the All Hands On Deck show, with proceeds split between two Ottawa charities and the artists. You can pay for shipping if you're not local! I'm board #56. mobilbid.co/url/onUcAWF0

Today's young folks are very much still embracing the yesterweb vibes! Browsing Geocities is a fun time neocities.org/browse I gave this a fresh go recently, and realized I've got too many hobbies to make maintaining a HTML/CSS website one of them 😂 But DANG it was fun to build the old way again.

Easy.

Caught a photo of a squirrel just as it accidentally dropped an entire beef rib into my yard

I love you since 1992 🌈⭐️

I've started up a fresh hobby blog! Here's the first post that's got bits about mini painting, gardening & crochet: alliemackie.com/2025/03/24/g...

Love the Bytown Sea Shanty Collective! They hold their singalongs at Beyond the Pale brewery and also raise money for the Dalhousie Food Cupboard. Some of the best local arts and culture events happen because someone had a fun idea and just decided to go for it.

Ankylosaurus (magic) dinoknight venturing into a seaside cave. Done in Procreate over the past few months, a little bit here and there. #art #dinoknight #procreate #fantasyart #illustration

i'm starting a new thing with my community where we're inviting folks to come learn & play #mtg #edh commander in casual, beginner-friendly livestreams 💜 let me know if you're interested in joining! the more folks we can get involved, the more regularly we can host these kinds of games!