Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly? That’s what talent is like.

I love the philosophy of linguistic quite a bit. A similar point came up in my English classes back when I was teaching ESL: If another culture creates an English word, is it English? My go to was "skinship;" an "English" word that only exists in Korea.

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We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo via YouTube

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

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I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts” And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world But you know what

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Just finished There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org. Even though I'd read at least some of the early chapters back when it was being serialized on the SCP wiki, it still captivated me from cover to cover. It's the first book I've read cover to cover in under 24h in many years. Love it.

Landsknecht Miku:

good post on this phenomenon from the point of view of a very influential software engineer who is also a big LLM user

Lady knight painting:

Lady knight lineart:

アルルとカーくん。 ラフで描く練習～。（難しい） #Arle #Carbuncle

ブリジット 朝起きてからラフで絵を描くリハビリ。 もうちょっと短時間で描けないものか…と思ったけど描いた事ないキャラはだいたい資料見ながら描いてるから否応なく遅くなる。＾＾； #guiltygear #guiltygearstrive #bridget

It is my opinion that you could replace the FGC specific terms here with PvP shooter terms and make precisely the same argument for skill based matchmaking. Which is the position I've held for ages. You don't learn how to PvP by getting instantly killed, you learn by fighting someone a bit better.

It WOULD be very funny if we voted no so hard that they removed the bullshit machine entirely.

I’m not keen on the fact that DuckDuckGo already has AI search, but I’m very glad it’s optional. But what if we vote no so hard they drop AI entirely? voteyesornoai.com

Not an artist, but have met too many of you that forget this: You're the only one that can see the difference between what you meant to make and what you did make. Your audience can only see what you did make. When they compliment it, believe them.

FFT inspired landsknecht sketch:

second attempt at some Warhammer 40K art! Slightly more anime style!

あけましておめでとうございます 今年もよろしくおねがいします

あけましておめでとうございます🎍

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I'm watching One Piece for the first time, currently in Dressrosa on ep 691. The exchange that happens between Cavendish and Luffy near the end of the ep is maybe the most Luffy thing I've heard yet. Cavendish: That doesn't make sense! Luffy: That's what you get for inviting me!

The emperor was sitting in his bed when the assassin came in through the window. "Welcome, old friend." "Wait," the assassin wheezed. The emperor waited for him to catch his breath. "I'm too old for this," the assassin said at last. 1/3 #ShortStory

This study actually exists, HOWEVER: CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION. Red wine consumption was linked to longevity, too. But in reality, having money (to afford a luxury like red wine regularly), means you're getting better and more medical care. Eat cheese if you like it, not to keep your mind.

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever

This has largely been my stance for the whole time GPT and its ilk have been publicly available. Machine Learning algorithms are useful tools. LLMs barely even qualify as a novelty for me, and the rampant theft and greed surrounding them push them out of even that, IMO. They're not tools.

took this stance real early on, have been paying close attention, and i have yet to see a single thing that manages to challenge that opinion even a little bit, rather than solidifying it into diamond-hard conviction

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Fast one today, but still found a way to short-circuit my brain for a minute or two there. I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 18th 2025 (Medium), in 04:43 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.

Here's a new version of this lady knight picture I just finished painting: There's also a painting process video available on my patreon

Real Life Comic for Thursday, November 6, 2025 reallifecomics.com/comic-mobile... Share and Enjoy!

Duncross Sketch with ink and screen tones. Drawn on INKPULP Live last night with Shawn Crystal and Jim Mahfood. Check out the show on YouTube.

bro biologists won't even agree on the definition of "alive" you think you can get them to back you on "two genders" lmao

This goes for everything btw. If you have someone who's been a general jerk start exhibiting better behavior, I would love it if we encouraged that instead of saying "you don't get a cookie for showing basic decency" like way to invalidate positive growth

for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:

My take on the possibility of hybrid mana being properly treated as an "or" in Commander rules, instead of an "and": 1) This makes the rules consistent. You can cast the spell with one OR the other mana per pip. You should be able to use it as a spell of one OR the other color when building.

Really? Most of this is just misspelling. The one that bothers me is hunger pangs/pains. Because they're both valid, and semantically identical. Let's look at this totally randomly chosen dictionary definition...

the yellow one

It's my birthday!!! I've reached 34yo! As per tradition you're most welcome to share this post and make my work famous for the day! 🥰 Love you all! Have a great day too!

Quick reminder today: Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday