Cost of living crisis is hitting scientists REAL hard.

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” — William Faulkner

I never thought to go looking in the ocean

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys aiminge to create somethinge trulye weirde or shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte wyth intent, at everye steppe thinkinge, "YES, *I* am drawinge a SEXY C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wronge.

Freedom 250 sounds fun www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Same, Mushroom. Same. From The Green Machine by Polly Cameron (1969)

the fuck what now futurism.com/science-ener...

I'm behind on Widow's Bay, but getting caught up. I am loving this show more and more with each episode.

wtf did i just read, am i having a stroke

It’s not always clear where dazzle ends and other geometric camouflages begin, but a good starting point is to ask “does it look like Bridget Riley going to war?”

Maybe the real Backrooms is the fake and pointless modern capitalist society we made along the way.

Fuck yea, I love reading the news.

Ballrooms (2026)

The trailer for the riff of the cult Canadian supernatural soap opera Strange Paradise is on YouTube now! For 190 more riffs, plus video comics and lots of nerdy Who-related stuff, become a subscriber! youtu.be/P7DhUCyPiqE?... patreon.com/matthewjelliott

Good morning

Blood, by The Real Tuesday Weld ("We're just skeletons in waiting, So give more than you get and enjoy the rest til it's taken...") #nowlistening #musicsky therealtuesdayweld.bandcamp.com/album/blood

#RIFT #vss365 The art still needs a bit of tweaking but wow, I woke up in a weird place this morning.

Prints! Framed prints! Framed prints with mat! Gigantic cat drawings available as prints: angi-shearstone.printful.me More products available soon. I’m considering a rotation to highlight a specific image for a limited time.  Until then: Enjoy! And please share & let me know what you think. 😸

Godzilla vs Megalon (1973) #godzilla

Billy and the Boingers officially passing on #Freedom250, say they won't perform on stage with any of Bill's old hairballs

A painting of West Quoddy Lighthouse commissioned by a tourist who visited this iconic Maine lighthouse last year. 11x14 gouache on paper mounted on panel. #westquoddylighthosue #art #mainelighthousepaintings #maineartist #artistforhire #paintingcommissions

Ok this is a truly great tweet

I would also appreciate it if a bunch of nerds helped me iron out any bugs in this: andrewblair.co.uk/apps/who-tit... #doctorwho

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

I saw yet another ad for "easy, family friendly recipes!" and I'm so bored of these. I have no interest in your gluten-free, high fibre nonsense. Give me something whimsical to cook. Something considered immoral in some parts of the world. Tell me that good people have gone mad attempting it.

Happy Monday, Bluesky. I finally did a thing that folks were asking me to do: make prints available of the gigantic cat drawings. Please let me know if there’s something you would like that you don’t see there. angi-shearstone.printful.me Please share far and wide!

People saying that users prefer the bubble of BlueSky to the feral viciousness of Twitter - well...yes. In the same way I prefer a restaurant where the staff are nice and the food is good over one where they stab you with forks while serving bowls of cold piss.

Would eat at this restaurant and leave a honkin' big tip

This month's bonus wallpaper is kats. skin-horse.com/extras/

Hey, my eyes are up... um... right where you're looking, nevermind

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

I for one heartily endorse shipping every billionaire to a lifeless rock millions of miles away where they will struggle to live and will have to work every single day of their existence in order to survive

Just say a pedophile sent you

I still need to noodle with it, it’s not quite done, but here’s the latest gigantic cat. She’s the biggest one so far I think. “Saturn starry night“ or “starry Saturn night“ probably.

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

Post your warning sign:

This is important. We can't rely on anyone/anything else. We the People have the power to save American democracy.

I have probably watched Alien: Resurrection more than Aliens because I am a sicko. I admit this.

One sad things about the rise of AI is that it’s ruined the “robots discuss philosophy” sub genre in science fiction for me. I used to enjoy watching them discuss what it means to be conscious and whatnot, now all I see is a couple of Groks yammering.

Pick a Bond from the photos already on your phone.

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

26. Some are beloved favorites, but most I would like the author to come back from the dead so that I could lock them in a small room with the teacher who made me read the book & let them lecture each other about symbolism while I performed my own "Schrödinger's Cat" experiment.

The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus. It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out. This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends. MAXIMUM WALRUS. (📷: Tom Natt)

I'm worried China might kidnap all these people and demand that, unless America pays a trillion dollar ransom, they'll send them all back to us.