I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Good morning. The cloudy sky before first light promised color, so I booked it over to a nearby lake. #photography #NaturePhotography #landscape #LakeChristopher

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Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are under a heat advisory or warning this week as dangerous heat continues. Here's how to stay cool.

To every Democratic Party consultant, candidate, staffer, and operative I have ever said “money doesn’t vote” to, I would like to reiterate…MONEY DOESNT VOTE.

An unusual visitor, a scrawled cowfish, blows us kisses and gently backs away 😘✏️🐮🐟 #scrawledcowfish #cowfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #kisses #backaway #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

With victory all but assured, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist who ran an energetic campaign centered on the cost of living, told supporters, “I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.”

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"I want to support indie creators, but I dont have the money for it." Good news! Support is not at all limited to financial contributions! Give that book a glowing review. Invite your friends to play that cool game. Hoot and holler about how much you love that movie. Hype the good shit up!

CASTING CALL! Unpaid. 2 minor characters. Closes June 30th, please see doc for further details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

go.bsky.app/AnXyJ35 I have been compiling a starter pack of queer folks in the Audio Fiction space! If you think you belong on this list, let me know!

@pitchpine.bsky.social ‘s episode for Someone Dies in This Elevator drops today! Check out a nice little elevator doing her best. #audiodramasunday

This one was SO much fun to record. @pitchpine.bsky.social and Paige cooked on the script!

Cole Escola won the Tony for best actor in a play for their performance in “Oh, Mary!” Escola, who is nonbinary, agreed to be considered eligible for the award ceremony’s gendered category. This is their Broadway debut, and first Tony win. nyti.ms/4dUaZFS

Online scammers target the elderly – and steal billions of dollars a year. Here’s some tips to share with the older folks in your life to help them avoid scammers: buff.ly/E0kNFXO

i wanna live in the hexagon on saturn (i’m built different so i wouldn’t die)

The shop owner, Khamploi Kakaew, said the elephant ate about nine bags of sweets, a sandwich and some bananas.

A hungry elephant caused a commotion Monday as he raided the shelves of a grocery store in Thailand. Videos show the large elephant, known as Plai Biang Lek, who is a known entity of sorts in the area, strolling into the store and casually helping himself to some snacks.

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I honestly just don’t dwell on it cause I’m going to keep creating anyway

Making art is like meditation for me. In therapy, they often tell you that being present in the moment helps with anxiety, painting/inking requires concentration/being present. I can think, absorb audio information, and parse emotions better while I'm drawing. I can't imagine not doing it every day.

#OnThisDay in 1769, while on Tahiti as part of Captain Cook’s first great voyage to the South Pacific, Joseph Banks gives us the first known written description of #surfing... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extracts-from-the-endeavour-journal-of-joseph-banks-1769 #OTD

Luke and Anna find golden oyster mushrooms in a green spring forest, Luke shares how to use tinfoil as a light reflector

Pulled from fire. Marked by the stars. A skull-shaped relic. A myth from an alternate universe. "Orion's Helm" - It survived re-entry, but needs a place to land. #space #sciart #scifi

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Somebody tagged me in this so uh. Hank is right, but my instinct is to say yes they did. Penisfulness is the ancestral condition in birds, and crocodilians are also be-dicked, which completes the phylogenetic bracket: non-avian dinosaurs probably had penises. Fully retractable ones, specifically.

that galaxy in the center of the image? you’re seeing it as it appeared 11 BILLION years ago!! and not only that, but you can see a beautiful einstein ring 🌌

Blue Skies #pixelart #art #vgen #aseprite

It's cool you don't have to keep investigating @404media.co already figured it out for you www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

a stranger is just someone you haven't turned into content yet 🥰

Concreticus, Layer of Stone

Feeling uhhh somewhat tired from all the writing I just did but! Here it is, humbly presented to you: www.patreon.com/posts/129442...

I dropped a new episode of POA today— if you've ever wondered what it sounds like 👂 to live in the Mirror, Nara gives you a little taste of it in this episode. Listen now on Patreon (for free!) or wherever you get your pods 👀 www.patreon.com/posts/poa022...

Haven't posted much about You are the Ghost in This House. Which House, you ask? Yours! Just ignore the Voice You Hear and [illegible, due to rot] (yes, that's his name). You can find all episodes available for free on Patreon, or wherever you get your podcasts. patreon.com/3fates?utm_m...

little guy club!! #art #illustration

NEW: Is frozen water around other stars? #NASAWebb provided proof for the first time: It is! Webb identified water ice around HD 181327, a Sun-like star that lies 155 light-years away. The majority is found where it’s coldest—farthest from the star: webbtelescope.pub/42Vopw0 🔭 🧪

It's rather fascinating how many children's books feature grotesque, near Cronenbergian levels of body horror.

I'm ace and don't like porn myself but would happily vote for sex workers rights. They deserve a safe, regulated work environment. They do a hard (haha) job and should be treated with respect. If the roaring 20's taught us anything its that Prohibition doesn't work, it just kills people.

The Classic Quatro #pixelart #art #aseprite #vgen

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

I found an armful of nice mushrooms

“The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. […] That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future.”

Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees, first published in 1609, was the first full-length work of apiculture published in English: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

I titled this chapter of Points of Articulation "being okay" because everyone is certainly, most definitely, okay. Don't worry about it. www.patreon.com/posts/poa-ch...

Thank you all for fifty chapters of Points of Articulation. Working on POA is one of the highlights of my week, and I’m so happy to be able to share it all with you. Thank you all, and special thanks to the supremely talented @pitchpine.bsky.social for writing such a beautiful story.

I'm so deeply fortunate to have such a fabulous fan community who makes fabulous art! Finally going through and sharing some from the POA discord community:

It is with great enthusiasm that I announce my part in this! I am so excited for everyone to hear this episode. Writing this was a blast, and the cast is phenomenal, so keep your eyes (and ears) peeled!

Wooo more SDITE🛗🎉😊 I’m very happy to share that I’m part of this final season! I worked on the ep written by @fionaclare.bsky.social as script editor, voice actor, and…my first time as Dialogue Editor! Thanks for having me ✍️ 🎙️ 🎧 And special thanks to @starplanes.bsky.social for the ep art below!

Hype!!! I got to write an episode this season 👀👀👀