1 hour painting

You know there was once a time when Bluesky wasn’t a place for posting screenshots of outrage bait from Twitter and folks would boost artwork and artists

1 hour painting

The spill is on, it’s Bishop

Good reminder that Treasury consist of idea-void neoliberal cultists entrenched by the Douglas and successive govts and that they are perhaps the primary reason this country cannot have nice things

So here’s my first attempt at fundraising: I’d like to raise $1,500 for a tent for Zareef a 12 year old boy who lost his parents and sibling and lives with his grandma. I know it’s tough out there but if you also want to help and can help, please do so: chuffed.org/project/zareef

POV you committed to a 30 day drawing challenge you don’t have time for but still don’t get distracted from the important things

I banged this drum to the point I got sick of it and gave up but once again: it’s because political editors and ownership are neoliberal reactionaries and have no interest in anything other than the neoliberal, reactionary view. The mainstream media are the defenders of the status quo. That’s it.

If a thousand or so people did this for me man the difference it’d make

Lots of people asked me for the clip of Charlie Kirk's hatred in his own words. I posted it to YouTube shorts but they blocked it, so here you go! I didn't collect the first 90 seconds, that was floating around social media already.

Because 'Antifa' is not an organisation, this means anyone can be designated 'Antifa', just as anything in Hong Kong can be designated a threat to 'national security'. State terror works best when no-one knows where the line is.

Shout out to all the 'allies' who left X, came here, then kept going back to X anyway because it's an easy place to find bad takes that you can farm for engagement.

The old-timey circus cannon needs a a test firing before we put it to work on the other candidates

This question has been clearly addressed by @tworuru.com

Don't need to sniff the thinner to appreciate this art, its fucking cool.

This also applies extremely to journalists

Lil landscape I did as part of a commission, you could have one too from tworuru.com

Unless it's literally your job, you never need to watch videos of people being killed. It harms you and doesn't help them.

If you are struggling with the Horrors today may I suggest this video of me painting a soothing Oklahoma landscape while enthusing about paint thinner

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

If you are struggling with the Horrors today may I suggest this video of me painting a soothing Oklahoma landscape while enthusing about paint thinner

This upsets me enormously

Oh hi Art

Note how Casey just assumes that AGI will arrive, despite the overwhelming self-evidence against the idea that a predictive text generator will become God This isn’t journalism

Remember this: when randos on the Internet demand impossible levels of moral purity you don’t owe them shit

If you don’t repost this you’re tearing me apart

Oh hi Art

I’m thinking of starting a print club, for all the art I’ve ever made (lots) and all the art I’ll make in future (ideally much more). Options for both email and real-mail. What do youse reckon? A reminder: this is the variety of stuff I make.

Desperately sad and frantic with worry much of the time but burying it under obscure allusions and she’ll-be-right-isms #NewZealandValues

rereading all of Aubrey/Maturin and Post Captain is the most remarkable book - Jack and Stephen, through misunderstanding, end up chasing the same woman - matters come to a head; a duel beckons, but - a daring action; Stephen saves Jack from blood loss - and fills the cabin with 60,000 bees

Folks, I can now reveal that the Trump/CoC economy has come for my job. Another job has not yet forthcome so now would be an extremely doubleplusgood time to commission yourself (or a loved one) a painting. Here is a very small selection of what I can do

Signal boosts hugely appreciated, Bluesky. I quite like being able to buy food

Josh is a fucking great dude, and a scarily talented artist... If those are things you have a need for (financially in the case of the second point)

Hey Bsky - Josh is awesome, let's help him out.

Folks, I can now reveal that the Trump/CoC economy has come for my job. Another job has not yet forthcome so now would be an extremely doubleplusgood time to commission yourself (or a loved one) a painting. Here is a very small selection of what I can do

Steamed Hams but it’s Bob Ross – PDF A downloadable PDF of "Steamed Hams but it's Bob Ross" an original mixed media (oils and acrylic) painting by me. How I did it: I painted along in oils with a Bob Ross episode (Northern Lights, Season 8, Episode 13). Secretly, I'd painted Seymour Skinner and…

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

Go support Webworm, the man had the stones to move the thing off Substack and so far his reward has been people unsubscribing. I’ll say it a bit plainer: for all the people here who loudly opined about not supporting writers on Substack, now is your chance to put your money where your mouth was

today on webworm, a guest piece from a former american high school teacher on active shooter drills and why they no longer wanted to prepare for warfare (please RT, if you can): www.webworm.co/survivalsimu...

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My son @antennasunite.bsky.social says I have no clout on Bluesky because he doesn't get any traffic when I share his essays. If you're interested in game design/TTRPG stuff, now's your chance to make him eat his words.

Friends, LinkedIn has failed me 😑 but I know the politically engaged community I follow here won’t. I'm chairing the Karangahape Candidates debate at Double Whammy on Tues ahead of the local gvt elections - and I’d like your input. What's got you rarked up about Auckland? Questions please 🙏

Skea – PDF This is a digital print of "Skea", from an original painting in acrylic on canvas, and is part of the Birds in Hats series by Joshua Drummond, who is me. Also, hi! Thanks for supporting my art by buying my work. This cheeky alpine fella zips down mountainsides and the fronts of parked…

LLMs and neural nets are explosives. They are not in themselves evil and have many good uses. But by God the use they’re being put to by tech companies is evil (and careless) as hell

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

And Grant is simply a liar We can know the numnber of lives saved. We do know the number of lives saved. The number is about 20,000, and every time anyone complains about costs, remind them that's roughly the population of Epsom or Massey or Levin or Ashburton www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Citizens' Assemblies aren't just theory. Ireland used them to legalize marriage equality. France used them for climate change policy. Auckland used them to guide water infrastructure decisions. Let's bring them nationwide. www.top.org.nz/citizens-voice #KiwisDeserveBetter #CitizensAssembly

Do you like to read things? Read this thing (by crowdfunding it): www.pozible.com/project/patt...