Mech Advent 2025 Day 23: Emperor. I quite like this miniature, even if the arm cannons are still a bit big. I painted this to represent Sun-Tzu Liao in his final battle. Which he wasn't actually at. #BattleTech #MechAdvent2025

LMAO This sucks, man.

In lieu of having this fancy-ass KitchenAid mixer, what if we do a selfie thread but with our mixers? A kelfie thread, if you will. Here’s mine. Quote this with yours if you feel like it!

I need help. I've had depression most of my life, but the last 2 years have been especially difficult. I need therapy, but it's expensive, so I'd like to sell 5 portraits of yourselves or your favorite characters for 30€ 😔🙏

The Crocodile-King Sends Their Regards Envoy of the Crocodile-King, draped with spider-lily themes - as well as honoring the cat-tail plant. Envoys like them help convey meaning between the many entities of the swamp, and their work is vital for amicability between those bonded by flowers.

Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!

Finished my CHUCK:

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

Here's the Mad Cat from the Mech Commander opening cine! Probably one of the most replayed openings from my childhood #nerdlings #paintingminiatures #battletech

Alright, here’s a thread of the comics I published in 2025

I like how this labeler has me labeled as toxic because I once made jokes about the former mutual dev that made fun of her lying through her teeth about bluesky to me. Labelers themselves have become toxic.

@vicmmic.bsky.social accepting art with birds in it?

Mech Advent 2025 Day 23: Emperor. I quite like this miniature, even if the arm cannons are still a bit big. I painted this to represent Sun-Tzu Liao in his final battle. Which he wasn't actually at. #BattleTech #MechAdvent2025

Finally got around to putting up our tree

ARTISTS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS. IF YOU DOUBT THAT, TRY GOING WITHOUT BOOKS, ART, MUSIC, TV, MOVIES, OR ANY OF THE THINGS THAT SHAPE HOW WE COMMUNICATE, RELAX, AND UNDERSTAND THE WORLD. ALL OF WHICH EXIST ONLY BECAUSE OF CREATIVE CRAFTSPERSONSHIP.

also a tiny mech:) 🖤🖤🖤

OMG yes.

Just looked at the design brief for USS Bone Spurs here, and with 30+ knots, the biggest weapons available and absolutely fuck all armour... Is, er, Jackie Fisher in the room with us now?

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

"If this was a real crime then he'd be punished for it" is tautological from the MAGA point of view. Power is the only variable. If this was a big enough problem to lose him power, then he would. But he hasn't, therefore it wasn't. There is no space to consider ethics, only outcome.

SFWA wants to know what you think of LLM use in the arts. Go for it. It seems like they're trying to find a fig leaf to tweak policy, because it not at all hard to say "No, firmly." www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...

Mech Advent 2025 Day 22: Hatchetman. Another piece I did pretty early, later updated for a good friend. This is in Kell Hounds colors. #MechAdvent2025 #BattleTech

The #StarTrek TOS writer of "Trouble With Tribbles" (and much more) needs some help this #Christmas gofund.me/c29e82796

Goddamn one rough night and my sleep schedule is completely FUBARed.

WELP discord is fucking up real good today and ruining everything, so here's a comic in its honour (ft. @brandtandstein.com) #comic

😻 Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616: If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.

I wanna see if "Goblins: An Ethnography" can be a vehicle for diffussion of Morton's Dark Ecology, because I think that looking at these images and delving on the reasons why they can convey the Three Layers, with regards to the path by which one becomes more ecologically conscious...

Hate to be 'that' guy, but as Grinches are 'clean' animals Noah would have taken 7 pairs of them, so they could be sacrificed or eaten.

shut up i’m curating peace

I'll do a thread on the ridiculousness of these ships at some point, but yeah: these are, by no sense of the term, "battleships."

But I salute the enterprising Navy bean-counter who got a commitment to build 20 Litoral Combat Ships by calling them "Trump class battleships"

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Gentle readers, there will not be any of these. I don't even know where to begin here. It's all ridiculous where it's not outright impossible.

billionaires can buy the cupcake factory and then start producing piles of shit that they insist are actually cupcakes but it doesn't mean anyone has to believe them, or eat the pile of shit

banning goatse? you mean covering the spread?

Mech Advent 2025 Day 22: Hatchetman. Another piece I did pretty early, later updated for a good friend. This is in Kell Hounds colors. #MechAdvent2025 #BattleTech

I have the funniest shit planned for Christmas's bonus Mech Advent entry. Feel free to guess, you'll never get it. (And today's will be up in a few.)

There's a lot of talk about how "it's inevitable" and "everyone's using it" in regards to gAI and I think it's pretty clear folk are misjudging just how much hatred there is toward it, the more the industry fucks with our jobs, tech, prices, privacy. You use this shit & your blacklisted to me.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Wait, there's a *FIFTH* Die Hard!?

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

Just 121 hours—and the illustration for Heart Breaker RPG is complete. "New Gods from the Wound in the Old Sky" #TTRPG #InkDrawing

#potionheroes #comics

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

Tired: Bury the Lede Wired: Bari the Story

Edgelands (2024) Oil and acrylic on canvas

FYI #artsky

A reminder that The Escapist that people remembered does not exist anymore. Almost all the core staff packed up and left. Most reformed as Second Wind, which is doing decent work. The Escapist now exists to promote online gambling and act as a mouthpiece for unhinged venture capitalists. Let it die