Book Birthday: it was really neat being invited to rethink the origins of this project, and why it's important today-right-now to revisit the Renaissance and how its myth affects today's politics (especially these harmful theories of "creative destruction") whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/02/t...

World’s Highest Standard of Living - Margaret Bourke-White, 1937

Yeah a big part of this is that the Trump admin and their oligarch backers literally just want a lot of poor people to die off. We don’t need to speculate over their reasons and motivations, they are quite open about all this. It is to their benefit that a lot of poor people around the world die.

When, at 13 on 9/11, I sensed things would be bad, I didn’t think it would be this bad. Like for the rest of my life

Will you please share your recipe?

home owner #PixelArt

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay

Can anyone even buy a console in this day and age

Come check out my economic policy Wallop Myself in the Dick and Balls Nonstop Over and Over Again. If you notice the walloping, I will triple the walloping of my dick and balls. At the end my dick and balls will feel good somehow. How does this work? I will not elaborate.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Don't you dare fucking kill yourself today. There's nothing on the other side and it's not an escape, and I swear to you anything is better than that. Don't fucking do it

this shit sucks so much, most of us have lived through at least 3 other recessions now im just so sick of this shit they just keep stealing our future from us

Details of rocks on the Spanish coast.

if we’re not supposed to eat pebbles then why do they look like that

you’d think that if prices get jacked up high enough that companies would start to lose money as consumers are no longer able to afford their products. but that could never happen the line always goes up forever

I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT A RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AND A PRODUCT WONT KILL ME. I WANT MORE REGULATION. I DONT WANT CORPORATIONS TO BREATHE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.

yes

Run, Melos! (1992) #animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

Superwoman/Clara Kent designs I did for fun last month.

I cannot emphasize this enough, and I do not mean it in a sexual way To achieve a high standard of ANYTHING, one must have an irresistible drive towards it That irresistible drive is horniness in all its forms, regardless of whether it has a sexual context You MUST be horny for your creations

you can just say "software engineers" you don't need to be redundant

This sounds really intriguing.

This and also wrist/hand pain! I always see artists joking about sore wrists and it's really not that hard to mess your hands up permanently and it can still happen when you're quite young - I started getting issues when I was 17 (It's fine now because I started taking breaks seriously after the

prompt engineer voice: I had a friend in high school who was good at drawing and he got a girlfriend before me, so I will take that feeling an apply it to every idea I have about art for the rest of my life

I just like yapping. It’s my curse. I cannot shut up. Help.

The Administration for Community Living, housed in HHS, is shutting down. I spoke to disability experts for @motherjones.com about questions they have for what’s next, the services ACL provides, and how this move may lead to more folks being institutionalized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

People frame science as something far too complicated for the little people to understand, and it's part of how people get drawn into conspiratorial thinking about science and medicine. Our science education needs a major overhaul, and we need adult education to become more robust.

lol i forgot bluesky existed for a while have a dump of various sketches that happen to be on my phone (note: gore warning for the fourth picture. it was vent art that i now feel comfortable sharing.)

skeleton HRT

I may have to get into underwater photography simply for Posting - for example, I legit saw a real Penis Starfish today while diving in Sulawesi:

Unable to attend this month's Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture? We've got you covered! The event is now on YouTube and available as a podcast. 🧪 🔭 Watch:

Good NYT synopsis by @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social that captures the breadth of excitement about today’s JWST 🔭 announcement of its successful imaging of auroral lights on Neptune

My 2025 so far

realtor emailing about "rising inventory" affecting the market most generous description we've heard of the fact that people are *fleeing* texas as fast as they fucking can

*after spending all my money and harming future job prospects just for the chance to live the rest of my life as myself voice* thank god im finally bourgeoisie

Attacking CERN's experiments by looking at books teaching basic arithmetic to children and saying "particle ideologues think that the fundamental nature of reality is comparable to sharing candy with your friends. Communist propaganda."

👆🏼Fascism doesn’t start with gas chambers. It starts with book bans, propaganda, and blaming minorities for everything wrong in society.

if you see this post your b/w art (which is most my art, funny enough)

mosh pits were invented just so men could touch each other

i know i am OLD and SET IN MY WAYS but god i wish smaller companies & groups still had real websites instead of just facebook

We can all agree on one thing, boobs.

From Annelia Anderson @astroannelia.bsky.social : Today’s paper explores the possibility of impacts delivering organics to the ocean worlds in our solar system. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/03/25/s...

making detailed art

BUG PARTY, 2025