manic pixie tboy

Painting of a couple buildings it's ducks on the water on a blue night yellow orange light coming from the windows of the buildings for streaks on the surface of the water as does the light of a Rising Moon

High Tide — John Dowd, 2025
Oil on linen
12 x 16 in.

is this good

My painting THUNDERHEAD

Photo of a round, orange lichen on mottled colour rock. The lichen is comprised of numerous branching arms, radiating out from the centre.

Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Iran War Cost Tracker — $1 Billion Per Day The Pentagon estimates the war in Iran costs $1 billion per day. Track the running total in real time.

This war against Iran is costing US taxpayers approximately $11,500 per second.

According to iran-cost-ticker.com the total cost has already reached $5.5 billion.

Bull oil pastel

#oilpastel #bull

i genuinely miss when website sort of looked absolutely atrocious. everythings to clean and corporate now. theres no soul

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp

📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of ID verification (which they’re calling age verification) at account setup.

This makes absolutely ZERO sense if you have even the most basic understanding of technology

My painting LAKE MICHIGAN

Julia Chu (Chinese-US, b. 1941). Yosemite Fall (2006, watercolor on rice paper).

Neighborhood Nights #oilpainting #art

Warning that this is a very sobering read.

"That scale in turn raises a troubling question: whether Covid is not only leaving millions chronically unwell but also accelerating the slow neurological processes that end in dementia"

this is the ONLY annotation the previous owner made in my second-hand copy of the Sonnets

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Nice Lemons 🍋 #oilpainting #art

Meat. Tech bros think we’re all just meat, and their only goal is to escape the meatspace and live eternally in neural-link metaverse for-profit hell, like it would be a Greek tragedy about hubris if they weren’t trying to take us all with them at gunpoint.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Night Lights #oilpainting #art

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

One reason I keep saying that Trump's departure won't end our fascism problem is that every Republican presidential aspirant (even those who 10 years ago were "normal") are talking like twitter nazis now

Happy scream at eachother day :P

This is probably ok

This is horrific. As the covid pandemic rages on and damages people’s immune systems en masse, we desperately need more vaccines and therapeutics for disease not less. Gutting.

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

calling a spade a spade is very easy with practice. I can identify spades 8 out of 10 times