"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.
Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because people on the side of the people always end up disappointed
#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #vimes #booksky
"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance"
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
#GNUTerryPratchett
I need a replica of this
Illustration of an anthropomorphised Brontosaurus in an early 19th century dress standing with a quill pen in her right hand at a writing desk with a sheaf of papers. She faces left, but her head is turned slightly towards the viewer. Beneath the desk are scattered a few more sheets of a manuscript. In the background, a framed silhouette portrait of the head and neck of another sauropod hangs on the wall.
BrontΓ«saurus.
Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014.
Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. π€
Dark painting in classical style, depicting a woman in a white dress with her back facing the viewer, wrapped in red fabric. The face of a man peaking through the darkness, near the woman's bleeding neck.
Book mockup of the first illustration.
The Dracula cover I worked on is finally revealed.
I am very stoked about this project, because doing a cover art for a classical book is a dream I didn't know I had, and also because they agreed to have the cover art minimalistic and elegant, and I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.
I'm going to learn to crosstitch just so I can embroider that last sentence and hang it up
And chocolates
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Yes, and there is a reason for that."
From the Golden Book of Workplace Fairytales?
Ooo, also this!
youtu.be/oGneAab3e88?...
Dumbest product promoted by NYT without being labeled a paid ad since the $99 index cards
This! Even if people who want to read LLM generated fiction existed, would they need an intermediary to produce it?
An image of a dik dik which is like a baby deer with big soulful eyes and a weird funny nose
Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
Charun, the demon of death, is disappointed in your choices
Today the winter Olympics open. Russia and Belarus are allowed to participate under neutral flag.
Picture by Gatis Ε ΔΌΕ«ka
I needed to hear this. I really, really needed to hear this
What duck?
Good thread, but also I can't believe bluesky censored The Creation of Adam, one of the most recognizable paintings in the world seen by over 20K people daily
Tony Stark fanfiction. Sadly, real life billionaires ruined my enjoyment of the fictional of versions
A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..."
More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!"
A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them.
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Just under three months separate these photos.
And yet, despite everything, people keep living. They go to cafes, raise their children, go to work. Life goes on.
Illustration of twelve flower-themed animals, each labeled with a month from January to December
Your month, your flower friend!!
Cloud migration meeting is never about birds.
Horrifying footage from Kyiv shows the moment a residential building in the Pozniaky district was struck during Russiaβs latest combined missile and drone attack. Pozniaky suffered the heaviest destruction in the capital overnight, with entire sections of the high-rise torn apart.
Absolutely not, and also no.
This is not the shark attack I was expecting
