Next day: never received a single email enabling my login at bandcamp. Not to junk, not to inbox.

Closing in on 15 minutes now. I’ve tried having it resend it 3x from the login page; no dice.

@bandcamp.com hey y’all, your login confirmation emails take WAY too long to send/arrive. I shouldn’t be sitting there for five minutes waiting to log in. Especially when I already have my password and this is some extra step you decided on because I’m on a new browser.

The National Museum of Denmark’s photo shows fourty-four annular (ring-shaped) translucent turquoise blue glass beads strung on a modern circular thread and displayed against a black background. In 1885, Jens Jensen, a farmer, found the forty-four glass beads in a large cremation urn in the ploughed-over Kongehøj burial mound, near Humlum church, Denmark. The broken urn contained burnt bones, forty-four turquoise blue glass beads, and two gold spiral rings. The cremation burial is dated circa 1,100 BC. A research project published in 2015, analysed twenty-three blue glass beads from various Danish Bronze Age graves. The analysis showed that the glass of two of the beads originated in Egypt, and the others originated in Mesopotamia. The forty-four glass beads from Kongehøj at Humlum, originated in Mesopotamia. They date to the same long-distance exchange period as Baltic amber moving south. The research project links glass moving north with Baltic amber moving south, which points to complex, far-reaching trade and exchange in exotic goods some 3,000 years ago.

Beautiful blue glass beads from the Danish Bronze Age.

Found by a farmer at Humlum in Denmark in 1885. Glass analysis published in 2015 shows the beads originated in Mesopotamia indicating far-reaching trade networks some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology

So I was watching the 1993 Finish Made For TV adaptation of The Lord of The Rings, and thought everyone should see the moment where Gollum falls into Mount Doom.

Zoom in on the little characters from the Night in the Woods videogame.

Mae! Greg! #nitw by @bombsfall.bsky.social

Underside of a large concrete bridge with brown paint swatches covering graffiti and then covered in newer bright, fluorescent neon marker drawings. Bugs and suns and clouds and little cats and other little guys.

Underside of a large concrete bridge with brown paint swatches covering graffiti and then covered in newer bright, fluorescent neon marker drawings. Closeup of green and rainbow beetles doodles with suns and stars and little cats.

Underside of a large concrete bridge with brown paint swatches covering graffiti and then covered in newer bright, fluorescent neon marker drawings. Bugs and suns and clouds and little cats and other little guys.

Underside of a large concrete bridge with brown paint swatches covering graffiti and then covered in newer bright, fluorescent neon marker drawings. A yawning sea monster, a worm, little skateboarding cats and other little guys.

Bridge Art found.

a photo of a pigeon nesting on a nest built on top of anti-bird spikes, with the text "a pigeon constructed its nest directly on anti pigeon spikes"

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Here's the full cover art of @shantiland.bsky.social and my comic adaptation of @travisbaldree.bsky.social's Legends & Lattes! We've been working on it for the last year, and I'm so excited that it'll be available to cozy up with this fall 😊☕

Cover of "As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood" by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez. A painting of a small vessel sailing over an ocean of blood toward the cosmically massive, half-sunken face of a dead god

If I were to do it all again I would make some tweaks to this typography, but I'm happy to gotten the chance to put my money where my mouth is. Art by @gorangligovic.bsky.social, story by @kjy1066.bsky.social, design by yours truly

A sphinx-like cherub walks alongside the magician Āyen. Asemic text is part of the frame.

The magician Āyen and their familiar walk past an abstract geologic formation. Āyen whispers an asemic blessing while a star shines overhead.

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The paperback cover to book 1 of the Blackwater series by Michael McDowell. A flood of water rushes over submerged buildings, including a church spire. A red eye opens in the wall of a building and stares at the viewer.

The cover to H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness. A hooded figure lifts their robe to reveal skeletal ribs

The cover to Ramsey Campbell's The doll Who Ate His Mother. A headless, armless statue of a woman in front of a brick wall. the statue's stomach is knocked out into a hole. from within, blood pours and crazed eyes peer.

The cover to Joyride by Stephen Crye. A statue of the virgin mary with a man's severed head nestled in the crook of its arm.

Show me your favourite lurid paperback horror novel covers.

Here are a few of mine.

Black and white drawing of an anthropomorphic cat man in long coat, holding a briefcase and looking severe.

Black and white drawing of Frieren holding her staff and looking up.

Looking to do some quick, no edits b+w comms in this sorta style if anyone’s interested. Starting at £50~

humans, furries, animals, your favourite guy, robots, armour etc all good.

I don't hate nature writing I've just read too much Robert Macfarlane, I don't even hate him, or maybe I do I don't know I'm conflicted, I can't read him without thinking about class or colonialism in ways he isn't, read Tolkiens Old Forest chapter that's good nature writing, read M John

“Read M John Harrison” is generally a good idea anyway.

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

Notes for String Theory by artist Candace Hicks.

Woodcarved standing up cat on a workbench

Another point of view, on another part of the workbench with a rusty metal part

First cat of march

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

4 pictures of différents woodcarvings Top left : Woodcarved humanoid octopus wearing a robe, arms wide open, in front of a book standing on branches. On the book, a frog. On the right arm, a kinfisher, and on the top of the head of the octopus, a round duck. The base is burn, on that angle it is not really obvious but is water with a slight wave form arround the octopus. On the background, an old door with old white paint. Top right : Woodcarved creature (Siren Head) with very long skeletal arms and legs, also too many ribs. Its head is a pole with two speakers and wires. Those speakers have teeth. On the highest speaker, a nest with a pigeon. Siren Head is extending its left arm, point a finger forward. A pigeon sits on its index. Caption says "Based on Siren Head by Trevor Henderson" Bottom left : Woodcarved humanoid goose wearing plate armour. She's holding a shield and a flanged mace. On the handle of the mace, a red robin landed. The eyes of the goose are made of glass. The feet and the beak are painted in burnt yellow, as the breast of the red robin. The upper part of the robin is painted in brown/grey and its eyes and beak in black. Bottom right : Woodcarved humanoid crow wearing a hooded cloak, shoulder armor. It has its right hand on a sword. A squirrel is climbing its left arm. On the base, a cat is resting.

Hello, I'm a woodcarver, and this what I do ✌️

You can help me a lot by sharing my work, so people can buy or commission me sculptures.

Praying for octopus blessings on your life 🐙🙏

Ash portal for anyone small enough,
In Newton Solney, on the floodplane, there’s an apple tree that has arched back into the ground in a way that’s impossible to tell where it started

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”

I’ve put a free printable PDF of the below image up on my website (from the comic ‘Goat and Sheep by the Well’). Print it out and staple it to a telephone pole, tape it up on your wall, etc. www.joshuawcotter.com/jwc-comics-a...

Cover art for City of Beasts, part of the Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series by Isabel Allende, the image features a python and a jaguar angrily tangled around each other

I was so excited to do the cover art for the new edition of The Memories of Eagle and Jaguar Series by Isabel Allende, here's the cover for the first book, City of Beasts!
Many thanks to AD Lucia Baez

Cover Art for Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende, part of the Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar series, featuring a harpy eagle swooping down on an angry scorpion

Here's more of the cover art I made for the new edition of The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series by Isabel Allende, this is the cover for the second book, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon!

Many thanks to AD Lucia Baez

the new water gecko pokemon gecqua toasts a marshmallow in front of pombons heat-emitting body! yum

a clever scheme

People are so obsessed with attacking the fallout instead of the source. No matter the cause. It's so infuriating. Like I get it, it's a low hanging and easily accessible fruit. But do better. Be better.

How to Live Forever: A Biohacker Q&A How do I live longer? Stress is a leading cause of early death. Avoid stress by spending every single day thinking about what you need to do to not...

"Doctors make money by keeping you sick. Beat the system and get all your medical advice from shirtless Internet men hocking supplements. Bonus points if those supplements are illegal in your home state."

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.