Thank you!

I think it's wholesome, but our family has three beloved pet reptiles (two snakes and a lizard) and I tend to paint a lot of reptiles, bugs, etc. Other people get a little creeped out.

Pretty sure that's AI.

Good luck!

An open sketchbook with paintings of a black shark on the left page and orange mycema mushrooms above a brown snail on the right. There is an open tin of Caran D'Ache pan gouache paints on the left and a palette with wells filled with watercolor paints above the sketchbook.

For today's #RepostYourArt: these #sketchbook pages happened after I got so frustrated with trying to paint on (relatively) cheap cotton paper with #watercolor that I decided to try combining it with some student grade #gouache.

That's the stuff between the coffee particles, right?

Screenshot of a link to a NYT article titled "The Touska, the Iranian-Flagged Ship Seized by U.S. Forces, Was Under Sanctions".

The NYT actually published a "that ship was no angel" article.

Biiiiiiig stretch

"You can do it!"

Oof. See also political groups and religious institutions.

Pretty much a universal experience for women.

We got our family's ball python for our kid's ninth birthday and they're still besties 😊

Something I've noticed in the US is that the luxurious holiday immigrant foods are available year round, but the awful ones created by desperate need to preserve food through the winter only get hauled out for special occasions as tradition.

I love pickled herring on crackers during the holidays, but never want it any other time of year.

My family has a story from right after we moved to Minnesota. (Dad was from there, Mom wasn't.) Mom bought something at the store she thought was labeled "Lutefish." She kept cooking it, but it just got more and more gelatinous.

I think we ended up getting pizza.

"don't put in the newspaper I got mad"

Yes, and without AI and built in surveillance!

Honestly Momoa oozes enough undiluted charisma they could make it work. Get Cumberbatch to go all method and chew on a motion capture suit as Duke Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune, and Villanueve will have both a paycheck and Oscar bait.

What I find extremely ominous here in Florida is how the state passed a law making pedophilia a death penalty offense at the same time as the Don't Say Gay laws that equate being gay in public (drag, Pride parades, etc.) to child abuse.

Here there's a big room with padded chairs where you can do what you want. Then as they need juries, they randomly select juror numbers and send you off for selection. I've also gotten summons and not needed to show twice and been called but sent home before selection because they reached a plea.

If your state is like mine, you check in the night before and might not need to go in. Next time I'm called, though, I'm going to bring a seat cushion/pillow, because the juror waiting room is comfortable, but the courtroom pews are NOT.

Claiming a dubious hardship or pulling a jury nullification stunt is just going to piss off the judge.

I went through a jury selection a couple months ago. (Actually wanted to be on it, but I was too far down the list.) My advice if you don't want to be on a jury is to answer honestly and in great detail questions like, "Would you give more or less credence to a police officer's testimony."

You also, if you felt like it, could bring your local library snacks

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I guess I could

Thanks!

And if you can't afford to pay workers a living wage, your business isn't viable.

It feels like the worst kind of invasive gossip, salivating over the details of the worst thing that's ever happened to the victim.

[Sidenote that when you substitute "whisper network" for "gossip" it suddenly makes sense that powerful men dislike/suppress gossipy women. That's not this.]

I started getting exposed to true crime because I was deep into genetic genealogy for a while. (Found my 70+ uncle his bio family by gradually working a tree for a shared 4th/5th cousin ancestor for over a year.)

And I'm sorry that I don't have a better analysis of the genre, but it's just gross.

The bottom of a sketchbook page with a small, realistic brown snail painted in watercolor and gouache.

I've been neglecting the #RepostYourArt challenge, but I couldn't let today's prompt of critter go by without posting a lil snail.

#watercolor #gouache

I'm keeping my popcorn ready.