Illuminated Manuscript Creatures ;
#7
A long day at the kicking rats out of house factory.

train subway announcer blown out speaker snare drum xylophone

A drawing of a flame's silhouette with text inside it that reads "All you had to do was pay us enough to live".

Feels poignant.

Be careful with that. Minoxidil is originally a blood pressure regulator. If you’re on similar medication or anything that could interact with it you’ll want to check with a doc.

A drawing of a realistic dog wearing a tie saying; "I need to lock in and prove that I am capable. I need to be taken seriously." While a drawing of a cartoon dog says; "I need to stay silly and whimsical lest I lose the very essence of myself." Perpetrating an endless cycle

Endless cycle

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

Photo of the Integrity capsule splashing into the Pacific Ocean with three enormous red and white stripes parachutes slowing its descent

Sploosh!

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Artemis II: *splashes down*

Me, listening to the golf commentator on stream: "How many times is this guy going to say something about erecting the inflatable front porch before this is done???"

The fucking audacity wtf.

You should ask it to show you the seahorse emoji and see if it'll explode.

Just so people know there's now an option to disable the AI button in telegram desktop in settings > advanced > (scroll to bottom) experimental settings > (scroll to bottom) Hide AI Button

Looking for the one on the app now lol

*sigh*
If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it.
If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it.
If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you.
I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Void of Furries 2. Oblique Hellscape 3. Base Smoke

Update #4506 from FalconSAT-8 (L CLEARANCE)

1. Void of Furries
2. Oblique Hellscape
3. Base Smoke

I keep seeing people admonish others about discussing politics. To that, I say:

nasa employee: oh hey, shouldn't u b back by now

astronaut: earth's stupid

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *eating zero g Nutella and diverting to Venus*: earth's stupid

Sketch portrait of a rather evil looking jackalope, his antlers curved into a halo with three floating blue diamonds above his head. His eyes are the same blue as the diamonds, all of which are glowing, and he has no pupils. He looks inevitable.

Lefty sketch for @the-magic-tuba-pix.bsky.social :D

Lulu approaches you

H post on krita-artists.org by Halla, lead developer, that reads: "Speaking as the Krita maintainer, I don’t want us to accept any LLM-generated code into Krita. Some may say, as long as the contributor understands the code it’s fine, but that’s a fallacy. No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with (otherwise bugzilla would be empty); but with LLM-generated code they haven’t even put any thought into it. That code will be unmaintainable. And that’s even completely apart from the fact that using LLM’s to generate code lowers your cognitive capacity, burns up the planet, destroys water sources all over the world and takes away from people what fits them best: being creative together with other humans. The right thing to do could be to, after you’ve experimented in this environmentally-disastrous way, to describe the feature you reached and wanted and make a wish item in bugzilla, or discuss it here, and then let people who can code implement it in a responsible way."

This was such a relief to read.
Nobody wants vibe coded barely functional software - happy to see @krita.org maintainers speaking out against it.

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

Hard times don’t diminish you. If anything, they reveal just how much you matter to the people around you, and to the story still being written.

Happy TDOV

🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈

‘’Dad, what did the 80s sound like?’’

#synthwave #80s #nostalgia

Depends on the character I think. Just like humans I think noses can be all sorts of sizes that adds to their visual personality. On my own OC his nose is a bit big.

re: chuck norris

Someone here in the Seattle area posted a picture showing prices were $6.499. Absolutely batshit.

I woke up to some good news today. I'd bring out the confetti, but I don't want to waste it on that piece of shit.

It never ceases to amaze me the crazy that can come out of this fandom. I’m really sorry you’re having to deal with this mess. I hope they part ways peacefully and you have no further trouble.

Great band...