Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

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Hey #portfolioday, I'm Dave, I draw stuff usually with a sci-fi slant. I’m not really taking commissions at the moment, in fact I’m not sure what future is even going to hold for my art… but thanks for looking! I do appreciate it. 😊

Ahoy #PortfolioDay

I’m Ryan and I’m an illustrator based in the UK.

Open for work with samples of my work and email are below.

🌍 ryanbutton.carrd.co
📧 ryan@rbillustration.com

The Why Team (Who? More like) have blocked me! I’m on a list apparently!

High five! 🙌

For sale Siege Galaxy Optimus £80 complete

Just watching some TOTP archives and I wasn't prepared for this image.

I’m told that this figure.
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Is really good.
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To play with.
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And transform.
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Between modes.

Episode 1 of “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” and I am hooked.
Fantastic, grounded performances, three talented actors leading a brilliant, witty show. The script must be miles longer than anything else on the small screen right now because the dialogue is so fast and funny.

My dislike for AI definitely has to do with the fact that it's inescapable. Everyone and everything has some sort of angle to sell me on it and I'm so done.

If it was truly amazing you wouldn't have to fuckin push it so god damn hard.

"Please use this thing we made so we can fluff our numbers"

Cover A by EJ Su and Dee Cunniffe -- a propaganda-style poster image of the IPPF (space police) lifting high their giant sci-fi rifles and waving flags with their logo on them

Cover B by Nick Roche and Josh Burcham -- Blood, in a filthy prison uniform, knocks the shit out of an IPPF officer with the butt of a rifle

Cover C by Karen S Darboe -- a graphic black and white design of Blood, holding a rifle and looking alert, as uniformed IPPF officers chase after her

Cover D by Pete Woods -- a new piece in a six-part connecting cover, showing Blood, Chief Amundsen, Corporal Middleditch, and a handful of Pinkertron officers (robot policemen with shock batons)

Coming in July:

BLOOD & THUNDER #15
IT’S THE IPPF VS. BLOOD!
Blood is on the run from a ghost of her past. IPPF agents are hot on her trail, but there are unexpected allies lurking in the shadows.

@ejsu28.bsky.social @nickroche.bsky.social @thatpetewoods.bsky.social @skybound.bsky.social

(Breathless): “Wait, is this flirting?”

20.00 FILM: ANT MAN Marvel's exciting adventure about how Declan Donnelly starts conversations with his TV partner.

Once a year something better than the current image comics book lands at TFN.

Will be getting that new thunderclash comic. They've got me back into picking up physical comics the last few years. Always a good time.

I won’t. Not for someone who sees empathy and understanding as a disease.

“Sometimes things make me think! I don’t like that, because eventually the thoughts turn inwards and I have thoughts about me and they make my tummy hurt! Just make smashy robots smash!”
(Jack Lawrence drawing another horny Transformers book): “Ok”
“Not like that! Now I have new thoughts about me!”

In the era of "we must exclude trans people from playing sport, for Fairness" it's actually quite sickening for various media outlets to be all "check out out, a ROBOT won a marathon!"

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Introduced my wife to Farscape last night. Crichton asks Eryn about compassion and she doesn’t understand the word. He explains the meaning and she says “I know that feeling: I hate it.”
Never occurred to me until now this was based on actual people interactions

It really was. Those airbrushed box arts were so inspiring, they practically made me want to be an artist in the first place.

I tried to homage that particular art with my 'First Cybertronian Civil War' fan art, back in the day.

My new hobby is deploying my entire family to stand slack-jawed in shopping aisles. It’s very popular round our way

a man says pirates are in this year on his face Alt: Matthew Patel, Ramona’s first evil ex tells us “pirates are in this year”

#totp

Haven’t heard the word gobo since about the time of this performance!

Not 100% convinced Lou Bega’s ladies are playing those trumpets… #totp (hopefully)

I can only see ones in my following feed

theperfectpixl and his collection!

We're back for another Transformers collector interview, and today it's theperfectpixl, who has a remarkably clean and curated collection full of all kinds of wonderful toys. Come and have a look here -->
tfsource.com/blog/20...

Wait, so he went to prison Charlie watched his family descend further into poverty and we all got eaten by shape changing space aliens?

When we finally collapse into a Mad Max style post apocalypse, there’ll be a gimp in a cage in the back of a truck yelling things like : “Disgraced ex cop fails to win hearts and minds amongst Lord Humungus’ passionate following.”

I'm sure there's 1000 fired employees pleased to see this display and numbers pushed so prominently. Shameful.

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion