Sometimes several streams of the media multiverse completely miss a few of us

I may not believe in affirmations, but I sure as shit respect publishing a terse, factual assesment of one's skill level from time to time.

oh I'll get what I want. don't misunderstand me. I'm fucking good at my job and I'll get it no matter what

This feels very Dorothy L Sayers.

I can't think of any particular Sayers instance to prove this feeling, but it would do my heart good to spend a lot of time searching for one.

One of these days I'm gonna look up Hasan Piker, because if someone is only referred to as a subject of complaint or when someone is complaining about other people complaining about them, then they must be at least worth a look even if nothing they themselves say ever appears on my feed, yeh?

I don't want to shoot videos
I don't want to post tutorials
I don't want to show my process
I don't want to pour varnish
I don't want to turn my canvas
I don't want to record my screen
I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships
I just want to make pictures and shitpost

"Meet absence with absence, meet apathy with apathy."

Sonja Drimmer

Please tell me you said, "Well to hell with recreating in the National Forest system then!" and shoved him off the lift.

Much to Rose Wilder's secret dismay (if she ever admitted it at all), almost everything her Grandpa Ingalls attempted in the Little House books only serves to prove this.

Oh yeah, I was up late last night reading articles about Nick DeWolf.

As a downvalley kid, Aspen was both magical and cursed (mostly the latter after y2k or so), but that fountain and the little mid-mall creek are still amazing.

Please tell me:

Was it the development of Flash or Javascript that was test run on the dancing water fountain on Aspen, Colorado's Hyman Avenue mall? Am I making this up? I seriously can't find an article and George Stranahan is dead so I can't ask him.

My luxury bones repair will cost $1200. We can afford it, but also I am about to have a $2500 vet bill in May, so if you were planning to buy any books from me, now is a fantastic time.

Buy direct! payhip.com/kristadball

Website has all retailers links: kristadball.com

26 more hours to go and we’re so close to the $8000 mark! Head on over to my Kickstarter and snag yourself a copy of my latest science fantasy comic, SERPENTINE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lei...

Anthropomorphic American pika gathering grain, after The Gleaners, an oil painting by Jean-François Millet. Illustration by Arthur Smid.

The Gleaners

My friend Matthew will be needing additional surgery. Anything you can give to help with medical costs and costs of living will be appreciated.

They have given tirelessly of themself to save disabled people like me. Even just sharing this will help slow them that same love and support in return.

I wrote about adapting A.E. Housman's poetry for this collection - you can read about it (and look through some images from the look book I sent @ianmacewan.bsky.social ) here. www.patreon.com/posts/155626...

Does someone want to tell me why some less-than-new cd players won't play new cds or do i have to go look this up for myself?

Man I just love reading what @dansinker.com writes

A front cover of a book; the background image is a 16th-century painting of a beached whale

Happy publication day to Ryan Gregg for his new book

Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth
www.routledge.com/Beached-Whal...

I will freeze to death on this beautiful hill.

Sometimes i think,

"There can't be a more fabulous name for an historic time period than
Younger Dryas, can there?"

Then I look up WHY it's called that (because I somehow forgot), and, damn. no, there cannot be.

I <3 Younger Dryas.

hi everyone. hope you're enjoying the new episode (well, all the episodes...)

today, I'm making a special request. would you consider supporting the show via patreon?

here's why...

patreon.com/AmericanMedieval

Bought a ticket to see Bill Callahan so I can confirm whether or not that voice comes from a human. I’m leaning towards “no”

I'll be in Alaska for the first time EVER!!!!!! Come to Juneau? Let's hang out? Free mini con on May 9 <3

Exactly one year ago today:

Yeah. And the first couple eps have definitely hit.

A photo of an oasis amid a rocky, sandy landscape in Morocco. The photo illustrates how the date palms create a continuous canopy that lessens sun and wind exposure in the desert climate, reducing evapotranspiration

A Moroccan man cultivating a watered garden plot underneath date palms in Morocco

A diagram showing the three-layer agroforestry system of oasis agriculture, with the tall date palms providing the highest canopy, followed by fruit and olive trees in the middle layer, and vegetable and fodder crops on the lowest layer

A photo of someone walking through a lush green understory under date palms in Morocco

So I went down a rabbit hole on oases & they are way cooler than you thought

Oases are so much more than just 'water places in a desert'. They're agroforestry systems where humans have used date palm groves to create micro-climates where fruit trees & crops can grow to permit intensive agriculture

Dang! That worked! Thank you Bluesky for coming through!

Had a rough morning (cf migraine post), but this really helped ease this stress while diving back into an illustration challenge this afternoon.

Correction: the tile is titled "We're Off!" not "off we go" (cf migraine post, sheesh).

Snakes YouTube video by Amyl and the Sniffers - Topic

Snakes

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