Telling the troops they can only understand the enemy if they know that the latter is essentially deeply afraid is good for war morale when used tactically but doesn’t actually help anybody understand anything, it’s a cynical utilitarian fudge of ‘understanding’.

The function of the Roko myth is to absolve oneself of immanent earthly moral critique by reference to a superseding cosmic mandate from the future. Similar to Christian dispensation for the rule of kings, ratification of the conquest of the Americas, religious Zionism, etc.

Bridge Troll

Photo of a pen and ink drawing of a portrait of a greyhound. Instead of a face and features, there is a dog skull surrounded by a silhouette of a greyhounds head. The dog wears a fancy collar, with gems cascading down to a pair of peonies. The color and flowers are in red. There is a red, bursting halo around the dog's head.

Greyhound and Peonies
3 in. x 5.5 in., Pen and ink on Arches paper

Yeah you feel you’ve earned it when you get it and even when you just instantly break a hundred picks it’s still fine you get on with life

Excellent look IMO

I liked it best in Morrowind

Since when is @skthecrusader.bsky.social bald??

pro tip: block all of your followers and they can never unfollow you

Palestine will be free

COLUMBO: Y’know, Doc, I think you got the wrong idea about me.
HANNIBAL: To the contrary, Detective. Jung posited that we all of us wear masks. False identities, or true ones. Yours is the mask of the Fool. But what of the face beneath it?
COLUMBO: Well, sir, my wife likes my face well enough

This is like something out of a Hannibal episode

Stick ‘em with the Pampers IMO

I want this played at my funeral

Not even a moth? 🥲

Eew

Shaders and / or sink reportage

Level 2 is when give him live rounds

I agree--the female should reward the offering by decapitating the male and using his carcass as a temporary storage for her eggs

Fleshing things out
11x14 pen and paper #wip
#surreal #macabre #penandpaper #traditionalart #darksurrealism #art #darkart

The hole in the gut is fantastic

I’m watching Spectere stream Doom: Stardate 20X7

Mixte brain

Strength to you, I hope some rest comes soon. Fantastic picture — it’s something really special to have a personal sketch from a truly talented artist.

Pilsner!

That’s utterly shocking

US Coverage of Brianna Ghey Murder Downplays Killers’ Transphobia — Assigned The teens who murdered Ghey referred to her as “it” and discussed her trans identity in dehumanizing ways as they psyched themselves up to stab her in a public park.

Neither the NYT not the Washington Post included the transphobic messages of Brianna's teenage killers, obscuring the way her trans identity allowed them to dehumanize their victim as they planned her death.

These messages were central to the UK stories on this crime, and their omission is glaring.

There’s some amazing stuff going on in painting technique but the new models are absolutely suffocating with detail, IMO it makes it very difficult to get away with a semi competent paint job — good enough looks terrible now, you need airbrushes and washes for things to look passable.