Freedom to wander around aimlessly in combat zones, taking selfies with guns

Four peach blossoms on an upward-pointing twig with a cluster of new leaves at the end. The flowers are a delicate pink, shading to almost white in the center, and have five petals. They have a thick spray of stamens with pollen that's bright yellow-orange on the newer flowers and more brown on the older ones, closer to the end of the twig.

More flowers on a three-headed branch running left to right. There are small clusters of new leaves at the ends of twigs.

Peach blossoms

I truly could not agree more

Sound is essential for appreciating elephant seals

went for a little walk earlier and saw CUTE BIRDS. my heart feels lighter

Excited to see more! I know people say this a lot, but I really do hope you're still selling these when I have disposable income again because I will be all over them 😁

Black-and-white psychedelic poster of Opabinia. No longer an up-to-date reconstruction, but still not bad.

Black-and-white psychedelic poster of Marrella.

If you've ever wished these old pieces had some truly eye-watering color, your time is coming 🐡

Ugh, this asshole again

Horrible AI image of a grey tabbyish cat lying on the ground, either crying or experiencing runoff from the bottle of bleach ("BLEAGH") being poured onto its brow. There's a puddle of liquid that seems to be collecting from its nose. Text above says, "Most cat owners don't use this to eliminate their cat pee smell, but did you know...(more)"

I saved this one from a couple years ago

These are so cute!

Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music.

Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.

ETCH

Happy Monday.
Today we're making a few updates/announcements.

First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web.
etch-humanity.org
ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity.

ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.

Thinking of Barnacle geese on Monday morning #birds

"No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"

One more for Animals that Fit Together Pleasingly

Thank you!! Most of the illustrations in that one are by Michael DiGiorgio, but I was so happy to be able to contribute to such a cool book.

Such CREATURES

This is incredible. I don’t know how else to explain this but it makes the moon look so real. I get that’s a funny thing to say but the clarity and the closeness of the image taken by an actual person changes the perspective I think.

I think it's the initial focus on the capsule window edge that does it. We know what a plane window looks like, and this isn't that different from this angle.

Ancient oak - pen & ink on toned paper #oaktree #englishoak #pedunculateoak #illustration #SciArt #treedrawing #treeart #penandink #handdrawn

Two painted life restorations of Cretaceous birds posed diagramatically, walking. Top is Pengornis, an enantiornithine with teeth. Bottom is Vegavis, a long-necked and -legged bird. There are vector insets of their snout/beak, wing, sternum, and tail bones. Text: Top - Losers: Pengornis and other archaic birds whose lineages were wiped out by the asteroid had teeth in their jaws, large claws on their hands, a long, bony tail and a small breastbone. Bottom - Winners: Vegavis, an early member of the duck and chicken family, had several traits that scientists suspect were key to the success of modern bird lineages: small body size, a beak instead of teeth, large wings, powerful chest muscles, and a shorter tail that served as an aerodynamic rudder.

Here's the art I did for the new SciAm article on why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the K-Pg event! Read it here www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a... 🪶🎨🐡

I'm just barely in their range, so I've seen them in London a lot more than here! You get such great views in the parks there.

(FYI, I now love her comic 😁)

🚨 COOT FEET 🚨

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Wish he was eligible 🥲

Big fan of his Brock Samson delivery

If it isn't going to be AOC, I'd be very happy to vote for him.

To the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker trying to have a tap battle with a Pileated Woodpecker: little dude, you are not going to win this one 🪶

He looks like a weird gourd 😆