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His name is Doug Beetle and my guests will have the pleasure of locking eyes with him when they sit down to do their business 💅

This ethereal, translucent silk nagajuban (long undergarment) is dyed with a design of a female ghost who peers through the window of a house, floating above autumn grasses in a long white burial robe.

'Beehives (Winter)' Ink Drawing www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/gallery I haven't seen the bees of late when I've walked past their hives. I know that a colony from one hive left mid-Summer, but the others must now be keeping their precious Queen warm and protected, along with their reserves of honey.

Y’all I’m still not over this.

This owl was getting banded and tagged by the Rocky Point Bird Observatory. For the owl’s safety, he/she was wrapped up. These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.

I spent the day sketching from the sidelines of the Tompkins Square Dog Parade, so my day was the best one.

Working on my second Halloween project, a Jack-o’-lantern but this ones based on the traditional turnip. 🎃

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

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Stitchtober N°3 — Trick 💥 I immediately just thought of Dungeon Crawler Carl and the goblins for this one, you never can trust those tricksy goblins to not spring a trap on you! #stitchtober #halloween

It's Wednesday, and I wanted to take a moment to highlight Rachel Carson, who wrote lovingly about eels in her first book, UNDER THE SEA WIND (1941). Part of the book follows Anguilla the eel on her long migration from a small New England pond all the way to the Sargasso Sea. 1/3 🗃️🧪

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silk is indeed gold

Learn about the Phoenix and “sovereign printscapes” from scholar Kathryn Walkiewicz (Cherokee) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print

Hello Bluesky! Let’s give this a go. I make sculptures. Mostly ceramic monsters with worrying teeth.

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Spotted Lanternflies… should you squish ‘em? 🧪

Stitchtober N°1 — Beast 👻 So happy to be back doing #stitchtober after a few years break, I really enjoyed stitching this lil bat creature, it’s been so fun doing colourful Halloween stuff again 🦇 #halloween #stitchtober2026

Continued discussion of the RE fangame in Inform. I'm trying to work my way toward a system of initiative (i.e., deciding who gets to act first), but it's tricky. topexpert.blog/2026/09/28/w...

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Merry Autumn! 🍂 To celebrate, I thought I'd reshare my finished Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite marionette.

Just found out my favorite flannel's pocket has a strict one rat limit.

Here she's throwing hands with a ramshorn snail (dont think the snail noticed/cared). She doesn't seem to perceive anything smaller than a bladder snail, hasn't touched any scuds. However she will charge me whenever I walk up to my computer, has tried to fight my hand, my net, and a turkey baster