Jay d’Hawke

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Gathering Gloom Noordhollands Duinreservaat

Shipwreck https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/shipwreck-1854

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Did you know I love the color green? Yes? What gave it away... @everydayoriginal.bsky.social is having a holiday sale and I've got these paintings listed! Each come framed :) everydayoriginal.com/winter-sale/ <- all the art! everydayoriginal.com/artist/LauraSiadak/ <- MY art Ends Dec 10th!

The four stages of "Hungry for Knowledge", my book-loving Woolbeast troll sculpture at Beinart Gallery this month. Lumps -> doodle -> lumps -> "draw the rest of the owl". #artprocess #sculpting

Another birb on a branch for #ArtAdventCalendar

'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

Always love these wind walkers… tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay...

This is one of those places that are more majestic, evocative, moving, from a distance, as here. We did go inside and through (amid crowds), climbed up to top, the view was superb, but the glory is seeing it from a ways away. The imagination set free. San Gimignano is like that for me, too.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Foretelling the Snow. Hannah Willow.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

To be selected as arcano-bombardier captain in one of the Queen's floating citadels did "wonderful" things for Octavia's ego.

Turned 33 yesterday and had a great time celebrating! I understand the ancient laws on this website states I can ask for retweets for my work on this special day? Haha. Cheers!

Our forthcoming Lands of #RuneQuest: Sartar book has a section on Creating Duck Adventurers, with art by Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social. There's also more Duck art coming by Mark Smiley. Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks.

Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

This future imagining is sobering and important

Astronomers have captured the earliest shape of a supernova explosion, revealing an olive-like geometry just as the blast broke through the star’s surface, offering new insights into stellar death.

Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located). www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

I hate having to wait a whole year for China Miéville’s new book, but I think it will be worth it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...

'Early Autumn in Itako' - Kawase Hasui, 1942. #JapaneseArt

A new digital map expands the known Roman Empire road network to nearly 300,000 kilometers, offering the most detailed and comprehensive dataset of its kind to date.

Analysis of ancient wetland sediments on Rapa Nui indicates a centuries-long drought began around 1550, challenging the idea of societal collapse and highlighting community resilience to climate stress. doi.org/g99dnv

An interesting study into deathbots. Eva Nieto McAvoy & Jenny Kidd conclude: “while you can talk to the dead with AI, what you hear back reveals more about the technologies and platforms that profit from memory…. than about the ghosts they claim we can talk to.” theconversation.com/can-you-real...

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

this one from @greatdismal.bsky.social is a new one on me and will stay with me

You should be kind

A rather interesting take on why the Netherlands has so few castles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adtc...

Oh wow

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay Sumptuous handmade image by Molly Crabapple whose work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From Tiger Slayer, the story of Nur Jahan, 17th-century Empress of India. Text by Ruby Lal. Norton Young Readers Sept. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it. I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other. youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...

Eight of Cups 🍷

Updating my LEGO White House

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

The @wtpress.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign has a lot of fun stories from Welsh history and mythology. They are best read in order, so I am going to make a mega-thread of them, starting with @julietemckenna.bsky.social on why she used Welsh folklore: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

‘The False Knight on the Road’ process video. Don’t know where the Black Knight came from….!