A weird lookin' fella. Aren't swords just the coolest? Buy my art at www.dylan.art.
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I'm talking out of my ass, though. It just feels like a lot of the "bluesky is dead, bluesky is bad" talk is motivated by folks mad that it's the first platform to compete with Twitter in a notable way (and that they've got less influence here than they did on twitter)
My uneducated feeling is that it's because Bluesky isn't connected to the Old Blogosphere as tightly as Twitter was. The early adopters and frequent posters here don't really respect the Nate Silvers of the world and that drives the Nate Silvers of the world absolutely insane.
happy labor day
Then he would become Otis Spunkmoreyer
Every time I do a fair day I wish I had like six uninterrupted months to make more art for my tent
Unexpected outcome of the "guess the fanart right and get a discount" bucket in my tent is people flipping through it just to see if they know them all It's sort of charming. Gamers - they're everywhere Also nobody has clocked the Mega Man one correctly, but it's definitely the hardest to spot
Hell Yeah
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If you're in Cambridge/Somerville and you're recording the news in some capacity, let me know.
If you're an artist who is purely digital I really recommend selling your shit in person. It is so grounding. I feel like part of the tapestry, slinging stickers out in my local neighborhood market. At this point, I want to start carrying a local newspaper or zine or something.
I'm recognizing repeat guests! There's a fella with a cane who laughs every time he sees the "Definitely Not A Grift" NFT print! And now I want to make sure it's always up there so he'll see it. Children, strangely, are very attracted to the "Priestess of Hate" who has teeth instead of eyes.
Honestly, selling my art in person has been one of the best decisions I've ever made. I cannot believe it took me this long. Truly, talking to a crowd in person, seeing a community come by and Look At Your Shit With Their Real Eyes is a fantastic experience.
Real excited for the fair tomorrow - I got the 20inch prints AND a new fortune telling deck I'm gonna try out AND a fanart bucket that discounts if you recognize my weird-ass references. Why do I stay up too late every single night before the fair comes round?
Not TV, but I stopped reading Blue Period because it gave me flashbacks to some very stressful high school art critiques. Definitely captured the stress and fear of being an uncertain young artist in school, not knowing one's direction and being surrounded by people more skilled.
youtu.be/CVPPCsG0FjE?... 77 Slightly Delayed - Ashra. Do you need help sleeping? This is a good track for that.
Désolé. I love a lot of things off of Song Machine.
All I see is a series of floating vests
I want someone to take this job and report back like they're infiltrating Mordor
Folks, is it a high-stakes murder casino to go on an educational scavenger hunt
Surely if we listen to the gripes of Republican Instagram Personalities (famous for their Rationality and Consistency) about which words we should use, then a new glorious age of democratic rule is just one election away
If "Cracker Barrel's Logo" is our cultural heritage, then jesus christ, we have no cultural heritage at all
Fantastic album, that one
And the way they say " S H I N E " is etched into the very deepest reaches of my skull
www.youtube.com/watch?v=czw5... 90s Yes is a completely different band from 70s Yes. But, I grew up with Open Your Eyes and The Ladder, so I love them very deeply. Honestly, I was such an anxious and angry child that listening to a song this obnoxiously happy was comforting.
Fellas, if you get horny for your wife are you Destroying her Body-Soul Unity?
Someone should make a tiktok about this...
SOLAR SYSTEM I read that as sun first! Because those two concepts are inseparable! It goes round the sun! Solar system!
2025 Political Rising Stars To Keep An Eye On
The car wash needs to be slower. It’s great in there. Make it thirty minutes. I will pay extra for the inconvenience
I have only ever been one gender. I think that it is neat as hell that some folks have experienced being many genders. It is very very good for the overall Empathy Power of our species. I agree that the transphobia makes this much shittier than it has to be.
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Republicans break a Sacred Norm: "uhhhh the president is exploring new legal waters with his signature flair and candor" Democrats respond in any way other than meek acceptance: "left-wing radicals are dividing the country." I don't know why anyone reads this paper, it's less than useless
I love it so much when folks buy my prints, but it's especially validating when it's the weird 3am nervous breakdown paintings. It's sort of comforting that those can speak to people too.
"if AI has no haters, then I am dead" or however that meme goes
Why do people think that the end result is the only reason other people make stuff
L A R G E C R A B I'm a little mad that it's not exactly 2x the size of the other prints... Maybe I'll just do the whole back wall in the big size so that they tile correctly?
Good ol three-take Elon
We have ordered the robot to compliment you in a genuine way
"we have Programmed in some Genuine touches" is a fun little contradiction there
Sound Chaser (pt. 1). A comic about the creative process. I really should post more of my old stuff here. I'm really proud of this comic. Also, if you haven't listening to Relayer by Yes you should, it's super underrated.
Very excited to bring this bad boy to the art market this weekend
An ice-cream cone. A cream cheese bagel. A hotdog, with ketchup, even. This is why I had to shoot him with my gun
It is a core belief of mine that this sort of silliness is more valuable to the human project than every arms manufacturer combined
Why is he animated exactly like a City 17 Metrocop
I'd pay someone to send me custom packages of White and Pink Monster in half-size cans. The full-size ones are just too much some days.
I love to mandate less Rationality in my political action plans
Slightly diminish a band: Topeka
Billionaires never help. They bitch
The wrestling /is/ the intelligence. Not the facts or figures - which the LLM can't even reliably get right anyway.
Even /if/ an LLM could spit out that exact lesson to me, it /still/ wouldn't be nearly equivalent to the sum total of my life experiences that led me to that idea myself. All this to say, the LLM cannot have "PHD level intelligence" because it didn't fucking wrestle with something for years.
I think a lot about how the core lesson of my artistic journey is probably "make what your hands want you to make, not what your head thinks you want to make". I was only able to actually learn that by fucking it up for decades, and now seeing the payoff for a few years.
And there's no way to shortcut that because the long path /is/ the intelligence. Having spent the time gives one the flexibility and history to do the cool shit, like make new connections and build meaningful ideas. AND actually integrate that shit into your life.
It makes me think sometimes that folks enamored with this technology just fundamentally don't understand what intelligence is? Like, to me intelligence is the screwing up, screwing around, getting bored, getting excited, sitting with /something/ for years.
All my homies want to Kill The Computer ( Shout out to @killthecomputer.com ) . #art
It is Too Hot At The Fair
Hell yeah, my favorite style of eye
I love all those little gaps and crevices in the Oread, especially compared to the Naiad. I can imagine what they'd sound like moving around!
Thank you!
Think this might be a shirt if it isn't a sticker . #art
P H D L E V E L I N T E L L I G E N C E
More greetings! #kidlitart #booksky
Y'all heard of this little indie outfit called Tally Hall? . But seriously, this band was a big part of my early music taste. There's some great stuff in their records and solo projects. #art
Ooh, or Graphical User Interfaces. That's my real answer. It would be hella cool to have a timeline of fully interactive computer interfaces, and explore Why Things Looked Like That. Mostly because I miss Windows 95 and the bevels on everything
Small replica museums
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Something I wish was mentioned more often against this "uhh you should raise revenue, not raise taxes" is that any other method of raising revenue is ALSO A TAX Bus fares aren't some kind of pure "revenue" source. It's a tax on poor people. Rich people aren't riding the fucking bus.
I love that this scathing expose also contains maybe the most cinnamon-bun ass quote ever spoken about college "Yeah we played beer pong, but with water because it was more fun"
For computers, Portability is inversely proportional to Holiness
A good underpainting is always worth it! Even with my style, it always helps plug those random pixel holes that I don't get to
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Fantastic color work on those rocks!
Touching Grass (well, pavement, but you get the idea) . #art
The better version of this is funding a guy to just go town to town telling those stories to crowds, like slotting a bard into the stand-up comedy circuit.
That and a full round of Weird Movies about the rest of the King Arthur / Mabinogion stuff, in the Green Knight style. There's so much psychadelic stuff to mine if you've got actors willing to go there
I would immediately start funding a Bionicle reboot. I want a film with Love+Death+Robots budgeting about biomechanical amnesiacs learning to cure the Robot God who is also the Earth
amazing things are happening in the shrimp rodeo community www.reddit.com/r/ShrimpsIsB...
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
Doodle of Internet model "cruxxlust" . #art
Wishin' this for yours and mine
"I'm feeling lucky" but it can prescribe opiates
He's always keeping an eye on me
Holy shit what the hell Replacing a beautiful, flashy logo full of unique personality that communicates the over-the-top energy of the products for... a default windows font
Loving the new Bret McKenzie single! Check it out. . #music #art
doom be upon ye #dragonage #dragonageinquisition #solas #fantasy #fenharel
Painting of a man . #art
Life drawing tonight . #art
I love working game UI into stuff like this, it has such a charming feel
In the same way that some people's Star Wars psychosis "new star wars doesn't make me feel good like old star wars did" really just stems from the original Star Wars feeling magical because they were a child that didn't have to think about rent or taxes and also it was the second movie they ever saw
I wonder just how much of "MAHA" is people assuming "if the soda was the way it was when I was a child, I would feel healthier" and not realizing that they felt healthier because they were A CHILD
Finally, humanity creates a TV show so rancid that it melts any LCD screen unfortunate enough to display it
New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...
I defy you to find a cat as cute as this one . He's got knives for hands, though
Artists, quote repost your woman art ⚡️🧨🗡
She's an honest businesswoman
I'm in my early 30s, and yeah Bernie's political presence was very influential to me. In close second are all the folks I see as carrying that torch to some degree, like AOC or Mamdani, but "holy shit Bernie might become president" was the most hopeful I've ever felt.
Republican branding : FREEDOM Republican policies : you can't have sex for fun or kiss a boy or go to college or buy things from China or not own a car or be a Muslim or have carrot cake or travel to another country or visit our country or get a vaccine or have healthcare or...
Foreboding clouds. . #art
