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Outsourcing our minds. On the plus side, if you avoid using AI you can become a relative genius. In the world of the blind... time.com/7295195/ai-c...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

A client once asked me to design a Pierson's Puppeteer from the 'Known Space' Universe. This is a series of stories by Larry Niven that introduced the public to ringworlds, and would inspire the Halo series. #illustration #creaturedesign #art

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

If you ever check Ethan Klein's Twitter defender's timelines, you seldom have to go far to find some far Right nonsense. He fell off so hard.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

HEADS UP! On Monday, June 16, 2025, at 12 pm EDT, we'll begin taking preorders for our edition of @aptshadow.bsky.social's Alien Clay. Links will go live at that time!

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

From my Ancient Archives; two horrifying sea monsters meet. Always loved squid; I wanted to be a teuthologist when I was a kid, before choosing to pursue art. At the time of painting the giant squid had never been filmed alive, leaving the possibilities of our first encounter wide open...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Interesting article about how members of the media played a part in the open war on US colleges. Particularly @theatlantic.com in 2015 with articles like The Coddling of the American Mind. Journos like Greg Lukianoff Jonathan Haidt should be ashamed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 14 days ago • 685 comments

Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.

submitted 14 days ago • 66 comments

Could LA resist a hostile invasion by the fascists?

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla theonion.com/democra...

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

submitted 15 days ago • 443 comments

I adore this book, and was given the privilege a month or so after reading it to illustrate the cover! @simonroy.bsky.social produced interior art for the story that is utterly spectacular.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

This is going to be a spectacularly beautiful book, with a cover by @alexries.com and interior art by @simonroy.bsky.social .

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

This would be on the nose for 'bad guy' design in a film. Stormtrooper looking asses.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

r e m i n d e r

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

What you are detecting are not questions or concerns; its anger. Using generative AI, a resource intensive and exploitative technology, is hypocritical and immoral for any organization interested in nature.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Feds have gone insane and fully fascist, invading LA to abduct people? Punish your OWN people for fighting back, of course. Genius.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 17 days ago • 503 comments

An old exploration of the idea that humans and birrin (at least in this version) were planning a joint colony, studying how their young interacted with one another. I painted this with my PC plugged into a faulty socket at my grandma's house while I worked a temp job in the city!

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

Well... thats a shame. smsg.org.nz/ai-creative-...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So Trump is definitely going to use the (entirely justified) protests in LA to roll out lethal military control in US cities, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

submitted 20 days ago • 190 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 19 days ago • 894 comments

Murderbot is good. I only recently got into the Murderbot Diaries books. They nail the adaption. Looks like it did in my head!

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

The birrin Kaybor-Kendi 'Tallentelli' launch vehicle and orbiter. An SRB gives the orbiter the kick it needs after separation. Painted back when Chriirah had TWO giant moons, which I later learned might be an unstable situation for a terrestrial world.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

The birrin Kaybor-Kendi 'Tallentelli' launch vehicle and orbiter. An SRB gives the orbiter the kick it needs after separation. Painted back when Chriirah had TWO giant moons, which I later learned might be an unstable situation for a terrestrial world.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I need Nathan Fielder's follow-throw on ideas.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments