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“Nothing on the air since ‘Twin Peaks’ has approached its originality,” Tad Friend wrote, in 1999. On Twin Peaks Day, revisit Friend's reflection on the ups and downs of David Lynch’s seminal TV series. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

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Happy Twin Peaks Day!

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Here’s a wet shirt mini comic. Pass by my Threadless shop and get your ass ready for this summer. There’s a promo running rn www.threadless.com/shop/@alphad...

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Crocodile

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Hello people! This are the next four cards of the Major Arcana that I'm making, inspired by the first editions of the Tarot of Marseille. These would be The Pope (Hierophant), The Lovers, The Chariot and Justice. #furryart #art #anthro #tarot

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“Brown is an entertaining writer of what could be called High Magazinese, a prose of front-loaded descriptors and punch-line squibs…” www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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“I got a contract from a magazine in Budapest. To reprint a short story of mine they agreed to pay me fifty dollars, out of which there would be deducted a thirty percent tax and a ten percent agent’s fee…” —Irwin Shaw

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As The New Yorker turns 100, its art editor Françoise Mouly says the magazine's distinctive covers are meant to give readers "a sense of what's going on in the world, but not through words."

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One of my earliest nudes, 2010: Natural light + I’m on top of a freezer + cheap Olympus DSLR = ART.

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Patreon is kinda preaching to the choir here but I agree with every word. "A Dark and Golden Age" is such a badass slogan. Whoever crafted it deserves a raise. stateofcreate.co

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If spiders almost never cause us real harm, why are so many people afraid of them? A new book calls into question the insect’s fearsome reputation.

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I've been hunting around for Beneventan manuscripts, for reasons we'll see when we get to tomorrow's saint, but meanwhile I found these very pretty large initials in some Montecassino mss. Not the highest-res digitization, unfortunately, but you can see how good the colors are. Details+shelfmarks 🧵

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The Pink Series, 2020

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I thought I'd do a little animation test of my sharkfolk ocs! Roberto's favorite hobby is cooking for his friends! He's very talented at preparing many dishes, but he's very afraid of hot oil and feels very embarrassed about it hehe 🍳🦈 #art #sharks #sharkfolk

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Oh honey! Maybe in the last century writers didn’t want to show their asses. But today we’re actually up for it. So move over because you’re blocking the view. Oh, and we also have gals who write. Shocking, I know.

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watching people react to twitter screenshots is... it's like if they visited the sewers and took photos of all the sewage and showed everyone how gross it is there just... stop looking at sewage. idk what else you were expecting in the sewers

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"Once upon a time, a family by the name of Grimm carried on a life that was anything but." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Ted Chiang: "Using ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you will never improve your cognitive fitness that way."

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Ted Chiang: "Any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it. Effort during the writing process doesn’t guarantee the end product is worth reading, but worthwhile work cannot be made without it." #MicDrop

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My homage to the 90s Calvin Klein ads. Except my model is way hotter and grittier than Marky Mark. 🔥 Repost if you agree!

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Here’s a midnight power ballad. I got napkins too. open.spotify.com/track/4RGtEl...

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Made a poster with The Hanged Man from my #TarotVulgaris project. Snatch it on RedBubble: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1686...

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Red is often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping out of our grasp?

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Caught myself ranting between sets. I train both body and mind. #gymrat

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#ValentinesDay, not just about romantic love. Copper engraving from the wonderful Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687), a French emblem book on the subject of love. More here: buff.ly/2l3z2Yj

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Hung Dog Slurp’n’Slide shirt. [Sold without the model] alphadesigner.threadless.com/designs/hung...

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Welcome to the Age of the Moron! It's a brave new world! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The Pink Series, 2020

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Reading the opening of Enuma Eliš, the "Babylonian epic of creation", for the first time. Impressive stuff. The first couple of lines really are very similar to those of Genesis (my attempt at normalization and translation below, based on the 2013 edition by Lambert): 1/3

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In an increasingly provocative world, many of us seek to manage our emotions. But instead of asking whether you’re overreacting, you might ask, Am I reacting as usefully as I can?

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Here’s a classic cut for Moist Shirt Wednesday. I have them on sale: www.threadless.com/shop/@alphad...

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France in 2000, as envisaged in 1899. Some tech is wonderfully prescient: we've versions of Zoom, a vacuum cleaner, drone deliveries. Other visions less so, particularly those anticipating a life beneath the waves, of underwater croquet + whale buses... publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

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David Mitchell: “Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things-like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.”

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Thought about her for some reason today. That’s a drawing I did of a photo taken by Tim Walker for British Vogue. The colors were really nice but the composition works so well in black and white too. www.frieze.com/article/vivi...

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With his Super Bowl performance on Sunday, Kendrick Lamar used “the Drake candy to smuggle in his thesis on the perils of Black entertainment,” Doreen St. Félix writes.

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Technology doesn’t make us dumb. Doesn’t matter if it’s electric guitars, TVs, game consoles or butt vibrators. AI is no different. If you’re dumb enough to trust it can solve your complex problems, that’s on you. Accept responsibility.

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An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

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Kinda wish this was a real novel. I’d read it in a heartbeat 😂

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The Pink Series, 2020

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Kendrick Lamar performing ‘Not Like Us’ during the #SuperBowl

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How do artists sustain themselves year after year? Two recent books ask a wide variety of people—dancers, writers, filmmakers, architects—why they keep creating.

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The Pink Series, 2020

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