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Insect light trapping and painting time. #sciart

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Artist Always Carries Around Sketchbook In Case He Feels Like Making Someone Uncomfortable theonion.com/artist-...

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Honestly surprised it took so long to get an email like this. It goes on to say tariffs on a $200 purchase were around $23 before, and have now jumped to around $125 dollars for the same purchase. Great!

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Defunding long covid research, closing the hotline for queer youth, autism lists, letting disease run unchecked, eliminating both birth control and support for parents - this is all play-by-play eugenics. They want “undesirables” dead and white women at home raising children. Call it what it is.

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after twenty years and 4 trillion dollars of VC funding we’ve finally developed mankind’s greatest invention; a version of Clippy that kills an endangered species of beetle every time you ask a question. now i know what you’re thinking: ‘how do we make it illegal for me to not use this shit.t

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I spent the last two days reorganizing the apartment into the perfect workspace and now I actually have to do…work? Unfair.

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I love learning about niche beefs.

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I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives. So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change! #Invertebrates

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I don’t want to brag but also I DO want to brag that I got to work on this :)

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Within the last couple of months I’ve made big changes to how I interact with the internet, and it’s paying off because I haven’t seen a single bullshitty ai generated starter pack and lots of handmade ones. Hell yeah.

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Just the concept of taking on 50-100k+ in student loans so you and an underpaid lecturer can sling slop back and forth is so goofy

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I’m really missing out on my true calling as a Victorian gentleman. I should be doing little dissections and attending lectures and writing treatises and correspondences with my very close friend and valet with whom I share a wardrobe and adjacent bedrooms.

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the thing about sitting down to swatch the inks you have slowly been picking up over the years is that you MIGHT realize your collection is 60% variations on one color

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Very special art night Monday night! We have some supplies to make protest signs for Hands Off :)

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I think weevils are becoming a favorite of mine because look at this funky little dude. He looks like he gives great hugs.

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Reaching that age where I’m stoked to see a bird.

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Getting increasing desperate emails from stickermule (dispite unsubscribing and blocking??) - is your business tanking or something bro? Why? Did something happen?

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I reposted this with a lot of confidence the other day but I would (and probably will) pay whatever for coffee. My life is already super paired down but the hot bean juice is my only comfort.

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Hey #portfolioday I also do #sciart in physical and digital media. Currently working on a field guide which identifies 30 types of caterpillars in Utah!

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It is #portfolioday. I do watercolors and digital illustration.

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Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.

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Same.

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Note: Captain Kirk explained this to me when I was a child as he told Cloud William that the sacred texts must apply to all people, even the Kohms, or the words on them were worthless

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“A.I. makes art accessible.” Art has always been accessible. There was like a six month period where I drew all the sketches for my comics with a lined notebook from the grocery store and a random green marker.

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yes

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hear hear

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As funding and workforce disruption harms U.S. science, the ESA Member Support Fund will pay affected entomologists' membership dues, allowing beneficiaries to maintain access to ESA member benefits and stay connected to the insect science community. buff.ly/mSnq5tP

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🍌 These slugs are a pretty big deal (literally and figuratively)! Just in time for Snail Search 2025, California finally has a state slug: 𝘼𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙭, a.k.a. the banana slug. bit.ly/CAStateSlug

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Be Gay Do Crime! Just a couple of fellas having some fun, very much patterned after my two caiques who are both criminals that like to fuck. I'm going to let the illustration sit over the weekend and come back to it with fresh eyes on Monday to tweak some things here and there.

Insect light trapping and painting time. #sciart

Artist Always Carries Around Sketchbook In Case He Feels Like Making Someone Uncomfortable theonion.com/artist-...

Honestly surprised it took so long to get an email like this. It goes on to say tariffs on a $200 purchase were around $23 before, and have now jumped to around $125 dollars for the same purchase. Great!

Defunding long covid research, closing the hotline for queer youth, autism lists, letting disease run unchecked, eliminating both birth control and support for parents - this is all play-by-play eugenics. They want “undesirables” dead and white women at home raising children. Call it what it is.

I spent the last two days reorganizing the apartment into the perfect workspace and now I actually have to do…work? Unfair.

I love learning about niche beefs.

I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives. So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change! #Invertebrates

I don’t want to brag but also I DO want to brag that I got to work on this :)

Within the last couple of months I’ve made big changes to how I interact with the internet, and it’s paying off because I haven’t seen a single bullshitty ai generated starter pack and lots of handmade ones. Hell yeah.

Just the concept of taking on 50-100k+ in student loans so you and an underpaid lecturer can sling slop back and forth is so goofy

I’m really missing out on my true calling as a Victorian gentleman. I should be doing little dissections and attending lectures and writing treatises and correspondences with my very close friend and valet with whom I share a wardrobe and adjacent bedrooms.

the thing about sitting down to swatch the inks you have slowly been picking up over the years is that you MIGHT realize your collection is 60% variations on one color

Very special art night Monday night! We have some supplies to make protest signs for Hands Off :)

I think weevils are becoming a favorite of mine because look at this funky little dude. He looks like he gives great hugs.

Reaching that age where I’m stoked to see a bird.

Getting increasing desperate emails from stickermule (dispite unsubscribing and blocking??) - is your business tanking or something bro? Why? Did something happen?

I reposted this with a lot of confidence the other day but I would (and probably will) pay whatever for coffee. My life is already super paired down but the hot bean juice is my only comfort.

Hey #portfolioday I also do #sciart in physical and digital media. Currently working on a field guide which identifies 30 types of caterpillars in Utah!

It is #portfolioday. I do watercolors and digital illustration.

Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.

Same.

Note: Captain Kirk explained this to me when I was a child as he told Cloud William that the sacred texts must apply to all people, even the Kohms, or the words on them were worthless

“A.I. makes art accessible.” Art has always been accessible. There was like a six month period where I drew all the sketches for my comics with a lined notebook from the grocery store and a random green marker.

yes

hear hear

As funding and workforce disruption harms U.S. science, the ESA Member Support Fund will pay affected entomologists' membership dues, allowing beneficiaries to maintain access to ESA member benefits and stay connected to the insect science community. buff.ly/mSnq5tP

🍌 These slugs are a pretty big deal (literally and figuratively)! Just in time for Snail Search 2025, California finally has a state slug: 𝘼𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙭, a.k.a. the banana slug. bit.ly/CAStateSlug

Be Gay Do Crime! Just a couple of fellas having some fun, very much patterned after my two caiques who are both criminals that like to fuck. I'm going to let the illustration sit over the weekend and come back to it with fresh eyes on Monday to tweak some things here and there.

Still thinking about that fish.

Perhaps this is a paltry matter