modern strawberries look WILDLY different but cherries exactly the same lol

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14h ago

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jacob van Hulsdonck, still-life painter of Antwerp. Here, from around 1620, wild strawberries in a wan-li bowl. And a carnation.

Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it

#umamusume 🥺

"Ready Player Two movie is officially in the works"

hydra

@ mainstream writers: you can join the Furry Writer's Guild, y'know. Absolutely no AI, no platforming assholes who're selling AI services. We got our own anthologies and an award and everything! And you most likely have already published a story that qualifies :)

"What would you do if AI suddenly disappeared?" Nothing in my life would change for the worse. On the contrary, I'd make more money because readers wouldn't have to dig through Kindle AI slop to find my books. And I could build a high-end gaming PC again without paying out the ass for RAM and SSDs.

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Evergreen

Thank you Trader Joe’s, for this the most therian coded treat:

Whenever I am tempted to imagine what another driver might be going through, I remember this and stop

People never had gaming sessions before 2023, it just wasn’t possible back then

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

🧵 Snopes pored over hundreds of pages of documents to confirm that Anthropic bought millions of books in bulk and destructively scanned them to train its AI model.

Quartley reminder that if you care about physical media you better support your local library! Where else can you get books, games, board games, puzzles, internet hotspots etc for free? *Get library card, use it *Use library programs *Share library social media *Donate to its foundation

the björkrooms

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Umamusume: Pretty Derby: T.M. Opera O ZixRkk AqOnly Umamusume: Jungle Pocket Chika Cos'katiel Full Video that I took at the event: youtu.be/Gn5_neOUfVQ Video: Sony FX3a Photos: Sony A7 #cosplay #japanexpo #japanexpothailand #japanexpo2026 #umamusume #junglepocket #tmoperao #sonyfx3 #sonya7s

Climbing onto the @health.band tour bus and you see this

izzy kestrel@iznaut.com · 5mo ago

doormats that go hard

𝐇𝐞𝐲 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬, 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲!

reminder that social media websites are 100% reading and recording your "private" messages

things that are technically correct but, like. idk id probably use another label

drop what youre doing and play The Message From Deep Space fuck all the stories about hostile aliens and fuck all the stories with "no meaning" get yourself a first contact story full of hope and love (and chemistry) store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/...

The Message from Deep Space on Steam

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.

store.steampowered.com

Look at them tiny babies

Still thinking about this stoat down at Spirit Lake. Now you're thinking about it, too.