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Illustrator, Writer, Marketer, Speaker Past: SciAm, Scholastic, Yale U Press 🔸 https://glendonmellow.com —— SciArt Feed Admin (No AI/NFTs) 🐡 https://bsky.app/profile/flyingtrilobite.com/feed/aaadepeaxdboc —— 🦋 Elder # 18,744 | 12Apr23 🚴🏼‍♂️ Cyclist 🎨 BFA Hon

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · Jan 16

🔸A reintroduction.

I’m Glendon Mellow, aka @FlyingTrilobite.com.

Illustrator, fine artist, writer.
glendonmellow.com

By day, life sciences marketing strategist (seeking new role).

Toronto-based, asthmatic cyclist, grateful dad.

Admin of the popular SciArt Feed 🐡:
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Parrot-Winged Trilobite from “A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites”.

Ink drawing with digital paint (ArtRage).
Green feathery winged trilobite perched on a branch, with some field notes in cursive below. Neutral background, except the trilobite appears to be on vellum taped to the page. That’s a trompe d’œil effect, I painted on.
#sciart

Darwin Took Steps
Oil on canvas paper.

Portrait of elder Charles Darwin with a partial staircase arising from his forehead. A sketch of his “I think” sketch is beside him in red-gold. Lots of umbers in this piece.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 59m

I took the liberty of adding you as a contributor to the SciArt Feed.

No pressure—to share your work with 3,800+ subscribers, add #SciArt, or 🐡 to your posts.

No AI or NFTs.
Credit images belonging to others.
Alt-text and self-promo encouraged.
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NekoMeganG @nekomegang.bsky.social · 1d

study

#art

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Mike Hendley 🎨 ✍️ 🇨🇦 @mikehendley.com · 3h

Painted this one upside down by accident and just kept going. It’s based on a photo of two sandpipers on the shoreline from a friend of mine. Used Pentel water brushes with Golden QOR paints in an Etchr hot press sketchbook. #sciart #birds

Watercolor of two sandpipers on driftwood near water, in a sketchbook surrounded by paint palette, water brushes, and cloth.

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 7h

Well,that's this week done.

I managed to knock out 16 watercolours in 1 week. Very pleased,relieved, & surprised.

They're all animals from Montserrat, and include several endemic species; they're a mix of mammals, birds, insects, & reptiles/amphibs

#naturalhistoryillustration #sciart #notahobby

16 watercolour completed #sciart illustrations of birds, insects, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals found on the island of Montserrat. All illustrations are cut to white of seperate sheets of paper.

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 7h

70 cyclists in 40 seconds around the center of Place de la Bastille in Paris

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 8h

on the way

a person is riding a bike with lights on the wheel

Alt: Bicycle at night lit by green, red and blue LED lights, looking vaguely TRON-like.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 8h

What, you don’t want a cartoon avatar of your face projection-mapped onto a floating torso?

It’S tHe fuTuRe

Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 8h

Well, they’re busy with

a poster for tron ares shows a red background

Alt: The Disney castle opening lit with red lasers for Tron : Ares.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 8h

Made this one some time ago. Solid people in here.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 8h

The whole tech industry blindly follows trends.

Post-pandemic layoffs, metaverse, NFTs, and lately “AI”.

Doomsday prepping is probably the next thing. If Zuck and Musk do it, they’re all gonna do it.

I highly doubt billionaires have some special insight the rest of us are missing.

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11h

Soft Cell Tissue by Jessica Drenk. #sciart made from toilet paper (yes!) and wax

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 11h

Still have the live remix of Closer by Nine Inch Nails with Boys Noize stuck in my head from their Toronto concert a few weeks ago.

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Nine Inch Nails - Closer (live @ Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, August 23, 2025)

YouTube video by ryabz

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 11h

It’s bleakly funny that the main reason Trump demanded a quick ceasefire was because they were announcing the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize today, as if it’s something you can just, like, win at the buzzer.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1d

You know, I think it would be nice if I could go back to just posting about art making and history and art history and costuming, whatever odd things catch my eye and funny things my kids do.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. ...”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 1d

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything by AI. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed with AI, or buy anything sold or processed with AI, or process anything sold, bought, or processed by AI, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed by AI.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 1d

leopard among the forest

(Swim On 7, 2021) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈

Illustration of a kelp forest in a teal ocean, rays of golden sunlight streaming in from above. Fish are swimming about, and near the bottom of a prominent kelp strand, a partially obscured leopard shark leisurely patrols the underwater forest. The palette predominantly features warmer teals, red violet, and gold.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

This video never names it, but it nails the “woozle effect”: when something seems true bc sources cite each other instead of an original. The term’s from Winnie the Pooh, where Pooh and Piglet follow their own tracks in circles looking for "woozles." Perfect metaphor for AI ouroboros poisoning info.

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 1d

Sharing with the #SciArt Feed:

Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Posted an early look at the completed painting over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/140837...

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: the $1.7M in increased revenue generated by putting Bixi stands on Toronto island cancelled out a $1.7M loss in on-street parking revenues due to heavy snow in February
secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Agenda Item History 2025.PA16.1

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BC Reality @bcreality.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Olivia Chow, no wonder they want to get rid of photo radar
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‘No wonder they don’t like speed cameras’: Toronto mayor comments on Ford cabinet vehicles | Globalnews.ca

Documents show vehicles assigned to Ford's cabinet ministers racked up 23 speed camera tickets in the past three years, totalling more than $3,300 in fines.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · May 2

Not comprehensive, but here’s a small Starter Pack of creators, journalists and critics of generative AI, who support human creativity.

A dash of anti-NFT people thrown in. Gotta keep an eye on that grift too.
#CreateDontScrape #NoAI

go.bsky.app/QuGNV54

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 1d

I wasn’t able to find one through Google or Tineye, the oldest one I could find was already given a border and meme-phrase.