Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
@quiddityks.bsky.social
Art, nature, environment. she/her
Settler on Blackfoot Territory.
I blog at www.thiswildcuriosity.com
Settler on Blackfoot Territory.
I blog at www.thiswildcuriosity.com
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
Back when I used to make stained glass, I liked to combine glass with yarns and other fibres to get different colour and texture combinations. I really liked this red and green set of coasters.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
The color of the year is obviously Rage Red
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The color of the year is obviously Rage Red
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
Because why do one craft when you can do them all, I also make handmade books. This is a reversible palm leaf style binding featuring song lyrics from Tom Waits in one direction and Noah Reid in the other.
Segway faded away but overhyping useless technology lives on every day.
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Segway faded away but overhyping useless technology lives on every day.
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I mean this with all sincerity, and I think I speak for a lot of others: we would rather see undisciplined, amateur art by hand than shitty AI "art" any day.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I mean this with all sincerity, and I think I speak for a lot of others: we would rather see undisciplined, amateur art by hand than shitty AI "art" any day.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
You want to make fun of Pete Hegseth in a cartoon, but you can't draw? I would rather your stick figures than AI. Just draw.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Almost everyone who touts the benefit of private healthcare is hoping to profit from private healthcare.
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Almost everyone who touts the benefit of private healthcare is hoping to profit from private healthcare.
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3.
I'm obsessed with the forms and textures that come from embroidering on soft sculpture objects. These three seed heads use the same pattern with different colours and fibres.
I'm obsessed with the forms and textures that come from embroidering on soft sculpture objects. These three seed heads use the same pattern with different colours and fibres.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3.
I'm obsessed with the forms and textures that come from embroidering on soft sculpture objects. These three seed heads use the same pattern with different colours and fibres.
I'm obsessed with the forms and textures that come from embroidering on soft sculpture objects. These three seed heads use the same pattern with different colours and fibres.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
I went way back into the archives for Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar for this jewelry box made from stained glass. Yes, it's all one piece and the drawers do open.
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I went way back into the archives for Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar for this jewelry box made from stained glass. Yes, it's all one piece and the drawers do open.
So excited for #ArtAdventCalendar this year! Thanks to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for hosting!
Starting things off with my most recent project - this hand sewn and embroidered Japanese rice bag (Komebukuro).
Starting things off with my most recent project - this hand sewn and embroidered Japanese rice bag (Komebukuro).
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
So excited for #ArtAdventCalendar this year! Thanks to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for hosting!
Starting things off with my most recent project - this hand sewn and embroidered Japanese rice bag (Komebukuro).
Starting things off with my most recent project - this hand sewn and embroidered Japanese rice bag (Komebukuro).
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Grizzly bear
American Badger
Bighorn sheep
Orca
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Grizzly bear
American Badger
Bighorn sheep
Orca
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Deer
Fox
Red-Tailed Hawk
Bottlenose Dolphin
Muskrat
Deer
Fox
Red-Tailed Hawk
Bottlenose Dolphin
Muskrat
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
A long tailed weasel
A western tiger salamander
A mountain lion (on camera outside our house, but I heard it yowl which is why I checked.)
A Chincoteague pony
An antelope
A long tailed weasel
A western tiger salamander
A mountain lion (on camera outside our house, but I heard it yowl which is why I checked.)
A Chincoteague pony
An antelope
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Grizzly bear
American Badger
Bighorn sheep
Orca
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Grizzly bear
American Badger
Bighorn sheep
Orca
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
“Be realistic.”
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Be realistic.”
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.
My favourite year in review!
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My favourite year in review!
10/10. Highly recommend.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
10/10. Highly recommend.
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
Canadian government survives boring crisis, leaving Americans unaware
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Canadian government survives boring crisis, leaving Americans unaware
Reposted by Kathleen Sheppard 🍁
If you want there to be a certain kind of art in ten years, you gotta pay for that art now. You gotta make sure small time artists can survive the next ten years. If you can't afford to, then tell people about the art and artists you love. Gush about them. Help others find them.
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If you want there to be a certain kind of art in ten years, you gotta pay for that art now. You gotta make sure small time artists can survive the next ten years. If you can't afford to, then tell people about the art and artists you love. Gush about them. Help others find them.