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Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it. Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 3d

Most recent three fountain pen drawings.

A faceless hatted man wearing a three-piece suit, in the company of insects.

A castle on a huge rock, floating above the water.

A somber group of figures surrounding what appears to be a bed.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 19m

When a family member says something appalling and you're obliged by circumstances to not react it's much like being stuck in a car, desperately needing a piss, and there's no relief in sight.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 1h

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You let down your defenses
When they opened the blinds...

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 1h

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Chicken salad...chicken salad, men have named you...

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 1h

Consider the following:

• Nosferatu
• Quasimodo
• Desperado
• Mona Lisa

...all have the same meter.

Make of this what you will.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Today's $2.99 deal is a doozy! Attila Veres's debut collection THE BLACK MAYBE got rave reviewed when we published it a couple years back, and the follow-up volume is up for preorder on our site. Today only, get this terrific horror collection for just $2.99 on Kindle! www.amazon.com/Black-Maybe-...

Cover for The Black Maybe by Attila Veres

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 1h

It must be amazing to be so stupendously wealthy that you can literally not understand how money itself works and yet experience no negative consequences.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 2h

I feel it's worth pointing out that Polygraph Tests are about as scientifically valid as Phrenology and Phlogiston.

So, of course the people in this government believe in them.

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 4h

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official. @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social -
zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown

The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

zeteo.com

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 2h

I consider the grittiness a plus. These are like Sergio Leone Westerns set in space and family-friendly. It certainly helps that Ludwig Göransson's terrific music evokes Ennio Morricone.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 2h

400% tariff on foreign weather.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 3h

Late morning sketch, fountain pen on paper.

David Bowman (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image "The Abbey" (fountain pen on paper.)

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 3h

A perfect album. 🙏

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 4h

I shall attain my half century in less than half a year. I may look older than him but I sure as hell am a lot more appealing* than that pestilential pox of a human being.

*I was going to use a spicier word but discretion is the better part of valor.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 4h

"Whisper to me in the language of love, Liebchen."
"Leberkäse."
"Mmmm."
"Mit Senf."
"MMMM."
"Und mit Zwiebeln."
"UM GOTTES WILLEN!!!"

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 4h

It’s Autumn! Like, PROPER Autumn! (I’ll take my small pleasures where I can get them.

A five-day forecast showing temperatures ranging from the low forties to the mid sixties in Fahrenheit.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 4h

I am tempted to rewatch the first series of "The Mandalorian". That felt to me like the first time that Star Wars leaned into the texture and feel of an Italian Western rather than a Samurai film or a fairy tale.

"I have spoken."

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 4h

I spotted that this morning. At first I thought "Oh, they have rolling deployments and a bad patch snuck through."

Now I'm not so certain.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
"Neither do I, Rhett. I'm indestructible and you are not. Be seeing you!"

-Captain Scarlett O'Hara.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

An unpleasant truth: corporations love workaholics but workaholics are an absolute pestilence to their families. It's the one form of addictive behavior that is richly rewarded by the capitalist system.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

Though it may be a bit unseemly, I do like being correct about something when I double-check. "Germane" doesn't just mean "relevant", it means relevant *and* appropriate.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

Aha, it's general then. I tried it and it failed for me too.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

So to speak!

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

I've just started dusting my horrid attic mastodon flat. I think I might need to hire a cleaner.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

Sir Geraint was one of the Knights of the Round Table. He was married to Enid. From this we can infer that while Arthur was sending Geraint off to do heroic things, his wife was stuck in the Welsh castle inventing "The Famous Five".

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 5h

The Conservative Party: Tough on critical thinking, tough on the causes of critical thinking.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 9h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 6h

"Name?"
"Geraint."
"Surname?"
"Misbehavin."
"Mis- Hang on. That gag doesn't work. 'Geraint' rhymes with 'pint', not with 'paint'."
"Shh! Most of the readers at home don't know that!"