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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 4m

Try sliding it a peanut butter and jelly sandwich/some cookies before attempting to enter.

Also: shouting and bad jokes.

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

Remember to take breaks and bring spare batteries for the torch/matches for the lamp.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

Woo!

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

This is glorious news!

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

It's so hollow. And so totally undermining to what actually makes things valuable.

The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

Just a long sit in the bin and a big think about what they're bloody well doing.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

They both need to get in the bin.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h

I'm lumping Badenoch and Clegg, two political entities with differing political obligations, biases, and affiliations into the same basket so I can yell at them here, yes. But this thoughtform of the arts being both worthless and very dangerous to money-making industries being seeded is sickening.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 3h

I think I'm going to start my habit of asking "what you doing?" on Wednesdays again.

Have you got a fun project you're working on that you can talk about (for work, for fun, for love, for revenge?) tell me about it here! I am nosy and want to indulge in some vicarious excitement.

Thank you.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 9h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Hooray! Now I just need to get my shouting pants on and start writing/drawing in the correct direction.

The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, and on a personal note: one who hasn't reproduced themself either, so is doing their social and work AND home life all wrong too. What a VERY bad little artistic goblin.

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 2h

As with all quasi-faschy efforts, the enemies of AI are at once weak and effeminate, while also being dangerous and multitudinous.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Love to be framed as fey. So much fun to be tricksy and evil just for not being a happy little worker bot.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, let's get it.

The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

He absolutely did not deserve such a soft focus, rose-tinted view.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Side note: I can't believe my mates used to write fluffy slashfic about him. Terrible creature.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

It's almost like you think creativity is too valuable for mere plebs to wield or something.

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Picture of a man who really looks like he sold his ffing soul.

Also in the news: apparently the arts aren't important enough to study at degree level, but artists will also kill the AI industry.
Make it make sense, you absolute freaks.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 3h

I should add my own...

Today I am tackling at least one of the zine projects I've been stumbling on and I owe people, I'm going to plant some garish tulip bulbs, and I'm going to go to the gym to lift some heavy things and imagine I am crushing the head of my nemesis w/ the thigh press machine ✨

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

(speaking of: I'm going away to go and work on my list now. But: checking back later to see what you guys are doing).

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The Scariest Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2h

Urgh, 2 kids takes up a lot of bandwidth. I see you over there and: you've got a lot on. I hope you manage to get some wins ticked off your to do list.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Petra, a staff scientist working on malaria mosquitoes, but I also try to make science more approachable and whimsical with my #SciArt doodles 🦟

a collage of 32 invertebrate drawings on a black background with the list of their scientific names in the middle.
DToLtober 2024

1 | Thyatira batis
2 | Sphecodes monilicornis
3 | Halyzia sedecimguttata
4 | Bugulina stolonifera
5 | Meta bourneti
6 | Scaeva pyrastri
7 | Ocypus olens
8 | Vespa crabro
9 | Nematostella vectensis
10 | Papilio machaon
11 | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
12 | Alitta virens
13 | Allacma fusca
14 | Andrena fulva
15 | Anoplius nigerrimus
16 | Aporia crataegi
17 | Patella pellucida
18 | Bombylius discolor
19 | Chrysoperla carnea
20 | Diadumene lineata
21 | Calliphora vomitoria
22 | Apoderus coryli
23 | Gibbula magus
24 | Mimas tiliae
25 | Lineus longissimus
26 | Parasteatoda lunata
27 | Melolontha melolontha
28 | Marthasterias glacialis
29 | Emmelina monodactyla
30 | Gymnosoma rotundatum
31 | Laothoe populi
extra | Nephrotoma flavescens

a large widescreen comic in yellow, light green, dark green, of scientists talking about their projects at the Vector Kolymbari Meeting 2024. Panels are split into days and Session numbers.

drawing of a beefly and mosquito standing in front christmas trees decorated with yellow lights’, both are standing by an AB blood bag with mugs, the beefly is worried, the mosquito has a christmas hat and spices in a mug full of red liquid.

hand holding an A4 sticker sheet with various famous memes redrawn with mosquitoes as the main characters.
Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together
Captain Picard Facepalm
Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech / Just Do It
Buzz And Woody
This is Fine
Take all my money
Hide the Pain Harold
I am cringe But I am free
Math Lady
Clown at computer
Computer stare
Spiderman pointing at Spiderman
Treat. Yo. Self.
Pepe Silvia
Homer comfy cinnamon roll
Spiderman computer desk
Disaster girl
Kermit sipping tea
Drunk Kitty
Peter and Miles crouching

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