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Tristan Elwell

@tristanelwell.bsky.social

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Artist/Illustrator/Educator Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Winner, Hugo Loser I make pictures of spooky girls and cute cats https://linktr.ee/Tristan.Elwell

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · May 6

I just found out that somebody is posting really hateful, racist emails spoofing my website email address. This is public notice that if anybody gets something heinous purporting to be from me, with an email address @ my website URL, I most definitely did not send it.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 17h

I’d be honored

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Glenn Arthur @glennarthurart.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this post a goth or punk girl 🖤

An ink and watercolor fanart illustration of Siouxsie Sioux

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

“killed”
BOOOO!

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man. You’re going to lose your shit when you find out about owls!

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

That's actually only a slight exaggeration from the modern conception of sauropods! Skinny swan necks (and shrink-wrapped skeletons in general) have been out for quite some time.

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this post a goth or punk girl
#artsky

YOU RANG?

Cartoon sketch of a girl with heavy eyeliner, dark lipstick and straight, black bangs that come down to her eyes. Captioned "Nobody sees my eyebrows... nobody."

Pen-and-ink sketch of the Anadin Brothers, the female backup dancers for Doctor and the Medics. The have white faces, black eye makeup, very long black hair, flower crowns, and white gowns. Their nails, lips, and some of the flowers are bright red.

A pencil sketch of Tairrie B (My Ruin). She has a pale, oval face with heavy eye makeup and lipstick, and a tangled rat's nest of long, teased black hair.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

Nah man, that’s one of the Balearic Islands.

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

Fuckin’ banger! I want the 12” extended remix!

Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week

(via Matt Storer on IG)

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

My work here is done.

Candra Hope @candrahope.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of @tristanelwell.bsky.social

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 1d

"So, kids, the lesson for today is that you are meat and you will be forgotten."
– Me, to my students.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 3d

I only noticed one inconsequential error, which is pretty amazing for anything having to do with color, and, more importantly, he corrected some information for me and introduced a new way of thinking about the central issue.

Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 3d

Tor is one of my favorite YouTubers, and for a non-expert, he does a REALLY good job of exploring the relationship of color, language, and perception in this video.

China's Lost Color

YouTube video by Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 3d

Tor is one of my favorite YouTubers, and for a non-expert, he does a REALLY good job of exploring the relationship of color, language, and perception in this video.

China's Lost Color

YouTube video by Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities

youtu.be

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 8d

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.

Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.

Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 9d

Spooky scary

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 11d

Hey FLR, checked your profile, you seem pretty OK. Which is why it's so odd that you would jump into a conversation and be a total dick to people you don't know and have done nothing to provoke you. Seems more like the stereotypical behavior of the "other side." Something to think about.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 11d

Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:

Screenshot of text from the AI website reading: “The Art Recognition award-winning AI system verifies the authenticity of an artwork based only on a photograph of it.”

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 15d

Hear me out: ever rapture prediction is true, but the only member of the elect is always one homeless dude or something, and God’s like “that’s it? Damn, now I have to reschedule AGAIN!”

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 16d

I only know about this movie from How Did This Get Made

www.earwolf.com/episode/mati...

Matinee Monday: The Peanut Butter Solution - Earwolf

Paul, June, and Jason discuss the 1985 children’s fantasy film The Peanut Butter Solution.

www.earwolf.com

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 19d

I will be eternally grateful to @lindsayellis.bsky.social for this gif.

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 19d

I know this is a dark time for the arts but I also want to let you know that there are lots of creatives that are doing well! When I reach out to hire artists I OFTEN get turned down b/c they are booked solid, or swamped with work. It's not a hopeless field! People need art and we shouldn't give up!

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 19d

cody's program: the wenis. full version on youtube.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 19d

As with everything else, it goes back to the dissolution of the monasteries.😉