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why are taters the only thing we’ve totted

A moody grey day. The snow is flat and the trees look like whiskers. There is a block of ice sitting on the snow, nestled in. It had many inclusions of forms all coffee brown and various cups, a head bristling with thought cut out and pasted in. There are puffs of white creamer. Stirrers. Spills. The ice has coffee poured in it too. The piece is jaunty and chaotic, but thoughtful. Very painterly. Also a feeling of collage.

LOST COFFEE As far as tragedies go, the lost coffee isn't so bad. Nevertheless we investigate its characteristic features. Whether it happens at a café or in the comfort of one's own home. Then it's the coffee set atop the car briefly, while putting your bag on the seat, then not retrieved. It may fly off instantly upon driving, with dramatic spray, or hang on for a while until a sharp curve. One incredible mug defied the odds and, nestled in the roof-rack, rode thirty miles, without spilling a drop. The rare lost coffee come-back. In public, at least, you can usually blame some unknown reprobate, casually picking up your mocha from the counter, and sauntering to the street. But in the morning, worst is to lose it yourself, somewhere between getting the mail from its box, letting the dogs out to do their business, and watering plants. Where did you put it? On top of the refrigerator, again, or on that shelf by the washer? One time I found not one, but two mugs side by side, full of cold coffee. Is the brain going at last? Time makes it clear: always you are your own villain and the lost coffee tap your head-the lost coffee is lost in here.

Friday’s Ice Art: “Lost Coffee”

“It’s so me,” says Mark, “and funny. I had to make a piece for this poem.” He adds there’s half a pot of coffee in the ice. Ben thinks just because a tragedy’s small doesn’t make it insignificant.

What do all the lost coffee cups talk about wherever they gather?

An almost B&W photo (but not!) of waves receding over some rocks on a black sand beach. In the distance are some mountain peaks under thick grey cloud, the tops obscured.

Even without the mountains showing, Stokksnes is still really special. Bit obsessed with these rocks!

#Iceland

A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

wall with sign that reads cameras and photo supplies graffitti reads riding 1st class on the titanic

Untitled (Riding First Class on the Titanic), Photo by Nathan Lyons.

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This is not a critique on people, it is just a think piece about how things changed online, and it hurts me seeing artists younger than I apologising for going a week (!!!!) without posting new pieces. Your art should not be content for scrolling-by strangers, this sucks so bad.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Death cult going well.

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.

And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.

They're slavers.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986),”Mother of American modernism"

A dramatic black-and-white close-up photographic portrait of artist Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, presented in high contrast with deep shadows and rich tones. She is shown from the shoulders up, facing slightly to her left but gazing upward and off-frame with a calm, intense, and contemplative expression. Her face is sharply defined, featuring high cheekbones, smooth skin, almond-shaped eyes with a direct yet introspective look, a straight nose, and full lips set in a subtle, serious line. Her dark hair is pulled back tightly into a sleek bun or chignon, emphasizing the elegant lines of her neck and jaw. She wears a dark, deep V-neck garment that reveals a light underlayer at the collarbone. Behind her floats an abstract, textured background resembling a large, circular moon-like form dotted with irregular light spots and organic patterns, evoking a sense of mystery and modernism.

A vibrant large-scale oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe titled Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), depicting an enormous close-up view of a single white jimson weed (datura) flower dominating the canvas. The flower is rendered with precise, sensual detail: its trumpet-shaped bloom is pure creamy white, with velvety petals that curl gracefully outward and inward, their edges tinged with subtle pale green and yellow highlights. At the center, the flower's throat reveals delicate green pistils and stamens with small white anthers. Surrounding the blossom are bold, sweeping dark green leaves and calyxes in deep emerald and jade tones, their forms curving fluidly to frame the flower like protective waves. The background transitions from rich green foliage at the bottom to a luminous blue sky with soft cloud-like gradients at the top, creating a sense of the flower floating ethereally against the heavens. The style is characteristically modernist and magnified—clean lines, smooth gradients, intense color contrasts, and a focus on organic form that conveys both serenity and bold sensuality.

#OTD in 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe died at the age of 98.

O'Keeffe, a prolific artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, NY skyscrapers & New Mexico landscapes, is recognized as the "Mother of American modernism."

okeeffemuseum.org

#WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #art

Thelonious Monk ~ Thelonious
(from Underground, 1968)
#NowPlaying #TheloniousMonk #JazzSky

Amazing song, and check out that cover, Monk knew what was what!

youtu.be/5ALsycHB9nQ

fascism is always this stupid because it requires delusion to function

fascism and reality do not mix

A watercolour bird eye

A little sneek peek at my next painting underway 👀

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

The Long Ago

Colored Pencil on Paper 9x12”

#contemporaryart #drawing #intuitiveart #fineart #art #traditionalart #artonpaper #abstract #automaticdrawing #expressivedrawing #surrealautomatism #contemporarydrawing #mappingthemoment #eleventyeleven

Painting of a swamp

According to a Flemish folktale, a creek is haunted by a water devil who drowns people. There's also the ghost of an enchantress, and it was whispered that if she raised her hand above the water, all the animals in the area would die.

🎨Gustav Klimt
#PhantomsFriday

The adult #BaldEagle shows the earlier posted juvenile #Eagle how to catch a smelt on the annual Fish run the Lewis River. One of 60+ #eagles gathered. Watch for video soon!

#TooFarAway
#BadLight

#birds #birdwatching #eagles #raptors #birding #birdphotography #pnw #birdsinflight #wildlife #nature

photo of two fuzzy grey mini donkeys standing together eating from a large red tub inside a barn.

Nicholas and Josie, our adorable senior mini-donkeys! 💕 Like many senior equines they can no longer chew and digest regular hay properly, so what you see them eating here is a special diet of finely chopped timothy hay cubes and beet pulp that are soaked into a mash.

face of ancient gallery (bloodsports’ Jeremy Mock) Announces New Album 'Like Kites': Hear The Title Track Last year, NYC’s bloodsports’ released a great debut album, Anything Can Be A Hammer, and became one of Best New Artists of 2025. Turns out, one of the band’s guitarists, Jeremy Mock, has his own proj...

face of ancient gallery (bloodsports guitarist Jeremy Mock) announces new album 'Like Kites'; hear the title track

Claude is not Data or C-3PO committing war crimes in a fictional universe. Claude is an advanced LLM used by evil folks with power to enhance their cyborgic capabilities.

Shout out to Dr. Miles’ work on youth cyborgic literacies in Detroit. I was his dissertation chair & I learned so much from him.

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)

Ghostly prints @phantomsfriday.bsky.social might like them too.

Mississippi John Hurt knows how to help you.

According to Mr. Kessler himself, Kessler-Syndrome has already started for some segment of height. We need to remove debris from orbit, not increase. They will not be able to launch even a fraction of a million satellites. Soon, nobody will be able to lauch anything. Well done!