The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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"Ooooohh! Fresh raspberries! How delightful!" - Gareth in this picture.
Illustration of the Monarch of the Moon; a corrupted entity in mind and body. Once she was brilliant like the moon. A body of graceful silver. Now just like her home she has been twisted into a tainted form. All to preserve the world of mortals by keeping a soul hungering demon seed from being the thing that would be the start of the end of the world. The time when the gods of Chaos and Law will do battle, and little will survive this conflict.
The Monarch of the Moon was once a graceful entity. With the destruction of her already tarnished domain, she has fallen onto the mortal world; hellbent on punishing humanity for their transgression against the moon; for stealing the lunar lands to make new mortal islands.
#art #watercolor #monster
OPEN CALL! We want your comics and prose!
We are launching a new zine later this year called ZENESIS, featuring comics, prose, articles and more covering Mecha, Sci-fi and Space-Fantasy genres.
Deadline is the end of March.
Spilling out some limpet facts until people know about limpetization, ep. 01 :
Limpet teeth are the strongest biological material ever tested.
Nanofibers embedded in a protein matrix, they outperform Kevlar, spider silk, and even rivaling the best synthetic carbon fibers.
two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that
being at the age where everyone you know is having children
A large block of rock, roughly circular in cross section.
#FossilFriday: a lump of lycopod. Part of the trunk of a large Carboniferous tree in sandstone, situated outside The Sill, the Northumberland National Park visitor centre.
Disability overlaps with many inequalities – so why don’t disability and inequality activists collaborate more? A new toolkit, based on research in Ghana and Kenya, aims to close that gap.
#DisabilityJustice
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Your favourite ambient guitar artist (guitartist?) is back to remind you that it's BANDCAMP FRIDAY! If you buy my music I get 100% revenue for today only.
I've got a new album, 'Love', a recent electronic EP from Echotrail and more!
Every purchase really helps x
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Polished section of a fossil fern showing the internal structure of the trunk. There is a thick mantle of small roots (R) surrounding the trunk. The vascular tissues of several leaf bases are visible. Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit.
Of course the best fossils are always ✨Paleozoic plants✨ This is a polished section of a Psaronius tree fern from the early Permian (~290 million years) of the Czech Republic 🌿⛏️ We can see the root mantle (R) and the base of several leaves (arrows). Happy #FossilFriday & #FernFriday! #paleobotany
Might actually be addicted to drawing these lads atm. I've drawn so much recently I can see the improvement in my ability in real time. #Transformers #Maccadam #Skullgrin #Decepticon
pencil and ink digital drawing of the the transformers character Skullgrin in his pretender shell goat headed form.
Goated. The same guy as above. Believe it or not. #Transformers #Maccadam #Skullgrin
Thinkin’ about Threxyls.
I think I’ll keep the Lariat’s head “flower” green, because they are the weakest of the bunch, so they’re not quite ripe yet
#DrawSteel
Digital pencil sketch of a transformers style robot cropped to show it's face which has an expression like it smelled something really bad.
STANK FACE #Transformers #Maccadam
Hey! I'm available for commissions and lo-fi projects - got a game, RPG or other that needs artwork that doesn't need that AAA shine? I can be that guy!
Even more excited — our paper is featured on the cover of Science Advances!
Huge thanks to @alexandrejan.bsky.social who took this incredible photo of a ctenophore (aka comb jelly) and the editors.
Here’s the cover 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art & Nationality
PS. Hate the extremely basic Polish flag
I'm really looking forward to our Friends of UMMP meeting this Friday. I haven't been to a meeting since October for various reasons.
Here's a before and after of a nice Eldredgeops from the Devonian Silica Shale of Ohio. I found and prepped this specimen.
#TrilobiteTuesday
Canny auld them osteicthyans, like. Nice work. Also, Megamastax totally sounds like the name of a transformer.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg47...
So I recently did a radio interview with Super Talk Mississippi Media about Paleontology and the Fossil Road Show that is coming up this weekend on March 7th. It was a fun time getting to chat with Rebecca.
Autism is a spectrum.
Art by George Vega www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
This is a neat idea and I've been meaning to try something like this for ages.
This image is a painting titled Launching the Lifeboat, created in 1881 by the British artist Robert Ernest Roe. The scene depicts a dramatic sea rescue during a storm on the North Yorkshire coast, at Scarborough. It shows a lifeboat being launched by a crowd of people into rough, crashing waves to assist a sailing vessel in distress nearby. The painting captures the intense atmosphere of Victorian-era coastal rescue attempt.
Launching the Lifeboat Robert Ernest Roe (1851–1930) Scarborough Art Gallery. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution formed OTD in 1824 was to be a universal service where "the subjects of all nations be equally objects of the Institution, as well in war as in peace” a mission it follows still.
Wait... learning in protists!?
Very cool, thought it was a photo of models!
How curious! inverts with internal skeletons! ;)
Very nice work. Is this blender?
"While you were partying at Maccadams, I was practicing the blade..."
this is pretty rad. Nice work.
digital pencil line drawings of the transformers character Skullgrin in his robot and flying space tank modes. His pretender shell looms in the background with it's spikey shoulders and horned goat head.
Pencils looking ok. Space tank is a placeholder. I like the legacy version alt mode so I want to incorporate more of that design too. For the normies, Skullgrin is a "Pretender", a cybertronian with a biomechanical exoskeleton. #Transformers #Skullgrin #Decepticon #Maccadam
blue pencil line drawing of the transformers character Skull grin based on the recent Legacy figure.
I'm trying to draw #Skullgrin from #Transformers, but he keeps ending up like a weird Mickey mouse, rather than a brutal and menacing goat lord. :( #Maccadam
