Jer Thorp
@jerthorp.bsky.social
Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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I completed the Swainson's and Grey-cheeked Thrush illustration over the weekend. It was really enjoyable to work on these 2 subtle American vagrants that I was lucky to see earlier this Autumn close to home. #donegalbirding
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I completed the Swainson's and Grey-cheeked Thrush illustration over the weekend. It was really enjoyable to work on these 2 subtle American vagrants that I was lucky to see earlier this Autumn close to home. #donegalbirding
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"I was left suspecting that the best explanation for Karp’s journey — as for most of his right-wing billionaire compatriots — is the vulgar materialist one."
Well, yeah.
Every single one of these guys would sell their grandma for a bigger pay package.
Well, yeah.
Every single one of these guys would sell their grandma for a bigger pay package.
Opinion | Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"I was left suspecting that the best explanation for Karp’s journey — as for most of his right-wing billionaire compatriots — is the vulgar materialist one."
Well, yeah.
Every single one of these guys would sell their grandma for a bigger pay package.
Well, yeah.
Every single one of these guys would sell their grandma for a bigger pay package.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
One more hour left of 25% off with ALFHOG!
Yes I did just want to post ALFHOG again.
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On Friday I'lll be giving a Zoom talk as part of MIT Media Lab's Creating with Nature Series.
12 - 1PM, Eastern Time.
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12 - 1PM, Eastern Time.
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Future Sketches Talk Series 2025: Creating with Nature – MIT Media Lab
What can observing nature show us about computation and creative practice?Join the Future Sketches group for the Fall 2025 edition of our Lunch Lectures: Creat…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
On Friday I'lll be giving a Zoom talk as part of MIT Media Lab's Creating with Nature Series.
12 - 1PM, Eastern Time.
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
12 - 1PM, Eastern Time.
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
5% of proceeds from my Of A Feather project go to Wild Bird fund, NYC's only bird rescue and rehabilitation org.
Also I forgot to end discount code for you bluesky wierdos, so today you can still use ALFHOG for 25% off.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊
Also I forgot to end discount code for you bluesky wierdos, so today you can still use ALFHOG for 25% off.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
5% of proceeds from my Of A Feather project go to Wild Bird fund, NYC's only bird rescue and rehabilitation org.
Also I forgot to end discount code for you bluesky wierdos, so today you can still use ALFHOG for 25% off.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊
Also I forgot to end discount code for you bluesky wierdos, so today you can still use ALFHOG for 25% off.
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
🪶📊
They sometimes worried about him on the vast waters of the Great Lakes, his three daughters said recently. But when they would ask him if it was scary out there, he reassured them:
“Not on the Ed."
“Not on the Ed."
50 years later, the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts the children of its lost crew
“This time of year when the gales of November kick up, it’s almost impossible not to think of the men on the Fitz.”
www.startribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
They sometimes worried about him on the vast waters of the Great Lakes, his three daughters said recently. But when they would ask him if it was scary out there, he reassured them:
“Not on the Ed."
“Not on the Ed."
Listen, when it comes out that the dems were negotiating this thing with Chat-GPT, I'm not going to be surprised.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Listen, when it comes out that the dems were negotiating this thing with Chat-GPT, I'm not going to be surprised.
Bad Time To Be Poor by Rheostatics
YouTube video by dcappe
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November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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this is tomorrow (monday)
as seen in the skint, robot karaoke is back at wonderville on monday www.wonderville.nyc/events/robot...
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
this is tomorrow (monday)
Opinion | Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I am all about this Canadian soccer game in a blizzard right now.
Ottawa's head coach at halftime: "This is not football"
Ottawa's head coach at halftime: "This is not football"
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I am all about this Canadian soccer game in a blizzard right now.
Ottawa's head coach at halftime: "This is not football"
Ottawa's head coach at halftime: "This is not football"
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Listen this might be the only chance you get to use the discount code "ALFHOG"
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
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This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
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November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Listen this might be the only chance you get to use the discount code "ALFHOG"
Listen this might be the only chance you get to use the discount code "ALFHOG"
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Listen this might be the only chance you get to use the discount code "ALFHOG"
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This code will be active until Monday morning.
Get in there!
Get in there!
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
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November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
This code will be active until Monday morning.
Get in there!
Get in there!
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
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November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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This is my favorite bookstore in NYC, McNally Jackson in Seaport.
It’s a gorgeous space with comfy reading spots and an excellent cafe.
Also, right now, one signed copy of Living in Data.
It’s a gorgeous space with comfy reading spots and an excellent cafe.
Also, right now, one signed copy of Living in Data.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is my favorite bookstore in NYC, McNally Jackson in Seaport.
It’s a gorgeous space with comfy reading spots and an excellent cafe.
Also, right now, one signed copy of Living in Data.
It’s a gorgeous space with comfy reading spots and an excellent cafe.
Also, right now, one signed copy of Living in Data.
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Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
One good metric of a live show is wether the audience can successfully Shazam the songs
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
One good metric of a live show is wether the audience can successfully Shazam the songs
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Gotta go with T, mostly because of the They Might Be Giants album "Miscellaneous T" because that was where their records usually got filed.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Gotta go with T, mostly because of the They Might Be Giants album "Miscellaneous T" because that was where their records usually got filed.
Let’s talk about the bins in my local record store that are labeled A -> Z
To me, this is such a sweet spot in music because it holds the bands that made a record good enough to get into the store, but aren’t big enough to get a label .
What letter are you picking, and why? From A to Z?
To me, this is such a sweet spot in music because it holds the bands that made a record good enough to get into the store, but aren’t big enough to get a label .
What letter are you picking, and why? From A to Z?
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Let’s talk about the bins in my local record store that are labeled A -> Z
To me, this is such a sweet spot in music because it holds the bands that made a record good enough to get into the store, but aren’t big enough to get a label .
What letter are you picking, and why? From A to Z?
To me, this is such a sweet spot in music because it holds the bands that made a record good enough to get into the store, but aren’t big enough to get a label .
What letter are you picking, and why? From A to Z?
Watson and Cheney out, Mamdani in, going to take it.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Watson and Cheney out, Mamdani in, going to take it.