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Phineas
@phineas.bsky.social
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This is our most moderately priced receptacle.

• https://octophant.us
• https://octophant.threadless.com
• https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · Mar 27
I have been making my dumb life from drawing my little guys and stuff for more than 15 years now and I would like to continue to and you can help...

Original screen prints, paintings, etc: octophant.us/buy

Art prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

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A screen print featuring head shots of 8 soviet dogs which were sent to orbit from 1957 to 1966, all surrounding the original canine cosmonaut Laika. A red star and banner at the top reads 'Soviet Space Dogs' next to illustrations of two different orbital capsules used in the program. All text is in Russian. An oil painting of a red human skull with a bright orange outline against a collage of '80s Japanese wrestling magazine pages. Picture of wrestlers, wrestling, and a lot of Japanese text, presumably about wrestling. A digital illustration of a spectral owl, with cephalopod arms where its legs would have been. The owl has two arrows embedded in its ghostly body. There is a stylized human skull tied to the top of its head which also has an arrow in it. Night sky, a bare tree, clouds, and a full moon are the background. A black t-shirt with an image of a Black Crowned Night Heron: a medium-sized bird with a whitish chest/belly, dark blue-black wing tops and crown, a black spearlike bill, red eyes, and proportionally long yellow legs with long toes, slightly webbed standing on a stylized rock, with a green rushing river and blue sky behind. An actual bejeweled black crown is suspended over the bird's head and a golden beam of light is coming from within it down onto the regal heron. All this is within an elaborate frame rendered to look like patinated wrought iron. As part of the frame, arcing over the bird's head on either side of the crown it reads BLACK CROWNED, and below the birds feet are the words NIGHT HERON.
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A digital illustration of a Axolotl Kaiju rampaging in a city. The kaiju is center frame, mostly colored in bright mottled pinkish reds, standing on unseen hind limbs, forelimbs held out wide, all its little gill appendages are flared out, its eye are spouting little pink flames and it is blasting a rainbow-colored beam of destruction out of its mouth. All around it are fairly crudely rendered silhouettes of buildings engulfed in lurid and non-naturally colored flames. At the bottom center of the frame in a stack of rainbow-colored lettering reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
phineas.bsky.social
John Woo: ‘Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my film is dying.’
Chow Yun Fat in the John Woo movie The Killer (1989). He’s wearing a suit sitting in a church that is shot in such a way as to appear to be absolutely full of lit candles. Also there’s a white dove just hanging out.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Do you think there will even still be an ACA when Obama's museum opens?
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
phineas.bsky.social
The best time to open up an unrequested art school critique in someone's replies is never. The second best time is go soak your head.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
girl are you the Edmund Fitzgerald because you’ve definitely gone down with 29 men
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Oh also I am working on a couple different pet portraits currently, but I would draw/paint more pets. You know, presents and stuff. People love a picture of their pet, it turns out.
A watercolor painting of a St. Bernard laying in snow with her chicken-shaped toy An ink and marker drawing of a white cat with black on the top of his head and around one eye, and a long, luxurious black tail. He is curled up in a fluffy cat bed with his tail flopping out, on a wooden floor with a radiator behind. Watercolor painting of a fluffy white cat with orange markings and big orange tail, sitting on an empty shelf of a book case looking serious A fluffy, dark colored cat with green eyes who I sleeping in some direct sun that is lighting up a lot of brown and red and gold colors in his fur as well as his whiskers. He's resting in a basket full of wooly blankets, and has assumed the perfect shape of an apostrophe.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
phineas.bsky.social
I would like to sell some paintings.

octophant.us/paintings
An oil painting of a Grimpowlteuthis: A barn owl's head on the body and arms of a grimpoteuthis 'dumbo' octopus. With small owl wings on the head where the octopus would have fins. The owl head is shades of white and brown looking off to the left a bit. The octopus portion is pinks and purples, with the arms all curling up on themselves around its body. This is all painted on collaged pages from a Japanese wrestling magazine. There is different sizes and typefaces of Japanese text and decontextualized photos of wrestling and wrestlers, but mostly text. A painting of a Chicago-style hotdog next to a bag of curly fries on pink checkered paper A painting of a can of Old Style beer, on a gray and orange background, edged in blue A painting of a human skull in profile, looking left, on a brown and pink vertically striped background
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Who would like to offer me a job today or alternatively let me know where one can convert some likes/reposts into currency
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Sickos: Yes.
Silhouette of the back of a cat’s head looking out a window at a fair amount of snow falling
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
phineas.bsky.social
A digital illustration of a Axolotl Kaiju rampaging in a city. The kaiju is center frame, mostly colored in bright mottled pinkish reds, standing on unseen hind limbs, forelimbs held out wide, all its little gill appendages are flared out, its eye are spouting little pink flames and it is blasting a rainbow-colored beam of destruction out of its mouth. All around it are fairly crudely rendered silhouettes of buildings engulfed in lurid and non-naturally colored flames. At the bottom center of the frame in a stack of rainbow-colored lettering reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Mamdani campaign styled text reading ‘OH FOR FUCK SAKE’
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
phineas.bsky.social
A reporter should ask Chuck Schumer exactly what it is he thinks his job is
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Two lines of three dimensional sans-serif letters colored in gradients of blue and purple reading ‘Maybe it will/Happen today’. Above the ‘y’ in’ today’ and with its bottom point nestled neatly into the fork of the letter it’s a similarly dimensional golden pentagram with little flares of golden light glinting off its vertices. The entire lockup is superimposed over a glittering rainbow as it all streaks together through a black void.
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
phineas.bsky.social
This seems to be true of all the richest people I have to hear about every day. You never see them enjoying themselves in any sort of convincing manner. They are all some amount of permanently miserable as far as I can tell.
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
phineas.bsky.social
As seen in Poor Things (2023)
Screenshot of a black and white image from Poor Things of a horseless carriage with a horse head mounted on the front
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
phineas.bsky.social
I retract all apologies for things I’ve done with the Mamdani text generator. I’ve seen so many crimes out there.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
phineas.bsky.social
Tonight I watched The Fall (2006) again and it really is one of the most beautiful things ever filmed in a way that may never be replicated.

Only partially because Lee Pace won’t ever be 27 again.
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 AM
phineas.bsky.social
In the early/mid 80s when the movie industry was forced to accept the concept of home video, films on VHS routinely cost $100. There were displays in every rental store to tell you if you ruined a tape you rented you would have to pay $100. This was why renting ever existed.
annabookwriter.bsky.social Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d
Hold up.

I just saw an ad for the Muppet Christmas Carol VHS tape (I presume 1993). It said $22.99.

Did people really pay $23 in 90s money for tapes?! (We were poor, we only had a few and some probably bootlegged ones.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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thenasimiest.bsky.social
Bovino for Nuremberg
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Stop trying to sell me weight loss injections, teevee. Give me The Substance or fuck off.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
phineas.bsky.social
Autumn-ass building on a November-ass day
A brick three-story six flat the front of which is almost entirely covered in ivy which has turned gradated shades of red, orange and gold. Shot from across the street. The sky is lead-colored and the top of the frame is a lot of tree branches, mostly bare, hanging down.
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
phineas.bsky.social
I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm trying to turn it off
"Money for Nothin'" styled as a Mamdani campaign poster. 'Chicks' is a large, gold, serif font with a red drop shadow, 'for' is set below that in a angled gold script and 'Nothin' is set in an all-caps, sans-serif font, all on an ultramarine blue background. "Chicks for Free" styled as a Mamdani campaign poster. 'Chicks' is a large, gold, serif font with a red drop shadow, 'for' is set below that in a angled gold script and 'Free' is set in an all-caps, sans-serif font, all on an ultramarine blue background.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
phineas.bsky.social
'Maybe it will happen today' styled as a Mamdani campaign poster. 'Maybe' is a large, gold, serif font with a red drop shadow, and 'it will happen today' is set below that in a gold sans-serif font, all on a cobalt blue background.
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Big bright orange lettering in a vaguely graffiti/marker style with big black drop shadow reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’. At the bottom in front of the lettering is a small cartoon turtle with a little hourglass on its back.
June 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM