Lli Wilburn
@lliwilburn.bsky.social
Artist, maker of things, petter of cats. Sketchbooks forever.
Sometimes I will comment on absurd trending phrases using anagrams. Or just post sketches
I'm mostly here to see what you have to say
Sometimes I will comment on absurd trending phrases using anagrams. Or just post sketches
I'm mostly here to see what you have to say
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
American crow
Common raven
Alpine chough
Steller's jay
Boat-tailed grackle
American crow
Common raven
Alpine chough
Steller's jay
Boat-tailed grackle
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Svalbard reindeer
Scalloped hammerhead shark
Leopard seal
Polar bear
Secretary bird
Svalbard reindeer
Scalloped hammerhead shark
Leopard seal
Polar bear
Secretary bird
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
- Elephant
- Moose
- Alligator
- Brown Bear
- Mountain Goat
Listed in decreasing order of proximity. The elephant was a quarter mile away. Moose, about the same. Alligator? 15 feet. Bear? 10 feet (through a window). Goat? TOO DAMN CLOSE.
- Elephant
- Moose
- Alligator
- Brown Bear
- Mountain Goat
Listed in decreasing order of proximity. The elephant was a quarter mile away. Moose, about the same. Alligator? 15 feet. Bear? 10 feet (through a window). Goat? TOO DAMN CLOSE.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
American crow
Common raven
Alpine chough
Steller's jay
Boat-tailed grackle
American crow
Common raven
Alpine chough
Steller's jay
Boat-tailed grackle
Google results started giving me that sinking feeling in 2013 or so, same with crappy recycled/ripped off images for home design and recipes. Algorithmic/SEO slop wrecked the cool internet - the one where you connected with interesting humans who knew things- long before LLM slop came on the scene.
Automated text generation has existed for decades. "Dead internet" is from 2016. Markov chain text generation dates to at least 1984. The incentives to algorithmicly generate web text have been around since before 2010. Huge swaths of the internet have been case for seo/advertising slop for decades.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Google results started giving me that sinking feeling in 2013 or so, same with crappy recycled/ripped off images for home design and recipes. Algorithmic/SEO slop wrecked the cool internet - the one where you connected with interesting humans who knew things- long before LLM slop came on the scene.
today's news from the ocean (also somewhere, "death-ball sponge" the band or the spicy dessert , is coming into being)
A 35-day deep-sea expedition in the Southern Ocean has uncovered 30 new species: from a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge to iridescent armoured worms, black corals and even the first-ever live footage of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. buff.ly/9uVWJvN
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of life, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge (from the genus…
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
today's news from the ocean (also somewhere, "death-ball sponge" the band or the spicy dessert , is coming into being)
oops someone's seen my house
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
oops someone's seen my house
just me saying (again) that the ocean is the closest thing we have to another planet that people can go to right now, today, and we had better not fuck it up (any further)
thank you @alexandragallant.com for letting me know this camera exists!
thank you @alexandragallant.com for letting me know this camera exists!
New octopus dropped down in Coral City 👽✌️🐙 #octopus #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #headfoot #alien #dropdown #peaceout #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
just me saying (again) that the ocean is the closest thing we have to another planet that people can go to right now, today, and we had better not fuck it up (any further)
thank you @alexandragallant.com for letting me know this camera exists!
thank you @alexandragallant.com for letting me know this camera exists!
Also, happy November 17dee to all who celebrate.
November 17dee
YouTube video by Rasputina - Topic
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November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Also, happy November 17dee to all who celebrate.
I gave in to the Diamine Inkvent Calendar temptation and the first two colors dilute into a magical iridescent purple, so have a happy purple day, everyone.
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I gave in to the Diamine Inkvent Calendar temptation and the first two colors dilute into a magical iridescent purple, so have a happy purple day, everyone.
Visiting Boston and this is what I have to say about East Coast cities
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Visiting Boston and this is what I have to say about East Coast cities
Really wish Portland Fire and Rescue had an account here but this is from this morning.
(Cautiously hopeful that the backpack was not at any point attached to a human in the river.)
#pdx
(Cautiously hopeful that the backpack was not at any point attached to a human in the river.)
#pdx
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Really wish Portland Fire and Rescue had an account here but this is from this morning.
(Cautiously hopeful that the backpack was not at any point attached to a human in the river.)
#pdx
(Cautiously hopeful that the backpack was not at any point attached to a human in the river.)
#pdx
Reposted by Lli Wilburn
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened - High Country News
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
And one of the best gem and mineral museums in the country is in a small town in Maine. mainemineralmuseum.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
And one of the best gem and mineral museums in the country is in a small town in Maine. mainemineralmuseum.org
Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night" but it's a cautionary tale about shitposts
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night" but it's a cautionary tale about shitposts
This whole thread, and why I love these materials
Feast your eyes...
This is a detail of a braided pattern decoration in a Christian Arabic codex from the 9th/10th century CE (Sinai Ar. 461, f. 25br). I only recently noticed that the scribe used five differently coloured inks for this. It's just stunning how vibrant they still are after more than a millennium.
October 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This whole thread, and why I love these materials
1. Ewww me too
2. yeah probably (we could have done so much better. sorry, kids.)
3. Fuuuuuuck
4. The consolation of snark: I prefer to get my lead poisoning through my art supplies and vintage glassware. It's still horrible but at least I have something pretty to look at
2. yeah probably (we could have done so much better. sorry, kids.)
3. Fuuuuuuck
4. The consolation of snark: I prefer to get my lead poisoning through my art supplies and vintage glassware. It's still horrible but at least I have something pretty to look at
1. I hate this
2. Oh wow this really really really explains some stuff going on in our culture.
2. Fuck I really hate this
2. Oh wow this really really really explains some stuff going on in our culture.
2. Fuck I really hate this
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
1. Ewww me too
2. yeah probably (we could have done so much better. sorry, kids.)
3. Fuuuuuuck
4. The consolation of snark: I prefer to get my lead poisoning through my art supplies and vintage glassware. It's still horrible but at least I have something pretty to look at
2. yeah probably (we could have done so much better. sorry, kids.)
3. Fuuuuuuck
4. The consolation of snark: I prefer to get my lead poisoning through my art supplies and vintage glassware. It's still horrible but at least I have something pretty to look at
Subtly downgrade a band
Pudgy Dog
Pudgy Dog
Subtly downgrade a band
Damp leg
Damp leg
Subtly downgrade a band
Aluminiumy Dan
Aluminiumy Dan
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Subtly downgrade a band
Pudgy Dog
Pudgy Dog
That latest dodgy health statement is an anagram of "some nutty causal lies" just so ya know.
September 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
That latest dodgy health statement is an anagram of "some nutty causal lies" just so ya know.
Something was supposed to happen today? Did it involve a man from Mars who now only eats guitars?
September 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Something was supposed to happen today? Did it involve a man from Mars who now only eats guitars?
In more encouraging news: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-g...
NASA’s GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time
A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed a critical component just the day before.
www.jpl.nasa.gov
September 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
In more encouraging news: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-g...
Reposted by Lli Wilburn
The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Reviving the Old Bay
To undo centuries of damage in the Chesapeake Bay, six states are fixing forests, farms, city runoff, wetlands, rivers and oyster reefs across this massive watershed.
buff.ly
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
I went back to NYC last year for a visit and still have my city walk! Which I actually picked up as a teenager in DC.
(I slow down _a bit_ in Portland, still dodging around everyone here.)
(I slow down _a bit_ in Portland, still dodging around everyone here.)
This is hilarious. The NYC Walk is something you never lose! Even at the height of my spine fuckery I ended up falling into it because that's just the pace you use on the streets of Manhattan (to the point I was a badly limping wreck by the end of the trip, heh)
Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.
August 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I went back to NYC last year for a visit and still have my city walk! Which I actually picked up as a teenager in DC.
(I slow down _a bit_ in Portland, still dodging around everyone here.)
(I slow down _a bit_ in Portland, still dodging around everyone here.)
Reposted by Lli Wilburn
On the drive home just now I was thinking about how Homer's epics were oral histories written as songs that were meant to be memorized and performed for an audience, and I realized that the Iliad and Odyssey were both very long versions of Barrett's Privateers
August 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
On the drive home just now I was thinking about how Homer's epics were oral histories written as songs that were meant to be memorized and performed for an audience, and I realized that the Iliad and Odyssey were both very long versions of Barrett's Privateers
One of my favorite thrifted books, from 1961- basically home repair 101 and aimed at middle schoolers, maybe young high schoolers. Covered basic repairs, safety, and some cleaning tips. While dated, especially wrt product safety (heater cords full of asbestos 😬😬😬) still has much useful advice
July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
One of my favorite thrifted books, from 1961- basically home repair 101 and aimed at middle schoolers, maybe young high schoolers. Covered basic repairs, safety, and some cleaning tips. While dated, especially wrt product safety (heater cords full of asbestos 😬😬😬) still has much useful advice
Yes, wonderful things still happen in this world.
I couldn't make it to steamroller print this year, but happy to see so many people taking part in this annual event!
I couldn't make it to steamroller print this year, but happy to see so many people taking part in this annual event!
Portland-area printmakers gather to make art with the help of powerful construction equipment.
Photo Essay: A Smashing Good Time at PDX Steamroller Print Fest
Linocut printmaker Jane Pagliarulo knows how to drive a steamroller now, but she didn't the first time she rented one.
www.portlandmercury.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Yes, wonderful things still happen in this world.
I couldn't make it to steamroller print this year, but happy to see so many people taking part in this annual event!
I couldn't make it to steamroller print this year, but happy to see so many people taking part in this annual event!
This entire conversation. (Pay artists, fuck enclosure.)
COPYRIGHT IS NOT LABOR PROTECTION
COPYRIGHT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT AS LABOR PROTECTION FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS
PASS LABOR LAWS
STOP ASKING COPYRIGHT TO FIX THE WORLD
COPYRIGHT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT AS LABOR PROTECTION FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS
PASS LABOR LAWS
STOP ASKING COPYRIGHT TO FIX THE WORLD
July 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This entire conversation. (Pay artists, fuck enclosure.)