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lvl.28 // sheridan animation 2025 // will post sketches here occasionally
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stellarantares.bsky.social
Hurricane Melissa, Oct. 2025.

Breaking through the eyewall of one of the strongest Category 5 storms in history.

250+ mph winds, extreme turbulence, and dangerous g-forces — but this is the moment we’ve trained for.

🎨: @zorrito.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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philsalv.bsky.social
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
A black screen, captioned "You walk into a dark place."
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
The view from from the windows of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module just after landing 56 years ago. Apollo 12 was a great mission although the loss of the color TV camera at the beginning of the first EVA was a blow to live network coverage. In due time we saw the color and B&W photos the crew returned.
This is a panorama assembled from numerous photographs made through the windows of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module 'Intrepid' shortly after landing on November 19, 1969. After the successful first landing by Apollo 11 in July the second mission refined methods to make precision landings. They succeeded, and landed within walking distance to the derelict probe Surveyor 3 which had touched down on April 20 1967. The scenery shows the saturated cratered surface typical of the Lunar lava plains, or 'Maria', with impact craters of all size ranges covering the pulverized surface. This is a landscape of eternity, with only the locations of the innumerable craters changing over time as new ones gradually erase the older ones. The shadow of the LM stretches toward the horizon, with a bright 'Heiligenschein' glow centered on the antisolar point. This brightening is caused by the lack of visible cast shadows behind the illuminated irregular surfaces, making a 'zero phase' point, and enhanced by the presence of tiny glass beads scattered in the upper surface layer, or 'regolith'. Just as this appears around where the shadow of the observer would be, one can see a comparable effect when walking in the early morning across a wide field of grass covered with dew. Near the shadow of your head a brightening will appear as the many round drops refract the light so a lot of it returns in roughly the direction it came from. Road markers and signs also use paint with imbedded glass beads to reflect light back at autos.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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goronic.bsky.social
Screenshots from Very Important People, a show on Dropout. The host, Vic Michaelis asks "What did you do with $100,000?" The guest, Tommy Shriggly (Zac Oyama in a muscle suit) responds "I invested it and then I turned it into sixteen THOUSAND dollars."
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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secase.bsky.social
“waaah my art isn’t good enough to fully portray my GREAT IDEAS, I need to use AI” listen i spend years putting my terrible art online and having strangers tell me it was terrible and off-putting and then i did it long enough that it got less terrible so sorry if I have 0 sympathy for your plight
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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vvvukkk.bsky.social
commission 🦋
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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peterwartman.com
I removed microsoft from my life; now to slowly remove google (something that's gonna be much harder, unfortunately)
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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kothscreens.bsky.social
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 2, Episode 15
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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jayeatonart.bsky.social
This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Talita plucks Adam off of a ladder like a naughty cat.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin
The scissor lift begins to retract for repositioning. Bip's avatar is flopped over the tops of the comic panels, looking frustrated. Bip: I don't have much time to wait, I've got a rapidly approaching appointment with the launch loop. Can you do it off the clock? Talita switches radio channels and turns to write something on a physical logbook with a pen attached to its ring binding. Adam dismounts the scissor lift behind her. SFX: clk Talita: Tod's gonna ask questions if I pull that too often. Adam hops up the radio tower foundation and begins to scale the ladder up to the tower's ring platforms. Bip: Is there a tool I can borrow..? Talita: Hm... actually, I might be able to replace the claws with something more— She notices Adam out of the corner of her eye. Talita: –ADAM! GET DOWN FROM THERE! Bip's avatar pokes down in front of the comic panel with an apologetic sweat drop. Bip: Wrong radio channel. Talita: God fucking dammit! Adam continues to the scale the rungs of the ladder. Then, without warning, Talita's hands clamp around his rib cage and she plucks him off the structure, putting him down on the foundation of the tower with an unceremonious THUMP. The surprise wearing off, he gets up and turns to look at her furious face. SFX: clk Talita: Do you have a deathwish⁉ Adam: It's GOT handrails! If we were using the damn things we'd be DONE by now! The other temps stare awkwardly while Adam is reprimanded on the shared radio channel. Talita: Those rails were built decades ago to support 20 kilo avians! These structures are not stable enough for you to climb! She walks away to return to the job. Adam glares daggers at her back, cheeks flushed. Later, the crew returns through the vehicle airlock. SFX: BEEP BEEP BEEP Talita vacuums the outside of her exosuit after hanging it up. SFX: VVVVVVVVVVVVV She absentmindedly tugs on her lower lip with her trunk lips as she works. To her right, Yao looks curiously at her bare antlers while putting on a pair of prosthetics resembling deer antlers.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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genc.newgrounds.com
Gordon Freeman Sketch
[ twitch.tv/genczilla ]
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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makkon.bsky.social
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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bigsquidman.bsky.social
Ghost mutt!
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Saturn through Titan's haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU
On March 31, 2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan during the Titan (T-4) Flyby, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere. Saturn's rings are seen here casting dark, dramatic shadows across the planet's northern disk (upper left). This composite is made of images that were taken by the Cassini spacecraft's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on March 31, 2005 and received on Earth April 1, 2005. Cassini was approximately 1,200,000 km away from Saturn and 7,000 km away from Titan. The images were taken using red, green, and blue filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%”

(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)

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rahmstorf.bsky.social Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 10d
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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jayeatonart.bsky.social
This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Wake up Talita, back to work!

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin
Transcript Talita stands on the edge of the dollhouse cutaway, looking incredulously at the enormous luminous Bip avatar. It leans over, considering her with a hand on its chin. Bip: Isn't the water pressure down here deadly? SFX: ping! Talita's eyes open. She is lying disoriented in her bed on Dirtball, awakened by a chime from her tablet on the bedside dresser. Spread over the top of her usual comforter is the antler velvet blanket from the Runaway. She blearily tugs on her reading glasses and picks up her tablet to squint at the source of the notification. Talita has a direct message exchange with Mel. Mel: Just got a message from the medbay. Clayton slipped a disc, he's off work until he gets better. Talita: Oh no! That sucks. I hope he feels better soon Mel: You and your temps will have to work harder to make up for it. No distractions, ok? ;) Talita: Of course Later in the day, Talita is testing a breaker box in the junkyard with a multimeter, while Dominic and Phoebe peer over her shoulders. Bip's avatar pokes its head up from behind the panel, looking down curiously. Bip: You around? Talita: Not now, Bip. Bip leans out over the panel to look at her grumpy face. Bip: When will you be available? Talita scowls. Talita: Later. Bip hangs off the edge of the panel, nonchalantly swinging their legs over the fourth wall and blocking some of the view with their avatar's body. Bip: Well, I've processed about 100 tons of heavy water. In the pit with the Runaway, a frontloader positioned in front of a row of frames containing hydrogen gas tanks holds its manipulator arms as if it were a human with its hands on its hips. Bip: But the solenoids on the transport tanks have these caps with an awkwardly positioned guard ring. I can't grip them with the frontloader claw fingers, and the worms aren't strong enough. One of the frontloader claws uselessly pinches the guard ring. SFX: click click Talita: So cut the guards off. Bip: I thought we were trying to avoid hydrogen tank explosions. Talita rolls her eyes. Talita: Well, then, wait. I don't have time this week to run errands on the clock. She looks up from the electrical box on the ground in front of her and switches radio channels. SFX: clk Talita: Alright, none of those antennae are causing the issue. Let's move the lift and test the next array. She is speaking up to Adam and Yao, who are on the fully extended platform of a large scissor lift next to a short radio tower covered in dozens of mismatched radio antennae. Yao pulls cables from the side of the antenna they're next too, while Adam slouches against the platform railing, doing nothing. In the regolith around the base of the radio tower are the tracks left behind from the scissor lift repeatedly being extended, retracted, moved, parked, and extended again many times.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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smpritchard.bsky.social
"AI" as digital asbestos - A wonderful and disturbingly apt analogy!
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12d
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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secase.bsky.social
why do all pictures of my dog look like this
A blurry picture of a gray and white dog engaged in an intense yawn
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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cullyhamner.bsky.social
If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13d
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Phobos over Mars - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qQWKph
Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54375128834/sizes/o/ (See licence below) Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Check out the original with the martian background distorted here: flic.kr/p/2ogpjSY. The camera scanning the satellite caused the original view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moved by. Colourised image created using data processed from archives.esac.esa.int/psa Mission: ESA Mars Express Orbit 22608 Instrument: HRSC Time: 2021-11-22 22:51 Product IDs: HM608_0000_BL3 HM608_0000_ND3 Notes: Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int. This is a single shot on HM608_0000_BL3, not a composite image, although the background has been resized to reduce distortion (see above original) and the details on Phobos are merged with the second filter HM608_0000_ND3, shot during the same observation. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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lead-castle.bsky.social
Slapped some colour + a new crop on this comm, which i know will get totally mangled by compression, but that wont stop me from painting in monochrome red
Digital art of an anthro husky in a bulky spacesuit, standing in a dark corridor. He holds a bright red flare aloft in one hand, the only source of illumination.
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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darrylayo.bsky.social
Every CEO could be replaced by a drinking bird toy and none of us would ever know the difference
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13d
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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longpainter.bsky.social
Northern Lights 6”x6” oil
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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ixnoah.live
In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM