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Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 9h

Todays brushwork practice using cherry apples, over time I started to understand why painters use fruits so often haha.

#digitalpainting #art #apples #practice

Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 13h

I've heard the jokes of Trump having small hands but this is the first time I see they are pretty small, even compared to a guy much shorter than him.

Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/JKgkB82y4Lw

Illegal Troops Deployed to Blue States

YouTube video by LegalEagle

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Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 14h

Such a long explanation to say they're rolling a new sex-bot.

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 21h

So, it is #PortfolioDay again!

I am Elke(ment), a physicist turning the math underlying physics into visual art, with hand-written computer code or with pencils. Or I am drawing objects from glass dispersing light! (No AI).

#SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

My website: elkement.art

$Sparse Spectral Spaceport, by elkement 2024-2025, digital art generated with computer-code (no AI). Mathematically exact diffraction curves mounted on circles: Intensity of light of different wavelength, diffracted into different directions.$ Poinsot's Dancing Cones, by elkement 2024, photo of geometrical construction on canvas board (no AI): Three cones used by French mathematician Louis Poinsot's to visualize the motion of the force-free gyroscope.

Poinsot's Dancing Cones, by elkement 2024, photo of geometrical construction on canvas board (no AI): Three cones used by French mathematician Louis Poinsot's to visualize the motion of the force-free gyroscope.

Cosmic Cloverleaf, by elkement 2024, digital art generated with computer-code (no AI): Tower-like mathematical function inspired by orbitals (spherical harmonics)

Celebration of Dispersion, by elkement 2024, photo of a drawing on watercolor paper: Watercolor pencils, ballpoint pen (no AI): Crystal reflecting and dispersing white light, causing rainbow patterns.

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Ironlily @ironlily.bsky.social · 20h

Ordo Mediare Sisters's oath.

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チェリ藻 @chelicot.bsky.social · 1d

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Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 1d

A really nice low key photography OuO

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William Strang @strangphotography.bsky.social · 1d

thailand-becausewecan.picfair.com/images/02247...
the Night – Pattaya City, Thailand 🇹🇭
Travel, Documenting & Photography in Southeast Asia
04:00 AM in Soi Buakhao, Pattaya City.
The lights fade, bars close, and silence settles over the streets.
#photography #streetphotography #Thailand #sonyalpha

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 1d

“Each language carries entire worlds of human experience and insight developed over centuries: the rituals and customs that shape communities, distinctive ways of seeing beauty and creating art, deep familiarity with specific landscapes and natural systems, spiritual and philosophical worldviews…”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 1d

For Indigenous People's Day, here's a spear/arrow point from the Mojave Desert. The kind of photography I do means I spend a lot of time staring at the ground, so a stone that didn't quite match stood out. You can see where it's been knapped; the people who lived here historically were the Nuwä.

A photo of a red, flat stone lying on the orange-tan desert floor. The stone has been knapped - worked by hand to make it into a sharp-edged arrow or spear point. It is likely a fragment of a larger spear or arrowhead.

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Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to practice a high key painting but I think I need to push the values even more, grouping some of them more, but I like how it looks and I can try again, drawing Emilia OuO.

#rezero #emilia #highkey #art #krita

A drawing of Emilia, character from an anime called Re: Zero, she's gently smiling in a front view.

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BlindCoyote 🔜 BLFC @blindcoyote.com · 9d

Spin!

Another piece for my color wheel series
Enjoy!

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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 1d

🎞️ “Se la conté a [Guillermo] Del Toro y dijo: ‘Es buenísima. Si pueden, deberían hacerla’. Frankelda ronda nuestros sueños, definitivamente”, narran los hermanos Roy y Arturo Ambriz dozz.es/gsznf4

Dentro de la fábrica mexicana de sueños y pesadillas en ‘stop motion’ apadrinada por Guillermo del Toro

La película animada ‘Soy Frankelda’, de Arturo y Roy Ambriz, apadrinada por el cineasta Guillermo del Toro, llega a las salas con una historia sobre una escritora frustrada del siglo XIX que viaja a su subconsciente para enfrentar a sus monstruosas creaciones

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Bloguionistas @bloguionistas.bsky.social · 1d

“Lo mismo dijeron los fotógrafos del XIX sobre la fotogrWAIT, WHAT?

Nia Soler @niasoler.bsky.social · 2d

La actividad de los centros de datos de la IA, al contrario de lo que declaran los gobiernos, sí que afecta al precio de la factura de la luz. En EEUU se ha disparado hasta un 267% en zonas cercanas a estos centros, pero también afecta al resto de consumidores con independencia de la distancia.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 2d

#daily 38 unicorn | cursed tome

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conto @conto.bsky.social · Aug 4

SFV Seth (and G)

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Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 2d

Some "green roofs" I found on a place called Cinquera, this is not part of a progressive project, but a natural occurrence and a tradition followed by the local, it helps to cool down the houses and it looks good.

#greensky #nature #sustainability

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.