Jer Thorp
@jerthorp.bsky.social
Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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New beanies are now available to preorder on my site! These will keep you cozy all winter long 🌲❤️
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November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New beanies are now available to preorder on my site! These will keep you cozy all winter long 🌲❤️
🍂 shop.fossilforager.art
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Running out of time on this but... one more try or good luck?
I'm sure this is just me querying the void but:
Does anyone know folks who are putting together gift guides for the holidays that might like my Of A Feather project?
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
Does anyone know folks who are putting together gift guides for the holidays that might like my Of A Feather project?
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Running out of time on this but... one more try or good luck?
I find myself here be for you asking for new fantasy book recommendations.
What’ve you got?
What’ve you got?
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I find myself here be for you asking for new fantasy book recommendations.
What’ve you got?
What’ve you got?
5 minutes!
This is a new talk and I have no idea how it will go.
This is a new talk and I have no idea how it will go.
I'm going to give a talk about birds and code and art and stuff in two hours:
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
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…
www.media.mit.edu
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
5 minutes!
This is a new talk and I have no idea how it will go.
This is a new talk and I have no idea how it will go.
Very nearly almost have a new thing ready.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Very nearly almost have a new thing ready.
I'm going to give a talk about birds and code and art and stuff in two hours:
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
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…
www.media.mit.edu
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I'm going to give a talk about birds and code and art and stuff in two hours:
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...
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sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?
Predator: Badlands
Predator: Something in the Night
Predator: Darkness at the Edge of Town
Predator: Candy's Room
Predator: Something in the Night
Predator: Darkness at the Edge of Town
Predator: Candy's Room
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Predator: Badlands
Predator: Something in the Night
Predator: Darkness at the Edge of Town
Predator: Candy's Room
Predator: Something in the Night
Predator: Darkness at the Edge of Town
Predator: Candy's Room
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If you're looking for a fun gift for a bird friend or a data friend or a design friend, I just shipped out the first rolls of this wrapping paper:
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
Of A Feather: Wrapping Paper! | jerthorp
Wrap your gifts in bird-y data-y style with this one-of-a-kind wrapping paper!This paper features 511 birds whose names contain the words winter, christmas, snowy, snow, red, or green. The colors for ...
www.jerthorp.me
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you're looking for a fun gift for a bird friend or a data friend or a design friend, I just shipped out the first rolls of this wrapping paper:
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
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This map shows the location of all TWO BILLION eBird records. Each pixel is 0.1° x 0.1° square. Non-linear color scale.
This is just me playing around with the eBird data again. #birds
This is just me playing around with the eBird data again. #birds
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This map shows the location of all TWO BILLION eBird records. Each pixel is 0.1° x 0.1° square. Non-linear color scale.
This is just me playing around with the eBird data again. #birds
This is just me playing around with the eBird data again. #birds
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Sorry to keep reposting but I'm struggling a lot this fall. 😩
If you'd like to support an autistic researcher doing weird work on information behaviour, worldbuilding, game design, and speculative fiction, I appreciate it and my pup does, too! You can follow updates on my projects here.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Sorry to keep reposting but I'm struggling a lot this fall. 😩
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start.
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Looks useful, but they may not cover an important topic: if you need a #map for your book, where do you go? Many authors, faced with that question, have no idea where to start.
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
If that’s you, I can help! I draw maps for a living, and specialize in maps for academic books.
surprisedeelmaps.com
If you're looking for a fun gift for a bird friend or a data friend or a design friend, I just shipped out the first rolls of this wrapping paper:
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
Of A Feather: Wrapping Paper! | jerthorp
Wrap your gifts in bird-y data-y style with this one-of-a-kind wrapping paper!This paper features 511 birds whose names contain the words winter, christmas, snowy, snow, red, or green. The colors for ...
www.jerthorp.me
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you're looking for a fun gift for a bird friend or a data friend or a design friend, I just shipped out the first rolls of this wrapping paper:
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
www.jerthorp.me/product-page...
511 bird species with holiday-themed names, feathers colored from Wikipedia descriptions!
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
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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.
One more hour left of 25% off with ALFHOG!
Yes I did just want to post ALFHOG again.
Yes I did just want to post ALFHOG again.
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-...
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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 9:46 PM
One more hour left of 25% off with ALFHOG!
Yes I did just want to post ALFHOG again.
Yes I did just want to post ALFHOG again.
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...
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…
www.media.mit.edu
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)