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zedipalps.bsky.social
zedish
@zedipalps.bsky.social
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Using this mostly for life updates and ramblings. I like spiders, crochet, singing, anthropology, and reposting horror art
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moudhy.bsky.social
“(What the) hand does not do, the mouth chatters about.”

- Babylonian proverb
Photo of a fragment of a cuneiform tablet shown from the front and sides.
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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andicomics.bsky.social
Ship’s cat
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
zedipalps.bsky.social
i wish it wasnt so dangerous to fall asleep next to some lit incense or a scented candle I feel like it would really relax me
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
zedipalps.bsky.social
i love spiders with fat butts! all my spiders have fat butts!
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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oddoblivion.bsky.social
How much will bluesky crunch my precious image?
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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rafaelmenai.bsky.social
Saint Michael the Archangel

Color sketch of the Archangel Michael depicted in Mexica attire (commission).
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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slimyswampghost.bsky.social
local wildlife
an animal in a city park, underneath a tree, standing on a fallen branch. it's night and the animal is backlit by a street lamp. its head is human-shaped, might be fake? its mouth is painted on and it has no eyes, just soft indentations in the "face". it's looking at you
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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oddoblivion.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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luckyerica3.bsky.social
History inspires us to resist, this reminded me of a favourite cartoon...
Cartoon by Babis, two pyramid building guys are pushing a large stone past an overseers with a whip at the ready, one is telling the other no, I don't think its unfair, I just got to work hard and someday I'm going to own my own pyramid.
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
unironically the median American voter position
younan.bsky.social Fr. Andrew Younan @younan.bsky.social · 4d
I'm a Hammurabi Originalist (I believe prices for market items should be permanently set by a beneficent monarch from the distant past).
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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prettyobvious.bsky.social
congrats to game of the year
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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mawphead.bsky.social
singing like nothing is wrong #animalcrossing
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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egallagher.bsky.social
visitation / light through the clouds

updated
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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adeltaz1.bsky.social
🐹
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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kellypringle.com
Turn on the TV. Doesn’t matter what channel.
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
zedipalps.bsky.social
I haven't talked about it here yet but ive been playing jack jeanne lately and its probably the best game ever made
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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cryptidbean.bsky.social
blender help how to export real animal
pet cat got stuck in blender 4.5 how to extract reddit
bean the cat is in the blender 3d program ui i dont know how to get him out please help
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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katesfwriter.bsky.social
One of two chambered tombs near Newton Stewart, Galloway - this is Cairnholy I.
Tombs for ancestors were important to farming communities that lived here in the neolithic period, 6000- 4000 years ago.
A curving facade of standing stones fronts the tomb.
#StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology
📸 my own.
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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thetechknight.bsky.social
I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social
CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA:
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2022
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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omiosures.bsky.social
"Birth of the Homunculus"

A sorceress astounded by her creation.

This painting has been floating around in my head for months now, and I only found the right time to bring it to fruition yesterday!

(see thread for details + process shot-by-shot)
A sorceress astounded by her freshly sculpted homunculus. A single shaft of light illuminates her creation. Bounce lighting reflects upon the sorceress. The homunculus has a flaccid butt. The maker's hands are covered in fresh clay. They are the only body parts of the sorceress that are directly lit. Faint, residual purple smoke wisps from her fingertips: the homunculus stands in an awkward pose, that of a creature freshly adjusting to its body. The homunculus has thin limbs and a hefty torso, though it is faced against the viewer. The sorceress's workshop is littered in sculpting tools, brushes, an open tome of transmutation, ceramic bowls and a pitcher of dirty clay water in which lie a few of these tools. Clay shavings are scattered about the floor. A red, runic circle surrounds the humonculus. In the dark background it is possible to catch a few failed prototypes on a shelf.
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a tabby cat serving a mouse! 😁

The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad to draw this comic scene some 3,200 years ago.

📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...

#Archaeology
This Brooklyn Museum photo shows a sketch made in black ink on a stone-coloured limestone flake (known as an ostracon by Egyptologists). The sketch depicts a scene with a cat and a mouse imitating human behaviour. On the right, a tabby cat is drawn in profile with pointed ears, standing on its hind legs in front of a large mouse seated on a folding stool on the left of the scene. The cat is depicted as a servant; in one paw it holds a fan, and offers a plucked duck, in the other paw it holds a piece of linen cloth. The mouse has drooping breasts, wears a long skirt, has a lotus flower on its forehead, and its long tail hangs down over the back of the stool. The mouse holds a dish, a flower, and cloth (often held by pharaohs). Dimensions 8.9 x 17.3 x 1.1 cm. Dated c. 1295–1075 BC. Animals imitating human behaviour are well-known in Egyptian art. Their meaning is uncertain. Perhaps this sketch is a caricature or illustration of a long-lost fable, perhaps a satire of the royal family, or maybe just a sketch for fun!
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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aandeloucas.com
We see similar discourse in Atra-hasis, a literary work from the 2nd millennium BCE that opens with a narrative of dissent between the ruling and the ruled. Humans have spent a long time thinking, writing, and conveying the difficulty of balancing political power and social liberties.
sentantiq.bsky.social Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 11d
"The Iliad is in part the story of ‘civilizing’ conventions of wars dismissed. What we learn from the beginning is that political institutions are not strong enough to enforce the maintenance of normative behaviors."

sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/12/04/w...
War Crimes: Iliad 6, Infanticide, and the Mykonos Vase
CW: Infanticide, Sexual Violence. Reference to current events. Iliad 6 picks up at the end of book 5, where Diomedes enjoyed his aristeia. The audience witnesses a series of Achaean kills, before f…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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paultobin.bsky.social
Good morning from Dracula's brides.

(illustration to ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker ~ Peter Bedrick Books, 1988, Charles Keeping, 1924–1988)
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM