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From the wonderful Tom Gauld in the Guardian.

For all you #writers out there, does this ring a bell?

#writing #WritingCommunity #books #Bookstodon #literature #cartoon

If you think you are worthless or you don't bring anything to this world ... remember that on Linked-in, there are proud "crypto investment advisors", "NFT CEOs" and "blockchain consultants".

Post.news feels like the unfortunate result of a drunken night between Twitter and Facebook.

@bookstodon #12BooksOfChristmas day7: Once Upon a River, by Diane Setterfield.

This is what storytelling should be: a page-turner, with engaging characters, suspense, a touch of the supernatural, dramatic action, allegorical resolution: everything a reader could want.

The book's genre is often identified as historical fiction, but that's only a partial fit. One must add: magic, myth, and a little gothic mystery, too.

Last night I walked in moonlight and #snow while a faint aurora danced on the horizon #Shetland #Scotland #nature #aurora

Many years of happiness to the couple I swam by on New Year’s Eve

Will it dawn on you
when opportunity's passed
Joy stood before you
~~~
Reach for each sunrise
as if it might be your last
dawn's full potential

#MastoPrompt "Dawn"
#Haiku #Senyru #WritingCommunity #Poetry

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1609670847836323844/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1609670847836323844

As of today you can legally make "The Heffalump of The Baskervilles".

I shall look forward to someone doing so.

This is bisexual eraser.

It has been passed on to me, that I shall pass on this wish:

>> Happy Fibonacci Day! 1 1 23

and I find this an excellent way to begin.

Happy New Year to you all!

I hope your 2023 is off to a good start!

#ai #aiart #art #digitalart #newyear #digitalartist
#rabbit

Also in 1983, Lucasfilm (later Pixar) made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie".

"The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.

#retrocomputing

https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/kr9r16dkv7d
#aiart #aigenerated #surrealism #popsurrealism #elektrodada #deepdreamgenerator

We're here trying to decide whether to compost or recycle this plastic take-out container while billionaires are gutting brand-new apartments and tossing literal tons of custom woodworking, electronics and tile into the rubbish bin because they don't like the color

Ex-pope Joe Ratzinger died yesterday, so I want to quote his final Christmas address, on trans people, in which he tried to be super transphobic and it backfired:

"The words of the creation account: 'male and female he created them' (Gen 1:27) no longer apply. No, what applies now is this: it was not God who created them male and female– hitherto society did this, now we decide for ourselves… From now on there is only the abstract human being, who chooses for himself what his nature is to be."

An animated gif for #genuary2023.

This animation demonstrations something interesting about the notion of periodicity, I think. The basic period of the GIF is 2 seconds (i.e., the frames repeat every 2 seconds). However, if you follow one of the discs, you will see that it takes much more than 2 seconds to return to its starting point.

Gorgeous light piercing the low clouds hanging over the mountains of the Isle of Arran on New Year's Day, 2023.
#photography #scotland #arran #landscape #snow #mountains