Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Wik'o'lantern magnifique, gravé à la gouge de lino !
Cc @bbecquet
Via @Pyb

I’ve been doodling my whole life, and regularly practicing and studying drawing for the last several years. Late Saturday night, while lying down on the couch, I doodled this pile of flower sprigs from memory. It’s all in ink, with no pencil under-sketch. Now, it takes a bit of courage for me to start in ink because it often end poorly when I try. So I’m pretty excited that this actually looks like a pile of flowers. #doodle #ink #drawing #botanical

@Da_Gut Well it won't help much for your need "right now" but for later? Not sure if this new KS has crossed your radar but just in case,

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/72stations/an-infinity-of-ships

I love pigeons.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Eldest has been pumpkin carving for ages. Came bouncing in to show me this

fascinating (and gorgeous!) chart showing the evolution of recorded-music revenue over the last 50 years

the first thing that jumps out at me is how much smaller the overall pie is post-streaming. the streaming services and major labels have successfully managed a) to dramatically devalue recorded music and b) to put a much larger percentage of it directly into their own pockets. it's one of the single biggest upward transfers of wealth in history — from artists to billionaire corporations

The Biblically-accurate Angel-food cake, by namelessterra on TikTok

Radical new forecast shows how rapidly the energy economy is changing https://arstechnica.com/?p=1978691

"The US needs way more laser gun sound effects.” - The most recent Pew Report

Huge life-saving breakthrough: The first Malaria vaccine has cut #Malaria deaths in kids under 5 by 17%. That's approx. 80,000 children saved in the *first year* alone.

#vaccines #science #medicine

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-malaria-vaccine-slashes-early-childhood-deaths