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I pulled into the library parking lot this afternoon and glanced over to see the guy in the car next to me getting a blowjob. NICE. Last week I arrived just in time to watch some dumbass kid coast BACKWARDS, on his bike, THROUGH the parking lot, directly into a car backing out. In that case I almost shouted a warning, but then I thought, No, for evolution to function properly we must allow selection factors to weed out the stupid and unfit. It didn't work as well as I'd hoped--when my supervisor went out to investigate, he called her an asshole and told her she was ugly. IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING AT YOUR LIBRARY! (c)
Selling My Soul to the Soulless AI
Sooo Everybody seems to be Talking About teh AI, and obviously people have strong feelings about it one way or another. I understand and appreciate the arguments--or, more to the point, the emotional responses--on both sides, and sympathize with most if not all of them across the board. All I can tell you is that for me personally, it's been a tool that's finally afforded me the chance to produce images approximating to some extent what I see in my dreams and imaginings, and that for the first time in decades I feel something like a sense of creative satisfaction rather than chronic frustration and disappointment. To illustrate, this screenshot of thumbnail images from my art tumblr archive page represents only a tiny fraction of what I've done with Midjourney over the course of the past month: If you like what you see and would like to see more, please follow me on tumblr at And if you hate me for selling my soul to AI, that's cool too, though it probably won't change what I'm
Losfer Words
Here's a question for my artist friends who read comics and especially for cartoonists and other comics creators. I've noticed an interesting trend in comics recently that I've tried to illustrate here with these two [VERY ROUGH] faux comics pages depicting the same generic scene--a man and woman arguing in a hallway. The setting and nature of their argument is irrelevant; I just wanted to illustrate an otherwise static scene in which the "action" consists of dialogue and body language (posture, gestures, etc.) rather than any overt, dramatic motion.
In the first take I tried to depict such a scene the way I've always been told one "should"
JAWS
Real-world inspiration for mobile vertebrate jaw configurations, especially "splitting" and laterally closing jaws. Click on images for attribution links.
Northern Right Whale skull:
Southern Right Whale skull:
Reticulated Python jaws:
Everted mouth flaps of the agamid lizard Phrynocephalus mystaceus:
Sarcastic Fringehead threat display:
Pharyngeal jaws (moray eel):
Stoplight Loosejaw:
The protrusible jaws of teleosts generally are informative and inspiring, though I'm having trouble finding a diagram at decent image size.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/classconnection/480/flashcards/3239480/png/teleost-150C9BA3A315098F954-thumb400.png
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The Birth of Venus
Attempt to recall and update an adolescent premise for a terraformed Venus scenario circa 1990:
The basic cliché of using comets to introduce water vapor and algae to convert the atmosphere would remain the same, as would the initial process of using microbes and simple plants to seed a rudimentary biosphere. The point of divergence would be in the use of something like GMO organisms employing a delayed, "time bomb"-style self-activating gene library or a recombinant virus (or successive waves/generations of viruses) of the type I posit for my panspermic worlds, resulting in automatic, regularly scheduled "evolutionary upgrades" to bui
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Sounds exactly like an episode of "Workaholics" 
Nothing exciting or interesting like this ever happens at my library. But then again, maybe it's probably going on all around me there, and I'm not just paying attention(!)
Nothing exciting or interesting like this ever happens at my library. But then again, maybe it's probably going on all around me there, and I'm not just paying attention(!)