I don’t know how this one will end tbh but at least I drew a little bit today 

#MastoArt #FediArt #AshenwaveArt #WIP #WorkInProgress #Illustration #Art #DigitalArt #CommissionsOpen #Fantasy #CreativeToots

@futurebird so this hummer photo has been doing the rounds on bsky and I've been holding my post button thinking, "Surely a few people will already send this. She's always inundated with multiple copies of the same things." but as far as I can see, it hasn't happened yet? Anyway, without further ado: https://bsky.app/profile/phylogenomics.bsky.social/post/3mhj2jp7xpc27

Link might not work if you don't have a bsky account so I uploaded the image.

Photo by Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social

I just want to note how plump that lil ant's gaster is, and I have to wonder if she's getting a little sippa from the beak as the hummingbird feeds.

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

🦀 We're looking to add an IDE Compiler Engineer to our team! Working with the compiler lead, you'll support our customers with improvements to our tooling infrastructure and compiler.

More details here: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ide-compiler-engineer-hiring/

#Fedihire #RustLang #Rustjobs

By ego

#Art #Painting

The year is 1992.
I’m employed by Waldenbooks in the mall.
I’m stocking the shelves with the copies of “The Pelican Brief” that have recently arrived.
Dave with the beard (not to be confused with Dave without a beard who was also working that evening) yells across the store that my mother is on the phone.
I’m 16 and this is still embarrassing to me.
“Hello?”
“Honey, it’s me.”
“ Hi mom, what’s up?”
“I need you to translate something for me.”
“Right now?”
“It can’t wait! I’ll forget again!”
“Okay sure mom, what is it?”
“There’s a song that keeps coming on the radio and I need to know what they’re saying, here quickly before it finishes!”

The phone is put near the radio

“Could you hear it honey?”
“…Yes?”
“Oh thank God! Are they really singing, ‘God Bless Gravy’ or am I losing it?”
“…I’m sorry, what now?”
“Gravy. God Bless Gravy. Is that what they’re saying?”

I pinch the bridge of my nose as only an exasperated teenager is capable of doing before I answer.

“The song is ‘Constant Craving’ mom…by K.D. Lang…did you really think they were saying ’God Bless Gravy’?”
“Well that’s what I heard! Thanks honey, see you tonight!”

I keep hoping that I will some day meet K.D. Lang so I can convey the story. My mother continues to be a fan and when she still cooked, sang that song any time she was making gravy.