I promise I'm a good doctor

• Not an actual doctor in any way I just really like plague doctors • • Icon is an image of a snake with the nonbinary flag behind it by the user @firbetmakes, header is a gif from the movie 'The Last Unicorn'•

[dr-goodnight]

I'm moving blogs!

Hi! I don't want to be on Tumblr as much anymore, so I'm going to be moving to a blog that is exclusively for art, @cogwork-orthodoxy !

This blog, and likely all of my sideblogs, are most likely going to be archived? The only ones I'll probably save are @flamescale-venomcaster (Flight Rising), and @radnotcrabs (horseshoe crabs). Not sure how I plan to save them though.

So yeah! This blog isn't going to be active anymore, I'm uninstalling the app too, but I'll schedule this post to reblog in advance over the course of the next week or so. It was fun here while it lasted, but I have been thinking about this for a while if I'm being honest. Anyways, thanks to everyone who made this blog fun! :]

[godspeedyoublackemperor]

[dr-goodnight]

I'm moving blogs!

Hi! I don't want to be on Tumblr as much anymore, so I'm going to be moving to a blog that is exclusively for art, @cogwork-orthodoxy !

This blog, and likely all of my sideblogs, are most likely going to be archived? The only ones I'll probably save are @flamescale-venomcaster (Flight Rising), and @radnotcrabs (horseshoe crabs). Not sure how I plan to save them though.

So yeah! This blog isn't going to be active anymore, I'm uninstalling the app too, but I'll schedule this post to reblog in advance over the course of the next week or so. It was fun here while it lasted, but I have been thinking about this for a while if I'm being honest. Anyways, thanks to everyone who made this blog fun! :]

[dr-goodnight]

I'm moving blogs!

Hi! I don't want to be on Tumblr as much anymore, so I'm going to be moving to a blog that is exclusively for art, @cogwork-orthodoxy !

This blog, and likely all of my sideblogs, are most likely going to be archived? The only ones I'll probably save are @flamescale-venomcaster (Flight Rising), and @radnotcrabs (horseshoe crabs). Not sure how I plan to save them though.

So yeah! This blog isn't going to be active anymore, I'm uninstalling the app too, but I'll schedule this post to reblog in advance over the course of the next week or so. It was fun here while it lasted, but I have been thinking about this for a while if I'm being honest. Anyways, thanks to everyone who made this blog fun! :]

[dr-goodnight]

I'm moving blogs!

Hi! I don't want to be on Tumblr as much anymore, so I'm going to be moving to a blog that is exclusively for art, @cogwork-orthodoxy !

This blog, and likely all of my sideblogs, are most likely going to be archived? The only ones I'll probably save are @flamescale-venomcaster (Flight Rising), and @radnotcrabs (horseshoe crabs). Not sure how I plan to save them though.

So yeah! This blog isn't going to be active anymore, I'm uninstalling the app too, but I'll schedule this post to reblog in advance over the course of the next week or so. It was fun here while it lasted, but I have been thinking about this for a while if I'm being honest. Anyways, thanks to everyone who made this blog fun! :]

[dr-goodnight]

I'm moving blogs!

Hi! I don't want to be on Tumblr as much anymore, so I'm going to be moving to a blog that is exclusively for art, @cogwork-orthodoxy !

This blog, and likely all of my sideblogs, are most likely going to be archived? The only ones I'll probably save are @flamescale-venomcaster (Flight Rising), and @radnotcrabs (horseshoe crabs). Not sure how I plan to save them though.

So yeah! This blog isn't going to be active anymore, I'm uninstalling the app too, but I'll schedule this post to reblog in advance over the course of the next week or so. It was fun here while it lasted, but I have been thinking about this for a while if I'm being honest. Anyways, thanks to everyone who made this blog fun! :]

[dr-goodnight]

I'm moving blogs!

Hi! I don't want to be on Tumblr as much anymore, so I'm going to be moving to a blog that is exclusively for art, @cogwork-orthodoxy !

This blog, and likely all of my sideblogs, are most likely going to be archived? The only ones I'll probably save are @flamescale-venomcaster (Flight Rising), and @radnotcrabs (horseshoe crabs). Not sure how I plan to save them though.

So yeah! This blog isn't going to be active anymore, I'm uninstalling the app too, but I'll schedule this post to reblog in advance over the course of the next week or so. It was fun here while it lasted, but I have been thinking about this for a while if I'm being honest. Anyways, thanks to everyone who made this blog fun! :]

[escuerzoresucitado]

Emerald cockroach wasp or jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa)

[bugology]

Personally one of my favorite wasps

[cuttledreams-bugs]

After weeks of work, I'm excited to finally present this Predation triptych series all together!

Features the Ichneumon Wasp, the Antlion, and the Centipede with some of their prey of choice!

Prints of these can be found here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/cuttledreams/

Commissions available: https://ko-fi.com/cuttledreams

[mushramoo]

bee and wasp friends

[rurinnfane]

The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE

This pigeon is an angel

[shiftythrifting]

spotted at an arizona swap meet

[animentality]

[atlantahammy]

Pssst if you have ublock: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

[smellslikebot]

how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@­username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.

Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.

[dduane]

This!

RSS feeds were a great way to keep track of things before the rise of the platforms, and (if we’re smart) they’ll be great again.

[devsgames]

Just this week in games:

- EA laid off 700 workers

- Sony laid of 900 workers

- Rockstar announces in-person work mandates for all employees (a 'soft layoff' that will force some staff to quit, which likely means that actual layoffs are forthcoming)

In 2023 6,000 games workers were laid off. Now in 2024 over 10,000 workers have been laid off, and there's still 10 months to go.

Not to be hyperbolic, but I think this is perhaps the worst year for video games ever if we're measuring by number of layoffs.

59 Days Into 2024 And 8,100+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced

PlayStation, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft are the latest companies to announce cuts

[devsgames]

I really feel the need to make it abundantly clear to people who are like "yeah this could get really bad" or "could this be a crash?".

I need to emphasize: This is currently incredibly bad and not normal for the games industry. This is currently a post-pandemic crash.

Rolling mass layoffs at every major studio is not standard video game industry behaviour no matter how bad the industry sounds.

The population of an entire town's of people in video games has lost their jobs in the span of two months and that number is growing every week. As a reminder, job hunting in games usually takes upwards of 2 months, depending on how lucky you are, so most of these people are likely still without jobs and may not ever work in games again.

My LinkedIn Feed is a near constant churning of new "I am seeking employment because I just got laid off" posts, by people I know who have worked all over the industry and have plenty of experience. Every week someone I recognize loses their job for no reason.

It's not the end of the world or games or anything, but I need people to understand this is currently a very huge and not normal game industry problem. It's a crash and it's happening.

[teandragons]

pov: you are being sent to the shadow realm

Valightine's Illuminarti #2 - Alexander #21477916 for Dessy!