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[hexorah-art]

Doodled my new blorbo...

[localvoidcat]

weirdest part about being an artist (and, to an extent, a writer too) is feeling like. shameful that you aren't creating massive pieces of art. how dare i not line and color and shade every drawing. how dare i only draw two poses. how dare i only write 1k words. how dare i not write an entire book. how dare i

[localvoidcat]

(looking at the near 1k pieces of art in my folder and the thousands of words in my notes) you know i just don't think i do enough actually

[womaninterrupted]

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?

[surroundedbybooks]

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

[ndcirque]

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

[macleod]

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

[fallentechnate]

[eaglefairy]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

Digital Resource Lifespan

[thatdisasterauthor]

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

[dovewithscales]

There is one thing that’s pretty low impact that most of us could do to help with this. Journal. Seriously. Handwritten journals. It doesn’t matter about what. Anything you could possibly write would be helpful. Your personal day to day experiences are just as valuable as world events. Maybe even more so.

Especially now. Especially if you’re queer or trans and can write without danger of outing yourself to anyone who might put you in danger.

My mate has most of a PhD in Early American Literature, and my best friend and business partner is a historian. Both can tell you how incredibly valuable hand written journals are to historians. They provide a type of insight into what life was actually like for the average person, that you don’t get from formal histories or news articles or accounts of celebrities and leaders.

So if you’re able, please start keeping a journal. I can’t because I can’t hold a pen for that long.

[nataliadrawing]

Gotta remind myself not to overdo it when looking at beautiful art. There’s this special golden zone where you’re the most inspired and motivated by other people’s art but it’s so easy to slip into overwhelm and get demotivated :(

[hexorah-art]

I found out about favuary yesterday, so I'm trying to catch up... Drowzee with a shiny friend (left), and an alternative shiny pal (right)

[hexorah-art]

Berbil Belle and Share Bear, sharing some Candy Fruit 💜

[hexorah-art]

Bedtime Bear! - - - #carebears #bedtime #stars #80s #nostalgia #childhoodmemories #carealot #cute #kawaii #watercolourpainting #watercolorpainting #watercolour #watercolor https://www.instagram.com/p/BwAZ8J2jJ2Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9o1tj8t296zf

[hexorah-art]

My favourite Care Bear - Birthday Bear! Who's your favourite? 🎂🐻 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9q1TFjJJR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jyarlm2498vy

[hexorah-art]

This is one of my OCs, Cailan. He’s a very gay nonbinary dude who looks deceptively serene here - he’s like 99% anxiety most of the time lol

[hexorah-art]

A DnD character painting I did a short while ago for someone at work.

WIP progress photos on my instagram

[hexorah-art]

Yoshi!