steady now, steady now

Ven, PNW, blog header is my art 🐛🐝

[folkfashion]

Ukrainian man's clothes, Ukraine, by Iva Zimova

[madragingven]

got a little cabin before heading out on my 68 mile hike

[azspot]

“Another crucial driver of AI refusal is AI’s reshaping of what it means to be human. Not only is AI altering how we work, how we think, or how we create, it is reconfiguring what it means to live a meaningful life. The kind of life deemed meaningful, within the AI narrative, is one that is efficient, fast, and intelligent. This is simply unconvincing to many. For them, AI promises not emancipation or new powers — such as that of superintelligence — but a further diminishing of their ability to be in tune with what actually matters to them: community, care, growth. Fueling this bad feeling further is what the philosopher of technology, Günther Anders, called “Promethean shame,” whereby we feel the shame of being insufficient and vulnerable in the face of a perfect, efficient machine. The AI promoters are already telling us that without fully embracing AI, we’re second-class citizens. The contemporary refusal of AI is a struggle against this promise of a particular kind of human life secondary to that of machine intelligence.”

— Thomas Dekeyser

[melkem0t]

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[tetrameryxx]

Fursonas are too hard to decide; it's time for radish plantsona.

[madragingven]

takayasu is the same age as me

[makovietz]

More bird creatures

[jareckiworld]

Cat Johnston — The Flowerbeast (cloth, paper, wood, epoxy clay, 2021)

[velvetcloak]

robert wun | fall 2026

[japaneseaesthetics]

Preparatory drawing (hanshita-e) for an illustrated book, mounted on card. Fumei Choja and a fox spirit.  Ink on paper. Painted by: Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎), 1829 © The Trustees of the British Museum.

[michaelnordeman]

A few snapshots from the Turku archipelago/Åbo skärgård. Birds seen includes Baltic gull/Larus fuscus fuscus/östersjötrut, Common eider/Somateria mollissima/ejder, Great cormorant/Phalacrocorax carbo/storskarv, Mute swan/Cygnus olos/knölsvan, and Red-breasted merganser/Mergus serrator/småskrake. Baltic sea, Finland (25 May 2026).

[havingapoemwithyou]

They/Them By Danez Smith

[staceythinx]

Erosion by Tamsin van Essen. Who knew parasitic invasion could be so beautiful?

van Essen on her project:

This work explores erosion and the disruption of form. Focusing on biological erosion, I wanted to convey the idea of a host being attacked and eaten away by a parasitic virus, highlighting the creeping spread of the infection as it corrupts the body. I have produced a series of angular porcelain forms, sandblasted to wear the surface and reveal inner strata. This aggressive process, contrarily, creates a delicate vulnerability in the shape. The translucency of the porcelain and the interruption of the surface make it possible to glimpse through to layers beneath, creating a tension between the seen and the obscured.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

The Clarifier would like to make just one more comment

[modelsof-color]

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

[madragingven]

you know its bad when the new supervisor thinks it's the custodial crew's duty to procure the material safety data sheets for department specific chemicals and substances. 🙃 like no... sorry bud. it's not a custodian duty to reach out to our copier vendor and get the data sheet for our toner etc

[robinboardman]

Great northern diver (Gavia immer) Cariboo region, Canada Photograph: Sue Dougherty