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Working Adult Person | she/her | goofball this blog has my art, my friends' art, random people's art, and really terrible jokes. please send me requests!!

[ventomologist]

The current DnD party! A bit darker than the last one, eh?

[murphysletsdraw]

Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The pool is almost empty.

Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool creates the illusion of people standing underwater — but only a thin layer of real water sits above a transparent glass surface.

Below it, visitors walk through a dry chamber, while people above see them as if they are submerged.

The work turns a simple architectural element into a visual trick: surface becomes depth, and the ordinary becomes impossible.

Artwork: Swimming Pool by Leandro Erlich Credit: leandroerlichofficial

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HEADS UP: The U.S. Postal Service quietly changed how postmarks work.

Mail is no longer automatically postmarked with the date you drop it off. Instead, the postmark now reflects the date it’s first processed by an automated sorting facility — which can be days later.

If you mail something right at a deadline, the official postmark could be later than your drop-off date and may be considered late.

If mailing date matters to you, go inside the post office and request a hand-stamped postmark.

USPS postmark shake-up could cost you big — property tax payers warned of surprise late fees

A new USPS postmark rule may cause property tax payments to look late even when people mail them on time. The change can create surprise lat

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[steampunktendencies]

This is a literal "Hammerhead" shark created by artist Matt Sanders.

The sculpture is made from 685 reclaimed steel hammer heads and weighs 500 lbs (about 227 kg). It took approximately 2,500 hours of work to weld together. Sanders even used sledgehammers for the eye sockets and ball-peen hammers for the eyes to give it a realistic look.

It was displayed at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California and remains one of the coolest examples of upcycled art out there.

[ventomologist]

[mismedleym]

recollections

[mrporg]

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

Imagine being in your 80s and looking this good 😭 they so badass

[ventomologist]

It's almost poetry time

[purlturtle]

The moment I saw these double doors in our apartment, I knew I wanted to put colorful foil on them:

Today my wife did it, and I couldn't be more stunned and happy:

Isn't it amazing? This is a dream come true, and it makes me so happy! 🩵🧡💚💛💙❤️🩷

[purlturtle]

The doors continue to delight:

(pics taken as the sun shines through the doors, making all the colors shine and projecting some of them across the hallway floor) (edited this reblog to add a second pic)

[purlturtle]

This post is almost at 11,111 notes and I hope someone screenshots it when it happens!

[rathenarts]

@purlturtle here you are I got it for you!

[purlturtle]

what if I told you that I am RIVETED to my notifications at the moment, for fear that I will miss it

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[purlturtle]

The galaxy map of this post's reblogs is a thing of beauty:

This isn't a post from a big blog that a ton of people reblogged from that one big blog. This isn't even a post that got big because one big blog reblogged it. Yes, there were a few big-name boosts, but almost all of these reblogs are just, this post ambling through Tumblr making people happy.

And that makes *me* happy. Thank you, fellow Tumblrinas!

[purlturtle]

Y'all.

My wife found this incredible rug to go into the living room, that matches the doors so so so well!

Isn't it fabulous?

(ID: wide angle shot of a living room with a rug in the center that is 5x8 panels of different colored squares)

[elizmanderson]

aside from the fact that I came home super hungry bc this event went longer than scheduled (bc every single one of us decided to go hard on our design, so we needed more time), it felt so good to just sit at an art studio and do something super tactile for three hours

let this be a lesson to me the next time I don't want to leave my house to do a thing (i.e., every time I'm supposed to leave my house to do a thing)

[elizmanderson]

at long last I get to see how she looks post-glaze-firing!! we glazed these the week after building them, but we can't pick them up until May since they'll be part of an art installation downtown. so I didn't get to see the final birdhouse until today, when I remembered they should've been long since fired again by now and that I could ask for a picture and oooooooooooooooomg look at her!! the colors turned out just like I wanted!! magical!!

[ushirominya]

last christmas man me a sand but the very next day man car door hook hand

[ushirominya]

me n u both buddy

[finnwolfhards]

this is superior humor

[duke-chainsaw]

I have some to add:

[pyros-random-thoughts]

M O R E

[oh-great-autistic-gay]

I hope you enjoy

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[ventomologist]

8/8 of the new dnd party! These ones took a little longer since they didn't include The Slime hahaha.

[ventomologist]

New DnD campaign, new art. 4/8 done, so we're halfway through!

[elizmanderson]

clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton lives a quiet life with his sister and her children, only dreaming of adventure. so when a wealthy client offers him a job that involves traversing Shiftleaf—an enchanted forest that claimed his father decades ago—he reluctantly accepts. the forest is treacherous, but the money will change his family's lives.

the journey quickly turns perilous. fleeing monstrous birds, Arthur stumbles upon a hidden vale where he meets the Lord of the Wood—a figure from his father's many stories. instead of the fairy prince Arthur always imagined, Ira is a morose man, slowly transforming into a beast, his power over a dying forest waning.

Arthur enjoys the safety of the vale, and Ira's company. but he yearns for his family. to safely return home and rescue Ira from a cursed and lonely existence, Arthur and Ira must reach the heart of the wood to heal the forest. except the farther they venture from the vale, the more beastly Ira becomes. if they can't complete their mission before he turns completely, Arthur could lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again.

links: TheStoryGraph | Goodreads | Bookshop

[probablyasocialecologist]

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

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