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Ashley Scrimblo

@asgromo.info

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🐶 born 1988, she New York State

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Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 02/05/2026

The helpful bird app i have a long term like-cringe relationship with

Screenshot of Finch app 450 day streak with one missed day yesterday because they let you miss a day if you complete enough of your tasks over a few days

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 15/02/2026

Oof

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social • 48m
So you built an Al to analyze... other Als? I was wrong, you really are a producer and we're all just stupid consumers
••.
Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me • 40m
you don't find that fascinating?
ok, i guess we all have different interests. that's fine
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social • 33m
What is productive about a chatbot that spits out self-referential feedback loops, whether or not it calls them "experiments"? This is time others might spend reading books to encounter new ideas. It's still consumption.
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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me • 18m
this is probably hard to understand, so hopefully you're engaging in good faith
but i use Strix mainly to encounter new ideas. or rather, to go deep and connect them to other ideas
i'll read a book, but discuss it at the same time with Strix, which leads to another book

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 12/01/2026

Catching the Big Fish

SUFFERING
It's good for the artist to understand conflict and stress. Those things can give you ideas.
But I guarantee you, if you have enough stress, you won't be able to create. And if you have enough conflict, it will just get in the way of your creativity. You can understand conflict, but you don't have to live in it.
In stories, in the worlds that we can go into, there's suffering, confusion, darkness, tension, and anger. There are murders; there's all kinds of stuff. But the filmmaker doesn't have to be suffering to show suffering. You can show it, show the human con-dition, show conflicts and contrasts, but you don't have to go through that yourself.
You are the orchestrator of it, but you're not in it. Let your characters do the suffering.
It's common sense: The more the artist is suffering, the less creative he is going to be. It's less likely that he is going to enjoy his work and less likely that he will be able to do really good work.
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Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of or because of his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
Some artists believe that anger, depression, or these negative things give them an edge. They think they need to hold on to that anger and fear so they can put it in their work. And they don't like the idea of getting happy—it makes them want to puke.
They think it would make them lose their edge or their power.
But you will not lose your edge if you meditate. You will not lose your creativity.
And you will not lose your power. In fact, the more you meditate and transcend, the more those things will grow, and you'll know it. You will gain far more understanding of all aspects of life when you dive within. In that way, understanding grows, appreciation grows, the bigger picture forms, and the human condition becomes more and more visible.
If you're an artist, you've got to know about anger without being restricted by it.
In order to create, you've got to have energy; you've got to have clarity. You've got to be able to catch ideas. You've got to be strong enough to fight unbelievable
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pressure and stress in this world. So it just makes sense to nurture the place where that strength and clarity and energy come from-to dive in and enliven that. It's a strange thing, but it's true in my experience: Bliss is like a flak jacket. It's a protecting thing.
If you have enough bliss, it's invincibility. And when those negative things start lifting, you can catch more ideas and see them with greater understanding. You can get fired up more easily. You've got more energy, more clarity. Then you can really go to work and translate those ideas into one medium or another.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 06/01/2026

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 13/11/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, describe your gender.

Laios from Dungeon Meshi in heartstruck awe of the world’s funniest front view of a wolf furry’s face

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 26/10/2025

Im out riding my fucken bike

Paved trail in suburban woods with lots of orange leaves

A waterfall on the right, a building on the left, an arched rusty brown-color bridge in front of it, crossing the river. Blue sky and coarse, fluffy clouds

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 26/10/2025

I just think it’s neat

Red Schwinn LeTour 1980, a road bike. On it is attached fenders/mudguards, a handlebar touring bag, a Pletscher rear rack, and, on top of the rack, a large Wald basket with a blue net to hold stuff in. There are folded shopping totes and a helmet in the basket. The bike is on a stationary trainer that applies friction to the rear wheel.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 15/10/2025

Arnold Böcklin’s painting Isle of the Dead (1880 version). An island in a dark gray seascape. Hills circling the island tightly wrap around tall narrow trees that are very dark. Buildings and niches are knitted into the hills. A rowboat with two people aboard, one a standing passenger, mummy, or statue, approach the island in the foreground.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 29/09/2025

Mr beast

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 28/09/2025

A frame from a traditionally animated anime. An anthropomorphic pink cat next to a shorter anthropomorphic blue cat. They are young and are peering wide-eyed towards the camera through a doorway in dim light.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 17/09/2025

coming back late with maybe my real favorite, the door in the framed photo Mrs. Chalfont gives to Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Hands in brown leather gloves hold a large framed and matted photo of a room, looking towards partly to its corner. It is in sickly red and brown tones. Near the corner of the room is a wooden door. The walls have a shabby floral pattern wallpaper and a chair rail matching the hardwood floor and trim.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 16/09/2025

Channel Zero Butcher’s Block door maybe

A big fancy white door at the end of a straight stairway up, maybe three stories tall. It’s in a broad clearing among trees and the door appears to lead into the sky

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 29/08/2025

I’m going to one of these later

Various intersecting black rectangles and lines on a white background, perhaps a horrible map

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 21/07/2025

Abigail the cat stretched out on a bed in a sunbeam

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 19/06/2025

The vibes are off in this promo email for a local bakery and restaurant. Happy Juneteenth

Flour City Bread at Public Provisions
A photo of a white bartender
Junteenth Specials!

Junteenth is educator appreciation day at Public Provisions. The end of the school year is nigh and you've got Thursday off. Come day drink 🍷 with us! It's also Thursday which means pizza party day. Wow, everything's coming up Milhouse. We appreciate our teachers - please stop by for great wine and cocktail specials all day Thursday. We will have an actual teacher on premises. We'll be firing up our new frozen drink machine as well as $6 mimosas! We're here all day and night and the market is open as per usual.

A photo of a backyard pool. A young, wet, black dog sits in the foreground, looking into the camera. Two white youths sit in the pool, facing each other

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 25/05/2025

Dog looking out a window alerts, then softens

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 19/04/2025

The cartoon cat Heathcliff approaches a store full of meat called “MEAT”. In the window, an employee says to another, “Hell is coming to breakfast.”

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 16/04/2025

pterodactyl villain from spider-man who says he doesn't WANT to cure cancer

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 07/02/2025

www.ebbits.net/strip/2014.0...

Ebbits 4 panel comic titled "B What You Wanna B II"
A witch stands near two children who are seated on the ground and says, "'The bees made honey in the lion's bones': that's what we are taught."
A child replies, "We *are*?"
"Nevertheless, it is highly misleading. The bees *bade* honey *to* the lion's bones... by mere virtue of *beeing!*"
A close-up of the winking witch. "As we witness the gloaming of this age, it will fall to you tots to *invite* in an era of sweetness—do not fret over labor, structure, or antiquated systems of 'cause-and-effect!"
"The honey occurs not thru organized work; it is rather the inevitable outcome of identities unfolding"
An adult races over. "*Kids* don't listen to her!! It's important to do stuff you hate!!"

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 02/02/2025

Hi and Lois comic strip. Lois, at the library, is checking out Harry Potter with her two kids. All smile. She says, "More people are using the library these days." The librarian replies, "That's because it's free." In the next panel, Lois and her kids pass by a book store with an "out of business" sign in the window. They look glum. Lois says, "Everything has a cost."

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 30/01/2025

I grew up on these streets.

Kid Chameleon hitting a P block with his head in an urban environment.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 25/01/2025

Roast Beef from Achewood, expressionless, thinks, “Oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe”

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 02/10/2024

Look how good my husband is at wrapping a present goddamn

A book-shaped object wrapped in blue tissue paper with a tan envelope on top. A sticker of a dog happily walking is on the envelope. It’s held together with a cream-colored ribbon.

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 02/09/2024

Picking only 4 games is unjust. If i arbitrarily mash up inspiration and influence it might be these. I like it when a game is ambitious and imperfect, or when it feels bigger than it is. I enjoy self-directed questing and applying my patience. And I love MegaZeux very dearly.

Caverns of Zeux (1994) for the MegaZeux game creation system

System Shock (1994)

Shenmue (1999)

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002)

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 29/06/2024

Found some kind of a big sperm

A large piece of black pocket lint with a long tail of fiber laying on a bathroom shelf over a sink

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 25/06/2024

I was really multitasking with this piece

Customer service: Hello thank you for calling my name is how may I help you today
Caller, backed by a whooshing plane, a tooting train, and a construction site: Hewwo my phone not workin. People aren’t hearing me
Customer service: I see what you mean… how long has this been happening
Caller: Today. [A person approaches the caller, holding someone else in a headlock and all three of them are grinning and repeating “hehehehe”.]
Customer service: Sorry, I—
The call is drowned out by tooting and giggling

Ashley Scrimblo @asgromo.info · 24/02/2024

It no longer exists: a Buran spaceplane made out of wood

Browser tab with the Wikipedia icon. The title is clipped at "It no longer exis..."

It no longer exists. Destroyed as target drone 31 January 2015. Wind tunnel wooden model 1:3 scale of Buran is at the far corner of Zhukovsky airfield.