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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(for anyone else who has to look it up the plants right out of the ground do look delightfully like a bunch of the chickens that got the name next and then)

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

redirecting collecting impulse into drawing old toys.

seven color drawings of various teenage mutant ninja turtle action figures: a Foot Clan ninja, the Rat King, Bebop (missing a leg), Metalhead, Ray Filet, Astronaut Raph, Usagi Yojimbo (with additional red jacket), Baxter Stockman

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

if you're dreaming about power to stipulate, how about making each member take a test about the bill before they're allowed to vote on it. (from SF novel Vigilant, by James Alan Gardner)

If worst came to worst, the Vigil had one more sycophant-stopping power guaranteed by Demoth's ancient constitution: vote qualification tests. Before legislators voted on a bill, the proctor scrutinizing that vote could set a test to determine whether the politicians understood what the bill actually meant. Those who failed the test could only sit and grind their teeth in public humiliation while those who passed made an informed decision. It didn't totally eliminate witless results—what could?—but at least it meant people knew what they were voting for.

"Always, always, always," Zillif told me, "a proctor concentrates on the bill at hand. Never the intention, always the fact. Politics is filled with fine intentions, and with well-meaning people who want to do good. But the Vigil asks, will this bill do what its sponsors claim? Will it work? And what else will it do, what side effects, what loopholes? Who really gets the benefit, the reward, the money? The Vigil analyzes the consequences of what is really on the table, and we tell the world. Then it's up to the people to decide if that's what they want."

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

horse eating grass and having bits left dangling out the corners of the mouth: very common.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

A third possible method of infinite sentence generation is fractal - recombining meaning into ever smaller units. But in digital representation, that it limited by the smallest unit of data - you can say a given 1 or 0 means multiple things, but in practice you'd be making identical copies.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

later he gives an example of infinite sentences, by inserting a loop. but that extends the sentence infinitely. Godel proofs, which state "this is a valid sentence", "'this is a valid sentence' is a valid sentence", etc. both lose their infinite property when capped by length. (same with conjoining)

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

sure, happy to look. Chomsky... simply states that infinite sentences are possible, without discussing their length. From there, the rest is a discussion of how to differentiate grammatical and ungrammatical sentences.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

it's already in the sourcebook (which must have inspired Barnyard Commandos. but Barnyard Commandos being fed back into CoD would feel bad)

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

right? look the TCRI aliens have trouble lifting the container to drink the ooze, so, yes, they use bendy straws. they were so embarrassed when people gave them a hard time about it they stayed out of the movie. and yet.

a little brain alien who is not Krang drinking from a container using a bendy straw.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

one time i did a drawing of a fox and discovered i had unintentionally captured a signature expression of kirsten dunst.

scribbled, messy drawing of a fox clipped to a drawing board, looking out at the viewer with an intense but patient head-tilted gaze

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

in 2000 you could, if you were interested, buy a random volume (41) of Dragon Ball Z in German, while visiting Germany. Went great with your bootleg VHS copy of Dragon Ball Z Movie 13 you got a few years before that.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Telling the lyrics of 80s and 90s sitcoms to teenagers as serious life advice to see how far you get before they catch on feels cruel when they never do. but, sometimes things get turned around and no one is spared. there's a change in the status quo, we're gonna need all the help that we can get.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

old student work of mine to recreate a painting as a diorama. "The Temptation of St. Antonius" by Cezanne.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"weep, but the chimera advances" (detail of snake head. not pictured: lion with goat head spitting fire the snake is attached to)

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

my pixel art thesis! "Crossbows are powerful but what if you twirl around and throw a knife"

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"when is a piece of art done" method 2: bounce back and forth between these thoughts until exhausted.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

i mean. i just checked and there are swagger sticks on sale because of course there are.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This was the winner list of the middle school state Governor's Cup written academic competition in the year i placed. i cut off the last names, but you may notice a distinct trend. especially given the usual academic team composition at the time.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

i did not have to reach for this connection, it was directly handed to me by the feed.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

i have an extension to show me alt-text so i can see what other site's AI autocategorizer does. "drawing? no. this is maybe a doodle, at best"

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

like, i don't know about other cities. but it's not secret or hidden here. A bunch of livable houses here got foreclosed on, out of town owners bought them, and have mostly let them fall apart, vacant over the past ten years

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

the evil plan is to sit on it until it falls apart and they tap into redevelopment dollars, or can rezone it, or ??? be out of town and have it sitting vacant in their real estate inventory.

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

i used the secret artist trick so the eyes seem to follow you. (the trick is: tell people that the eyes seem to follow you)

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

hey kids why not pet a wolf and ride on top of trains with a charming stranger

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

keep your hands where i can see 'em

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

historical moment when, as an artist trying to make a game by yourself, you type "what is a state machine" into a search engine

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Will Garner @considersomething.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"What if you could pull up the ends of the straight line from birth to death and forge-weld them together, making life a circle, a closed loop into which nothing bad could intrude and nothing good escape?"

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