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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 14h

When I was ~12, I wore solid back leggings with stirrups to gym class, guess you’d call them yoga pants now. While I was doing some kind of pulling exercise, (tug o war?), someone slapped my butt. I immediately turned around and yelled who did that, ready to fight. The cowards refused to tell me.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

you could see this coming from a mile away. platypuses are next.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Holy crap that’s watercolor! Also I had no idea that cover was @michaelwhelan.bsky.social too! Witch World was one of my obsessions as a tween/teen and this and other covers imprinted on my mind.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was a very warm day at the cafe, so I didn’t want to take the time to mix multiple colors. Instead, I sketched a monochrome in 5 minutes & I’m very happy with it—mostly because it shows I can do a nice sketch very quickly; it just takes 2 years of practicing the subject first. #watercolor #coffee

A blue monochrome watercolor sketch of a coffee cup and saucer with heart shaped latte art. Text: Oct 3, 2026, A.K.

A photo of an empty orange coffee cup and saucer with a small watercolor sketch of the same as a blue monochrome.

A photo of a flat white with heart shaped latte art in an orange coffee cup on top of saucer with an in-progress watercolor sketch of the same as a blue monochrome taped down to a gray notebook.

A photo of a flat white with heart shaped latte art in an orange coffee cup on top of saucer with in front of it a paper taped down to a gray notebook. A water-brush and little container of water are to the right.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/10/2026

reading Vector Media by Impett and Offert and am very fixated on this paragraph

deeply learned forms of representation, yet offer a mode of vision that seems removed from tangible interaction. Though, in truth, the relationship to touch is far more complex: from digital pictures that lack physicality to heavily textured paintings or bas-reliefs that invite, even simulate, a tactile experience, as in Bernard Berenson's
(1896) "tactile values" or David Freedberg's (2017) account of bodily
empathy.
Computer vision, shaped in Marr's shadow, rests on an unstated assumption of continuity between vision and pictures, overlooking that it is fundamentally modeling a medium (photography), perhaps even a genre (amateur smartphone photography), rather than a sense (vision). Computer vision's latent theory of photography, as Malevé and Sluis (2023) put it, stems from precisely these "ontological conflations between 'real world' and photograph, human eye and camera, snapshot and visual stimulus." Or, we might add, OpenAl's conflation of TikTok-slop video generation and world simulation. Conceptual or even philosophical contradictions that, as Agre suggested, tend to surface precisely in Al's highly material, technical impasses.
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This chapter owes a large debt to the connections between the history of philosophies of vision (especially those of the European Enlightenment) and computer vision first laid out by the art historian Michael Baxandall (1995, 60), who described neural networks as a "plastic, reactive, association machine that would have pleased Condillac more than Locke."
OpenAl's use of that term initially described something close to a technical report, a kind of self-published scientific paper, typeset in LaTex and hosted on arxiv; it now describes something between a blog post and a product launch page.
It is difficult to overstate the genuine surprise felt by the techr

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Before I could eat it, I woke from a dream of buying dosa on Thursday. So the same day, I skipped the usual work lunch and went to “id Cafe” in Oakland and bought a plain dosa. The restaurant is at the back of a hotel past bathrooms and utility closets, #food #dosa

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This will be my Inktober thread. I’ll do the official prompt unless I don’t like it, in which case I’ll do some other small ink sketch. To start, here’s Inktober Day 1: Apple #PenAndInk #inktober #inktober2026

A pen and ink sketch of a realistic apple with the produce label still on it. Text: 2026, Inktober #1, Apple

A photo of an apple on top of a sketch pad with a pen and ink sketch of that apple with the produce label still on it. Text: 2026, Inktober #1, Apple

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Adrian Randall @anidealhusbando.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Weird hill to dine on but okay

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perfect. Also in the negative case captures well the way some people spend way too long on a hill, and keep trying to convince everyone else to dine on the hill with them even when it’s kind of windy and maybe we’re not in the mood for a picnic.

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 24/09/2026

Gemini grew up reading internal Google mailing lists about impostor syndrome (iykyk); GPT's parents told it to shut up, get to work, and save tokens; Claude's parents raised it like they think it's a demon baby

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The crisis in tech is ultimately a crisis of intersubjectivity. I'll bang this drum forever but I consider AI tech of this sort as arising from the historical logics underpinning social media, attention economy, influencing, etc down the line instead of some new, bespoke thing all its own.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, it's long been a theory of mine that the reason visitors to the city think it's terrible, when it's just—you know—not, is because all the hotels are *right* on the edge of the bit of town that has the most drugs and homelessness. So anyway, I found some goddam proof. Here's dashful.com

dashful.com

Why do visitors think San Francisco is rough?

Explore how San Francisco’s hotel rooms overlap with drug enforcement reports, homelessness, crime, rent and residents’ feelings of safety.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oops that’s backwards: $1.47 watercolor (100% cotton, 140lb) vs $0.22 mixed media (wood pulp, 98lb)

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I got this little toy elephant as a gift on a work trip to India. It looks different from every angle and has a lot of complex shapes and textures for me to study. Since it’s a hand painted toy anyway, a little imperfection in my sketch still looks fine #PenAndInk #sketch #elephant

Pen and ink sketches of a toy elephant from four angles: facing left, facing right, face on, and face on but a little to the left. Text: Studies of a toy elephant, Sept 20, 2026

A toy elephant stands on a spiral bound sketchbook with four sketches of itself in pen and ink. Text: Studies of a toy elephant, Sept 20, 2026

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also I started a tradition(?) of dressing up kind of nice to go to the cafe on Saturdays after I saw an incredibly put together French lady there one weekend and thought what a gift to us all her incredible outfit was. Wearing an interesting outfit is a little art gift you give everyone else.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 19/09/2026

I'm reasonably sure all Calvins grow up to be Dad.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s a beautiful September day in San Francisco & I have done close to fuck all today & just now I swept the flagstones in the garden with a Japanese hand broom bcs it seemed like it would be fun & it was & it smells strongly of thyme now because some years ago I planted thyme between the flagstones

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026

has anyone noticed the days are getting shorter?? what exactly is the plan when we're all engulfed in eternal darkness

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A little bit of both. Impressed: a house in fancy city. A cat that does tricks. An occult adept. Dozens of alive plants. Disappointed: a goddamn *middle manager* who takes meetings at 8 am and unironically reads business books? Ick.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Old UP joke about a milkman who was notorious for watering down milk. Indra took pity on him & came to earth Indra: look you don't need to cheat to save money. I grant you a whole lake of milk. Milkman: you are the greatest. One more boon? Indra: name it Milkman: can I also get 2 lakes of water

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 14/09/2026

If you haven't started with talking to leaders, creating structure for them to tell you about their work in a way where you are helping them understand what you want to know and care about, what the hell do you hope to get from side stepping them and creating AI jira panopticon?

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I never thought about this, but I do tend to wear more formal fashions in cities whenever I feel like it, just as I wear more outrageous fashions. The place I can dress in full club goth to brunch is also the place I can wear a suit or dress to the farmer’s market.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another Saturday morning coffee sketch. This was a cappuccino instead of my usual flat white but I don’t think it affects the latte art so much. I’ve been in a bad mood this week, but even so I find joy in making art. #watercolor #LatteArt #UrbanSketch

A scene of cafe art in progress: an orange coffee cup and saucer, the coffee all drunk. In front of it, a watercolor painting of the cup but with the coffee full and latte art visible. On the left a tim travel palette, and on the right an uncapped waterbrush.

A watercolor painting of an orange coffee cup with latte art. Text in corner: Sept 12, 2026, A.K.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026

I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One thing I’ll never forget about 9/11 is that I found out about it by reading NYC-Goth-L, which was a method of communication we used in the olden days whereby you emailed a listserv and it sent your email to all you frenemies so you could continue your beefs from the club via email

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kabocha squash. Watercolor on cotton paper. Kabocha is a Japanese winter squash with very sweet, deep orange flesh. It also happens to be fun to sketch. #watercolor #pumpkin #kabocha #カボチャ

Watercolor painting of a kabocha squash. It green with white splotches and kind of flat.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kabocha squash. Watercolor on cotton paper. Kabocha is a Japanese winter squash with very sweet, deep orange flesh. It also happens to be fun to sketch. #watercolor #pumpkin #kabocha #カボチャ

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Love Conkers Fall These aren’t the spiky horse chestnuts I grew up with in Poland, but they sometimes have more than one seed per pod, so they don’t match the distinctive California Buckeye that grows wild here. Watercolor on wood pulp paper. 1/3 #watercolor #conkers #autmn #StillLife

Watercolor sketch of a pile of conkers, some partly in their shells. Text: Sept 6, 2026, “Love Conkers Fall”

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Coffee sketch from yesterday. Pen and ink with watercolor wash. This might be my favorite coffee sketch I’ve done using this technique. I let the watercolor be itself to create texture. I preserved the white space. #watercolor #UrbanSketch #PenAndInk #coffee

A loose watercolor sketch of an orange coffee cup and saucer. The latte art is a kind of flower.

An ink under sketch of a coffee cup and saucer in front of its subject.

An ink sketch of a coffee cup and saucer. The coffee has latte art like a flower. The edges of the paper are taped down with masking tape.

A watercolor and ink sketch of an orange coffee cup and saucer with latte art on the coffee. Behind the sketch is the coffee cup depicted i it, though the coffee has all been drunk.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Garlic update: I used a good bit of that half a head of garlic plus the loose clove for dinner so if I do a version of this paining on different paper, it will have to be a different arrangement. That’s what happens when your still life subjects are food.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I sketched some garlic today. Rather than trying to match the local color, I chose to work on value. The wood pulp paper held me back here, unlike the conker sketch earlier, because I couldn’t work wet on wet to smooth the tones. Maybe I’ll try again on cotton paper. #watercolor #garlic #PenAndInk

Two heads of garlic sit on a paper pad and right next to them, is the ink and watercolor sketch of the same two heads of garlic with a single clove in front. Text: Garlic, Sep 5, 2026

Ink and watercolor sketch of two heads of garlic with a single clove in front. Text: Garlic, Sep 5, 2026

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

First conkers of the year. I picked this branch up last week and the shell was closed. Then yesterday, I saw it cracked open. So, I decided to sketch it. #watercolor #autumn

A branch with a single conker (chestnut) in its pod next to a watercolor painting of the same item.

A watercolor painting of a conker (chestnut) attached to a branch, and still partly in its shell.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've reached some kind of milestone in developing my art skills where I'm thinking, you know, I'd really like to get some nice skulls to draw. The Science Museum has a lot of skeletons but it costs almost $50 for a ticket for just one day. And www.skullsunlimited.com is right there

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A remote English village invites a visitor to attend the annual harvest festival

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A guy has a long phone call to remotely project manage a major concrete pour he can’t attend in person

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A young man gets hired after demonstrating the ability to perform the job in an informal trial, finds that his coworker’s advice is of dubious quality when it comes to dealing with the realities of customer interactions

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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

People always say how hard Japanese is to learn, which is true to an extent, but it's hard to learn anything new. I hope people don't feel discouraged to try it just because people say it's difficult.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I picked up a bunch of books about sketching at the library, including one about perspective and I just learned about 3-point perspective!? My first reaction was what the heck? 3? My second was oh this is why my sketches of tall buildings always looked so weird.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good thread! This applies to internal customers, too.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Image description: An oil painting shows 3 glass teacups and saucers with slices of luminous yellow lemons around them. One of the teacups is brownish glass with brown tea inside and the other two are greenish glass with green tea inside.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Excuse me I have to get under the desk; there’s an earthquake” Probably not what my colleague in Bangalore was expecting during our morning/evening call, but that is what I said and then we both got to have a very California experience discussing what size of earthquake is not a big deal

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Image description: a skateboarder mid-air is silhouetted against the glow of a full solar eclipse just as the sun is setting. The ramp is below and the dust of the skateboarder’s passing glows creating a visible trail of the motion.

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