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Yes this is in response to current events. I suggest men who are offended by women exercising in comfortable clothes join a fully cloistered male only monastery. That should keep them safe from the moral harms of saying incredibly stupid things in public.

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Oddly enough when I wore similar clothing to World Gym for years when I was powerlifting, no one ever bothered me, even though of course you stick your butt out a lot doing squats and deadlifts. Part of why I love serious lifters is they DGAF as long as you rack your weights after & let ppl work in

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The gym teacher blamed me for wearing such fitted clothing. I was 12! No one ever told me who slapped me, though the list of suspects was limited. It’s over 30 years later and I have never forgotten and I have never forgiven and I have never blamed myself.

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

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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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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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Inktober Day 4: Succulent (the official prompt was cactus but I prefer to be less specific and draw a succulent from my collection, because I lately much prefer to draw from life) #PenAndInk #inktober #inktober2026

On top of a spiral sketch notebook a small cylindrical plant pot with a tiny succulent. Three views of the plant are sketched in black in on the page from left to right: the plant alone from the side, the whole pot from the side with the plant and a detailed shadow, and the plant from above with a little of the pot visible. Text: 2026 Inktober #4, Succulent (official: cactus)

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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

I have extremely poor mental imagery (not quite aphantasia but near enough) so these covers helped make the worlds for me. I am forever grateful to the cover artists.

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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But the ways watercolor and pen and ink keep teaching me as I go back and forth are harder to anticipate or even describe. I love both mediums and they keep surprising me.

I haven’t had formal fine art training so I’m likely just re-discovering the kind of generative cross pollination that happens when you practice multiple techniques. I expected some of the things that happen to one’s technique from practicing pencil sketches

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When I went back to pen and ink after learning to watercolor my sketching was totally different. I could be more spontaneous and yet more precise. When I combined pen and ink with watercolor, both were changes. Now, as with this sketch the monochrome discipline of ink came into watercolor.

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 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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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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The windowless basement room had no reception so I focused on my food (and a book on my phone). I know how this sounds but this story is completely true, yes a dosa dream, yes “id Cafe,” yes the Eurythmics—it all happened. dosa.company

dosa.company

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There were two other customers there (though plenty of takeout business seemed to be happening). I ordered a plain dosa. It looked exactly like the pictures on their website and was crispy and perfect.

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and then down stairs (or a small elevator). I walked past the kitchen that smelled like ghee where the radio was playing the Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and entered neat tiled room with chairs and a counter, and the ambiance of the most basic cafeteria or canteen you can imagine.

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

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

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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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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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m sorry this happened to you, but thank you for posting through it because this has been incredible to read.

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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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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I also think if you enjoy the process of making the notebooks, or cutting and preparing the paper, then it's fair to discount the price of that labor. Also, there are times I can't paint, but I can still cut paper or fill half-pans, organize brushes, etc and to me it's all part of the craft.

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Dysmorphia @dys-morphia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Indeed! For me, it's an even better deal because I prefer to paint on loose sheets. I tape them down to a board and work that way. I bought a ton of postcard-sized paper last time I was in Tokyo as an experiment and found that for casual urban sketching, I much prefer that to a notebook.

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

My theory, specifically for the Richmond, is that it might have more people who came from suburbs so any nonzero amount of strangers on the street reads as potential danger.

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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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The feeling safe vs drug enforcement and unsheltered people in the Richmond district is interesting. I lived there from 2002 to 2016, and it was (and when I visit still seems to be) one of the quietest and most peaceful parts of the city. But the feeling of safety is lower than the Sunset.

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

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I still tend to sketch on both sides unless it's marker sketches that show through. I also paint on both sides of my watercolor paper. Every few months I go through my collection of paintings and set aside my favorites, while all the rest get pulled into service for other side painting.

Now that I've recalibrated, I've become profiglate with sketching. In the field, I go direclty to the watercolor paper because the precious resouce is my time. But at home doing still lifes, I like to do a few sketches first if I'm going to paint, and just sketch things all around me all the time.

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So when my brain is used to the prices for 100% cotton 140lb/300gsm watercolor paper, the price for 98lb/160g mixed media paper seems amazingly cheap. Previously, I had the idea mixed media paper was expensive, because I was comparing it to printer paper or even nice fountain pen friendly paper

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If I got watercolor paper in the cheapest possible way, at the best deal I see at Blick--full size sheets of 22x30 inches--and then cut them down myself ot 11x15, cost $1.47 a sheet. So 60 11x15 sheets would be $88.20. So, going back to per sheet: $0.22 watercolor vs $1.47 mixed media

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Then I looked up how much a big pad like that costs, like we are talking 60 pages of 11x14 inch heavy stock paper and I kind of had reverse sticker shock. This sucker is like $13 at Blick. I got so used to watercolor paper prices that I couldn't believe it.

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I've been doing a lot of sketching in the last couple of months. In late July I found a 11x14 mixed media sketch pad in a free box, and because it was free, I felt emboldened to "waste" a lot of it with huge-ass pencil and ink and even marker sketches just for practice.

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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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Going to the cafe every Saturday to get a croissant and fancy coffee has already been a long tradition for me and Mr Dys since we were dating. For old Twitter reasons we call it Egg Day.

Dan Hon @danhon.com · 19/09/2026

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

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