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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Painted me a vintage Chipmunk that was on the ramp the other day!

Casein painting of a DeHaviland Chipmunk while it was visiting the Canadian Warplane Museum with nearly a dozen other Chipmunks. Love this one in bare aluminum.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

All that will be left of the world in 30 years will be ugly little coprolites comprised of all the nicest things we ever had.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This little fella left Earth to travel out into the universe today🥹 When my parents got him, I thought "Sweet, a little dog will keep them active!" They got the only dog in the world that hated going for walkies. Thanks for the laughs, little man, say hi to Dad for me.

Parents' miniature long haired chihuahua, Rocky, would rather my mousing hand was put to better use. He goes back out into the universe today.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Working on a new brain Illustration. Almost done! 🐡

Work in progress digital brain illustration by Glen Oomen

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Former co-worker sent me this paper and, low and behold, I had done the illustrations in it. Always nice to see them out in the wild - the "wild", that is, of scientific publishing. Brain base surgery is some weird stuff.

Screen capture of a page in an academic paper detailing a technique for using a temporalis muscle pedicle as a patch when trans-orbital brain base surgery. Weird stuff.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Enshitification is insane! 🧵 So, to make a largish payment online, I now need to log into my bank account, which then requires me to log into my phone, which I have already logged into but now need to do it again, browse to the security options, LOCK my bank card, ONLY NOW can I do the details of

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Folding this light merino long sleeve that I’ve had for over a year and, for the first time, noticed this tiny label sewn inside near the hem. I liked this shirt before, but now… I needed this message as I’m about to fly home to a whole raft of crummy little life problems.

Shirt label that says “Happiness is the real rich. Health is the real wealth. Kindness is the real cool.” This is a Vuori shirt, if you’re curious.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Someone working on the same Big Pharma marketing project as me explaining to me what the anatomy of a heart and vascular wall look like as I sat on my lunch hour in my office in the human anatomy lab at McMaster University; that maybe the project should hire a medical illustrator.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have been loving the non sequitur humour in ACARS Drama. Tonight, somewhere over northern Florida, someone on aircraft is extremely smelly.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is the opposite of a boast. Watching someone you love try their hardest at something really, really important to them, knowing they are going to fail, is just heartbreaking. I wish I was talking about kids because they tend to move past this stuff, adults not so much.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I swear all the worst stuff seams to happen over Valpraiso, Indiana.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Got to do some flying this week. And the deal is: if I do some flying, then I also take some time and do some painting.

Casein on paper of Cessna 172 C-GAPS which I call "Winnebago" for it's incredible 1981 brown, orange and yellow paint scheme and matching interior. At CYFD on a sunny thursday afternoon in May.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Days this spring without using heat OR air conditioning: 0

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Nobody "earns" billions. Oversimplified (ie not accounting for invested money or wacky returns), but say you have a 45 year working career. To "earn" a billion you would have to make, on average, >$22M per year. Once you "earn" a billion, you should be made into sausage.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

And there it is. The first request from a client to clean up some medical illustrations that they had AI do. [Honestly, they're not terrible. But it's pretty clear it's been fed a steady diet of BioRender stuff]

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sees pizza box fly off roof of car driving past house. Rescues pizza box from getting squished on road. Waits to see if driver doubles back upon realization of error. They do not. Free fresh pizza. My weekend is off to a great start!

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Had on a Niel deGrasse Tyson Startalk podcast and they were talking about how silly zombies are. I totally agree. This was my working example poster for my scientific illustration students last, fall illustrating why zombies are not the threat we think they are. #SciArt youtu.be/UwlV-mflc7o?...

Fast moving zombies are stupid. In fact all zombies are stupid. They can't hunt you. They can't even see or hear you. The skin slip and fluid pooling would prevent them from moving anywhere near fast enough to catch you, plus they would cook themselves if they had to move quickly. At best they would just fall over.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A corner grocery store and deli that also serves a fantastic cup of coffee and breakfast.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lol, I can't count the number of times during road rides that my competitive pride has spotted another cyclist up ahead, so I bust my nut trying to reel them in and pass them only to find out it's a 65 year old on a step through e-bike. After that, pride prevents me from relenting, so I nearly die

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Classic. Amazon Women on the Moon, Son of the Invisible Man. youtu.be/hSQWyx26FnY?...

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Son of the Invisible Man

YouTube video by Maurice Cobbs

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

One of the field paintings I did as a USFS artist in residence in 2014. Harriman Fjord, Alaska. Casein on gessoed panel.

USFS worker on kayak patrol and camp site clean-up through Harriman Fjord.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I was an Artist in Residence with the USFS in 2014. As a 🇨🇦 I learned a lot about how the US treats it's natural spaces and designated wilderness areas. The people who worked and volunteered were some of the loveliest people I've ever worked with. This, among many things, makes me sad for America.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

95M birds on the move tonight! Nature, man, nature. birdcast.org/migration-to...

Peak volume 95M birds on the move this evening after sun down. Nature if flippin' awesome.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Oh boy. These are so insidious. They *LOOK* like an anatomical diagram, have the same visual style and language. But when you start to look closely and scrutinize it - never even mind the labels - it's almost entirely wrong. Like, not one correct thing about it.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

That feeling when you find someone’s wallet and root through it *just enough* to figure out who they are and how you’re going to get it back to them. Was able to drop it off just when they were really starting to panic, made someone’s day!

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Given our 60 degree temperature swing from coldest days to hottest days in Canada, you would think we would be world leaders in building energy efficient housing. But, if we build them at all, we build the bare legal minimum quality house. I wish this would change. We need it to, like, yesterday.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

My octogenarian Mum has to write a book report for her book club. We fired up the old computer, updated it to windows 11 and, much to my surprise, Word 2003 works a dream. Surprisingly, pleasantly unshittified.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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When darkness falls, it's time to migrate. I love this radar map/app for tracking migration density and direction. So cool to see things hitting their peak before dawn, then going out and hearing all the new voices in the morning. Welcome back birds. birdcast.org/migration-to...

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Live Maps – BirdCast

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

10 Years ago, when we lived in Dublin, we walked down to O'Connell Street with some friends who were visiting. It was jammers. There is a really cool - kind of organic - parade through central Dublin. All the floats are human powered with limited height to clear the Luas catenary. There's definitely

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Every idea that comes out of Doug Ford is pre-ossified, like he was passing kidney stones all over the province. I love this airport, honestly. But it's days are numbered and, as a low hour baby pilot, adding jets to this airspace, mixing with Pearson's is 100% not needed.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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Live Maps – BirdCast

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Just a box, driving around, merging courteously with traffic.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Right now, I would love for some of the people in my life to be able to use a self driving vehicle to get to their appointments or take them shopping. But those people need way more than just a lift. Why is it that, when we're designing services, it's just not appealing to design them with good old

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Looking forward to being continually subjected to this inane game of Spin-the-Bottle policy coming from our southern neighbours.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

What Doug Ford gets wrong about "not too many baskets being sold these days" is that every human has, literally, dozens of baskets in one form or another.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Three degrees and a college diploma here; worked in higher ed for >10y; have a wife who has gone back to school for a mid-career refit. The only person who talks about "basket-weaving" courses is someone who has never taken one. Come talk to me about "basket-weaving", you absolute numpty.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Somewhere in the CBC's archives is an absolutely gorgeous version of People Get Ready. It was done for a long gone radio show called Fuse, that got seemingly different artists to play together. In this case it was The Sojourners with C.R. Avery. This isn't it but it's close: youtu.be/XY5wfqJ3LkQ?...

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C.R Avery and the Sojourners- "People get Ready"

YouTube video by brianbasically

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

One of the things I love about visiting family in NL is that, while there is not one square meter of that country that has not been engineered by humans, and my dutch family complain "it's so crowded", it's still livable, textured and beautiful.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Saw the tracks leading to my overturned canoe in the back yard. Someone isn't very enthusiastic about the snow storm.

Neighborhood cat hides from a snow storm on the front seat of an overturned canoe.

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

That time I went to an airshow and painted this Harvard. It was sitting next to a pair of A-10's and a CF-18. Pilot: "Of all the aircraft here, you paint this one. Why?" "Because it's yellow. Way more interesting to paint than low-viz grey."

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Automotive Polkaroo. Took this photo to prove to my spouse that this local Alfa Romeo Guilia GTA Veloce, my favorite car of all time, actually exists. And it's gorgeous.

Mysterious 1968 or 69 Alfa Romeo Guilia GTA Veloce. Only comes out at night when the moon is full.