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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 25/09/2026

Happy Mina trolls Van Helsing day

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 30/08/2026

I haven't cooked with beef in a while but I think this was worth the price

Bò kho or Vietnamese beef stew made with lemongrass and carrots being cooked on the stove

Bò kho on the table with dishes of garnishes: red onion, cilantro, Thai basil, and jalapeño and with baguette slices

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 26/06/2026

I froze my thịt kho in a yogurt container and this is what it looks like when it comes out... forbidden meat cake...

Frozen portion of braised pork belly where the cubed meat is sitting on top of a cylindrical cake-thing of fat and sauce

Frozen portion of braised pork belly where the cubed meat is sitting on top of a cylindrical cake-thing of fat and sauce, at another angle (sitting in a pot)

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 25/06/2026

home made pancakes from a couple weeks ago! I keep looking back at these pics and feeling powerful

close up of pancake with raspberries, mangoes, and chocolate chips

pancake with raspberries, mangoes, and chocolate chips

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 24/01/2026

I really enjoy getting the hardware done to frame and hang things

D-rings and wire that I've just installed on two art pieces, plus hammer and screwdriver (yep just these two, no power tools)

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 20/01/2026

I thought I'd use the first news post to announce an upcoming exhibition I will be part of at @mdfedart.bsky.social: urlocalcyb.org/news/2026-01...

Flyer for DIGITAL EXPLORATIONS by Maryland Federation of Art. The exhibit will run January 28 - February 28, 2026, with a reception at Circle Gallery on February 28 from 4-6 PM. The physical address is 18 State Circle and the online address is mdfedart.org.

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 20/01/2026

I finally decided to separate my art portfolio and technical portfolio & now have my art portfolio up and running at: urlocalcyb.org I like this design so much more than the old one and seeing it all in one place makes me feel 1/ much more proud of my work and 2/ excited to add to it!

Homepage of my new portfolio website, which features several of my recent watercolor and acrylic painting work.

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 13/01/2026

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm Caroline, a painter (& sometimes digital) artist inspired by sci-fi and fantasy texts. I'm available for commissions this year and I just started my print shop! 🛍️ www.etsy.com/shop/urlocal... ✉️ caroldinh [at] tuta [dot] io #ArtSky #SciFiArt #Watercolor #DigitalArt

Fan-made book cover of "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley done in watercolor, featuring a lone figure flying in a steampunk winged hot air balloon, over a forest, Hagio Sophia in Constantinople, and the roman ruins, with astronomical formulas and diagrams written in the stars.

Fan-made book cover of Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" done in watercolor. A humanoid figure manipulates two levers, his head and chest cavity open to reveal tubes of air. He is looking up at several rings that appear as portals to other worlds, filled with imagery from Chiang's novel: the skyline of Old Baghdad, fossils beneath a wave, steampunk cogs, parrots flying, a Victorian-style robot, a lion cub, two prism-shaped computers, Data Earth, and floating video player and photo gallery interfaces.

Watercolor painting of an alien spaceship descending upon a scrap metal site, with scrappers wheeling their haul away from a giant metal structure shaped almost like an animal ribcage.

Digital illustration of a woman using virtual reality. On her left are cascades of polluted water, forest fires, air pollution, and rising graphs; on her right is the fantasy world in her headset, with rockets taking off into a starry sky. In the bottom right corner is the word "ESCAPE."

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 12/12/2025

Progress shots from my latest painting - concept art for a story I am writing #SciFiArt #ArtSky #Watercolor #ConceptArt

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 29/11/2025

Fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's post-apocalyptic cloning novel, "Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang." Watercolor & colored pencil on paper, 12"x18". #Watercolor #SciFi #SciFiArt This piece (+2 more) will be on display at @rhizomedc.bsky.social in December as part of the "STEAM Engine" exhibit!

Fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang' in watercolor. In the horizon is the silhouette of a windmill over a red starry sky. A tunnel beneath the windmill opens into secret rooms illustrated as an underground map, depicting men working at large computers, students in a classroom, a line of pregnant women, men building canoes, and clone fetuses in tanks. Overlaid in each room are the words "WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG" with the author's name, "KATE WILHELM" at the bottom.

Same as the previous image but without the typography: fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang' in watercolor. In the horizon is the silhouette of a windmill over a red starry sky. A tunnel beneath the windmill opens into secret rooms illustrated as an underground map, depicting men working at large computers, students in a classroom, a line of pregnant women, men building canoes, and clone fetuses in tanks.

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 18/11/2025

(Loki voice) I've been INSTALLING... for THIRTEEN MINITES

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 30/10/2025

My preliminary review of Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein. I have more thoughts than can really be said in an appropriate length for a Letterboxd review (cross-posted to my blog: seenby.urlocalcyb.org/2025/10/26/g...) but overall, I enjoyed the movie but wasn't particularly surprised by anything

Screenshot of a blog post that reads:

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro
Date seen: October 24, 2025
Date reviewed: October 26, 2025

SPOILERS for both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation ahead.

Image of Victor beholding the incomplete Creature in his lab.

In directing Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro knew he had one chance to get it right, and that’s why he waited so long. I read del Toro’s introduction to THE NEW ANNOTATED FRANKENSTEIN, written in 2017, and gleaned his connection with with Mary Shelley’s original tale profoundly. And indeed, his adaptation brings to life the grandiosity that is Romantic prose, with rich and indulgent color and costuming, and formidable sets that capture the extravagance of aristocratic wealth, the sublime of the natural world, and the spectacle of mad science in the popular imagination. Like Shelley’s novel, the true horror lies not in the blood and the gore but in the humanity (and lack thereof) of monsters and the men who make them.

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 23/06/2025

Painted the cover of David Grann's "The Wager" for a birthday gift! 12" diameter; acrylic on canvas #acrylicpainting #booksky #history

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 17/04/2025

Review of Cai Guo-Qiang & cAI's "Interspecies Love Letter" @ the Kennedy Center up on my blog! Some thoughts on AI, documentation, and violence as medium. I also just changed my domain so hopefully it still works. seenby.urlocalcyb.org/2025/04/16/c...

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 13/04/2025

Are you a writer who got their start writing Percy Jackson fanfiction? I'm interested in curating a zine of mythology-inspired art and writing from our generation & am gauging initial interest here: forms.fillout.com/t/5m1v6fPTwwus #callforsubmissions #callforart #booksky #artsky #percyjackson

LEGACIES ZINE: from the Percy Jackson generation; mythology-inspired stories by Generation Z writers. Call for Interest. Seeking: Explorations of mythology & language, & place, & identity, & futurism, & planet, & self, & history, & resistance, & family, & diaspora, & memory (& beyond)

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 11/04/2025

losing it over two different translations of the same line #booksky

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 08/04/2025

i just read crime and punishment

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 07/04/2025

fan-made cover of ted chiang's short story collection "exhalation," part of a personal challenge to paint a book cover for something i read each month! #tedchiang #scifiart #sciencefiction #artsky #booksky #watercolor

$cover illustration for "exhalation" by ted chiang and entry #2 in my personal challenge of painting a cover for a book i read every month. if i was sticking perfectly to schedule, i should have finished this in march, but the detail and perspective were a huge challenge; i spent at least two weeks scribbling concepts and crossing them out, and when i was finally ready to transition to The Big Paper, i sat on the sketch for like two weeks struggling with the symmetry and geometry. which is precisely the point of this challenge; i'm trying to push myself more with my traditional art but also allow myself to take the process as slowly as it demands, and spend time on a painting rather than rush it out. which incidentally is one of the reasons why i have so much respect and admiration for ted chiang as a writer - each one of his stories is so tightly written and thoroughly researched; each story is a product of the time he puts into it. despite all his accolades he has published <20 short stories in a 30-or-so year career; he said on an interview at some point that he spent seven years researching linguistics and developing his craft to write "story of your life," which got adapted into the movie "arrival" and which i would say is one of the best science fiction stories i've ever read. i've been picking at a sci-fi short story for about four months which feels like a lot of time but really isn't, in the grand scheme of things. in a world that demands creatives to churn out their work like a factory in order to make a fraction of a living (indeed, ted chiang i believe makes a living on technical writing, not fiction writing), ted's stories are such a refreshing reminder that good art takes time. i can only dream of one day being able to write like him.$

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 03/04/2025

i am so done y'all, this is taking forever #watercolor #artsky

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 06/03/2025

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - I love how KI's science fiction feels so grounded and human, rather than indulging on the technicalities of things - also I like the sense of anonymity where you only knew the first letter of the character's surname, I'm stealing that for one of my stories rn

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 03/03/2025

1. the house of the spirits / la casa de los espiritus por isabel allende - probably my favorite book! i read it when i was... 17? 18? just barely old enough to appreciate it and i'd never read anything like it. my favorite character was jaime. (+ some art of the characters that i made a while back)

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 16/02/2025

cover illustration for mary shelley's second sci-fi novel "the last man." there is an unfortunate dearth of cover art for this novel, since it is so seldom published, but i wanted to capture the beauty and grandiosity of her environmental prose! #maryshelley #classicliterature #booksky #watercolor

watercolor illustration of "the last man" by mary shelley, featuring a lone figure flying in a steampunk winged hot air balloon, over a forest, hagia sophia in Istanbul, and the roman ruins, with astronomical formulas and diagrams written in the stars.

excerpt from "the last man" by mary shelley: "Early in the morning Adrian brought me the welcome intelligence that the wind had changed: it had been south-west; it was now north-east. The sky was stripped bare of clouds by the increasing gale, while the tide at its ebb seceded entirely from the town. The change of wind rather increased the fury of the sea, but it altered its late dusky hue to a bright green; and in spite of its unmitigated clamour, its more cheerful appearance instilled hope and pleasure. All day we watched the ranging of the mountainous waves, and towards sunset a desire to decypher the promise for the morrow at its setting, made us all gather with one accord on the edge of the cliff. When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! three other suns, alike burning and brilliant, rushed from various quarters of the heavens towards the great orb; they whirled round it. The glare of light was intense to our dazzled eyes; the sun itself seemed to join in the dance, while the sea burned like a furnace, like all Vesuvius a-light, with flowing lava beneath. The horses broke loose from their stalls in terror—a herd of cattle, panic struck, raced down to the brink of the cliff, and blinded by light, plunged down with frightful yells in the waves below. The time occupied by the apparition of these meteors was comparatively short; suddenly the three mock suns united in one, and plunged into the sea."

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 31/01/2025

I love this meme template

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 31/01/2025

working at a startup while fresh out of college & lacking mentorship on industry practices be like

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 25/12/2024

oh, congratulate me, hope is triumphant, and i have done some good 🥺🥺🥺 (tw for mention of suicide & slight spoilers for "mathilda" by mary shelley) #classiclit #maryshelley

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 14/12/2024

when you're a burnt out STEM kid but the cure to your burnout is studying the humanities and hanging out with your friends

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 11/12/2024

oh hey, my metallica story got an honorable mention!! thank you for the shoutout and the inspiration @puddingviz.bsky.social !! 🔗: caroldinh.github.io/metallica-bl...

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · 15/11/2024

This novel's on the back burner but the characters are always fun to draw! What hashtags are people using for this kind of thing? #artistsofbluesky #writersofbluesky

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