Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

King Alfred’s Cakes, Scarlet Elfcup, and Oakmoss all on our woodland walk this morning.
#fungi #woodlandtrust

Nature is incredible!

Happy birthday to #LizaMinnelli who's 77 years young today 🥳 ✨

#HappyBirthday #MastoArt #Clay

One thing I love about Science is that the more of it you study the more you see repeating patterns. Today's drawing is influence by both Chemistry and Neuroscience.

Here's a work-in-progress shot.

#inkyDays #ink #drawing #art #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #algorithm #wip #SciArt #Science #MastoArt

Alaska kids are pretty resilient and won't let snow get in their way of playing basketball. A friend of mine took this photo in a neighborhood park.
#Alaska #AlaskaLife

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

Caterpillar Cat

(8X10 print of acrylic painting, ships free in USA)

#cat #art #artbooster #weirdwave #agblend13 #acrylicpainting

Any antique jewellery experts on here?

I've just found a locket in an old box that belonged to my granny. It has a photo in and initials on the back, but I can't work out who it is. I'd love some help dating the style (it's British, if that helps), and I'm also wondering whether the custom was for the initials to be the person in the photo or the person wearing the locket. It looks like WB to me, which gives me two obvious options in my family tree, both of whom were men. Could it have been hung on a watch fob rather than a necklace?

I'm not assuming that the photo is necessarily the original one, so it could be a mismatch with the initials. It's just a bit of a puzzle, as I mostly know what all my granny's family looked like, and this lady isn't familiar!

Photos below. Any thoughts/boosts welcome!

#genealogy #FamilyHistory #geneadons #antiques #AntiqueJewellery #JewelleryDating #lockets #AntiqueLocket

The 6:10 train out of San Francisco.

#photography #LongExposure

1975 Crazy cow cereal.
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#CrazyCow #Cereal #Breakfast #Cows #goodmorning #Retro #Vintage #70s #food

Some days the peaks of the #Cuillins, twenty or so miles away from the village, are completely lost in the mist. At other times they appear hazy and distant. On a clear day with the slopes covered in high contrast snow they seem just out of reach.

#IsleofSkye #PortRigh #Mountains #Blue #Scotland #Winter #seascapes #Snow

Two awesome knives were completed today!
Awesome work, and congratulations on your first knives!

www.scottishblacksmith.co.uk
For details on classes and courses

Apparently someone gave Ron DeSantis a hand-made snowflake at a Republican political rally in Davenport, Iowa last week. Look carefully: you'll see the word "Fascist" secretly embedded in it.

I wrote a blog post about why we wrote Mastodon For Dummies and the process of doing so.

Summary: It's a small book, but the most important thing I've ever written.

#mastodon @workingwriter #mastodonfordummies

https://www.chrisminnick.com/2023/02/21/mastodon-for-dummies/

Today would have been Douglas Adams' 71st birthday. The Hitchhikers Guide is definitely one of my favorite books and comfort reads. No one made the end of the world so much fun like he did.
What stories he might have told if he wouldn't have passed so early..
I hope he has a towel with him, wherever he is 🖤
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#douglasadams #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #dirkgently #drwho #illustration #portrait #watercolor #art #painting #sciencefiction #comedy #scifi

The Barbican Library have a cool #map of #LGBTQ authors on intersecting metro lines.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/11/barbican-library-map-lgbtq-authors/

#Bookstodon #QueerBooks #Books #Queer

subigo: I knead
Minimus pistor (the baker) is preparing massa (dough) for panis (bread). He's
wearing a limus (apron), but he's still covered in farina (flour)!
#LatinVerbs

I am participating in the #bookmarkproject once more. It supports children's education by auctioning off bookmarks and using the money to buy books and school supplies for the Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe.
My bookmarks are done with ink and watercolour, each a signed original and unique.
If you'd like to join in or buy bookmarks, check the bookmark website. It's a lovely project!
Sorry for the mistake in the bookmark spelling... 😬!

#aquarellart #mastoart #illuatration