No clue what the origami was trying to say, but the kid's speech balloon said "Our Neighbours painting his house with a 2 inch brush and my dad says it will take the contagious."
Sir Hayden is looking a little frazzled at the Talyllyn Railway's 75th anniversary gala!
Inspired by Slogokonnor99's Hilda and the Jurassic Forest series, here is Hilda scuba diving in a kelp forest with Maiacetus, a primitive prehistoric whale. Archeaocedits are my current special interest fixation, so it's only natural I'd blend Hilda's adventure with this stage of whale evolution!
I follow a few pages that film videos riding rollercoasters. One is from a brit who visited the US last summer. I commented "I'm glad you feel safe travelling to America, 'cause I certainly don't!"
Then some rando comes sliding in to mention guns and "black areas" being dangerous. Doesn't take much to bring out the racist Americans, does it?
For the record: I'm British and non-binary. While I don't claim that the UK is exactly great for trans people, I absolutely do not feel safe visiting America due to ICE ghestapo and the president (likely literally) stating he wants people like me exterminated.
I am on the autism spectrum, and recently reached out to a local autism charity for help with financial independence. I got a reply today with a link to a website for more information, and immediately I'm greeted by references to Autism Speaks (A US Company which treats autism as a disease), in addition to these obviously A.I generated imagery.
This is not encouraging, in that it makes me wonder how much of the page's info is A.I generated, and whether or not I can trust them!
I've seen a few suspicious pages going around that, on the surface, look trans positive. But looking at the details, it brings up an ocean's worth of red flags. Firstly, the page names rarely have anything to do with trans rights or the lives of trans people (the first page I found was literally called "anything for clout").
Secondly, they almost always feature children, who, likewise, always are either draped in a trans flag, appear to be girls, and are rarely smiling. They don't feature trans adults unless it's about a parent or adult relative supporting the trans child. While it's great that there are real parents who do support trans kids, the framing always seems to imply that the child isn't happy.
Thirdly, you always get the same captions over and over, usually with some slight variations with the words "Strong, fearless, brave, inspiring" or other such adjectives. Again, isolated, this wouldn't be bad, if it weren't for the same words always being used, in addition to variations on the phrase "a light for other (trans) kids".
The fact that multiple pages all with the same trends, but never respond to any comments, all suggest that it's meant to be clickbait of some variety. This image with the mangled child faces in the background is a dead giveaway that it's A.I generated.
As a non-binary person myself, it always warms my heart to see genuine supportive people in a world that is putting people like myself in the crosshairs of a moral panic. But given how often anti-trans rhetoric focuses on the classic "think of the children!" alarmism, we need to be critical of pages like this, even if they appear supportive.
The evolution of cetaceans is one of the most well documented in all of evolutionary science. But most of the info I find exclusively discusses the morphological changes that allowed them to adapt to aquatic life.
What I want to know is about the selection pressure. The earliest cetaceans, from Pakicetus to Ambulocetus, were primary suited to freshwater and brackish water habitats, while later cetaceans in the family Basilosauridae inhabited salt water. What evolutionary niches were open for them to exploit, and what selection pressures pushed them to be predominantly oceanic animals rather than fresh water?
Clearly there were distinct advantages that meant they found success in aquatic environments, or else their hind limbs wouldn't have become vestigial. Given how they have come to inhabit just about every marine environment today, I'd love to know what environmental factors lead to their success.
I drew some fanart of Vtuber Kat of Cafe Fox Tale, because supporting queer communities is a fundamental pillar of my art! This is also a good example of making do when things go wrong. My last shading/black colour pencil broke, so I had to shade using a pen. It isn't awful, but it's functional.
Not gonna lie, I still feel anxious about drawing characters full-sized instead of chibis, mostly because the large head size gives me more room for smaller details with the expression. But I am experimenting with limb lengths to clearly denote characters as adults, not children.
Also, the Kitsune on the (audience) left is my OC, Korro Kitami, who is my artist avatar and a fantasy version of myself!