Kimberly A. Riley @KARiley40@octodon.social

The FDA is going to... allow businesses to change the ingredients in their products... without updating the list of ingredients on the packaging... ... ...

https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-announces-temporary-flexibility-policy-regarding-certain-labeling-requirements-foods-humans

In other news, I had a request to revive a pattern from 2003, so THE WACKY CHICKENS WILL RETURN

I boogered up the first draft tonight but I'm doing a smaller version for the tutorial images. These ones were 20-21" tall; I'm doing a 1/3-scale one. (Those are full sheets of mat board as backdrop because their feet matched the wood floor too well; clearly those weren't big enough.)

Hello friends, after today's dicussion on husky (a tusky fork that started as a way to access gab.com, by removing the blocklist in tusky), a few nazis decided to come to my mention.

pleroma.jeder.pl
expired.mentality.rip
netzsphaere.xyz
cybre.club (dont you hate when people find a similar name to a very popular and well moderated space to open their little shit club)
spacekittens.ru
gleasonator.com
n0id.space

#FediBlock

omg guiiiiiiiise look at these little babies!!!!!

So... Another octopus. I will turn to fluffier animals soon. This postcard too will go to a friend. If anyone feels like a postcard would cheer them up, contact me.

Stay safe!

#traditionalart #postcards #watercolor

Decided to sell this though I'm not sure anyone would be interested
Watercolor, A5 size. 370€ + shipping, dm me if you want it

Boosts very much appreciated!
#art #MastoArt #CreativeToots

alright, guess what time it is. it's SCIENCE TIME

I've recently come across this wonderful worldbuilding tool called Tectonics.js. It simulates tectonic movement over millions of years... and allows you to look at climate and terrain height, and it all is animated at various geological speeds up to a million years per second. Smash together a couple of continents and then break them apart again and you're basically guaranteed to end up with something more interesting than whatever Earthclone you were going to be using in your next novel or campaign. Granted, it'll need a bit of touching up with regards to the coasts, but the climate, mountains, and wind patterns are already dealt with!

This is a really fun way of watching how plates interact on a sphere, and is to my knowledge, the only tectonic simulation out there for general recreational use besides GPlates.

Hey Folks, probably the last post I'll make for this.

Just want to let you all know that the enby mask is finally available!

https://www.zazzle.com/store/draekos

If you still need masks, please consider these!

I will be looking into getting stock on hand once the pandemic passes for sale at cons and such <3

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"I love roses," the mermaid sighed, "I wish I had some."

"Why not just sing for roses to be brought to you?" asked her sea serpent companion.

"To what end? They would wither within days."
The mermaid sighed again and dove below, no longer wanting to think on the matter.

The serpent pondered, then sought a harpy to carry a message to a dragon.

The dragon considered the message and laid out terms, which the harpy passed back.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy #Mermay

Anyone ever had to trim a vinyl record before? I got a record yesterday that has a lip around one half of it that gets stuck on stuff on the turntable, and as much as I'd like to just get it replaced, I could also just... cut the lip off myself?

Tonight is #YurisNight, commemorating the anniversary of this cheerful mad lad getting launched into space. Or at least it is for another hour here in Britain.

With that in mind, I thought I’d do a quick introduction to a space topic in a little depth before the clock runs out. Some of you will already know this a lot better than me, but here is a brief explanation of Why You Should Not Nut In Space, And The Protocols For Preventing Space Nuts – better known as a quick overview of Planetary Protection.

Fun sword fact: all the swords you see in "serious" (tone-wise) fantasy like Game of Thrones are much more of a modern aesthetic than a medieval one. Medieval aesthetic would be considered downright gaudy by today's standards.

Dyes were expensive and therefore a sign of wealth, so no nobleman would be caught dead with an undecorated black scabbard or an unengraved, un-inlayed blade as long as he could afford to dye his scabbard bright colors and inlay gold or silver into his sword. The image is an example of what might be more typical for a reasonably wealthy nobleman around the time of the Battle of Agincourt.

So, like we've been saying, white people just want to kill themselves and want to take us with them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/coronavirus-flares-as-states-and-countries-ease-social-distancing-guidelines/2020/05/09/cccb3c0c-9219-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

To preface: this thread is going to discuss some very controversial figures in body modification history. Like much many types of art and subculture, a lot has changed in the body mod community in the last fifty years. That being said, I think acknowledging that problematic history is important for discussions about the community and its practice.

I am not condoning the behavior of the folks I’ll be referencing.

This woman flew Soviet combat missions in WWII. She is the last one left.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/this-woman-flew-soviet-combat-missions-in-wwii-she-is-the-last-one-left/

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/24/the-order-of-battle

As it says, this is the order of battle. What are we sending at this thing first, what are we doing when that doesn't work, and what we we throw into the fray if that fails.

for more on the subject, I (once again) recommend The Alt-Right Playbook -- specifically, the video The Card Says Moops, about internet nihilists (and how they aren't really nihilists) and bad-faith arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4

Eventually I'll get down to the pink ruffled elastics though.

(My sister likes pink so that's my typical go-to color but I sent her a nice tasteful leaf print, the one from the forest dragon wings, because she might need to go into her office and Look Professional.)

Icon commissions are open! $35, and it comes with a custom abstract background!

Limited slots available, working on rebuilding my workflow now that i've moved~