The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 344, With Glenn Fleishman

My take-away… Despite the negativity around Twitter’s acquisition by Elon Musk, the social network could get better if cooler heads prevail and good ideas are implemented instead of running around to put out fires all the time.

I just counted 6 printed pages over 10 days for my Dutch language running blog. Over 14 years I’ve written 6800+ pages, or over 2660 characters per day, every day 😳

Pixel art animation. On the 26th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “phonebooth.” It immediately reminded me of the S-guy.
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I suppose one could construe that me using for an art prompt Pixel Dailies, which is restricted to a social network, which in turn was bought by the richest troll on the planet, made me stretch April Fool’s day to a month. However, no Nostradamus resides in this mortal coil.

Pixel art. I suppose an abandonned family pet best illustrated today’s Pixel Dailies theme “bleak."
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Pixel art. I spent too much time on this piece. One thing I learned is that lettering in perspective is hard and the result rather disappointing. I suppose it’s best to avoid it, whenever possible.
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I suppose, like Facebook, Twitter is on a decline. I can’t blame users for being annoyed by all the advertising and tracking, combined with bullying by long-lost acquaintances who think of themselves as “good friends.” It really is a cess pool of the worst of humanity.

Plant photo. My guess is that this some kind of hyacinth, found today, growing in the wild on a piece of urban development area, most likely for future housing.

I didn’t know what tab groups were, so I looked it up. To easily open several tabs at the same time. Obviously, a web browser power user feature, so I can skip it. I seldom have more than one tab open. Now for other useless (to me) iOS features, there are a lot, too many, alas.

Pixel art. The 24th day of April Fool’s Month had a Pixel Dailies theme “table.” I tried to make it a fancy table in isometric perspective.
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Pixel art. On day 23 of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “sea food.” I interpreted as “sea banquet”, which is a kind of chocolate delicatessen in the shapes of stylized sea creatures.
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Pixel art. I made this piece to practice design and lettering, both subjects that need practicing a lot in my case (I’m weak in these). My inspiration were the Viking myths. FYI, horned helmets on warriors were never a thing in reality, nor would they’ve been practical.
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Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “garnish.” I combined it with the feisty Evanlyn from John Fanagan’s The Ranger’s Apprentice medieval fantasy series.
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Pixel art. I made a black and white drawing with Grafx2 on my Raspberry Pi 400, using a mouse. I refined it on my iPad using Pixaki, and created a simple (though crude) animation.
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The day before yesterday I fell while running and yesterday I strained my hamstring (again, after I did two weeks ago). I feel bruised and strained like an apple that fell from a tree. Yay for foam rollers and pain medicine 🏃

Pixel art. The Pixel Dailies theme for day 21 of April Fool’s Month is “prize”, which I interpreted as a token for a final position in a competition (in this case, first place).
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Social bonding through grooming. One grooms, the other purrs, softly, because it’s for the other cat, not for a (in feline perspective) deaf human. 🐱

Pixel art. For the 20th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “Healing Item.” I’m pretty sure this is a fantasy videogame thing, so I went for a more mundane solution, a band-aid.
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Pixel art for the 19th day of April Fool’s Month. I suppose this piece got “shatnered.” It’s today’s theme of Pixel Dailies, “shattered” which I basterdized with some James T. Kirk.
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I wanted to share my art on Twitter without interaction. I can’t use MB categories, it seems, unless I disable the main blog feed. Twitter doesn’t have a public feed either, so no source for MB. The MVP 😒 solution was to share from the Photos app to Twitter with hashtags 🤢 Yuck!