We hired a local apiary specialist to come rescue the bees who had made a home above our mud room. It was $$$ but made us happier. This is a relatively young hive. We saw them swarming weeks ago but couldn’t get anyone out until this past weekend.

Here’s a nauseating little tool that generates a report on how conscious LLMs are of your existence.

The poster ( https://telescoper.blog/2026... ) reports:

“Yesterday I found out about a site called intheweights.com , which reveals which people are “stored” in the weights of large language models. Those “weights” are billions of numerical values by which these AI models encode their knowledge. If you show up in them, the model considered you relevant enough during training to recall without tools such as web search.

The site queries several models to figure out who a specific person is, combines the results, and assigns a strength score.  According to the leaderboard, the current maximum strength score is 998, awarded too a person called Charlize Theron (of whom I have never heard); number Two is Rudyard Kipling, apparently. I’m surprised the top isn’t Taylor Swift. I guess these weights change with time too.”

nb, using it seems to burn tokens and, thus, trees. I shared this as a public service - don’t feel compelled to follow my lead.

Also, I have never been much of an “editor,” and the summation misses a good 60% of the rest of my checkered career, not to mention my fully online, nonprofessional life.

#destroyallrobots #stayhuman

One week ago we opened my first mural with a perfect neighbourhood party. I’m really happy with what is basically a gigantic watercolour. It's not that easy to photograph because there's a tree in front of the whole thing and the plants adjacent to the wall have been destroyed because I had to be there with the scissor lift, so that looks really bad as well for the time being. I have to get a drone or something.

Thank you so much for all your support during the whole process. Several people have already gotten in touch with me to talk about more murals I could do, but we'll see if anything pans out.

I've got a bit longer video on my Instagram for those who are interested: https://www.instagram.com/p...

#painting #mural #insects

I didn't make that much money to begin with.

Poster from a Dublin pub

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Another card done for my upcoming Feral Path Tarot. This is the Queen of Cups featuring Rachel True (The Craft, Agnes, Half-Baked).

This card is a bit recursive. Rachel appears on my tarot card, reading her own tarot cards (True Heart Tarot, Harvest Publications, 2020). What will be interesting is the first time someone tells me they just pulled the exact spread she has on my card.

Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator. ©2026 Davezilla. All rights reserved.

Give it to us raw — and wriggling!

(still from a video by my partner)

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not to be a braggart about something so small, but feels good man. as someone who grew up extra tubby and was never in shape enough to even run one mile, it’s nice to hit even a moderate goalpost.

screenshot from amazfit’s zepp health app (currently using the GTR2e)

You may not be able to go to the opening ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center, but you can see all of the banners I designed and animated for his '08 & '12 campaigns right now. Check it out: http://barackobamadesign.com

For true internet geeks: The ads on the site were animated using Flash. @matthewmcvickar helped me modernize the site so you can play with all the rollovers on modern browsers again.

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Grace Jones in Conan the Destroyer, 1984

On the first of the month we said goodbye to our beloved Macy and laid her to rest in this spot in our yard. We immediately covered it in flower seeds and then circled it with some river stones. I hope to find a good way to carve a little name stone - maybe some soapstone or cast some concrete.
Long may her memory live (and make us better people)!

There were rumors all week that the road would open up to the top, but no date. I staked my bet on Thursday, and planned an early out from work. Lucky me, that was right on the money. I got on the bike right after 5:30pm and hit Logan Pass right at 9:00pm, just in time for a cold thunderstorm to roll in. It was fine though--I brought all the layers. While the getting there part took 3.5 hours, I was back to my car in less than an hour. Average speed of 7.9 mph, max 34.9 mph. Anyhow it's open all weekend to bikes, then the tourist season kicks off, with the road opening to cars Monday.

Long story short, I wasn’t sure that the two pepper plants I potted this year were going to make it, but they’ve started to produce peppers! Looking forward to their weird red lumpy hat-shaped spiciness.

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"Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist."

Happy Juneteenth. Work like you live in the early days of a better nation.

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Every year, on my wife’s birthday, a dear friend of ours gifts my wife another lilac bush. This is the fourth year running that she’s done so, and they have so far continued to do well, pleasantly framing the front steps to our screen porch.