John Conway

I am an artist, and I post a lot of my own art. I am also the Admin here at Sauropods.win, and a lot of my boosts will be great dinosaur (and other prehistoric animal) stuff from the other winners here.

Some hashtags: #Art #Paintings #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #SciArt #DigitalArt

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john_at_sauropods.win@mostr.pub

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2024-09-19 18:38:43

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@npub1lmj…3ull slowworms tore my flesh!
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/113/165/672/026/984/971/original/773d00d236ff285c.jpeg

2024-09-07 14:17:37

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@npub14ua…saes Yeah, but is he definitely responding to the 4chan post, not the tweet?

2024-09-07 13:36:16

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P.S. is x.com is completely broken for me using Safari and wont load at all.
I want to see further context here. Does he clarify what he meant by retweeting this? (The account he is retweeting is being disparaging for the text, a generous interpretation was he thought the disparagement was an “Interesting observation”)

2024-09-07 13:29:39

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@npub14ua…saes sorry I’m confused and don’t know either. I might be low-T or a woman. Help me Elon!

2024-09-07 13:13:29

4chan is a great place to form your political philosophy. I have a slogan: Fourward with Fourscism!
(I do wonder if Fascism felt quite this silly in the 20s and 30s.)
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/113/096/445/480/771/361/original/d82e7665ae97dbfc.png

2024-08-14 18:39:23

A new Episode of The Tetrapod Zoology Prodrats is out! tetzoo.com/podcast/2024/8/13/episode-93-darren-naish-presents-badgerman-vs-dogman-stlac
@npub134m…lka0 and I discuss #TatZooCon, #dogman, and the culture of #cryptozoology.
#podcast

2024-08-13 13:52:03

My Makita battery charger has started playing Mozart to me. It never used to do this! What the hell is going on?

2024-08-12 16:57:17

Recording an episode of #tetrapodcats with @npub134m…lka0. We almost had to stop because I introduced myself as Badgerman, and the running joke became unbearable.

2024-08-08 17:35:39

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@npub134m…lka0 Don't forget your hashtags!

2024-08-06 12:52:06

It’s #Walz. Going for the good vibes strategy — I think it will work!
#uspol

2024-07-17 12:50:13

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@npub18zz…rd6u unfortunately for us, they don’t seem very popular over there.

2024-07-17 12:29:08

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I mean, I wouldn’t really expect any better from Boris and Lettuce, they are both pretty craven attention-seekers, but that’s the problem right there.

2024-07-17 12:27:14

Urg, it is particularly disgusting to see not one, but two ex British Prime Ministers at the RNC. Particularly so that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss made support for Ukraine so central to their political brands. Seeing the Trumpification of the political right here in the UK is nationally humiliating.

2024-05-18 14:28:12

A random artwork from my gallery:
"Crashed Zeppelins" — 2006
The dream of the giant Zeppelins came crashing down in a lonely ocean... but no one seemed to care.
https://johnconway.art/crashed_zeppelins
#Art #Beaches #CrashedZeppelins #Photomanipulation #Surreal
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/112/462/560/720/231/490/original/bd30d9a49ca42243.jpeg

2024-05-17 11:11:23

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 What is this, a ship for ants?!, It needs to be... three times this big!

2024-05-09 10:30:51

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 Probably wouldn't hurt, but I think there's something else going on, because the nationalised mainland European ones aren't cheap either, and some aren't very reliable. All of them are confusing.

2024-05-08 16:00:56

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 Do they not rhyme? Or is there another objection I'm not seeing?

2024-05-07 11:22:42

When I’m browsing artist's bios, I see #NoAI a lot, but there's still a lot number with #NoNFT. It's been an exhausting couple of years, huh?
On the other hand, NFTs turned out to be a bunch of nothing in the end, and I feel like just ignoring the whole thing would have worked.
I feel like maybe this is true of AI ‘art’. It's boring. It doesn't even need a backlash.

2024-05-03 14:47:05

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 Bet they didn't even serve ham ’n’ eggs. Damn songwriters, always lying to the general public.

2024-05-03 10:43:01

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Ah yes, lacquer. I've considered that, not sure about the expense, not sure about it's strength, led to me not trying it.

2024-05-03 08:48:16

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 I actually let go quite a few of those sorts of domains. I used to have maybe five. Now I only have one that isn't an active site.

2024-05-03 07:53:26

Somebody stop me registering this hilarious domain name for a project I'm not really ever going to do... please?
#ImJohnAndIHAveADomainProblem #domains

2024-05-02 12:16:29

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@npub1fjv…x8tc Were these mistakes at the time?

2024-04-24 22:37:15

Are abstract paintings more like writing without words, or songs without lyrics?
#art #painting #abstraction

2024-04-24 20:52:10

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 check your mastodon, player!

2024-04-22 16:04:04

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 yeah, it would be because I rewote my site and I’m a dodgy bastard.

2024-04-17 17:32:07

As people who follow what I’ve had to say on AI “Art”, I'm more ambiguous on it than most Mastodonians, but having spent a bit of time on #DeviantArt with the filter off, oh my!
It's pretty foolish to let your platform be spammed like that, some people are auto-uploading dozens a day. I think even the prompting is automated. And it's just so… boring . Barely get any engagement anyhow.

2024-04-02 21:48:24

My book, “A History of Painting, With Dinosaurs” is out on the Apple Books store, as a DRM-free ePub. I think you will like my book.
https://books.apple.com/gb/book/a-history-of-painting/id6480467054
#Dinosaurs #Art #history
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/112/203/825/040/814/401/original/e1a9113f608d5642.jpeg

2024-01-31 14:00:49

Has anyone got any recommendations for interesting* web #hosting? I am currently on Linode, and lets just say I don't feel entirely sure that I am the sort of customer they care about since Akamai bought them. I don't need anything special, just a small Linux VPS.
*Small, weird, ethical, surprise me!

2024-01-10 11:16:29

Hi winners, I have finally gotten around to providing you a way to help fund sauropods.win through Open Collective. There is absolutely no obligation to contribute, but obviously it won't hurt! https://opencollective.com/sauropodswin

2023-11-28 14:05:09

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Yeah, I mean it feel like a dangerous technology for those reasons, but I don't think a small slice of the nerd world opting out of it is going to acheive anything at all.
And if you don't believe in the doomer terminator scenario, the best option seems to be to engage with the open source versions, and try to guide them to be good and useful.

2023-11-28 13:19:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Like the Gemini lot are doing? https://geminiprotocol.net

2023-11-23 10:56:02

Can somebody please get an AI image generator to generate a fox with a human face or head for me?
The other way around is really easy and does not count.
#AI #StableDiffusion #DALLE #Midjourney

2023-11-21 12:26:26

Journalists and bloggers seem to have rediscovered the word “ouster” (meaning ousting) recently, and they freakin' LOVE it. I do not and would like them to stop.
Just say ousting, or, you know, some other word so you don't sound like a parrot.

2023-11-09 19:08:44

Every year, I make a new banner for #TetZooCon. The banners are made up of the hundred of drawing of animals by Darren Naish @npub134m…lka0 produces for his books. For every live Con, it’s a new set of #animals. It's the tenth one, and I wanted to do something special – so every letter is made up of the animals from previous years.
You can still get tickets and see the giant banner in person! https://tetzoo.com/convention
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/111/382/162/322/125/934/original/01c1356ad777e9d8.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/111/382/162/217/165/952/original/8cdf8917ab078e67.png

2023-10-09 14:24:51

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 I don't think this works -- the "subconscious" is a whole heap of stuff like raw signal processing that would utterly swamp minds without layers of abstraction.
I don't think we can know what layer qualifies as conscious without direct internal experience of it.

2023-07-18 15:51:02

Trying out some #Android #Mastodon clients. I dont think they are as good as the iOS ones, in general. Of course, this could just be my Apple-way bias, but switching between timelines and lists is way clunkier, for example.
Megalodon is the one I like best so far. If you're on Android, what's your favourite app?

2023-07-15 12:25:41

Halfway on my 50 mile (ish) #cycle trip to Southend-on-Sea. Electrics make this quite a bit easier.
#bikes
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/110/718/086/766/572/712/original/1dbbc03bee523e7d.jpeg

2023-07-11 14:45:17

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Saw something nasty in the woodshed.

2023-07-11 12:02:44

It's #PterosaurPtuesday, and I've got a new #painting for you: Anurognathus, Portrait of Bug Gobbler.
https://johnconway.art/anurognathus_portrait
#art #pterosaurs #pterodactyls
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/110/695/347/650/065/938/original/7a2fc4a8556816b0.jpeg

2023-07-10 11:44:37

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Tumblr was always a puzzle, their format doesn't lend itself to Mastodon compatibility (or indeed anything compatibility). Still, it's a shame.
I think Threads is going to do it. They launched in a hurry, missing so many features.

2023-07-08 19:24:58

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 that painting! Holy hell are there some snivelling bootlicking sad-sack pieces of shit out there.
They ain’t got no taste neither.

2023-07-07 18:13:55

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1mdk…aptk I think it’s worth considering that there is the *other side*; your Gabs and a large number of “free speech” instances. They lean right or libertarian.

2023-07-06 17:55:35

Enough of this meta Meta social media stuff from me today. I'm an artist and I really ought to be posting art. Here's a gouache #painting of some trees I did 23 years ago, when I was 19. There are more of these and I'm gonna toot them.
#art
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/110/668/423/521/808/100/original/574c692dae3f6145.jpeg

2023-07-06 15:59:21

For those of us who plan to federate with #Threads, we really need to do a better job of communicating to people that they will be able to interact with Threads from Mastodon, and that it is the superior choice.
Some people here are getting Threads accounts, without realising it will soon be unnecessary. People on Twitter are pretty much in the dark about the whole thing.

2023-07-05 17:06:27

Prediction: after the fire sale of #Twitter, it’s new owners implement #ActivityPub, and bring it into the #Fediverse.