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Artfight - Cinnabar
Eyyy did another Artfight attack! This time it's https://artfight.net/~riverraptor12 Cinnabar. A red-tailed hawk inspired raptor! :) Very cool character.

#furry #furryart #art #artfight #artfight2026 #raptor #dromaeosaurid #hybrid #beak #claws #tail #feathers #feral #simplebackground #digitaldrawingartwork #digitigrade #theropod #scalie #reptile #dinosaur #feet #fur #standing #solo #sideview #lookingatviewer #kerchief #kerchiefonly #stripedmarkings #countershading #shaded #sand #bluesky #sky #day #mohawk #redeyes #toeclaws

Artfight - Cinnabar
Eyyy did another Artfight attack! This time it's https://artfight.net/~riverraptor12 Cinnabar. A red-tailed hawk inspired raptor! :) Very cool character.

#furry #furryart #art #artfight #artfight2026 #raptor #dromaeosaurid #hybrid #beak #claws #tail #feathers #feral #simplebackground #digitaldrawingartwork #digitigrade #theropod #scalie #reptile #dinosaur #feet #fur #standing #solo #sideview #lookingatviewer #kerchief #kerchiefonly #stripedmarkings #countershading #shaded #sand #bluesky #sky #day #mohawk #redeyes #toeclaws

“O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure!… Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.”*…

Readers may have seen news of the sale of “Gus,” a T. Rex skeleton that fetched a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last Tuesday. It’s part of a trend.

Devon Pendleton reports that dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires, with alarming implications for science… and, unsurprisingly, the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. Rex. She uses a different recent sale, one that went pear-shaped, as an example…

It was supposed to be an unprecedented sale for the world’s wealthiest collectors. Shen, a Tyrannosaurus rex, was set to be the first of its kind ever sold at auction in Asia. The reconstructed creature, whose name means “godlike” in Chinese, was tens of millions of years old and longer than a city bus, frozen midstep with its massive skull cocked, jaws agape, as if ready to snatch up an onlooker. Christie’s was auctioning off Shen in November 2022, alongside works by Picasso, and it was expected to sell for $15 million to $25 million.

Dinosaur skeletons had recently become a hot new asset class, coveted by the ultrarich, not unlike sports franchises or Fabergé eggs. They offered a mix of glamour and primal appeal to a certain type of high-net-worth buyer—someone who might find the conventional art market fussy or convoluted but couldn’t deny the allure of a T. rex. “It could gobble you up in one bite. It’s just an amazing creature,” says billionaire Dan O’Dowd, who bought his T. rex, Samson, for a bargain $600,000 in 2009. “It’s the best trophy kind of thing you could own.”

Two years before the Shen auction, Christie’s had sold a T. rex named Stan, said to be one of the most complete and best-preserved specimens ever found, for $31.8 million, trouncing the top-end presale estimate of $8 million. And two years after the Shen auction, financier Ken Griffin spent $44.6 million on a stegosaurus (“a vegetarian,” O’Dowd notes). Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and other celebrities have gotten in on the dino game too.

A dinosaur’s value, like a painting’s or sculpture’s, derives from a protean mix of provenance, desire and authenticity—the last one hard to define, let alone prove, and in the case of an auction, up to the buyer to verify. Christie’s marketing blitz for Shen included the claim that it was one of the most “scientifically studied T. rex skeletons to come to auction,” featuring it in a short promotional video in which the camera cinematically races in for tight shots of its menacing talons and gaping jaw as eerie electronic music pulses in the background. Christie’s made clear that the winning bidder would also get renaming rights, a tradition in which T. rexes in circulation are often given human names.

A month before Shen was supposed to arrive at Christie’s in Hong Kong, it was put on display at Singapore’s Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall, a stately neoclassical building with a grand clock tower. Families, tourists and prospective buyers in chauffeured Bentleys came to see the T. rex in the flesh, so to speak. But Shen never made it to the auction block…

[Pendleton unpacks the full–and fascinating– tale of Shen. She concludes…]

… In recent years the dinosaur market has gotten only more exuberant. Last year at Sotheby’s a juvenile Ceratosaurus—smaller than a T. rex, but just as carnivorous—sold for $30.5 million, five times its high estimate. Some collectors, including Abu Dhabi’s new natural history museum and German biotech investor Christian Angermayer, are funding teams of bone hunters to scour the fossil-rich western US. Todd Graves, the billionaire behind Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, emerged as a collector when he lent his triceratops skull to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

And on July 14 in New York, Sotheby’s held what was hyped to be the hottest T. rex auction yet. Gus, as the creature is named, was described as 61% complete by bone count and 75% to 80% by bone mass with “an exceptionally preserved skull.” As the bids climbed, the auctioneer tempted potential buyers. “Try a bigger bite,” she said. “It’s a T. Rex after all.” Gus sold for $50.1 million, the highest ever paid for a dinosaur at auction.

Billionaires and their toys: “The Bone Rush,” gift article from @bloomberg.com.

* Walter Benjamin

###

As we ponder possession, we might recall that it was on this date in 1983 that a new species of flesh‑eating dinosaur nicknamed “Claws,” later formally named Baryonyx walkeri was announced…

A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.

Plumber and amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker, 55, found a foot-long claw belonging to the flesh-eating beast at a clay pit in Surrey in January.

When he found the rock containing the talon he tapped it and the whole thing cracked.

Palaeontologists reconstructed it and dated the remains at 125 million years old, describing them as the find of the century…

… Nicknamed Claws, the dinosaur would have been slightly smaller than the Tyrannosaurus Rex – with teeth like steak knives – and was probably a sub-species of the Megalosaurus.

– source

“O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure!… Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.”*…

Readers may have seen news of the sale of “Gus,” a T. Rex skeleton that fetched a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last Tuesday. It’s part of a trend.

Devon Pendleton reports that dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires, with alarming implications for science… and, unsurprisingly, the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. Rex. She uses a different recent sale, one that went pear-shaped, as an example…

It was supposed to be an unprecedented sale for the world’s wealthiest collectors. Shen, a Tyrannosaurus rex, was set to be the first of its kind ever sold at auction in Asia. The reconstructed creature, whose name means “godlike” in Chinese, was tens of millions of years old and longer than a city bus, frozen midstep with its massive skull cocked, jaws agape, as if ready to snatch up an onlooker. Christie’s was auctioning off Shen in November 2022, alongside works by Picasso, and it was expected to sell for $15 million to $25 million.

Dinosaur skeletons had recently become a hot new asset class, coveted by the ultrarich, not unlike sports franchises or Fabergé eggs. They offered a mix of glamour and primal appeal to a certain type of high-net-worth buyer—someone who might find the conventional art market fussy or convoluted but couldn’t deny the allure of a T. rex. “It could gobble you up in one bite. It’s just an amazing creature,” says billionaire Dan O’Dowd, who bought his T. rex, Samson, for a bargain $600,000 in 2009. “It’s the best trophy kind of thing you could own.”

Two years before the Shen auction, Christie’s had sold a T. rex named Stan, said to be one of the most complete and best-preserved specimens ever found, for $31.8 million, trouncing the top-end presale estimate of $8 million. And two years after the Shen auction, financier Ken Griffin spent $44.6 million on a stegosaurus (“a vegetarian,” O’Dowd notes). Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and other celebrities have gotten in on the dino game too.

A dinosaur’s value, like a painting’s or sculpture’s, derives from a protean mix of provenance, desire and authenticity—the last one hard to define, let alone prove, and in the case of an auction, up to the buyer to verify. Christie’s marketing blitz for Shen included the claim that it was one of the most “scientifically studied T. rex skeletons to come to auction,” featuring it in a short promotional video in which the camera cinematically races in for tight shots of its menacing talons and gaping jaw as eerie electronic music pulses in the background. Christie’s made clear that the winning bidder would also get renaming rights, a tradition in which T. rexes in circulation are often given human names.

A month before Shen was supposed to arrive at Christie’s in Hong Kong, it was put on display at Singapore’s Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall, a stately neoclassical building with a grand clock tower. Families, tourists and prospective buyers in chauffeured Bentleys came to see the T. rex in the flesh, so to speak. But Shen never made it to the auction block…

[Pendleton unpacks the full–and fascinating– tale of Shen. She concludes…]

… In recent years the dinosaur market has gotten only more exuberant. Last year at Sotheby’s a juvenile Ceratosaurus—smaller than a T. rex, but just as carnivorous—sold for $30.5 million, five times its high estimate. Some collectors, including Abu Dhabi’s new natural history museum and German biotech investor Christian Angermayer, are funding teams of bone hunters to scour the fossil-rich western US. Todd Graves, the billionaire behind Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, emerged as a collector when he lent his triceratops skull to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

And on July 14 in New York, Sotheby’s held what was hyped to be the hottest T. rex auction yet. Gus, as the creature is named, was described as 61% complete by bone count and 75% to 80% by bone mass with “an exceptionally preserved skull.” As the bids climbed, the auctioneer tempted potential buyers. “Try a bigger bite,” she said. “It’s a T. Rex after all.” Gus sold for $50.1 million, the highest ever paid for a dinosaur at auction.

Billionaires and their toys: “The Bone Rush,” gift article from @bloomberg.com.

* Walter Benjamin

###

As we ponder possession, we might recall that it was on this date in 1983 that a new species of flesh‑eating dinosaur nicknamed “Claws,” later formally named Baryonyx walkeri was announced…

A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.

Plumber and amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker, 55, found a foot-long claw belonging to the flesh-eating beast at a clay pit in Surrey in January.

When he found the rock containing the talon he tapped it and the whole thing cracked.

Palaeontologists reconstructed it and dated the remains at 125 million years old, describing them as the find of the century…

… Nicknamed Claws, the dinosaur would have been slightly smaller than the Tyrannosaurus Rex – with teeth like steak knives – and was probably a sub-species of the Megalosaurus.

– source

T' Night is a Good Night :)
Well, here's my second artfight attack this year and I wanted to try out something more painterly again. Made sure to render the face more than the other things...but I think this piece would have benefited from more rendering, but I dunno. Also I didn't feel like rendering out millions of leaves and blades of grass, so maybe this was also not the right composition for my little painting practice. Already took me almost 4 hours to complete, so already one of the pieces I spent the most time on so far.

As always I have learned a lot :)

Oh and the character is T of https://www.furaffinity.net/user/indiwolfonline ^^ nice purple troodon

#furry #furryart #art #artfight #artfight2026 #raptor #troodon #claws #openmouth #lookingup #shootingstar #night #nightsky #gradientbackground #forest #sitting #tail #theropod #digitigrade #stripedmarkings #purplebody #purpleeyes #troodontid

Artfight - Bobo at the Beach!
My first artfight attack yippie ^^

I went for a nice and thick line style to ease into some good ol' Krita drawing with resolutions bigger than 500 pixel (mind blowing) so this was I think a nice way of doing so.

I think it turned out well, I'm happy :)

Character is called Bobo and belongs to https://artfight.net/~FlowerbugSketches

#furry #furryart #art #raptor #digitalart #artfight #artfight2026 #dromaeosaurid #bluebody #bluefur #beach #beachball #bucket #sand #wave #water #sun #sky #standing #waving #wavingatviewer #happy #claws #celshading #trowel #shovel #tongueout #tail #feet #digitigrade #dinosaur #theropod #digitaldrawingartwork #openmouth #signature

Tiger Dragon
This is a request I drew for someone on pawprint :)

I swear I looked for a "move" tool to scoot down the character a little twice...because twice it went out of frame like this. But beside that framing issue I like this one :)
Also first time drawing a tiger face, but it went well! The robe thing also looks cool, even though I rarely draw any clothing heh. But it's fun, should do it more :P

Oh and I found the move tool now so no more issues like this in the future :P

#furry #furryart #art #artrequest #tiger #dragon #hybrid #standing #lookingatviewer #bluefur #bluebody #stripedmarkings #robe #clothing #whitestripes #morisuryujin #horn #claws #feet #tail #dipsticktail #earring #simplebackground #2026 #greyeyes #digitigrade #digitaldrawingartwork

Today's 8x8 should keep you occupied for a few minutes. Click below for "Cat's Claws" and scratch that off your to-do list. ;)

https://tinyurl.com/nkcntd22

#crossword #puzzle #cats #claws #soccer #fifa #football

Today's 8x8 should keep you occupied for a few minutes. Click below for "Cat's Claws" and scratch that off your to-do list. ;)

https://tinyurl.com/nkcntd22

#crossword #puzzle #cats #claws #soccer #fifa #football

Dilophosaurus gets a claw upgrade.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Gardening #Claws #Dinosaurs

Dilophosaurus gets a claw upgrade.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Gardening #Claws #Dinosaurs

For the Vgen x Furaffinity collab challenge in May because the theme is PAWS and I'm always going on and on about Dyo's so it only makes sense!
I have no confidence in placing at all, just wanted to draw something for it! For HIM.

However, if you'd like to cast a vote, here it is on Vgen!
https://vgen.co/challenge/may-2026?contestSubmission=08883fed-5342-44cb-a643-eca40ca4cdbf

I am not selling on Vgen, FYI. I only have a basic bitch profile atm!

#darkrai #shinydarkrai #pokemon #pokemonart #paws #claws #magic #glowing #neon #maw #tongue #darkvoid #dreameater #Dyo

#CLAWS #MAIL aepiot.com?lang=uk&q=CL... ХЛІБОДАРІВКА ВОЛНОВАСЬКИЙ РАЙОН aepiot.ro/advanced-sea... ОНОПКО СНІЖАНА ВОЛОДИМИРІВНА aepiot.ro?lang=uk&q=%D... aepiot.ro

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硝煙の夢魔　Кошмар у диму війни
忌まわしい傷口が
ця нескінченна страта

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28005912

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#ＡＩ生成 #demon #gunsmoke #silence #claws #throat #close #eyelids #ritual #again #memories #fresh #blood #refuse #fade #deep #heart #like #wedge #never #night #tranquility #torn #apart #run #sharp #pain #escape #room

硝煙の夢魔　Кошмар у диму війни
忌まわしい傷口が
ця нескінченна страта

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n4320b6563dcb

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#ＡＩ生成 #demon #gunsmoke #silence #claws #throat #close #eyelids #ritual #again #memories #fresh #blood #refuse #fade #deep #heart #like #wedge #never #night #tranquility #torn #apart #run #sharp #pain #escape #room

Gosh I find I don't hate #claws as an #email client.

Set up in 5 minutes with my IMAP account unlike setting up a new account in the #thunderbird wizard which is painful and gets in my way.

Because the developers at thunderbird don't realise that some of us don't use email addresses as a username.

So I think when I get my machine setup I'm going to try claws properly out. It's got a lot of options.

Gosh I find I don't hate #claws as an #email client.

Set up in 5 minutes with my IMAP account unlike setting up a new account in the #thunderbird wizard which is painful and gets in my way.

Because the developers at thunderbird don't realise that some of us don't use email addresses as a username.

So I think when I get my machine setup I'm going to try claws properly out. It's got a lot of options.

硝煙の夢魔　Кошмар у диму війни
忌まわしい傷口が
ця нескінченна страта

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28005912

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#ＡＩ生成 #demon #gunsmoke #silence #claws #throat #close #eyelids #ritual #again #memories #fresh #blood #refuse #fade #deep #heart #like #wedge #never #night #tranquility #torn #apart #run #sharp #pain #escape #room

硝煙の夢魔　Кошмар у диму війни
忌まわしい傷口が
ця нескінченна страта

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n4320b6563dcb

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#ＡＩ生成 #demon #gunsmoke #silence #claws #throat #close #eyelids #ritual #again #memories #fresh #blood #refuse #fade #deep #heart #like #wedge #never #night #tranquility #torn #apart #run #sharp #pain #escape #room

Blind Demon #Monster #Mystic #Mutant #Evil #Cannibal #Jaw #Medieval #Animated #Demon #Ancient #Horror #Fantasy #Undead #Claws #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/blind-demon-202090

Wendigo Vampire Monster #Monster #Creature #Character #Scary #Evil #Mutant #Teeth #Vampire #Realistic #Demon #Horror #Nightmare #Enemy #Claws #Undead #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/wendigo-vampire-monster-342688

*The new era of Agentic AI. #harnesses #claws #shoggoth #cutebabyrobot #psychosis

2c/ 2 #Frage #mailprogramme
zu #claws-mail und #Kmail :

Welches der beiden Programme würdet Ihr empfehlen?

Alberich, illustration for Wagner’s Das Rheingold (1896) by Aubrey Beardsley, from The Savoy Magazine.

Source: National Digital Library of PolandUniversity of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/78c41a99-5346-4970-a464-67124c5df955

#hairy #grotesque #decadent-movement #human-animal-hybrid #claws #raised-arms #decadence #hybrid-figures #drawing #art #publicdomain

Sorry #ArchLinux, but this time it's just not working out between us 😭

#WiFi is sort of working now, but it's incredibly slow, unlike anything I've ever experienced with your system. And #claws still isn't retrieving emails.

And then there's the flood of #gtk errors that I can't seem to fix.

Your installations used to always produce excellent results, providing a solid foundation for a clean system. But deterioration is a general trend these days.

So now I'm going to take on #Manjaro. At least it offers a decent starting point. I'll just have to painstakingly remove all the unwanted bloatware.

No, I really don't want to do that, but my time has become too precious for endless tinkering.

What a shame... Ugh, I'm dreading Manjaro 😱

#Arch #Linux

Tut mir leid #ArchLinux, aber diesmal haut es mit uns nicht hin 😭

#WLAN geht zwar inzwischen irgendwie, aber ist unbrauchbar langsam, wie ich das von dir nicht kenne. Trotzdem ruft #claws keine Mails ab.

Und dann die Flut von #gtk-Fehlern, die ich nicht lösen kann.

Früher führten deine Installationen immer zu vorzüglichen Ergebnissen, worauf sich ein sauberes System aufbauen ließ. Aber Verschlechterung ist ja ein allgemeiner Trend.

So werde ich nun den Kampf mit #Manjaro aufnehmen. Es bietet wenigstens eine gut funktionierende Basis. Den ganzen unerwünschten beigepackten Müll muss ich eben mühsam entfernen.

Nein, dazu habe ich überhaupt keine Lust, aber für nicht enden wollende Basteleien ist mir meine Zeit inzwischen zu kostbar geworden.

Schade … Puh, mir graut es vor Manjaro 😱

#Arch #Linux

*I blame the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction *But I blame that philosophically, okay? "Let Ed Be Ed!" If Ed wasn't around I would miss him #agentic #claws #fangs #yikes #marketpanics #massfirings #yikes

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/post/3mftu5znsws2r

Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126

#HackerNews #Claws #LLM #agents #AI #innovation #machinelearning #technology

🚀 Andrej Karpathy's latest revelation: "Claws", the next evolutionary leap in tech jargon! It's like he took a Mac Mini, sprinkled some "OpenClaw" magic dust, and now we're all on a wild goose chase to understand this new layer of whatever. 🥴 Let's just hope it doesn't crash like our patience. 🍏🔧
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/ #AndrejKarpathy #Claws #TechJargon #OpenClaw #Innovation #MacMini #HackerNews #ngated

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/

#HackerNews #AndrejKarpathy #Claws #AItechnology #MachineLearning #HackerNews

#aiart #aisnot #slack #claws is it heresy or prophecy or just a lunch deal on lobster rolls?

I have holes in all my clothes. #cats #catsofmastodon #claws #blackcats