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  1. Today, July 14th, is Dyo's in-canon birthday! I realized it's also, conveniently, a night of the New Moon! What a perfect night for a Darkrai's birthday, eh? So I knew I HAD to draw a lil something for him!

    He's a ripe age of 500,000-something. Here's to a step towards a million! Old bastard.

    #dyo #darkrai #darkraioc #pokemon #pokemonoc #pokemonart #pkmn #pkmnart #shinypokemon #shinydarkrai #furry #furryart #digitalart #newmoon #scars

  2. Today, July 14th, is Dyo's in-canon birthday! I realized it's also, conveniently, a night of the New Moon! What a perfect night for a Darkrai's birthday, eh? So I knew I HAD to draw a lil something for him!

    He's a ripe age of 500,000-something. Here's to a step towards a million! Old bastard.

    #dyo #darkrai #darkraioc #pokemon #pokemonoc #pokemonart #pkmn #pkmnart #shinypokemon #shinydarkrai #furry #furryart #digitalart #newmoon #scars

  3. CW: Panthro from the Thundercats reboot powerposing. While displaying a leaky erection.

    Why these characters have always to make the heroic self-sacrifices instead of seducing their arch-nemesis and date and have the biggest litter ever? #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars #cockring

  4. CW: Panthro from the Thundercats reboot powerposing. While displaying a leaky erection.

    Why these characters have always to make the heroic self-sacrifices instead of seducing their arch-nemesis and date and have the biggest litter ever? #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars #cockring

  5. CW: Panthro from the Thundercats reboot powerposing. While displaying a leaky erection.

    Why these characters have always to make the heroic self-sacrifices instead of seducing their arch-nemesis and date and have the biggest litter ever? #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars #cockring

  6. CW: Panthro from the Thundercats reboot powerposing. While displaying a leaky erection.

    Why these characters have always to make the heroic self-sacrifices instead of seducing their arch-nemesis and date and have the biggest litter ever? #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars #cockring

  7. Do you know when they make a show about a spunky teenager learning the way of the warrior and a buff tech guy joins the team and he's by far the hotter and more competent and you wish the show and not about the kid? Yeah, Man at Arms.
    I mean, Panthro. #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars

  8. Do you know when they make a show about a spunky teenager learning the way of the warrior and a buff tech guy joins the team and he's by far the hotter and more competent and you wish the show and not about the kid? Yeah, Man at Arms.
    I mean, Panthro. #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars

  9. Do you know when they make a show about a spunky teenager learning the way of the warrior and a buff tech guy joins the team and he's by far the hotter and more competent and you wish the show and not about the kid? Yeah, Man at Arms.
    I mean, Panthro. #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars

  10. Do you know when they make a show about a spunky teenager learning the way of the warrior and a buff tech guy joins the team and he's by far the hotter and more competent and you wish the show and not about the kid? Yeah, Man at Arms.
    I mean, Panthro. #rickleone #panthro #leatherpants #studs #scars

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔥🩹 Every year, millions of people suffer severe burns that lead to permanent, painful scarring.

    Researchers are developing 3D-bioprinted #skin made from a patient’s own #cells and a specialized gel. The living barrier tricks the body into growing healthy new tissue instead of rigid scar tissue.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #bioprinting #medicine #3dprinting #stemcells #engineering #scars #innovation #health #science #sweden #australia #southafrica #northcarolina

  12. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔥🩹 Every year, millions of people suffer severe burns that lead to permanent, painful scarring.

    Researchers are developing 3D-bioprinted #skin made from a patient’s own #cells and a specialized gel. The living barrier tricks the body into growing healthy new tissue instead of rigid scar tissue.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #bioprinting #medicine #3dprinting #stemcells #engineering #scars #innovation #health #science #sweden #australia #southafrica #northcarolina

  13. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔥🩹 Every year, millions of people suffer severe burns that lead to permanent, painful scarring.

    Researchers are developing 3D-bioprinted #skin made from a patient’s own #cells and a specialized gel. The living barrier tricks the body into growing healthy new tissue instead of rigid scar tissue.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #bioprinting #medicine #3dprinting #stemcells #engineering #scars #innovation #health #science #sweden #australia #southafrica #northcarolina

  14. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔥🩹 Every year, millions of people suffer severe burns that lead to permanent, painful scarring.

    Researchers are developing 3D-bioprinted #skin made from a patient’s own #cells and a specialized gel. The living barrier tricks the body into growing healthy new tissue instead of rigid scar tissue.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #bioprinting #medicine #3dprinting #stemcells #engineering #scars #innovation #health #science #sweden #australia #southafrica #northcarolina

  15. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔥🩹 Every year, millions of people suffer severe burns that lead to permanent, painful scarring.

    Researchers are developing 3D-bioprinted #skin made from a patient’s own #cells and a specialized gel. The living barrier tricks the body into growing healthy new tissue instead of rigid scar tissue.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #bioprinting #medicine #3dprinting #stemcells #engineering #scars #innovation #health #science #sweden #australia #southafrica #northcarolina

  16. ✮ Words Are Things ✮

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    Subscribe #Anticipation #Argument #AtmosphericPoetry #BeautyInHardship #books #CompassionAndHumanity #Connection #ContemporaryLiteraryVoice #ContemporaryLovePoems #ContemporaryPoeticImagery #ContemporaryPoetry #CountingTheSeconds #Disruption #Distance #DistanceInRelationships #DreamsAndSurvival #EmotionalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #EmotionalResilience #EmotionalResonance #Endurance #Erwinism #EvocativePoetry #ExistentialPoetry #Experience #Fate #Fish #FreeVersePoetry #FriendshipAndWisdom #FYP #Garden #GardenImagery #GildedCage #Harmony #Healing #HealingJourney #HealingThroughNature #HeartbreakAndRecovery #Hope #HopeAgainstAdversity #HopeAndRenewal #HumanConditionInVerse #HumanConnection #HungerAndResilience #Inspiration #Intimacy #IntrospectivePoetry #KoiFishSymbolism #Learning #Life #LifeAfterLoss #LiteraryArt #literaryImagery #LiteraryPoetryCollection #LiterarySymbolism #LivingInThePresent #Longing #LongingAndDesire #Love #LoveAndAcceptance #LovePoetry #LyricalPoetry #MeditativePoetry #MinimalistPoetry #ModernFreeVerse #ModernLiteraryExpression #ModernPoetryCollection #Motivation #NatureInspiredPoetry #OrnamentalPondImagery #PhilosophicalPoetry #Poem #Poems #PoeticMeditation #PoeticReflections #PoeticStorytelling #Poetry #PovertyAndHope #Progress #QuietIntimacy #Reflection #ReflectionOnLife #ReflectiveVerse #RelationshipPoetry #Renewal #Reunion #RomanticPoetry #Routine #Scars #ScarsAndHealing #SeasonalMetaphors #Seasons #Silence #SocialCommentaryPoetry #SpringRenewal #SymbolismInPoetry #Time #TimeAndLove #TulipSymbolism #WaitingForLove #Winter #WinterSymbolism #Writing
  17. ✮ Words Are Things ✮

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    Subscribe #Anticipation #Argument #AtmosphericPoetry #BeautyInHardship #books #CompassionAndHumanity #Connection #ContemporaryLiteraryVoice #ContemporaryLovePoems #ContemporaryPoeticImagery #ContemporaryPoetry #CountingTheSeconds #Disruption #Distance #DistanceInRelationships #DreamsAndSurvival #EmotionalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #EmotionalResilience #EmotionalResonance #Endurance #Erwinism #EvocativePoetry #ExistentialPoetry #Experience #Fate #Fish #FreeVersePoetry #FriendshipAndWisdom #FYP #Garden #GardenImagery #GildedCage #Harmony #Healing #HealingJourney #HealingThroughNature #HeartbreakAndRecovery #Hope #HopeAgainstAdversity #HopeAndRenewal #HumanConditionInVerse #HumanConnection #HungerAndResilience #Inspiration #Intimacy #IntrospectivePoetry #KoiFishSymbolism #Learning #Life #LifeAfterLoss #LiteraryArt #literaryImagery #LiteraryPoetryCollection #LiterarySymbolism #LivingInThePresent #Longing #LongingAndDesire #Love #LoveAndAcceptance #LovePoetry #LyricalPoetry #MeditativePoetry #MinimalistPoetry #ModernFreeVerse #ModernLiteraryExpression #ModernPoetryCollection #Motivation #NatureInspiredPoetry #OrnamentalPondImagery #PhilosophicalPoetry #Poem #Poems #PoeticMeditation #PoeticReflections #PoeticStorytelling #Poetry #PovertyAndHope #Progress #QuietIntimacy #Reflection #ReflectionOnLife #ReflectiveVerse #RelationshipPoetry #Renewal #Reunion #RomanticPoetry #Routine #Scars #ScarsAndHealing #SeasonalMetaphors #Seasons #Silence #SocialCommentaryPoetry #SpringRenewal #SymbolismInPoetry #Time #TimeAndLove #TulipSymbolism #WaitingForLove #Winter #WinterSymbolism #Writing
  18. ✮ Words Are Things ✮

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    Subscribe #Anticipation #Argument #AtmosphericPoetry #BeautyInHardship #books #CompassionAndHumanity #Connection #ContemporaryLiteraryVoice #ContemporaryLovePoems #ContemporaryPoeticImagery #ContemporaryPoetry #CountingTheSeconds #Disruption #Distance #DistanceInRelationships #DreamsAndSurvival #EmotionalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #EmotionalResilience #EmotionalResonance #Endurance #Erwinism #EvocativePoetry #ExistentialPoetry #Experience #Fate #Fish #FreeVersePoetry #FriendshipAndWisdom #FYP #Garden #GardenImagery #GildedCage #Harmony #Healing #HealingJourney #HealingThroughNature #HeartbreakAndRecovery #Hope #HopeAgainstAdversity #HopeAndRenewal #HumanConditionInVerse #HumanConnection #HungerAndResilience #Inspiration #Intimacy #IntrospectivePoetry #KoiFishSymbolism #Learning #Life #LifeAfterLoss #LiteraryArt #literaryImagery #LiteraryPoetryCollection #LiterarySymbolism #LivingInThePresent #Longing #LongingAndDesire #Love #LoveAndAcceptance #LovePoetry #LyricalPoetry #MeditativePoetry #MinimalistPoetry #ModernFreeVerse #ModernLiteraryExpression #ModernPoetryCollection #Motivation #NatureInspiredPoetry #OrnamentalPondImagery #PhilosophicalPoetry #Poem #Poems #PoeticMeditation #PoeticReflections #PoeticStorytelling #Poetry #PovertyAndHope #Progress #QuietIntimacy #Reflection #ReflectionOnLife #ReflectiveVerse #RelationshipPoetry #Renewal #Reunion #RomanticPoetry #Routine #Scars #ScarsAndHealing #SeasonalMetaphors #Seasons #Silence #SocialCommentaryPoetry #SpringRenewal #SymbolismInPoetry #Time #TimeAndLove #TulipSymbolism #WaitingForLove #Winter #WinterSymbolism #Writing
  19. CW: blood, beheading

    RUNNING // HAPPINESS IN SLAVERY

    redraw of sister pieces from 2018. (top: 2025, bottom: 2018)

    #pumpkiniumart #blood #gore #scars #oc #kriiva #demon

  20. ✮ Iron Warriors Bled First ✮

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    Subscribe #Acceptance #AcceptanceAndGrowth #AdversityAndTriumph #BadNewsBilly #BouncingBackFromSetbacks #BuildingInnerStrength #CharacterDevelopment #CheerleadingFoamHand #Concrete #ConfidenceAfterFailure #ContemporaryInspirationalWriting #ContemporaryLiteraryWriting #Courage #CourageAndPerseverance #CourageUnderPressure #DeterminationAndSuccess #EmotionalHealing #EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalRecovery #EmotionalStrength #EmpowermentAndChange #EnduranceAndHope #Erwinism #Everyone #Failure #FailureAndSuccess #FindingCourage #FindingMeaningInStruggle #FYP #Gossip #GossipyGreta #GrowthThroughAdversity #GrowthThroughPain #Healing #HealingAndRecovery #Health #HopeAfterFailure #HumanPerseverance #HumanPotential #HumanResilience #Inspiration #InspirationalLifeLessons #InspirationalProse #InspirationalReflection #Invictus #Kneecaps #Learning #LearningFromFailure #LearningThroughMistakes #Life #LifeAfterSetbacks #LifeLessonsAndWisdom #LifeSChallenges #MentalHealth #MentalToughness #MindsetForSuccess #ModernInspirationalLiterature #Motivation #MotivationAndMindset #motivational #MotivationalStorytelling #MotivationalWriting #NeverGiveUp #Newsflash #OvercomingFailure #OvercomingObstacles #OvercomingSelfDoubt #Pain #PersonalDevelopment #PersonalGrowth #PersonalGrowthMindset #PersonalTransformation #Poetry #PositiveMindset #Power #Pressure #Progress #ReflectiveWriting #Resilience #ResilienceAndGrowth #RisingAfterFailure #Scars #ScarsAndStrength #SelfDiscoveryJourney #SelfImprovementJourney #SelfWorthAndResilience #selfImprovement #ShatteredEgo #Souvenirs #Spectators #Strength #StrengthThroughStruggle #Success #SuccessThroughPersistence #SuperBowl #Tears #TheArtOfRecovery #TheBeautyOfScars #TheCourageToContinue #TheHeroicUnderdog #TheJourneyOfBecoming #ThePowerOfResilience #ThePsychologyOfResilience #TheUnderdogStory #ThrivingAfterAdversity #Touchdown #Tragedy #TruePower #TurningPainIntoStrength #TurningSetbacksIntoComebacks #VacuumCleaner #WinstonChurchillQuote #WisdomThroughExperience #Writing
  21. My #5cents .. I don't want #AI to be part of the #Photography process. I studied photography and have worked as a professional photographer for over a decade now. For me, photographs should capture what is, not what might be. I leave #Scars and #Birthmarks on photos, and my #Clients have always loved that.
    I am more a #Documentary #Photographer than anything else. For me, a photograph should tell the #Truth

  22. My #5cents .. I don't want #AI to be part of the #Photography process. I studied photography and have worked as a professional photographer for over a decade now. For me, photographs should capture what is, not what might be. I leave #Scars and #Birthmarks on photos, and my #Clients have always loved that.
    I am more a #Documentary #Photographer than anything else. For me, a photograph should tell the #Truth

  23. My #5cents .. I don't want #AI to be part of the #Photography process. I studied photography and have worked as a professional photographer for over a decade now. For me, photographs should capture what is, not what might be. I leave #Scars and #Birthmarks on photos, and my #Clients have always loved that.
    I am more a #Documentary #Photographer than anything else. For me, a photograph should tell the #Truth

  24. My #5cents .. I don't want #AI to be part of the #Photography process. I studied photography and have worked as a professional photographer for over a decade now. For me, photographs should capture what is, not what might be. I leave #Scars and #Birthmarks on photos, and my #Clients have always loved that.
    I am more a #Documentary #Photographer than anything else. For me, a photograph should tell the #Truth

  25. My #5cents .. I don't want #AI to be part of the #Photography process. I studied photography and have worked as a professional photographer for over a decade now. For me, photographs should capture what is, not what might be. I leave #Scars and #Birthmarks on photos, and my #Clients have always loved that.
    I am more a #Documentary #Photographer than anything else. For me, a photograph should tell the #Truth

  26. 🦴🔬 A #fossil sitting in a #museum drawer since 1979 turned out to be a brand new species: *#Tylosaurus rex*.

    Lead researcher Amelia Zietlow (#AMNH) noticed that a #Texas #mosasaur specimen labeled as a known species didn’t match its relatives. The 13-meter-long apex #predator had serrated #teeth, massive jaw #muscles, and battle #scars from fights with its own kind.

    👉 livescience.com/animals/extinc

    #paleontology #mosasaur #cretaceous #marinereptile #dinosaurs #science #natural #history #nature #evolution

  27. 🦴🔬 A #fossil sitting in a #museum drawer since 1979 turned out to be a brand new species: *#Tylosaurus rex*.

    Lead researcher Amelia Zietlow (#AMNH) noticed that a #Texas #mosasaur specimen labeled as a known species didn’t match its relatives. The 13-meter-long apex #predator had serrated #teeth, massive jaw #muscles, and battle #scars from fights with its own kind.

    👉 livescience.com/animals/extinc

    #paleontology #mosasaur #cretaceous #marinereptile #dinosaurs #science #natural #history #nature #evolution

  28. 🦴🔬 A #fossil sitting in a #museum drawer since 1979 turned out to be a brand new species: *#Tylosaurus rex*.

    Lead researcher Amelia Zietlow (#AMNH) noticed that a #Texas #mosasaur specimen labeled as a known species didn’t match its relatives. The 13-meter-long apex #predator had serrated #teeth, massive jaw #muscles, and battle #scars from fights with its own kind.

    👉 livescience.com/animals/extinc

    #paleontology #mosasaur #cretaceous #marinereptile #dinosaurs #science #natural #history #nature #evolution

  29. 🦴🔬 A #fossil sitting in a #museum drawer since 1979 turned out to be a brand new species: *#Tylosaurus rex*.

    Lead researcher Amelia Zietlow (#AMNH) noticed that a #Texas #mosasaur specimen labeled as a known species didn’t match its relatives. The 13-meter-long apex #predator had serrated #teeth, massive jaw #muscles, and battle #scars from fights with its own kind.

    👉 livescience.com/animals/extinc

    #paleontology #mosasaur #cretaceous #marinereptile #dinosaurs #science #natural #history #nature #evolution

  30. 🦴🔬 A #fossil sitting in a #museum drawer since 1979 turned out to be a brand new species: *#Tylosaurus rex*.

    Lead researcher Amelia Zietlow (#AMNH) noticed that a #Texas #mosasaur specimen labeled as a known species didn’t match its relatives. The 13-meter-long apex #predator had serrated #teeth, massive jaw #muscles, and battle #scars from fights with its own kind.

    👉 livescience.com/animals/extinc

    #paleontology #mosasaur #cretaceous #marinereptile #dinosaurs #science #natural #history #nature #evolution

  31. "Your flaws are your most important assets." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    --
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.

    After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.

    Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.

    What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.

    And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.

    An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.

    While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.

    So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.

    Let the cracks show.

    ----
    Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.

    **#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars** 

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decodin

  32. "Your flaws are your most important assets." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    --
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.

    After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.

    Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.

    What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.

    And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.

    An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.

    While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.

    So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.

    Let the cracks show.

    ----
    Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.

    **#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars** 

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decodin

  33. "Your flaws are your most important assets." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    --
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.

    After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.

    Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.

    What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.

    And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.

    An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.

    While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.

    So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.

    Let the cracks show.

    ----
    Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.

    **#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars** 

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decodin

  34. "Your flaws are your most important assets." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    --
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.

    After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.

    Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.

    What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.

    And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.

    An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.

    While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.

    So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.

    Let the cracks show.

    ----
    Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.

    **#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars** 

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decodin

  35. "Your flaws are your most important assets." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    --
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
    --

    We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.

    After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.

    Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.

    What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.

    And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.

    An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.

    While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.

    So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.

    Let the cracks show.

    ----
    Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.

    **#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars** 

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decodin

  36. Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 151: Scars “Author!, Author!” (1981)

    One of those things you find by random chance decades after it disappeared from the pop culture landscape. I managed to recently watch Big Gold Dream (not big budget, but tells a big story), a documentary about the post-punk scene of the 80s in Scotland, and this band was mentioned. I managed to find this release online, and I dig it.It's raw, wiry, anxious and has parts that remind me of early Siouxie & The Banshees, Adam & The Ants, and Gang of Four, or maybe a lighter Killing Joke. […]

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  37. Whipping scars of a former Mississippi slave, US Civil War, 1863