Birchly
@birchly.bsky.social
Gerenuk, pinup/furry artist. Courtney Brushmarke creator. 38 y/o He/him 🔞 http://patreon.com/birchly Commissions: https://vgen.co/birchly http://linktr.ee/birchly
For anyone who normally catches us on Skidd's channel for our (biweekly) D&D Mondays... we're doing it on Tuesday this week! 6:30 PM (PT) twitch.tv/skidddog
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Just a guy who likes to draw and play video games! Join me if you see me streaming!
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This has some truth to it but also is routinely used by powerful idiots to kick the can down the road and avoid contemporary condemnation for the catastrophic consequences of their plainly evil and/or stupid actions. "History will judge"
Тsфdiиg@tsoding.bsky.social · yesterdayIntellect should be judged not by the words a person say but by the outcome of their actions. Not even the actions themselves but their outcome. Chess grandmasters make seemingly stupid moves until you suddenly realize that you lost.
Oh just give it up you fucking brickbrains
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Saying we thought calculators would melt people’s brains is revisionist nonsense meant to cover for the fact that we have studies right now showing that frequent use of an LLM for basic tasks is bad for your ability to do those tasks on your own without it.
So copyright lasts forever and a deathless corporate entity can renew a copyright forever, in practice, but if you copy and use a book without clearing any rights, you can use it however you want?!? Fuck off with that
Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
Congratulations! You've learned to stand out by pretending to be something that can't exist (invulnerable, all-powerful, perfect). Now all you have to do is keep it up forever
Don't just share the most polished, professional works. Repost the people who are just starting, who are amateur, who maybe don't have the proportions or the anatomy or the color down. Remember they're choosing to pick up a pencil and enjoy the act of creating, many of them for the first time.
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
The only thing "conservatives" hope to conserve is a world in which the relative power their status and identity grants them - particularly abuses of that power - will go unchallenged no matter what. Go ahead and try to explain how any such world could ever be called a "meritocracy"
I say this with all the love and patience I can muster: Quit X/twitter. You’re gonna be realizing the mental damage it did you for years after leaving
We don't know who's redeemable until we expose ourselves to the risk and effort of grace. It seems easier and safer to assume everyone's a monster, but that carries a still greater risk: the corruption of those whom love might have saved. (No, I'm not a Christian, I just love Better Call Saul)
Reminder that PureRef is an artist's best friend. You can gather all your references in one place very quickly and sort them any way you like. GIFS are supported. Oh and it's free 👏
Well-intentioned traumatized people may still hurt others by the lengths they go to in controlling or manipulating them in an effort to prevent worse harm. Often, the problem is having never safely learned boundaries, direct communication and self-advocacy, which actually do help their relationships
GOJII@gojiimusic.bsky.social · 3w agoNot all hurt people hurt people. credit : Nadia Addesi
A reminder to the pumice-brains out there that death requires no conspiratorial explanation and is, in fact, the one thing we are all guaranteed to do even if we don’t like to think about it
Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.
Never played Soma before, I'll be streaming it today with @skidd.bsky.social joining to commentate! 4pm (PT) www.twitch.tv/birchlyart
Maybe you learned to keep your head down and mouth shut from people who always told you it was for your own good. Maybe one day you'll learn it was only ever out of fear of your potential compared to their own
Supporting white supremacy or manosphere grifters or megachurches is like paying a subscription to stay angry and pathetic. No one you’re supporting has any incentive to make your life better. You wouldn’t need or want to put up with their bullshit anymore if they did
Another animation exercise in Procreate Dreams with Madeline and some effects. Wanted to keep things more loose than last time though ^^
