First late entry for #Smaugust! 01 - Historical dragons ✨ This one inspired by an illustration from the Divine Comedy
Knight
@endlessknights.bsky.social
22 | she/her | digital art | mostly OC content but I dabble in fanart when the hyperfixation arises
Quick doodle of Knox (He is VERY hard for me to pose I need to practice drawing him more.) [ #oc | #ocart | #art | #digitalart ]
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Wringing out a stuffed animal after you’ve washed it feels so cruel…
It is utterly damning of this country that a "Check If Your Salad or Your Guacamole is Especially Likely to Make Your Ass Explode" app is necessary, but since it is, I guess it's a good thing one exists
Daniel Carlson@danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 4d agoThis site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com
The stories abound. Women being raped by men posing as ICE agents. Women being raped while in ICE detention. I cannot say this often enough: Abolishing ICE is sexual assault prevention. dot-connecting.ghost.io/sexual-assau...
Sexual assault and ICE
Rape is a tool of war, including Trump’s war on immigrants.
dot-connecting.ghost.io
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 5d agoOne man was “accused of posing as an ICE agent, threatening to deport an immigrant woman, then kidnapping & raping her; police in NY are searching for a man suspected of posing as an ICE agent, assaulting and trying to rape a woman, before robbing her & fleeing…in broad daylight.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
Hair stylists LOVE my hair, which means every haircut I get feels like I have to plead my case in a court of law first
IT CRAWLED OUT OF THE POTHOS AND SOMEHOW MADE IT HALFWAY DOWN THE HALLWAY WITHOUT ANYONE NOTICING I’M NOT EVEN JOKING
Knight@endlessknights.bsky.social · 2mo agoFound a live earthworm in the pothos I bought yesterday. Let’s freaking go I guess??
Bro I just realized that now I don’t have uni I might be able to draw for myself again without immediately getting burnt out HELL YEAH
Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:
INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 2w agoPrisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.
Today on things I never thought I'd ever have to explain to someone: my therapist didn't know what Tetris was
Being in your early 20s is awesome because you and your friends all get to teach each other the random bits of common knowledge that your parents accidentally missed
me wondering for a few seconds what my poor air fryer did to deserve the sudden hate
⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️@fiadh.bsky.social · last mo.i am begging venues & bands to rediscover clipart
Both roommates have been out of the house for the majority of the week and I am learning that if I ever lived alone it’d take me only about 5 business days to go totally insane.
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media. www.404media.co/how-cops-use...
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404…
404media.co
Perfect illustration of the AI deskilling project trap. If you want to pretend these things are a tool (they're not) then you're completely beholden to having your tools changed or taken away by a black box system that changes on a whim. You're now completely reliant on the thing they took away.
Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 3w agowww.reddit.com/r/WritingWit... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH *wheezing sounds* HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
You cannot call yourself a nature lover and use Generative AI. Fix your hearts.
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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AI companies are bulk buying and destroying rare old books in order to train their slop generators www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account
WitchOfAvalon🔞@witchofavalon.bsky.social · 9mo agoApparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices. If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.