Mielzy
@mielzy.bsky.social
i draw & yap 💌 mielzydoodles@gmail.com 🌸 founder of @theartlocker.bsky.social 💻 mielzy.carrd.co
Not to sound fearmonger-y but. If you have a Stripe account, and you've received an email about "Stripe Radar" and its pricing... pls read their email. Instructions below + plus comment from reddit (not an endorsement, but just as something to watch out for)
It'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.
Seen on Twitter. Adjusted for inflation Artists: $1080 Writers: $360 Letterers: $144 Colorists: $252 No way anyone is getting anywhere near this.
for anyone using my chats, i’ll be porting them over later this summer after my licensing exam in july!
Zaytri@zaytri.com · 2mo agoSlime2 is here! It's real! Welcome to Slime2, a desktop app for managing and customizing local overlays and bots for your streams, available on Linux, Windows, and macOS! And it's free! You can get it here: slime2.stream
Slime2 is here! It's real! Welcome to Slime2, a desktop app for managing and customizing local overlays and bots for your streams, available on Linux, Windows, and macOS! And it's free! You can get it here: slime2.stream
the big move is one week away!! i could still use your help!!
The best advice I ever got when I started freelancing was, if you have to turn down work, always suggest someone else who could do it. I have been so lucky to benefit from that over the years.
My partner lost their job. So on top of already being behind on bills and being on an ice soup diet, we won’t be able to pay our rent. Please please share this and help me get some eyes in my work, I VERY urgently need help at this time.
briar ⋆˚꩜｡@faerieprince.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm open for (urgent) comms on VGen and Ko-fi! I am recovering from having to drop over 1k on vet bills for my dog, and urgently need to pay my car payment + get groceries. Any shares, purchases, or donos are very welcome!! vgen.co/riteofthorns ko-fi.com/riteofthorns...
real-time settings update without refresh is still my favorite feature of slime2 widgets you could even do this real-time on stream if you wanted, since the desktop app is separate from the overlay display
I really want commercial artists to all be paid enough to do weird little side projects and make a bunch of pointless OCs or whatever without feeling like they have to always be hustling
since there’s increased interest in zaytri’s incredible slime2 chat alternative rn!
Mielzy@mielzy.bsky.social · 3mo agothanks for the shout out! if anybody has chat themes they would like to see for slime2, feel free to share suggestions with me and if i have time i’ll get around to them, or you can always commission me for a reduced price if i am able to list it for others once it is completed!
if you have bought art/commissions/goodies from or reposted stuff from artists in the last few months you are all our hero for real thank you for real 😭 it matters so much
The difference between closed captions and open captions: Closed captions are on a separate track that can be turned on or off. Open captions are captions that are burned into the video, so that they are always showing. The viewer cannot turn them off. www.w3.org/WAI/media/av...
Captions/Subtitles
Helps you understand and create captions (also called “subtitles”) for audio and video media accessibility.
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Just a reminder that Blambot's Indie License allows small press comic creators to use Blambot's indie fonts (those marked with a $0 option) for free even if you make money with your comic or merch directly related to your comic. More info: blambot.com/pages/licenses
We had a lovely convo with Michael Welch & Chicago Review of Books about why it's fricken time for publishing to unionize! ✊📚 You can still sign our open letter of support @ hachetteworkers.com/open-letter
Open Letter - Hachette Workers Coalition
To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC)...
hachetteworkers.com
Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Unionizing is passion protection. Because we’re really looking for a way to ensure that folks can sustain and have longevity in their jobs." Read @mbwwelch.bsky.social's interview w/ Maria Diaz, Andy Wang, and Darcy Glastonbury of the Hachette Workers Coalition. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/04/o...
All my digital comics are up for sale at 8.50$ during the Nib &Ink Fest this may, please go check it out ! Link: nif-shop.cartoonist.coop
Cartoonists United@cartoonist.coop · 3mo agoNIF 2026 HAS BEGUN and we’ve got all-new events planned for every weekend in May, a fabulous marketplace with 80+ comics, plus some FREEBIES?! Go check it out at nif.cartoonist.coop
We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.
Andy Wang@andywang.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter
man, this is depressing, but it makes me so much more grateful that archival projects exist
Internet Archive@archive.org · 3mo ago🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️
Whoever first described GenAI as digital asbestos was cooking
