Tutorial notes: Believability & story will make an image more appealing than realistic rendering. Detail is the least important part of art that takes the most time to do. If your shapes are wrong or your form is wrong adding detail is wasted effort. Theory + practical = far faster learning.

When he dies, don't let anyone hit you with some tired 'respect the dead' bullshit. We're gonna fireworks-over-Coruscant, Ewoks-playing-stormtrooper-helmets this shit until the wheels fall off

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

celebrate today but tomorrow remember that the US legislature is filled with necromancers

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 12h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

Even if it's shit like "It's not specific information, I just need to brainstorm!" it says to me "I don't think that talking to another real human being would provide me with anything valuable to my efforts. I don't believe other people are capable of thought."

When someone uses AI for anything, it says to me: "I don't care what you did with your life and how hard you worked at it, I just want access to what you know and what you can do, without giving you the respect or compensation that you deserve for learning."

None of us -want- to clog your timelines with this shit. I fucking HATE interrupting dumb horny boob posts with calls to action but like If action isnt taken the boobs will stop entirely like we -cant- ignore this shit, this isnt FUN

Hypno-Scream (Comms Open)❤️🩷💜@hypnoscream.bsky.social · last mo.

Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.

I disagree vehemently that an assault weapons ban should be ignored in favor of said generational work, but every other point he makes there is solid. Generations of conservative policy caused the problem. Only generations of progressive/liberal policy can undo it.

As a certified English teacher since 2009, *this* is what I call a strong arguable thesis. tl;dw: Guns are a symptom. Even the most progressive disarmament would target the most marginalized people, first and only. Prioritizing generational work toward social support is a better use of resources.

Paranoia@toolofparanoia.bsky.social · 14h ago

Hey look, someone put to words what I want to convey to others. A case for why more liberals and progressives should be 2A or at least not anti-gun. youtu.be/SfNeKco5et8?is

Recently read a skeet on here that was like "It's theorized men are more vulnerable to LLMs/chatbots because women are more thoroughly socially conditioned to be instantly suspicious of fawning, complimentary, compliant attention," and. Thinkin' about that, tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvI...

The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad

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How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

Politico@politico.com · 19h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

I hope this guy just drives around town cheering everyone on.

I have a cameo page finally! v.cameo.com/e/q75widA4a5b

Ginger can’t wait to hug her favorite ranger Eggs! 🐻☀️🦝 #gagcartoon #thatsexybear #bear #furry

quick pause in the Kroger parking lot to shout out the Caine cosplayer I saw walking outside CCAD this evening while I was on my drive home Cringe Nerd Grandma Who Graduated Before You Were Born approves! 👍🏻 💖

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

The writer of the Atlantic piece, Will Oremus, has a history of specifically going after non-white writers and boosting completely unsubstantiated stories of AI use when their work is celebrated. Confirming, again, the Atlantic is the spot for racists who think they are intellectuals.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

the best way to describe my feelings about people occasionally assuming I'm a trans woman is this Lady Gaga interview where she told Anderson Cooper she doesn't give a fuck because it doesn't matter

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

mmmBOY do I love SSRI withdrawal fun times~ thankfully the shocky-tinglies aren't nearly as bad with Paxil as they were with Effexor, but it's still Loads of Fun™ when you're trying to work my kingdom for a healthcare system that doesn't actively punish my executive dysfunctional ass

I love drawing food and i hate that GenAI for restaurants causes so much damage to the craft

REMEMBER I SAID DIARRHEA LETTUCE WAS GONNA BE THE BIG THING THIS HALLOWEEN?

lrs: as a designer who has to pull double duty as accessibility check (and only because I'm actually aware of it thanks to a longtime friend who's blind), for the love of god, hire accessibility consultants AND LISTEN TO THEM. Minimalist UI is very pretty, but useless if no one can fucking read it.