Ricki☕🪄
@rickihirsch.bsky.social
☕I make things that seem fun when it seems fun to do them🪄 📽️Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch 📝Writings: https://rickihirsch.neocities.org/ 📨Inquiries: ricki.hirsch.vt@gmail
Re: YouTubers using AI to research and write Doing the research, processing it and communicating to an audience is the whole thing. It's supposed to be fun. If you're so disenchanted with the work that you'd rather offload that to an LLM, what are you even doing here?
Today is the only day you can wish me a happy birthday as I begin my 20th lap around 17 🎉🎂
El-Sayed wins Michigan after being outspent 10-1. Happy birthday to me 🎉🎂
Two takes at the same expression. The first came out as closer to horror despite the actual differences being relatively minor. Wild how our brains process emotional cues from small amounts of information. Expressions are hard 😭
Bob's videos are always good but this is one of the most compelling videos I've seen in a minute.
Alien Bob but also@jeremyoduber.com · 2d agoNEW VIDEO: In 2006 a Washington DC based think tank hired future lead designers of Civilization and XCOM to make a strategy game based on a documentary about nonviolent protest. 20 years later I'm here to tell you why. youtu.be/dmL7Ph4Us8o
Always feels weird being told "you're talented" instead of "your work is paying off"
Waiting for that Retroid Nova shipping notice...
Yuru Camp: Shima Rin by Campfire
ALT: Yuru Camp: Shima Rin by Campfire
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She framed it immediately and even wants to get a nicer frame. I've always known my mom to do stuff like this for other people but this was the first time someone made something for her. I really made something that made someone else happy. Art is good sometimes 🥹
Ricki☕🪄@rickihirsch.bsky.social · last wk.Continuing to remember how watercolor works: making a birthday card for my mom edition
The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.
She framed it immediately and even wants to get a nicer frame. I've always known my mom to do stuff like this for other people but this was the first time someone made something for her. I really made something that made someone else happy. Art is good sometimes 🥹
Ricki☕🪄@rickihirsch.bsky.social · last wk.Continuing to remember how watercolor works: making a birthday card for my mom edition
Inspired by someone asking how to do Buhurt without getting hurt. Well, it's in the name.
Birthdays are rough for me. My siblings don't talk to me anymore. My parents act nicer but I can tell they also think I'm an embarrassment. Sometimes I worry they're right. It makes for a lonely time. I see folks with supportive families and it's hard not to be envious or what I did so wrong.
The goal of an education influencer is primarily to be entertaining and appear competent. The pressure to produce also means they inevitably end up speaking on topics they're unfamiliar with. As an educator, I can usually tell when that is but my students often take these videos at face value 😬😬😬😬
A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 6d agoOmg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡
Two books into the Baru Cormorant trilogy --- I'm shaken to my core by the revelation that Baru is Renako Watanare if she was good at math.
want to make a joke about how I got a cheaper one from the Dior line of Quality Paperback Book Club titles but the sad truth, my truth, is that I want — desire — the Christian Dior Ulysses by James Joyce Medium Book Tote with Strap
Brad Johnson@ahablives.bsky.social · 6d agoI saw the screenshot elsewhere, but it wasn’t until I touched the wounds in its hands that I could dare believe it was real. www.dior.com/en_us/fashio...
Dynamite was so good last night that I woke up still smiling.
Romance between a vampire-coded woman that thinks werewolves are cool and werewolf-coded woman that thinks vampires are cool.
Eventually, I realized that I could play mobile games for a chance at being disappointed rolling for a character OR I could spend that time practicing my art and guarantee that I'd be disappointed by my drawings of that character. I haven't touched a mobile game since 😤😤😤
Hemagrades opening up the possibility of getting a good grade in HEMA (normal to want and possible to achieve) is about to set me down a path of darkness.
Continuing to remember how watercolor works: making a birthday card for my mom edition
So apparently they changed this skill in Endless Ragnarok and I'm just now noticing???
I am a simple woman. Give me a pen and I will eventually draw Gillian Anderson 😞 From today:
