Remember being able to buy something? Remember just owning it afterwards and that was it? Remember how if something was too expensive when it came out, you could wait a while and it would come down in price over time? Remember when things would get upgraded over time but not to make them worse?

MOVING IS A FUCK ESP BUILDING THINGS but it’s ok it’ll be cute in my room teehee

watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it

I made a new sticker design right before we left on our con gauntlet. #art www.monkeyminionpress.com/products/boo...

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Endless cycle

Mars, Dust Storm in the South Polar Region Full size 6K & more info: flic.kr/p/2st1Dw8 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Mission: ESA Mars Express Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int Instrument: HRSC Time: 2022-06-09 Raw Data: HN290_0009 ND + GR + BL

The Little World Next Door

🌺 burnt blossom 🌺 #ocs #art #ocsky

Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.

It's not "climate change." It's "climate destruction." 'Climate Change' completely absolves us, the humans, responsible. WE are enacting terror on the environment through capitalism and colonialism. It's not some concept or natural effect. It is deliberate annihilation of all life for profit.

instead of embracing our freedom from industry norms and restrictions, NA indie comics has chosen to create an Industry 2 where we enforce New Norms And Restrictions. and i strongly believe that this is bad for art. the beauty of indie comics lies in our freedom, not a prestigious fair or publisher.

Heads up, artists 🚨 There’s a massive scam wave hitting DeviantArt right now DO NOT CLICK IT. If you have artist friends on DA, please boost this. I’d hate to see someone lose their account or payment info over something this stupid 🖤 { #DeviantArt #ArtistBeware #ScamAlert }

I've been learning to do things in a variety of styles, and my character Blin has been one of my test subjects.

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

#ReggieBearArt #Artfight2026 #Traditionalart #Digitalart This years artfight attacks 🐻 in order characters belong to @terracrescent.bsky.social , @mortobato.bsky.social and @sweetbunanarchy.bsky.social !!🐻

🍊HOW TO TIP ARTISTS ON #VGEN (share for visibility!) 🌱Vgen has a built in tipping, or "boosting" system. The name isn't the most intuitive, but that's a different issue. ✨When clients boost, they can add a cute sparkle around their comm in the artist's portfolio! (+)

I'll be looking into this as a fallback in the event that I am either banned from Twitch or can no longer tolerate its enshittification.

Auntie Lotus 🌼💜@lotusenta.gay · 5d ago

So, I remembered that this exists. Might just be keeping this in my back pocket for now. stream.place

I and many of my friends stream on Twitch. I say, *absolutely the fuck not*. Friends who stream on Twitch, there is a comment thread here where you can make your voices heard: twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... This is the *least* they can do.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch 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.

It’s funny because Hank Green admits to AI because he’s so busy and so much pressure Meanwhile Black Authors are being accused of Ai use with no actual back up so tech companies can get funding And yall champions n people who told us to put our work in AI

Dachshund + iPod Shuffle for #doggust.

last night American hit a civilian home in qeshm island and killed a whole family including a 2 year old child, where's the Western outrage? in the first days a school was hit I was sure there would protests and pressure now it's just normalized.

He fucking broke btw

🌷💗Dali💚🌷@shortersinnamonrol.bsky.social · last wk.

Also my friend got me a pendulum on Saturday.. named em Larry

questions you don't really want the answers from from black people

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.

Fuck that -- I'm using MOAR em-dashes! I was overusing them well before AI chatbots came long -- they aren't taking that away from me!

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

there's no other way to frame this except that ai companies and users are fundamentally against human society in every way

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

“Trump permits Data Centers to make acid rain.” I had to look this up to see if it was true and it’s true. States Rights and Local Rights are going to be the ONLY thing that save us now, for a bit. Creator save us all.