Love this! Art materials are meant to be used! Yes, even the good stuff. ESPECIALLY the good stuff. Nothing is "too good" or "too nice" to use. Break in that nice sketchbook, use the nice paper, open the good paints. Don't put it on the high shelf and deprive yourself of enjoying art supplies.

peacockpete@peacockpete.bsky.social · last mo.

One great piece of advice I heard was that the only paint you waste is the stuff that stays in the tube

Mongrel Muzzled (Totally safe and fine to approach)

Dropbox link for anyone who wants “The Art Of Moebius” art book pdf. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k8rd3...

people really like the idea of a long running series having every line of dialogue and plot beat meticulously planned out from day 1 but that's just not realistic at all ESPECIALLY for video games where compromises often have to be made during development

I shit a lot on the Phantom Menace, but it did accurately predict how most journalists would react to fascism

Adira beats the summer heat with a kiddie pool full of ice cubes, suggested by Tony1695!

testrun before i set up proper commissions for these: SEND ME UR FASHIONS! I wish to see fashions outside of my box of thinking/tastes to test if this would still be fun if I had to draw things I would not make as a fashion myself subjects will be picked as artist's choice

And it's free. If you charge for it, people ditch your phones. If you don't charge for it, the compute costs eat your company alive. But if you don't force it on everyone, your can't scam your shareholders into thinking Gemini is being adopted en masse. Tearing the copper out of the walls, man ...

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 3h ago

They're discontinuing Google Assistant in a month to make everyone start using Gemini instead, so I tried using it just now and it sucks ass

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"Ooh look how scary and advanced our AI is. We can't stop it from trying to take over the internet. Give us more money." It's all bullshit. If Meta was doing "security testing" and didn't know their AI was hacking another company, then Meta are shit at their jobs and should be fired.

Ever think about how the bar for “crazy online trannies” is like being noisy about our mistreatment and having vulnerable crash outs about our struggles, but cis people are out here doing like whatever the fuck lookmaxxing is and that’s apparently at the very least equivalent?

New tattoo flash: regular degular sea creatures edition

I still think about this article a lot zeteo.com/p/trump-whit...

Sam@samd.bsky.social · yesterday

gotta say it’s pretty weird how the official Trump insta page has become devoted to this weird trolling of musicians who hate his guts

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 17h ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

let’s do this with all furries

Jeannette@jeannettearroyo.bsky.social · 11h ago

Something that is the visual equivalent of nails on chalkboard to me is when the tail of a fish/whale/shark furry is just the entire animal sticking out of the butt. (Do what you want it's just not my thing ha)

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

BTW ken jennings? Mormon. 10% of any money he gets goes straight into the pocket of the mormon church!! same as brandon sanderson, orson scott card, etc. He has no issues giving money to the NYT because he's already giving way more to the MORMON CHURCH, a deeply genocidal and bigoted church

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 15h ago

Gwen deactivated 😔

If he was really upset about her post he could have just blocked her or detached his quote. Instead he decided to draw waves of attention to her, made her an international target for transphobia, and ruined her digital life. And for what? A bad, mean joke? Was it worth it?

This is heartbreaking. @kenjennings.bsky.social did so much damage and his actions caused a cascade that chased an innocent trans woman off the internet The fact that she has suffered all the consequences from his actions should make everyone stop and think about how privilege played out here

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 15h ago

Gwen deactivated 😔

ive done the math. i have to hit knuckles with my subaru outback

Fun with abstracted hair ✨ #tadc #jax #TheAmazingDigitalcircus

a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

Idk maybe try not projecting your neuroses about a bad ex onto entire groups of people Ive had shitty trans girlfriends too, you don't see me painting all trans women as predators about it

A woman could not have written Game of Thrones. I don't mean she wouldn't have been capable. I mean a woman writing about that much rape and incest wouldn't have been this globally revered as "realistic" and "dark" and would've instead been called a sexual deviant and her books fringe at best

a microcosm of everything. a mob surrounds a trans woman, accuses her of "attempting to enter a women's bathroom", beats up her and her nonbinary partner, then the state swoops in and dumps the trans woman in a men's prison illegally (a rape threat), and both are now at risk of longer jail time

Mx Maddison Stoff@thedescenters.bsky.social · 4h ago

This woman was beaten by a mob for *standing outside of a woman's bathroom* in Louisiana, not even going in, and they've literally just fabricated several charges against her and her partner anyway to justify abusing them further. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mo... On the up side...

🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 15h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 9h ago

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

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