Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I hate how giddy companies and outlets are to ruin *everything* what a bleak timeline

These days I draw my dinosaurs by drawing every scale individually because my hand is evil and it must be punished

Good to see but, I think too little, too late. I wonder how OpenAI will react? I assume they’ll just let each-other fall, which *might* help??? Unless Disney and Universal walk away with some major bags, these companies will keep popping up.

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

Allosaurus: An Artistic History in Four Parts! (Art by Charles Knight, Rudolph Zallinger, Gregory S. Paul, and @joannakobierska.bsky.social)

I very much have a soft spot for this foofball ❤️ I named (him?) Ghost 👻 He was the spiciest of the babies and he almost got away when I was trying to rescue him, and he was NOT a fan of me. We have been giving him lots of love and he’s finally starting to come around! 💖

Been very busy fostering kittens that we found stuck in an outdoor fence wall. After a few days of eating they’re full of energy!!!

Spino-SCORE! The fomo was getting to me and I just HAD to check my local Target. Lucky day for me, I found one! (Sadly, the only one left.) This figure is beyond AMAZING! Also, a great way to kick off Pride Month!! Happy Pride ya’ll 💖

Jinx

between the tariffs and genAI it makes any art that crosses your path, indie or mainstream, a hard-fought miracle. really appreciate the creativity you see because artists of all stripes are really working against an avalanche intent on burying us

3x Bird Sketches! Always love the lifted mood when illustrating those beautiful animals🔥🔥 #birds #illustration #birdart #animal #animalart #wildlife #sketch #digitalart #secretarybird

I mean, seriously. Was ever an animal more aptly named? It looks like a guardian forest spirit.

Top-side is due for it

My Ark Survival? Evolved.

JINX 🩷💙

I’ve got a lot of new artwork cooking right now I’m really excited to share it all 🙏

A really fun tattoo commission done for a close friend! Love me some Spinosaurus #dinosaur #art

Hate to be doomer as an art account but yeah Elon and a small group of his underlings have locked themselves in the USAID building and are not letting federal workers return to do their jobs. We are watching a Coup unfold in real time, not much media coverage about it. This is catastrophic.

if democrats promise to throw elon musk and everyone in DOGE in jail on day 1 in 2029 they will win a 50 state landslide

Moving closer to being done, now there are three! These are some prelim color ideas. Once I ink them I'll play with the colors more, though I'm liking the limited palettes. Not sure about the "Fight Like Hell" text on the Ankylosaurus one. Suggestions are welcome.

Laughing my ass off at OpenAI drawing a line in the sand over the idea companies like DeepSeek might have used their data without consent. "Don't steal what we stole" isn't a compelling argument.

We've been busy in 2025 working on research deadlines and funding proposals. But I did a lengthy interview with Freakonomics radio, just released as audio and text transcript. It covers Bracelets of Silence, Fawkes, Glaze & Nightshade, thoughts on present & future. freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...

I deleted mine and I’m never looking back

I hate to sound dramatic especially for an art account but I genuinely believe this is the start of the end of the USA and democracy. I have genuine fear for my friends and family. Things are not sustainable here and I see the cracks in the foundation with each passing day.

Growing up in America I feel like my whole life I’ve been on the back-foot, constantly trying to play catch up, only to be thrust into a much more dysfunctional version of the former. Will I ever just be able to stand on solid ground here? I’m losing faith that this country can be saved.

I sure do. Thanks for tagging me in. This is the former General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office writing about it in the Yale Law Journal. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The 2005 Honda Civic is the pinnacle of human creation and everything else going forward has been a feeble attempt at reaching that high again

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator" You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor... You are not a faceless "content" machine.

Coelophysis portrait. First piece of 2025. Watercolor/gouache mixed technique #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #art

everytime

My portrait bootcamp is for you if you: - Spend too much time thinking about drawing rather than actually drawing - Don't know what to focus on in your studies - Get overwhelmed by all there is to learn - Struggle to balance art with other responsibilities - Thrive with accountability & structure 👇

A new #Turok game was not on my bingo card for game awards but I am ALL FOR IT

The f*cking AI 💩

for people who can't find the blocklist bsky.app/profile/fran...

Family includes everyone! ❤️

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

Democrats should be proud at how far they’ve come dispute all the road-blocks and realize that this was always going to take Herculean effort. We can still stop the genocide, we can still save the US, and we can still protect the rights of Women and LGBTQ+. But we need to stop pointing fingers.

Idk man. A lot of people I know voted in the election. There was so much positive energy for Kamala. I waited over two hours in early voting, there was tons of people in just my small area. We won Dem policies and seats in the state but not the presidency. It’s just not adding up.

I hate being a man I hate that we’ve failed women I will keep fighting for women’s rights and trans rights and LGBTQ+ rights F*ck this stupid country bro fr

You are loved. WE are loved. 💙

Also I am so sorry to all the women, people of color, mothers, daughters, LGBTQ+ folks, and Transgender people. The US is a fucking failure. I really don’t know what to say, or what to do. This fucking sucks so much.

With the Election results in I just assume tech companies are going to run rampant with GenAI for the foreseeable future. Not gonna lie I am very much considering giving up on Art as a career of any kind because I am not seeing much hope at the moment. Idk.

Poster design I did a while back to express some feelings about GenAI. My feelings have remained the same.

I just learned this today, but if you are a creator using Squarespace for your personal website, there is a setting where you can block known AI crawlers under Settings > Website > Crawlers

I hath done my civic duty F*ck that facist prick I hope he loses American needs to do better, the world deserves better from us.