New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words. Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.

If you tell cis people they have their own methods of afirming their gender, they get mad enough to swallow you whole like an anaconda. As far as I am concerned, cis people work exactly as hard, if not moreso, than we do at this task.

Gym treadmill thoughts: A Sonic vs. Touhou fighting game would go SO hard

it came free with flame hyenard. literally you can just burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground! burn to the ground!

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

my condolences to all the larian employees out there who have to watch their boss tank their studio's reputation in one day right after they announced their next game after their biggest hit ever at the game awards just because he had to say some bullshit about AI but can't say anything

This was the time when i was deepest into the magazines and this is exactly right. Another element worth mentioning is PC gaming having its first mainstream boom with Wing Commander/Doom/Myst/The 7th Guest; the technology there made the 16-bit systems look old much sooner than the NES did!

i feel like a lot of younger folks, and Europeans in general, have a hard time understanding just how niche PC games were in the US until that point. They had an image as scary complicated hardcore nerd shit, like Ultima & Dungeon Master or strategy games

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

please keep contacting your reps about these bad bills!

I have absolutely zero sympathy for studios intentionally conflating useful tools with LLMs in order to launder the image of LLMs then being surprised those legitimate automation tools are now a PR liability. If you are calling inverse kinematics AI you can't be surprised when people get mad at that

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

Organizers with students engaged in advancing Texas (SEAT) are suing Texas over the new App Store Accountability law that pushes age verification and now they’ve made a game that shows how school filtering is impacting content. The kids are alright ✨Check it out! www.access-denied.org

people who think they’re oh so smart are probably even more likely to succumb to the eliza effect

It's worth sticking around, I think.

now thats a headline right there

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Gang gang cockatoo science is sometimes quite undignified 🥲

My wife says if I make it to 5k followers before Christmas, she’ll continue to not give a shit about social media.

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

Found a tweet. Vtuber Den A Rue sent this stick figure drawing of himself reading a book and compared it to the final artwork SuNa delivered. If you can move a pen, you can communicate.

As a non-artist, I completely cobble image search results into my power points using MS paint. I have nearly used AI because at the time I was doing a certain gig, image search engines didn't let me block AI results. Pintrest and DuckDuckGo now have that. They're not perfect but better than nothing.

Reject AI and annoy a billionaire.

ID LAWS FALL! You all are doing amazing! This is why you call your reps and make your voice heard, why you support groups fighting for free speech. Keep this up and we can tear the rest down!

If it bleeds, we can kill it! www.badinternetbills.com

As it's been pointed out, age verification laws getting permablocked in Louisiana, Arkansas and Ohio directly contradicts the narrative that KOSA et al is popular, which its congressional supporters are desperately claiming If we push it could unravel completely, but we all *have* to keep pushing

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this wonderful and concise piece on BEING CREATIVE with your COLOUR SELECTIONS by the talented @alaiganuza! That note on SATURATION is a very useful one to keep in mind. I love this! #illustration #painting #oilpainting #paint #colour #ART

the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them

Concept artists are perhaps the most curious individuals in our craft. They study a bit about everything, the inner workings of our world, and use that knowledge to give life and meaning to previously unorganized ideas. You cannot replace them with AI and pretend the final project is original.

People using shitty AI-generated art for their placeholders, meanwhile this has been our APC for quite a while now.

Lmfao, the extremists that run twitter have realized that extremists cant make them enough money so theyre begging the journalists they hated on for a decade to come back.

“Crafting a prompt takes hard work” some of the most horrific people on the planet spent sleepless nights creating terrible things. Working very hard at a skill does not suddenly provide moral value

Building off @cameronwilson.bsky.social's reporting for @crikey.com.au, I highlight how we appear to have a baptist & bootleggers situation in Australia, where it appears the gambling industry was a big force behind the "social media ban for teens" in an effort to kill a plan to ban gambling ads.

People must keep in mind that these laws still have to pass intermediate constitutional scrutiny. Just because the Supreme Court upheld Texas’s law in Paxton, it doesn’t mean states are given carte blanche to pass whatever laws they like. It still has to relate to a compelling governmental interest.

I really want to emphasize that this is a winnable fight, but everyone has to chip in in order to do so! Please dont sit it out expecting others to stand in your place! And dont ignore local/state level stuff! As these state laws get overturned, the narrative behind the Fed ones lose steam!

How can you argue federal AV laws are good when at the state level we're seeing real pushback and even seeing AV legislation repealed/blocked? They want you to think its a consensus, its inevitable. Its not. Fight like its not!

#SaveSpeech Netchoice won their legal battle against Age verification in louisiana! This follows similar rulings in AK and OH! This is huge! These laws can be stopped, they can be overturned. Do not give in to dooming! Keep calling your reps and support orgs that fight these laws in court!

Things like this always depend on people sitting down and complying before even questioning it. if you can call your Reps to say you dont support the incredibly invasive Age Verification KOSA crap, DO IT. even if you think its hopeless, better to try and possibly win than not and definitely lose

#SaveSpeech We only have about a week before most legislators go out for a holiday recess, so i recommend giving your reps a call to oppose bad internet bills! I've included a script i adapted from one initially written by FFtF www.congress.gov/members/find... www.badinternetbills.com

This week is the last week before Congress goes on December recess. When calling your House Rep also mention these bills: KOSA SCREEN Act COPPA 2.0 RESET Act Sammy Act App Store Accountability Act GAMING Act Safe Messaging for Kids Act Parents over Platforms Act (1/5)

When calling your Senator, please also mention to defend Section 230. Especially now. Maybe also mention it to your House Rep too. And for those in Wisconsin, please make sure to call your State Senators about AB 105 / SB 130. Still don't think the States legislators are in session though. (2/5)

I am once again going to tell you that all this bad internet legislation will end once we have people in office who understand exactly what it is that is being discussed. To that effect, I'm dropping this link here. (3/5) runforsomething.net

And for additional fun, here's a neat site to help get the word out about what's all going on. Personally? I like Diesel's flyer more and while this site is a bit cumbersome to navigate, it's still good. (4/5) www.badinternetbills.com

Despite everything that's going on, I know we can win this fight. Time is on our side, because when Congress comes back in January, they're going to be preoccupied with avoiding another Shutdown. Not to mention it'll be Mid-Term year and wouldn't THIS be a fun thing to make an issue? (5/5)

Touhou yuri is so important

I'm honestly still surprised when I see an organization do the right thing these days, but good: www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-spo...

Also just tapping the sign again — A.I. eliminates the opportunity for creative discovery on your way to the destination you *thought* you wanted. You’re making art, process is everything.

So many times, the entire nature of what I'm working on has changed because of things I've discovered during the "tedious" work that they claim AI will save me from. It's in fact extremely common that I don't know what a thing really is until I start trying to do the hard stuff and then I find out