also, my understanding is that the US senate will be voting on the SAVE ACT/ SAVE AMERICA ACT -TOMORROW- (saturday the 20th) so PLEASE call and yell at your reps about that one specifically literally right now

YEP. YEP YEP YEP YEP. This is it 100% folks. Game dev is a long process and you'll have new ideas along the way that you just have to shelf and go "that's cool, maybe next game". The secret to making games efficiently is to make decisions early and be assertive about them. Then you make the game.

This really sucks

The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes.

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Exactly.

Running this back because of the upcoming vote!

Please continue to call and physically mail your legislators and advocate for protecting section 230, especially after today's hearing

For the first time there is a Clip Studio Paint 5.0 update that i would recommend to upgrade to They added Procreate's way to making perfect shapes If you draw a line or freehand a shape and hold your stroke, it will now actually correct it into an even shape respecting your line width and texture

AI: Supposedly so great, and the future, and everyone wants it that Nvidia feels like they have to smuggle it into the pipeline under the name of an entirely different technology That's how you know it's a winner

banjo kazooie's godlike use of vertex colouring is the epitome of 'trust the process'

This is insane.

There are effectively 2 theories of the case One is that silence on sports and minors made it easier for conservatives to push far broader restrictions. The other is there's no middle ground, and every concession just becomes grounds for the next attack

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

once you learn how much training data images of women come from porn, it illuminates so much. this is more than bad to look at, it's the rot of misogyny in full display. arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01963

Call your senators, especially the Republicans. Please tell them you will be voting Republicans out of office come November --- particularly anyone who votes for the SAVE Act Tell them vote NO on the SAVE Act. It will disenfranchise millions of Americans. 202-224-3121 Congressional Switchboard

He claims here that the 20th Century invented the concept of introspection. I don't know what to say. Read Job, or Ecclesiastes, or Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, or Saint Augustine's Confessions, or Hamlet, for goodness sake. And that's just the very start of what's in the classic Western Canon.

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

Ive seen multiple news outlets claim that the SAVE Act/SAVE America Act is to be voted on in the senate this week, but nowhere provided a specific date So please, contact your legislators [particularly senators] and demand they oppose this bill! www.congress.gov/members/find...

Please call your Reps and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE ACT, HR 22/S 128. Five Calls has a good script: 5calls.org/issue/save-a...

Uhhh holy crap y’all someone is trying to backdoor get age verification for computers though the ILGA. This is a bad bill. It cannot be allowed to pass. www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

Here is the actual bill. Rumor is this is coming from Meta. If you don’t understand why this is so bad please ask me to elaborate. www.ilga.gov/ftp/legislat...

Here is the form to submit the slip. Bill is HB5511 Representation is ‘Self’ Put in your info and file as ‘opposed’ ‘Record of Appearance’ only www.ilga.gov/house/hearin...

There is a change.org petition here. I don’t expect that to do anything but it has a good writeup. www.change.org/p/vote-for-p...

The House version of this bill has a committee hearing on Thursday morning! Submit a witness slip and call your state representative. ESPECIALLY if they’re on this committee www.ilga.gov/house/commit...

For nearly 200 years, these iconic — and Ionic — columns have welcomed visitors to the White House. Trump has privately mused about changing them to his preferred style, and now his top arts commissioner has proposed a plan to do exactly that. With @asteckelberg.bsky.social.

Videos can be accessed here @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and anyone else interested in watching. archive.org/details/adam...

Enderman more like uhhh.... erm...

I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking. I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process

"You're a hard one to find, you know that?!" The second piece in the Explorer series. This one I leaned more heavy on the cel-animation feel. This is where I started to cement Mira's design somewhat. The larger story started to gain momentum from here.

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republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

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They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Lazy Susan animation. I can feel the rusty gears screeching... I can't safely say "we are so back" yet, but I'm slowly learning to enjoy animating again! #animation | #OCs | #Sue

this feels like a universal thing i experience all the time lol

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big magic

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Krystal getting some sun o3o (commission)

Quiet Time (C0MM)

I don't fucking care if some random person drew lolicon or beast, get a damn life. We're either all in this together or we're going down.

Had to draw Celestia full of Cellys because I drank an entire case of my roommates energy drinks. This is a dogeza in art form for drink theft. #grindart