This kind of thinking absolutely cannot be given a fucking inch and these people have to be run out of the writing community tarred and feathered on a rail and there is no other way around it

When I speak about AI the bros think I am coming from a place of not knowing what I am talking about. I unfortunately do. It's gotten much better at the details but it's bland af. If you think it's good I am sorry to break it to you but you have absolute middle of the road normie taste (derogatory)

more french countryside

Being in a “bubble” is just minding your own business.

I've been battling bindweed since I started gardening and friends, I'm losing.

I hate that I am nostalgic for a time less then three years ago when you could just hit the save button on a document and it would save to your default local storage location without requiring you to navigate to a sub menu three clicks deep

Carney is backpedaling on some good stuff Trudeau had started with developing national #pharmacare in #canada, to improve on the currently disjointed provincial system. This group @leadnowca.bsky.social has an easy way to write a letter to your MP about it. Write one here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ph...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Santa Barbara 10”x10” oil

oh uhm. youre on my house

I wish I could be happier about this, but Canadians have a habit of not seeing how things could go south in a hurry, because "at least we're not like the US" is a thought-terminating cliche that gets rolled out every time you try to improve anything. We need to PROTECT this, not sit on our laurels.

Amazing game 10/10

The American Kestrel #birdart #animalart #kestrel #originalillustration

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

If you took all the money wasted on Gen AI and paid real human beings to create real art, stories, animation, movies, science, history, education, even code—we would be living in an unthinkably explosive Renaissance of beauty and knowledge. Not to mention a truly Biblical economic boom.

“Slopaganda” = misinformation at scale. CDMRN found a network of YouTube channels (40M+ views) using AI avatars & voice actors to pose as Canadians… pushing Alberta secession + U.S. annexation narratives. This is why media literacy — and CBC — matter more than ever. www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-t...

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I consider homage to be a high art.

today, at bluesky.

i can’t draw cars but i had to share the best license plate i’ve ever seen #comic

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Is it better when I post these solo, or in small themed collections? Four tiny #originalpaintings. The frames are 3d printed (model by beecat @ thingiverse) and painted in acrylic by me. The paintings are in #gouache and #watercolour and are #originalart. #artist #artistonbsky #smallartist

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

‼️ “Governments have ordered staff to work from home, reduced the work week and closed universities to conserve fuel.” Time to pause all this back to the office crap - it’s basically a pay cut 🇨🇦 #WFH #onpoli #hybrid #gasprices #oil

Is it better when I post these solo, or in small themed collections? Two #cityscape tiny #originalpaintigs The frames are 3d printed (model by beecat @ thingiverse) and painted in acrylic by me. The paintings are in #gouache and #watercolour and are #originalart.

A couple of animal trios I painted as a #commission as #tiny #paintings. The frames are 3d printed (model by beecat @ thingiverse) and painted in acrylic by me. The paintings are in #gouache and #watercolour and are #originalart

The Knight of the Flowers, by Georges Rochegrosse (1894)

PEOPLE IN #CANADA: please take 15min to fill out this #survey from #TransportCanada on #brightheadlights and the safety risk created by the glare from BLINDINGLY BRIGHT LED headlights & blue toned headlights! This is an #accessibility and safety issue! tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

No one is safe in the US. Get out while you can. Fears for B.C. (Canada) woman, daughter detained at Texas immigration facility-she is there legally on a worker's visa. Tania Warner, 7-year-old daughter Ayla Lucas were heading back from baby shower on Saturday night www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration

man do you guys remember on twitter when people would get really mad at *stops for a second and sees sunlight filter through the window* Huh? *goes to investigate it* oh… Oh, wow. *eyes well up* It’s so beautiful. I almost never knew. *opens the window up and exits*

PEOPLE IN #CANADA: please take 15min to fill out this #survey from #TransportCanada on #brightheadlights and the safety risk created by the glare from BLINDINGLY BRIGHT LED headlights & blue toned headlights! This is an #accessibility and safety issue! tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

saw this on tumblr and it's literally so true woah

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

🇨🇦 My website: vormoranox.ca 🖌️ Tumblr: @ vormoranox 🖼️ Instagram: @ vormoranox 🎁 Merch: coolsvilleart.com/collections/... 🛒 Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/vormo... 🌱 Ontario Native Plant Gardening bluesky feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... 🌿 ^ ON native gardening discord server: DM me

For anyone that wants to find more Canadian visual artists here on Bluesky 💛 Or if you’d like to be added to the pack just let me know go.bsky.app/5Qisn5N

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I just remembered how awesome Aragorn would be as a woman

you should keep drying up their user revenue source in the middle of trying to take the company public

Cancel your Nitro! Submit a ticket support ticket! Don't just quit Discord, tell them why they fucked up as you leave. They filed for IPO earlier this year to become publicly traded, we can't tank their stocks yet but we can make it as unprofitable to go public support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

FINALLY DONE POSTING #tiny #paintings I did at the end of 2025. #Original #art painted in #watercolour and #gouache. The frame is #3D-printed (model: thingiverse @ beecat) & #hand-painted in #acrylic by me. I designed the back of the frame in Blender. (Sold) #myart #canadianartist