This is what I point to when folks try to justify genAI. "It's not so bad as long as they don't sell it." Meanwhile, these data centers are swallowing up resources, ruining local water infrastructure, & not really caring. All for plagiarized slop. It's gross. Every use counts. Every single one.

Brad and evil Brad for @twiggies-draws.bsky.social ! #LavArts #DnD #TTRPG

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

Amaterasu, Okami

happy 20th anniversary, okami!!

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

✨💖THEY CAN PRY MY SPARKLE FROM MY COLD, DEAD, GLITTER COVERED HANDS!💖✨

LOVED DRAWING THIS DOGGO SO MUCH THANK YOU AHHHHHHHHHH #vgen #commission

They are so, SO desperate for people to resub. PLEASE don't resub your Nitro everyone. Props if you aren't already subbed, props if you were subbed and you unsub right now. NOTHING changes unless a company FEARS for their bottom line. Feel free to use Discord still, but don't give them a penny. 💖

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

This is a very good take. Visit some art museums. Read some books. People ask me how I can tell what’s AI, and I genuinely think it’s this: I look for decisions made by the artist. AI doesn’t make any.

I need to master articulating it, because I need more people to hear it, but you can defeat ai art if you teach more people how to read. This is not a bit.

it do be like this sometimes

little guys

This is what radicalized me as a native of color Seeing them send fire hoses attack dogs and sound cannons on water and land defenders during Standing rock

Big tongue yawn #johnny #dogs

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

Teeny commission for @twiggies-draws.bsky.social - thank you so much for the support! 🔥🎠🌕Happy Lunar New Year!🌕🎠🔥 - - - - #rookerydraws #furry #furryart #art #commsopen

I saw a baby so baby I had to draw him (@twiggies-draws.bsky.social 's Xiǎo Míng) | #art #sketchbook

Speaking of Bully Brad, I need to share this amazing piece I got from Ruebird! Getting this done was such a cool process, so many amazing concepts that were agonising to decide between. She did such an amazing job, super thankful for how patient she was with me through the process. #artforme

🔥 #Flightrising #Myart

ama 🌸 #okami

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

A Digimon design commission for @twiggies-draws.bsky.social , was a fun one to work on! #digimon #digimonArt

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Drawing, writing, gaming...

I hate this idea that gen ai in the early stages of development is okay as long as there isn't gen AI assets in the final game. Everything in early development informs the final game. I don't want this to become the norm 🫩

People are taking unusual measures to the thwart the scourge of AI

Flower goldfish 🐟🌸

Flower sea slug 🌸🐌

arcanine and bulbasaur ko-fi request!

People keep contrasting Rowling and Lovecraft, citing that Lovecraft is dead and therefore buying his books is not contributing to real-life harm, but honestly Rowling is on a different level from most horrible living authors too. Impact-wise, Rowling is closer to Elon Musk than any single writer

fun reminder: the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

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

It is March 20 it is my birthday! I took today off work and I think it would be fun treat for me to ask me questions about my blorbo Brad (and his many many AUs) to force me to yap about him and think of stuff :D

the thing about "separating the art from the artist" is that it comes from academic circles where they were trying to separate an artist's views from an interpretation of their work as an intellectual exercise, not as a way to give people moral carte blanche to support shitty people

They bounce! 🧡💚💙

🎶Beastling Lullaby🎵 5x7" ink on claybord #silksong little gift for a friend~

This is one step away from "Make Her Smile" checkbox in the graphics options.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

kettle dragon designs (again)

the US & israel kicked this off unprovoked by attacking a school full of kids, i'm not sure why the fuck i'm supposed to see a headline about their murder infrastructure being destroyed and think "oh no, what a bad development"

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

need y'all to put the energy you did towards discord into bullying your reps about kosa and all the other Internet censorship bills bc that's the only way this stops

lots of fish 🐟🐠🐟🐠🫧 #art #fish