Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now. We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

Skeb already has long been flagged to high hell by most payment processors (I've had to clarify with my bank several times when I first started using it). Important reminder that just b/c you're not in the nsfw space doesn't mean you and your hobbies are magically not effected by this.

i owe so many video game designers an apology

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

nessie

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

please donate to your local food banks if you can. I know it seems silly to give like $5-10 if that's all you can spare but if a lot of people do it then it can help. And obv if you cannot you cannot. I am keeping an eye on my budget to see what I can send to mine by the end of the month ♥

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

FIREFOX USERS Mozilla shoved LLMs into your browser a short while back, here's how you get rid of it -Search about:config in the URL -Copy+paste the following terms in the search bar one at a time (you can copy them from the alt text or the next post!) -Toggle each one to False -Humanity Restored

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Halo insider: Halo Studios has generative AI "woven into every aspect" of game dev, from core workflows to world building and enemy AI www.resetera.com/threads/13...

only quote skeeting to make a related point, not to dunk on you bc you're right: really the issue is that a lot of trans men feel unsafe around other men but then turn it into an issue of 'we're not REALLY men' (transphobic) instead of asking the question, 'why are men's spaces unsafe for men'

Gyaru samurai for Crystober. Veeery slowly working my way through sketching these so it's easier to knock out lining and coloring.

To everyone demonstrating tomorrow: Be safe. Don't post that you're going. Don't post pictures during. And put the DATE on any signs you make so they can't say it's old footage.

i'm always saying this

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes. It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click. I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Gyaru samurai for Crystober. Veeery slowly working my way through sketching these so it's easier to knock out lining and coloring.

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions. Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail. Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos. Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

You don't have to shop for Black Friday. You don't have to shop on Prime day. You don't have to spend what you usually spend on Christmas. You don't have to let those subscriptions you barely use renew. If you can't make a statement anywhere else, you can make your voice heard with your $$.

Kill the hustler inside your mind

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

the shittiest art you DO make is always better than the perfect art you never make

Real. One of THE most freeing bits of writing advice I ever got was, "you should be unafraid to alienate some people from your work. Trying to please everyone makes for boring storytelling, and that's worse than poorly-executed storytelling.

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster. The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

Dandelions grow through cracks. Trees roots in burnt soil. Lava flowers bloom on black. Coral rebuilds after storms. Sunflowers drink radiation. Moss softens concrete. Birds nest in traffic lights. It's Nature telling us: things break, humans interrupt, but that's not the end. Life insists.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

a reminder

People will say “what can we do it’s inevitable we better embrace it” but the companies are running at these kind of profit margins or lack there of so the question is how long can they last or even be cheap enough for companies to chose to use over staff who will always do better meaningful work.

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

But really do not let this moment pass you up, call your reps and beat them over the head with evidence that ID verification will lead to uncontrollable sensitive information leaks and identity theft

I get the “you have to be weird” bc that’s true and valid but I also need people to treat sex and sexual content like it’s NOT weird. The weirder you act about it the less likely people are to share or discuss it for fear of being ostracized so like…what I’m saying is normalize weird I guess??

Autumn

Canonically Rei already is annoyed by having her locker stuffed with love letters, but just imagine when she looks like this....

Early 90's butch Mina has entered the chat! 🧡🏐💙

And Crystober Wild Dogs so far. Now... I rest lmao

I am determined to complete Crystober (the Crystal Animamates drawtober prompts) this year so here is Spess rocking both Druid and Jester costumes.

One of my friends posted a math puzzle on FB. I got the answer wrong and I didn't understand why. I was angry and frustrated because I just couldn't comprehend. Some nice people explained it to me and when it clicked I felt calm and even a little delighted. This post is also about trans people.

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

i can't stop taking pictures of my baby girl, and she can't stop getting into things. maybe shaming her on the internet will fix this