Thousands of you have joined @skylight.social this week 🥹 Put your handle in the comments so i can follow you all!!! ✨ #tiktoksale #skylightsocial #skylight

Though I feel the need to stress that RTing other artists is imo in no way unprofessional/ cluttered looking, as they don't show up in the media tab. Instead I personally find artists that never show up for others in that way rather odd (and have little sympathy when they complain about engagement)

I see posts going around about clean media tabs vs yapping and for the last time: "You CAN put as much of your personality, interests, etc out there as you feel comfortable" coexists with "If the vast majority of your posts have nothing to do with art, then no shit people might not know you draw"

mythical pokemon 💫 #art #pokemon

He destroyed democracy because Obama humiliated him in a televised roast once and couldn’t get over it. He’ll start WWIII because Denmark didn’t give him a prize Obama received. Even though it’s Norway who makes that decision. Truly, the dumbest timeline we could conceive of.

Genuinely, I've forgotten how search results used to function and what finding articles easily was like. I installed the DuckDuckGo browser after that vote thing the other day and turned off all the AI and oh my gosh, search results ✨ work ✨

I need to do some shopping. #gamedev

TikTok has been added to Ellison’s media empire 🤮 I’m thankful to all the folks who are building on Open Social and working to give users a better place to escape 💕 logos: @flashes.blue @blackskyweb.xyz @stream.place @bsky.app @skylight.social #breakingnews #tiktoksale

Blacksky leading the way, as always! Congrats to the team on this amazing work! Excited to follow suit over on the Northsky side as well during Phase 2. ATproto continues to grow and evolve and thrive thanks to the hard work of the broader ATmosphere community!

blacksky has just opened a testing version which does not rely on any of the bluesky appstack and is entirely self-hosted by @blackskyweb.xyz if you've been frustrated by the official moderation of @moderation.bsky.app , feel free to test out staging.blacksky.community !!

I'd argue that the AI wasn't art until it was eaten

Hi all, we're going to be doing more database maintenance today, so you can expect the site to be down for a while (I'd estimate an hour or more) this afternoon. We'll let you know when everything is back up and running.

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

This could have funded SO MANY games if just spent. If invested, the gains alone could have funded an insane number of games PERPETUALLY.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

CM

Secret santa gift I did for @vipermenace.bsky.social! Thank you @circuittherobot.com for organizing and running such a sweet event 🖤

Cheats is the robot equivalent of driving on a spare tire for a year because you’re too busy to get a real replacement but you know you really should have fixed it months ago so it’s making you anxious, but it’s still working so maybe it’s fine? (It’s not)

One of my largest impacts in the world so far might be the Armada Starscream that I drew for TF and I'm okay with that.

A dance that never ends #loz

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

i think gatekeeping brushes is so fuckin stupid so here are my most used brushes that i regularly share with my twitch chat: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I didn’t realize she’d keep multiplying and now I can’t… see what I’m drawing

Mini shop update is live! Come get your gays and jayvik Main shop: Velinxi.art EU/ UK shop: Etsy.com/shop/velinxi

Introducing dvattra to tiktok is so funny so many of the comments are like “woah I didn’t think of this but I’m into it”. It makes me feel like Prometheus bringing fire to the mortals but the fire is expired gummy worms

I stopped using sticker mule absolute ages ago because of the owner’s bullshit. The owner is still on his bullshit, so if you use sticker mule, maybe don’t. StickerAPP is a good alternative, and also there’s most likely a local sticker printer near you (Sticker Ninja in Portland, for example).

These devs - I hesitate to even call them that if they choose to use genAI in *any* aspect of their work - are getting so wholly brazen in persuading us that this shit is normal. That generative AI is just another aspect of game development, or worse, "art". It's so sad how desperate they are.

absofuckinglutely not LOL

Yeah, the scale of the number of kids from marginalised demographics that just had their lifelines yanked away.

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

It's been one of those years. 15 days of it. h/t @effinbirds.com

I love sharks 🦈 #art #shark

honestly humiliating for everyone involved, even people who had to read the story

Nobel Please Prize

You ever notice how the 2nd amendment folks are curiously silent. They swore up and down they needed guns to stand against a theoretical future oppressive police state. Now that the police state is no longer theoretical.....

Profile > Click the 3 dots next to Edit Profile > Go Live You'll need to set it when you're live, provide a URL, and set a time for it to display for up to 4 hours. Nifty!

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

typical ai use case

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

She’s 50% there, let’s please get her to her goal and help the next people 🖤

I’ll let you into my quarantine zone…but you gotta say something nice about me first ☺️ Live with more Quarantine Zone, a very unserious zombie apocalypse game. Come chill: twitch.tv/jeffbrutlag

On a more positive note, many of the creators from Hiveworks came together to create the Chimera Comics Collective - a place where we could maintain the 'webring' aspect of Hiveworks and continue supporting each other. Please follow us here! 🦁🐐🐍 @chimeracomics.bsky.social

did anyone else find this part HORRIFYING like someone would just get editor credits on YOUR work even though they didn't actually do anything?!?!

Hey all, some of you may know my comic through Hiveworks, or know of CTC’s past association with Hiveworks due to the book 1 Kickstarter. I would recommend reading through this and the personal experiences of the affected artists in the QRTs. Please show them and their webcomics some support-

Hey. You know those cute little crow time comics everyone loves so much? That's Isa. That's who everyone is talking about. I think that needed to be made clear since I noticed some confusion and a lot are actually rather unaware of this fact because she's great at separating herself from this.

I’m still reading through this but 4th point is crazy to me! I applied to hiveworks twice and checked in the first time after they went past their date estimate and was ghosted ever since (lol), but one time Isa posted on twitter “if you want advice on how to get an agent you can dm me” so I did

although many artists were treated worse, this is why the Kochab kickstarter took 6+ months longer to ship. Everything was ready to go, but they had taken my ks-raised shipping funds and spent it on unrelated things! 🙃 I also had to beg/nag for over a year to get my own share of the ks profit, lol

The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at: cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...