I recently saw a post saying, "Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars, everything is now 200 dollars." And for that reason I don't think I'll ever shame anyone asking for financial help for any reason because shit's been so fucked lately.

USA USA USA WTF IS A KILOMETER 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #usa #fourthofjuly #america250 I also gave Ho-oh a little mullet and sunglasses. Why Ho-oh? Cuz it's Pokémon number 250. #pokemon #pokemontcg

A vital piece of trans allyship is actually in supporting children's rights to bodily autonomy from the out. Someone is complaining their child wants to cut their hair short or grow it long? Point out that it's the child's hair. Why shouldn't they have it how they want it? Why is that parent upset?

Been doing pixel art for a while and getting back to some digital painting. Rolled for a random Pokemon and a random d&d class, getting Omanyte and Sorcerer. A perfect match. Hope people haven't forgotten our lord and savior. #pokemon #fanart #dungeons&dragons #d&d #procreate

The context being someone "fumbled" a date by mentioning they listen to @wooliewoolz.bsky.social & @patstaresat.bsky.social 's podcast is just,,, bueno

You would think “your mom using AI to make it look like you were given a birthday party” is the most pathetic thing you’d ever see but then you remember he runs this account himself

Major announcement posted at #Patreon yesterday: I'm producing a big #specevo #dinosaur book devoted to a "no K/Pg impact" scenario over the next 18 months. I'll be sharing updates on the project at Patreon throughout development, so sign up if you want previews! www.patreon.com/markwitton #sciart

Really cool and rad how hundreds of my peers are just waiting every day for the axe to drop (and we know it WILL drop) to discover whether they will lose their means of supporting themselves, or just be forced to watch it happen to their co-workers. Oh, and also to be productive until then!

I wake up every day now knowing I’m one step closer to a guillotine chopping off either myself, hundreds of my peers and friends, or both from this industry. Some of them will leave it all behind for good. This is not the way to make fun, polished, ambitious games that endure and make people happy.

Let me just echo the below tweet: it is completely untrue, at any university that I am aware of, including several peer institutions of Michigan, that it is a minimum qualification to TA a class that you have actually taken that class yourself

Silas Shelton had objected to Heartstopper at a school book fair, saying LGBTQ+ books posed a “mental health” risk to children. www.advocate.com/news/crime/h...

Had to take a stab at this one @schwartzsama.bsky.social

Plusle and Minun!!! I realized I never posted these! These 2 were the first Mimikyu varients I ever made and I finally remade them! Both went to the same home too!!!

Trans kids should be able to exist freely, fully, and joyfully.

Dungeon Mastery

Half the battle of being a creative is giving your life a stable enough routine long enough for you to get in the “rhythm” of finishing things And that doesn’t necessarily you have to get super rich. Your life just needs to not be volatile lol

trying to channel this energy every time someone is mean and wrong at me online

"it's a nice thing to do"

Supportive.

Gundam Zeta is very serious show.

I'm the bomb sniffing dog. I found the magic bomb the baddies hid in the walls.

Made this one a little chonkier ❤️ #pokemon #art #plush #needlefelting

If the bullshit machine actually were held to the standards of the humans who billionaire pedophiles keep trying to replace with it, the whole tower of dogshit would slump over. That's the point. That's why everyone is watching it constantly get away with errors that'd wreck a human's life.

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

This is epic games ceo tim sweeney objecting to steam making people tag their games if they used ai to make them. It’s weird how much work people do to treat people having preferences as fucked up or harmful

rewatching cowboy bebop w a friend and this part always makes me smile so much......i honestly cant think of a more detailed anime when it comes to the effort expended on environmental storytelling

Lex: Wow that guy really looks like Abraham Lincoln. Me: Don't Lex: What? Me: That would make two characters on my hear me out list that are just Lincoln Lex: Are you telling me Lincoln wouldn't be your type? Me: don't do this to me Lex: He is six foot four with a chin beard and muscular. Me: STOP

I am building the ✨ULTIMATE✨ Blender knowledge vault!! This will be a 100% *free* resource for artists of ALL levels with every little tip and trick to 3D available on the internet! The first version is already OUT! Check it out here: www.crashsune.com/blender-tips...

Monster Researcher Eclair doesn't mind if you're a little rough with this diamond. Eclair belongs to @spicymancer.bsky.social !

Jacket update! Finally ironned on a bunch of new patches. New additions include the cross stitched applin I made last year based on @astaralys.bsky.social 's pixel art. The sinnoh and kanto patches are from the pokemon center. Last but not least trans pride pokeball by @shatteredneedle.bsky.social!

American cops are in basically every way a warrior class that does not actually have to fight and you should view those laws as comparable to premodern ones that barred commoners from owning weapons and qualified immunity as their right to strike you down for disrespecting them

To understand the Steam Machine price, all you have to do is lookup hardware prices. This is for 32gb of RAM Prices are 5 times higher than normal at the moment.

Owning a lot of books is great. Packing and moving with a lot of books is not great.

Like Kermit, Jim had left the swamps for the glitter of TV and hot, had put together his own "clan of whackos" to work with, and struggled to escape from the advertising business. Kermit's motivation in heading for Hollywood was also similar to Jim's own--rather than fame, he wants to entertain.

Drone Commander

One day I spontaneously decided to draw some of the Star Wars gals with no refs. Went unxpectedly well! The characters are: @lucidmusings.bsky.social's Ela @eldstunga.bsky.social's Rynn @kanzensun.bsky.social's Vatia #art #fanart #starwars #zabrak #twi'lek #mirialan #ela'kira #rynn #vatia

Another riff on the idea of light man amplifier - for combat on a higher gravity world

AMAZING DISCOVERY The Raleigh wasn't my first ransom note meme THIS BULLSHIT WAS

I hate Ai being used at any point of a production but I cannot understand why people think it sounds better to say that you only used it at the early stages of pre-production. That's the fun bit!! The ideas bit!! The creative bit!! The bit that makes your story YOURS.

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California

many of you forget that this is bluesky's purpose

Me, a fool: I am sure that finishing Cowboy Bebop will make me feel better.

Creating art, in a nutshell ( Nobuo Uematsu, from this interview: youtu.be/aGbB5n3tnJU?... )

They stole OUR money that WE worked for.

Pokeplush collection update! I was gifted this gigantimax snorlax by @xgremlynnx.bsky.social. i thinn they fit in perfectly with the squad. My favorite detail on this plush is that the tree has multiple kinds of berries on it!

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.