Je viens (enfin) de lire Rivages Lointains d' @hakunette.bsky.social . Et oh putain. Oh putain !! Énorme claque.

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

La France, c'est le pays qui célèbre chaque année une insurrection populaire mais qui crie à l'ensauvagement dès qu'une poubelle flambe, et dont la BD la plus célèbre parle d'un village qui résiste à une occupation coloniale impérialiste, sans parvenir à regarder son propre système oppressif en face

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Hi #portfolioday ! ✨ I'm a french illustrator and cartoonist. I have a burning passion for creating fantasy and historical-themed characters. I'm currently working on a big comic project which the first volume should be out next year !

[GEDDAN] #dungeonmeshi

"C’est donc avec l’argent des cotisations sociales prélevées désormais auprès des artistes auteurs que ces montants ont été payés" 40 ans d'incompétence vénale, forcément ça s'applaudit ds notre univers parallèle

This is a general "I am really scared by the state of the world and sometimes that manifests in unhealthy ways on social media and thank you for putting up with me" post. I'm sure we're all feeling it but I'm especially in it lately. I'll do my best (just like everyone else). Thanks.

A trip down memory lane ! It's so weird thinking about how much things have changed in the last few years

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

How cool is that !!

OH I'M SO HYPED youtu.be/G4Df2vAnKZo?...

Hi if you're a #ttrpg creative who ✨ Does cornrnissions ✨ Doesn't use AI ✨ Properly labels adult content ✨ Uses alt text to the best of their abilities Please comment below with some examples of your work to be added to a starter pack!

🌟🌱Artists! QRP with what would be your loading screen tip! If you're struggling to get the perspective of a composition just right... finding a reference image that's close to what you want and then "tracing" the "planes" in it as grids saves so much time and headache that it feels like cheating.

THE PROMISED DAY HAS COME, HAPPY SILKSONG TO ALL

btw here's the direct link to the form, and if you check the thread I'm quoting you'll find many well-articulated points you can copy-paste into it, pls take a moment to provide them your feedback and make your voice heard

If you've ever seen these photos online, you may be interested to know I took them about 15 years ago You may also be interested to know that I did a 3D scan of this exact same Asaro Planes of the Head model, and you can get that scan here for zero moneys: drive.google.com/file/d/1_W-2...

i stg every kink can be subtextually boiled down to: -i am powerful/in control -i am seen as desirable -i am safe and can now be vulnerable -i can explore taboo in a safe + controlled environment once you realize that you realize that no kink can hurt you

I dont "NETWORK", I do not "keep a consistent schedule", I don't try to make my art "stand out" on people's feeds. I POST MY ART. And if it flops, I DON'T CARE.

Petit rappel que y a pleins de syndicats pour les artistes auteurices ! Je suis au SNAP CGT, mais vous avez aussi le STAA qui a bossé sur la continuité des revenus, le SNAC (avec la section BD aussi), le CAAP, la ligue, mais aussi la Charte des illustrateurs jeunesse etc Syndiquez vous !

Hey artists, quote with your artwork showing women in all their glory 🩸

Free lettering tutorials with practice: github.com/saraoswald/l... Udemy lettering course: www.udemy.com/course/manga...

f) get a VPN, use it daily to acclimatize, have them on your hard drive, several VPN's preferable. this is for the age verification laws coming. Start reading up on secure, privacy-focused infrastructure (prioritize email > website > shop in that order). eff.org has a *ton* of resources.

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

On est dans une période politique où le résultat des urnes est devenu une suggestion dont notre président se passe, où l’extrême droite monte et où les gauches se bouffent le nez. Se syndiquer c'est se redonner un peu de pouvoir politique grâce au collectif.

Retweet to save an artist's life

This is honestly mainly how I know him. I have uncomplicated feelings about it.

Oh hey this font sale is back on! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack i bought this last time and it's been totally worth it even if i only use one or two! Great collection of fonts here for authors, artists, and graphic designers.

A takeaway from the Alex Avila video and some other content like it: Marxist ideology is just not an effective lens for engaging with the *profession* of art.

I dunno about the rest of ya'll. But hearing leftists talk about how AI is "good actually" and that we only have a problem with it because it's mostly used by hyper-capitalists and fascists is willfully naive at best.

Sone hypothetical unicorn future where power and status don't matter so who made what and and by what means and who owns it doesn't matter anymore is a cute thought experiment, but not relevant to me in the immediate real world where the people who matter starve while the stupid and corrupt thrive.

I'll bang this drum til I die.

Artists: Generative AI being pushed on us is very harmful to us in the here and now. Alex Avila for some reason: Okay yeah but what if it didn't, have you ever thought of that?

my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted

i hate that this dumb fuckin video has worked on so many artists on the left. Like sorry man i know we are sensitive emotional souls but u need to recognize when you've been hoodwinked by spooky editing and a 3 hour runtime into thinking his dogshit arguments are smart

Of all the awful bullshit that's come from AI, the talking point that copyright is the 'tool of the oppressor' makes me slap my forehead so hard my eyeballs shoot out of my hoop. Copyright means YOU own your creations! Companies have to pay us to use them!! That's how we make money!!!

There's a group of "post-left anarchists" I used to follow here and on mastodon/twitter who basically push for AI bullshit because they believe any kind of system that protects any kind of property (private, personal, intellectual, doesn't matter) is inherently evil and oppressive.

sorry last thing. at one point he's like "With ChatGPT nurses will be able to access medical information they didn't have access to before, letting them improve their value and salaries" like. Buddy. Has this kid literally ever worked a job or had a boss

hes talking about the legal case now, he's wrong on every point, everything he's saying "models do not contain data they train on, compressed versions of training data, cannot reproduce training data" is dead wrong, Reid Southen obliterated this argument ages ago im so mad people will absorb this

Every fuckin time AI defenders who pretend to engage in good faith debates studiously avoid the central fucking point, which is that tech companies are raking in millions hand over fist on tech that requires MOUNTAINS of labor just to FUNCTION, & not a single worker has consented or been compensated

Hi! Nice to e-meet you Alex. Wish it were under better circumstances. Anyhow let’s address your points! Sorry, this is gonna be a long one ☠️ So for those of you who hate reading this shit in a thread, here’s a google doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Otherwise follow the conversation below:

Do you know why copyright sucks? It's bc artists live in constant financial precarity and often have no choice but to sign over their life's work to Michael Mouse for a fraction of what it's worth. You know what would be worse than that? If Copyright didn't exist and Michael didn't have to pay shit

The swarm of unserious “copyright is bad” replyguys on social media has pushed me FULLY the other way. Copyright is incredible. We don’t live in a social utopia and I don’t think we ever will- copyright can be improved, but I LOVE that we have laws that protect people who actually make stuff

And because I really want yall to make personal websites so badly, I made 7 free-to-use website templates for yall. You can grab them on ko-fi and gumroad ko-fi.com/s/c98491a937 nolnir.gumroad.com/l/monoSeries Three examples below👇

Last illustration of my dnd oc ! #art #dnd

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Old art header from 2017 #owl #barnowl #digitalart