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also if you guys enjoyed gdt’s frankenstein please watch crimson peak. one of his best movies that got absolutely slept on bc there was like no marketing.

solution: ask artist to license existing artwork (that looks very similar in theme but WAY better) for one-time extremely limited use. Artist agrees. Artist gets paid, author gets non-AI, everybody is happy. YES you can do this!!! See something you really like from an artist? Ask to license it!

quick story: author I know hired a graphic designer. Graphic designer used AI assets. Author did not want this. Author realized close deadline that thing was AI. Author needed something not AI to replace this, and didn't have time so close to deadline to get a custom work or vet stuff. What do now?

America should take all that data center money and invest it in more whimsical art installations and murals like these instead

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Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

It’s that time of the yr to help your local wasp/hornet drones who have been abandoned to get a little before they pass on from the coming freeze and reduce your chances of getting stung. This is something I do every yr and I think the wasps appreciate it. Can’t wait to see them back again next yr

Watching this be proven in real time as result after result comes in is washing away so much of the ever present despair I’ve been feeling for months.

GOOD NIGHT NEW YORK!

It sucks because Direct File was one of the first times a lot of people ever had a positive experience using a government website or service.

30 artists spent a year documenting a #rewilding project in the UK with fine #biodiversity & #climate angles The land had been converted for crops during the World War II ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign & now is going back to the care of wild things:

I hadn’t considered this particular flavor of AI hell and now I’m mad all over again

Pets are wild, man. There's just this little dude or little lady living in your house, being a whole ass creature, living their little lives and following the tune of a song you'll never fully understand. It amazes me every time I look at an animal.

There's a reason earnest candidates who scale walls in the middle of the night or perform hakas in front of Parliament drive us wild.

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

I know it's tedious to say at this point, but this is why we need to listen when porn artists and sex workers raise the alarm about this shit. Art and people that can be dismissed as "immoral" are ALWAYS the thin end of the wedge when the powers that be try and assert control over entire systems.

Anyone know any #arthistory experts who would know more?

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Ocarina of Time & Twilight Princess when I was younger. Now I barely have enough free time to beat things once.

So I hear y'all had a crazy night in baseball

Halloween isn't just great because of the spooky vibes its special because, sadly, many people feel like they need an excuse to do something creative, make art, or use crafting supplies and Halloween gives them that.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross. The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular! The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

So I am slowly rereading the book and it turns out Victor DID consider doing an animal trial first but then dismisses the idea because he just KNOWS he's so awesome he can't *possibly* fail at making a human, so he's gonna do a human. Point stands, do not give this useless man a dog.

It's a Friday and the weather is very nice so I bought a shitload of candy in anticipation. We will see if the Trick or Treat gods reward my initiative.

Thread. We were not so bad off as Seanan's family but we were on WIC and free/reduced lunch for most of my school years. I still struggle with various feelings of shame and anxiety about food. Everyone should have enough to eat. We should give people far more than we do.

Cowards who want to do horror and still be "taken seriously" pull this shit all the time and it pisses me off because horror can be gorey and full of actual monsters and have just as much if not more meaning than an obscured WAS IT REAAALL? OOOooooo

Maybe I'm just a stupid dumb idiot but when I see a book being touted as a horror novel, I expect the horror to be more than just "is it real or just a meeetaphor OOOoooo spOOOpy." Like yeah, sure, I get it being a woman is scary, but Ginger Snaps was able to convey that WITH AN ACTUAL WEREWOLF.

Happy Halloween! 🐈‍⬛🧡 [ #cuteart #halloween ]

I truly can’t stop thinking about how beautiful the Monster’s performance was…Elordi did so much with his eyes and physicality. Especially when he was brand new & Victor was cruel to him — you’re screaming at a giant baby who doesn’t know stuff, man!!!

Ok but genuinely it struck me as so sad that Victor never names his creation. Worst fucking dad.

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Fake spiderwebs are a micro (and macro)plastic deathtrap. I would advise never using them www.smh.com.au/environment/...

For anyone looking for ways to reduce meal costs, I cannot recommend the Budget Bytes app and website highly enough. Most of the meals work out to under $2/serving, there are vegan options, things that freeze well, etc. The Moroccan Lentil Stew is my favorite.

Are you in North America, and want to try growing native plants in your garden, yard, public park, community space, or in containers on a balcony / porch? I've made a beginner's guide! It's long but I wanted to share all the info I have. Please consider trying. featherdust.com/growing-nati...

I feel like the real measure of Pokemon ZA quality is that I barely see anyone talking about it. That meh, huh?

AI agents tried to do graphic design, video editing, game development, and administrative chores like scraping data. "Even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991," writes @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

Here's a pic I took of the Alaskan landscape in the Fall from the Denali Highway. Hopefully it brings just a little wonder to your day.

If you live anywhere busy and have some flexibility, I recommend checking these out - you pre-order a bag of leftovers and pick up at the end of the day/shift. So for example, the local sandwich place usually gives a bag of 3 or 4 sandwiches and a couple of donuts for the price of 1 sandwich.

I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners. Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

Quote with your night #art #halloween

Interviewer: “How long is this sustainable?” Food Bank Director: “Wow, um, it’s not—it won’t be from the first day. For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9… It’s not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this.“ This is absolutely tragic.

by the way, you're not doing nothing. Slow creative days happen. Rough days happen. Believe me, I get it. But staring at your WIP, visualizing, adding a note for later, hell even just italicizing a single word. that shit counts. it's something. you're making an effort. that's never nothing.

Autumn 🍂

Starving people right before Thanksgiving is actually diabolical on every level imaginable. It's also the kind of cruelty people don't forget.

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

Quote with your red art