Today marks 20 YEARS since Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker was posted to @newgrounds.com.

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They aren’t a dime a dozen out west — seeing a live cardinal in person is still on my bucket list. #redbird

I just saw people on Reddit pressuring a rural teenager to come out and telling them it’s their duty because we need people in the fight, and that to me is fucked up. No one has to come out. You can choose safety. That’s literally not my business. We gotta stop eating each other.

This is doing numbers I don’t usually get so I just want to say: Take every opportunity to tell people in your life you love queer people. You never know who needs a safe person. To my fellow queers: You being here matters so much, out or not. It’s everything. Please stay on this stupid planet.

Here’s a gosling. I think I’ll call him Ryan. He’s a Canadian.

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Amazing imaginative photography by Spanish duo Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda. TT: ClawClips

Posted 3 hours ago by @paulkenton.bsky.social "One of my favorites. Beginning with splashes and poured tones, the work develops into a more refined image while maintaining its inherent randomness and energy. 🗽🎨 #art #painting #artist #artistsoninstagram #newyork" IG acct: @paulkenton Paul Kenton

I love the comments in this that point out that solar farms are good for both agricultural land and city areas. Solar farms not data centres!

So, this isn’t anything to do with the headline, I just want to brag that when I saw the French version of this post, I accurately translated it in my own brain! 🧠 woohoo! 🙌🏻

The more people switch to #DuckDuckGo, the more “ducking” will become an accurate autocorrect option.

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few moments and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

OMG! Squee! 🥰 youtube.com/post/UgkxB9J...

Also, #artcommunity of Bluesky: who can explain or has a good video that fully explains what #photobashing is? I had thought that it was using a photo to map over parts of a drawing like a colour fill, and that sounded very cool and fun, but apparently, that’s not quite it? Help? #art

Ok, I just watched another video about the new #artfight rules (yeah, yeah, not new, whatever), and I totally didn’t realize that the tracing ban would also include drawing over memes. I love when people put OCs into well known/old school memes! It’s hilarious!

#Bluesky, your discover algorithm is hot garbage. I don’t begrudge people sharing their grief when they lose a pet, but you don’t need to push the same story from 6 strangers in the space of an hour to my feed. This is not how you keep the attention of your customers.

o_O O_O #Cat #Caturday

The world needs more dog videos.

Reminder: if you're in the Canadian Dental Care Plan, you need to renew by June 1st, otherwise you'll be removed and will need to re-apply. www.canada.ca/en/services/... #Canada

Who is shocked the billionaire candidate assumed he could buy the election? ✋🏻 Anybody? Bueller? Yeah, me either. #uspoli #billionairesgonnabillionaire #taxtherich #donotelectthem youtube.com/shorts/LrWyM...

No. Just, no. There is no debate. Anyone who dislikes Canada can leave (they aren’t chained to the floor). Montana is a very nice state — it has everything the separatists could want, except Canada’s natural resources, of course. #FFS #abpoli #itwasneveraboutindependence #traitorsnotwelcome

So, I replaced the tip of my Apple Pencil for the first time today. I’ve had it about a year, and for whatever reason, it didn’t occur to me that I would need replace the nib even though I use it 10+ hours a day every day. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Such a difference! #doh #art #digitalart

I'm just gonna drop this here, regarding the whole #artfight rules issue

Two bees sleeping in a flower.. I’m so normal about this 🥹🥹

I ❤️ this *so* much! #art

Hey! Look who remembered that they have a blog ... me, it was me 🫣 www.patreon.com/posts/oops-1...

#Artists! QRP with the first ever picture of your OC and the most recent one: I didn’t think much had changed since the first time I drew Val was January of this year, but I guess working on a comic really pushes your work faster than stand alone illustrations. 😳 #oc #digitalart #webcomic

I do want to look at this paragraph here - because I mean, this is kind of the double edged sword, they say they didn't mean to pass judgement on certain techniques, but... by including this in how they score things it's... inherently passing judgement? (1/?)

The more I read about this, the more I truly believe the only way forward for #artfight is to get rid of the point system all together. Switch it over to a star rating system that the spectators vote on, and have the back end computer average the votes. The team with the higher average /5 wins. Easy

It’s not wrong to mourn the loss of identity Americans are dealing with right now. All across the country people are waking up to realize that everything they were raised to believe was a lie. It’s ok to mourn. Don’t let anyone tell you different. But afterwards, comes the time for action. #uspoli

Scrolling through #yt and I come across this video, and think, “this is what people should respond with whenever conservatives go on their BS tears about ‘wHAt iS a wOmAn?’”

“Jumped through hoops” like stealing voter data to pad the petition no one else wanted to sign, you mean? 🤨 Go right ahead, Rath. Oust Smith. We didn’t want your foreign-backed plant to start with. Just remember, the owners of those signatures you faked vote, and they don’t vote for traitors.

Holy crap, people are in a mood today. Here’s a thought, if the existence of random strangers on the internet offends you, take it as a sign that you need to log off for a bit. Sheesh! 😬 #sotesty #thisiswhywecanthavenicethings #lookatthiskitty

Ooo, #wipwednesday? I can do that. I have lots (maybe I shouldn’t be bragging about a lot of unfinished work 🤔 Anyway … this is me learning to draw Scratch from #bg3 — yes, I lean hard on Disney style when I don’t know how to draw something 😜 #art #csp #digitalart #comics

Yeah, good priorities there, Dani. I mean, it’s not like our junior high schools have to share 8 textbooks between 30 students per class or anything. And no one in AB has died waiting in an ER for several hours because there was no room in the hospital for them … oh, wait. 🤦🏼‍♀️ #abpoli #canpoli #86UCP

Medical Science. 🇨🇦 🧬 #beaversofbluesky #omnomnom #canadiancutie #asmr youtu.be/vNePhmCMnbU?...

More self aware than a lot of humans these days.

This gets worse & worse. Turns out Hoekstra wasn’t just *involved* with the separatists, he might have been behind the whole thing. Now he’s hiding from the #RCMP in Washington DC. And the leader of the separatists? Hiding in Texas. #uspoli #canpoli deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I think Bluesky’s algorithm is trying to convince me to learn a second language. Or maybe a third (does it count as a second language when you can usually struggle your through high school level French? Probably not)? Bluesky believes that I will enjoy German comics. I don’t disagree 🤔

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Cancel the referendum.

Remember when pencils were the go-to souvenir for day trips? I know they use graphite for all kinds of stuff these days, but I kinda still want a pencil with Matawinie graphite in it. I’m an #artnerd, what can I say 🤷🏼‍♀️ ✏️

Mine is ASMR of a guy in Ontario making books by hand (Four Keys Book Binding, if anyone is interested). Sometimes he talks and tells viewers what he’s doing, sometimes the commentary is only in the closed captions. It is weirdly relaxing, but also hypnotic. #theyoutuberabbithole

AltText added Additionally, the photo was actually taken by Debbie Parker in WV (more sourcing in the AltText) (Apparently Donnie Danias name gotten attached at some point) Best of all, it was taken in 2022, which means it's definitely not AI lol

#uspoli #canpoli #art #comic #notgoingbacktonormal

New slimy spirit friends! I should have enough to make up a small spot drop of these lil dudes by the end of the month. Holler if there's a colour you'd like to see! 👀 #art #handmade #sculpture #CANartist

I took today off work. So far, I have eaten cold pizza, leftover cake, and potato chips. I played Animal Crossing twice and took a nap. I spent a lot of time on the porch with the dog. Sometimes the best thing you can do with time is waste it.

So, I’m old, and I had to Google what “vibe coding” was, and I have to say that I’m blown away that Ai written code is prevalent enough to have its own name already. Imma go climb back under my rock 🪨 #whippersnappers #newfangledideas #mybackhurts #whostolemyslipper