I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

So- I know it's random and probably a lil late I've been meaning to do something for the 1.2k followers ;;; and- so i made a starter pack. It's a huge mix- WARNING: HAS NSFW ACCOUNTS AS WELL!!! Not adding anyone else to the pack, but PLZ share if you can!!! go.bsky.app/R7GfE9G

I first bought Edge magazine back in 1993 and never stopped. This account is dedicated to celebrating over 30 years of gaming history by revisiting 400+ issues of one of the industry's most distinctive voices. Expect scans, excerpts, some brutal reviews, and plenty of talk about the good old days.

At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once. Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

didnt have time to do a full illustration for today, so I'll do an AMA instead! Feel free to ask anything (∿°○°)∿ ︵ <3

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Webcomic creators - ComicFury needs our help! ComicFury is basically the last of the old-school webcomic hosting sites and the mod Kyo needs more financial support if he's going to continue. If you host on ComicFury, I encourage you to support Kyo at patreon.com/comicfury or ko-fi.com/comicfury! 🐊📖

Reminder that if you see something horrific, there is good evidence that playing Tetris as soon as possible helps. Giving yourself PTSD from seeing photos or film clips doesn’t help anyone.

If you are not from Kansas but want to help the best way is to support: ACLU Kansas: action.aclu.org/give/support... Planned Parenthood Great Plains: www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/onlineaction... and Kansas Interfaith Action: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Grew up watching a Trans woman win Big Brother, hearing music with lyrics that celebrated Trans people, seeing folk flourish as themselves. Now we’re going backwards I will ALWAYS stand against the politicisation and degradation of human rights. Solidarity to our Trans family 🏳️‍⚧️ 💪🏻

@dragonflycreates.bsky.social Avanna's design is incredible!

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

25.2.2026 🧃😙🍃💕‼️ I wish the first day of the work wasn't so tiring... it's too hard!! Maybe I just wanna be a silly widdle guy! Maybe I just wanna draw and play games and go frolicking....!! 🥺💕‼️ #OC #PokemonOC #OCSky #SophieArties #Feb2026Arties

Everything sucks right now, but I’m doing my best to stay alive

mortality's tenderness #loveanddeepspace #lads #zayne #rafayel #caleb #xavier #sylus

Some art I made lately for myself, friends and my boyfriend 🩷

I, a fan of 'Wuthering Heights' (the book), have made the terrible mistake of dipping my toe into the discourse around the recent adaptation and hearing the changes they made. I will now offer a sincere apology to Cliff Richard and his musical - you were high art compared to...this.

✨HAPPY MONDAY✨ 📢 All Will Rise's 3-hour DEMO is part of STEAM NEXT FEST store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest 🎤 Come join me + the team LIVESTREAMING the game TODAY at 2pm GMT store.steampowered.com/news/app/316... 🤑 Back us on Kickstarter + we'll 💜 u 4ever www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

Alright Bsky pals I need to outsource some executive function: I have over 100 signups (!!) to tomorrows webinar on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance but I am full of some big flu involving major glandular involvement, painful skin, brain fog/headache & am solo parenting two toddlers

People keep talking about if Bluesky is “relevant” or if it has reach or whatever, I don’t care I’m here to have fun, do what u want

There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

Substack announces a partnership with Polymarket. “Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.”

Substack isn’t just “platforming and monetizing Nazis” now. It is also promoting service providers that make money from pushing people to gamble on and seek an 'edge' in just about anything. Polymarket: “Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.” www.theverge.com/news/881292/...

▶️ pinayu.itch.io/masked-artist VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL corregida. Diría que muy cerca de la versión 1.0 y aún queda la mitad de las copias gratuitas. 👌 ENGLISH VERSION corrected. I’d say it’s very close to version 1.0. Half of the free copies are still available. 😊 #ttrpg #solorpg #rol #music #busker

The media is able to name him. The police do not say that he is white British, nor that his late father came from Greece. [Philip had a thirst for knowledge, but Andrew did not inherit this] www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

‘The biggest cheer of the day is not for any of the skiers’

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

Elon Musk automated the creation and distribution of deepfake nudes on X, so the UK government is going to ban 14yos from TikTok?

🍓🪽Strawberry Angel Girl🪽🍓 A girl who radiates a soft & mystical energy about her 😇 She loves anything pink, sweet, fluffy & that reminds her of LOVE 💕 Does that sound like you? 😲 My entry to a mood board themed collab for Valentine’s Day - we made characters based on mood boards ☁️ #cuteart #art

Hideki Sato, designer of virtually all of Sega’s consoles, has died. vgc.news/news/hideki-...

chatGPT finally shut down the sycophantic and hyper-agreeable version 4o and people are losing their shit over it trying to get them to reverse it

This is the most thorough evisceration of armchair game design and online gamer groupthink I've ever seen

Fuck Harry Potter Go play Failbetter games (Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Mask of the Rose, Mandrake)

I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?

Making books or comics isn’t a race to be won by some AI grifter. It’s is an actual miracle, considering all that has to align to publish them. Please support small writers & artists! 🙏 Like the team I’m on at IC, making SLEEPING WIZARDS! It goes live in 5 DAYS www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

🚨Do. not. use. individual's. actions to. attack. whole. groups.🚨 Not unless you want to take the blame for every person in your social demographic. Bad people exist in every group. That's not an excuse to use the actions of individuals to target those groups, particularly already marginalised groups

Creating magical spiritual art for empowered women seeking inspiration and comfort in a fast-paced world. My Archetypes are companions for your journey, crafted from my own experiences as a ND person. If this resonates, let's connect! #SpiritualArt #EmpoweredWomen

! Feb's Fewer Than 500 Followers Artist Update ! Woo! Thanks to y'all another 14 artists graduated out of this since I edited it! I replaced em and kept it at 50 artists. all of these artists are: • over 18 years old • active on here • incredible artists #art #artistsupport go.bsky.app/16kGMBq

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Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

🌸 #ARTSHARE TIME 🌸 It’s the 7th of Feb and the first week of the month has already passed! I hope everyone is doing good so far! As per usual for artist highlights this month I’ll be using #febartworkhighlights🌸 to highlight a few artists Have fun! Interact, and have a wonderful day 🥰 #artmoots

I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm in a little hamlet between photographers and MLP fan artists. If nothing else, my area has a lot of fun stuff a stone's throw away including...Leeds United Football?!

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip