Hey blusky folxs, how does one find *digital* colouring books that aren’t AI slop?? Etsy seemed filled with bots/AI shops. Ideally would want pieces more nature based than super detailed (no humans!) but there’s got to be a way to shift through the slop #adultcoloringbooks #colouringbooks

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I'm sorry but I found myself really loving this brush and trying out more comic/manga/lineart heavy styles. Featuring my oc Evie!💀

go tell your favorite artists you like their work. you may think they hear it enough or your praise would be identical to someone else's so you say nothing, but i promise you they would love to hear it. and sometimes they need to hear it.

Hi everyone! I'm Alma and I draw a whole lot~ 🥰 🌳links: linktr.ee/almakrowan 🌿art server link: ⬆️ ☕buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/almakrowan ✍️tutorials: almakrowan.carrd.co#resources ✉️[email protected] 🗨️discord: almakrowan (WORK only!)

The irony is that I had no idea that the head of trust and safety was caught liking porn on his official account. Now I do and so do you. You're welcome(?) Responding like this (4 strike rule and this specific violation counts as 4) is deeply pathetic and stupid.

Devil's Riff. 😈

TODAY

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

Art isn't illegal, but some of you aren't ready for that conversation huh

I'd apologise for the language, but no, this warrants it - No shit sherlock. Politicians reached for an easy brute-force win over real solutions and are getting their assess handed to them by the very teens whose online lives they tried to shutter for tabloid credit. gizmodo.com/majority-of-...

Ruling: True. We can't believe a word that comes out of the Trump administration on any topic. Not even whether Iran has agreed to peace talks or how many missiles we have left. It's no wonder people assume he staged one or more of his assassination attempts.

To celebrate reaching 900 followers, I made my first starterpack! 🎉 To join just: ✨Share your art and introduce yourself ✨Properly tag NSFW ✨🔁 for visibility 🚫 AI/NFT's Thank you for the support everyone! 🖤 if anyone wants to be removed, please LMK!! #starterpack #artmoots go.bsky.app/3aVDYsF

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

This continues to be a hugely expensive problem for me. And it's all down to a major lie at the heart of Substack's promise that writers on Substack can leave and take their subscriber list with them at any time. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yasuo detoxing on a rock in a lake. He gazes upon the night sky, for that is his mental stimulation. He's terrified of the dark, yet sees immense comfort when seeing the glimmer of stars. #art #physicalart #humanartist #illustration #mahoju #prettyboy #femboy #genderfluid #oc #ocart

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

here it is if u need an excuse to not come into work:

A few years ago I was told that my art career would be over if I didn't make NFTs ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I need 107 sign-ups to make rent and cover bills this month. You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day. 16% off if you sign up annually! Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.

"I just don't understand why you're not excited about AI, Sparky. It's going to change so many things about work and the workplace!" No, it's just going to be the same as it always was, but much worse. I mean, 'Never ask for a raise', 'No HR required' What do you think that means?

Y’all noticed this happens frequently to every platform/service that announces they’re using ai

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The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Artist & friend Gary McCluskey is trying to rebuild his illustration business after a long bout with cancer. Please check out his art and consider hiring him! He's always been prompt, professional, and a pleasure to work with. www.artstation.com/garymcc

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

also seriously, no matter how much you are posting i promise you someone has not heard of your book / movie / tv show / comic etc

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

It's discourse I find baffling in that it uses a particular moment in online dynamics from 2010-2018 as an unrealistic benchmark for developments now. The web was a world of niches before 2010 and is becoming a world of niches again The everything app model is one that lingers most in dictatorships

Bluesky growth/popularity discourse is nonsensical without acknowledging that the website is run by people who don’t want to grow it and who are in fact quite mad about users getting in the way of them playing with toys.

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

Comm for anon on #Vgen !. The idea behind this design is that it embodies the void and expanse of the stars!. It was a challenging piece to give shape to, but very happy with the result!. #art #design #fantasy #fantasyweapons #illustration #artsky #SageCindersComms #VgenComm #stars

If you're 'forced to be sneaky about it', then you are basically admitting that you know, on some level, that what you're doing is wrong and your audience doesn't want it. I've worked hard to improve myself as a writer which is why I will never use AI for anything. Human art from human hearts.

Not a fan of Attie, the new AI-based feed creator by the Bluesky team. I’ve spent almost 3 years on this platform inviting and approving artists to be SciArt Feed contributors, and promoting the Feed. During the beta, I invited some of the most popular artists and scientists to Bluesky. 1/4

I'm still £548 short and I have to pay it tonight! ☹️

Happy TDOV!!!! 💙🩷🤍🩷💙 You are loved You are valued 🏳️‍⚧️🫶✨

Hiiii I'm Mattibee! I'm a transmasc artist that loves drawing creatures and monsters and other sorts of beasts! 🐛🏳️‍⚧️ My shop and commissions are open on my Ko-Fi page below! ko-fi.com/mattibeearts...

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

i don't mean to sound performative or sanctimonious or whatever but i just cannot wrap my head around what kind of person you have to be to meet someone who introduces themselves with their name and identity and reply with "actually no you're not"

Hello, it’s #TransDayOfVisibility so here’s me and my three trans girl OCs || #PenanceArt • #PenanceOC • #TDOV ||

My 'performative AI luddism' is rooted in the fact that a machine that plagiarises people's work, hallucinates answers, and is often implemented with little regard to whether the technology is actually useful for workers is maybe not a good thing. Kind of like the historical Luddites, actually.

FUN FACT: You personally interact with dozens, even hundreds of artists and storytellers on this website every day who dedicate 0% of their resources to directly harming trans people. Many of them have comics, or albums, or podcasts, or even fantasy novels available for your guilt-free enjoyment!

I use AI

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED