omg amazing they got a tiny flesh sample (like super tiny, pencil-eraser size) from a surfaced whale and were pulling it back to the boat when an albatross tried to eat it! they screamed in horror and threw bread rolls at the albatross to try and scare it away or at least distract it

Good morning, and a huge fuck you for AI users.

PoGO events always inspire me... Grim Absol, grimmsnarl x absol fusion OC!

“I said I wouldn’t get ANOTHER Pokédog… but… 🥺”

Most people in general don't want to be famous, being famous sucks ass

Most people who get into game development don't want to be famous, there is a reason Yoko Taro wears a mask and Tobyfox is a small dog. I think this applies any creative endeavor that isn't film or music, really

Just thinking about the animation in Incredibles. There are very few movies before or since where you get the impression that the characters have actual physics to them because of how they move. The faces are just believable in a way that feels natural.

Zero Suit Chun-li #SF6

🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation. If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc. We got 3 days to stop this. Call now! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

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Whoa— curious to see what this looks like in practice, but a VOD rental platform that is not a world-killing corporation is something that is badly needed.

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

Deviljho (2019) #jandriSFWart #monsterhunter

Happy International Men's Day! Men can be strong, smart, creative, and compassionate. We are not constrained by our manliness, but can flourish within it in a way that brings joy and hope to others and to ourselves.

It can be tough to see a world that's so full of hostile, self-absorbed, predatory, delusional, brutish and pathetic men, and to have most of our role models - even from early childhood - be defined by their capacity for physical violence or domination of others.

As with anything, we should oppose behaviour that perpetuates unacceptable conditions, but also take care not to dismiss or discourage the behaviour and mindset we *want* to see. Celebrate positive growth, nurture healthy masculinity and masculine people.

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This is...sort of brilliant.

小东西一起放了

sailfish #fishart #sailfish

TEAM DARK

It is particularly unconscionable given that LA and SoCal are arguably the second most important and mediatized urban region in the US after New York City

Feels slightly unreal to be able to say: BIRDCAGE is out now! I hope you check it out, hope you enjoy it. We're really proud of this thing.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered public schools in Texas to remove displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.

Some of you never paid enough attention to professional wrestling and it shows. A surprising “face turn” always, always, ALWAYS ends back in a return to “heel”. This is of course a post about Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.

Don't cross the boycott. Also, just throwing it out there, but everyone knows they can just, like, make their own? Mint/peppermint hot chocolate flavors aren't hard to come by and you basically just have to add a lot of ice.

[metroid] i love you grapple lasso

#SaveSpeech something EU folks should keep there eye on is plans currently being talked about re: easing GDPR laws and letting up on AI restrains to allow for more data harvesting. its a good idea to contact your representatives and let it be known that you think this is a bad idea!

#SaveSpeech if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model" they are not your allies.

Blender is up there with Wikipedia as one of very few truly good things on the internet at this point. Please support them while you can, blender has done so much for artists!

I cannot stress enough that your calls — and your social media posts — on this issue DO matter and WILL impact things long-term But you have to call

Also endorsing freetaxusa as I’ve used it for the past few years Ps thank you for showing me @cooner.art

Wait wait wait are we calling art that doesn’t get a lot of social media attention “flops” now? Like, openly? Don’t do that.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

one more bump, if you have experience with 3d and have a good eye for cute/appealing characters and a critical eye for details, consider applying! this is a very stable position with a great work-life balance!

Remember that Intuit (the owner of Turbotax) lobbied extensively to kill Direct File, which did tax filing for free and somehow managed to make a good and intuitive user experience without AI.

Even my non ACA employee insurance is going up like $50 a month and I'm downgrading from last year bc if I'd kept it the same it would have gone up almost 100 🫠

Hey freelance artist! Consider going to your local tax accountant. Some of them will charge a reasonable amount for filing and will keep your stuff locked up for easy preparation next year. I've had huge success and significantly fewer headaches having my local person file it for me.

Felt like sketching some dragon heads :>

Attempted going back to Twitter, and was immediately reminded of why I left to begin with, def still a nazi shithole full of the most illiterate dumbfucks imaginable, bleak doesn't begin to cover it. Then I remembered I had an account on here, so might as well use it. Will be posting backlog now

Apparently the subject of the day on the art side of the internet is how to draw heads at difficult angles, so I’m gonna put it out there that there is absolutely nothing wrong with grabbing a tool like @handyarttool.bsky.social to get super specific references of difficult angles to draw

Spent the day catching up on freelance. But here is today's warmup that had me thinkin' about The Abyss and transparent fishies

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

For whom doth the bell curve?

You were either a monkey kid who liked DBZ and Donkey Kong Country or you were a dinosaur kid who liked Godzilla and Digimon. This line I made up is arbitrary, yet also feels like there's some truth to it.

In the wake of all this Epstein stuff, you need to be extremely dilligent about information and media you share There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims