spent time at the vet. not sure yet what's going on bc still waiting on bloodwork report, but he was in pain. seems like a gastrointestinal infection from licking up something iffy the boy is fine now that he had medical treatment, but the bill is hefty. any help would be kind ko-fi.com/artofchira

actually, a correction: there is one way to reduce workload in art, and that's assistants and collaboration. and that isn't offloading work you don't value to someone beneath you, that's offloading work you care deeply about to someone who has the expertise you can trust your vision to.

"saving time" with art is inherently nonsensical. there's no such thing as being efficient with art. art is not quantifiable, there's no way to measure/reduce what it takes to make it there's economizing, though, and that's expertise in strategizing and condensing your steps within your limitations

spent time at the vet. not sure yet what's going on bc still waiting on bloodwork report, but he was in pain. seems like a gastrointestinal infection from licking up something iffy the boy is fine now that he had medical treatment, but the bill is hefty. any help would be kind ko-fi.com/artofchira

IF U SEE THIS #ART , PLS SHARE! Just a few days and im gonna start treat patients at my uni in Gaza! I’m waiving all fees for them, but between tuition & dental supplies, the bills r adding up. Looking for a little help to cover the basics so I can keep fixing smiles✨️🦷 chuffed.org/project/layl...

i just want politicians who agree with me that living is good and listening to the people who want death is bad. the bar is so fucking low, man.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

okay gotta stop crashing out and take a shower instead of day drink

This month's bonus wallpaper is chickens. skin-horse.com/extras/

just nauseated digesting the knowledge that a lack of shame over failure means a lack of will to want to do things well. and when you don't have standards to meet then you don't have intent or the mechanism to make decisions which means you don't have wants or desires. what are you without libido.

bro the anecdote about the failure to understand why chocolate bars have break lines in them had me staring at a wall internalizing the white noise of the sea to symbolize contemplating the vast emptiness of the abyss which I guess is the exact feeling Dan had making this video, well done

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

casually creating bookmarks of art portfolios like the good old days when I used netscape so I don't lose them in case this platform dies because the people who run it don't know enough code to figure out what they vibed and feeling despair when a user's only portfolio IS their bluesky account

once more.

Crazy how they are trying to the bar of people harmed at 100 or more before they are at risk of being held responsible.

I always had complex feelings on selling fanart. knowing it's technically illegal gives me hang ups that are entirely personal, to the point I don't buy fan merch. maybe it's the financialization of something I associate exclusively with love expressions during a time of compulsive monetization idk

let's GOOOOOOOOO Wishbone documentary trailer!!!! youtu.be/o-oWwJ-PbBY?...

I think genuinely we are overdue for more stabs at larger, equitable, artist-run organizations. Let the leeches starve

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

Ya’ll, I just want to clock in and clock out. I want to make money doing what I trained to do because I’m good at it. We shouldn’t have to build massive online audiences and make super elaborate pilot animatics and TV episodes to get jobs. We’ve already proven ourselves. I’m so tired

there's a dog park nearby I take bocchama to daily if it's sunny. he usually has a blast but today he had such a bad time because every new dog he tried to sniff or play with ran away or barked at him and after the third one he just kind of stood in the corner of grass looking so sad and dejected 😔

finishing up my accounting for 2025.... I made a whopping 30K less than my annual average, while also falling into debt for 10K in taxes and CC. also it's a bit frustrating also to see how easily I could've come back from this if rent wasn't eating 80% of my monthly budget, even on a reduced income

I am completely obsessed with @glitchprod.com and what they've done/are doing with independent animation. Leveraging TADC's (completely justified) popularity to break into previously unheard of agreements, like their Netflix deal and this cinematic release, are just incredible.

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

april 2026 has been such a weird month. there's like 5 of the worst things that could ever happen and 5 of the best possible news that you could hear in this moment cancelling each other out literally daily

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

People who use AI to make images on their behalf have no idea how much their actual art would be loved not just by normal people, but also the artists they're stealing from by using it.

yall remember… companies dont make art, people do. there is no disney art, there is no unreal or tencent art. they create a wrapper around someone else’s art. find out who makes the stuff you love

the targeting of any art that is "obscene" (terms of obscenity always to be decided at a whim) is fascistic yes but also how the only kinds of art that tends to be penalized is the individual/independent creators isn't lost on me. a patreon TOS would reject anything that can be streamed on netflix.

chelsea manning just put out a statement about the arrest with @jvp.bsky.social calling on senators schumer and gillibrand to block the sale of weapons and bulldozers to israel in a senate vote TODAY. call your senator too: jvp.org/senatevote

Ultimately, the question I keep coming back to is if you outsource your work and personal decisions to genAI, what is the *point* of you? You’re intentionally making yourself a meat puppet, a homunculus, a revenant haunting your own life.

when you love blorbo but blorbo is owned by one of the most evil conglomerates on earth but also the stuff made for blorbo is made by real people putting love and work into it but also they're probably underpaid but also they probably still wanna keep their jobs 😔

In working on the no gen AI directory, I've looked at a LOT of artist portfolios. Like, 350+ of them at this point. And I thought I'd compile what I was seeing done right, what surprised me (positively), and then what I was commonly seeing done wrong. Use this to tweak your own portfolio!

🗡️ #slaytheprincess

catholic converts are neither catholic nor converts tbh. when the news refers to JD Vance as catholic I feel they're openly lying to me.

A new poster for Coyote Vs. Acme has been revealed at CinemaCon as well as confirmation that the first trailer will be dropping next week. It is so surreal this is finally coming out, but I am more than hyped given all it went through! I cannot wait to see this!

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the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

sorry I'm ranting so much lately, I feel like I'm sitting in a room trying to draw while it's slowly filling with acid and I'm yelling that maybe someone should notice that's happening and maybe close the acid nozzle before everything turns to soup

I really do just pace around manically muttering "it's only took three fucking years" because it really only took 3 fucking years.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

Here’s just ONE of the artists Marvel Studios let go today: Wesley Burt, a brilliant veteran, one of the best in the industry. He made the viral Fantastic Four Valentine’s day card! He was also pivotal for the look of many films and shows like for example Loki, Black Panther, Avengers and so on!

anyway I reminded myself of my existing commission queue and I need to get back on that now that I have a little bit of wiggle room with my living situation and I'm not struggling to stay above water and I'm finished with taxes

I remember in my lifetime a society where bringing success within a company gets you bonuses as opposed to now where you just get fired. idk I have to remind myself that this isn't normal and this is recent. it didn't used to be a utopia but we did have an incentive structure that made sense

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#PortfolioDay I'm Chira. I mainly draw @moonsheen.bsky.social's original stories over at littlefoolery.com I love iconic character design and animated expressions/poses (I also freelance and scribble fanart a lot) PORTFOLIO: www.jaydaitkaci.com/blog WIP ART BLOG: ko-fi.com/artofchira