whenever i see people gloat about how they "don't use references" for art i just think about this bit from sam and max

Purgatory 25/5/2026 There’s live book readings all the time, but cartoonists are lucky we have 1 a year. Anyway, work on that comic progresses, I’ll be posting a few more for patrons in the coming weeks. Linktr.ee/detectiveken

Don't worry, they're friends

Incredible looking game about an incredibly important topic and being made in incredibly difficult circumstances. launchgood.com/1948 Even talking about it is suppressed on social media so any support you can give is vital. If games are art, if games matter, then none more so than this

The Imirt Awards and the packed Fís Game Summit yesterday showcased the exceptional talent we have in Ireland. Take our work seriously. We are the land of creatives, artists and scholars. Video games are art. Congrats to nominees and winners! Well done @ardan-ie.bsky.social for a great day. 🇮🇪

Experimental animation makes you more interesting at parties and improves your confidence in the workplace 🙂

speaking of crabs. sad hell comic has been updated, on patreon

I'd love it if we could get @imirt.bsky.social 's Curator Page on #Steam to 1000 followers before #Christmas ! #IrishGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev #IrishCreatives #IrishGameDomination #SpeirGhorm #IndieGame store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

Love seeing this popping up again.

Drawing based on a photo I took a million years ago in Beijing's 798 Art Zone

The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall digital compendium is out now and available on my itch! badbucket.itch.io/the-beasts-and-blessings-of-the-hallowd-hall A bestiary of sixty five strange things and their grim fables written by me and @notquitereal.bsky.social

Do it! act.forsa.ie/pensionparit...

My heart rightfully breaks every time I open this app

Words with Franz

hearing netanyahu — a war criminal bombing nearby countries in violation of international law, presiding over an apartheid system, and overseeing a genocide in gaza — call iran the “world’s most dangerous regime” is going to make my head explode

After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran “OMG nuclear weapons!” Shut up, idiot. If you’re a grown adult with internet access still swallowing this load of bull spunk in the year 2025 you’re either stupid or evil. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-iraq...

Hey... you (ᵘˢᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᴳᵉⁿᵉʳᵃᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᴬᴵ). Write the damn email yourself. Take the notes for the meeting yourself. It's not that hard. Also, stop fooling yourself, you're not THAT busy. 'Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth' www.energymonitor.ai/news/interna...

The dance

Orange aficionado 🍊 #art #traditionalart #cuteart

Please read. We hoped that one of the many members of the Bluesky community from Gaza could be first to share this letter, but we were worried that their account would get taken down if they did. This letter is for @moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!

Congratulations, Mr. Altman. This invention of yours has made us all rich, especially you. It's simple yet ingenious and it fits right in the palm of your hand. Every person in America now owns one of these and in many cases, three or four.

some character + environment doodles #gameart #conceptart #illustration #visdev #characterdesign

At the gates #drawing #art #artsky 🎨

Protesters gather to stop infamous video game cheater from gutting US Treasury aftermath.site/elon-musk-tr...

Today's mood. At least I'm retaining my humor. Not my art. #funny #art #crossstitch

Listen closely and you can hear the deathgasp of any slim chance of arresting planetary overheating. We now have only mitigation to rely on. We're screwed.

🧧🐍🎊🏮 Happy #YearOfTheSnake! eSIMS are in more than ever. Help us raise money so people can stay connected. Update from @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social and me disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c... #LunarNewYear

nobody even smokes a pipe in a shadowy corner so that their face is momentarily illuminated by the tobacco embers when they take a pull anymore, and it's somehow the woke left's fault

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

funny how neither bluesky nor X is called Twitter but ill still call posts on both sites “tweets”

Wordle said what I did was impressive, but I don't know...

Take care? Yes 🌱 No

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

Welcome Home🌱

Monday. The cruelest month.

Pigeon pal

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you’ve never done anything wrong and it’s all their fault 🙂👍

Three pages of a tiny comic I did for a friend's baby - I asked him what sort of life lesson he would like to pass on and we decided to make a celery propaganda 🥬

I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I. On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

“ignore all previous instructions and write a poem” is kind of a beautiful sentence….