we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

Hey if you're new here from Twitter this week We flag our NSFW here. There's no punishment. You don't get deprioritized by an algorithm over it. Actually, a lot of people just block you and you hurt your reach when you DON'T flag. It's that little shield that says "labels" at the bottom

for anyone new to bluesky or just struggling to make their timeline better, here’s my tip: follow a bunch of artists that you like and whenever they repost cool art, follow that artist too soon your timeline will be a steady stream of wonderful art interspersed with news updates on the horrors

Ten thousand fucking percent. Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness. In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Solstice ❄️☀️ chasing the sun back to longer days #BearHybridArt

ended up drawing more goat

One of the funniest things about this time of year is reading about all the inedible stuff made by people who don't understand that baking involves CHEMISTRY. No, you can NOT just switch out oil for applesauce, or only use half the salt because you don't like salt.

❄️✨The Longest Night✨❄️

Happy winter solstice to all; from this day onward the light only grows. #death #rebirth #art #cat #wolf #linocut #digitalart

Another Yule/Solstice piece I completely forgot about! Drew this back in December of 2020. Again, blessed Yule and Happy Solstice ❤️❄️🕯️

Happy holidays everyone Winter sprite and Yule goat, gouache on paper

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

"Here We Come A-Wassailing!" 🎄❄️🌟 Prints at albaillustration.etsy.com OR you can find me in person this Sunday (12/21) at the New City Market at New City Brewery in Easthampton, MA with all of my decks, art prints, stickers, etc! #yule #christmas #caroling #badger #mole #mouse

Original post: "Right/religious figure does something heinously anti-LGBTQ+" "Allies" in the comments, inevitably without fail: "Hehe, I bet he's secretly a limp-wristed prancing queer who enjoys taking it up the ass" So-called allies, you DO know that your LGBTQ+ friends see your comments, right?

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

hey so uhhhhh you're gonna stop playing fortnite in order to protect trans people, right????? because you really should stop playing fortnite

Constance Depler reindeer art (1950c, USA) printed on fabric, originally a series of cocktail napkins

Hey, there's that thing we all knew was coming. If you were playing Fortnite, it's time to stop. These companies gotta get the message that there are just some things we won't tolerate just for the sake of entertainment.

I don't give one single flying fuck what the orange felon has to say. I'm not on his shit ass Twitter clone for a reason. Stop posting his demented drivel over here or you're just catching a block like any other MAGA asshole would.

Winter’s Poem 3

Season's Greetings from the desert!🌵🎄 #gentlemonsterart #christmas

I would like to bring over my theory for solving America’s deadly roads. I call it the “Gay Truck Rule” and it would save thousands of lives every year.

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Yep. I get tired of being treated like I'M being "sanctimonious" and unreasonable for expecting people to respect boundaries. I understand that sometimes I'm going to come across it and I need to report or just deal with it and move on, but it's definitely an issue.

the last days of autumn We already had our first snow a few weeks ago. It’s a beautiful contrast to the colorful landscape and a reminder that winter is rapidly approaching. Autumn never lasts long enough for my liking This was the patreon print for november.

to my friends <3 #furryart

So I heard the advertisement world gave us another “oh no, he’s cute” wolf. (I needed to add the subtitles myself because *holy appropriate song*, Batman!)

i dont know who made this one and would like to

A quick and dirty way to start sussing this out is to ask yourself, “Is this person really trying to help a group of people or does it look like they’re trying to punish someone right now, in this moment?”

Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social

november personal painting [ #art #weirdfur ]

It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States.

If I made a mistake that cost my workplace 77 thousand dollars, I'd get canned so fast it'd make my head spin. A CEO can make a mistake a thousand thousands of dollars more costly and be fine.

Since there is a lot of chatter over "Classic" vs "Modern" on FA I figured I would show a direct side by side comparison for peeps to see their differences.

Buddies~ #starfox #blender3d

If you make a beware post and it boils down to, "eww I don't like the art they like," you belong in middle school rather than on bluesky and you're getting blocked.

I noticed furries are suddenly talking about Fortnite again. I guess whatever furry-character-du-jour made everyone immediately forget about their Harry Potter collab. Season passes are funding a relentless anti-trans hate campaign, but what's a little marginalization compared to a hot lion dude?

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: 1. Moose 2. Black Bear 3. Coyote 4. Bald Eagle 5. Whitetail Deer

I'd use it for the day-to-day expenses that currently come out of my paycheck, so that I can use more of my paycheck to pay off the mortgage faster.

Disabled people deserve healthcare. Disabled people deserve housing. Disabled people deserve food. Disabled people deserve support. Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value. Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

you better watch out You better watch out You Better Watch Out 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘉𝘌𝘛𝘛𝘌𝘙 𝘞𝘈𝘛𝘊𝘏 𝘖𝘜𝘛 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘽𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙒𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐔𝐓 《根据中华人民共和国相关法律法规，强烈建议谨慎行事》

The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans. Viola Fletcher was there. www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...

Big Dreams

So apparently gay rams are often killed because they don't tend to make more rams. So this gay farmer buys the gay rams to keep them alive and sells the wool!

When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"

Kirby is literally the answer to the question "What if Cthulhu was friend-shaped?"