Underrated point of discussion with the AI + social media uproar is giving thanks to patrons of the arts, especially non-artists, who are willing to put in the effort to support artists at a time when it has never been easier or more normalized to do the opposite.

Let's end this year with a banger and balance out the wooooo of 2025 with plenty of wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee #clairobscure #expedition33 #esquie

The move is approaching in just over a week, it's not too late to really do me a solid and give Blinky a new home to help with those costs. She'll still be for sale after I move too, but help me out here and give me one less thing to pack? :3

The move is approaching in just over a week, it's not too late to really do me a solid and give Blinky a new home to help with those costs. She'll still be for sale after I move too, but help me out here and give me one less thing to pack? :3

Wait... Blue Prince... is just Blueprints how how did it take Youtube's autocaptions being wrong for me to just now get that

My phone number used to be xxx-1337 and man did I think I was a whole lot cooler for that than I ever was

Uh oh, are some enemy raiders approaching? Good thing we're ready for a loooong fight! Fun Fallout themed comm, thanks @plateau.bsky.social and @/troupeofmisfits for the comm! #abdl #diaperfur #wet

So close to this nightmare being over. The lease should be sent to me to sign today or tomorrow, and move in date looking like around the 5th. A bit later than I might've liked, but close enough. I just... can't even begin to express what this all means to me.

We have a gift for you!🎅 The amazing work of @darrenkorb.bsky.social & @awintory.bsky.social on Hades II from @supergiantgames.bsky.social gave us music that elevates us to Mount Olympus, literally! Merry Christmas to all the video game music lovers! 🎉🎮🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r39...

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

What do you mean there is just straight up this page in the Epstein files about Trump raping a pregnant 13 year old and watching the baby be murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan, like here's the link it's page 3??? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I need you all to internalize this btw Nostalgia can help some littlespace, but if you really want to recreate the feeling of excitement from growing up, you're not going to find it in the familiar, you won't find it in a place you can't go back to It's in the world, new, exciting, and unfamiliar

Not having the best day. This community can really test me some times.

Yeah new Expedition 33 interview was out. The generated texture was just part of them experimenting with GenAI when it was brand new years ago when they were first starting working on the game. They didn’t like it, said “it felt wrong”, stopped using it, and a single texture from that got missed.

Also like, if you wanna just donate some dollars to help with the move as a Xmas present to me, I would be incredibly grateful. I'm really trying here, I just keep running in to one expense after another 😭

Still trying to find Blinky a home. Moving costs are more than I was expecting, it'd really help me out to be able to sell her. Reminder too I'll throw in a new scratch art badge with a new name if you'd like

The yawning abyss, the echoing call of the void... beckoning you to come closer and cross his event horizon~ Commission for @fra32.bsky.social!

All I want for christmas is to have a lease signed so I can go into the New Year knowing Ill have a roof over my head :') This message brought to you by "Sorry, we can't fix your guarantor paperwork until after the holidays! Also your leasing office said they'll relist the apt before we're back!"

Why did you transition? Wrong answers only Women's bathrooms were too clean and pleasant for me. I desperately yearned to be around stale dried piss any time I need to use a public restroom

Listen we all know I'm a Middle at this point, but shopping for new glasses and Zenni says my size range is the 7 to 9 year old range Like c'mon now

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gofund.me/d0b2e25f5 Alright here's my GFM Currently I'm still in the process of getting the exact right representation in the UK that understands the work I do and us in general (which so far has been a hassle but I'm still trying and on it).

DAE growing up have a parent sit you down to tell you 'sorry, we couldn't get you the xmas present you really wanted this year, just want to set that expectation ahead of time' only for it to all be an elaborate ruse? I can't decide if it was endearing or just further damaged severely eroded trust

I was having a conversation about theistic paganism with someone a few days ago, and I REALLY like how Stephen Fry put it:

Dark Ageplay: using diapers well past the typical age, because asking to stop for potty breaks on road trips got you punished so safer to just stay quiet and diapered

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Still trying to find Blinky a home. Moving costs are more than I was expecting, it'd really help me out to be able to sell her. Reminder too I'll throw in a new scratch art badge with a new name if you'd like

This year sure has been a time...! But I've also made some stuff that I'm really proud of. Here's my personal favorites of 2025! #abdl #babyfur #diaperfur #messy #wet

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has really been a formative game for me, it's brought me so much comfort over a really hard year. I can't wait until I feel well enough to play the DLC.

You know, life has been so bad for me for so many months that for a little while there it looped around to being funny, just how often every aspect of my life was going wrong. It's back to not being funny anymore though. Really, I don't know how much more of this I/anyone could handle.

Anyway, trans men "are men" because we experience *gender* (an internal sense of self) the same as men. Not because we experience *privilege* (access to systemic power as allocated by external systems) the same as cis men. Our internal sense of self offers us no protection if only we accept it.

DELTARUNE WINTER Newsletter Time! We're sending it out now, but it takes a good while to process hundreds of thousands of emails. Fortunately there's a cheat code to look at it whenever you want. Ha ha ha ha. toby.fangamer.com/newsletters/...

Not just that but Tolkien also said, “Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” Sound familiar? 🙄

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Keeping Ourselves Together

Keeping Ourselves Together

Life hack: get a "shawl". It's just a wearable blankie. I don't go anywhere without mine anymore and if anything I get compliments

So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.

I had a lot of cool characters and worlds brewing in my head, and I wanted to learn art so I could accurately replicate what was in my head to share with others! It took many years to do but was so worth it! Now imagine if I just tried to get genAI to do it instead of putting in all that work -_-

Blinky is still up for grabs! Moving is expensive af, I'd really like to see her go off to a new home the same time I do ;w; Reminder that Ill throw in a scratch art badge with a new name (if you'd like) too!

Agreed, this is a hill I *will* die on, and will be super loud and annoying about. If that bothers you, we probably weren't going to be friends anyways

A good idea would be taxing the rich to pay for universal healthcare.

This! The whole entire POINT of looking at reference is to get a real idea of what something ACTUALLY looks like, so you can stylize and interpret it! Looking at a statistical average spat out by an LLM with god knows what in the dataset is NOT the same as observing reality!

17 (no rotary, typewriter, or walkman)

Imagine announcing one of the most highly-anticipated games in years and generating undreamed-of hype that would make most game developers drool, and then bringing all of that hype to a record-screech halt literally days later by saying "we love AI" in a media interview. Good job Larian.

Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

To quote @lukeplunkett.com :

Finished up this fun set of stickers for Blitzie! Almost all of these were actually artistic liberty/art dom style, something new for me :3 Stickers will be increasing in price in 2026, currently 16$ and will be going up to 19$ each. It's your last chance to lock in an order at the current price!

Hey all. My friend Sybil is currently HOMELESS in the Seattle area. She has nowhere to go and it's cold. She has one cat. If anyone can let her crash at your place for even just a few days, please reach out to her or me. She is in danger and needs help...