CrystalLuceii

True facts are true

RLP I was lucky that as a artist I had a back up career ( thank you ADHD), which meant when I burned out due to financial and mental illness, I could still provide for myself. Not every artist can/should do this. Please support the artists whose work you enjoy so it's viable for them to keep going

Most creatives literally cannot exist without social media support at this stage. There just isn’t another viable option, which is bad for our mental health and long term viability. You literally do have to buy from the artists you enjoy here if you want them to continue making work.

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Oh now what happened?

#TransDayOfVisibility #artsky #TDOV

Don't forget trans artists either! be sure to share, follow, and lmk if you wanna be added!

go.bsky.app/6tvhDnJ

It's worth reiterating - Microsoft's own research indicates that use of generative AI degrades critical thinking skills and erodes confidence in unassisted decision making.

woke polar bear flippin da bird text: F*CK I.C.E. & KISS MY ASS NARCS

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Six fingered hand pierced by a pencil. Text says “Support human artists. No AI”

Another #artwork I didn’t post here yet. I’m sure it’s pretty self explanatory.

#supporthumanartists #NoAI

This is an astonishing statement, a complete fantasy. Baseless Techbro PR babble. The arts is a huge industry in the UK, raking in billions despite a huge lack of central support. Our government now appear to want to crater this to facilitate thieves. Write to your MP.

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

The AI consultation is long, and stuffed with tech babble questions that presuppose the bill is already in place and everyone broadly agreed AI is great. Even so, all UK creatives have an interest in completing it and telling the Government to fuck it off into the Moon.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

She sat there like that for a solid 10 minutes whilst we were sorting lunch

Believe it or not....she was not posed for this!

This is a very good visual for how talking about artists helps us. If you’ve commissioned, bought from or worked with an artist, please talk about it. It helps us a lot.

Bluesky’s incredible growth up until now can be pretty directly attributed to people fleeing here to avoid the exact kind of virulently toxic social media behavior Singal and his ilk represent

and I think it’d be a pretty shockingly stupid own-goal for Bluesky to start chucking that aside now

Thus low key sound so nice

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Normally I would simply laugh and encourage others to laugh but no, fuck off OpenAI, you don't get to run roughshod over the rights of working writers and artists and cry "abuse" when we defend ourselves. We should be *angry* about this.

Twitter accounts all finally deleted. End of an era

Do not obey in advance. Resist. Do not offer an oppressive government what it wants. Do not anticipate its needs and offer up what you think it wants. To do so teaches power what it can do.

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Don't spend money on them. Trust me, I did and it was a shitshow even two years ago.

Use redact.dev
You have to download it and run it from your computer, but it is free and how I purged all of my socials last year.

If.... If I wake up and I'm somehow over 1k in the morning, I'm gonna have to whip up another scantily clad OC celebration art like right quick, damn.

I thought I had another year to go before that happened, but wow, look at you all! But who should it be....??

So gross

To add - I suggest going to Settings >Moderation> Advanced (BlueSky moderation service).

There’s a lot of extra settings there to help control things to see/hide besides NSFW

NGL after largely being off social media for a year. Definitely noticed a big difference in overwhelm and depression and a massive improvement in mental health. Whilst SM def has good points. Please remember to take a break from it.

darkest before the dawntrail
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a quick lil pre-dawntrail comic about my warrior of light, Kasi, who is a moody sunuvabitch with a lot of feelings

#FFXIV #finalfantasyXIV #FF14 #Dawntrail

*hugs* that does absolutely suck. Didn't realise that the use taxed negatively to EU people seems a bit backwards.....then again....that seems to be the way of it with the uk right now

Me: *moves from artist to "real job"* wow this is way less work..... like managing your own business especially right now is the equivalent of like 2 fte 9-5`s