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This a beautiful rendition of Falke !

Finding the joy is something i'm working on. The frustration is when ideas in my brain seems so stimulating but the skill is not there yet. I need to think like kid me, he had a healthier mindset

I have no idea what I could ask you specifically, but I take note, thank you

I am sure it is, this is one of my dreams

This is so fucking hard to just take the tablet and thinking that I am not good enough. But I want it so much, feel guilty when I postpone training and all

I don't think I'll give up, but I think I will be very slow for now

To be fair, so many of your predecessors have showed that those things are not necessarily incompatible

I'm still a noob at drawing, maybe I'm easily amazed by a crosshatching made on a break (and by Falke). But I want to be amazed. Including by souls full of panic and anger

I admire the elegance of your hatching and cross hatching. Your notebook is gonna be more and more awesome

Je souhaite souligner à quel point tu cherches à ne pas te répéter, c'est très agréable à lire

Bravo après tout le travail que t'as fourni, c'est impressionnant le résultat

Pauvre Adèle tho

C'est beau

My default response, if one is able, is organise, pressure, make it unescapable, it is historically what works. Even if you and I have probably different opinions on the way to regulate the internet, entranched interests, erosion of personal liberties and moral panics are cancers that can be fought

So yeah OSA is controversial, but not enough to throw people onto the street. Not adressing core problems in my opinion, but attacking people that have not much power (not the tech oligarchs). So a perfect law for mediocre politicians, or politicians that can't imagine better

You nailed something important. Algorithm (and social media) is a power, particularly because it's "invisible". Chat control is not something that fundamentally threaten big tech. All of it might be cases of "penal populism" and moral panics. Useless criminalisation to say that you do something

different interest, like those who loves the algorith for political gain, those who don't see the problem, those who fear/love America and don't want to alienate them. So yeah an EU response would be powerful, but treaties make it fondamentally difficult, add the moles (Orban) and it's even worse

In theory it's not that difficult, EU commission places big fines and sanctions. And they all comply, or leave if they want to lose 400 millions european customers.
Problem is the EU treaty requires agreement between a certain minimum of states to put such a directive in place. And they all have

Fully agree. But adressing the toxic design is harder politically than blanket bans for whatever reasons. Even while they admit that social media as it is now is rotten to the core lol

But hey "digital sovereignty" while not owning the agora

I really hope the blueprint for age verification they are cooking will be fully privacy friendly, and used by EU states. Or at least mandate that third parties cannot store ID datas after verification. Otherwise I will probably use a VPN
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

I hope it will bring you some tranquility

I can't help but feel something like loss (dunno if right term). As I regularly resonate with what you write, be it in long form or even microblogging. Your expression is valuable, even if people are dumb

I can't wait to see your next drawings

Oh yeah I watched a lot of his vids ! You and him seem to have a similar preference for strong thighs and small torso

Right now I'm following a course. The hardest part for my brain is to accept to do stuff that I consider not good enough for a long time 🫠

I'm trying to learn it myself, so I can guess how long it took you to reach that level. All my respect 🫡

This. No matter what they do, trans people will always be illegitimate for those people

And they trash the notion of gender stereotyping to weaponize it, as a bonus

Your line-art is chef kiss !

This is so good, It deserves prints !

It reminds me of this saying that writing is required to have a form of coherence, standards, so that the reader can immerse

But on the other hand, reality does not care about coherence, storytelling, progression etc. If reality was a fiction, editors would throw it in the trash for lazy writing

Bon courage !
Tu vas faire beaucoup d'heureux ☺️

Guess it's christmas again

Spread the Schnee !

Absolutely, I made tremendous progress when I found classes that just told me how to move my hands and arms, how to properly grip the pencil, how to train to have control over the actual pencil and make lines that look like something

Am I crazy or is this the spanish republican flag

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is a painted self-portrait executed in 1872 by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (who also painted the Isle of the Dead). He first exhibited at the Kunstverein München in the same year, establishing his reputation in Munich's artistic community. It is now in the Alte Nationalgalerie, in Berlin. Painted in Munich, the painting depicts a bearded Böcklin stalked by a personification of death playing a single-stringed violin in an intimation of his mortality. It is an echo of an earlier painting of Sir Brian Tuke by an anonymous painter c.1540, part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, in which the shadowing figure of Death is pointing at an hourglass.

What could go wrong with letting traders run the economy

"Just move in another city" mfs be like :

Hasbara debuff : -15% influence, -20% interest group attraction

Julius Malema power fantasy, peak Paradox gameplay

I would love a dlc/mod that brings more social engineering. Imagine a journal entry called "The Gaza Situation". With a big ass button "Support Palestine" that will make a random "Zeitgeist" slide fill automatically. With the most cheesy events possible in between. Probably exists in some Hoi4 mods