pippki

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

the more i hear about ai the more I wanna go out pick up a rock grind up pigments and draw little horses on the walls of a cavern

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Oops I opened a very limited amount of portrait commissions 🫣 #commissionsopen

Tricking people with false imagery, videos, words, whatever—it isn’t new, no. But there used to be effort involved even in that. There was still human effort. The grift of genai slop hasn’t even got that. I’m mad about a lot of things but also this

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

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I think undisclosed inclusion of generative ai in songs and visual art is about like undisclosed inclusion of human meat in a chili. I don’t care if you’ve made it taste amazing; I don’t want it

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

The Merriam-Webster social team deserves a raise.

4 panel comic, une bunny and a witch cat are sitting around the fire, preparing dinner. Dialogue goes : "So, you're a Brush bearer, an Artist" "Are you still painting?" "I am" "Hah! No way ! with the world on the verge of collapse and hoe fading day by day, you think art still matters?" "Now more than ever..."

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

Photo of a popsocket magsafe wallet with my digital art printed on it. The art is of a sun dappled path headed toward some trees whose trunks are in shadow. The colors are olive greens and warm browns. There is in the background of the photo a holiday tree but don’t worry about that

Everything may be terrible but I can still put my art on things, which is nice

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Devastating and dead-on:

the millennials yearn for precedented times

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

Close up photo of a southern purple mint moth. The moth is pink and yellow in wing coloration, with a pointed brown head/face and long, thin antennae

Learned about a new moth today. Southern purple mint moth, which is as pink and yellow as a rosy maple moth, but with a very pointy brown head and such. Also so pretty! And small

It’s all fun and games until I’m working on coordinating up to 70 interactions over getting dice shipped

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

Photo of a d20 in pinkish sparkle with a flower petal in the resin and Angelina fibers inside

Oh the video quality is terrible, cool. Perhaps I’ll save video for Instagram and just post photos here

Photo of a cat on top of a bookcase, taken from below to dramatize the angle

Girl you are FIFTEEN you have ARTHRITIS IN ONE HIP you are CONVALESCING FROM SURGERY MERE DAYS AGO why are you up there????? because she is full of vim and vigor and vitality I guess

Oh can I not post a video and a picture in the same post? Hm. Anyway here’s why I don’t do video, because Tobi wants to be part of it. First attack of my #artfight2025 is a cross-year revenge on @Jester_Artist

(Also I don’t entirely know how threading is supposed to properly work on bsky, in spite of trying to look up instructions, so, oop)

Art Fight An art gifting game

Oh my god I forgot to add my profile link again I was gonna do that on the first post dhndnsdbbd artfight.net/~pippki

Photo of resin casting workspace - very chaotic - with one cheap Amazon dice mold filled with blue resin

Had to see if I even remembered how to make dice still. I poured a set on my birthday in my cheapo 9-piece Amazon mold, and it was good enough to convince me I still kind of knew what I was doing

And big hype from @quietsnooze.bsky.social of course, I’m pretty sure no one in all of artfight would find me if not for her because I’m too shy at the 500mph artfight discord to hype myself

Epoxy resin bird with black spots and copper flake on a wooden table

There was also the bird I gave my grandmother last sept. She loved it so much, carried it around everywhere, that it was the first thing the family thought of to put in the casket memory drawer when she passed away last month at 98. I don’t connect easily with my family, so this meant a lot