Party In The Front - Comms Closed

I shared a post about that earlier, thinking "major bugs aren't too comon for me actually", and it instantly went super strange and slow and then broke.

Has bluesky been down in the last hour for anyone else? It's been weird today and then was off entirely.

This shithole is so fucking far behind in basic features this many years later it's starting to get silly. Bluesky is 100% a fluke. Nobody uses it because it's good, they use it because you can usually avoid seeing the posts of smarmy silicon valley fuckwits while on twitter that's impossible.

you know I liked that good cop, can we get the good cop back in here. I utterly condemn the bad cop

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

sketch blockout of elden ring shadow of the erd tree painting

Finished painting of my tarnished entering the elden ring shadow of the erd tree dlc and examining the sweeping landscape.

Start to Finish :)
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📖 #sirisketchbook #eldenring

The image shows a Washington Post article. The headline reads **"Anthropic's AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud"**, with a subheadline describing advanced AI technology identifying and prioritizing targets in support of U.S. and Israeli military operations. The article is dated today at 5:00 a.m. EST and has a 6-minute read time. Below the headline is a photograph of a smoky, hazy sky over a city skyline at dusk or dawn, with the caption noting it shows smoke rising over Tehran after an explosion amid U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. The byline credits Tara Copp, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and Ian Duncan.

Bad news for anthropic stans: your fav tech company is doing target selection for illegal US/Israeli imperial wars.

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Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

Idk how cynical he is but keeping up the reasonable centrist schtick with his 2008 level common sense is not making him look like a genius.

Jesus, this guy is so cringey now (being generous). You've got to be the worst kind of liberal or someone waking up from a 20 year coma to still be able to sir through this shit.

Joke sucks

Blue Flame Warrior
#art #fantasy #characterdesign

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook

🚨ATTENTION GAMERS:🚨

Spectra demo THIS THURSDAY MARCH 5

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Banquet for Fools out March 5th! ❤️ 3 days!

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Commission sheet showing various full figure illustrations.

Commission sheet separated into 3 sections. Little guys. Magic items. Portrait illustrations.

Commission sheet for maps. Showcasing various styles of maps

Opening up commissions! These are the things I’m most comfortable doing but down for most creative projects. Didn’t put comics on here but always down to talk those too, so hit me up. Using the email on the sheets or DMs on here work fine. 🤘

painting of 3 frogs going to a rock show dressed in a very caricatured way of rockers, one being a big tough guy, one a goth with a wig, and one entirely tattooed.

frogs going to the rock show

gorgeous, aspirational stuff!

Let’s see, a new pinned post maybe.

I am an illustrator and I also make pictures with my own hands for animation and games sometimes.

But if a Mexican takes issue with the name and wants to do some reclaiming, I guess I'll take them more seriously than USAmericans feeling insulted.

To me as a portuguese, it's a simple translation and abbreviation of "estadounidense" which we commonly use. And personally, I'll use it for typing convenience, without vitriol. It doesn't feel ambiguous to me because US implies an anglo reading of the name and is used everywhere for that country.

do you think USians is ambiguous?

No one I know would ever mention "United States" when casually referring to Mexico

Oh, this wouldn't sound so good to me lol

A Siren wearing clothes with a messy updo bun of dark hair is gracefully posed in the mirror with her head tilted away and eyes closed. Her hand is cupping the head of an invisible figure. Two streams of dark liquid flow from dots on her neck. The mirror she poses in is antique brass and silver and very ornate

Siren Posing in Mirror With Vampire Girlfriend

It's fine, I'll remain calm even if you choose to insult me. If I admit I deserve it, will you admit you're the aggressor?

Also, solving this language conundrum is not "social justice", wtf

Yes, if you insert "people" into the designation, it feels much more like "common folk", and therefore more free from negative connotations, but why should they deserve that in every case when no other place gets that treatment? (rhetorical question)

Honestly I don't think it's derogatory, it's doens't carry any insult and I will keep using it casually. But it doesn't help that whenever I need to single out that country verbally, it's for a bad reason.