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#silenthill4

Here’s a dudley commission I did earlier this year :)

example of the new garbage twitter is doing by harishimasan

For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

Yusuke, from YuYu Hakusho
👉 💥

rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off

drawing frogs on a tree branch drinking mate. tropical vegetation in the background, plus a moon & stars

new frogs

Banana Fish doesn't deserve this.

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

art pays.

Pose is referenced from an image of Heather’s 3D model. She has her hip more to one side, with one arm up looking as if she is flipping her hair (she has a short pixie cut). She’s smiling and looking towards the viewer. The words “Don’t care + Didn’t ask + I killed god” in white text with a black outline.

Don’t you think blondes have more fun? ✨

#art #silenthill #sh3 #fanart

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY,SLUGGO, MARIGOLD AND A NEIGHBORHOOD BOY ARE IN A VACANT LOT TALKING. NANCY: THIS IS 'BETTER HEALTH" WEEK... SO I THOUGHT WE OUGHT TO START A HEALTH CLUB! MARIGOLD: GOOD IDEA! SLUGGO: LET’S HOLD A MEETIN’ RIGHT NOW! P2- THEY ARE SITTING CLOSE TOGETHER ON CRATES SLUGGO: O.K... NOW FOIST WE GOTTA MAKE OUR RULES! NANCY:I HAVE A HEALTH BOOK HERE - - P3- NANCY READS THE RULES FROM THE HEALTH BOOK… NANCY: HEALTH RULE NUMBER ONE- - - AVOID CROWDS! P4- THEY ARE ALL STILL SITTING ON THEIR CRATES, BUT NOW THEY ARE ALL SITTING ABOUT 10 YARDS APART .

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER NOVEMBER 17,1941

FRITZI RITZ BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- MR. SPUTTER IS WAITING TO CATCH THE BUS HOME MR.SPUTTER : I'M FED UP WITH HAVING THAT CHILD AROUND THE HOUSE ---I CAN'T STAND IT! P2- MR. SPUTTER IS ON THE BUS,LOOKING AT A NEWSPAPER MR.SPUTTER: I'LL SEND HER AUNT A WIRE TO COME HOME AND TAKE THAT IMP OFF OUR HANDS! P3-MR. SPUTTER IS LOOKING OUT THE BUS WINDOW MR. SPUTTER : wOW!... LOOK AT THAT RAIN! P4- MR. SPUTTER GETS OFF THE BUS, NANCY IS WAITING AT THE BUS STOP WITH AN UMBRELLA FOR MR. SPUTTER NANCY: H'LO - I THOUGHT I'D COME DOWN AND MEET YA, MR. SPUTTER! P5- MR. SPUTTER IS WALKING AND THEY ARE BOTH UNDER THE UMBRELLA AS HE CARRIES NANCY NANCY: WHAT DID YOU SAY? MR. SPUTTER: I SAID I HATE MYSELF!

Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller
December 16,1938

Kingfisher in profile on branch.

Washington DC wildlife:

Belted kingfisher perched over Rock Creek near Porter Street this evening. 🪶

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org

Keeping up with the times, Alexander and Dagwood are shown with a flat-panel computer in this strip from September 24, 2007. Blondie comic strip, saved as png file from a 24 September 2007 daily strip posted at Seattle Post-Intelligencer website (seattlepi.com). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(comic_strip)#/media/File:Blondie_flat_panel_20070924.png

Blondie Bumstead has appeared in newspapers for over 95 years, evolving from flapper to businesswoman. Created by Chic Young, later overseen by his son, her early strips enter the public domain in 49 days.

By John Mark Ockerbloom (@everybodyslibraries.com)

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The Solitary Gourmet - The Comics Journal Joe McCulloch offers his thoughts on the latest Jiro Taniguchi offering from Fanfare/Ponent Mon.

The Solitary Gourmet by Jirō Taniguchi and Masayuki Kusumi, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian with Chitoku Teshima (Fanfare/Ponent Mon, 2025)
reviewed by TCJ first-timer Joe McCulloch! www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...

Cover of The Solitary Gourmet

1990s interior page from The Solitary Gourmet

21st century interior page from The Solitary Gourmet

ATTN GLUTTONS: Please savor this mouth-watering review of The Solitary Gourmet, a comic about eating in the age of loneliness (1994-present) by Jirō Taniguchi & Masayuki Kusumi, up today at TCJ (The Chowbell Jouissance)

hey today is my birthday. it'd be real cool if everyone would go watch Mystery Cuddlers & have a chill day & relax. you deserve it.

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai

One of the best to ever do it. An expert at being a wild-eyed, haunted weirdo.

a bearded Tatsuya Nakadai in Harakiri on the left side of the frame, seen through the ribs of a parasol

closeup on an older Tatsuya Nakadai in Heat Wave, face slightly turned (almost in profile but not quite) with a colorful stained glass window behind him

young evilly grinning Tatsuya Nakadai in Yojimbo, to the left of a window belching flames into the top of the frame

gorgeous closeup on Tatsuya Nakadai in Sword of Doom wearing a ronin hat, a wide-brimmed hat made of bamboo with a chin strap, the light filtering through it onto his face.

hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.

TWO WEEKS UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

drawing of blade from the movie blade

🩸 blade 🩸

A boy standing in front of a house dressed like Hornet from Silksong

My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!

Ghost Pokemon Wonderland ~
#pixelart #ドットの日

A black and white comic Panel 1: An armored figure, Cell, shines a wrist mounted light down a strange corridor. The environs are a mix of organic rock and sci fi tech Cell says: This place goes on and on Panel 2: The beam of light begins to pass over a large spiky spider Panel 3: The Beam settles on the spider. Panel 4: Hold on the illuminated spider. Cell, off panel, says: More of these spider guys. Panel 5:Cell has sat down next to the spider. She says: What’s up? Panel 6: Close up on the spider, face. It has many eyes and a mouthful of human like teeth. Cell, off panel, says: You’ve got human-like teeth, huh? Panel 7: Cell is startled as a large carved skull in an alcove behind her speaks. It says: They are innocent babes, the little scurriers. Cell says: You talk! Panel 8: Cell offers the giant skull a bottle of dark liquid. She says: Want some of this? The skull says Yes.

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London