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Benn Pirrie

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Disabled, neurodivergent, spicy contemporary artist, illustrator, occasional flatter. I like giant robots, motor racing and video games where people with spiky hair kill god https://ko-fi.com/benpirrie

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just as an FYI, I am not able to access DM's on this platform. Please, if you have need of contacting me, do so through my website (www.benpirrie.com) or my email.

Ben Pirrie – Ben Pirrie Artist and Illustrator

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4h

Say what you like, but I just don't trust T-Rexes.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 11h

Reading Minicon + Toy-Fu = Danger (bank account)

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 11h

I have such an urge to try and find a G1 Computron.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21h

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 13h

I'm giving the album a listen on Deezer now, I'll try the remix after that!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 13h

I mean tho, if the cock fits...

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 13h

I remember seeing 30 Seconds to Mars at Download, and Jared Leto, getting increasingly angry with the audience for waving inflatable cocks around to the point he was demanding security remove them, not realising that folks weren't calling him a dick, but that Steel Panther was the band playing next.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 13h

I think Tron: Legacy might be the only Daft Punk album I don't own.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 13h

Bloody hell

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 14h

The more I see that Thundercracker the more I like it and that is
B L O O D Y A N N O Y I N G

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🌈🔞 CantDrawStuff 🔞🌈 @cantdrawstuff.bsky.social · 1d

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Okay, serious talk for minute...

I see how tough being an artist can be, not being sure you can make a living out of it AND I totally understand not everyone can afford commissions

BUT

Lately I was looking around to get some prints/stickers/other from some artist I like...

You know what? ->

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 18h

Ha! Look at these bozos all posing like they're on the set of Star Wars or something

The cast of Alien all looking into the rafters like they've spotted a big moth

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 22h

Bloody hell, that looks incredible!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that Skybound Optimus and wondering, not for the first time, if Hasbro were looking at the 3P market making bank and thinking, "Shit, we should probably do that"

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E.J. Su @ejsu28.bsky.social · 1d

A little something different on Monster October Day 10: ALIEN sketch cover.

I wanted to do white on black for a while. Having turned in all my pages for Pacific Rim gave rare moments of downtime to experiment.

#art #ink #sketchcover #whitePaint #Alien #Xenomorph #creature #monster #Halloween

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

First time it's happened in many many years though, just goes to show how badly I'm adapting to UC. Need to watch myself going forward.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

One of the few things to be grateful to the internet for: waking up and my internet banking telling me I've gone overdrawn. In ye olden days that would have sat unnoticed for a couple weeks and the fees would be immense.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh, yes, good shout!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

The cackle I let out at that ending

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

Star Fleet
Transformers Season 2
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (opening and closing)
Neon Genesis Evangelion

Probably Cities of Gold, but the trauma of 80's kids TV still haunts me

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Name your fav TV Show Theme Song.

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 3d

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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🥭MANGO - Comms Closed @mgosketches.bsky.social · 3d

Heads up!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

Both these threads making extremely good and salient points

Dre Harrison @dreharrison.bsky.social · 4d

Sports in general - It's amazing how the Male 18-34 demo is the one TV exes chase like a golden carrot and yet make no effort to truly get what makes them tick.

Football's Super League expansion attempt tried a 60-minute game argument as a barter to fans and it fell on its arse.

Chain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 4d

Been thinking on F1 and I think their issue is they don't respect the younger audience or make any time to understand them