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devon rubin

@devonrubinart.bsky.social

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character design/concept/illustration ● have cat(s) ● fantasy/scifi nerd ● hubbn: @ngcameron ● past: netflix anim assistant [email protected]

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · Jun 3

Everyone shut up. im making art

a picture of my wacom screen with my fingers pretending to pinch a drawn buttocks. yes this is for my portfolio

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 23m

oh this is a very sad picture lol

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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DSA Sonoma County @socodsa.org · 6d

This weekend, we held our inaugural canvass with @conservationaction.bsky.social and @northbaywfp.bsky.social for Yes on Prop 50! 🗳️
We were joined by Santa Rosa City Councilmembers Caroline Bañuelos and Victoria Fleming and Rohnert Park City Councilmember Jackie Elward.
This is only the beginning! 🌱

Photo of a group of canvassers holding various organizational signs and pickets canvassing for Yes on Prop 50.

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 4d

The lighting makes it look so majestic✨

🪲ID Guess: Common Assassin Bug
#bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A sideview photo of a common assassin bug sitting on the edge of a rusty metal rod. The bug is cast in shadow with a sharp light behind it, illuminating the fine hairs all over its body. It has a robust body with thin limbs and a small tube like head. Its abdomen is cream coloured, its thorax and head a dark maroon, its antennae bright orange, and its legs start orange and fade into light green. It has small black eyes and a redish tubular mouthpart tucked under its head.

A three quarter view photo of the same common assassin bug. In this view its head and tubular mouthpart is better seen. Its head is almost as thin as its leg, and droops slightly at the end as it tapers into the mouthpart, which is made of two segments.

A sideview photo of the same common assassin bug from a bit further away. In this view the abdomen is better seen, which is the biggest part of the bugs body. The abdomen is a light cream and oblong, with the edges of it tapering to a thin edge and curving slightly upward like the brim of a hat. That edge has small ridges and little red dots beneath each ridge line. The wing can just be seen starting at the middle of the thorax and draping over ontop of the abdomen.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

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Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 5d

everybody’s jealous of me since I decided to get plastic surgery to have Cuttlefish skin. they‘re resentful because I camouflage myself as a brick wall or a gorseberry bush in order to steal their croissants off their plates at cafes. I’ve never felt so beautiful

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 6d

oooohhh…. nooo i wont play again…. i wont…..

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 8d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 7d

i can really put myself into this piece. i can feel the air and the heat !

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 8d

i like my digital paintings

Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · Sep 3

Thinking about my Wizard Hut again

A two story building, painted off-white with navy blue trim stands to the left of a one-story stucco-covered shop that once appeared to have been a convenience store and deli, but is now directing patrons to the "Surf Hut" Surfing Supplies and rental store next door. AT the front door of the two-story a wizard, happy and waving appears to in high spirits for his surf-shop. A couple of palm trees frame the taller building, as well as a large leafed plant. There's an ice machine in front of the one-story building and next to it is a drinks vending machine advertising "WIZ COLA" and the machine is filled with various bottles, drinks, and elixirs. To the right of the machine is a trash can and next to that is a board with information about the beach down below the berm that makes up this shop's location. To the right of the board is a souple of signs indicating that swimming is permittable at the beach far below. A handful of beach umbrellas can be seen far below. The water is blue and welcoming with waves rolling into shore.

Behind the Buildings is a parking lot which currently holds a small yellow car and an older looking camper van from which two bikini-clad witches had hopped onto their brooms. The first witch holds her broom parallel to her body, gently lifting off in her pink and periwinkle swim attire, her matching sandals and hat are stark against the billowing clouds in the sky.
The second witch has a surfboard (a rather small one) tucker under her right arm. She appears to have landed on her broom, ready to zoom down to the water.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7d

chat, is saying you want to destroy a computer program the same as genocide?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 9d

thank you

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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DSA Sonoma County @socodsa.org · 13d

DSA Sonoma County endorses Prop 50. (1/2)

Last month the California state legislature passed a bill to put Prop 50 on the ballot this November, a proposal that would temporarily redraw our state’s congressional districts to counterbalance the Republican led partisan gerrymandering that states like Texas, Florida and Missouri have implemented at the direction of Donald Trump to rig elections in their favor. Without Prop 50 allowing California to fight back, these changes would lock in an artificial far right majority to continue the assault on working people that we’ve seen this past year, from illegal ICE raids in our communities, to the gutting of what little protections regular people have left to fill the pockets of the 1%, to cracking down on free speech and the right to organize.

We stand with organized labor in supporting Prop 50, because it is a necessary measure to prevent permanent fascist control of our government. We oppose gerrymandering, and at the same time recognize that California cannot unilaterally disarm and hand control of congress to a nonrepresentative right wing majority. If Prop 50 passes, it will have real, tangible impacts on the lives of immigrants, trans people, and the working class as a whole. Even so, it is not a long term solution to the problems we are facing. We are committed to continue the fight against fascism and for democratic socialism past November, including by supporting the California Fair Elections Act to lift the ban on public financing for California elections.

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 13d

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Kim Stramat is LOOKING FOR WORK @kimstramat.bsky.social · 14d

Xenaria. #art

I'm done with this one, there are better pieces in my WIP folder for me to spend my time on.

A drawing of a woman with large hair smirks at the viewer, her hand up trying to hide a small laugh. She has implants on her jaw and military style coat on.

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 14d

i love art. i promise i will keep making it :)

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Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social · 15d

Assata Shakur chronicled her arrest & injustices facing Black Americans in her memoir “Assata: An Autobiography.”
In it, she wrote:
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

19thnews @19thnews.org · 16d

Assata Shakur, one of the most consequential Black political revolutionaries and writers of her time and enemy of the U.S. government until her last breath, died September 25.

Assata Shakur, who wrote and fought for Black liberation, dies at 78

She was a member of the Black Liberation Army and the FBI’s first Most Wanted woman.

19thnews.org

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 15d

I like the implication that Trump is going to reveal what the government has been hiding from you about Amelia Earhart

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Reese Dallas Bice @bicedotcom.bsky.social · 16d

A lil lady for the start of Halloween season 🎃👻

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devon rubin @devonrubinart.bsky.social · 17d

fuuuuck yes these are so sick

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pbbeta (open for comms) @pbbeta.bsky.social · 20d

I haven't posted about commissions in a while, but I'll be opening two slots for October! Hit me up if you need a cool illustration or a character design!

[email protected]
DMs are open too!

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slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 20d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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