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Illustrator/writer/sometime musician/chaotic bi/fan of the graps/fighting game enthusiast/recovering Goth scene mainstay • NO AI ART Black af • pronouns she/they Find my work here: daneshartis.carrd.co

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · May 26

I’m really trying to break myself out of the habit of thinking I’m a bother/nuisance when I promote. And I’ll lie to myself for as long as it takes for me TO believe it.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 2h

People will see it as a win because the figurehead would be gone. And that's all that would click for them. Their thinking doesn't go any further than that.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 10h

putting in 70 hours a week and i'm still at the bottom of the escaping samsara leaderboards, what the fuck

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 9h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 10h

I want it on record that he showed me this, and I gasped. Not “Dynasty” level gasping, but know I took umbrage on your behalf 😂

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 11h

When Jurassic Express wins, Jack is gonna use the money to expand his lab at Miskatonic University~

All Elite Wrestling @allelitewrestling.com · 11h

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 12h

Not surprised that they're shocked that a moron is now at the helm. It's been a banner year for unqualified mfs.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 17h

That makes a lot of sense. Because folks tend to use it for creative purposes. They don’t give a fuck about the artistry behind it; they just want the feeling of saying “fuck you, I can do it too and I hope it wrecks you.”

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20h

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Guillotine Hunger Force @themilfmag.net · 19h

nooo dont giv r base access 2 knowledge

Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal

“Right wing activism organizations posing as consumer rights groups are trying to make it illegal for the federal government to try and help poor, rural Americans afford broadband,” is …

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 17h

It’s what he deserves.

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Just told a friend that I plan to hold onto joy the same way a toddler does when they’re first introduced to cheese puffs. She understood immediately 😭😭😭

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Rewatching Hellsing Ultimate right now, and I have a few thoughts…
That squatter in DC is literally a less charismatic and intelligent Montana Max. (Yes, this name is also for Tiny Toons character, but still. Point stands.)

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Unexplainable Finomenon @filamena.bsky.social · 1d

You notice all the directors/etc saying they're fine with AI are saying exactly the same things about it? Sometimes word for word.

Yeah. Those are talking points.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

There’s no grounds for this other than what’s floating in that soup he calls brains. Tf.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 1d

NEW: Attorney General Letitia James has been criminally indicted by a grand jury for bank fraud, kicking off another politically charged case brought by a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor. — via @notus.com

Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Indicts Attorney General Letitia James

James oversaw a civil case concerning Trump’s real estate empire in 2023.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I'd like to thank the Center for Cultural Innovation - AmbitioUS!
Their support of Blacksky Algorithms with a $30K grant will help us further our development of infrastructure for online communities (moderation, deliberation, and peer-to-peer payment tools). 🎉

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Watching “Let’s Play” and this show is really good at depicting anxiety and other feelings that don’t have set shapes. I know it’ll devolve into a romcom anime, but I’m fine with that possible development.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 1d

Have you watched our #iHunt short film? You should go vote for it. I'm about this close to talking my co-producer @szmatheson.bsky.social to go to Metatopia with me so we can have film brainstorming sessions and play House of the Dead 3.

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Watch #iHunt: Loose Threads Short Film on Short of the Month

#iHunt is a gig economy app where dirt poor gen z and millennials break their bodies and risk their lives to hunt and kill monsters. Maeve comes home from filming an #iHunt promo video only to realize...

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Green Screen Videos by Murdoink @murdoinkgs.bsky.social · 4d

Mr. Boss "time to execute my trick" Smiling Friends s03e01 green screen

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Okay so first, Tylenol caused the 'tism, and now circumcision is Autism DLC?!?! Yeah nah. These people are deranged.

Dragonball Super screenshot of one of wolf men pointing at Goku. The words underneath read "WHO MANS IS THIS?!"
And overlaid on Goku are the words "this nigga."

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

YES. THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

*RDR2. Sorry. It's...yeah. Fighting burnout is a lot.

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Yeah. That's sadly true. They wouldn't have been able to handle it and they probably would've tried to sneak a white abolitionist Assassin in there to "offset" all the ethnicity. Considering what you can do in Mafia 3 and Red Dead Redemption? Should've been a slam dunk for these nerds.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

No wonder a certain sort of person loves that shit. Ew.

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Thank you! My goal here was to mess with colors more, and i think I succeeded a bit more than I thought