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Digital artist painting elf girls and the occasional landscape. Also thoughts on history and gaming IG: instagram.com/biegeltoren

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hi! I'm Biegel, I mostly paint ladies in various places, and sometimes I paint places without ladies!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

#saveSpeech

this is a really good sign, but it's not over until it's over. Germany has flipped before, and we cannot risk it flipping again. Germans, continue to voice your opposition to your MEPs/MPs. likewise, everyone else in the EU should be similarly vocal!

we have 7 more days!

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 3d

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

Germany voices opposition to Chat Control, tilting the balance.

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 3d

It does seem like them not continuing security updates also is quite a risk

Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I realise, it's still dumb, cuz from my expience at work windows 11 just seems worse than windows 10.

Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 4d

Not surprised but still disappointing.

Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 4d

I still think it's dumb that the UK (and US) has a system of disctricts, rather than a fully proportional system.

Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 4d

I just found out I'm going to have to downgrade from windows 10 to windows 11 because microsoft is ending support for windows 10 in a week. Ugh.

#windows10

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 5d

Idk what the sweeper project is, but this design looks super satisfying!

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 6d

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

white house tweet quoting JD Vance saying we do not ask permission from far left democrats before we deport illegal immigrants " over a Ghibli style pic of him and trump

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Tuta @tuta.com · 7d

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Signalapp on X: We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a
catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled
opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could
spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7d

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Katerina Solomko @katsolomkoart.bsky.social · 7d

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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · 8d

The Littlest Sister. 🎨⭐️

[ #dnd #art #ocsky #oc #hades]

hades 2 screenshot of my character Leora. her text reads: okay! I’ll help but you can’t lose because if you do that’s just embarassing for the both of us and we can’t have that

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Guillaume Bonnet @zazb.bsky.social · 8d

Viridia's Great Bridge
The other part of this project will be to figure out some interesting places inside the city for the adventurers to explore.
#radiantviridia #thethiefoftales

Isometric view of a broken bridge, covered with vegetation. There are portraits on both sides, one depicting a Badger Person and the other a bearded man.
The text reads: escort the diplomat to the bridge.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11d

Cyberpunk may have its flaws - fewer, by far, these days - but it made me feel a feel. I felt a feel at the beginning, I felt a different feel at the ending, I felt other, still different feels in the middle.

If the game makes you feel a feeling, honestly, you can overlook most of the rest.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · May 27

Cyberpunk ending with the Aldecados still gets me in the feels

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 19d

Finished this one!

#art #elf #windy

A blonde haired elf whose hair fades towards purple halfway down the length. Her hair is waving in the wind, which also has folded one of her large pointed ears.
She wears a dark techwear outfit including a backpack and wide coat, the latter of which is, like her hair, flapping in the wind.
The whole scene is in early morning twilight.

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 22d

"Slow morning at work" aka "I don't do enough traditional art" aka "Look real artists can also make art without the computer"

#art #traditional #sketch

A pencil drawing of a girl with bangs and two large buns on either side of her head. The drawing is in a notebook that is held up by a hand that is also holding a pencil. In the background a keyboard and a cup of tea are visible.

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Lesly ✨️ @leslyoh.bsky.social · 14d

Them ✨👏

#ApothecaryDiaries #薬屋のひとりごと #shimao

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 15d

In the Netherlands we have a digital ID, which is linked to a physical ID. The digital one just exists to log into gov services like healthcare and the tax office. The physical one is for identification. Idk what they're proposing in the UK exactly but out system works well enough.

Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 15d

When Hades 2 released in Beta I started a fanart, but never finished it. Maybe I should...

Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 15d

What he's saying seems stupidly obvious to me, but it's a sign of the times we live in that it's stuff that needs to be said, and that it's stuff that most politicians either are afraid to say or don't agree with.

youtu.be/ECaqX1hCQ6g?...

Finland’s President Delivers Most Inspiring, Powerful UN Speech Yet on Multipolar World Order | AC1G

YouTube video by DRM News

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 17d

I want the third book to be out so I can get the three as a set 😭

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Andrew Mar @andrewkmar.bsky.social · 17d

Tending the garden

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Biegeltoren @biegeltoren.bsky.social · 18d

It'll be fantastically exciting to see what kind of awful people rear their heads this time.