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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 5d

Pokemon Fairytale Characters part 3
Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Rose Red
#Pokemon #Halloween #Costume #Fairytale #Characters

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 5d

Fairytale Pokemon Characters part 2
Jack, Lindworm Prince, Pinnochio, Red Riding Hood
#Pokemon #Halloween #Costume #Fairytale #Characters

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 5d

Fairytale Pokemon characters:
Alice, Ash Lad, Frog Prince, Dorothy/Elphaba
#Pokemon #Halloween #Costume #Fairytale #Characters

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! Exactly

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 8d

I like the idea that he could still suddenly appear out of the dark and it confuses everybody how long he's been standing there / How did they not notice him sooner.

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 9d

I wanted to experiment with my design of Dr. Bhaal the main villain of my story. I had a thought he would look scarier in Albino
#Soaring #Dragon #Villain #Albino

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 9d

Symbiotic Pokemon
#Pokemon
#Bulbasaur #Glimmet
#Wartortle #Binacle
#Torkoal #Slugma
#Riolu #Beldum

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 9d

I was experimenting with doing full backgrounds with my new markers. I got the idea for this picture from listening to the Epic the Musical song: Dangerous

My Pokemon OC Kaida the Salazzle is on a Dangerous journey with Manaphy as a guide
#Art #Pokemon #Salazzle #Manaphy #EpictheMusical #Dangerous

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 9d

This was a paid Commission for a friend of mine. Actually they are updated version of an old commission that I had done for him before
#Commission #Art #Dragon

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 24d

My character Karma got his claws on a magic Golden Dragon Gauntlet that is functionally a flamethrower but it comes with a cost that it runs on blood...
#Mutant #Chameleon #Karma #Ninja #Flamethrower

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 24d

This is actually based on a real living person, Stage name: Captain Yarrface the lead singer of the Pirate Metal band Rumahoy, formed in 2011. He claims his band actually live aboard a pirate ship and are actual pirates.
#Pokemon #Pirate #Rumahoy #Captain_Yarrface #Snorlax #Metal

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 25d

Sunny & Noctis (Charmander and Gastly) and Spark & Plug (Charmeleon and Rotom)
Sunny is Spark's Aunt but she is younger than Spark so he prefers to call her "Cousin"
#Pokemon #Charmander #Charmeleon #Gastly #Rotom #Partners #Magic #Sorcerer #Artificer

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 27d

Another of Apper's species, I don't have an official name yet. The colors are meant to be closer to the real plumage of the Resplendent Quetzal Bird

#Soaring #Dragon #Resplendent #Quetzal #Quetzalcoatl #FeatheredSerpent #Snake

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 27d

Apper
He is one of Hem Locke's childhood friends, now fully grown.
#Soaring #Dragon #FeatheredSerpent #Snake #Quetzalcoatl

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · 27d

Nihuri the Seer. She is a dragon-adjacent species from another continent across the eastern see who was imprisoned by a King who wanted to use her power of Foresight
#Soaring #art #Dragon #Kobold #Owl #Fortuneteller #Imprisoned

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · Sep 14

Here is some non-satire for you:

Trans rights forever.

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · Sep 14

Commission Picture: Cursed Transformation Ninetails (Shiny)
#Art #Commission #Pokemon #Fox #Ninetales #Shiny #Kitsune

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Bys (Comms Open) @bysthedragon.bsky.social · Sep 11

Team Shooting Star
Adopted Brothers Shade Oath (Zorua) and Julien Starfall (Gabite)
and Symbiotic Cousin Spark (Charmeleon) and his buddy Plug (Rotom)

#pokemon #fantasy #Chameleon #Rotom #Zorua #Gabite #Team #Zekrom #Kyurem #Reshiram

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Paige Bella Moxley @spookymulderjr.bsky.social · Jun 14

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seraph💫 @serafphim.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · Aug 24

this trans woman was taken into ICE custody tonight over a 3-year old weed charge. she faces torture in men’s detention centers or self-deportation and leaving behind everything she knows (if she can afford that option). please support if you’re able

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · Aug 24

www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

Donate to Justice for Alice Correia Barbosa, organized by AJ Timoteo

Alice Correia Barbosa, is a Brazilian trans woman, who was brutally, and wrongfully arre… AJ Timoteo needs your support for Justice for Alice Correia Barbosa

www.gofundme.com

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anna :3 @damemes42025.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy #InternationalPrimateDay! Like elephants and meerkats, lemurs live in a matriarchal society, where females are the ones in charge. Lemurs are a social primate and tend to live in groups where communication is key.

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3:

"If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.
And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.
So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).
The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3:

"The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.
Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.
This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3:

"How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.
But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. "

Response by drtanner:

"Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.
It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

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Gaegral OPEN COMMISSION @gaegral.bsky.social · Aug 26

Apparently someone has used the artwork from my redesigns of the chromatic dragons that I did last year in a YouTube video without crediting me or asking my permission 🤡

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