Darren M. A. Calvert
@dmacalvert.bsky.social
Designer and teacher by day. Freelance illustrator by night. IG: http://instagram.com/darrenmacalvert | Etsy: https://shorturl.at/hpEFO | 🇨🇦
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Hello there, my name is Darren Calvert and I'm a design teacher and freelance illustrator from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I try to focus on art and things I like but occasionally go off on a bit of a rant.
You can find me on Instagram shorturl.at/pBhFv
Prints or original art: shorturl.at/orzm8
You can find me on Instagram shorturl.at/pBhFv
Prints or original art: shorturl.at/orzm8
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January 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
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Prepared to give the kid upstairs anything they want if they will stop randomly screaming throughout the day.
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Prepared to give the kid upstairs anything they want if they will stop randomly screaming throughout the day.
Thought this was going in a different direction.
The reports of violence, arbitrary arrests, and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime against its own people are profoundly concerning. Canada strongly condemns the killing of protesters, and urges Iran to allow for freedom of expression and peaceful assembly without fear of reprisal.
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Thought this was going in a different direction.
Straight-up mentally ill.
Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."
January 10, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Straight-up mentally ill.
Supposed to have work starting on the floor in my studio/office on Monday and also a new mattress arriving on Monday and none of it is convenient.
January 9, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Supposed to have work starting on the floor in my studio/office on Monday and also a new mattress arriving on Monday and none of it is convenient.
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This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.
Grabbed the two Cairn 2e core books from @yochaigal.bsky.social. Even if you aren't playing the system, the Warden's Guide has a ton of good worldbuilding advice and random tables that you could easily incorporate into any fantasy RPG.
I want to try the random map generating with my nephews.
I want to try the random map generating with my nephews.
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Grabbed the two Cairn 2e core books from @yochaigal.bsky.social. Even if you aren't playing the system, the Warden's Guide has a ton of good worldbuilding advice and random tables that you could easily incorporate into any fantasy RPG.
I want to try the random map generating with my nephews.
I want to try the random map generating with my nephews.
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This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
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A marker Spider-Gwen from this day in 2019.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
A marker Spider-Gwen from this day in 2019.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
A marker Spider-Gwen from this day in 2019.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
A marker Spider-Gwen from this day in 2019.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
That blue Posca pen works super well for doing the webbing inside her hood.
"Please don't hit me!" makes our trains sound like wimps. 🥺
Should be something like "I WILL DESTROY YOU!" 😡
Should be something like "I WILL DESTROY YOU!" 😡
January 9, 2026 at 1:07 AM
"Please don't hit me!" makes our trains sound like wimps. 🥺
Should be something like "I WILL DESTROY YOU!" 😡
Should be something like "I WILL DESTROY YOU!" 😡
8 hours of lecturing/talking in one day is too much. I am out of practice after 3 weeks off.
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM
8 hours of lecturing/talking in one day is too much. I am out of practice after 3 weeks off.
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BTW, you might have missed this silly shirt I released around the holidays. Perfect for your favorite fan of fantasy (or feet). Utterly baffling to everyone else. danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/he-b...
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He Broke His Toes When He Kicked That Helmet on Men's T-Shirt – Did you know he broke his toes when he kicked that helmet? That scream was real. IYKYK
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January 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
BTW, you might have missed this silly shirt I released around the holidays. Perfect for your favorite fan of fantasy (or feet). Utterly baffling to everyone else. danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/he-b...
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January 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
My first interaction with my 40+ students for tomorrow is sending out an email with the wrong course number and then having to send a follow-up email with the correction.
Off to a good start. 😑
Off to a good start. 😑
January 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
My first interaction with my 40+ students for tomorrow is sending out an email with the wrong course number and then having to send a follow-up email with the correction.
Off to a good start. 😑
Off to a good start. 😑
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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This may literally be the worst font choice I have ever seen in my life.
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
This may literally be the worst font choice I have ever seen in my life.
The audacity of these lies is sickening.
Noem accuses Renee Nicole Good of "an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents -- an act of domestic terrorism."
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The audacity of these lies is sickening.
Tens of thousands of untrained idiots with the firepower of a national military who figure they've "gotta shoot somebody".
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Tens of thousands of untrained idiots with the firepower of a national military who figure they've "gotta shoot somebody".