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Renee 🦀
@dreadbeasts.bsky.social
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Animation professional, wearer of many hats (Titmouse, Wildbrain, Bardel, Bento Box) | FFXIV enjoyer | will bite for worker rights | 35+

Want art? http://ko-fi.com/dreadbeasts or http://vgen.co/dreadbeasts

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Renee 🦀 @dreadbeasts.bsky.social · Nov 24
Hi! I'm Renee, a Vancouver-based animation industry veteran and artist. I'm working on posting my art more, but you can also expect frequent yelling about worker rights, my cat, the Film & TV industry, and FFXIV.

opinions are mine and do not represent my employers
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bencollins.bsky.social
Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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tinyskald.bsky.social
solution nine wuk lamat
#ffxiv
February 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
It's time for #hourlycomicsday so here we goooooo
February 8, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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waltometry.bsky.social
I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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clove.bsky.social
EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT
February 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
Added a new service to my Vgen: SKEB commissions! For a flat $50 you drop in my lap, I take your ref and make you an art, and drop it back in your lap. Quick, easy, and a little bit of fun extra surprise.

Trying to get my bank account out of overdraft so... y'know... vgen.co/Dreadbeasts/...
SKEB Full Color Portrait by Dreadbeasts (@Dreadbeasts)
Send a request while they're still accepting!
vgen.co
February 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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transformativeworks.org
International Fanworks Day 2026 is just a few days away, and we have a lot of fun activities lined up for you to celebrate this #IFD with us! Learn more at otw-news.org/2p8ess7m
International Fanworks Day
February 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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cartoonist.coop
TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cartoonist.coop Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 13d
Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd
"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing,

but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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glivs.bsky.social
anim from a bit ago

#2danimation #animation
February 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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inmyleylines.bsky.social
The author’s thinly veiled fetish? No, the author’s glaringly obvious special interest.
September 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats.

It's all there.

He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players.

Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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lucyknisley.bsky.social
"Haunted"
#IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue. Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence. Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence. Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?" Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!" Lucy: "Have a good one!" Crew member: "You, too!" Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat. Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing. Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone. Lucy is reading messages on her phone. Messages: Alert: black SUV Sighting: be on alert for... Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates... We tried to get them inside, but it was too... ...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today. Lucy is riding her bike home. Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?" *Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org. Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors. (Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern) Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted. Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence. Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build. The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too") Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend. Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted? (Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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bogswallop.bsky.social
They're a requirement
Velma holding a stylus pen, crawling on the ground looking for something and saying "My video essays! I can't draw without my video essays!". On the ground are two youtube thumbnails of video essays "Line goes up -the problem with NFTs" by Dan Olson and "ROBLOX_OOF.MP3" by hbomberguy
February 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
Ope! Yoinked - Thanks Spence!

Art/Gpose Train! Share 4 pieces and tag 4 people

@evangatoarts.bsky.social
@4ltar3go.bsky.social
@anipul.bsky.social
@hospitalvespers.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
Jenna is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to animation tech. Her reviews are very insightful!
animatorjenna.bsky.social animatorjenna.bsky.social @animatorjenna.bsky.social · 4d
With Adobe being very unreliable in the present circumstances with Animate I have been seeing a particular list going around of "Adobe Alternatives". I don't think this list is written by Animation Industry savvy folks so I'd like to present my thoughts on alternatives with each plus and minus
1/15
February 4, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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beckyandfrank.com
Is it bad if your stock is down almost 40% over a year despite quadrupling down on AI during a stock market bubble?
Adobe stock down 38.23%
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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gammarae.design
Fun Harry Potter and JK Rowling Facts For Potterheads! Prince Andrew, photographed with underage girls with Jeffrey Epstein, was invited in 2025 to the set of the new Harry Potter show years after his implication with Epstein.. JK Rowling once described Lolita as a "tragic love story" in an interview. JK Rowling's team directly invited Jeffrey Epstein to the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Epstein was at least seen to be connected enough to Rowling for folks to go to him to be connected with her. Rowling once accidentally replied to a twitter post by a child's mom with hate speech copied into her clipboard. Rowling has used her Harry Potter money to aid in the legal expenses of white supremacists because she agreed with their transphobia as well as successful judicial attacks on children by the UK supreme court.
February 2, 2026 at 10:22 PM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
Signal boosting my bud Evan -- his art is really nice and pretty, and he's lightning-fast! If you've got the spare dosh for art, I recommend his stuff highly.
evangatoarts.bsky.social Evan/HallowRook @evangatoarts.bsky.social · Jan 9
Sorry to keep posting this, my surgery bill is hiking up.
I'm taking art comms & selling merch. Your purchases would help me a lot!
😽 Comm me: vgen.co/hallowrook
😽 Buy my merch: acggoods.com/store/hallow...
😽Kofi: ko-fi.com/evanbird
Signal boosting helps also! Thank you!
#signalboost #commissionart
February 4, 2026 at 12:37 AM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
Good job team, remind corporations that they're nothing without the people who buy their crap.
February 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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stupidartpunk.bsky.social
Meta enacting an AI tax?

From an anti-AI group.
Snag Tights • Follow ... X รักยญ A quick note on why you might see some "weird" stuff on our feed... As an independent business, our goal is always to keep things human. Currently, Facebook and Instagram are our strongest tools for finding new customers (though we'd love for that not to be the case! If you have suggestions for other channels, we're all ears). However, Meta's recent algorithm changes have introduced a mandatory "Al Testing" tax. They now take 5% of our ad budget to test their own Al-generated content. We have opted out of every single Al feature we possibly can, and we never choose to use Al imagery for our brand. Unfortunately, for that 5%, Meta gives us zero control. If you see an ad from us that looks "off" or has that strange Al sheen, please know: It isn't us. It's Meta using our budget for their own experiments. We're sticking with these platforms for now because they keep our lights on, but we wanted to be honest about why the robots are occasionally crashing the party. In the meantime, we're looking for a way out of the 'Meta trap.' Where else do you spend your time online? Whether it's a specific niche forum, a newsletter you love, or a platform we haven't tried yet, tell us in the comments where you'd like to see us next. We'd much rather meet you where the humans are. You can also sign up for our mailing list which helps us be independent of ad platforms
February 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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aplante.com
wake up babe new rat purse just dropped #art
cartoon drawing of a little gold coin purse shaped like a rat. the rat is sitting on its little fat rat ass and chompin away on copper pennies.
February 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
dreadbeasts.bsky.social
we're having fun today right
February 3, 2026 at 2:25 AM