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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 1h

Contemplating life and comics.

Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 2h

Love how the "experts" saying that Canada need to keep on top of AI technology aren't programmers or computer scientists, but companies and trade orgs hoping to sell their own AI snake oil to the government.

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Outerheaven Pirate Television @outerheaven.pyoko.org · 2h

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 2h

I have a friend whose mother uses Shinhan religiously and so periodically she has to visit an art store to stock up on colors her mother is running low on and mail them back to the US. I use Shinhan poster color, Pass design color, and Colorist in my gouache-adjacent toolkit.

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Cecil Dewalt @lafterlight.bsky.social · 7h

Me: “Hey Arty, what’s it called when a comic artist is bummed about not making syndicate?”

Arty: *wary noises*

Me: “Peanuts envy.” 😃😃😃

Arty:

Arty Sunspot makes an extremely sour face

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muzzlesbian @muzzlesbian.bsky.social · 3d

“combat stimulants” oh, you mean mechamphetamine?

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 1d

I have gotten Blender to render a GearHead mecha with the pure color channels required for the color switcher + no bleed between colored regions. I feel mighty... and more than a bit tired. #Gamedev #Blender3d

A BuruBuru mecha from GearHead RPG. One shoulder pad is rendered in pure yellow (R=G, B=0); the rest of the mecha is pure grey (R G and B equal)

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 11d

September 30th/October 1st

A polymer clay penguin painting a watercolor painting of my penguin self-portrait.

My penguin self-portrait wearing a ghost costume consisting of a sheet with too many eye holes cut in it, a la Charlie Brown. He is also carrying a guitar and saying "I gotta rawk".

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16h

You know it's getting good when you spend more time playing than tinkering with code. Which is also important dev work, don't get me wrong...

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Teabree Shark @nurse.fish · 18h

The only thing humans will ever agree on is that micro-USB was the worst of all of them.

USB-C? Took her time to get there but is becoming universal everywhere and that's Good.

Mini-USB? So durable it's still used today in high-vibration environments, like dash cams.

Micro? Go to hell.

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 17h

Watched the first episode of the 79' series and i'm pretty impressed at how well it hold up.

Sure, the design is dated, and the animation isn't the best (some shots are pretty amazing though, iconic even) but the story gets real darkin a surprisingly compelling way.

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R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 1d

Behold!
A man!

A squirrel on his hind legs viewed from the side

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ℕ𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕠 ℕ𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕠 𝕄𝕒𝕟 @nachonachoman.net · 19h

The place where I come from is a small town
They think so small, they use small words
But not me
I'm smarter than that, I worked it out
I've been stretching my mouth
To let those big words come right out

Big Time - Peter Gabriel

youtu.be/PBAl9cchQac?...

Peter Gabriel - Big Time

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel

youtu.be

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Training Guts ahead of the pregnancy @kinkgo.bsky.social · Nov 19

How come no one posted this here yet

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 14d

Made a polymer clay Membros from memory.

A polymer clay version of Membros ftom the Micronauts; an orange alien with a gun arm and an exposed brain.

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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez #DVPit, looking for a new agent @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social · 1d

#DVPit #DVArt

Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez #DVPit, looking for a new agent @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social · 3d

#DVArt #DVPit #GN #Dis #CI #Latine #LGBT #WOC #Illustrator #COMMS #WFH #CON #NA
The Unlucky Ones & the Edge of Nowhere, 300pg GN. 2 queer adults w/ life-changing powers navigate grief & mortality on a sudden summer road trip out of California in the hopes they'll find answers to what's next (ON SUB)

6 panel comic page showing a young woman wiping blood from her nose before the page settles on the morning sun in the sky

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 2d

That rocket ham made me remember how Peanut was convinced he could jump. Absolutely certain, in that tiny hamster brain of his. He'd rear back, wiggle his hips, then just kind of tip over sideways.

Peanut, a Chinese striped hamster, looking up at me from inside a cardboard maze.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 1d

I think I can get better results if I add a curves modifier to the desaturated render to clamp the values between white and 10% grey.

Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 1d

I have gotten Blender to render a GearHead mecha with the pure color channels required for the color switcher + no bleed between colored regions. I feel mighty... and more than a bit tired. #Gamedev #Blender3d

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 1d

Mistook this for a picture of myself but then remembered no, I use tarot.

Ruby 💕💜🩵 @fugitiverabbit.com · 2d

My therapist has to remind me constantly that just because I'm anxious something may happen doesn't necessarily mean it will.

#art

Artwork showing a frazzled looking possum holding onto an orb/crystal ball with the text " you are not predicting the future. You have anxiety!"

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 2d

That rocket ham made me remember how Peanut was convinced he could jump. Absolutely certain, in that tiny hamster brain of his. He'd rear back, wiggle his hips, then just kind of tip over sideways.

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Max Sarin @maxsarin.bsky.social · 2d

Here is number 8 (Mukava manaaja/Nice exorcist) for the drawing challenge! #perjantaipaja #perjantaipajavinkkaa #sarjakuu #sarjakuu2025
@sarjakuvaseura.bsky.social

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Goose Minis @gooseminis.bsky.social · 2d

Every once in a while a print is so exciting even in plain resin that you just gotta share it! Meet the Giant Space Hamster, aka "Rocket Ham" by @ffacrafts.bsky.social

bit.ly/RocketHam

#art #minipainting #painting #3Dprinting #nerdlings

A 3D-printed tabletop miniature in plain grey resin. It is a hamster wearing a rocket backpack and levitating as it propels them upwards.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 2d

I used to teach a creative English class for nonnative speakers, and would often include the "5 min, 1 min, 30 sec, 10 sec Batman" sketch activity to show that even if the 10sec sketch is "bad", it successfully communicates the idea "Batman".

Batman sketches drawn in 10 minutes, 1 minute, and 10 seconds.

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