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Lou

@loutellstales.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️He/They🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 Visual artist & mentor, game dev, writer & digital cryptid🌈 ⭐Co-founder of Starwhispers⭐ 🏡Future inn owner🏡 🦘Aussie in Montreal, Canada 🦫 👁️Check out my work & other surprises here:👁️ https://linktr.ee/loutellstales 📨[email protected]

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hey there, I'm Lou.

For more information about me check out my linktree:

linktr.ee/loutellstales

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 21h

(We were at the park because prior we were going to a doctors appointment we wouldn’t have been able to afford without folks’ support, so thank you, and I hope you are visited by a tiny, accessorised, pug fairy sometime soon to receive your blessing).

Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 21h

I was once having a bad day until approached by a pug in a park wearing a beautiful, decorated, golden collar, owned by a very serious, masculine, French man who looked on at me sternly as she begged for pats.

Everyone who has helped with our GFM led me to that moment & I think of that pug daily.

Azrai @theazrai.com · 2d

My goals are humble. I just need some kind, creative, LGBTQ+-allied people to help two trans artists do better than say that total loser who got almost a million dollars for yelling a slur at a kid in a public park. www.starwhispers.co/thelastthres...

The Last Threshold

We're building a castle in a housing crisis.

www.starwhispers.co

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 21h

“Why is AI being pushed so hard?”

The US economy:

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare was the other bright factor but now the GOP has destroyed it.

Tweet from Bryce Greene reads: “Knew the economy was bad and fake but this is really just insane.” Below is a tweet from spike with the headline: “Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says.”

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2d

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 4d

Some other terms to use for artists:

-Graphic Design Work
-Illustration Design Work
-Concept Illustration Design Work
-Illustrated & Conceptual Design Work
-Creative Development re (character) Project

Leave banter to emails & DM’s.

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 8d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 4d

TLDR; the ‘AI glasses’ made by META have already been used to sexually harass women.

The hypocrisy of the regime allowing Peep Tech Tom glasses but banning trans people from restrooms under the guise of ‘protecting women’ is predictable but disappointing.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 4d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

gizmodo.com

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4d

“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 8d

Timeline cleanse.

Newspaper clipping, 1906.

A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 6d

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 6d

In my final year of Uni I wanted to create an AI that could generate random numbers in a grid assigned with a flower species and on refresh create meadows of spontaneous, random, ‘digital wildflowers’. Imitating nature’s serendipity.

Ai is not inherently evil. But this is unsafe.

Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine the most emotionally manipulative liar you know-then take away their ability to empathise with you or anyone else in any way.

Add a financial incentive for each lie they can get you to believe.

That’s what you’re interacting with.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

As use of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots grows, reports of people apparently losing touch with reality after intense use of chatbots have gone viral on social media in recent weeks, with posts labeling them examples of “AI psychosis.”

What is ‘AI psychosis’ and how can ChatGPT affect your mental health?

Mental health experts say cases of people forming delusional beliefs after hours with AI chatbots are concerning and offer tips on how to help someone affected.

www.washingtonpost.com

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➼ amihan (he/hymn)🔜 PAXU @therosecleric.bsky.social · 7d

If you haven't already, please start auditing your social media. Be mindful of your posts. If this goes through, this could lead to them kidnapping you for any reason, but ESPECIALLY because of your identity.

🍀 Use this to help remove yourself from social media:

decolonize.digital

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 7d

My art queue is very light if anyone would like a piece from me with a week or two turn around ^^

🎨 www.sitaduncan.com

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 6d

Comics are arguably one of the most difficult illustration mediums with the least amount of payoff.
Whenever someone suggests working on a comic to me my blood chills because the conversion of labour to pay is so dystopian.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

Here is your shutdown guide.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Cat Frith @catsinook.bsky.social · 9d

#Peachtober25 Week One! Pushed my colouring experimentation here and pleased with the results! #peachtober #studies #art

A page of digitally illustrated studies following the Peachtober prompt list . From top left; a bunch of acorns and oak leaves, a Scottish red kite, a slug, a gingham handkerchief, a poppy, a halved strawberry, and a peach ring

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Kaza Marie @kazamarie.bsky.social · 9d

The United States government is shut down, this is a critical hit against democracy. We can’t keep rolling dice at the table, it’s time to roll for initiative in the streets. Join the march to unite against authoritarian takeover. Together we can forge a future rooted in peace and equality. 🌷