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Meow Meow The Opulos

@meowtheopulos.bsky.social

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Can call me Cody/Kit or Meow Furry artist and graphic designer Likes to stream on Twitch and make YouTube videos about gaming 25 y/o He/Him 🔞 SFW/NSFW(ish)

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Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · Dec 15

Hello there :v name’s Kit/Meow and welcome to my page, check out my other stuff where I do streaming and make videos about gaming. And check out my Kofi if you wanna support me with just a dollar

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☕️ | ko-fi.com/codytheopulos

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 9h

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 21h

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · 19h

Practicing some coloring pencils I got :v

Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · 1d

The newer tracks up the somberness. It’s great :v

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SharpDressedReptile @sharpysketch.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh but I cant afford to pay an artist blah blah bla-"

Hun. Think about all the legendary album covers that have just been text on a plain bg, or just a photo. I understand the impact that a beautifully illustrated album cover can have, but it doesn't NEED to be that.

Respect artists. FUCK AI.

Sgt. Hare Apollo @sgthareapollo.bsky.social · 1d

When it comes to music, “If the cover art’s AI, I’m passin’ it by!™”

Share if you agree

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

"Not ever as long as [we're] in charge. What we do, and why we do it, is grounded in humanity ... no algorithm can replicate [that] ... true effort, inspiration, and perspiration"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTW...

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Jim Lee confirms DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or art

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 4d

WOW....👀👀👀

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

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Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · 5d

You’re also Skibidi

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 5d

Once again, AI SUCKS!

I know it can be easy to generate a thing for fun but really, trying to draw and enjoying what you make by your own hands will always be more rewarding.

I put my soul into this buffed Tony the tiger, as strange and funny as it sounds!

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 5d

Also as an artist, be free!

I know I often get the "But this is not you! You drew those cute little Bouncy pigeons ..."

It's still me! And I enjoy drawing whatever I like with the same care and passion.

I know I can lose followers but in the end, I just want to draw happilly and what I want :)

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · 6d

Morning Breeze for my boi Guy

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Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · 6d

Cute Kitty Meow GIF

ALT: Cute Kitty Meow GIF

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The REAL Texas Paul @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

Opt-out. You can decline this Agreement to Arbitrate-and no other provision of these terms-by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of September 29, 2025 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate Disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, Discord also will not be bound by it and there shall be no arbitration agreement existing between you and Discord, whether under these or prior arbitration provisions. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you may exercise your right to a trial by jury or judge, as permitted by applicable law, but any prior existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes will not apply to claims not yet filed. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you will not be opting out of any other provision of these terms and you agree to be bound by all other provisions of these terms, which shall remain in effect as allowable by law

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 8d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Meow Meow The Opulos @meowtheopulos.bsky.social · 8d

What about Tubtober?

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Toon Raccoon! @cooner.art · 8d

Ugh, this this this.

For the past decade indie artists/writers were told "Reach your audience on social media! Put some hustle in it!" And it was exhausting.

Now the social media landscape is collapsing. I understand why people decide to drop out but we're left with no publicity tools or channels.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 8d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Pandottermon (Endo only) @pandottermon.bsky.social · 8d

Just called. Fuck Elon Musk.

Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 8d

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

You can subscribe to PBS for a few dollars a month.

Cancel Disney, Paramount and Amazon.

Vote with your dollar and give to the people and organizations who are still fighting back.

Who are trying to make a difference.

Who aren’t owned by billionaires.

Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 9d

Today marks the first day in the 55-year history of PBS and 54-year history of NPR that public media has broadcast to its audiences without federal funding. But even though lots of local outlets are at risk, PBS and NPR are still here, providing fair, accurate news coverage and will not be silenced.

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NPR @npr.org · 9d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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