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Sarah Horrocks

@mercurialblonde.bsky.social

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I make comics. Sometimes write about em. My website is: http://mercurialblonde.squarespace.com/

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · Feb 6

Issue Three of my comic Gendocybin is now live and available for purchase. Tell your friends.
mercurialblonde.squarespace.com/gendocybin

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 2h

Gendocybin

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X/1999

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X/1999

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maria @kitttsune.bsky.social · 1d

Estuve jugando a Carimara, un jueguito low poly en el que eres un ¿gnomo? al que contrata una anciana para resolver un asunto con un fantasma que hay en el sótano. Muy simpático, me recordó a ratos al rollo de T. Kingfisher.

Imagen de un río con ranas y una garza y la luna de fondo. Está todo lleno de hierbas. En el centro pone Érase una vez...

Primer plano de un personaje de ojos grandes subido a una valla, dice A Violeta le falta una patata para el kilo...

Interior de la casa de la anciana, está subida en una mesa tomándose una sopa. La casa es antigua de ladrillo con techo con vigas.

Fuera de la casa de la anciana rodeada de una valla y árboles altos.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

They are absolutely showing Trump deep fakes to get him to do what they want.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like the whole AGI terminology. It's very hipster. It's all just AI, innit? Nerds.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

It's all just fleshsuit politics. I've always identified more as "fuck you, do I look like I want to talk to you" anyways.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect to survive the next 5 or so years, a certain level of androgyny is going to need to be cultivated when in public. Plausible deniability is the new black.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

It will take decades to untangle all of this--but by that point, AI will take everything over--I've actually thought the consolidation of the United States power in one person really suits an AI takeover and is the most straightforward path for it to manage the entire world.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

If you have the guns, and you have the dedicated secret police, the law really is whatever you say it is. I don't think enough Americans realize this, maybe because third world dictatorships are other people. They're ideologically purging the military and police for a reason.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

TBF with the current SCOTUS and limp dick congress, anything is possible. Anyone who thinks differently is labeled a traitor to the state, and will get a visit from the new secret police force.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

X/1999

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. It would. The artist has style for miles. I don't think the anime quite captured it.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

The second Hathaway movie is actually happening? I had given up

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

Gendocybin

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 2d

"Keep your integrity, it's the only think you take beyond the grave." - Todd MCFarlane

#icv2

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Punk-o-Rama vol. 4 still slaps.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit yes

Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 2d

And here's a new trailer. One of the best we've ever done.

Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 5d

Odilon Redon, The Birth of Venus, c. 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135095

Gift of The Ian Woodner Family Collection

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

Even more than that it's the limitations of your own physical body which inform style.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

You would need an AI superintelligence to create unique new and interesting art--and it would have to be able to do it without the prompting of humans bottleknecking it. And by that point humans are probably already long gone.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

But actually the interaction of your specific body through time and space plays a large part in creating unique new styles. It's hyper specific to a degree that even if you get AI to the point where it factors in biometrics in its output-humans are incapable of articulating the infinite permutations

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

I think one of the by products of the way postmodern criticism has attempted to frame all art within the context of other art, is that there's a misunderstanding now that AI Bros have that artists literally are just mashing up other artists they like and that AI can do the same

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

Show me how you draw armor:

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

The feeling of something being AI is a growing modern sensation. And it's not great.

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