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Claire

@baseball-broad.bsky.social

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:

1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account

Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

www.wired.com

January 24, 2026 at 5:59 AM

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OKAME

@0kame-san.bsky.social

All commissions will close in 23 hours!

Current remaining slots 🔽
Full Body: 1
Half Body: 1
Headshot: 0

OKAME @0kame-san.bsky.social · 4d

Sketch comms are now open!!!
Starting at just $28✨
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January 23, 2026 at 2:22 PM

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Andrew Couts

@couts.bsky.social

NEW: A database left accessible to anyone online contained tens of millions of login credentials from Gmail, Facebook, Apple, OnlyFans, crypto accounts, and more. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/149-mi...

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.

www.wired.com

January 23, 2026 at 1:06 PM

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Onikuno

@onikuno.bsky.social

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now

cybernews.com/security/dev...

One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

cybernews.com

January 21, 2026 at 9:45 PM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

I realized that I didn't have any pictures of Bernie that I could post on main, so here she is coming to a party with a keg; no doubt she'd immediately become the coolest person there!

Bernie Cosgrove, anthropomorphic shark woman, is wearing sneakers and a bikini and doing a thumbs up while casually holding a 1/2 barrel keg, a feat made possible by her exceptional size and strength (she's almost 10'11").

Also her fin is pierced and has a fishing lure dangling from it.

January 21, 2026 at 5:26 PM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

More video games need to have playable characters that slither

We need more snakepeople protagonists

January 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray

@danielgray.com

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

www.theguardian.com

January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

For real, though, I love this cat and I won't rest until there are at least fifty images of her in existence

MostExcellentRobot @mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social · 5d

TFW you buy an adopt because she's one of the cutest designs you've ever seen and now you're referencing vintage photos so your sketches can be kinda historically accurate

I've got some stuff with her being planned, and a couple of things currently in the works

Gotta rest my wrist for now, though

A rough grayscale image of a female anthropomorphic cat wearing glasses and a dress. She's holding a bouquet of flowers and has a smile on her face. She's standing in New York City; the Pan Am building is visible in the distance behind her

January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

TFW you buy an adopt because she's one of the cutest designs you've ever seen and now you're referencing vintage photos so your sketches can be kinda historically accurate

I've got some stuff with her being planned, and a couple of things currently in the works

Gotta rest my wrist for now, though

January 20, 2026 at 7:14 AM

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Myrmidia 🔛 Patreon

@myrmidia.bsky.social

Hey, instead of throwing 96 bucks at midj0urney & getting only slop, ugly ass D&D portraits out of it…
I offer you 350+ handcrafted designs for just $1!
There's also a $5 tier with cute little variants now, thanks to us consistently hitting 500+ Patrons!!!

patreon.com/Myrmidia 🤍👉👈

July 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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TheFrenchPhenom

@thefrenchphenom.bsky.social

Shin-Chan se trouve dans la loge noire de Twin Peaks avec son chien Shiro. Il est assis sur un fauteuil.

January 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM

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AnimaloftheElements

@sariahoward.bsky.social

Heading to Japan for family reasons, but money is TIGHT

So, I'm doing 10% discounts on all commissions this month! Fill out the form in the replies to claim a slot

All help and shares are appreciated

#commissions #ocsky #artcomm

Illustrations $400<. Art with a focus on creating a scene/environment as opposed to focusing on a character. Fully rendered and comes with a detailed backgrou8nd. Prices increase based on the content.
Reference Sheets $200<. Baseline sketched fullbody front and rear. Prices increase based on sketch lined vs clean lines, extra angles, clothes, details, etc.

Will Do: OCs/FCs, Fanart, Furries/Ferals, Humanoids, Monsters, Gore/Horror, Ship/Couple art
Won't Do: Extreme fetish art, offensive content/politics, violence directed towards a real person (unless permission is granted by said person), anything I may find to be too uncomfortable to draw
Ask About: Mecha, NSFW/Pinups, Animations/Animatics, Merch, such as buttons/charms, Character/Outfit design
Additional Fees: Anything in the "ask about" section will result in extra fees depending on the commission. Extra Characters +$40< depending on complexity, Detailed Characters +$40< Depending on complexity

January 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

There's a part of me that wants to commission artists to make weird surreal comedic shitposts, but I'm always worried that they'd think I was trying to insult them

January 17, 2026 at 9:59 PM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

I think I need new brushes; I'm pretty sure I've fallen out of love with Krita's default brushes.

January 17, 2026 at 2:49 AM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

Not to sound too mopey, but I haven't made anything I've enjoyed looking at in several days; I really want to make some fan art, but I want to be happy about releasing it if it's for someone else, you know?
Anyway, have some kinda military goat lady (finally figured out why things weren't uploading)

Grayscale sketch of an anthropomorphic goat woman in a military uniform composed of a ling jacket, belt, collared shirt, and necktie; she's an officer with a significant amount of ribbons on her chest. Middle-aged and tired, with an annoyed expression. Short, light-colored hair. A thought bubble reads: "I could kill for a cup of decent coffee..."

January 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

I've been in quite the artistic rut lately, so I thought up a shitpost character who's a dummy thicc kobold with swords for hands and feet, and now I'm thinking up lore and worldbuilding stuff for this silly joke character

Send help

January 12, 2026 at 6:27 AM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

I don't care how good Earthworm Jim might've been, Doug TenNadel deserves to have Eric Andre as his sleep paralysis demon (for this and so many other reasons)

Screenshot of a recent Twitter post from Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNadel. Text of the post as follows:

3D digital art has no foundation to criticize Ai art. You don’t have to know anything about the nature of clay to be able to sculpt or “extrude a cylinder” and the tool gives you an ability that you didn’t earn but the artist user is thankful for.

You don’t have to know anything about grinding pigments or mixing using color theory to “eye dropper” a color in Photoshop.

Digital artists have no ground to criticize Ai and are perhaps the most arrogant artists to ever exist… which is an impressive feat.

When I do stop motion I don’t push an “inverse kinematic” button, I move the form to emulate physics one frame at a time. I hand sculpt the face to change expression but these Ai critics digitally print 6,000 different faces then slap a mask on the puppet instead of sculpting. It’s okay, we’ve always taken short cuts, just like Ai.

Even with stop motion you don’t have to draw the character because the puppet exists so you don’t have to worry about it going “off model” or “losing volume”. When I 2D animate it’s the highest difficulty to maintain volume, though digital allows me to undo frames and edit on the fly which I couldn’t do with a 35mm camera (I shot with the camera Kubrick used on 2001 a Space Odyssey I owned in the 90s).

Art is a history of short cuts, innovation even having other artists so most of the work for your art. To go after Ai kids is beyond arbitrary, white knight virtue signaling and beneath the real spirit of the arts.

PS the audience doesn’t care and will devour analogue, digital and Ai if it entertains and communicates truth goodness and beauty.

January 12, 2026 at 3:21 AM

MostExcellentRobot

@mostexcellentrobot.bsky.social

After a rough time, Eth tries to sleep on a terrible futon in a crummy apartment. Considering the look on her face, she's probably not gonna get a good night's sleep.

Art by my buddy @vetrinanicoleart.bsky.social