Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · 11d

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

DMs are open, and I can give you my Discord or something. Otherwise, that's it from me I think. Shit happens, and it is what it is.

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

I just want to be away from it. It's not worth the mental anguish.

I'm going to gut my followers, so if I unfollow you, please don't take it personal. I'm going to return to being my old reclusive self and recede back into the darkness.

If for whatever reason you want to keep in touch, I think my-

1

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

was originally going to go back to Twitter, but... idk, Twitter is gunky still to me. I feel like bsky was fine at first, but just... at some point it just stopped being good. I have a feeling I know what the trigger is, but I'm also not going to sit here and psychoanalyze myself at this point-

1

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

feeling the need to have external validation in order to be considered "good enough". It's my problem, and nobody else's, and I ain't talking about it to try and expect strangers on the internet to fix me. It is just a fact of the matter.

After a multi-year break, I decided to give bsky a try. I-

1

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

that would take about a months worth of time to complete, couple that with school... you get the idea). I eventually left Twitter due to issues with my mental health, seeing how the platform turned me into somebody who associated their self-worth with the numbers on posts. A chronic vice of mine is-

1

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

comes to trying to find a space that's habitable for artists. I tried out Twitter for a bit (before Musk bought it). It wasn't the worst, but it was still a pain in the ass. I felt like I was fighting an algorithm constantly, especially since I couldn't draw daily (I was working on art projects-

1

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

The long ver. of it:
I moved to bsky after being off of any major social media for 2-3 years. I wanted to try it out and try publicly posting my art and such again.
Frankly, things haven't been the same since Deviantart died down. I've felt like I've been drifting aimlessly since then when it-

1

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is my final post on Bsky for the foreseeable future.

A thread will be provided below, but the tl;dr is that I gave this place a fair shot, and it no longer makes me happy to be here. It's taking a negative toll on my mental health, and so I'll be letting this account go dormant.

1 1

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 28

お楽しみに！

2 670 1.1K

Reposted by Ruby

Iris 🌿 @ryuucae.bsky.social · Jul 28

🐉 🦴 #ffxiv

16 1.7K 4.3K

Reposted by Ruby

しわ（shiwa） @shiwa.bsky.social · Jul 28

FFXIV　レイクランド/始まりの湖
Lakeland/The Source

180 410

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 27

Juke was born in the South Shroud, and actually lived there until after the calamity. After a... rather unfortunate and messy event she deals with, she's basically exiled from her home.

It stings, but Juke also has never had an issue with being on the move constantly.

Big Chief Bakari - FFXIV: Lucretia Slaptail @bigchiefbakari.bsky.social · Jul 27

#WolQotd

Where is your WoL from?
Do they still have a home in their birthplace or are they somewhere new altogether, or do they just travel endlessly and sleep at inns?

Lucretia is Bozjan born, but lived in Kugane most of her life.
She stays there with her sister, Patrycja.

1

Reposted by Ruby

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · Jul 6

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

130 5.7K 12K

Reposted by Ruby

Sev🌿 @knurrkitz.bsky.social · Jul 17

I miss the old deviantart community-feeling & how some folks went absolutely over the top with long kind comments on art, we need to bring that energy back man, fuck cringe culture, be free & gush to ppl about how much you love their work

110 1.5K 4.1K

Reposted by Ruby

Scarlet LaVice @scarleteuphoria.bsky.social · Jul 27

Two more revenges! One for @rubeesart.bsky.social and one for @lunessencem00ns.bsky.social

7 18

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 19

財布被ダメージ上昇 99 📉

1 110 200

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 18

💸

1 22 39

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 17

😋

29 75

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 11

Where are they going?

2 23 60

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 4

Reupload animation!

1 23 56

Reposted by Ruby

Ng Khai Hong 黄凯峰 @ngkhaihong.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hope he don't lost the pets!

25 77

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thirteenth Art Fight Attack of the Year for @sangtanic.bsky.social

#artfight2025 | #teamfossils

1 4

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sometimes I see those character inspo meme chart things and I realize that I don't really base my characters off of other characters.

A lot of my inspo comes from music, emotions, theming, certain broad aesthetic categories...

I just... Feel out of place in a way.

Ruby @rubeesart.bsky.social · Jul 25

Twelfth Art Fight Attack of the year for artfight.net/~HeartlessSp...

#artfight2025 | #teamfossils

1