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Illustrator/writer/sometime musician/chaotic bi/fan of the graps/fighting game enthusiast/recovering Goth scene mainstay • NO AI ART Black af • pronouns she/they Find my work here: daneshartis.carrd.co

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · May 26

I’m really trying to break myself out of the habit of thinking I’m a bother/nuisance when I promote. And I’ll lie to myself for as long as it takes for me TO believe it.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 5h

Just told a friend that I plan to hold onto joy the same way a toddler does when they’re first introduced to cheese puffs. She understood immediately 😭😭😭

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 6h

Rewatching Hellsing Ultimate right now, and I have a few thoughts…
That squatter in DC is literally a less charismatic and intelligent Montana Max. (Yes, this name is also for Tiny Toons character, but still. Point stands.)

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Unexplainable Finomenon @filamena.bsky.social · 11h

You notice all the directors/etc saying they're fine with AI are saying exactly the same things about it? Sometimes word for word.

Yeah. Those are talking points.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 7h

There’s no grounds for this other than what’s floating in that soup he calls brains. Tf.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 7h

NEW: Attorney General Letitia James has been criminally indicted by a grand jury for bank fraud, kicking off another politically charged case brought by a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor. — via @notus.com

Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Indicts Attorney General Letitia James

James oversaw a civil case concerning Trump’s real estate empire in 2023.

www.thecity.nyc

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 8h

I'd like to thank the Center for Cultural Innovation - AmbitioUS!
Their support of Blacksky Algorithms with a $30K grant will help us further our development of infrastructure for online communities (moderation, deliberation, and peer-to-peer payment tools). 🎉

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 8h

Watching “Let’s Play” and this show is really good at depicting anxiety and other feelings that don’t have set shapes. I know it’ll devolve into a romcom anime, but I’m fine with that possible development.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10h

Have you watched our #iHunt short film? You should go vote for it. I'm about this close to talking my co-producer @szmatheson.bsky.social to go to Metatopia with me so we can have film brainstorming sessions and play House of the Dead 3.

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Watch #iHunt: Loose Threads Short Film on Short of the Month

#iHunt is a gig economy app where dirt poor gen z and millennials break their bodies and risk their lives to hunt and kill monsters. Maeve comes home from filming an #iHunt promo video only to realize...

www.shortofthemonth.com

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Green Screen Videos by Murdoink @murdoinkgs.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. Boss "time to execute my trick" Smiling Friends s03e01 green screen

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 10h

Okay so first, Tylenol caused the 'tism, and now circumcision is Autism DLC?!?! Yeah nah. These people are deranged.

Dragonball Super screenshot of one of wolf men pointing at Goku. The words underneath read "WHO MANS IS THIS?!"
And overlaid on Goku are the words "this nigga."

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 13h

YES. THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 15h

*RDR2. Sorry. It's...yeah. Fighting burnout is a lot.

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 15h

Yeah. That's sadly true. They wouldn't have been able to handle it and they probably would've tried to sneak a white abolitionist Assassin in there to "offset" all the ethnicity. Considering what you can do in Mafia 3 and Red Dead Redemption? Should've been a slam dunk for these nerds.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 15h

No wonder a certain sort of person loves that shit. Ew.

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 20h

Thank you! My goal here was to mess with colors more, and i think I succeeded a bit more than I thought

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Thank you!!

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

Color experimentation with Swerve Strickland. I think it turned out pretty well. #aew #swervestrickland #art 🤼‍♂️

A drawing of Swerve Strickland done in shades of blue, purple, pink and dark greens.

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Pablo D. Creole @saintpablo.blacksky.app · 1d

Don’t do this. Not to Black Americans. Yes we live in the Imperial Core, yes we benefit from the oppression Empire wreaks across the world, but we are not the intended beneficiaries. We are as much fuel for the machine as we are cogs in it.

Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine living in Gaza.
Trying to survive while USA-made bombs destroy your very vegetable markets.

You think your job market sucks now?
These autocrats are rolling out an AI-filled job market.
Flattening Gaza is just a tactic.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

I would've played the fuck outta that. EASILY. WEAK, UBI. W E A K.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

When Twitter still had reach, the following happened:
- got a one off job to write an RPG supplement
- met some of my best friends due to wrestling
- wrestlers seeing my work and recognizing me and my work due to it

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

"LOOK AT MY LAWYER, DAWG...I'M WINNING THIS CASE!"

All Elite Wrestling @allelitewrestling.com · 1d

Caption this 😎

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

I love that Jack is not above tomfoolery and chicanery. This is good. Also LOOK AT THEM 🖤

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 1d

So uh...this is that deep state shit those brain rotted morons should be pissed about.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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