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Tania Richter
@taniarichter.bsky.social
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Author and illustrator of Dawn Tyrant webnovel. Feolaga Designworks. Likes fountain pens, tea, yarn, and Monster Hunter.
Absolutely no AI
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Tania Richter @taniarichter.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hi there #portfolioday! I'm Tania Richter, a creature artist and fantasy writer. Find me and my works here - www.patreon.com/TaniaRichter
A winged dragon with holographic scales holds a glowing orb in its talons that is unleashing swirls of magic Dawn Tyrant Book One - Written and Illustrated by Tania Richter A blue dragon with silver wings rises up through a layer of sunlit cloud as a shooting star falls in the background A blue and pink koi dragon rises up through clouds, grasping a branch of Cherry blossoms. Petals dance around it Seven foxes run through a dark forest lit only by foxfires. Six are red foxes and a seventh fox is white kitsune with nine tails
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dykeonik.com
The quoted meme of red-button choice with the fuck AI option extended: "RAM & storage prices return to normal & capital loses power & energy & water & land are less wasted & critical thinking is less damaged & oligarches lose a major avenue for propaganda & fewer people experience psychotic breaks & creativity is actually valued & the code that materally impacts your life has fewer bugs &" the last line is partially cropped
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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edzitron.com
I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
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Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency. Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials. But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry. Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document. Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing Al products. "We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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litterboxcomics.com
NEW COMIC: The Santa Mystery

#comics #christmas
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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ava.foxfort.net
I still think this is the set up for an incredible RPG
December 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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arif.bsky.social
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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hoovybaby.bsky.social
this goes hard as hell
"Architecture of Return," a floor plan map of the British Museum drawn on deerskin by Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin which lays out the locations of different Indigenous artifacts displayed by the museum and possible escape routes
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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taulby.bsky.social
The clearest sign that Americans are propagandized to the gills is that a majority of voters will, with a straight face, still tell you that Republicans are better for business.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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unicouniuni3.bsky.social
Welcome to the strongest team 💪
Thank you so much!!
hexun.bsky.social hexun @hexun.bsky.social · 13h
Got my shirt from @unicouniuni3.bsky.social
I feel stronger already
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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depravedstar.bsky.social
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December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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rj-palmer.com
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI. We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do. I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists. We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison. I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more: https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/ We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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drongojackburb.bsky.social
(Old Art) Leaellynasaura Illustration!

I haven't posted this here yet, so just gonna show it here.

I have depicted a "Months of Light Seasons Morph" (Dark Variant) and a "Months of Dark Seasons Morph" (Light Variant), Inspired by old illustrations with different morphs in books. #sciart #paleoart
October 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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rookshocksshack.bsky.social
Anyways, would anyone be down to snag a few icons? Being sick for over a week with hardly new work this month got me nervous chucklin
rookshocksshack.bsky.social 🕸🍁 Looking 4 Work 🍁🕸 @rookshocksshack.bsky.social · Jul 27
🍁🍁🍁 MH!icons 🍁🍁🍁
🍁 Standard: $50 (500 x 500 pi)
🍁 X-Large: $150 (1000x1000 pi)
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
It's Caturday!!!
elisabethalba.bsky.social Elisabeth Alba @elisabethalba.bsky.social · 3d
"Moxxi" 🧡
Art by Elisabeth Alba

Painted with watercolor, a layer of matte medium, and acryla gouache, varnished.
The original painting is 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size. Another one of the lovely studio kitties of @valkiri.bsky.social! I've painted 3 or 4 of her cats now.
A painting of a pale orange and white cat laying on its side on a wooden surface.
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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premeemohamed.com
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
lilithsaintcrow.com Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 18h
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”

Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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naux830.bsky.social
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December 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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amymebberson.bsky.social
PSA to avoid Uline like the plague for your packaging needs.
Clearbags has every specific bag and board you could want and there’s also good old BCW for comic & art sleeves on Amazon.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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vriccithode.bsky.social
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itsamia.bsky.social Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d
There seems to be a little panic about what's genAI and what isn't. But macro compilers like PerfectIt and Word spell check are not. If you've been using Grammarly, now's a great time to stop.
December 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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popsci.com
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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geneljumalon.bsky.social
Anime Weekend Atlanta Artist Alley Rules:
"Each artist must be selling their own work, not that of other people"

Marco is at it again selling in Artist Alley.
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
This Epstein files document says that Epstein allegedly threatened to burn a young woman’s house down if she revealed that he had stolen and sold personal photographs she had taken of her sisters.

The sisters were 12 and 16 years old.
Image of a handwritten police complaint with the nature of the complaint listed as “child pornography”
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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endcitizensunited.bsky.social
The tech industry is leveraging dark money to get everything it wants.

Read about it here:
How Big Tech Is Using Dark Money to Fuel an Unregulated Data Center Boom
We’re just beginning to understand the human cost of data center expansion.
www.democracy.news
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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trumpton.bsky.social
My favourite bit of the Epstein Files:

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#Epstein■■■■■ #EpsteinFiles
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the MOST dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with OVER 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed STRONG antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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bookowl.bsky.social
This is a great essay for many reasons, one of which is that it perfectly describes this current administration as "Donald Trump and his Skeletor-horde of dipshit cryptids."
catvalente.bsky.social Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 2d
Unburying the lede from my essay on why we all feel like numb frozen crap these days…

catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
House Republicans are now canceling Friday votes. Congress will recess for the rest of the year on Thursday afternoon.

Obamacare subsidies expire Dec. 31.
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM