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@taraelblackwing.bsky.social

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Worldbuilder and artist|25|🏳️‍⚧️ They/Any |STPD| 🔞 often NSFW, minors DNI Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/taraelblackwing Fur Affinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/taraelblackwing

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Tarael_Blackwing🔞 @taraelblackwing.bsky.social · Mar 24

A Fairy who periodically flies out the woods to show you their new OC, a lewd artwork, an emotionally loaded comic that is most likely a transgender allegory, or something that might as well be anarchist propaganda before disappearing back into the woods to be angry and stress out over deadlines.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3h

happy autumn 🍂

An anthropomorphic striped hyena playing in leaves.

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 1d

Whimsy

Drawing of a butterfly puppy with the caption; "Stay mad while I stay whimsical"

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 14d

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 14d

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

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Tarael_Blackwing🔞 @taraelblackwing.bsky.social · 18h

Woah! Such a nice contrast of warm sunshine and greenery with distant cold mountains. The large towers feel very at home in the landscape and kinda feel like part of the world's natural environment. Very good work ^^

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 1d

GIMP 2, poster for University of Skövde game jam.

Was given free hands to develop a retro fantasy theme, and so decided to revisit the setting of my first "original" fantasy fiction from 1998, and the vibe of an artist without whom it wouldn't have been.

Dedicated to the memory of Keith Parkinson.

Digital painting of a snowy fantasy landscape, with icy mountains and snow-covered forests in the distance, and a Spring-like warm atmosphere on a hill in the foregound. Far in the distance seven glowing white towers reach far above the horizon, dwarfing the mountains beneath.

Five characters stand on the hill. A diminutive elfin woman riding a Samoyed; a dark-skinned human wielding a futuristic sword and a staff, with a golden grail hanging from his belt; a tall elf with a lute slung over her shoulder; an anthropomorphic exotic cat licking his paw; and a stone-skinned man in a red robe carrying an unrealistically massive sword. The elf and cat are sipping from orange jam jars, possibly filled from an unnaturally massive jam jar stood on a peak in their midst. The scene is reminiscent of 1990's fantasy paintings.

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Tarael_Blackwing🔞 @taraelblackwing.bsky.social · 1d

Decided to finish this reference for Innocence's equipment for the sake of completeness, even though that mini campaign is long over.
#Art #fantasy #ttrpg #ttrpgcharacter #OC #dnd #tiefling #cleric

A reference sheet for a dnd character. It depicts a tiefling cleric wearing full gear including vestments, armor, backpack, holding a wooden shield and a mace with claw-like flanges (on the left), and the same character shown in leather armor only (on the right).
The text on the bottom says:
"Equipment graciously provided by the Cult of the Beast to protect traveling clerics on their (un)holy missions."

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 2d

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 2d

Healing

Drawing of a puppy laying next to a plush bunny with the caption; "I hope you heal from the things you don't talk about"

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TruJek @trujek.bsky.social · 1d

Raven Beak Samus 🐦‍⬛

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 1d

"Al is here to stay" said with with confidence about a technology that's only been here a couple years, has produced nothing of value and is alive only through bad speculative investments.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Layla @lili-kh.bsky.social · 1d

On live, Israhell violates the ceasefire...

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RainRidden @rainridden.bsky.social · 24d

There is no way I can explain the context for this, so I just won't.

Done with coloured pencils

Rynn is a character of bsky.app/profile/elds...

#art #fanart #starwars #twi'lek

A comic panel-style coloured pencils drawing of Rynn - a Twi'lek from the Star Wars universe - sitting in the cockpit of a starship. She has cadmium yellow skin covered in many freckles and blue eyes. She's wearing a green flight suit and a white vest with a panel with buttons attached to it. On her head there is a white pilot's helmet with orange-tinged, google-like visor. From under the helmet her lekku - two tentacle-like appendages protruding from her head - are visible, and the left one is wrapped around her neck, like a scarf.

She's looking upwards and to the left, with her left arm raised to manipulate ship controls out of frame (the vfx 'flick flick' appear next to her arm). There are two connected speech bubbles coming from her. The first one reads "It's getting too hot in here!", and the second "Switching to Genital!". There is a third speech bubble in the lower right corner, stylized to suggest a voice coming through a communicator's speaker. It reads 'Wha-'.

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 2d

5) AI is not a profitable business model and never has been, it cannot turn a profit.

If that's all true, when the bubble bursts, there will be no money to pay for land tax, workers, water or fuel for data centers. They Will Close

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 2d

3) Data centres are full of GPUs that Only work to run Generative AI and Nothing else (much like what we saw with crypto) and cannot be repurposed At All. They're scrap
4) they're really fucking expensive to build and run

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 2d

2.5) and what OpenAI is asking for in terms of financing far exceeds the amount of money currently in existence on planet Earth

[sources are on Ed Zitron's page btw]

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 2d

Okay so let me get this right

1) OpenAI has to go public before the end of the year or they have to pay back their investors and face legal charges from several US states
2) There's only enough venture capital left to keep the economy running for another year and a half

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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · 1d

Elfs...

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Remy 🔜 HOWL-O-PLEX 🎃 @remywolf.bsky.social · 7d

🐺 PSA on TWP (Tailless Werewolf Prevention) 🐺

Please spread awareness!!

Text reads: "PLZ ABIDE BY T.W.P. THIS SEASON!
MAKE SUREVYOUR LOCAL WEREWOLF HAS THEIT TAIL

IF UR COLD THEY'RE COLD

DO NOT MAKE THEM CRY!!"

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know the finer points economics so correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand this could be the lifeline that lets lots of smaller artists in the US, who haven't got the margains to deal with sudden changes in trade politics and had to cut shipping, keep the lights on.

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 5d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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bjpentecost.bsky.social @bjpentecost.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this is an underappreciated anatomical feature and I'd love to see it used more often. I would have liked to go further in depth on this but alas, time, life, reality, existential dread, and all that jazz. You know how it is.

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 2d

waffles.

Digital illustration of a paIistinian woman, wounded with tears streaming down her face only to be blocked by a bright blue butterfly that covers her mouth and most of her face. Blue chains, explosions, waffles, blood, paIestinian flags being erased in the background- their color “bluing” out with the notification “deleted account” over them. Like and repost notifications scattered throughout different sized wrapped bodies. Over her head, a single dollar bill is wrung out, dripping blood down onto her. Below reads, “waffles.” Commentary on censorship.

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🔞 Misa Date 🔞 @misadate.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all artists! How do you draw elves?

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