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Benn Pirrie

@benpirrie.bsky.social

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Disabled, neurodivergent, spicy contemporary artist, illustrator, occasional flatter. I like giant robots, motor racing and video games where people with spiky hair kill god https://ko-fi.com/benpirrie

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just as an FYI, I am not able to access DM's on this platform. Please, if you have need of contacting me, do so through my website (www.benpirrie.com) or my email.

Ben Pirrie – Ben Pirrie Artist and Illustrator

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 1d

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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🥭MANGO - Comms Closed @mgosketches.bsky.social · 1d

Heads up!

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 1d

Both these threads making extremely good and salient points

Dre Harrison @dreharrison.bsky.social · 2d

Sports in general - It's amazing how the Male 18-34 demo is the one TV exes chase like a golden carrot and yet make no effort to truly get what makes them tick.

Football's Super League expansion attempt tried a 60-minute game argument as a barter to fans and it fell on its arse.

Chain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 2d

Been thinking on F1 and I think their issue is they don't respect the younger audience or make any time to understand them

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Alex Milne @markerguru.bsky.social · 1d

I can finally show off my exclusive cover for #Transformers issue 25 by @skybound.bsky.social
It was a lot of fun working on this cover and being able to provide something for the 25th issue that @robertkirkman.bsky.social will be writing. Exciting times :D
Cover Colors by @dyemooch.bsky.social

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Thim! @jimstafford.bsky.social · 2d

Last one for the day.

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BlushySpicy💖🔥 @blushyspicy.bsky.social · 2d

Nurse Lilith ('24)

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely annoyed I don't have a seventh variation of this toy for a project I have to do next week

Six little classics Mirages, Fractures and Drag Strips all gathered in a loose triangle formation

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 3d

Burning bright into the night and across time and space: some gorgeous glowy R-Type vectors from the ZX Spectrum version.

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Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social · 3d

You ready for my GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE Hallowe'en pop-up store?

Head to nickrocheart.bigcartel.com for 22 all-new portraits of horror moments from across ALL of Transformers! Finished off in black, white and pumpkin orange! Prices range from €40 to €45 before shipping, so order noooWWooOOOOooo...

Black and white ink drawing of Undead Cliffjumper from Transformers Prime

Black and white ink drawing of the Decepticon Bludgeon, a skeleton samurai

Black and white ink drawing of the unholy Predacon RAMPAGE from Beast Wars

Black and white ink drawing of the reanimated Starscream following his destruction by the Underbase

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 3d

Just don't come armed with turtles, that could get messy

TFNation @tfnationltd.bsky.social · 3d

This week there's a NEW #Turtles comic book on shelves, from the creative talents of John-Paul Bove (Writer), Ed Pirrie (Artist) and Kat Cardy (Colours)!

@wordmonger.bsky.social & @edpirrie.bsky.social will both be at TFN:Mini-Con® Reading - come armed with questions! TURTLE POWER!!!

#TMNT

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Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social · 3d

NIGHTMARE SOUNDWAVE

Getting scared yet...?

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Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social · 4d

HAIL SKULLGRIN

Black and white sketch of the Deception Pretender SKULLGRIN

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 3d

Really wish there was a way of displaying Titan Masters in head mode.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 3d

Today's deskbot is taking up a lot more real estate than usual

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 4d

#pixelart transformers comic book cover for client IDW

Shockwave manipulating Devastator #art #pixelart

Cover illustration for the comic Transformers Galaxies by IDW

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

The Combiner Warsiness of Hook in particular bothers me. It's such a small thing, but I liked the asymmetrical feet he used to have (and still has on the box art!). Not very screen accurate!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

Rough from Colapinto there

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

I'm just gonna say that I don't think 'tyre offset' is going to be a factor. Hard Pirelli's could get to the moon.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

After L1 Monza last year, Piastri has nothing to really complain about

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

Show us the last four albums you listened to.

Helmet's Meantime (I think I have the blue cover, but whatever)

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

If you see this, quote with your top four Final Fantasy games

No surprise to anyone that knows me, and I hate putting the remake in there over a mainline entry but I can't help how that game makes me feel.

(It'd be V or VI if I stuck to mainline)

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Clumzor @clumzor.bsky.social · 4d

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

"They're neither moral nor majority"