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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 5h

I keep looking at the people in the goofy animal costumes at the protests and all I can think of is Alan Moore saying "V for Vendetta is explicitly about England and British fascism, Americans would be better off making their own story instead of adapting it."

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 15h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 15h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 5h

Got these three out since it's the season for them.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 7h

LEGO Super Mario Piranha Plant set is $35 on Amazon buff.ly/Oocoyvw
Walmart buff.ly/AhuGxEG #ad

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 7h

Today is an excellent day to remind you that "Antifa" is short for "Antifascist," so if your government is holding a meeting where they consider it a threat...

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

And lastly, Zeztz Technolom Stream. Mostly just painted the head and the dark blue lines. Oh, and the black around the gloves and boots, forgot to mention that on Impact and Transform. My sky blue is way off (the back), so I opted for the stickers there. Also made handle extensions for the weapons.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Wing! Much like the others, just a lot of the same painting. The stripes on Wing and Transform are a metallic grey that Impact doesn't have. Was going to be silver, but the grey was closer to Wing's feet. The pink on the wings are stickers. I do really like that these wings can fold into a cape.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Next: Transform. Everything I did on Impact, I did here. I didn't feel like doing all those gradients on the gloves and boots, so I used the stickers, but I did paint the red under them (Pic 3). And then the leg stickers tore. Because it was on the black areas, I ended up painting over the tearing.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

The chin gradient was surprising not hard, just tedious because it's like the one thing that doesn't change between forms and I have to mix paints for it every layer. But yeah, because it was on the edge where I had room error, it wasn't bad. Probably not painting this long term.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Figure had 46 stickers, I used 1. That's how much I painted this. That 1 sticker being the Capsem. I can't paint that detail. However, it seems there's a dummy silver Capsem in the show used in effect shots. I had an extra driver, so by painting that, I have a completely no stickers option now. Yay!

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Starting with Kamen Rider Zeztz Physicam Impact. I did so much on this. I uniformed the green all over the body with a mix of paints. I don't know if it's right, but I like the shade at least and from screenshots, I feel it's in the ballpark. I also uniformed the red to a metallic.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Finished painting all the Kamen Rider Zeztz from SO-DO AGT01. Going to go in appearance order.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

I mentioned this yesterday that with how these are built and with a little help from Blue Beetle, you can make Machinery early, so here's that again to finish this out.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

And lastly, Zeztz Technolom Stream. Mostly just painted the head and the dark blue lines. Oh, and the black around the gloves and boots, forgot to mention that on Impact and Transform. My sky blue is way off (the back), so I opted for the stickers there. Also made handle extensions for the weapons.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Wing! Much like the others, just a lot of the same painting. The stripes on Wing and Transform are a metallic grey that Impact doesn't have. Was going to be silver, but the grey was closer to Wing's feet. The pink on the wings are stickers. I do really like that these wings can fold into a cape.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Next: Transform. Everything I did on Impact, I did here. I didn't feel like doing all those gradients on the gloves and boots, so I used the stickers, but I did paint the red under them (Pic 3). And then the leg stickers tore. Because it was on the black areas, I ended up painting over the tearing.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

The chin gradient was surprising not hard, just tedious because it's like the one thing that doesn't change between forms and I have to mix paints for it every layer. But yeah, because it was on the edge where I had room error, it wasn't bad. Probably not painting this long term.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Figure had 46 stickers, I used 1. That's how much I painted this. That 1 sticker being the Capsem. I can't paint that detail. However, it seems there's a dummy silver Capsem in the show used in effect shots. I had an extra driver, so by painting that, I have a completely no stickers option now. Yay!

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Starting with Kamen Rider Zeztz Physicam Impact. I did so much on this. I uniformed the green all over the body with a mix of paints. I don't know if it's right, but I like the shade at least and from screenshots, I feel it's in the ballpark. I also uniformed the red to a metallic.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 18h

Finished painting all the Kamen Rider Zeztz from SO-DO AGT01. Going to go in appearance order.

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Jenny Marie @jennymarie84.bsky.social · 20h

they're trying to gaslight us about 0.4% of the medicaid budget. 0.4%!

Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 1d

Just wanted to share this graphic from KFF, the green sliver in this pie chart indicates the amount of Medicaid Spending for Emergency Medicaid in 2023. It's (0.4%) of the total Medicaid budget. Undocumented immigrants sometimes receive Emergency Medicaid.

A mostly blue pie graph with a sliver of green to indicate the amount of money spent on Emergency Medicaid - it is only 0.4% out of $860 billion.

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zeep @zeepfrag.bsky.social · 1d

gekko!
#digimon #beatbreak #gekkomon #art

A fanart of Gekkomon from Digimon Beatbreak shooting his tongue at the viewer

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 1d

And now there's Yugioh parody. This show turned into the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny all of a sudden and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't having a great time.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 1d

The name Amen is making me laugh though. Especially when Amen starting riding a bike. Like some kind of Amen Rider.

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Blade Raider @bladeraider.bsky.social · 1d

Also have not yet fully processed Aquarion being in this. WTF.

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