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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 4h

FUCK!

'AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations'
-Cory Doctorow

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 1d

HOLY CRAP!

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 2d

These rule!

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A.H.G. @ahgcolor.bsky.social · May 27

Hey Comics Bsky! I'm a professional comic colorist and I'm looking for work! (Preferably short term)

I've done work for Boom! Studios, Caliber, Dauntless and more

You can find more of my work at ahgart.com

And you can contact me at [email protected]

#ComicJobs

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 4d

Best thing you can do is rest. Really rest.

A lot of people talk about getting through it, and being symptom free/feeling better, and going back into their normal routines, overdoing it and having a bad crash.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 4d

These rule, and that's coming from someone who legitimately likes Battle: Los Angeles.

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 4d

THIS RULES!

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Wocco @wocco.bsky.social · 4d

WINGS #Tolktober2025 Day 4. I love Tolktober. @rogueprintco.bsky.social

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 4d

Awesome. Congrats on 25!

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 6d

Ptero

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 6d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU...

"Everyone Is Now Dumber" - Billy Madison

YouTube video by just scrolling by ツ

www.youtube.com

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KENNETH SCOTT 2: KENNETH’S REVENGE @superactionfunboy.bsky.social · 10d

I have committed! #zombieskulltober returns October 1st. If you're like me and struggle a bit with some of the constraints of #inktober, or the prompts don't speak to your interests, you're welcome to join me here. #art #inktober #zombieskulltober #darkart bsky.app/profile/did:...

A prompt sheet in the style of inktober, but featuring the same prompt 31 times. Zombie Skull. It is titled Zombie Skulltober 2025, catering to my interests 2025 prompt list. While this is a joke, I do intend to follow it. Seems fun to me. Might even do it on the same sheet of paper.

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 10d

These fucking idiots. The only functional medbeds are on Elysium Station, and unless you're willing to graft an exo-suit onto your skeleton and fight your way onboard, you're not getting that tumor taken care of.

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 13d

This was fun! Thanks for putting it together.

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KOJO TANNO @tannokojo.bsky.social · 13d

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 14d

Yep. One of my all-time favorites. Second only to The Audio of Being.

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Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com · 15d

Image of the Greater Ziontis, flagship of the Ziontis genocidal entity, while trying to negotiate peace with its neighbours.
It was so involved in the genocide of the people of Pralestine Mayor that today its wreckage stands as a testament to Ziontis's eternal shame and moral collapse.

#shiptember

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15d

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 15d

I'm sad because I forget the artist, but someone awesome made this hilarious Halloween figure using mostly plastic pumpkins with jack'o lanterns. The head, Jack'o Lantern. The ribcage, 2 full pumpkins rotated and glued together. Their are shoulder pads made of sliced Jack'o Lantern faces. There's a belt buckle that is a jack'o lantern face. Knee pads and feet, also Jack'o Lantern faces. The whole body is orange with spots of black (where the jack'o lanters black face, triangle eyes, nose and half-moon mouth are painted)

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Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 18d

Beetle and the Chimera Carnival. Comes highly recommended from my 8 year old.

Andy @cotnam.bsky.social · 19d

Hey

My name is Andy Cotnam. Was in games for my whole career, moving from Animation to Character Design/Concept. Now, not really sure what it is I do anymore. But I can still make fun and appealing characters. Haven't had an portfolio since the NO AI Artstation fiasco. Maybe I should get on that.

Couple versions of a Red-headed Warrior girl. Her right arm (in both versions) is covered in armor. Spikes on her gauntlets knuckles and shoulder pads. She has a leopard-print tube-top and matching skirt, cut to show off her thighs. She wears huge hoop earings and in one, has a far-superior side-cut.

Line-up of some character concepts. The first, a swash-buckling pirate. Red bandanna tied around their head. Dark hair, in a ponytail. Brown leather belt across waist, wrists and chest. They hold a massive sword/scimitar. Silver, curved blade and golden hilt. The second, a green, woodland elf. Long ears, with dark green hair. One massive shoulder pauldron with grass growing out of it in spikes. That same arm, a big gauntlet like hand with fingers of bark and vines wrapping around the hand and forearm. They hold a massive axe in the other hand. The blad is curved, but looks like it may be carved from stone. It also looks overgrown with vines and tendrils of green. The last, a dark-skinned warrior who wears a white hood, covering their grey hair and beard. Grey cloth pants and bare chest and arms save for a bandoleer over their chest. They hold a massive gold stave that has a golden scorpion tail at it's end.

3 characters. One, a dark elf with teal skin and hair white as snow, big red eyes and sharp, menacing teeth. She wields a massive bow that looks like bat wings. The second character is a stone skinned frost giant, with a horned helm and cloak of fur. They hold a massive hammer with a skull and tusks. The arm not holding the hammer is made if ice. The last character is the red-headed barbarian girl. She scowls , holding a menacing looking sword and shield.

Medusa at the center, her lower half is snake. Golden chains wrap her waist. Her eyes are a poisonous green. At her sides, a skeleton with a snake tail holding a sword coated in the same green as it's masters eyes. On the other, the same skeleton, it's skull removed to show the snake head underneath.

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 19d

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The Chaotic Queer Cat sits proudly at the top of a ledge, their rainbow cloak billowing in the wind. An onlooker complains “uhg, its not even pride month.” The onlooker begins to jeer “hey loser! I identify as an attack helicop-“ but he never finished that sentence. In his eagerness to taunt, he failed to notice the cat hunker down and gulp repeatedly before barfing up jet stream of rainbow down onto him. “OH GOD!” he wails from offscreen.

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