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Dirx

@dirxzilla.bsky.social

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Sometimes I draw things. Also, fuck AI.

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Dirx @dirxzilla.bsky.social · 20d

Hello! My name is Dirx and while I don't post new art very often, I do enjoy #drawing, mostly #birds, #fanart, and #Gallifreyan.

Colour pencil drawing of a rainbow-coloured Barioth from the Monster Hunter series. It is bipedal, like a T. rex with armored plating along its back and tail, and a large hammer-like crest on its head.

It's drawn in a more cartoony style than most of my realistic work, and has a silly toothy grin. The colours of the crest and armor plates are the colours of the Progress Pride flag, with the blue/white/pink of the trans pride colours bookending on the crest and tail tip.

Signed "Dirx" and dated 6/1/21.

Black ink drawing of a mountainscape, specifically Mount Chiquita, Ypsilon Mountain, and Fairchild Mountain, of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Stark shadows and lighter hatching indicate the jagged, craggy nature of these mountains, and the foreground is filled with more rounded and densely wooded hills, shaded with more stippling than I would like to remember.

Signed "DIRX" and dated 2/9/25.

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social · 9h

old gadget sketch

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 13h

Babe u left ur bike unlocked again 😭

A warm seaside setting. On a grassy hill overlooking the sea, four raccoons steal a bicycle. One leans eagerly from the basket, a second stands on the seat and steers with its front paws, a third pedals the wheels, and a fourth baby raccoon cleans to the back of the bicycle for dear life

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Dirx @dirxzilla.bsky.social · 5h

Not as spectacular as others' aurora photos, but managed to snap this with my potatophone

Blurry but vivid red hues above a strip of green. A handful of stars are visible through the lights.

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Nat 🌷 VGen Open @fairyqrtz.bsky.social · Feb 23

Falin Touden the woman that you are.. 🐔

#dungeonmeshi #fanart #art

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Nat 🌷 VGen Open @fairyqrtz.bsky.social · Jan 9

And once again the day is saved 💚💗💙
#art #digitalart #ppg #powerpuffgirls

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mattachine meowppy machine @spookybiscuits.com · 1d

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 1d

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA
NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

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BeckyKidus @beckykidus.bsky.social · 4d

Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️

This critter is an Anhui musk deer - a very rare sight, both in real life and in artwork!

#SciArt #traditionalart #art

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Mab @artmab.bsky.social · 1d

Older sketch that I played with again recently to push colour and texture and forgot to share. Oops. Here it is. :> #fantasyart #fantasy #dragonart

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Anne Kirn @houseofdarkly.bsky.social · 1d

Tuxedo Mask from animated Sailor Moon meme template.
Top panel, Tuxedo Mask: We have waged a war on behalf of the American people.
Sailor Moon: But you didn't get what you want.
Tuxedo Mask, turning away with a cape flip: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 1d

this is literally never not accurate

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 2d

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 1d

The next mutation is Siphonophore! This one was a lot of fun to design.

Illustration of a creature bust with “siphonophore” written below it

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Dirx @dirxzilla.bsky.social · 1d

There are insulated covers you can put over outdoor plants in the winter to help protect them from freezing. Maybe that?

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Stiffler @findchaos.bsky.social · 2d

The "good cops vs. bad cops" veneer between US Dems and Repubs is wearing thin when it's obvious they are all benefiting from the same interests. Thanks for nothing, as per usual, you feckless rats.*

(*With apologies to rats, which are objectively more moralistic than any US Congress member.)

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Ben @liquidgelcaps.bsky.social · 2d

I need more people to realize it really is this simple and stupid. They fucked over everyone cause they didn't want their travel plans disrupted. That's all it was to them.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

They had to work the weekend and got worried their flight might be delayed.

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Anna Wintery @annawintery.bsky.social · 2d

My The Legend of Zelda fan art selection. 🖤

#pixelart #ドット絵

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Elle Skinner @elleskinner.bsky.social · 3d

Turkey Vulture for last month's #birdwhisperer :)

I love a turkey vulture. When I think of them, I think of a giant shadow across sun cracked grass, so seeing one peaceful and relaxed on a branch was a fun experience.

#birds #art #watercolor 🦉

Pastel watercolor painting of a turkey vulture perched on a branch

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DragonBlerd_Art @dragonblerd-art.bsky.social · 3d

Forest Spirit Dragon

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Dirx @dirxzilla.bsky.social · 3d

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 3d

small jetty appreciation post // #HadesII #Hades2

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Dirx @dirxzilla.bsky.social · 4d

Pangolin?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4d

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

www.cnn.com

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Artcher| Commissions open 2-4 slots @artcher.bsky.social · 4d

Pet Adventurers!

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