Duffy Austin
@duffya.bsky.social
(He/Him) Writer, illustrator, tabletop RPG developer. Creator of the tokusatsu RPG Alter Arms, and Skrap Packs (https://skrapped-games.itch.io/skrap-packs)
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Kaine embodies the problem.
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?
KAINE: I think that's premature
KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Kaine embodies the problem.
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New reaction image just dropped.
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
New reaction image just dropped.
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I've done tons of technical illustrations for scientists and engineers and if they're too proud to bust out a napkin or dry erase, they'll diagram it out in PowerPoint. It's just faster than explaining it.
Artists love doing redraws and if your foundational idea is good they'll elevate it.
Artists love doing redraws and if your foundational idea is good they'll elevate it.
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I've done tons of technical illustrations for scientists and engineers and if they're too proud to bust out a napkin or dry erase, they'll diagram it out in PowerPoint. It's just faster than explaining it.
Artists love doing redraws and if your foundational idea is good they'll elevate it.
Artists love doing redraws and if your foundational idea is good they'll elevate it.
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When the official policy of the government has become “ this must be fake, you’re too brown to be American” it’s time to stop pretending that this will all just go back to normal
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
When the official policy of the government has become “ this must be fake, you’re too brown to be American” it’s time to stop pretending that this will all just go back to normal
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The FBI has until midnight tonight to release the Epstein files.
December 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The FBI has until midnight tonight to release the Epstein files.
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Today is about the survivors, justice, and truth.
The Epstein Class has to go.
The Epstein Class has to go.
Tomorrow, my bill will force the Trump Administration to release the Epstein files.
Any person who attempts to conceal or scrub the files will be subject to prosecution under the law.
Any person who attempts to conceal or scrub the files will be subject to prosecution under the law.
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today is about the survivors, justice, and truth.
The Epstein Class has to go.
The Epstein Class has to go.
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
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I'm obsessed with ancient sculpture. Like how is it so.... Je ne sais quoi...
March 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm obsessed with ancient sculpture. Like how is it so.... Je ne sais quoi...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Boosting Ellipsus, which has a variety of themes, allows collaboration, even has an outline option which lets you click headers, and best of all? The dev team hates generative AI.
Now you can write while flipping off both copilot AND gemini.
Now you can write while flipping off both copilot AND gemini.
December 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Boosting Ellipsus, which has a variety of themes, allows collaboration, even has an outline option which lets you click headers, and best of all? The dev team hates generative AI.
Now you can write while flipping off both copilot AND gemini.
Now you can write while flipping off both copilot AND gemini.
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Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
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chicken with color!
December 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
chicken with color!
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And Tiny Tim
WHO DID NOT DIE
WHO DID NOT DIE
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
And Tiny Tim
WHO DID NOT DIE
WHO DID NOT DIE
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We can do even more.
December 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We can do even more.
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Have they tried ringing up all the people they fired and replaced with ChatGPT?
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Have they tried ringing up all the people they fired and replaced with ChatGPT?
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Adventure Time creator on AI: "We're cooked." aftermath.site/ai-pendleton-w...
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Adventure Time creator on AI: "We're cooked." aftermath.site/ai-pendleton-w...
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This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
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Wrestling legend quits WWE over ties to ‘incredibly cruel’ Trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Wrestling legend quits WWE over ties to ‘incredibly cruel’ Trump
World Wrestling Entertainment hall of famer Mick Foley announced Tuesday that he’s severing his relationship with the company, specifically citing the close ties between WWE leadership and ...
www.dailykos.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Wrestling legend quits WWE over ties to ‘incredibly cruel’ Trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You really can't minimize the use of genAI without shitting on the labor you are replacing with it.
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
"I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art" just to make reference, get ideas from and outline composition lmao
just 90% of what concept is🤣
just 90% of what concept is🤣
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
You really can't minimize the use of genAI without shitting on the labor you are replacing with it.
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
"We only use it to ideate and explore references! Unimportant things that don't matter! Nobody cares about those things, right? We all agree this is unimportant garbage work, right???"
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larians recruitment process features prominently in this:
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
larians recruitment process features prominently in this:
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The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.
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Convicted Felon Donald Trump's Truth Social post about Rob and Michele Reiner is disgusting filth.
It reflects the depravity of this soulless ghoul and how he is incapable of decency and good judgment.
It reflects the depravity of this soulless ghoul and how he is incapable of decency and good judgment.
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Convicted Felon Donald Trump's Truth Social post about Rob and Michele Reiner is disgusting filth.
It reflects the depravity of this soulless ghoul and how he is incapable of decency and good judgment.
It reflects the depravity of this soulless ghoul and how he is incapable of decency and good judgment.
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Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies