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Idil

@idilsukan.bsky.social

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artist / writer / director Books / tv / animation / movies / TTRPGs just a ridiculous and brave shroom upon the cliff-top, bracing against ever merciless winds idil.studio

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · Mar 29

Still trying to process my excitement about this, here is my ludicrous show which I love dearly, selected to go to the Annecy Festival with Women in Animation

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 16h

“Speaking at an event promoting his new book”
No pushback from the audience or event hosts on a blatantly asinine statement getting easily ratioed here, saying that it is simply not feasible to not be a shameless criminal

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Reposted by Idil

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.

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

The thing we must realise is this awful ability to grift to centrists so effectively that your flavour of voice outpaces & dominates over better, progressive work other people are doing, especially people of colour -
is it’s own skill in if itself. It is practiced & refined. They are GOOD AT IT

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

A ridiculous mini cephalopod called S’pur, keen assistant to the marine biologists

S’pur drawing by idil

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

“Contrarian” what a cute and whimsically-curious word to describe whom I assume is a cute and whimsically-curious person right

NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

Here is one of the infamous pink cudas and dedicated homicidal maniac from Barracuda Bay

Ridiculous pink cuda drawing by Idil

Reposted by Idil

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

One of my work in progress drawings for my very unhinged marine biology mystery heist tale Barracuda Bay

All these WIPs, on my hard drive collecting dust, airing this one out to get its Vitamin D

A line drawing in symmetry by idil featuring very insane marine animals, cephalopods, a turtle, all up to NO GOOD

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 2d

One of my work in progress drawings for my very unhinged marine biology mystery heist tale Barracuda Bay

All these WIPs, on my hard drive collecting dust, airing this one out to get its Vitamin D

A line drawing in symmetry by idil featuring very insane marine animals, cephalopods, a turtle, all up to NO GOOD

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

Can you imagine it now. Access to the CSS. Totally customisable. Music integration. Make your followers Hunger Games each other info your Top 8

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

The only one that we could have trusted to not do this was MySpace and we screwed it up

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 3d

oh god we should have all gone to cohost. we fucked up. we backed the wrong horse

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

Stuck on one drawing for three days then abandon it and try another one and I finish it in 20mins, a completely ridiculous skill

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

Being good at something doesn’t mean you have to do it

Consider *becoming* good at that thing in the first place was…. A trauma response

Your reward for doing ANY grunt work is, instead of people liking you/promoting you, is

MORE grunt work because you accidentally proved you are exploitable

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

Also, it is FICTION, a magical place in which sentience is real, it is MAKE BELIEVE for goodness sake

Commander Riker telling you off for bootlicking

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

There are many things to consider about Star Trek, and yes we are somewhat uncomfortable with the militaristic framework of the Federation BUT they make it very clear these inventions exist in a post-scarcity, post-capitalist society, to the point money, ownership is essentially seen as barbaric

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

It has also conversely ruined sci-fi fandom, groups & forums of which are flooded with hollow & often heavily sexualised AI junk images. When people protest which they often do, they’re met with the densest & brainless oh you like the holodeck & Data but you don’t like AI kind of response

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3d

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

She’s so close to actually figuring everything in her life out

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 4d

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 4d

Yes all I wish is for 8 decades or so to test it out

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know how Bob Odenkirk did it but he walks into his first scene of Breaking Bad with the most complex inner life & special guest star cameo levels of confidence, as if he’d already had his entire spin-off

Truly giving time paradox

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah exactly. if you & your family are struggling, - if someone offered me 1.5 million, would it be immoral for me NOT to take it as I could help literally my entire family and a bunch of my friends in one swoop

But what is the point of having fuck off money if you don’t tell people to fuck off

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 4d

Is it that you were always a bad person who would sell out all along

Or is that there is an Evil Money Threshold which changes anyone so fundamentally, & they are suddenly happy to sell out

Or is it that the system rewards & seeks out and encourages people who are the TYPE who would sell out

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

At least me. Tell ME everything

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

PLEASE tell us EVERYTHING

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

I wish to see a virgin on screen

This is a picture of a toaster, a virgin

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

Why would you do this. What kind of cruel wizard is his agent