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Laurin of Heck 🦇

@laurin.bsky.social

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Review Artist @ Firaxis. 🌿🌲✨ Do you ever look at the sky and feel like you’ve seen that in another place you’ve never been to?

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 6d

Hey folks! I’m a concept artist with over 10 years of experience looking for my next opportunity! Whether it be full time or freelance, teams big or small, I’d love to help on your project

belgianbooleancg.com

You can also support me with tips to help pay bills

ko-fi.com/belgianboolean

Cheers!

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robyn 🎃 @haykebyr.bsky.social · 5d

lil promo here, but I did the cover art for my dad's first book he just published 🎉 if you're a fan of classic epic fantasy, the ebook is on sale rn for 99¢!

An illustrated book cover in hues of blue, showing a figure approaching a floating, glowing power contained in several stone rings etched with runes. The title of the book is "Shifter" by Asher H Boyan.

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 6d

Les fleurs sprouting from his mind.

Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 6d

A man drawing maps. @sphynxian.bsky.social

The backside of a man mostly in silhouette, sitting at a table looking down at something. The room is cast in warm, dim light, and decorated with colorful foliage and wall art. The perspective is from a couch across the room with a yellow pillow and rainbow blanket in the foreground.

The same as the first image, but a closer view of the man framed by a large piece of art on the wall.

The backside of a man mostly in silhouette, sitting at a table looking down at something. The room is cast in warm, dim light, and decorated with colorful foliage and wall art. The perspective is from a couch across the room with a yellow pillow and rainbow blanket in the foreground.

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Robert Spookes 💀 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 11d

just @laurin.bsky.social being a ren faire cutie 🌿 ♥️

Laurin in a blue and gold leaf shawl, round gold glasses, and a crown of golden laurels

Laurin in a blue and gold leaf shawl with a brass brooch, round gold glasses, and a crown of golden laurels

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 11d

Eris Mocha

A coffee cup lid with an oval sipping mouth and three dots in a triangular pattern, which vaguely resemble Eris Morn from Destiny 2 if she ever did a Pika face.

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 11d

At the MN Ren Fest with @sphynxian.bsky.social ❤️

A man with long brown hair and a peppered beard looking down at the camera from behind a thick black scarf.

Previous man seen from behind, striding along a dirt path.

A decorated couple in black and gold accents.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12d

So I just did the math it seems they're short a bit

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 13d

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Robert Spookes 💀 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 13d

A smoky mezcal cocktail served out of a flask hidden in a Bible

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 13d

Waitress: “Read your bible.”
Me: how dare you tell me to read a bible! why is my glass empty??
Robert: babe please just open the book.

A simple black book titled “Holy Bible” in gold lettering, next to an empty lowball glass.

The bible opened to a section that’s been cut out to fit a flask into it.

The previously-empty glass filled with dark amber liquid from the flask, garnished simply with a dark cherry.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 18d

What a quick and simple way to completely undermine your reputation as a teaching and research institution.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 19d

*arrogant guy voice* The “PNW.” Puh! Whatever THAT means.

Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 19d

It’s cider donut season and the market up the road makes them fresh daily 🥹

A plate full of toasty-brown, sugar-coated apple cider donuts and a tan mug of black coffee beside it.

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Robert Spookes 💀 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 19d

An update on The Dinner

To our community,

We want to share an important update about The Dinner. After a great deal of reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel development. This choice wasn’t easy—we know how much passion and excitement many of you had for this project. Unfortunately, with shifting priorities and limited resources, we simply cannot deliver the experience we envisioned.

This decision also means some talented members of our team will be leaving us. We’re deeply grateful for everything they’ve contributed, and we’ll be doing all we can to support them through this transition.

Going forward, our focus as a studio is on “doing less, better.” We believe this is the only way to honor our family members’ time and expectations. While The Dinner won’t make it to your plates, we hope you’ll be excited for what’s next: Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich. It’s built on everything we learned from The Dinner, streamlined into a simpler, more focused experience—and it will be available at the exact same price.

We know this may not be the news you were hoping for, but we’re confident in the path ahead and can’t wait to share more with you soon.

— The Team

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Robert Spookes 💀 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 20d

Senator: They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.

Mon Mothma: I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 26d

Robert: the villain is 8 feet tall.
Me: okaayyyyyyeee… 👀

Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 26d

a close up of a bald man wearing a star trek uniform looking at someone .

Alt: A compilation of Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation saying “Make it so.”

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 26d

ohion pip household c:

A white board with the words “onion dip” written on it with a little smiley face. The words are written in a way that looks like “ohion pip.”

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 26d

See this is what I want for my characters babe

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · 28d

Actively fighting the urge to interrupt work with dice shopping for a character I won’t play until probably half a year from now.

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · Sep 6

🥰😚😚😚 i’m lucky to be yours.

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Excited to tell you all we're in a conference room for today's screenshot. Always fun to be in the conference room. We're close in on Barclay🥦 and Riker. Riker is sitting in a chair, and Barclay is standing but leaning down next to him, arm behind Riker on the chair. Barclay is looking forward with the intensity and body posture of a man surfing on a once in a lifetime wave that's 300 ft high. Riker, sitting next to him, looks closing time drunk and his hand is making a half cocked thumbs up sign. Closed caption reads, "Memory loss, fatigue, headaches..."

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · Aug 28

help

a poorly drawn cat with a bite mark taken out of its head. the text above and below it reads: “do you have any ibuprofen”

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Laurin of Heck 🦇 @laurin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Vesper being a ham.

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