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Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

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cartoon artist, buyer of old japanese comic books, Cotton FND champ, sparkshead
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Leirin @leirintalk.bsky.social · Nov 29

I miss back when it was easier to find these kinds of twee art supplies stock pictures on Google before it became crummy. they evoke so much happiness

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mae

@mae.seal.observer

tips for bluesky newcomers: YELLOW TILES ARE ELECTRIC! THEY WILL ELECTROCUTE YOU! GREEN TILES ARE ALARM TILES! IF YOU STEP ON THEM, YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGHT A MONSTER!! ORANGE TILES ARE ORANGE-SCENTED! THEY WILL MAKE YOU SMELL DELICIOUS! BLUE TILES ARE WATER TILES! SWIM THROUGH IF YOU LIKE, BUT, IF Y

December 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM

Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

i would like a group of christmas kittens in bright red bows to descend upon me like fallen snow

December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM

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Super Mario 64 Hidden Stars

@sm64stars.bsky.social

The Star is Atop the Tree. Do You Allow Your Greed to Ruin Christmas?

December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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Norin 🦈 🔜Katsucon

@mahoukarp.com

For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art

example of the new garbage twitter is doing by harishimasan

December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Kirby Informer

@kirbyinformer.com

From our whole team at Kirby Informer, happy holidays! We hope you all end off 2025 strong! ✨

December 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief

@katie.bzky.team

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]

"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools

May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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hungry_clicker

@hncl.bsky.social

December 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM

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Claude Monet

@monet.bsky.social

Vetheuil Seen from Ile Saint Martin - 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9545

December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

pimp my ride

December 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

i don't know how to get traction on my work anymore, i think every single algorithm has abandoned me and left me for dead

December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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S P A R K S

@sparksofficial.bsky.social

Happy Holidays from Sparks! 🎄✨

December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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alyssa || lovelandisle

@lovelandisle.bsky.social

this is hard to ask, but i’m struggling again despite my best efforts. i’m a substitute teacher (& freelance artist, streamer, translator…) and i haven’t been getting many hours + my school is on winter break. if you feel inclined, any help means a lot.
ko-fi.com/lovelandisle

Support lovelandisle

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December 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM

Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

anyway i am finally home and ready to crumble under the weight of my responsibilities 🫡

December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

"🤣🤣🤣" continues to be used exclusively by people who are madder than they've ever been in their entire lives at people who are a fraction of their age

December 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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Pang

@politeandnotgay.bsky.social

December 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM

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Brandon Sheffield

@brandon.insertcredit.com

If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen

A Demonschool sketch I did for our artists that looks like a 5 year old did it, showing a goofy giant head saying "I'm huge" looming over a rectangle representing a battle grid. Three stick figures stand in the rectangle, and three circles with lines going vertically are scattered around. There's also a squiggle around the rectangle that says "surrounding."

A finished alien-looking Demonschool boss, all purple and pink, with a giant xenomorph-looking head looming over the playfield and tentacles and things that surround it. This very nice art is based on the crappy drawing I did.

December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM

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RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.

December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM

Leirin

@leirintalk.bsky.social

this is one of those soundtracks that only becomes more precious over time youtu.be/FwbtxTUCn0U?...

03 - Secret of Mana - Phantom and a rose

YouTube video by ilovejeko

youtu.be

December 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Heather Burns

@heatherburnstech.bsky.social

In memory of Rob Reiner, please enjoy my favourite Wikipedia entry of all time, which is Former Members of Spinal Tap. Any time I need a laugh, I pull it up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_...