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🔞 Sandwich is my dog. alex. 🇨🇦 artist. 🎻makes noises with a wooden box. pictures and stories, and stories with pictures. a person, not a brand. designated loud greek friend. business inquiries: https://www.magicmetalbird.com 🥄🥄 they 🌈🍳

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · Apr 18

'sup I'm alex and I love weird little guys

a pointillism ink drawing in sailor manyo sumire blue ink of a mola mola ocean sunfish

a vinegaroon carrying its young. they're in sch a large number that it's difficult to count them. they're all bickering and whining because of the long trip. their speech bubbles say
no YOU started it!
stop hitting me!
mom. MOM. MOM!!
I'm hungry
I feel sick
Are we there yet?
and I have to pee.

the image is drawn with blue lines and shaded with a blue halftone pattern

an orca chomping on some plastic ocean trash. it has a triumphant expression on its face and has a large CHOMP onomatopoeia over its head

a gouache painting of a pigeon with its head pulled in close to its body so it looks silly and round. it is over a square flat turquoise background

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2h

😭🫡😭

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 16h

HEY KODY'S COMIC IS ONE OF THE BEST ONES OUT THERE SO PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT IN CASE I HAVEN'T YELLED ABOUT KEEPING TIME ENOUGH

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
ko-fi.com/kodyisover

MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 16h

oh no what the fuck?? Dude I'm so sorry!!!

MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 23h

bwahahahha

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Brenden Fletcher @brendenfletcher.bsky.social · 23h

MAPS: "Roll a 20 and we're bonded forever."
OLIVE: "Pretty sure that already happened."

28 days until the First Meeting of BFFs Olive and Maps AKA Gotham Academy: First Year #2!

Pre-order from your local comic store today!!
@karlkerschl.bsky.social cover Product code: 0925DC0180

Karl Kerschl’s main cover art for Gotham Academy: First Year #2 featuring Olive and Maps lying at the floor, on top of Serpents and Spells game maps, looking at a glowing red D20 while pondering their new friendship

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 2d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

gpoy

Deydem The Non-Binosaur @sitdownaj.bsky.social · 2d

Drew this diva today #art #alienearth @alienearthfx.bsky.social

MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

accidentally based

A bitch NPC from witch hat atelier saying those without talent can only rely on persistence

MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

THIS is the future we actually wanted

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh Pillsbury is catching on to the true habits and motivations of its consumer base I see 👀👀👀

A Pillsbury cookie dough package with a ribbon declaring the contents "safe to eat raw - eat or bake"

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Kommander Karl @kommanderkarl.bsky.social · 2d

AI still can’t do this

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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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.

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

OMG BBY HIIIII

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 2d

there was a point in time we were testing the happy hoodie to help keep mac calm in the back yard and it resulted in maybe the only good tiktok i’ve ever made

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 2d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

gizmodo.com

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

not me getting distracted, wandering off, doing a bunch of cooking and cleaning, and then coming back to two emails: one saying the thing I needed to do my job went offline, and one saying it's back up now 💅💅💅

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 4d

hey #ottawa any fabric store recs for places that don't use fucking AI? 🤮

a banner from the fabricland website with some tacky-looking generative imagery of a generic-looking caucasian woman with disproportionate fetish lips, a nose with only one full nostril, and janky-ass hands. the most anatomically incorrect spider is dangling from her witch hat with folds and creases that don't make sense and a fabric that doesn't reflect light consistently. there's that tacky AI light gradient coming from the jack-o-lantern she's holding that doesn't have a proper pumpkin stem.

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

balancing the Vibes with incredible news!!!

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2d

'Steven Universe' creator Rebecca Sugar will make her feature directorial debut with the first U.S.-produced 'Moomin' animated film. 'Nimona' producer Annapurna Animation and rightsholders Moomin Characters are producing.
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

'Steven Universe' Creator Rebecca Sugar To Helm 'Moomin' Animated Feature For Annapurna

Sugar will write and direct the first U.S.-produced 'Moomin' film, marking her feature debut and bringing Tove Jansson’s beloved characters to theaters.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · Mar 25

MANHOLE ASSESSOR

A construction worker wearing a high visibility vest. He is waiting with his arms crossed, facing away from the camera on a construction site. The words manhole assessor are on the back of his vest.

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 2d

new recording to keep on repeat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9F4...

Fishbone - Racist Piece Of Shit (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 3d

Geordi La Forge Nope/Yes meme, but the yes has laser eyes in the visor:

NOPE:
"Do Not Comply In Advance"
- bossy
- already a cliche
- implies permission to comply later

YES:
"Fuck You, Make Me"
- leads by example
- directs yelling at opposition instead of allies
- easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

canadians haven't torched a bunch of yankees this yard in 213 years

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 3d

mourning search engines being good