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Swiftbell
@swiftbell.bsky.social
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Your local 29 yo folklore, history, and storytelling enthusiast. And librarian! She/They, Aro/Ace, Autistic & ADHD
art at: swiftbell.tumblr.com
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eliotbaum.bsky.social
If you ever feel like your sketchbook as an artist is not looking pretty or artistic enough: take a look at Gustav Klimt‘s sketchbook
October 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with!

All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
September 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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countmystars.bsky.social
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual Search (all the way at the bottom)
September 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
swiftbell.bsky.social
Melatonin <3
July 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
swiftbell.bsky.social
*reads about Moral Scrupulosity/ Moral OCD*

Me: Oooooh, that would explain a few things
July 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
swiftbell.bsky.social
Current pet peeves:

1. When I see a video titled "X media explained!" and all they're doing is recapping the story

2. Whenever my neighbour goes outside to smoke I can smell it even with my windows and doors closed.
July 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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yeetkunedo.bsky.social
re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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deadkat.bsky.social
The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.
lecoindeslgbt.bsky.social Le Coin Des LGBT+ @lecoindeslgbt.bsky.social · May 9
Si l'initiative citoyenne européenne visant à interdire les thérapies de conversion dans toute l'UE ne récolte pas 1 million de signatures d'ici 10 jours, elle échouera malheureusement...
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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toradh.bsky.social
For my fellow European artists: there is an open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy going round, asking for better protection against AI.

If you have a minute you can sign here:
creators-for-europe-united.eu
Creators for Europe United
Open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy to protect Europe’s creative soul.
creators-for-europe-united.eu
April 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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animethemes.bsky.social
Anime: Witch Watch
Style: Opening
Track: Watch me!
Artist: YOASOBI
Year: 2025
Studio: Bibury Animation Studios

#Anime #Animesky #AnimeThemes #AnimeOpening #AnimeOP #WitchWatch
April 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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teal.monster
None of you in queer adjacent, leftist discords dare give them the scan of your ID or your face so you can view "mature content"; doing so would be extremely fucking stupid and endanger you and everyone else on the server.
April 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
Donation link. No excuses. Just run the money.
April 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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jpawlik.com
My really popular barebones RSS comic from November 2022! I hope it helps you stay updated with your favourite webcomics, artists and websites.
I’m just a simple guy who’s passionate about RSS feeds, comics and staying updated using both. Go forth and make the feed of your dreams!
#Art #Comic #RSS
Comic page giving a mini tutorial on what an RSS feed is. Panel 1: You might've seen this icon before. It's the RSS icon. But what is RSS? RSS is an update feed for a website. Every time the site publishes a post, article, comic page, etc. the feed is updated. Most websites have a RSS feed. Panel 2: You'll usually find it in a site's menu. It might also be on a sidebar or the footer. Panel 3: But if I click on it it's just a bunch of code! What gives? What am I supposed to do with it?! Panel 4: This is where you'll need a feed reader like feedly! Comic page giving a mini tutorial on what an RSS feed is. Panel 1: One, on Feedly click the follow button. Two, copy the URL from the site's RSS button and add it to the search box. Panel 2: Three, this will bring up the feed for the site. Four, Add it by clicking the follow button. You can also search the name of the site without the RSS link but it's more accurate if you have the link. Panel 3: Add the new feed to a folder. Panel 4: Now the feed will appear on your Feedly when it updates! Panel 5: What I did was get the Feedly add-on for my browser. So every time a site I follow updates the extension lets me know! Panel 6: Clicking the title of the update opens the site in a new tab. I personally like seeing content on it's own site. But you can set everything up so you only ever need to open Feedly. Comic page giving a mini tutorial on what an RSS feed is. Panel 1:If you run a site make sure your RSS button is easily accessible. The URL will usually be something like yoursite.com/feed or yoursite.com/rss. Panel 2: Be sure to follow your own RSS feeds to make sure they're updating properly. This way if it goes down for whatever reason you'll be able to catch the problem before your readers miss too many updates. Panel 3: And that's all there is to it! It's very customizable so play around with it to see what works for you! Panel 4: No fuss. No algorithms. Just the updates you choose to see! Hey! My favourite comic updated!
September 29, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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starghettis.bsky.social
THE BOYS ARE BACK FOR A WHOLE NEW SERIES!!
AND THEY ARE MARRIED!!
IT'S CANON!!!
AND I'M THE SHOWRUNNER!!!!
🩷💚🩷💚🩷💚
March 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
swiftbell.bsky.social
If this post gets one note of any kind I'll upload sketches and other art stuffs
March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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wanderlingworld.bsky.social
Hopefully this update will help get more eyes on everyone's art posts. Now if you use ANY of the hashtags on this cheat sheet, your post will also go to Art: New Posts and have a chance at climbing Art: What's Hot too! Let's see how this goes... #art #artfeedupdates 🧵 1/6
An image of all the feeds and their hashtags that you can find in the threads in the last two posts bellow.
March 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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katriaraden.bsky.social
Pinterest, an app where most of the content is unauthorized reposts of other people’s copyright protected work, is developing generative AI and they think offering a hidden OPT-OUT toggle is good enough?

“Use your data […]” Whose data??
Pinterest Help Center How your data may be used AI models get better over time through research and real-world learning. When you save or upload content to Pinterest, we may use it to improve the accuracy, safety and overall performance of Pinterest Canvas. You can opt out of this use of your data at any time.
March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
swiftbell.bsky.social
I hate insomnia~
February 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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pikkyu.creator.blue
A thread with all the helpful posts, tools etc. I find around bsky/web to improve your experience on this site!

I'll update this as I find more, so if you know of anything I haven't included, please let me know!

Reposts are very welcome so more people know.

[ #helpfulbskypost ]
October 23, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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thechiller.bsky.social
FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string.

So put this at the end (after a space) instead:

&udm=14

Fuck you #google.

#AI
January 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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littlefoolery.bsky.social
www.sfeertheory.com

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📝 script: @moonsheen.bsky.social
👨‍🎨 art: @artofchira.bsky.social
💬 letters: @airy.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Do yourself and democracy a favor. Support independent media.
February 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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bpavuk.neocities.org
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
joshuaholland.bsky.social Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM