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Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 8d

🪰 Venus Fly Trap 🪰

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Dem @tehdeminz.bsky.social · 17m

Computer, enhance

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Dem @tehdeminz.bsky.social · 44m

Just give him a bowling trophy with a wreath on it. He won't know the difference

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WolfhideWinter @wolfhidewinter.bsky.social · 52m

Character design for a client :) 🦌🌲. We worked together extensively on this design and we're both really happy with how it turned out!

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𝕄🌕𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕗𝕥 𝕄👁️𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 @moonshiftmonsters.bsky.social · 1h

BIC has a new set of Halloween lighters with this bad boy in there! #werewolf

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones 🔜 BLFC Dealer's Den @sasharjones.bsky.social · Jan 12

"Black Posca Hare", ~4" x 7" posca paint pen on collage-primed reclaimed wood panel
This piece really is where I hit my stride during the art jam I did this time last year! I knew I was getting into something cool with these big abstracted shapes and interlocking mark-making.
Original sold.

A portrait of a black hare facing the viewer, rendered in paint pens. Shards of turquoise, orange, red and ivory peek through in the figure, and blocky white shapes carve out the hare's silhouette, sometimes cutting through it. Two different types of collaged paper show through behind the artwork.

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Dem @tehdeminz.bsky.social · 1h

I'm dead

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Dem @tehdeminz.bsky.social · 2h

I do prefer cake but it's a texture thing and I'll still fuck up a pie

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earses @howlitzer.art · 6d

If you see this, post something monochromatic

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ARCR-CRic @arcrcric.bsky.social · 5d

If you see this, post something monochromatic

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Toby 🍂 @heatynn.bsky.social · 3h

A very, very belated AF-revenge on @kaitofalonx.bsky.social

Give a nightstalker, receive one back 🐍

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ARCR-CRic @arcrcric.bsky.social · 13d

Snow Leopard

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Dem @tehdeminz.bsky.social · 2h

About to eat 3 pounds of shellfish

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Wrennothy @cactasorn.bsky.social · 2h

Malachite returns

Malachite sitting down with his legs closed. He is wearing a two piece bikini and pulling the bottoms away with his thumb to reveal part of his mons pubis

Malachite is nude and sitting back with his arms behind his head. His legs are spread enough to have his pussy on display. He is only wearing a choker.

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🎃Eski🎃 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 3h

Cobalt among the Colorado wildflowers!
[ #Art #Colorado ]

Digitally painted portrait of a cute medium hair tan dog with a pink nose, sitting happily in a field of Colorado wildflowers.

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NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · 5d

— Where we going boss? 😏 —

Just a big bulky Northern Canis being led to what is likely his death~

He cares not, he knew this was going to happen anyways.

#furry #sketch #creature
#creaturedesign #artstyle

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Max Dunbar @maxdunbar.bsky.social · 8h

A Dragonborn to start the day
#dnd #fantasyart

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𝕴svoc 🌿 @isvoc.bsky.social · 7h

Perishment of the Mango Kind. Glowy munchies. Poor mango stood no chances against the great devourer.
Speedpainting [5h] for Arkenai ✨
#dragon #art #speedpainting