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Paige || Available for Work

@blackthistle.bsky.social
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She/Her || Freelance illustrator || Fan of retro horror films, ttrpgs, and critters|| Cat foster, expect a million photos

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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They aren't. Please don't share misinformation.
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martyfive @martyfive.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
this was made in what feels like another life, in january 2021; i still like it
a dark cold and grey landscape with lotsa snow, two broken ships and a lonely house with a warm window on the horizon. there’s a silhouette of a girl wearing a light white tank dress. she seems to be struggling to get up.
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Sineprin @sineprin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Previously
An article headline that reads "Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs". The article is dated Oct 3, 2025.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
these models all have their own tells. If everyone generated books through AI they basically would end up being madlibs with just a few different characters. Also the reduction of art and literature to content is just so 🫠
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
These fluffy idiots are keeping my sanity held together by a thread I love them so much
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
And now I'm at the point where I'm just tired. I'm so fucking tired. I keep remembering my little buddy that I took to class with me almost every day is gone now, and that people are getting snatched, and that there literally was a fucking tech bro sh@dow g0v oligarchy and I feel fucking insane
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It is fun that things can have multiple interpretations across time and cultures though. It's why I love linguistics and anthropology. :)
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
So it actually is just an anti joke (or at least even allistic people tend to also think that), like what is brown and sticky, a stick. (I am also very likely autistic but I'm too scared to get tested in this administration. Psych told me my mystery 'seizures' are textbook meltdowns lol)
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Kristina Gehrmann @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The Knight's Favorite A wildcard for a medieval-themed tarot (that might or might not happen in the near future) where I had complete artistic freedom for the subject! ✨ So I went with "what if courtly love at the tournament, but make it gay?" 💜 Client: 78 Tarot
Scene at a tournament in the 1300s: A knight in full armor on his horse (only without the helmet, which a page is carrying) rides up to a richly decorated stand of spectators. Subverting the expectation that he'd ask for a "lady's favor", he instead receives said favor from another, younger man who is tying a ribbon around the knight's jousting lance. Ladies look on surprised/shocked/delighted.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I hope all of that makes sense, and I don't blame you and we shouldn't be complacent or trusting. I had some coworkers who vibe coded (weren't programmers, but if they actually took courses offered they could have been), and talking with them was so mind numbing. It's the IKEA effect in full force.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I haven't used it in my coding because like you said, deskilling can happen FAST, but I've been strong armed into at least having to understand this stuff and how it can be applied with some semblance of ethics given the fact my job is demanding we integrate it.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
These tech bros have made AI (which I hate that humanizing term, they're algorithms with large data sets.) synonymous with chatbots and image aggregation when there's smaller, more effective, and way less intrusive uses for it. But that doesnt give them money or control over our lives.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Not every model is created equally, and there are open source models being created that are making these tech bros VERY anxious and I'm all for it. Also models that are used for say, going through data or like in Dune for motion tracking eyes, aren't nearly as resource intensive
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I don't like where llm and gen AI is right now. I think open AI is run by a bunch of freaks (we know now Th13l literally helped create 1nc3l culture with 3pstein) It needs to be regulated. Heavily. But that doesn't mean it has no responsible use in science and tech for data analysis & automation
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
(yes I used an em dash, I like them, this isn't an AI comment) There is a difference between vibe coding (asking chatgpt to make flappybird for you then saying you know how to code) Versus automating deployments, using it for linting, and not having to repeatedly write foundational code overandover
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Stolen code is a little off. Obviously I don't know the code base of what Github copilot and others are using, I need to look into that. But a lot of code is open source and stack overflow, git, etc are all places to share code and work together — HOWEVER
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Given that I went to highschool with guys who "couldn't wait to get into the military to k1ll *slur for middle eastern people*" the pay is an excuse. Which they're not even getting apparently lol
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Anyways I've watched multiple friendships end or nearly end over "problematic otps" in group chats
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a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn
ALT: a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Sadly they aren't always children. Some of them are in their 30s, and I would know because I used to associate with them. Now as someone who's going to be 30 this year it makes it even more hilarious in hindsight.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My favorites are "Are you ok?" "Well that's a weird thing to say." "And in what world made you think I would agree with that sentiment?"
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Black cat Friday, double trouble featuring Jinx and my foster fail Elvira 🥰
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Scarcity? You have to pay to use it. Creativity isn't a finite resource what is this person talking about lmao
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Is it objectively good? No Is it full of typos and formatting errors? Yes WHO CARES IT'S A ROUGH DRAFT. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU CAN'T GET ANYTHING OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I don't know what it is but as soon as I sit in front of my computer at my desk, I'm getting in my head before I can even put words down. Writing in a Google doc on my phone? Suddenly wrote five scenes in three hours and plotted a whole other story without a second thought.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Write drunk edit sober is terrible advice, but consider; Write phone edit computer
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'm literally seeing verbatim satanic panic shit just like what was happening with 1sra3l and blood l1b3l. All it does is take away from the REAL ACTUAL HORRIFIC THINGS THAT HAPPENED AND GIVE LESS CREDENCE TO THE VICTIMS BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO GO VIRAL ONLINE.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Is this about musk? Is this about plant1r? Or is this about inevitably 5 other billionaire tech assholes that are actively trying to ruin the world and tank it into fascism? Yes
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"I went to a protest once to get a blue haired girl to fuck me and she didn't so now I'm going to blow up the world"
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Why are the men actively ruining our world literally the biggest losers on the face of the planet
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's giving "I took feminist lit freshman year to get laid then complained on Reddit about how feminists are lesbian man-haters cos no one would fuck me cos they saw right through it"
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
No guys for REAL I'm not a piece of shit sociopath who wants to spray people with fentanyl piss and thinks murder is funny, I have two girlfriends!!! I'm so cool!!! I promise!!!!
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If you look up the CEO of palant1r his Wikipedia claims he cares about social equality, grew up going to protests with his parents, and has two girlfriends. It's so hilariously monitored.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Same. I also get stuff to join ICE, ai girlfriends, AI Mail order brides (I don't care any those because if anyone thinks that's ok they deserve to get catfished by a bit) and recently, straight up PORN (a woman giving fallatio, on my WORK COMPUTER IN THE OFFICE), Google doesn't give a FUCK.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
They're sleeping next to each other now ❤️ Ellie is obsessed with her big sister, and her big sister is obsessed with grooming her until she's overstimulated and smacks her
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We need to care about all victims not just "innocent victims" I also hope he'll be able to go back to having a normal life at some point and the media circus isn't an extension of this traumatic experience
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified. Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Very brave girl being very brave
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ellie has had the zoomies the last three days and coming up to the main and second floor on her own 🥰 is crazy that she was semi-feral, she's skittish obvs but is so sweet and loves kisses and belly rubs and hasn't even bit me once beyond a few curious nibbles
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
(It's Bogart btw, which is included in adobe fonts 👉🏼😎👉🏼)
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Yes I found the exact font The Chair Company uses for this episode
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Update: kitties are sleeping next to each other, Ellie is splorin' the house
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
(except the parts I explicitly took artistic liberty with I guess. I was absolutely not giving him purple leg wraps, not sorry.)
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Ok not gonna lie I fucking killed it with the color matching, I MIXED EM ON THE FLY, CAUTION TO THE WIND
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I am already considering getting an airbrush though because I can't have a single casual hobby
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Dame Aylin and Ketheric will absolutely be the death of me so they're going last. Still not super confident with NMM.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Next in the list is Shadowheart and Minthara who will arrive sometime in February 👀 Then I'll do the rest of the main party, the floofs, Orin, The Moon Lesbians, and Ketheric. Probably won't finish everyone within the year but that's ok. I don't have that kinda cash anyways.
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I need to figure out how to get decent photos of my figurimr once I'm done varnishing but HE'S DOOOOOONE (sneak peak)
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Reminder:
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Paige || Available for Work @blackthistle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I have nothing poignant to say yet about 2025 because I'm hungover for the first time ever which I think says more than any sappy post could. Happy new year! I love my friends!!!
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