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Ross Donaldson

@chalupakabra.bsky.social
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Sr. Graphic Designer @ ArenaNet. Blizzard Entertainment alum. Magic: the Gathering, WoW (Ele Shaman) and Fighting Game enthusiast. Opinions expressed are my own.

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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Figured I'd join in on the fun
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I made it into the 1% cutoff! I thought I was going to barely miss, but it looks like the DQ'd boosters/cheaters got me in. Looking forward to trying again this season :)
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
Social media post, describing a routine…

> turns on my computer
> disables a new Al feature that was turned on by default
> opens my email
> disables a new Al feature that was turned on by default
> launches a software
> disables a new Al fea
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AraInfo @arainfo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
⚫ El eclipse solar sobre Zaragoza, en imágenes. La silueta de la basílica del Pilar y el Ebro dejaron algunas de las estampas más espectaculares de la tarde. 🔗 arainfo.org/todos-los-de... 📸 Fotos: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza
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D3ADMANWKS @d3admanwks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sacrifice...
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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A troll theme'd patch you say? Well I guess the mog is coming out.
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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Gonna give it my best shot and go for 1% title I guess 🫠
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
maybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
techspot.com
Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
The shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while OS X saw only limited movement over...
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 12/07/2026
[digs around in the Bag of Memes Holding for no particular reason]
The now-classic Yu-Gi-Oh meme with a card played saying "don't speak ill of the dead" and the counter-play being "don't be a piece of shit while you're alive"
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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Completely normal and appropriate use of de-inked foils and sharpies.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 10/07/2026
NEW: The brand-new logo of the Donald J Trump International Airport appears to be AI slop, featuring an eagle with garbled talons, an asymmetrical number of feathers on each wing, and more glaring irregularities futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Have AI Slop in It
The logo for officially renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport appears to be generated with AI.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I find this really interesting. Even if you don't despise genAI as much as I do, if you're making art, it doesn't matter how nuanced you think the conversation is, and these hosts are 100% right -- the medium is the message and if you touch genAI, you're cooked.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/07/2026
everywhere you look, things are goin' great
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Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up
Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot after three years, only 1% use it weekly, and Microsoft raised prices regardless.
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I really hope that gamers drag Playstation as hard as they dragged Xbox for making an always connected, online only console.
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Ross Donaldson @chalupakabra.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSI... Just gonna leave this here for no particular reason 🙄
youtube.com
Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video
YouTube video by PlayStation
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itch.io @itch.io · 01/07/2026
We don't enforce any DRM for games and stuff on @itch.io. Buy, download, and never connect to the internet again for all we care ✌️
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool
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Rubi @rubi514.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It's REAL! www.guildwars3.com/en It's real and it's coming to PC and console!! Guild Wars 3. Guild. Wars. 3. It feels so weird to be able to say it out loud. I'm so happy!!
guildwars3.com
Guild Wars 3
Guild Wars 3 is an action-adventure MMORPG, a modern evolution of the genre that blends rich action-combat, character building, and skill collection.
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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )
Lorynbrantz on instagram shares a post about their cupcake character being stolen for these new amazon ai shows. Reads as follows

I am horrified and disgusted by BuzzFeed taking my character, The Good Advice Cupcake, and giving it to an Al platform. My time at BuzzFeed was marked by continually being taken advantage of and lied to. They repeatedly assured me in good faith that they would never do anything with Cuppy without my input, yet offered me no legal options, insisting that I would never need them. The news that this character, who is based on my own personality and whom I created as a microphone to spread love and positivity, has been taken and turned into a soulless Al puppet feels like having my intestines pulled out of my body.

Somebody leaked the news to me early on that there were talks happening, and I pleaded with the CEO Jonah Peretti directly not to do it. Instead, he tried to talk me into signing an NDA. Obviously, I did not.

This is an assault on artists everywhere.

I encourage you to boycott BuzzFeed and any Al-produced or adjacent animation.
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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Let's check in on how Epic Games is doing after laying off more than 1,000 people in March
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megadrivers @megadrivers.coolpics.biz · 20/05/2026
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 18/05/2026
you know that feels so goood
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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 15/05/2026
I just think they're neat
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brickonator @brickonator.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My very first tiger drawing and my latest
Three very silly tigers drawn by a a very young child. The stripes are horizontal instead of vertical, and the faces are bean shaped. The bottom tiger says “rore”A painterly and somewhat realistic drawing of a tiger, a crop from my larger illustration “late night at the art studio”
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Telling another cowboy to stand down:
A catalogue listing for a plumbing component: Draw Off Cock Washer
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.
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Del-Raiser Cenobite @shrecknet.com · 09/04/2026
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/03/2026
Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices
Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It was at 400 this morning
@attie.ai is currently blocked by 73,518 users
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🥭MANGO - Comms Open @mgosketches.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I made a papercraft just for this
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Lol, the kids are alright
New consumer trust report came out. 78% of Gen Z can identify AI generated images and will scroll past them.

Been running ads for an apparel brand targeting 18 to 25 year olds. Our CTR dropped 40% after we switched to AI generated lifestyle shots.

The images looked fine to me. Models wearing the clothes, decent lighting, no obvious errors. But apparently Gen Z can tell.

Went back to real product photos and performance recovered. Not fully but better than the AI stuff.

The report mentioned things like lighting inconsistencies and unnatural shadows. Stuff that's not obvious unless you're looking for it.

AI images probably work for some audiences but not others. Older demographics might not notice or care as much.

Edit: for graphics and layouts i use X-Design since you control the inputs. But for photography targeting younger audiences, real still wins.
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
do not ask yourself whether or art is good instead ask is it sincere was it cathartic was it fun to make is it made by me and don’t forget to stay silly
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Perfect
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/03/2026
Investors: "Anyway, we were so impressed that we invested the entire planets' economy in this, if it fails you're all cooked."
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
TIL the Navy has a gigantic degaussing array for demagnetizing submarines before active duty That image goes fucking hard upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Animation by Glen Keane* ( @GlenKeanePrd ) | Beauty and the Beast (1991) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children
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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Reminder here’s some adobe alternatives, Because FUCK ADOBE….
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Wolffen @wolffen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI
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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Split screen of a younger and more recent Sam Altman. There are 2 captions:

On the younger Sam: "OpenAl 2015: Profit - $0"
On the more recent Sam: "OpenAl 2025: Profit - $0,000,000,000"
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