iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Animation by James Baxter* | Medusa (canceled) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I want artists to be payed however much $$ they need to live a comfortable life every single time they put pencil to paper, sculpt a piece of pottery, play a note on their instruments or use whatever tools they use to create their crafts

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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Honored to have Speaker Robert Rivas join our movement! Like so many Californians, Robert Rivas and I both come from immigrant families. Thank you for your support, Mr. Speaker! Let's get to work and protect the California Dream.

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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We’re going to build faster and smarter across the state to bring the cost of housing down. And for first time homeowners? We’re going to help you buy a house with down payment assistance programs.

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SayItToMyFace💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Need another reminder of why Becerra is the right choice for CA Governor? EricSayMore of IG briefly interviews Xavier Becerra on LGBTQIA community concerns. Love these new posts! @xavierbecerra.bsky.social @becerraforca.bsky.social

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Melissa E @enseethis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I submitted a ceramics piece of a Quail at the Gualala Art Center. The nest is an actual birds nest that one of the curators found.

Birds on the Brain Art show at Gualala’s Art Center.

“The Quail” ceramics piece on a birds nest.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

fund.blender.org

Blender Development Fund

Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

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Scott Christian Sava @ssavaart.com · 13/10/2025

Celebrating Indigenous People's Day today.

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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“Didn’t these AI chuds think about use permission???” I think they did. I think they were like:

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Pink guy sits at desk, working on laptop. Blue guy stands next to him.
Blue guy says “Do we need to ask the artist’s permission for this?”

Panel 2: Pink guy smugly says “Bro trust me. When people see the AMAZING ART this tech can create, nobody will care about the “artist’s permission”

Intermission panel saying “Billions of dollars later…”

Panel 3: Pink Guy is smiling smugly and says “check this shit out” He is holding up the worst image you have ever seen in your life.

Panel 4: Blue Guy: We are so fucked

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contrails —— ✈️ @contrails.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Obama is the best of ‘em!

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Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

NO KINGS 🇺🇸

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Melissa E @enseethis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Joshua Tree and it’s beauty, keep them safe. #NationalParks

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The aurora right above me

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Melissa E @enseethis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Some beautiful daffodils that have incredible colors and smell delicious. 🤤

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💙Kat Chow6 (KC6)💙 @kc6.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just for your FYI: I'm still celebrating Black History Month. It's still The Gulf Of Mexico I am canceling President's Day until we get a better one.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 04/02/2025

Updated meal locations for 2/4/25: WCK will have free meals available in California for first responders and community members impacted by the Southern California wildfires at the locations listed here: wck.org/ca-meals. Share with anyone in the area in need of support. #ChefsForCalifornia

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Trish Dukes @trishdukes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Wizards (1977) - They Killed Fritz!!

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Willie Muse @williesillie2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What I imagine the White House looks like right now

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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards apologize to me

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Anyone who says this was NOT a Nazi salute can — with all due respect — fuck off.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.

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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Current mood, who's with me? 😆

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." [Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964] #MLKDay #MartinLutherKingDay #MartinLutherKingJr

A black and white portrait of Martin Luther King with an American flag in the background

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Melissa E @enseethis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here is some archival artwork I’ve done in the past. ☺️

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