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Neurotic creative, book sniffer, luddite lite, failed scientist, art lover, and chronically-ill stationery hoarder (autistic & ace) 📚📓📝🖋️✂️📌 #thedeskgoblin 🇵🇭 30+ #commonplacebook haver ❗1# genAI hater❗

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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I was not prepared for how much fur my dog actually had when deciding for this apartment. Open storage with fluffy dog fur?? I was asking for a bad time ugh
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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Just sayin’
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My stationery EDC (Errand Day Carry)
Passport sized traveler's notebook system together with a mini notepad and a tape measure attached to it.
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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art."

02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art."

03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'.

04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Gotta say…
Sketchbook comic. 

Panel 1: a disembodied voice says “I KNOW a.i. is ethically, ecologically and esthetically awful, but I just gotta say…”
Lucy is reacting with a ._. Face and thinking “do ya? Do ya really GOTTA?”

Panel 2: Lucy’s thought bubble reads: “do you just GOTTA recite some tired anecdote using the phrase ‘I just typed it in!’ That just amounts to you admitting that your cheapness, laziness and poor taste outweighs your unexamined ethical code?”Sketchbook comic page 2:

Panel 1: Lucy’s thought bubble reads “and, at the very least, do you GOTTA say it to ME?” She is turning away, saying “ok I’m gonna go, um, get a snack.”

Panel 2: another disembodied voice is saying “Lucy! You’re an artist— whattaya think about a.i? Ya know, it may be bad, but I JUST GOTTA SAY…”
Lucy is startled, dropping a chip.Sketchbook comic page 3:

Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified.

Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!”

A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Watching the bus driver handwrite his routes and stats for the day and seeing him being picky about his pens. He has really nice handwriting. Maybe I'll sketch him later.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments! Looks similar to a modern-day set! An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II. 📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680 #Archaeology
Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions  2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. 

On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.
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Tungsten @tungstenbrass.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
You can post here twice in a single day! No one will stop you It's also possible no one will see you! Ha! Part of the fun on this platform. In my case, at least. Refreshing. I'll show Sue Sakamoto this time as I was talking about Cave Story with a friend yesterday. Used the Pelikan m205 fountain pen
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Finally have a proper plastic storage for my dip nibs. A bit giddy about restarting drawing with inks again.
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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
There is a a Black-owned bookstore in Las Vegas. It is called Analog Bookstore. Please support! #Blacksky
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Thrifted an old tray with handles and a leather pouch today at the nice Japan-Korea surplus today. I now have a pouch for all my annotation supplies and have a tray to eat out of when I am reading on my computer chair.
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bsb @blackshirtboy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Let's Keep Calling!
An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online!

https://yellat.money/
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/
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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 02/08/2025
i was affected by the cancellation of zenimax online's unannounced MMO, which means you 🫵 can hire me to help your art & cinematics teams. reposts, recs, and leads appreciated! the DMs will remain open until the employment situation improves.
a graphic with a cartoon representation of OP in the corner. the text says: 

producer for hire! 

Positions: Mid-to-Senior Art/Cinematics Producer 

Locations: Hybrid in Baltimore, MD or Remote US

Experience: 
- frmr. Cinematic Pipeline Manager @ ZeniMax Online Studios, Art/Cine Producer @ Genvid
- 5+ years managing teams and pipelines in games & animation
- Worked in indie, start-up, AAA environments
- Full-cycle games production exp 
- Live-ops exp
- Outsource/x-dev management exp 
- Proficient in Flow Production Tracking/ShotGrid
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It’s Stationery Store Day and we are open until 6. This, written for Monocle back in 2019, is posted annually to celebrate. ✏️📓📐📎✂️🖍️
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Stationery Store Day!!!! Remember to support only independent book and stationery stores and not buy stuff to feed the Bezos greed!!!!
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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“I only use ChatGPT to—“ Silence. All use is unethical. It’s trained on stolen works and ruining the environment.
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🅑🅞🅧🅔🅡🅑🅤🅝🥊🐰 @boxerbun.fun · 30/07/2025
More than Meets the Eye🌱
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Maybe 10 years ago: Technology is great and makes my life easier in many ways Now (holding a big caveman club): We must destroy machine
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of mature and very wiry collared parachute mushrooms grow from a blackened bit of decayed stick, held between two fingers in a green summer forest. All photos by me
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
You are my sunshine (2015) by Kenyan born artist Wangechi Mutu #womensart
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Tomorrow is Planner Day!!!
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Bretman being a Traveler's notebook system user is a welcome surprise.
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☀Hyde Angelus☀ @ RCCC : K26 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
what a fucking insult to call it that as well oh my god
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Rosier G. @cahetelrosier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Annonciation (acrylics and charcoal on wood panel)
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zero-waste stationery & queer art ☘︎✧⁠*⁠。⁠. @magikbeanshop.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
tonight was really rough & w/little orders so we're at 35$. had to come home early bc of tooth pain we've got 705$ left to make! please spread & share if possible, it costs nothing to share this post! 🙏🏾 ca: $magikbeanshop vm: magikbeanshop @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social 🙏🏾 #thursdaygiving #mutualaid
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Added a Badtz-maru mini note in my planner and more eager to open it up lately because of it hehe
A charm, notepad page and paper clip with the Sanrio character Bad Badtz-maru
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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
mushroom stew ingredients #art
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renna 🥞 stamp club on kofi @bsky.rennatelier.art · 29/07/2025
stamp collection 💌📬 a bunch of stamp stickers i've made for Tiny Stamp Club
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----- @paperbeatsscissors.com · 28/07/2025
vibe for the week
all the way out there
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
First time I failed the day by day LOG since I started it. I'm picking it back up without any guilt as I am a fallible flesh mover going about the daily norms (like being sick)
Blank pages on a dated passport sized weekly-format planner.
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Some of my Japanese clients are also avid stationery people and I'm being given the Rollbahn notebook brain worm (I do not need more notebooks have mercy)
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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.
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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 25/07/2025
being an artist is hilarious because it's like "yeah i can capture and depict the intricacies of the human form" and then 10 minutes later im googling some shit like "bed" because i forgot what basic things look like
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Lio🌿@MCM Londong AA H-02 @kroovv.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Just a lil guy 🌿 #Art | #kpopdemonhunters
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🔼🔽▶️ (Aud) @audart.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I am a call center agent for a living and I have been for 10 years and let me tell you the last thing companies want is to pay us overtime to manage high call volumes so keep the phones ringing
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Guillermo del Toro - Studio Ghibli Masterclass (2013, TIFF festival) ❤️ Now online (80 minutes) >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Uo...
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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A thing that always makes me smile - people discovering that fountain pens are comfortable to write with, that their hand hurts less than with a biro, and their handwriting is more legible when they're not having to press so hard. Is it a slightly smug smile? Yes, sorry, I am a very fallible human.
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Ben Jammin @nissos.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
David Broadwell Dragonfly II Cursive italic grind by Mark Bacas #fountainpen
Fountain pen on a notebook page
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𝓝. @aelvencesa.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
i don’t know how to render her, but maybe it can just stay as line art and i can print it out for people to color lol
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I am digging my fingernails into my leg to prevent myself from buying more washi tape. No, I don't have a big collection, but alsooooooo- I do not "need" more. (will probably fail soon)
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StuntmAEn Bob @stuntmaenbob.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
P e aC e f UL w 0r L ds E xi sT #pixelart
pixel art landscape - in front a first lake, another one in the middle of the piece. right and left side some trees. background some mountains and a castle on the left side on one of the mountains. behind the castle is a huge planet and a big shining star surrounded by a blue sky full of shining stars. On the lake I the middle is a small boat.Pixel art landscape - front: plants, flowers, a lot of grass and a guy with his dog (left in the middle). Middle: Waves of the ocean. Background: Dark sky full of shining stars and some planets.
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Passport size Lists and Memos notebook working out pretty okay
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Normalise terrorising people who throw their trash anywhere but the designated trash bins. 💢
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caj @cajalnoix.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Journaling bits
journaljournaljournal journal
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I’m the Asshole by Nate Southard is a solo journaling game. In it, you will attempt to make amends with those you’ve wronged (and there are a lot of them!) before the world is destroyed. It's apologies and the apocalypse!#Geek #Games madnessheart.press/product/im-t...
Art card featuring a brick-colored sky shattered by leafless tree limbs. In the foreground is a human figure with lungs for a head. Text reads "I'm the Asshole: A Solo Game About Apologies and the Apocalypse"
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Sharing silly dog
A silly dog looking at the camera
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Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca · 22/07/2025
Which is your favourite Pokémon starter?
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👁️nai👁️ @etchnings.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Sorry to the person who was hiding the citron honey tea behind all the honey jars in the supermarket. I took it. I'm sick and I need it I'm so very sorry and now I'm drinking it with turmeric my throat has achieved instant release from the constant dryness itch
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