Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 7hProselytising in real time, it really is comic levels of lack of self-awareness, or at least comic if the world wasn't on fire etc. 000
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18hby the way I'm happy to tell anyone all my photography tips and tricks (if they are pleasant and keen) - I am not using this giant knowledge heap so it would be great it the entire experience could have some use. I did once think about doing a podcast just to get it all down and out 041
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18hPlease draw *from reference* to learn it, you can draw from imagination a lot better after Surgeons do not just slice into a patient without learning where (most) things are first 040
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18hPeople assuming they can just draw a human off the top of their head while Leonardo daVinci paid grave robbers to provide him with dozens of the freshest corpses (illegal) that he'd HIMSELF dissect (illegal) in the unrefrigerated Florentine heat (gross) as reference so he could draw every sinew 190
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 18hALSO if you do take portraits and if you ever need tips n tricks I am happy to tell you everything I know 120
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 19hCan confirm, I saw a lot of nudity. I didn't let anyone in my headshots wear any clothes from the collarbone down 110
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yesssss the highest praise is always from kids!! 💗 v glad this croc could cause such excitement 000
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sometimes I have to work in complete silence - ear plugs in even, other times I MUST put Season 3 of Bones on again, other times I'm able to just finish something in a busy studio with people clanking around Sounds pretty nice and flexible? Except I have no way to predict which one it will be TODAY 110
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This has been about how Deep Space Nine is the perfect show 230
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 12/10/20261) Sopranos, Santa Clarita Diet (RIP), the recent very horny Interview with the Vampire (but unfortunately not the even more horny The Vampire Lestat), Deep Space Nine 2) Also Deep Space Nine 110
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Realising I have 2 entirely opposed criteria for a good tv show: 1) i can't second screen it, way too unpredictable (complimentary): S1 of A Shop for Killers, Dark Matter 2) i CAN second screen it, a perfect pleasant rhythm, not too batshit, not too dull, a lovely soup of a show: Murder She Wrote 110
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yes this whole thing of oh you will be left behind / you don't like tech / this is just a tool etc etc - it's like, no, I am simply *reading the science* 010
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Read this is as Tiramisu Coffin Either phenomenal burial option at the undertakers Or am greenlighting a new show about private detective Tiramisu Coffin, who investigates dessert-based murders in Puddingtown 030
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026so MUCH else to talk about! Like literally the fact it dominates conversation I think is the whole point, they are trying to grind everyone down into submission 000
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Listen why WHY would anyone talk about AI when we could all instead be talking about cephalopods I swear to god 16813
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Thank you, i didn't mean to make it a vague-posting-rough-time post - if anything weirdly enough, seeing people act insane like this made me feel better 110
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Just to be clear - they specifically both said we should hang out *because* they knew I was having a rough time, and then they are like PERFECT an audience to justify my use of a cognitively-erosive fascist tool Truly the tool works 270
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I even said to one of them, "I don't want to speak about this" and I tried changing the subject so many times. It's a very weird way they talk about it too, often it's about how other people use it badly, but THEY use it perfectly and ethically. 150
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026On 2 separate occasions I hung out with two very different friends (they don't know each other) who knew I was having a rough time & BOTH times they hijacked the conversation to just talk about how they love using AI. Several times I told them I hate it. They keep going. You are all in a cult. 4221
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There was a joyous moment like *two decades ago* where I would RELAX by reading tech news, it was essentially a hobby I looked forward to, and now it is all have we introduced you to our new drone which triangulates your dreams and pours battery acid on them 071
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yeah. That is what expertise is surely, it's full knowledge - even love - of every part of the process, and they can dip in and out of any level - however laborious, routine, junior. They see how it all fits together like an engine. The best people to work with are those who never skipped the steps 020
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This perverse fetishisation of 'results' undermines how critical process is to literally everything - much more important than any one result. You see it on a macro industrial level - from maths to animation, and if you're using it you're going to kill off all your personal processes one by one. 050
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is the problem I've been yelling about from the beginning. If you eliminate junior or early career tasks, work, research... you eliminate everything. The entire field comes down. There is no path to becoming middleweight, and definitely none to anyone becoming an expert ever again 24717
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do you have missions? Yeah each one is about finally getting the number of the hot barista at the coffee place down the road I'm too intimidated to go into 020
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"the mansion I always look at on Zillow" is an absolutely devastating line in a Nobel Laureate's greatest opus 0220
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a Pulitzer-prize-winning poem about the endless vacuousness of the modern age 47320
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A completely inconceivable and uncontractable situation. No choice but to throw every drawing in the bin 010
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I regret to have called it. I wish I would get good feelings about good things that then happened. 030
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Are they saying that the illustrator is likely to steal the author's copyright (?) and therefore to mitigate against that risk... they get nothing 2101
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don't really read BBC news much any more but you know, periodically I drift in - and it is just all flames 000
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Nothing about the Green Party is written by an even remotely sensible person and definitely nothing about the new cuddle-dystopia Meta AI character was written by any kind of functioning human being 030
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Every single thing on the BBC news website today sounds like it was written by a person whose greatest pleasure is collecting branded corporate swag bags at business conferences and drinks out of their prized Meta branded sports cup at the gym 220
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am very sorry if you love this show, you are wrong, the only discernible character depth that might be worth watching is the two male leads I assume finally admit their feelings for each other and bang in the past, present and future 000
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Finally i will watch the 12 Monkeys tv show, which everyone says is a phenomenal hidden scifi gem Every single episode: 18 minutes of shooting guns and another 18 minutes of characters describing what has just happened to each other very articulately and very seriously 110
Reposted by IdilIdil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Easing myself back into drawing after a few months break. Here is a warm up sketch of (one of my many) desk lamps And yes it is a colour changing bulb of course like ALL MY BULBS 062
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Easing myself back into drawing after a few months break. Here is a warm up sketch of (one of my many) desk lamps And yes it is a colour changing bulb of course like ALL MY BULBS 062
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah so Kala Paint looks actually wonderful, especially compared to that weird vibe-coded "open source" Adobe clone splurted out recently - & it comes from an actual artist & coder. Hollllding on for the Mac port (yes so sorry) but have joined the Discord and am following along. 040
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So many shows where every character is: - determined - able to reflect on extremely dramatic events that happened earlier that day with the lucidity of someone who has gone through 20 years of therapy 010
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Trying to find a new show to watch and it turns out the thing I hate the most is when the only discerning personality trait of the hero seems to be "determined" 100
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026To be fair a lot of my contract clauses essentially boil down to basically me saying you formally agree not to be INSANE 010
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We were at FINAL FINAL sign off after 4 months & I got forwarded an email from someone I had never spoken to before, saying do everything inherently differently according to a mysterious attached PDF which they proudly said was what an LLM had returned after they put my 4 months of work into it 130
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i'm ADDING THINGS to my contract. I especially want to prevent surprise new people who I've never spoken to before getting cc'd in at the 11th hour of final feedback who suddenly have incredibly unhelpful new ideas - - if anyone has any particularly helpful contract clauses they can recommend 2101
Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every time you describe (without me asking) all the wonders of using LLMs, this is exactly what you sound like 050
