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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Complaining about the worst little weirdos on earth being horrible on X when you're still posting on there is like rummaging through someone's bins and griping about getting bin juice on your hands

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Saad Azim @lakakalo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It'd be a shame if people started sharing only AI slop on WeTransfer.

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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Morning comic pals 👋 Here’s a BlueSky starter pack of awesome comic creative types in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 They’re putting out brilliant work, so be sure to give them a wee follow👇 go.bsky.app/HSZZyPF

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 22/05/2025

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 And you're not just harming us creatively. You're also killing the planet. From that radical far left mag, Forbes... www.forbes.com/sites/cindyg...

forbes.com

AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water

With the rise of generative AI, companies have significantly raised their water usage, sparking concerns about the sustainability of such practices.

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Evan Spooklog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Don't buy Oblivion Don't buy Doom: The Dark Ages Cancel your gamepass subscription Do not give Microsoft another red cent that they don't pry from your dead fists

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 22/05/2025

Imagine asking your readers to pay for a book that EVEN YOU have no interest in reading.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 22/05/2025

Imagine pretending it's not a plagiarism machine when you literally ask it to plagiarize and do so little editing after the fact that your "book" includes it repeating those instructions.

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 20/05/2025

i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search. NO. WRONG. You have just forgotten how good search used to be. Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Folks loudly criticizing and judging Gazans for fundraising right now need to think twice about the assumptions they’re making. A dollar does not go far in a place where food is scarce. Have some humanity. (Source in next post.)

A chart that shows the change of different food prices over time. Best ALT for this image would be at the story link here: https://time.com/7286150/gaza-food-prices-starvation/?linkId=823925376

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars. These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born. 🧪🔭 public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/

Deep ALMA observations of 12CO emission from fifteen protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning range of structures in the gas morphology including gaps, rings and spirals. Credit: Richard Teague and the exoALMA Collaboration

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Jon Esparza @jonscrazyblues.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So very sad to hear of #GeorgeWendt’s passing. Being a child of the 80’s and 90’s, Norm Peterson felt like everybody’s fun, drunk uncle. His guest spots on SNL as spot-on Bears fan Bob Swerski always stole the show. #RIPGeorgeWendt Thanks for so many laughs. #RIPNorm

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Gamers Week Podcast @gamersweekpc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Thank you to @lakakalo.bsky.social & @puzzlebetter.bsky.social for the gorgeous #HollowKnight pixel art 😍 Join the next stream to support Game On To End Lupus & donate to this wonderful cause!

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

periodic reminder that the root cause of all this is capitalism

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Janet Gamble/Get A Dog's Life! @getadogslife.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Throwback Tuesday! 1983!

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SevenCastleForest @sevencastleforest.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Here's the Stage 01 chiptune music for a nonexistent Game Boy brawler, written in Furnace. Picture something like Streets of Rage, but portable, and starring a female ninja who gains cybernetic power upgrades along the way! GB pixel art thumbnail by @lakakalo.bsky.social youtu.be/k-r8cAMsqyY

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Heart of the Ninja: Stage 01 - chiptunes for a portable brawler

YouTube video by SevenCastleForest

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Air Bear Entertainment @airbearent.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This Party Just Got Spicy Special guest, Sunny from Sunny Side Up, makes an appearance as the spicy pepper get all up in yo' stomach party. @jamessunnysideup.bsky.social @lakakalo.bsky.social #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Hey, friends! Here are some thoughts on using planes in your compositions.

Text:
"Planes" are a depiction of anything that exists in a drawing at a FiXED spatial distance from the viewer, with each grouping of subjects at a shared distance overlapping the next in order to suggest the spatial relationship of each element in the drawing to the others.
This image has three planes:
(Image of a drawing with a scorpion on a rock, a cowboy sitting on a rock, and a mountain in the background).
Each plane in an image signifies a different degree of distance, with the foreground SHARiNG the viewer’s spatial plane, and the background being the farthest from it.
There’s clear distance between each plane; no plane “touches” another.

Text: why is overlapping the planes necessary?
(image: a cowboy apparently close to the viewer, one a ways back, and then a saloon behind him).
Unless one plane directly overlaps another, there’s no sure clarity that they are, in fact, suggestive of different distances.
(image: the cowboy appearing to be closest is shown to be a giant, swinging the apparently midground cowboy by the head into the two-story saloon that's only about as tall as a person).

it’s also important to suggest scale in each plane using subjects whose size the audience is likely to know. when that isn’t possible, try repeating the element-of-unspecified-scale (a) from one plane in another and have it (B) interact there with a subject whose scale is clear.
(image: a small round cactus in the foreground, and farther off a cowboy sitting on a similar cactus)

Text: A perspective grid composition (A) suggests depth by progressive recession in space, while planar composition (B) suggests it with staggered recession in space.
(image: a receding grid and a series of staggered planar elements)
The principles of overlapping planar composition can be used with a perspective grid, especially if there are elements with right angles (like buildings).
Rough your panel with plane elements in place first...
...then make/place a grid that fits your layout...
...then utilize the grid to make the receding angles match.

(image: a wanted man hiding against a wall while a cowgirl crossed the street, looking around).
One of the most useful* aspects of a foreground element is to create a sense of immersion for your audience. by putting it on essentially the same plane as the audience itself, the audience becomes a
part of the story, seemingly able to touch the foreground, to lean around it for a better view.
(image: the wanted man is now decidedly a foreground element).
*it also means less time spent drawing all of the detail in the midground or background planes without ever aesthetically shortchanging your audience.

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Stu Perrins @stuperrins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here's a sneaky peek at 'The Curious Case of Alice Kingsleigh' by me, @mikolajostapiuk.bsky.social and MV Toonz. Coming very soon from @markosia.bsky.social

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Dr Julian Gravy 🦀 @drjuliangravy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“NEVER speak ill of Journey in this garage again- or i will have no son…”

Man choking his son from behind. The dad has a mullet a purple sequinned shirt. There is an old hard bag of cement in the back ground.

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Rob Jones ➡️ SCARF October 10th @ Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield @robjoneswrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So the Black Mirror stuff I was poorly teasing has been announced. An adaptation of San Junipero, which I am lettering and done all the design for, is coming, with a FCBD sampler also being released!

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Seems I can still post comments, so I posted this one. I also made sure my name links back to this specific comic 😏

Post which reads

"Seems my original comment was deleted.

May I ask why? All I said is that I am disappointed to find out an author whose work I enjoyed (and supported, monetarily) is resorting to to using AI.

If I hit a nerve, then good.

Good.

Any self-respecting creator *should* feel ashamed to use a tool which is basically a plagiarism machine."

4 panel comic

P1: A grey haired techbro/CEO looking type, wearing a dark turtleneck, holds up a black cube into a spotlight with his left hand. He has a blank, perfect smile on his blank perfect face.

He says "hey, artists! Do you want your art to be seen by potential BILLIONS of people? Then just put it in this--"

P2: A closeup of the guy's hand --which is now distressingly realistic looking-- holding the object.

He finishes what he was saying in panel 1, only now the speech bubble is inverted; white text against black. "--THE BOX"

P3: We now see The Box growing to gigantic proportions, as it reaches into the sky, displacing the clouds around it.

A caption box with a teeny tiny version of the CEO's head continues his pitch: "The Box grows larger as it feeds on the content you and others put in it"

P4: The Box Tetsuos ever larger, breaching the Earth's atmosphere, clouds swirling around it as it reaches for the heavens. Endless stars pepper the vacuum.

A final caption box --all yellow/red-- reads "The Box consumes all."

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stroObs : indy @strooooble.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Lookit! I've edited a nifty little timelapse showing off how the Patreon print for February came together. 💖 This cute fellow has captured my entire heart! 🥰 #snake #hognose #digitalart #artist #art #smallbusiness

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

nytimes.com

How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits

Undocumented workers often pay taxes that help fund programs like Social Security — even if they can’t collect from them in the future.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Tiny sketchbook drawing of Kermit and Fozzie's dad from The Great Muppet Caper. One of my favourite visual gags of all time. 🙂 #Muppets

Small pen and ink and marker drawing of a hybrid of Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear. He has Fozzie’s basic body shape and hat but with green fur, Kermit eyes, and Kermit’s spiked collar.

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Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I made exactly one comic about crows and then my daughter lost the Apple Pencil. I have several more written! I should just buy a new one. But then we'll immediately find the lost one.

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surasshu @surasshu.com · 14/02/2025

New post: blocklist for AI music on youtube #text surasshu.com/blocklist-for-ai-music…

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In other news. (T-shirt design. Maybe)

A drawing of Milk and Cheese, Dairy Products Gone Bad. They are running, holding broken liquor bottles. The word balloons read: "Eat the Rich!", "And Spit Out The Poison!". It's a t-shirt design, don't know when it might be available on our Teepublic shop.

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jamessunnysideup.bsky.social @jamessunnysideup.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Are we back? I dunno? Maybe, maybe not.... Draw some damn comics @lakakalo.bsky.social

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Jess Bradley @jessbradley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Still obsessed with neon paint sticks.

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Stu Perrins @stuperrins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Any one day comic cons, book fairs or any other events interested on having me? Please let me know and I'll be in touch. @markosia.bsky.social

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Stu Perrins @stuperrins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here's some sneaky peeks at just some of my forthcoming projects and whatnot for 2025.

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jamessunnysideup.bsky.social @jamessunnysideup.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Who am I? I’m James Boyd - write/artist Sunny Side Up with @lakakalo.bsky.social over at boydcomics.com. Physics Professor and Lecturer. Musician at (James Robert Boyd) on bandcamp. Masters in Physics UCI 2018. Ed.d Ed leadership community college CSUF current

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Sunny Side Up

Suuny Side Up is created by James Boyd and Saad Azim

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Garrett Aja @garrettcrw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m a bit behind on this, but here goes: Hi, I’m Garrett! I’m chronically unemployed and have two bad knees and some other health issues. I stream video games on Twitch and YouTube as well. I’m quite broke, so supporting my stream helps me survive. twitch.tv/GarrettCRW PayPal.me/GarrettCRW

Venmo QR code for me. The screenname is @GarrettCRW.

QR code for my CashApp account. The screenname is $GarrettAja

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ひらのpiyotycho (ぴよてぃこ) @piyotycho.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

昨晩の肩甲骨の筋肉の痛みは一晩で回復。普段から動かしていれば痛める事はないんだけど、スポーツでも嗜んでないと肩動かしまくる機会ってなかなかないんだよなぁw

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Good morning! Been drawing mutant sheep since 6.

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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Aside from comics, I also write books about video game history for @bitmapbooks.com Go Straight was my 1st release (all about the beat 'em up genre) and Run 'n' Gun chronicles 40+ years of shooter history. Check out Go Straight: tinyurl.com/fad6f58s Check out Run 'n' Gun: tinyurl.com/bdhs8cjk

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