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👋 Howdy, I'm Melon! ━━ they/them (EN) ile/dile (PT) Portuguese goblin into Illustration, Character Design & many other creative endeavours 🤸‍♀️!! melonkind.carrd.co Art ━ #melonkindart Blog ━ #melontalks

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Ori Sky @ori.mx · 13/08/2026
I’m making a browser extension called Safe Badge to let you know which Twitch streamers have disabled Gen AI training. This is an honor system as there’s no way to verify it. But it’s better than nothing. The extension isn’t finished yet but you can give yourself the badge here: safebadge.ori.mx
A screenshot of the browser extension showing the Safe Badge next to a streamer name. The badge is labelled “Gen AI disabled”. The icon displays as a green circle with a diagonal line through it.A screenshot of the browser extension showing the Safe Badge next to a streamer name in the sidebar. The icon displays as a green circle with a diagonal line through it.
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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 23/08/2026
Here is the GFM:
gofundme.com
Donate to Help Cara Fight Scrapers with Legal Fund, organized by Jingna Zhang
Cara is an artist and social platform built by a small group of volunteers to gi… Jingna Zhang needs your support for Help Cara Fight Scrapers with Legal Fund
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
enshittification ouroboros
the anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heartthe anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heart
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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 20/08/2026
adding to OP's note: if you're taking on more comms because you're strapped for money, but still owe work, you'll sabotage yourself VERY quickly whatever short-term income you get is not worth the huge hit to your reputation and long-term income ask for donos instead, OR at the very least
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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026
By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...
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Douglysium @douglysium.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 05/07/2026
this guide will cover basic required skills to freelance for a living, advice for different stages, pricing help, and even tips for folks who are just making art to survive/are spiraling it's a big collection of tips and observations, so please look forward to it!
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Lhuzie GET WINTRY SQUAMA! @strigarosa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Anyone has a work for a very experienced trans postdoc in everything Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Microscopy? *nervous laughter*
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Kos, that kobold you know @draekos.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Wacom doing planned obsolescence with a "Thank you for your support" on their staggeringly overpriced products wasn't on my bingo card but I am UNSURPRISED. If you too are in this position, allow me to draw your attention to what's probably your best solution: opentabletdriver.net
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🩸Help bring us to Linux!🩸 We want to bring #Monsterhearts Welcome to Drowned Lake to an open source OS & we’re 95.6% of the way there! Our #IndieGame has: 🧛🏻 4 playable monster types 💃 Customizable MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 8 love interests 🃏 #Deckbuilder mechanics 📖 #VisualNovel elements Pledge our #BackerKit here! ⬇️
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Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake. Get messy. 🤯 Get magical. 🪄 Get monstrous. 🦇 We are crowdfunding to add controller support to this queer narrative horror deckbuilder.
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Nano🔥 @nanocolors.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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MasterSauce @mastersauce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
WHICH ONE WILL IT BE, 30-YEAR-OLD FURRY ARTIST??? #shitpost
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Vampiresca @the-vampiresca.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wanna help a struggling artist work towards getting their life back on track? If you're interested in TTRPGs, tattoos, messy artstyles, or just my work in general, give it a look! vampirescart.carrd.co Sharing this post with your friends and folks who might be interested would also be appreciated
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
wow, I am genuinely heartened by this surprisingly sensitive response. I would've been satisfied if they'd just clarified what they were doing, but ending their donation funding after the initial wave and saying explicitly that no AI is going to be a part of Blender is great. thank you blender, ilu
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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Artistas
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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Quicksilver is written by a team of volunteers at ETCH lab. Stanley Wu, Naryna Azizpour and Viresh Mittal. You can download it (for free of course), links below: www.etch-humanity.org/etch-lab/qui... www.etch-humanity.org/etch-lab/qui...
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Quicksilver - Browser Plugin — ETCH
Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser extension to detect AI-generated music.
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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music. Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.
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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Happy Monday. Today we're making a few updates/announcements. First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web. etch-humanity.org ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity. ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 15/11/2024
"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."
User dratsab huffman asks the question:

To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism".

Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?Recalcitrant Jester replies:
Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis.

In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness.

The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.
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Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I don't even know if chatgpt is an app or is it on the browser or what, I have never even felt the need to find out where AI is and how to use it, it's so little of interest to me. I love creating! So why would I let someone else come eat my steak and fuck my wife etc!?
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XIO 🔜 Weebcon 17 @xio999.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I can finally post this, hehe! My piece that I did for @storyindungeon.bsky.social ‘s dungeon meshi zine! I did one of my all time favorite fairytales with Falin and Marcille!
Medieval illumination style border of a sun on the left side and moon on the right, with illuminated text “east of the sun, west of the moon” at the very bottom and two red dragons in the center. The right panel is Marcille carried away on the back of Falin’s dragon form, which is only hinted at with white wings and a red tail while Sensei, Chilchuck, and Izutsumi look on, worried. The second panel is the scene of when the girl discovers the human form of the beast she is with with, in the case of Marcille seeing Falin’s human form. Marcille is dressed in a white billowy night gown, holding a candle over a sleeping Falin. The hot wax of the candle is about to fall upon Falin’s face. Above the bed is the head of the red dragon, with black curtains behind.
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Elouyn 💖 Erudition Incarnate @elouyn.me · 13/04/2026
They are so, SO desperate for people to resub. PLEASE don't resub your Nitro everyone. Props if you aren't already subbed, props if you were subbed and you unsub right now. NOTHING changes unless a company FEARS for their bottom line. Feel free to use Discord still, but don't give them a penny. 💖
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🐸Hen🐸 HORUS ESSENTIALS OUT NOW @henturtlettrpg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🐸I also make #LANCER ESSENTIALS Token Asset Packs over on itch io!🐸 Check out my IPS-N, SSC and HA Essentials Asset Packs while you wait for the paracausal pack to come out soon :) henturtle.itch.io
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🐸Hen🐸 HORUS ESSENTIALS OUT NOW @henturtlettrpg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🐸PATREON🐸 My Patreon has recently gotten an update to how it works and will be a place for posting all my art and free resources for you to use If you'd like to support me and help me provide more content for all your TTRPG needs, please consider checking out my page✨: Patreon.com/HenturtleTTRPG
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Hen's Frog Foundry | Patreon
🐸I draw your LANCER Mechs and Fantasy Blorbos🐸
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🐸Hen🐸 HORUS ESSENTIALS OUT NOW @henturtlettrpg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Commission of a DnD Himbo Paladin/Warlock Centaur for a friend ...The himbadin... The Wartaur... ...The Pimbalock? The Pimbalock. Maximus, the Pimbalock #Commission #Centaur #TTRPG #Paladin #Warlock Alt Text Available
A DnD Centaur running from left to right.

The Centaur is a Paladin/Warlock mix. He is wearing green metallic armour with a forest motif. He is wearing a helmet inspired by the Japanese Happuri helm with two large branches attached to the helm.

The Centaur has one arm lifted and another to the side carrying a crossbow. The horse half of the Centaur resembles a long haired horse with bracers on the front legs and bandages around the back legs and arms.

He is carrying various travel items such as various bags, a sleeping tarp, cloth and a holster where he carries a second Crossbow.

He is wearing a chainmail and leather protector on his lower human half that protects part of the lower body, and an untreated leather cover over it.

The Centaur is smiling looking back, has a large beard and a shoulder pauldron

The background is yellow and resembles blurry trees in a forest.
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🐸Hen🐸 HORUS ESSENTIALS OUT NOW @henturtlettrpg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ouhhhh she's a little cuntyy #LancerTokens
The image presents a spideresque mech with long gangly limbs and digitigrade legs. All of the hands on the mech are the same.

The mech is tilted slightly to the left in its body and its elongated tube-filled neck curves to the right as a cylindrical head with various glowing spikes come out of it. The mech is a beige colour with various tone sof a purplish pink.

The mech is the Horus Gorgon from the LANCER TTRPG and is a token made by me for Hen's Lancer Tokens Horus Essentials to come soon-ish on itch io
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🐸Hen🐸 HORUS ESSENTIALS OUT NOW @henturtlettrpg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🌿Howdy!🌿 I'm Hen and I make art for TTRPGs, Supplements, the frogs in your wall, Commissions, ✉️CONTACT [henrimota.art@gmail.com] 🌿COMMISSIONS Henturtle.carrd.co 🐸PATREON Patreon.com/HenturtleTTRPG 🍄ITCH IO henturtle.itch.io 🐢PORTFOLIO Henturtleportfolio.carrd.co 🌳LINKS linktr.ee/henturtlettrpg
A selection of various commissions pieces with an orange overlay around the picture.

The text reads:

HEN
@HenturtleTTRPG
TTRPG ARTIST
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Patreon - Patreon.com/HenturtleTTRPG
Itch.io - Henturtle.itch.io
COMMISSIONS: Henturtle.carrd.co

VEHICLES - ILLUSTRATIONS - CHARACTERS - MECHS - CREATURES - PROPS - TOKENS
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✦𝖕𝖊𝖏𝖓𝖙✦ @pejntboks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
a slot opened up on this tier from april on 🤫
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Ian Pathwell (BLFC) @ianpathwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
//Scam Warning// Discord scammers are at it again, now they're playing smart and actively targeting furries AND the size community. I've already seen three instances of this same conversation. Do not download or click stuff, even from your most trusted friends, without confirming who they are.
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Melon🌿 ━ Catching up on art + burnout cage @melonkind.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
For folks who've got me added on discord: My discord account has been compromised, so do not accept any files or click any links or images if you get anything from me there; You /SHOULDN'T/ get anything, as I've already kicked the hacker from my account and pc so it should be safe; (1/2)
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Spoon 🥄 @spoonfayse.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
a few Drifter faces.
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Yagamimi's Sonic Stuff @yagamimi-hog.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
here now you can actually zoom in and tell what you're looking at #sonic #sonicthehedgehog
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Yagamimi's Sonic Stuff @yagamimi-hog.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
enjoy some egg #sonic #eggman #robotnik
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Jorge M. Carvalho 🐳 Wishlist Townseek on Steam! 🧭 @jorgegamedev.com · 01/02/2026
The whole story is bizarre. The boss is a guy who's completely lost his marbles, screams at workers when things go wrong, uses a picture of Charles Manson as his LinkedIn profile profile picture, etc. 😓 Here's some threads for context. www.reddit.com/r/portugal/c... www.reddit.com/r/portugal2/...
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From the portugal community on Reddit: Possivelmente a empresa mais abertamente nojenta em Portugal
Explore this post and more from the portugal community
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Jorge M. Carvalho 🐳 Wishlist Townseek on Steam! 🧭 @jorgegamedev.com · 01/02/2026
This "studio" has been a huge problem for the portuguese community for years, especially because the way they operate is by burning through gamedev students via internships. The unfortunate ones that have worked for them say their work culture is as toxic in person as it is written in their website.
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Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Having worked in the local industry in the early 2000s, first it didn't seem especially outrageous by comparison, but more and more fishy details popped up. I thought it was just a douchy edgelord team with a shady mobile porn game connection, but it seems it's all run by a complete maniac
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Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
But actually I'm just now learning about the more sordid details. I only knew as far as scammy "art tests" (people sending finished art and getting not even rejection emsils) and work being an assembly line of porn-ish character rigging. People ended up quitting.
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Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Oh these guys are going viral? Lol a couple of my students did internships there before it was confirmed to be a den of adult baby douchebags. Intern rip-off mill. So funny to see this blow up.
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kuma naru 🐻COMMISSIONS CLOSED @kumanaruu.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
commission done for a friend!! (an enemy...?) 🍷👑⚔️
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Dell² @dell2.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Just browsing thanks. Biggs belongs to the lovely @melonkind.bsky.social #spamton #spamtonex #yumeship #selfship
Bigsby "Biggs" G Spamton selling me a car in VRC that I don't need. He is pictured jovial, boisterous and somewhat flirtatious. His left arm is over the hood of a generic car, cigar in hand. Right arm holding up a bonus Pipis bundle, text behind reads "HALF-OFF!!"
Various windows behind him overlap each other, text reads "DISCOUNTS" "SALE" "DEALS"

Spam stands somewhat defiantly between us, posturing with his chest puffed out and hands on his hips, just out of view. Despite his bravado he seems put off, if only because of the height difference. He mutters, "* $X!?,, ANOTHER [VENTI SIZE]-"

Text between them reads "⬅️FULL OF SHIT➡️"

The Dell is pictured to the right, coughing. Mildly receptive to the flirtation. AKA trying to keep my shit together. 
Text reads, "COUGH COUGH-" 
"⬅️Pretending to weigh my purchase options"
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VIRTUAL DOG 💥 @heychikinan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Get hit with the gleep gloop beam! 👽 Any species, slots open here: ko-fi.com/c/855e099c56 ⭐
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“Poor people have a right to art!” They sure do. So get to it.
Eminem tosses you a pack of crayolas
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Blender @blender.org · 13/11/2025
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡 If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support. Do your part. Donate today. www.blender.org/news/give-ba... #b3d
Oti the penguin showing a good example of "giving back".
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