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NocturnaDraco

@nocturnadraco.bsky.social
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Freelance Illustrator • Dreaming of just keep doing art. • Fanarts mostly Functional illiteracy won’t be indulged.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 30/09/2026
Japan's health care system is often held up abroad as a model of universal coverage. But universal does not mean uniform, and a recent revision on cost caps will widen gaps in coverage.
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Japan’s health cost caps rise, widening gaps between insurers
Japan’s health care system is often held up abroad as a model of universal coverage, but universal does not mean uniform.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 24/09/2026
Meta's Muse, the first major consumer product to emerge under Alexandr Wang since he was hired to head its AI efforts last year, has split the fortunes of U.S. stocks this week.
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Meta’s Muse rekindles fears over winners and losers as personal AI agent emerges
Muse allows users to delegate tasks such as shopping, travel booking and form-filling to an AI agent.
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Free TrueRef+ membership to anyone who can guess what this post in my drafts was referring to.
If I had three wishes I'd wish for world peace, absolute equality and for these monstrosities to never have been conceived.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 19/09/2026
Russians are growing fearful that President Vladimir Putin may soon order a massive new mobilization for the war in Ukraine after this weekend's parliamentary elections.
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Russians fear Putin will send them to war once election is over
Three days of voting began Friday in Russia’s first parliamentary elections since the start of the 2022 full-scale invasion.
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Guess what.
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IAMAG @iamag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There has been a lot of confusion lately about scraping and how art gets "protected," and most of it comes from one thing: the explanations stop at the part that's easy to announce and skip the part that actually matters. So here's the whole picture, no tech required. : itsartm.ag/4zYzoVn
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Start here: scraping, explained with a gallery
The non-technical version. A sign, a doorman, a catalog, a speed limit and a vault: how scraping really works, which layers protect your art, which never could, and the four questions to ask any platf...
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Eyecager Sketchbook @amberbladejones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hey if you see something from Gallery Nucleus called PROJECT PROPOSAL 2026. Do not click it. It's a phish.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 27/08/2026
How does a company know for sure if a kid is a kid on the internet? That's the biggest challenge facing Meta Platforms for its sweeping new safeguards to protect teens on Instagram and Facebook.
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Kids will be kids, and that’s the biggest risk with Meta’s new safeguards
Guardrails can only work as well as a company’s ability to accurately identify a user’s age, and young people around the world have repeatedly found ways to get past restrictions.
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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yup
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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you stream, you may wanna toggle this off. Not that it probably matters cos these cunts will train their fascist machine regardless. But figured you'd like to know, at least.
screenshot of twitch settings and how to navigate to the settings that disable AI training
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"if it was opt-in, nobody'd do it." FUCK YOU THEN!!! THEN DON'T FUCKING DO IT!!!!
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NocturnaDraco @nocturnadraco.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A while ago I had the umpteenth fight against ants in my house. I needed to cope in some way. So I made this brush for Clip Studio. #brush #clipstudiopaint
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Ant Brush (アリブラシ) - CLIP STUDIO ASSETS
Make illustrations, manga, comics and animation with Clip Studio Paint, the artist’s tool for drawing and painting. All you need for drawing and creating digital art!
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13/07/2026
A coalition of 12 states have filed a lawsuit to block the Warner Bros & Paramount merger The states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 10/07/2026
Schiaffi, graffi o morsi durante i rapporti sessuali stanno diventando all’ordine del giorno tra le giovani generazioni. Che siano consensuali o meno, queste pratiche mettono il piacere e l’erotismo in secondo piano. Leggi l'articolo di Maïa Mazaurette.
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Una rinascita erotica senza violenza
Schiaffi, graffi o morsi durante i rapporti sessuali stanno diventando all’ordine del giorno tra le giovani generazioni. Che siano consensuali o meno, queste pratiche mettono il piacere e l’erotismo i...
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PlayStation News / Discussion @sonyplaystation.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cartoon by @phil-hands.bsky.social
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Heather Spaulding (Akalsha) @akalsha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Jen 🐦‍🔥 @jen4man.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters
They say ‘the machines of the future’ will be as smart as people…Oak, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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earthgoddess12.bsky.social @earthgoddess12.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
👇👇👇
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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NocturnaDraco @nocturnadraco.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is one of the projects I've done during this long period of silence. I was requested by my most affectionate followers on discord to make this template as a design aid for home brew chapters and Marines. #warhammer40k #gamesworkshop #spacemarine #spacemarine2 #wh40kart #template
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
From the animated trailer directed by POTTO Collective for "La Langue des Vipères", a graphic novel by Juliette Brocal, published today in France by Rue de Sèvres. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH56...
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NocturnaDraco @nocturnadraco.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is one of the projects I've done during this long period of silence. I was requested by my most affectionate followers on discord to make this template as a design aid for home brew chapters and Marines. #warhammer40k #gamesworkshop #spacemarine #spacemarine2 #wh40kart #template
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13/06/2026
Happy 75th Birthday to Stellan Skarsgård 🎂
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13/06/2026
Milly Alcock says her favorite Batman is Christian Bale 🦇 (via KiD CuDi)
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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 11/06/2026
Autrice di fumetti, artista, regista, è stata un simbolo di libertà. In regalo in edicola un supplemento con le storie disegnate da Marjane Satrapi per Internazionale. In copertina, un disegno di Marjane Satrapi tratto dalla locandina del film “Persepolis”.⁠ Leggi il sommario: intern.az/1QtC
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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Animation by Thierry Torres* | The Illusionist (2010) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 07/06/2026
UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️
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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 31/05/2026
The fish prints made by Mineo Yamamoto hang in Nobu restaurants worldwide and have been gifted to actor Robert De Niro. 👉 ebx.sh/LPdIuk
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l_aciel @laciel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NIGHTREIGN 1周年おめでとうございます
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 23/05/2026
Russia hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts to spread fake news Over 2K posts have been removed by Bluesky since they started appearing a few weeks back (via NY Times)
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 03/05/2026
For all the awe over artificial intelligence, one word rarely finds its way into coffee table conversations about the transformative technology: sustainability.
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Sustainability has left the AI chat
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Here is the source for the current shadow hand trend. Illustrator x photographer solidarity forever. Source: www.instagram.com/p/BWiFj5VBq64/
photo of a woman  holding her hands out by marinachoyy on Instagram
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In a 1991 documentary that Trump suppressed, Christopher Reeve comments on Donald Trump: "𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥."
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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 11/04/2026
Heavily indebted Japan should rethink outlays on programs aimed at helping women, the environment and foreigners, according to a summary of responses to an online government survey. 👉 ebx.sh/BhbYxO
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 04/04/2026
Scam sites posing as sellers of the viral Bonbon Drop stickers have surged in recent months, reaching over 500 in March. 👉 ebx.sh/7NMzk8
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 03/04/2026
'Hacks' star Hannah Einbinder slams AI creators as 'losers' "They're not artists. They're not creative ... They're trying to rob real creative people of our gifts. And you can't ... you will never be cool ... You are a loser ... I wanna put your head in the toilet and flush it" (via Slash Film)
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 09/03/2026
Master Chief voice actor Steve Downes slams White House for using ‘Halo’ footage in its ‘disgusting and juvenile war porn’ video “I did not participate in nor was l of consulted, nor do I endorse the use my voice in this video, or the message it conveys ... remove my voice immediately"
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Jo Cordisco @yuxingart.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Want to get a private commission but you don't know how? Or are you a seasoned patron looking to iron out a few wrinkles? Together with several artists and patrons, I've put together a comprehensive guide to private commissions, covering topics like first correspondence, feedback, and payment!
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So You Want to Commission An Artist?
So You Want to Commission an Artist? (from left to right) Grace Zhu, Alhin Row, looceyloo, Lemongrace Created 2025. All works in this guide are copyrighted by each Artist and cannot be reproduced by a...
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 06/03/2026
Antireal, the artist whose artwork was previously used without permission in ‘Marathon’, is listed in the game’s credits as a Visual Design Consultant 🎮
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 06/03/2026
Public prosecutors on Thursday indicted a 69-year-old woman on suspicion of fatally stabbing a housewife in Nagoya more than a quarter century ago.
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Woman indicted over 1999 fatal stabbing in Nagoya
Kumiko Yasufuku is suspected of killing a woman with a knife at the victim’s apartment.
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20/02/2026
Tony Gilroy says the 'clown car in Washington' appears to be using the same 'Fascism for Dummies' playbook he referenced when writing the Empire in 'Andor' For AI regulation, 'the bar couldn't be set any lower' than the 'clowns in charge of it right now' (via THR)
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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Reminder here’s some adobe alternatives, Because FUCK ADOBE….
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Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com · 23/01/2026
Painting on the 3DS 👁️👄👁️
A photo of my 3DS XL in the Colors! 3D app. A painting of a person on a horse in a rocky cove.A photo of my 3DS XL in the Colors! 3D app. A panting of some mountains and clouds.
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NocturnaDraco @nocturnadraco.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I was glad to collaborate with Stereonauti to create the arts for their musical work homaging Doom. I was tasked to make also the storyboard and some animations. #DOOMTheDarkAges #DOOM
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I have officially launched TrueRef's new timed gesture tool (Flow) & free pose library (Pose)! Both are linked on trueref.io. While limited right now, both will contain our full free library by the 1st. 🤍 Flow: community.trueref.io/trueref_gest... Pose: community.trueref.io/free_referen...
A screen shot of TrueRef Flow, a timed gesture practice tool. It features a woman standing straight, with one hand up in a mage like gesture. A screenshot of TrueRef Pose, a free pose library. It features several images of an athletic woman poses in a variety of different ways.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 19/12/2025
From French-made JRPGs to American samurai epics, Japan’s influence shaped the year’s most celebrated games — even when they weren’t made there.
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In 2025, Japan became the canvas for the year’s best video games
From Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Ghost of Yotei, Japan served as both inspiration and setting for many of the year’s most notable releases.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#SaveSpeech Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content! stop-paypros.neocities.org
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Stop payment processors from censoring games!
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