Reposted by Pleo(chrome)𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖊-𝐙 [ Novel In Progress ] @parasite-z.bsky.social · 5hAs billionaires, the wealthy class and ai tech bros try to privatize knowledge and erase human curiosity, another form of resistance is to stay curious. Do your own research. Do not be spoonfed your ideals or opinions. Use your library. Think for yourself. It's very important that you do. 219771
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Beatrijs Brouwer @beastlyworlds.bsky.social · 06/04/2026A busy stall of flowers to wish you a very happy Easter / bank holiday weekend! 🌷✨ I painted this serious-about-plants tapir recently using gouache, something I’ve been wanting to use more of 🎨🖌️ 225383
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5hFascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience. 434394
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 5hNo, hearing about the possibilities of a Cartoon Network x Nickelodeon crossover or whatever doesn't somehow magically balance out the absolute horror that is this corporate merger you fucking troglodyte. 1122751
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 5hThis is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off 3511234
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 20/03/2026It's here! It's here! Presenting version 1.0 of "The food and drink of Hydaelyn and beyon", a culinary compendium of FFXIV's food- and drink-related lore, to use, elaborate on, or ignore as you please. I can't wait to see what you all do with this. Happy cooking!docs.google.comThe food and drink of Hydaelyn and beyond 41984634
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 4hSomething AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 11352640
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)waaaaaaa @hexkeys.bsky.social · 6hXIV women week day 6 - endwalker #xivwomenweek #ffxivart 4399230
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 12hQuick drawing of something I really enjoy. 132328471
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 9hcan I show the panels that make *me* go apeshit? v proud of how convincing these look as screencaps . . . GAZE AN EAGLE BLIND coming soon art by me, story by @moonsheen.bsky.social bg assistant @kradeelav.com 🔽 bookmark/sign up for the newsletter 🔽 gazeaneagleblind.com #GazeAnEagleBlind 35318
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Airplanes.gov.uk @planeyboys.bsky.social · 05/09/2026DON'T BIG WALK WHERE YOU HAVEN'T FIRST BIG STEPPED 72774707
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 11hNever assume that just because people hate something that you love, they MUST be ignorant or not understand it. 236440
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 15hAs modes of locomotion, "scurry", "skitter", "scutter" and "scuttle" all describe essentially identical activities, but they connote very different things about the creature so acting. I cannot articulate what that difference is, but I'll know at a glance whether a writer has picked the wrong one. 816146
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 02/10/2026I was going over some of the trends/eras of illustration with my students today and Corporate Memphis created the most conversation. It was compared to a business man in a happy face mask, Arial & pop music. Good in contexts like brightening up a train station, bad in masking the cruelness of tech. 521565
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)M. Kistulot @madamkistulot.bsky.social · 9hSo many people think harry Potter is this neutral part of their childhoods and refuse to examine it no matter what. 0102
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I’ve never seen a meme that embodies my very essence before. 71161303
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)milkbun 🍞 @milkbun.bsky.social · 8h✨Roundtober✨because Round is Best! ⚪ Day 3: Bear #art #cuteart #roundtober #bear 05617
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Ember! @grandiose252.bsky.social · 15hhigh quality plate in expert roulette today 0766338
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Kaban (BangDacy) 🔞 @bangdacy.bsky.social · 16hYou can draw any mean blonde tsundere you want, I promise. You have to question why specifically it has to be one to promote Rowling's cringe ass works tho.static.klipy.comAndroid 18 Strikes VegetaALT: Android 18 Strikes Vegeta 341024243
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 15h"Rowling would hate girl versions of her characte tho" god you're fucking stupid. Her hatred is for real people not for the concept of "what if girl now." You're giving her free advertising and half-assing the justification. 121249333
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 260192225888
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Tim @timzhu.io · 14hYou're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database 1065493
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 19hThis is everything that David and Larry Ellison now own 1121761
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14hFor everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys! 181854397
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 19hI skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble. 261444275
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 17hphilosophers should have simply *answered* the deepest and most intractable questions ever posed. instead they've chosen to fuck around. disappointing 1662384
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)CRITTER 🍀🏝️ @fourleafisland.art · 18hsome mew emotes i made for myself - if you like them, please feel free to use them too! #pokemon 51090212
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 19hLORE OF THE WITCH WORLD (1979) Watercolor on Watercolor Board Early in my career I had the privilege of being assigned covers for many established authors. That list, of course, included Andre Norton, one of the grand dames of science fiction. #bookssky #art 🪐📚 1049284
Pleo(chrome) @pleochrome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm sorry that the creator of the franchise that dominated your (our) childhood revealed themselves to be a bigot - but you are also nearing 40 and there are plenty of other childhood fixations you can either regret being cringe about or make your whole personality. 232
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026tarot reader: so for your one card reading you drew the 1/1 signed holofoil reversed Tower. it's worth about $5000 graded me: so that's good? tarot reader: no, you're mega ultra fucked 1670287
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gumby makes me mad because I feel like no matter what I do I will never approach it's level of haunting unease. 1344896
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO 101123192
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes 562898473
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026sometimes it feels like a lot of normal people conceptualize an "artist" as a superposition of both A. a super wealthy fine art elite who does low effort abstract art nobody understands B. someone magically born with the art talent gene even though A is 0.000001% of artists and B is not a thing 632649
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗔 @behemow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In regard to FurAffinity being at risk due to censorship: Furries are now political targets. We are getting namedropped at high levels of government. They know that we are a large, influential, largely queer, community. Fighting for the spaces owned by our community is incredibly important 1842702103
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett 7558231372
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted. 201165276
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Dooper @dooper.live · 02/10/2026What if I told you there was a streaming platform that is Anti-AI, Anti-Ads, and easy to use? I've been multi-streaming on @altstream.online and it's SICK. It's customizable and has built in features like BSKY alerts! First 1,000 people get Beta access to new stuff. 30543188
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)milkbun 🍞 @milkbun.bsky.social · 01/08/2026✨ I'm a magical girl ✨ #art #cuteart #sailormoon #cardcaptor 117367
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Fur Affinity 🏳️⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cbstatic.klipy.comGondor FlameALT: Gondor Flame 23091918140
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Striking how often pro-AI arguments always require like 10 different caveats. "What if AI was well regulated, trained on non-stolen data, not made by companies run by sociopaths, was didn't harm the environment, made discoveries that were verified beyond the statements of PR reps? What then?" 12508114
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i’ve got a new bit, now i just say “sorry i don’t speak chinese” in perfect chinese over and over until they get mad and hang up 323076388
Reposted by Pleo(chrome)Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Art makes the internet worth looking at. Photography, music, graphic design-all things people love. Yet artists always carry the burden of making sure these things exsist in digital spaces because it's how we make a living. It gets exhausting being the world wide webs coal miner canary. 034088