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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Regarding #Tapas shuttering: sometimes it's desirable to be part of a creative company because 'being used' looks the same as 'being needed'. They are not the same.

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Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blorbos! Get yer Blorbos here! Fresh, hot, sad, mad, sweet, and scrungly. We got 'em all! Soft bois, babygirls, short kings, taters! Blorbos only you could dream about as far as the eye can see! You there! I'm sure you've got your heart set on one of these! Does that there skelly catch your eye?

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🌱 MK/RET @retquits.art · 08/01/2025

had to be done #fieldsofmistria #art #comic #oc

A panel of March from Fields of Mistria and OP's farmer OC, Monroe. March has his arms crossed and eyes closed, and Monroe is reaching for his head.
Off camera, Juniper: "WHAT are you doing"

A similar panel, but March is yelling with sparkles around his head, and Monroe has his eyes closed in a matter-of-fact expression.
Monroe: "He needs this"
March: "I NEED THIS"

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🌱 MK/RET @retquits.art · 22/09/2025

henrietta vs the farmers ex 🐔 #art ✧ #comic ✧ #fieldsofmistria

A digitally drawn comic of a conversation between OP's character, Monroe, and Henrietta the chicken from Fields of Mistria.

Panel 1:
Henrietta sitting between Monroe's legs, looking up at him (off screen).
Monroe: "sorry. some days are harder than others. thank you for always listening, 'etta."
Henrietta: "..."

Panel 2:
A slightly zoomed in shot of Henrietta.
Monroe: "hey uhhh it's okay to tell this kind of stuff to a chicken right"
Henrietta (in a thought bubble): "tell me, frail human, does this man like being able to feel things with his fingers?"

Panel 3:
A fully zoomed in shot of Henrietta's face, underlit ominously with a dark background.
Henrietta (in a thought bubble): "does he enjoy having ears to hear praise with? unpecked eyes to see the world with?"

Panel 4:
Monroe and Henrietta walking side by side.
Monroe: "thanks for not telling hayden about this btw. i'm not ready for that conversation yet. you're a good chicken."
Henrietta (in a thought bubble): yes i am. now give me the pitiful man's coordinates, that i may commit a murder most fowl."

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🌱 MK/RET @retquits.art · 03/09/2025

presented without context #fieldsofmistria ✧ #art

A single digitally drawn comic panel of Hayden from Fields of Mistria holding Henrietta, who's patting his shoulder with one wing. Both have a unamused expression. Henrietta: "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Hayden" Hayden: "damn". Below the panel is the artist's handles, "MK/RET" and "@retquits".

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The problem isn't AI is good or AI is bad. The problem is there are several different types of AI out there that don't resemble each other, some do very specific potential good, and others do more catastrophic potential harm, ans we call them the same cause it fits in a headline or tweet.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And to be fair, Artists saying 'uninstall paint.net' aren't actually reading the post that says this is an experimental branch, barely even a beta. Don't think with your knees. Your visceral reactions are absolutely something that should be noted, but, we *gotta* push the discussion beyond sides.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"It's actually the norm now to use ai code in everything" aka it's actually normal to be outsmarted by a rock and gloat about it, surely notjing bad will happen because everyone else does it. I don't give a fuck what Linus does, I do my own work, and don't pretend his name is some magic shield.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Calling it now, GTA 6 is gonna have gas that cars can run out of so they can sell some kind of premium subscription/BP of unlimited gas.

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Chan @ LBX 411 @aluhnim.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My grief chart

a drawing of a line graph that wiggles upward and downwards a lot depending on my mood based on dealing with grief.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!

screenshot of a bibliography. A book called "At Home with Empire: Metropolitan Culture..." is highlighted. Notes on the side talk about the duality of domestic/foreign, home/other, and the family metaphor in imperial Britain. Ch. 3: A homogenous society? Britain's internal 'others', Laura Tabili

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Yuumei Art @yuumeiart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I had a lot of fun painting this one~ That classic celestial gold and blue combo just can't be beat. I love Agott's character growth though the story, like the phases of the moon, ever changing 🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑 1/2 #witchhatatelier #Δ帽子 #WHA

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My painting NORTHERN LAKE

An acrylic painting of a northern lake at twilight.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thank you. I greatly appreciate the choices y'all've made for Plus, like emboss/using rates to show human writing, and the additive subscription to license. AI's weakness is gluttonous consumption and slothful inability to change. May we never stop savoring and creating.

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 04/08/2026

AI verifiers are no friends to writers. They were built from the same stolen work as every other generative AI model out there… and the damage to authors is REAL. A beefy 🧵👇

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The goal of having so much AI content isn't necessarily to pass itself off as genuine, human work. It's to obfuscate and deflate the veracity of all writing, which benefits maxxers and supplants legitimate writers. Creating doubt and paranoia is also a goal, one verifiers greatly benefit from.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fundamentally, any readily accessible AI verifier is going to be incentivized to tell you what it thinks you want to hear. Any signifier like sentence structure, cliche or flatness can either be trained out, ingested by a real human (we made the training after all) or up to subjective taste.

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WildStar Press @wildstarpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The August Newsletter is coming up on the 1st, so here's a sneak peek at what's in store! Sign up today to get insight and news before the masses because we're redoubling our efforts into making that our hotspot for all things WSP! (at least, making social media secondary) wildstarpress.com/news

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 17/07/2026

For real. #noai #art

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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Nebulous Sloth Commission 2026

An illustration of a sloth hanging onto an array of flowers and berries

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

.... OH it meansd 'oh, brazil', and not 'A.I. brazil'? Braizil? I was worried Brazil was into AI now...

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Anime dubs have unique traits that make subtitling require more care, not less. They're usually static, isolated lines delivered to adr another language performance. The goal isn't to stare down 3 inches, and it uses weird words. People used to do this better, for free, as a hobby/job training.

Screenshot of ACCA: the setting changed to a new setting, and while the name is listed in japanese Katakana (reading Fāmasu Ward), it's illegible in English.

Screenshot of ACCA: captions skimmed from the dialogue name this region as Omosu, which is very different from Fāmasu. Not unalike, but it's the complete wrong name when it has actually been incredibly well established in the actual text, just in visual form in a foreign language.

Screenshot of ACCA: showing all 13 districts of this country, one is labeled Fāmasu, or the english word Farmers written in japanese romaji. (Japanese has its own rules for adapting foreign names to its comparatively limited syllables)

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Haaaaagh, crunchyroll is apparently using ai-generated closed captions on some older stuff from the dub audio. The pacing is all off, it has mondegreen errors, and sometimes it doesn't even clarify the less clear lines. What a disrespect to human effort. Three names? Really?!

Screenshot from anime ACCA: captions of audio refer to character as Sheen

Screenshot of ACCA: character referres to as Gene

Screenshot of ACCA: character referred to as Jean (the actual canon name)

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The big reflex I see in people asking if something is AI is 'well I fed this into an ai and it told me it was/n't AI.' Any magic aightball is 1) biased to tell you the response it thinks will get it a treat, and 2) falls into the classic attacker/defender problem, but dumber.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Let it never be said you half-assed it, no butts about it.

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shae (truseal paradise) @vesperosy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

yeah they both would say that

short black and white comic of agott and olruggio from witch hat atelier, based on a tweet by @nonprophet123 on twitter (text altered slightly for clarity):

agott, crying: I don't wanna be 50 years old and "just friends" with coco like you and master qifrey

olruggio: okay first of all if I shaved you'd think I was 17

agott, still crying: no I wouldn't

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Supposedly, admin support, networking new contacts, coordinating events, handling contracts and payments. sometimes community management. They can be a *lot* closer to vanity publishers, power balances change based on who's paying who. It's got similarities to illu agencies, but way more drama.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This graphic ends up with a pretty bad rounding error, magnifying the smallest from 60 to 6. Made this graphic in a rush: each line is one person. It shows the proportion of 6 vs 4.5k more accurately and intuitively. It's closer to 'how many people misclick/did not understand the question' levels.

a sloppy, sketchy collection of tally marks that color-code responses to a survey about how important human-made text is to respondents. Out of 4,449 responses reported here, six responses say it was not important, 109 said it was somewhat important, and the rest, at 97.4%, said it was very important.

I find visualizing tallies and groups of tens, hundreds and thousands helps keep a little more context for proportions in surveys. Seriously, if there were *one* single less person who said not important, you could count them on one hand. It is the barest minimum possible needed to count on two hands, and if I said 'you could count it on two hands' you might think I meant 10, and that's almost double the number of people who said that it wasn't important that writing is authored by a human.

And as I colored in this graphic, I got to think about how people could arrive at the conclusions they did- I can see how you could try to argue 'if you're just copypasting something that doesn't matter, maybe it's fine if a bot copypastes it. Or how many people in a group of 4.5k would misread the qusestion, or misclick.

I'm assuming this survey comes from ellipsus users, which already selects for people who do the act of writing, find value in it, and likely find value in reading writing by other people. This is also a survey made of responses, not every person asked responded, and a larger survey doesn't necessarily mean more accurate results, let alone rsults that are honest, persuasive, or worth making decisions on actions over. But, again, I want to point out that by being a little more granular with the data presentation, showing such small numbers and their proportion to larger ones, you get a more accurate intuitive sense of the data in a way an AI can never perceive.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Even that graphic inflates the "not important to be written by humans (assumed pro-AI) stance by 10x. If each block is one percent, then the graph makes it look like 1% is okay with it, instead of a tenth of a percent. Super sloppy, here's what it'd look like a little more accurately.

A 10x10 grid that attempts to visualize a survey asking how important it is that writing is authored by a human. 97 cells and 1/4th of a cell say it is very important, 2.5 say it is somewhat important, and 0.1, one tenth of a percent, say it is not important. That's six people. The image before, where blocks were a solid color, rounded up the implied people who say human-written text isn't important to sixty, which is almost half of the people who said it was somewhat important, which was 109. Just saying, an AI could never have caught how misleading that margin really was, because information has to be qualified and checked to be interpretable as close to the original data as possible from a human perspective. It makes sense to simplify things by rounding down the percent, but in this case it totally inflated how small the minority really is.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 29/05/2026

If you don’t know what writers actually feel about AI, you haven’t been paying attention to us. (Lucky you, we have a survey and a blog post about it: ellipsus.com/blog/survey-...) TL;DR: The writing world is not in the grips of "AI fever." @nymag.com - want to know more? We’re available.

How important is it to you that a piece of writing is authored by a human?

97.4% - Very important
2.5% - Somewhat important
0.1% - Not important

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Bailey G. Albreit @baileygalbreit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Who can identify? #books #booksky #reading

So, a lot of people ask me why I buy so many books. The truth is, I have a genetic disorder where my body doesn't produce enough books of its own, so I have to supplement. --Louise Jensen Duffy

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Bonedust Press @bonedustpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Submissions are now OPEN for the Bonedust Press x @wildstarpress.bsky.social Stardust Collaboration! 💫 Check out the guidelines and send us what you've got! www.bonedustpress.com/submissions

A starry night backdrop with both Wild Star Press and Bonedust Press' logos, announcing the Stardust Collaboration.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I think about what a cartoonish saturday morning cartoon villain would do and i'm certaibly not obviously *wrong*. I think we need to start looking for a diverse, color coded group of teen misfits with shspicious jewelry or accessories?

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Google search (old school) is the best rival to googke AI integration. By leaving fewer alternatives, you increase your possible market, snd decrease their resistance?

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Doki Rosi 🌷 working 9 to 5 @dokirosi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

To never let the pain caused transform you into a mirror of your agressor. To keep your softness and loving self above it all. To remain pliable and alive in order to outgrow the hurt. To bloom into a new self again For they can try to cut all the flowers, but they will never be able to stop spring

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

She is very lonely

A unicorn resembling a neuron styled like the titular character of The Last Unicorn

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Focus

It's a tight crop on an intense crow's face that is rendered in many pen lines. Background is a vivid vermillion, as are the crow's eyes. The crow is tinted teal. It has a small speech bubble which reads "Focus"

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

.... danflgit bsky if I get a notif on one account, but i'm logged in to another, then log me into the first one like a sensible program. And don't have 1-click profile switching on desktop, and notnon mobile where it belongs.

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Tableflip MacDeathbathwater @quoththedesk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Indeed. But the fact that so many associated topics come up in classic pre-internet scifi tells me that if some technology inclined boomer with a typewriter and adderal can find interesting vignettes in humanity out of daydreams, we have the potential to avert that danger in the present.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES is $3.99 on US eShop buff.ly/8FyMrJN US PSN buff.ly/i3Lt7Lk PS4/Switch $29/$36 at VGP buff.ly/decylv4 #ad

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白浜鴎 @shirahamakamome.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

アニメ3話のダダ山脈の試験、楽しみに待っている方もいると思うのでネタバレだし詳しくは言えないのですが、アニメで足されたオリジナルのシーンが最高で…！先月映画館での先行上映では私ちょっと泣いちゃいました。来週、ぜひお楽しみにです！

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