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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

THE COOLEST!!! such an excellent retro vibe 🥹💖

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

and this is the cutest and coolest drawing 😭💖😭💖 literally so beautiful and excellent 💒💍💐

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

struggling to make enough art to post!!! here's something #extremeghostbusters because kylie is kind of shown to have a thing with eduardo like, textually, but i firmly believe she had better interactions/chemistry with garrett. and so did eduardo. so like. let's go eduardo/garrett/kylie!!!

digital drawing of eduardo rivera, garrett miller & kylie griffin from extreme ghostbusters. eduardo is a tall, brown haired latino guy kissing the cheek of garrett, a redhead white guy in a wheelchair, who reaches up to hug eduardo, and behind him is kylie, a white girl with blue hair who hugs garrett around the waist and sticks her tongue out.

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Jessi (CrystallizedTwilight) @crystallizedtwi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've wanted to draw @reallyhardy.bsky.social OCs, the Crypt Crew, for so long! Their designs and color schemes are so fun and it's always a joy to see them! I hope you like it, Loren! 😄

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

a little #maybehappyending fanart! i love stories about robots falling in love 🥺 #musicaltheatre #broadway #reallyhardydraws

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

ride or die teens just so so obsessed with each other 👻👽 (+ one demon granny 😼) #dandadan #dandadanfanart #momoayase #okarun #momokarun #reallyhardydraws

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

last weekend my friends and i watched all the #dandadan anime episodes and now i'm obsessed. finished catching up with the manga and now i must DRAW!!! 👻👽👹 #momoayase #okarun #momokarun #reallyhardydraws

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Pamela @gallytin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The Lantern Parade by Random Acts of Silliness is a lovely prequel to Spring in Montana. So well done and attended.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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✸ 𝕵𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖞𝖉 ✸ @jasminefloyd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’ve gained a few new followers since I last mentioned my new and improved A5 fishy tin risograph prints so here I am telling you guys about them agaaaaaain! (Sorry haha) I offer free uk shipping for them too 😁💖 jasminefloyd.etsy.com/listing/1862...

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Jams!! 💛💜 ADOPTS OPEN @jamscandraw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Updated Percy ref! She's level 5 now #bg3 #baldursgate3

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Claire @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In my petty era, just straight up stopping a YouTube video and refusing to continue to watch if someone mentions they're using Chat GPT. To me this just means you're too lazy to do the research by traditional means. You've just cheapened your entire content and I'm simply no longer interested. ❤️

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

some #hadestown (NYTW pre-broadway) fanart from 2017-ish: persephone as played by amber gray, orpheus & eurydice as played by damon daunno and nabiyah be. #musicaltheatre #hadestownNYTW #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of persephone from hadestown. she sings into a microphone.

digital drawing of orpheus and eurydice. she pulls him closer by the shoulder strap of his guitar.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

@gravedonkey.bsky.social here's a couple drawings ft. nico the werewolf guy 😌 turns out i need to draw him more i've only got drawings of him with other characters 🐺

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Ren @ixoren.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Hi! I'm Ren! I like to draw and make stuff :^D

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Ren @ixoren.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper but set in the Ming Dynasty #illustration #barbie #princessandthepauper

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Sygdom @sygdom.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Little portrait I did for an art trade with @eerivee.bsky.social of their character, Zephyrini (an air genasi wizard)! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I was so happy to finally get an opportunity to draw them! #dnd #dndart #dungeonsanddragons #art

A digital illustration featuring a portrait over a pale blue background. The portrait is in a linearted, painted style. The character has light blue skin, purple eyes and white hair with grey tips, with pinkish shading. The hair is wavy and very poofy. They are wearing greek style clothing, in pastel tones and gold.

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Jackz - Tiefling King @jackzarts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

(Old art - 🌙) A postcard I did for my Patreons back then. Apollo and his four wings... I tried some lineless art... I wanna try it again. #tiefling #ocs #ocart #ocsky #dndoc #dndart #dnd #fantasyart

A lineless drawing of Apollo, a tiefling wild magic sorcerer) dressed with a white robe, golden belt and bracelets, he is holding a staff that has wings and a big ruby on top. He had four angel wings, a halo and golden stars on his long purple wavy hair.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

a #strangerthings fanart i made for the short-lived but iconic characters #chrissycunningham & #eddiemunsom from #strangerthingsseason4 - think of this piece as them cheering on the party from well. you know.

digital drawing of chrissy (a white girl with a strawberry blonde ponytail wearing a green cheerleading uniform) and eddie (a white guy with long curly brown hair and an 80s rocker style outfit) chrissy waves her pompoms and eddie plays his electric guitar, and they are floating/jumping in front of a black background with red text that reads "THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!"

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

how about something cute? froppy + a friend. i started watching BNHA specifically so i could bond with my teenage brother over something during the covid times, and i liked her. miss frog. #BNHA #myheroacademia #froppy #tsuyuasui #bokunoheroacademia #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of tsuyu asui from my hero academia. she stands waist-deep in a pond and looks over her shoulder at the viewer. in one hand she holds a green tree frog. lilypads and flowers float in the water.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

can't sleep, and i have the song "the tea" by danny gonzalez ft alli fitz in my head 😔 yeet oof wig wig gang gang flex yee yee drip indeed...

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Julia Shea @jsheaart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Butt sniff city #illustration

A spiral of overlapping colorful dogs sniffing each others butts. A new color is created at each intersection of the dogs. At the center of the spiral is an affronted cat.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

from 2020, thomas and pat from #bbcghosts ! i think i'd ref'd a set photo of them in costume... #thomasthorne #patrickbutcher #mathewbaynton #jimhowick #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of thomas and pat from the BBC series: ghosts. thomas (a tall white man with brown hair and a bullet hole in his abdomen, dressed in regency era clothing) and pat (a shorter white man with lighter brown hair, glasses, and a moustache, dressed in a scoutmaster's uniform. he has an arrow through his neck) thomas looks serious, pat smiles and waves at the viewer.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

the curious brothers from #thesims2 -- a redraw of an older drawing of mine in honour of EA's latest cashgrab. #lazlocurious #vidcundcurious #pascalcurious #strangetown #strangetownpremades #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of the curious brothers - lazlo, closest to the viewer, holds a slice of pizza. a step back, vidcund holds a potted plant. furthest from the viewer is pascal, who holds his alien baby in his arms.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

some #cybb from 2023 a comic redraw of one of the most adorable moments from the 1980s #newteentitans era -- vic lifting gar into the air with delight at seeing him safe again. #garfieldlogan #victorstone #teentitans #DCcomics #reallyhardydraws (see reply for original comic page!)

digital drawing of beast boy/changeling and cyborg from the new teen titans. cyborg is a young black man with shiny silver prosthetic limbs and the left half of his face is a metal faceplate which is turned toward the viewer. beast boy is a young man with green skin and hair. cyborg lifts beast boy into the air and smiles up at him. beast boy smiles down at cyborg. a yellow sunburst is behind them.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"if you see this, QRP a character with long hair 💇‍♀️" here's a starfire i did in 2018! i need to draw her again sometime, i'm enamoured with her bubbly hairstyle. #starfire #teentitans #koriandr #koryanders #newteentitans #DCcomics #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of starfire from teen titans, but redesigned to have yellow patches on her orange skin, similar to vitiligo. her pink hair is curly and styled into a style like one large bubble braid. her triangular accessories are in neon yellows, blues and green, and her outfit is a warm purple. she looks up and to the side and smiles.

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salt∴ @wickedsalt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

1/2021-1/2025 After 4 years, Howl is finally finished! A companion and a project of love to me; I hope it keeps inspiring magic and creativity. 🧿🩵 See the rest of the thread for close ups! #howlsmovingcastle #howlcosplay #katsucon2025 #embroidery

Photo of my Howl Pendragon cosplay on a sewing form, frontal three quarters view. White shirt and black pants with a pink and blue jacket thrown over the shoulders, like the Studio Ghibli design. The jacket is heavily beaded and covered in floss and ribbon embroidery. There are also two necklaces with blue pendants around the form's neck and a pair of green drop earrings pinned close by.

Photo of my Howl Pendragon cosplay on a sewing form, view from the back. Black pants pinned to the sewing form with a pink and blue jacket thrown over the shoulders, like the Studio Ghibli design. The jacket is heavily beaded and covered in floss and ribbon embroidery. The back of the jacket shows the scene from the Ghibli film as a young Howl standing on a meadow catches a falling star. There are other falling stars in the night sky. The meadow is completely beaded and framed in a golden velvet ribbon. Embroidered with golden floss beneath the golden ribbon reads: "You who swallowed a falling star, o' heartless man".

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

a #kurtwanda piece from 2023! an underrated ship because they're only together in an offshoot universe, but i adore them. #nightcrawler #kurtwagner #wandamaximoff #scarletwitch #xmen #avengers #marvelcomics #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of nightcrawler & scarlet witch from marvel comics, dressed in casual clothes. they walk holding hands while looking at each other, and pink smoke surround them.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

aang and katara from last year -- i'd been nostalgically rewatching the cartoon at the time 😌 #ATLA #avatarthelastairbender #aang #katara #kataang #reallyhardydraws

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

and to go with ronnie, i also overhauled the dressup game for her bestie annie 😌 play here: meiker.io/play/13766/o... and feel free to share outfits u make for her with me! #meiker #dressupgame #mermaid #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of annie tilapiya, a blue-skinned, green-haired mermaid. she holds up a tiny version of herself.

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alex @blueromantics.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🪄 magician is nothing without her trusty rabbit 🐇

zatanna from dc comics holding a white rabbit in her hands. she’s wearing a black blazer, a white bow tie, white gloves and ‘Z’ earrings.

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Benedict Townsend @benedicttown.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is the most important religious symbol to come out of the 21st century

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

every single hourly pic is just so so so excellent

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

colourful monster girlies from 2021 -- u can always count on me to make "horror" characters just the MOST rainbowy. #frankenmonster #vampire #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of a frankengirl with green skin and orange curly hair, wearing a strawberry print top and cherry print trousers, standing next to a pink-skinned vampire girl with straight purple hair, wearing black cycle shorts, a pink gingham top and a blue mesh dress.

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loren hardy @reallyhardy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

the little promo i made for my #dressupdoll of my OC ronnie that i made using meiker.io ! you can play with her wardrobe too over here: meiker.io/play/13526/o... #meiker #dressupgame #vampire #reallyhardydraws

digital drawing of ronnie von ruby, a vampire girl with short purple hair and orange skin, holding up a doll of herself. text reads "dress up ronnie von ruby."

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