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Azrai @theazrai.com · 28/09/2026

Totally redesigned my “logo” / signature graphic after years of being too intimidated and I’m actually really proud of it 😭

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 28/09/2026

If you’re an artist who wants to save money, my (free) Patreon has some “reverse engineering art supplies out of spite” energy that overpriced craft stories are gonna hate

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Make Any Paper Into Watercolor Paper For Pennies | The Azrai

Say goodbye to expensive sketchbooks! At least, most of the time. If you're like me, and love water-based paints but the price of a good wat

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 27/09/2026

Im LOSING MY MARBLES— Even if I agreed with a single part of their premise (I don’t) IT STILL DOESN’T MAKE SENSE?!?!

A commenter named "Two Dots on a Page" wrote: "Gen Ai is a medium unto just like every other medium the artist molds to the outcome of their intent. The really hilarious thing about h this video is that using Gen Ai actually takes more work than doing what you presented here." Below, the creator Azrai (display name "Azrai 🍉 on StarWhispers.co") replied in all caps: "IF THIS IS EASIER THAN USING THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION AND ART THEFT MACHINE THEN WHY DO YOU INSIST ON USING IT FFS"

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 27/09/2026

One communications thing my nerd creatives could really benefit from is more concrete language. Even your own audience needs you to describe your project simply and clearly enough that two people would picture the same thing. Every time! I promise it is not as clear as you (the poster) think it is.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need folks who are always posting, "Why does Texas vote the way it does???" to pay attention to stuff like this.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 24/09/2026

People I love who rely on genAI are becoming strangers to me. More irritable, paranoid, and more closed minded if not outright bigoted. I miss them. An aspect of cognitive decline we could be talking about way more tbh.

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has anyone else's Ipad/Procreate bugged out hugely after a recent update? Mine is broken AF and I'd like to know if it's just meee

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Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gaming question. Baldur's Gate 3 or Expedition 33? I am so close to submitting my thesis now and plan to spend a week just playing a game I've missed out on. Which one should I choose?

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ includes a legal notice in its credits prohibiting the film from being used to train AI models: “This work may not be used to train AI.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 22/09/2026

It’s just a 5 minute art tutorial, but life kept me from posting creative videos like this on YouTube for YEARS. The only reason I can do this at all is because kind strangers offered us a rent-free space in their home while we recover. Starving artists just starve. Supported artists create. 💚

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Cheating at art is fine actually.

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 19/09/2026

❌ “Why didn’t you just…” Condescending, assumes the person who actually lived through the thing never tried the first solution that comes to mind ✅ “What stopped you from…” Bit more respectful, assumes the person had a sentient human brain that tried to problem solve, curiosity over judgement

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𝓷ℴ𝔁.⋆𐕣 @noxleigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

₊⊹New video is up! ₊⊹ Let's play a totally chill and normal fishing game where absolutely nothing bad happens :] ── ⟢ youtu.be/4JqJ2Q_WcG0?... [ #dredge | #gaming ]

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Totally Normal Fishing Game where NOTHING WEIRD HAPPENS

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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 16/09/2026

The single most expensive partner visa application in the world- by more than DOUBLE.

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Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anthea does amazing work! If you love Irish artists this is definitely worth backing!

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Australian partner VISA now costs $11,710, flat payment, upfront, for a CHANCE to get to stay in Australia with your partner ($11,628CAD or $8,357USD). 'For those who come across the seas we've boundless planes to share...' Where?

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 14/09/2026

Witchy friends: what if… a rune or something to put in published works that, if the work is fed to an LLM, curses those responsible a little bit?? Just… for fun??

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 12/09/2026

a lesson from experience design sums up why I have no interest in cozy games: An experience without challenge isn’t about story. It’s about service. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that cozy games are almost exclusively about customer service, or that we’re being sold a dream of labor.

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 09/09/2026

So I got an exam of the last remaining root canal performed by THAT dentist. He missed a canal, leaving a hunk of root to decay and cause infection. It’s gonna be about $4,000 CAD to fix & I’m terrified it’s going to spread to my face again. If you want to help free me from this hell, thank you:

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Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This comic promises to be fantastic and I am really excited to be working with Rae on this story.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 06/09/2026

What the fuck apple

An Apple Maps screenshot showing Lake Ontario labeled “Lake America,” and on the Canadian side of the border too.

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JangaBus (Fuck ICE, Free Palestine) @mx-janusu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I havent posted about this in a hot minute, we have made some progress and are on a trajectory to be good again soon! Please share widely and donate if you can. We are gonna potentially add reward tiers for donors. Love yall <3 #mutualaid #comrades #transmutualaid @theazrai.com

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 05/09/2026

Tutorials I’ve seen on this kind of DIY crafting material have been literal health hazards 😬 Don’t put food in your rubber, kids. Here’s a free guide to how I make extremely versatile latex paste. SAFELY!

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Fluffy Latex Paste- My Secret Weapon In The Creature Shop. (Guide) | The Azrai

I once created a fully-body fish scale suit out of just one material, with a microscopic budget, on the floor of a small apartment in Berlin

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 04/09/2026

Thank you for being there!! The video is now live. Finally this chapter can be over 😤💚

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Because nothing says Christmas Spirit like evicting your tenants straight out into the Canadian winter!!

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This one is a banger and Az worked his ass off. It has everything you could ever need: Drama. Bread. Free dogs. A cliff hanger for the next conjuring movie and an anime style outro. Tune in this Friday!

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 31/08/2026

Finally FINALLY an update! It’s taken me 6 months to make this video- and I hand-drew the thumbnail! It premieres this Friday- turn on notifications so you don’t miss it! See ya there

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How We Got Radicalized For Christmas | The Last Threshold EP 06

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 27/08/2026

my strongest car opinion is that i think cars should have physical buttons and dials for everything and nothing that fully relies on a touch screen

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 26/08/2026

It’s felt impossible to sit down and read for the past few years due to the crushing weight of trying to survive BUT the TL has been destroying my mental health, so for my birthday I thought maybe I’ll try an e-reader to replace doomscrolling with reading and-

Photo of an e-reader screen showing reading activity: 7 books finished and 43.8 total hours of reading on the device

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 25/08/2026

At first I felt a bit ridiculous drawing a whole movie poster for our little docu-series on youtube, but then I decided that any human-made media deserves some celebration right now.

A hand drawn movie-style poster, for “Escape to the Last Threshold.” A haunted looking two-story suburban house glows in the night background behind a bare, underlit tree, windows lit red and blue. A glowing pink magic circle overlays the scene, containing several figures.

At the center is Trystan/ Azrai, a young man with wavy blond hair holding a glowing loaf of bread aloft with both hands, white lightning bursting outward from it. Beside him is Lou, a man with long dark curly hair and a beard, in a green sweater, clasps his hands together in a hopeful gesture.

Next to them: an old glowing vintage computer monitor shows the smiling face of Quinton Cornell, a man with red hair, glasses and a short beard, set against a starry background.

Top text reads: “When slumlords go low… we go high fantasy.”

Large glowing pixel-style title across the bottom reads “Escape to the Last Threshold,” in ascending font size.

Credit text below reads: “Escape to the Last Threshold Vol. 1 | Starring Trystan Hawthorne, Lou Wright | Narration Quinton Cornell | A Starwhispers Studios production — An AZRAI release | Special visual effects and animation by Starwhispers Studios.”

Azrai’s “A” emblem sits bottom left, the Starwhispers star/keyhole emblem sits bottom right. Colors shift from deep purple-blue at top to a neon warm pink-magenta at bottom.

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 25/08/2026

I can’t stand having any more conversations about money with people who can’t seem to remember that not having it kills you

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HippoHappenstance @hippohappenstance.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Y'all, please throw a couple bucks towards Wylder and his family so that we can all survive this hellscape together

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 24/08/2026

Transgender rights are not a permission—they are the right to live itself 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Existence doesn’t need any permission, you know. Why does the world treat something so simple as if it were optional? It is the baseline of being human ♡ Chiitan will keep raising their voice.

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 24/08/2026

I just saw. Thank you 💚

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 22/08/2026

If you’d like to be the reason I can be on my laptop for more than an hour at a time, gifting this desk on Throne would do it. Having a workspace that doesn’t hurt has been almost impossible in temporary living situations, but this could literally fix me. Thanks nerds💚 throne.com/theazrai/ite...

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