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The UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a fifth time over AI training data transparency. Please watch the electrifying end to Baroness Kidron's closing speech ahead of the vote. Creators have no greater champion. 🧵 1/2

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Some Swan Boy characters as their favorite One Piece characters

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Teachers Are Not OK 🔗 www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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If you're a fan of Harry Potter who'd like something new to read but who doesn't want to give JKR any more money, you might very much enjoy CONSPIRACY OF RAVENS. British boarding school bird-themed magic for kids & adults alike #BookSky #Magic #Fantasy #GraphicNovel www.darkhorse.com/Books/3000-4...

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🌞 SOL CESTO - OUT NOW ON STEAM 🌞 After 2 years of hard work, Sol Cesto is finally out in Early Access! A roguelite where the eerie charm of Inscryption collides with the high-stakes thrill and explosive combos of Balatro. Please help us spread the word 🙌

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Some process pics for my @nytimes.com for kids cover: 1. Sketchbook doodles 2. Various rough ideas 3. Pencil drawing 4. Ink drawing

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

This loser continues to suck shit

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Got a new tattoo, and since it has become my own Bluesky tradition to share them, here it is! A lovely trad shoulder dagger piece from the excellent Mors at Easy Tiger Tattoo Leeds www.instagram.com/morstattoo/

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I set a comic in the woods because I wasn't good at drawing trees. Struggle with cars? Write a car chase! Struggle with horses? Put horses in your book. Eventually you'll have no barriers!

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I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

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An old slide I made for a lecture about writing. You have my full permission to use it if you would want to.

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I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

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"it is not ours to give away"

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Why is this so accurate though?

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It may even harm your rep, if what ppl associate with your name is poor quality generic work you churned out to meet deadline. The only way you get to have any leverage in this industry is by cultivating a voice only you have the keys to.

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Hi young comickers! Please do not take low paying, abusive, garbage work! It actually will not advance your profile in the biz, and will just burn you out. Your career is better served developing your own style/work!

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I understand the narcissism of the personal essay industrial complex, but this is very good www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

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I painted up a little skelly creep! This was part of a painting practice exercise the first year students were doing where they brought in a sketch they had done to work up. I had my own sketch on the projector to chip away at between going round and offering feedback on their painting process.

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Looking for a comic artist for a 4 pager. Non-fiction. Color. Paid work but tight turnaround. Script is done. DM me if you're interested / available!

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Potential art-book/project thread! Please read below!! 👇👇 Can i first ask that you please retweet and comment your thoughts on this? I need as many eyes on this as possible to gauge if its a viable side project worth pursuing! RETROGRADE - A catalogue from from a future that never was!

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FFC review: A MINECRAFT MOVIE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/04/a-mi...

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Here's what I include at the bottom of every freelance invoice I send - and I've cashed in on this! Know your rights as a freelancer! The full text is in the alt.

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[Thread] Drugs & Wires, the little sadboy cyborg comic that could (and almost did) celebrates ten whole years of existence today, which seems like an ideal excuse to revisit a decade's worths of bits, bobs, and whatnots. To kick it off, here's our very first stabs at promo from the dawn of 2015:

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Got to draw a little guy for work which is pretty fun.

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Inked up an observational study I did in Edinburgh at @surgeonshall.bsky.social

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What's this!? Why it's just me checking out some awesome artwork by @evegwood.com @spiremint.bsky.social and @verface.bsky.social over at La Belle Adventure!

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Love finding myself in paintings.

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My Hellboy Zine is now LIVE! ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/hbzine ohotnig.itch.io/hbzine As always, it's free to download, but if you leave $3 donation you get a hefty package of extra materials. Please enjoy, share, and tell about it to your friends in real life, too!

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Imagine being related to one of the national embarrassments that are suggesting their own UK version of D 0 G E. Christmas must fucking suck. Having to spend time near a cloying cunt like that. My only Xmas tradition at that point would be rapidly acquiring alcohol poisoning.

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the Knight of Winter joins the cast

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We're all fighting invisible battles 🙏

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The wonders of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight continue to inspire writers and illustrators. In this piece, I review a graphic novel version of the text by @johnreppion.bsky.social and Mark Penman - it's wonderful! #SGGK More here: www.mythicalbritain.co.uk/post/sir-gaw...

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The moment I had more stability in my life, my art and comics improved ten-fold Anyone who tells you that artists should suffer is a poop head and should be flushed down the toilet

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Read Dan’s thread. I wish we could sit the cabinet down and explain AI to them like this. Either you’re being sold snake oil or you’re in on the grift but neither is going to help the country.

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Cody and Katy are always great but this episode resonated hard with me and was particularly good at verbalising a lot of the issues I have with AI art in an accessible and entertaining way.

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