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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 1h

Probably doing a post office run later this week if you want anything 👀☝️

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17h

So Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are all gonna ban ChatGPT from receiving payments now, right?

Right??

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a Canadian cartoonist who likes drawing monsters & things related to mental health/neurodivergence. Looking to do short comics, album covers, & book covers - hit me up!
Web: www.cuckoosnestpress.com
Shop: ko-fi.com/elainemwill/...
Email: elaine AT cuckoosnestpress DOT com

E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey! I'm E.M., I make comics & a bunch of other stuff! I just published a graphic novel called The Last Band On Earth which you can get from my shop here: ko-fi.com/s/ec1f7cdea3 (digital version here as well - ko-fi.com/s/a00aca22ef )
And here's where else you can find me: cuckoosnestpress.carrd.co

Cover illustration for Hexagon Magazine, depicting two figures in hazmat suits reflected in a pond. They are holding hands and walking away together. The ground is covered with fungi and spore dander. There is a large smiling frog in the far foreground in the bottom right corner.

A page from my graphic novel The Last Band On Earth, depicting two characters, Nat and Rick, on a rooftop in a windstorm, battling an evil eldritch being that resembles a biblically accurate angel, but with bat wings instead of feathery angel wings, and several long strands of sinew stretching out from its midsection in all directions. Rick is hooking his phone up to a guitar amplifier with a dongle and searching through his files to find something loud to play through the amplifier. Yup!

An acrylic painting of a dead tree trunk split down the center into three pieces, surrounded by rocks and foliage. A small black blob with eyes is perched on the edge of one of the stump pieces, peering out at the viewer on the right side. Another identical black blob is crawling on the ground behind the stump at the left.

An old hollowed out car, an Austin Mini, parked in a driveway. There are several stylized ghosts drifting out of it. The colour palette is entirely monochrome red, giving the whole piece an eerie atmosphere.

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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 5h

Hey Stripe, any thoughts about this and your content guidelines. anything to say about this use case

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 15h

This was in my spouse's recommended videos for some reason, and now I am sharing it with all of you, good night youtu.be/J1NHGypezNw?...

Jan Terri - Hot Dog Baby (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Jan Terri

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 16h

youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...

Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact

YouTube video by cookingvinylarchive

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 18h

Drawtober Day 14: Unnatural
#drawtober #Halloweenie

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 1d

#PortfolioDay hi, I'm Patsu and I'm a fantasy illustrator!
📧: [email protected]
or direct message me for commission inquiries!

Digital painting of a winged centaur. He has curly hair and facial beard, and his horse half is white, and extremely furry. His human half is covered in tattoos and white body hair, and he is wielding a mace/hammer weapon that is in the shape of a horse head.

Digital painting of a pterosaur-like beast called "Wyvern Of The Sea". Its head, neck and upper torso is mostly white, it has a long yellow bill with sharp tips similar to a snapping turtle, a crest on top of its top beak, and an expandable pouch on its throat, similar to a pelican. There is a voluminous pouch of expandable sac around its neck and chest, similar to a Frigatebird, but it seems more decorative than functional. Its lower torso is a black color, with strong bird legs, that have blue webbed feet, similar to the bird Booby. Its tail is long, with fins running on its side, and on its tips.

It has wings that are more webbed than they are feathered, with a protruding thumb similar to a bat's, and three noticeable digits that are flat than they are wiry. It seems this creature is more reptilian and hydrodynamic, than it is avian and capable of flight.

Digital painting of an elegant merman. There is a glow of royal blue coming out of a cavity in middle of his upper torso in the middle that extends to his abdomen, and out of two columns of holes in his bottom portion. His tail seems to be a hollow flesh and the blue magic extends out to form his fish tail. There is a royal blue sword on top of the character; the sword is slim and sharp, and the blade is sculpted to have an impaled fish on its end.

fairy with giant blue morpho butterfly wings and a faint halo, holding a lantern that attract butterflies.

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 19h

Woohoo, #PortfolioDay ! I’m Gwenevere Singley, illustrator and general art wrangler! I’ve worked in games, animation, interactive media, TTRPGs, comics, and I’d love to work on more!

(All oil on canvas except the big fight scene, which was painted in Photoshop)

Portfolio: gwensingley.com

The Rose Queen, in a grand rose gown, is surrounded by her court of elegant bee attendants in a spacious pavilion decked with roses. The bee courtiers are all vying for her attention.

A knight on a white horse, setting out to find a dragon in a mountainous wild wasteland, has just encountered the dragon’s aunt. She is MASSIVE, half pompous matron and half dragon, decked with curls, pearls, and feathers (or are they horsetails?) with a long scaly tail stretching back into the mountains, and a formidable gold lorgnette, through which she examines the knight. She does not approve.

A joyful zebra, that is also a knight, ON FIRE, with stripes and tail turning to flames, garbed in a golden helmet with plumes that also turn to flames, rearing up and holding a striped lance that is also on fire, setting out on an adventure across sunny mountains, along a road leading to a golden castle. A little fire salamander friend tags along.

Cover for the Sword Opera TTRPG: a half a dozen motley renaissance characters are having a huge brawl near a baroque pavilion in a garden. A swordsman in black faces off against a swordswoman in red, behind them a be-turbaned swordsman with a blue flaming scimitar is restrained by a pleading damsel, a ruffian in yellow with a couple of daggers sprawls in the foreground, a sneaky rogue in a weird hat circles behind with a dagger, and another damsel kneels behind the duelists begging both her lovers to desist. Dramatic mountains and storm clouds set the scene.

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SPOOKYDEAD💀SKELEHEAD @mikeluckas.bsky.social · 22h

Janine Melnitz "WE GOT ONE!" 👻 #ghostbusters #halloween #art

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scary bravo @sierrabravoart.bsky.social · 21h

oh my god it's #PortfolioDay again and i really want to get to do another comic soon, please let me do some history and mythology stuff thanks

www.sierrabravoart.com
email: [email protected]

promotional art for the tenth anniversary of Hans Vogel is Dead! Hans and Reineke walk through a birch forest, Hans looking behind him at the viewer.

an illustration of the chimera from Greek mythology, walking through some ruins overgrown with ivy and a charred stone wall.

a comic page from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, showing a dogfight between multiple German and Polish aircraft.

a comic page from HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, showing a boxing match between Princess Glückskind and the leshy. The leshy attempts to turn into multiple animals, unsuccessfully.

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Fell Hound @fellhound.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow it is once again #PortfolioDay

Fell Hound @fellhound.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey Portfolio Day! ✨

Im Fell, writer and artist of your favourite sad gay comics. Ive worked with Boom, IDW, Scout, AWBW, dozens of indie books. My latest motorcycle jousting romance, S.I.R. is in stores now!

Looking for illustration gigs!
🎨 fellhoundart.carrd.co

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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez looking for a new agent @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social · 1d

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇷 it's #PortfolioDay yet again! still looking for an agent and/or editor for this GN (QRP'd) & general comics work! i'm interested in creating and working on NA & adult GNs & other select illustration work (general illustrations & illustrating select children's/YA works) 💛
artofnickyrodriguez.com

5 panel comic aboard a pirate ship during sunset

written by akira b!

5 panel comic aboard a pirate ship during dusk/nightfall

written by akira b!

nicky holding a copy of Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris & Maite Urcaregui in which Nicky has a short comic

an excerpt from the short comic featured in Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings

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MariEsposeets @mariesposeets.bsky.social · Jul 8

Oh, #PortfolioDay
I draw animals and cartoon characters with pen or watercolor, plus some short silly animations!

Warrior Princess Sticky Feet! (leopard gecko)

"Check out more animations in my video feed"

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 1d

Heyo #PortfolioDay! I'm Sygnin, I illustrate in an ink & color style.

Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.

Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com

art of a female vampire's head looking at the viewer. flowers cover one of her eyes. her dark hair flows upwards and she wears a lace victorian type outfit

art of a silhouetted hooded rider on a horse with horns and red glowing eyes. behind them is a red moon

art of a hunter fighting with a large flying monster that looks like a dragon. based off Monster Hunter game.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Ahmed Raafat @theahmedraafat.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #portfolioday! Ahmed Raafat here, UK based Egyptian comic book artist! Some recent fan art pin-ups/covers. I’m available for cover/pin-up work at the moment, more in my portfolio here:

ahmedraafathussein.myportfolio.com

Hellboy fan art. Hellboy standing in an Egyptian temple surrounded by Egyptian policemen

Spider-man fan art. Spider-man greeting onlookers while Rhino is crashed into a truck in the background

Cover for Super Guy #2 in 50s romance comics style. Super Guy is standing crying while holding a pizza with Orla and Robot Guy walking out of a house

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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a Canadian cartoonist who likes drawing monsters & things related to mental health/neurodivergence. Looking to do short comics, album covers, & book covers - hit me up!
Web: www.cuckoosnestpress.com
Shop: ko-fi.com/elainemwill/...
Email: elaine AT cuckoosnestpress DOT com

E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey! I'm E.M., I make comics & a bunch of other stuff! I just published a graphic novel called The Last Band On Earth which you can get from my shop here: ko-fi.com/s/ec1f7cdea3 (digital version here as well - ko-fi.com/s/a00aca22ef )
And here's where else you can find me: cuckoosnestpress.carrd.co

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

hi hello #PortfolioDay i’m alex i am an illustrator/cartoonist and i am currently working on a short memoir graphic novel about the time my grandpa died and we partied around his corpse in the basement

not currently looking for work, just attention (unless it’s REALLY cool or pays me many dollars)

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Sep 3

Ahoy hoy!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian illustrator on the Prairies.
I do a lot of landscapes, cartoons, comics, and murals, and I sell prints and stickers and stuff! I love colours and shapes! You can't beat em!

🧵 >> comics and murals

shop/blog/portfolio: aplante.com
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante

power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.

retro risograph-style purple and gold digital illustration of ingredients to make mushroom soup. mushrooms, knifes chopping onions and garlic, broth, lemon juice, etc.

an warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.

Digital gouache painting of Sam reich from game changer on dropout standing at his little rainbow podium but make it a little golden book. “I’ve been here the whole time…”

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Yo! It’s #PortfolioDay! My name is Jason, I’m a cartoonist who loves comics and ttrpg design. I focus on weirdo filled fantasy and candy coated horror. You can checkout my stuff at:
www.jasongquinn.com/portfolio
Or hulkhoquinn.itch.io

Also trying to use my Patreon more
www.patreon.com/u3199234

Illustration of various aquatic salamanders

Illustration of a big pack of dogs chasing rabbits

Fan art of Tree sentinel from Elden Ring

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E M Will @elainemwill.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, shucks, you're too kind! 😌

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Renegade Arts Entertainment @renegadeartsent.bsky.social · 1d

More from the brilliant creative mind of @elainemwill.bsky.social

All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 6d

Author & illustrator @elainemwill.bsky.social answers our
#writersblock questionnaire and talks about her new book, THE LAST BAND ON EARTH (@renegadeartsent.bsky.social), mental illness, and the punk-rock spirit that keeps her creating.

alllitup.ca/writers-block-elaine-m-will/