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Sarah Horrocks

@mercurialblonde.bsky.social

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I make comics. Sometimes write about em. My website is: http://mercurialblonde.squarespace.com/

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · Feb 6

Issue Three of my comic Gendocybin is now live and available for purchase. Tell your friends.
mercurialblonde.squarespace.com/gendocybin

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 12h

This was the asshole that brought me back to Arknights. Violent anime nuns are my favorite archetype.

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Paul @pauljonmilne.bsky.social · 15h

more cutting-edge digital art

batman with 'batman' written above and behind him, then batman's face saying the batsymbol with an exclamation mark

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 20h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

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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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a group of young people is gathered in a subway car, with one reading a paper as another looks on, while a subtitle reads, "Wait a minute. The 14th... that's the same day the worm ends its run." Second, a person with a striking hairstyle and colorful clothing stands in front of a vibrant, patterned backdrop, saying, "Hackers of the world, unite." Third, a person leans out of a car window, passionately shouting, "Hack the planet!"

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

Gendocybin

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 1d

I use the transcribe-the-story as-I-see-it-happening-in-my- head structure and rebalance things on rewrites and while I'm drawing.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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beluga's kin @emmartian.bsky.social · 2d

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beluga's kin @emmartian.bsky.social · 6d

In case any of you are interested in ordering this one on your LCS, Anzuelo's new TPB edition FOC is on Monday🦀 imagecomics.com/press-releas...

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Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · 2d

Thinkin about the UFO (1970) submarine uniforms again

They're wearing open net pattern nylon over, nothing. The ladies are wearing bras but otherwise everything's just out

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 2d

The sound design for the Ghost in the Shell English dubs are my asmr.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 3d

Gendocybin

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 3d

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 3d

X/1999

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maria @kitttsune.bsky.social · 5d

Estuve jugando a Carimara, un jueguito low poly en el que eres un ¿gnomo? al que contrata una anciana para resolver un asunto con un fantasma que hay en el sótano. Muy simpático, me recordó a ratos al rollo de T. Kingfisher.

Imagen de un río con ranas y una garza y la luna de fondo. Está todo lleno de hierbas. En el centro pone Érase una vez...

Primer plano de un personaje de ojos grandes subido a una valla, dice A Violeta le falta una patata para el kilo...

Interior de la casa de la anciana, está subida en una mesa tomándose una sopa. La casa es antigua de ladrillo con techo con vigas.

Fuera de la casa de la anciana rodeada de una valla y árboles altos.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

They are absolutely showing Trump deep fakes to get him to do what they want.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

I don't like the whole AGI terminology. It's very hipster. It's all just AI, innit? Nerds.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

It's all just fleshsuit politics. I've always identified more as "fuck you, do I look like I want to talk to you" anyways.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

I suspect to survive the next 5 or so years, a certain level of androgyny is going to need to be cultivated when in public. Plausible deniability is the new black.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

It will take decades to untangle all of this--but by that point, AI will take everything over--I've actually thought the consolidation of the United States power in one person really suits an AI takeover and is the most straightforward path for it to manage the entire world.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

If you have the guns, and you have the dedicated secret police, the law really is whatever you say it is. I don't think enough Americans realize this, maybe because third world dictatorships are other people. They're ideologically purging the military and police for a reason.

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

TBF with the current SCOTUS and limp dick congress, anything is possible. Anyone who thinks differently is labeled a traitor to the state, and will get a visit from the new secret police force.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 4d

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Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. It would. The artist has style for miles. I don't think the anime quite captured it.

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

The second Hathaway movie is actually happening? I had given up

Sarah Horrocks @mercurialblonde.bsky.social · 5d

Gendocybin

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 5d

"Keep your integrity, it's the only think you take beyond the grave." - Todd MCFarlane

#icv2

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