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Kim Stramat is LOOKING FOR WORK @kimstramat.bsky.social · May 14

#art

An illustration of a modern gorgon in blue tweed blazer and large snake themed earrings. Blue snakes are her bob langth hair.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 12h

Goose on the loose!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a goose sticking up its head among a bunch of flowers.

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TheKittymeister @thekittymeister.bsky.social · 17h

Gremlin being a gremlin recently

A black & white cat peeking around an open door

A black & white cat trying to be very sneaky behind an open door

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 19h

plant drawing

🌱👾🌱👾🌱👾🌱👾

drawing of the Dorstenia dolichocaula flower surrounded by jungle leaves. it has a dark purple centre surrounded by green, tentacle-like growths, the whole thing has a sort of bent crescent shape that is hard to convey in text.

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Eli | Artist and Illustrator @elijahkart.bsky.social · 18h

We’re getting there #art

An ink drawing of a river scene. It is an unfinished piece with figures in the distance needing completion.

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Jay @wiltart.bsky.social · 19h

some of my recent pieces 🎨

a digital painting of a brown and white dog with round, bright orange eyes looking upwards

a digital painting of a Black woman with an Afro hairstyle, a gold necklace, and long eyelashes

a digital painting of a tiger facing a light source on a dark green background

a digital painting of a white woman with dramatic red lighting on the side of her face looking at the camera

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Jay @wiltart.bsky.social · 19h

hi bluesky!!! 🦋 I’m an artist new to social media (and very new to bluesky!) looking to connect with fellow artists 🎨

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Mar 21

I think all evil cars should be called Christines and we should have Christine movies like we have vampire movies. Oh no, a Christine!

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 22h

| Villain |

To all my fellow people pleasers out there... 😌
#originalart

an illustration of book being pierced through by a sword, from the wound the thorns with red tips are growing, slowly changing into flowers, a red bookmark is there to symbolize blood.

the book reads 'It's alright to say No. You will always be a villain in someone's story...'

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 21h

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed.

⭐Go into your account settings.
⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab.
⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab.
⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING.

So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

Screenshot of the Pinterest settings menu. The option "Refine your recommendations" is circled.

Screengrab of the Refine Your Recommendations tab in Pinterest's settings. The subtab GenAI Interests is circled.
Below, all options have been turned off.

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🍄Just a Mushroom🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · Sep 10

Respite

Two wolves curled up together- one is greyish-blue and the other is reddish-brown. They are at the mouth of a cave, with dead trees in the background. Autumn leaves and snowflakes swirl around them.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22h

This is Rosie. She doesn't have a bad angle, but prefers this one because it makes her look tall. 12/10 (IG: whippyrosie)

a gray whippet puppy with white on her paws, tummy, and snoot and blue eyes sits in a living room with a gray couch behind her. she's giving us an innocent expression and the teensiest hint of a blep with her pink tongue. we're looking up at her from a low angle, so it seems as if she's towering over us.

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Sockie 🦈✨ @sockie.bsky.social · 1d

Day 15 - Cowboy Shark

You’ve yee-d your last haw.

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#Sharktober #Sharktober2025

Digital art. A pink shark leans against a cactus and tips his cowboy hat down over his eyes.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Flowers & skulls

#Repostober #Skull #Flowers #Art #DarkArt

A black and white stippled ink drawing of a skull, moons, and flowers, all in a triangular shape.

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 1d

🍄 Amethyst Deceiver 🍄

When the crisp air flicks the fallen leaves autumn is here on the forest floor. 🍂

(Mini print available)
nimasprout.shop/collections/...

Purple hued mushroom with orange leaves in background.

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grace 🏡 🍃 @daisleis.bsky.social · 11d

gingham 🐈‍⬛ 🧶

#peachtober25 #peachtober25gingham

a drawing of a little black cat (with white paws!) curled up on a gingham quilt

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Miranda @mirandaestby.bsky.social · 1d

He loves the sunshine.

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Reiko Murakami @reikomurakami.bsky.social · 1d

Just some drawings of my dog sleeping.
#art

My dog’s paws are sticking out from the comforter

My dog sleeping with a smile in her face

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⌘ 𝖇𝖔𝖓𝖘 ⌘ @bbonbonss.bsky.social · 2d

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Two unicorn designs in the same pose but flipped. The cream design on top while the blue one on bottom. Surrounded by a simple gold arched border inside being a textured blue with a few star shapes at the arch and outside is an off white with sun like shapes on top and bottom.

The cream design is on the simpler side with just the base coat having quite the shine and the mane+tail being a darker blond with very light blue tips (this includes the feathering at the hooves) her horn is also the same very light blue color. She has pink accent color on her hooves, ears, and snout. The blue design below is a much more complex design as its pattern is a paint appy mix. She has somewhat of a blaze face marking and a pink snout with black around her nose with the addition of white ‘freckles’ below her eyes where the blue coat still reaches. She has three white stockings and one black sock, with long feathering at the hooves. Her black appy spots are only on her bum while the paint spots are at her back, chest , and side. Her twisty unicorn tail is entirely white with a brown wrap tied right before the hair there. Her horn, that sticks straight out but abruptly has a long curve backward, is a vibrant blue and she has black hooves.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 1d

AI proponents use Marylin Monroe as a shorthand for “choose your own public sex fantasy icon and/or personal stalker target”.

In other words they’re just advertising AI for automated deepfakes/revenge porn. That’s the whole premise.

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sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoying some of the absolutely primo Little Guys on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

Clay vessel in the shape of a hedgehog holding a bowl

Clay vessel in the shape of a bull, but its head is like a candle holder

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Sebas @svonbuchwald.bsky.social · 1d

Cat.

Picture of my cat Boogie. He's sleeping, all cozy in cat tower.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

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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Abi Stevens: MCM N16 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I'm Abi, and illustrator with a bold and colourful digital style.
Portfolio: abistevens_art
Email: [email protected]

Currently looking for commission work! (Private and/or commercial!)
#commissionsOpen #illustration #art

Here's some of my favourite personal work!

A digital illustration of a purple figure with a flat expression and their hands up grasping weakly at colourful looping shapes with bold black lines. Some have yellow eyes at the centre, they obscure most of the figures head, neck and shoulders.

A digital illustration of a colourful moth with swirly leafy details in its wings and a pastel rainbow ombre body. It is framed by swirly leafy shapes also in pastel ombre tones, and a rainbow spiral with circles showing the phases of the moon in yellow and white. The large full moon rests at the centre of the spiral and under the moths right wing.

A sigitL illustration of a white bat with 2 heads and eight wings in flight. It has no eyes and each wing is a different colour: blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, indigo and violet. It is framed by pastel sparkles and a gold ring border with a repeating pattern of eyeballs around it. In the outer corners are feathery stylised purple wings, and circles showing the phases of the moon.

A digital illustration: a parody of memento mori still life paintings but it's arranged on a beach and has a 'goth summer' theme. Objects include a skull, sunglasses, globe beachball with a witch hat on top, romance books with a knife stabbed in the top, a cocktail with an eyeball in it, a poison punch bottle, suncream, fang sweets, melting icecream, shells, bucket and spade, beach bag and towels. They are framed by a grey beach umbrella, deckchair, and a footprint in the sand.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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