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saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 18h

gen AI has an 80-90% error rate in giving medical advice

saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 18h

i'm considering leaving #Threadless because i caught them having AI chatbots on their site. are there any better alternatives that don't pull this shit at all?

saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 22h

Threadless holds contests to find the best work in certain themes & some of the current ones are "Art as Activism", "glitch" and the controversy around AI. recently i caught them using AI in the form of chatbots on their site so i submitted this.
go vote on it;

www.threadless.com/designs/ban-...

a glitched out graphic of text reading "Ban and remove all Generative AI including chatbots from Threadless Now!"

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 1d

you should absolutely give #Threadless shit over the fact they have Chatbots in their help section. any and all use of LLM gen AI is inexcusable anywhere, all Chatbots included.

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saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 3d

added another design on #Threadless of cartoony stylistic representations of boggarts more commonly referred to as #boogiemen. boggarts are common household prankster #spirits that appear as shapeshifting shadows and sometimes befriend children but menace ill behaved adults.

#BSNM

grasping dancing shadow monsters | saturnoddities's Shop

Check out the design, grasping dancing shadow monsters, from saturnoddities – available on a range of custom products

www.threadless.com

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Vero.Doodles @verodoodles.bsky.social · 5d

Biblically accurate mushroom wood burning✨🍄🪽🪽

#pyrography #woodburning #mushroom #art #painting

Painted wood burning of a “biblically accurate” mushroom.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 9d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 14d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Pastel Lich @pastellich.bsky.social · Oct 21

Oliver Banks drawing process

#darkart #art #illustration #tma #themagnusarchives #theend #death

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♄ @vulfolaic.bsky.social · 19d

*Sneezes* Happy First Werewolf Wednesday of the Halloween Season ✨🍂🍁🪾✨🎃✨ AH-Choo 🤧

Zev sketch - werewolf lady in a dress having a sneeze

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Cyberpumpkin @cyberpumpkin.bsky.social · 8d

Hornet from Silksong and the Knight from Hollow Knight are pictured on a tiled platform with ornate wrought iron arches in the background.

Hornet pats the Knight on the head. She says:

"You're doing a good job, little ghost."

This piece is dated 20251002

The Knight from Hollow Knight sits on an outdoor bench with its weapon propped up next to it. A street lamp lights up the Knight and the bench. The air is hazy.

This drawing is dated 20251003

Spooky stands in a large dark space, holding a lantern. In front of Spooky a large pipe has one end bolted to the floor, and the other end is lost in the darkness above. There are a few smaller pipes branching from the big pipe, which bend and disappear into the floor. Far overhead, other pipes branch off the big pipe and bend upwards, disappearing into the darkness. There is a similar structure twenty paces off in the background to Spooky's left side.

A nighttime scene with a clear sky with a moon and stars. The viewer is looking at a short tower with a round base built into the slope of a grassy hill. Windows in the sides of the base are open and illuminate patches of the grass. The tower has a wooden stairway that winds around the outside. At the top of the tower is a telescope and a little girl yeti waving down at the viewer. The girl's name is Qualmie.

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 8d

✨️👻✨️

"The wood dwellers"
"You are not from here are you?"
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A child like creature with a dress, an apron, and the head covered in a burlap sack is standing holding a bucket dripping red liquid in one hand, nd a rope in the other. The rope is holding a creature without he body of a pig, the mane of a lion, 4 horns, and a face with black eyes and a bright red third eye.

"Be the Queen the world deserves"
Head of a xenomorph queen on a red background

"The shepherd"

"My herd, listen to My voice and be not afraid, for I know you and your deepest desires. Follow me, and I'll lead you to my Paradise."
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A priest like humanoid with white hair is in preaching position. He has a black shiny halo and his uncanny face has no eyes. His robes are rich and a huge eye rest on his chest. The head of a dead lamb is held on his right hand.

"The lamb"
Blessed be the lamb who follows blindly, for they will deliver their kin in a silver tray.
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This is an image of a blonde girl wearing a lamb mask. An ominous all seeing eye is behind her inside a halo.

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saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 8d

@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social

a strawberry and crossbones cared into leather

$intersecting orbs with fractal branches$ a sleeping bat

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Holly @pterosaur.bsky.social · 8d

tea kettle guys

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Anjesen | Humberto Molinar @anjesen.bsky.social · 8d

Inktober 12/31: "Shredded guitar." #inktober #inktober2025 #inktobear #inktobear2025 (prompt: shredded)

A furious bald fat man covered in tattoos plays an amazingly fast solo on his Flying-V guitar.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

“We’re being ourselves in order to highlight the weirdness that others are trying to impose on Portland.

We’re just showing them who we are and hopefully that causes them to re-evaluate their motives for being here.”

ICE are the weird ones.

Militarizing a city against its wishes is weird.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 8d

i entered this graphic into a contest for glitch art, retro-scifi, and art as activism on #Treadless if anyone wants to rate it; www.threadless.com/designs/anti...

the "no" sign over AI and the swastika with the words "stand with creative workers, fight techn0-fascism, abolish generative AI" and glitchy looking editing.

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SnosSnos @snossnos.bsky.social · 9d

#art #illustration #inktober #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #ink #sting #punk
Sonntags warf sich Mr Sting in seine in die Jahre gekommenen Punkklamotten und spielte den Bösewicht.

Ein helläugiger Punker mit stechendem Blick trägt passend zu seiner zerfetzten Hose und stachliger Weste seine blonden Haare zu langen Stacheln gedreht. Neben den obligatorisch schmückenden Stachelhals- und -armbändern ziert ein Skorpion seine linke Schulter.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 10d

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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saturnoddities.bsky.social @saturnoddities.bsky.social · 9d

half of my commission on each sale of any item with this graphic on it from #Threadless will be donated to various charities with 32% going to protecting and providing #abortion access.
link; www.threadless.com/shop/@saturn...

#BSNM #horror

a watercolor painting of a blue woman's torso with a skull where the stomach is, with the words "1 in 50 pregnancies develop fatal complications if not aborted" written over it.

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 9d

Fun sketch

Graphite on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature

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Yarib 🐈🦈 @gata-tiburon.bsky.social · 9d

hi, my city suffered a flood and i need money to support my affected family and friends

i have one slot left, but im opening 5 more this monday if someone wants to help me. i also have a ko-fi, if that work

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 9d

Meme of soldiers pepper spraying a protestor, with the words "A fascist government doesn't announce that it's fascist: it declares antifascists enemies of the state"

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The Gil-Monster CURSED AND CRAFTED! Oct. 25th, Hinterland Studio @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 9d

@stinasdemons.com @owllog.bsky.social @nightwandererart.bsky.social

#darkart #pipecleanerart 🕷️🤘👾

A pipe cleaner figure I built of Thrush, a playable character in my tabletop fighting game AMPUTHEATRE. Thrush is a giant marsupial rat with mangy gray fur, a bald head, dark blue eyes, and fangs dripping with blood. She stands on her hind legs and a baby rat snarls from her pouch. Thrush's head and arms are removable for AMPUTHEATRE combat, and she can eat the baby for health if necessary. She stands 3" (7.62 cm) high at the shoulder.

A pipe cleaner figure I built of a Roper from Dungeons and Dragons. The Roper is a somewhat amorphous brown-yellow monster with six tentacles, a single eye, and a huge mouth. This figure has the mouth at the base of its trunk, surrounded by four tentacles, while its angry blue eye and two longer tentacles crane from a neck. It measures 3" (7.62 cm) high.

A pipe cleaner figure I built of The Babadook from the movie of the same name. He wears a tall hat and a black to gray coat. He stares open-mouthed at the camera with open hands and long black fingers. He stands 3" (7.62 cm) high.

A pipe cleaner figure I built of the Cacodemon from the video game DOOM. The Cacodemon is a red and pink floating spherical monster with a single green eye, a heavily fanged mouth, and sharp horns. Flesh dribbles and hangs underneath it in strands and loops. It stands 3" (7.62 cm) high.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 9d

New model Maggie drops Monday! 🤎✨

art pose reference of a woman standing looking solemn.

art pose reference of a woman standing doing victory signs.

art pose reference of a woman standing looking into the distance.

art pose reference of a woman sticking out her tongue.

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The Gil-Monster CURSED AND CRAFTED! Oct. 25th, Hinterland Studio @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 9d

ORANGE CASSIDY (AEW)
Pipe cleaner figure
Custom commission. I built him an extra pair of "pocketed" arms to enter Sloth Style

Includes fabric, paint, and super magnets. His head and arms come off for AMPUTHEATRE combat- against Thrush! Stands 3" (7.62 cm) high.

#pipecleanerart #aew #orangecassidy

A pipe cleaner figure I built of professional wrestler Orange Cassidy from AEW. Orange Cassidy has blonde hair and mustache, a brown beard, sunglasses, and a white shirt with his photo on it. He wears torn blue jeans and gives a half thumbs up. He stands approximately 3" (7.62 cm) high.

Pipe cleaner figures I built of professional wrestler Orange Cassidy from AEW and Thrush, the giant rat matriarch from my tabletop splatter fighting game AMPUTHEATRE. Hands in pockets, Orange Cassidy unleashes his patented Kicks of Doom upon the giant bipedal diseased rat.

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