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Vincent Becherer

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Storyboard Artist. LOOKING FOR WORK! Willing to relocate. PORTFOLIO: http://vincentbecherer.com BUSINESS CONTACT: [email protected] “Do not comply in advance.”

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · Apr 8

Happy #PortfolioDay once again!

I'm Vincent. and I'm a Storyboard Artist/Revisionist!

I'm currently available for Storyboard and Revisionist work!

WILLING TO RELOCATE!

PORTFOLIO: www.vincentbecherer.com
CONTACT: vincentbechererart(at)gmail.com

Reposts are greatly appreciated!

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 2h

Did you see that a documentary is coming out on Disney+?

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 2h

Right up there with “The customer is always right..”

“…in matters of taste.”

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 21h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I'm Owen Dennis. I'm a writer, director, animator, sculptor, what-have-you. I created a show called Infinity Train, another show called Among Us (not released yet), and am currently creating and taking on new projects.

Here's my patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/OwenDennis

Thanks!

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine systems in place that actually exist to benefit the populace, profits be damned?

*cries*

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 2h

Stream them! Just don’t look at chat if you’re worried about spoilers.

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 2h

TRU!

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 22h

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Kat Lyons • Available for Work! @katlyyons.bsky.social · 7h

In losing my animation job and pivoting to another career, I have lost 91% of my gross income. Went from feeling like I was thriving for the first time since moving out of my parents’ to being back under the poverty line. It’s really, really rough out here

✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

This is not a call for pity but more to put into perspective how 2025 has been impacting a lot of artists:

Between losses of sales, wholesale, tariffs, and fewer corporate clients, I have lost 50% of my gross income this year as a full-time graphic designer and artist.

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Toxoglossa 𓃩 @toxoglossa.bsky.social · 9h

Great, so payment processors can obliterate an artist’s whole career if they even mention adult content, but the richest dipshits in the world can get infinity billion dollars in investment for The Computer That Jerks You Off.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

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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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 17h

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 · 20h

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

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 20h

Not just that, but the kinda comical public pulling back the curtain to show that a lot of us are going to lose our jobs, savings, and potentially houses, because the government prioritized giving welfare to like five mediocre white guys who weren’t bullied enough in childhood.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 21h

Love that we all know this is going to happen and have known it since this shit was introduced yet all we can do is wait for the dumbest and most easily avoidable economy crash of all time.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

Dang, respect.

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this post a robot

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 9d

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 17d

A reminder that you don’t have to do this. You don’t have to do things that you know are wrong.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 17d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly? Heartening to hear from leadership. IMO, less is more.

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

Understandable.

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

Nice, congrats! Arcade cabinets are honestly so cool, and I'd love to own one myself if I ever have the means to!

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

I would have assumed that was already just the standard? At least at your guys’ level.

You want an illustration? Price A
You want an organized .psd file (which you will almost certainly be tinkering with post-delivery)? Price A + B.

Though maybe that’s my naïveté on the topic?

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Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s brainstorm.”

Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 1d

💜💜💜

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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