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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 3h

"we hope it will be better"

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 3h

"now we have been able to mitigate" you what you have what what you have NOT

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3h

“Toad, Toad,” shouted Frog, “wake up. It is spring!”

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 13h

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

Yay I managed to fix up the portable graphics setup that I can use in bed when I get too tired to go to the studio JUST IN TIME.
Let's put those lockdown skills to work then.
(Falls asleep)

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☠️ Ichabod Cranium ☠️ @snowintheair.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone who is in need of excellent & friendly audio production and cutting out AI should be talking to Fitz. I love a lot of peoples’ podcasts, but some of y’all should really be talking to him to uplift your end results. ;)

Knock Once For Yes @knockonceforyes.com · 12h

AI has tanked my audio production business, exchange rates and the cost of living crisis have tanked my English tutoring and, as someone with health conditions that needs to social distance, the remote jobs have all dried up with RTO.

Pretty desperate for work if anyone knows of anything!

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

(grumbles)

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

Squinting at the idea of doing text in PS

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

Anyway I had heard that you can't really use the Surface with Linux and it's not true. Didn't work out of the box but did work with minimal patches that anyone could do who knows a little about it. Local repair café, for example.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

Also: I'm a professional illustrator and it's not in my budget to get a new tablet computer that can deal with the AI nonsense and general bloat just to get my illustrations processed in a way that was totally fine a decade ago. This computer is still fine. The software bloat and restriction is not

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 11h

This is all part of my gradual shift away from Adobe. Got to see about batch processing, but I'm really positively surprised by a lot of Krita so far, and I think once the settings are spot on it might be better than PS.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

It's reasonably compatible with Photoshop files, there are great brushes to be had, I think I'll be able to work from home with this again now and then!

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

Had to adjust the settings in Krita to turn off touch painting, adjust the pressure curve, disable one finger dragging of the canvas and one-tap pop-up wheel activation. But all of that was easy and now it feels great.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h

Krita on Mint running in my old Microsoft Surface - had to replace the kernel but instructions are online and it is working again, it had got impossibly slow under windows/Adobe and couldn't be updated. Yay!!

A cat drawn on a Microsoft surface, hand holding windows pen

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 14h

"calls into question, why are the Government not doing something about it?"
Unfortunately the answer is easy. Managing floods like this would need landscape scale action including rewilding rivers and rewetting land and the government are fundamentally opposed to anything positive for nature

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 15h

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

www.rte.ie

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h

Get involved in politics, it's worth it. Getting tired of it all and just going by vibes once it twice a year is less than we can do for our life, our community, our country, whatever, wherever that is. We all matter.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h

Also, just locally, I've found my green councillors to be genuinely supportive of the community. I've personally seen them involve themselves in issues like flooding risks, good relations between businesses and residents - I've been to town hall with them and my neighbours. They are sound.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h

If you're in the UK, consider joining the Greens. There's a lot of nonsense to push back against and they (we) are on it.
join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 16h

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’