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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 6d

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Lit Windows Season to those who celebrate!

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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 7d

Hey #portfolioday!!

I'm a digital artist who creates commissioned art for #startrek #fanfiction projects - Had some wonderful opportunities to help out some fantastic folk and love to help others with their projects - even happy to jump star franchises ;) Thanks so much!

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 12d

Whenever they have new to deliver that is so unappetising, they wheel Clegg out to deliver it. They say "for there is a man who has so debased himself, there is nothing left to defend"

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 12d

AI industry cannot survive without stealing all our work. Got it. I'm OK if it does not survive

Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 12d

Not Clegg crawling back out the ground to jump-scare ya with the most obvious sh**

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

Chess is technically 4D though. It exists in time. Hmmm.

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 13d

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

People probably assume I'm exaggerating or lying. I'm not.

Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

What radicalised me: police telling innocent citizens to move home (away).
So, if you pay council tax and work for a living, message is "f*** off, we don't want you here". If you're doing crime and pay no council tax or bills, message is "stick around, we'll bend over backwards for you!"

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

V annoying, personally, to be a person who takes schedules literally, in a world where we're not all doing that. Ugh, not my week this week

Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

Not even enough of it even if we really wanted to. Can barely cover the bin collections as it is.

Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

In my area, crowds of (I think primarily) crack users are drawn to the dealers. All crime rises - thefts, break-ins, assaults. More minor issues, too - obvsly the drug use, waste disposal issues, threats, aggression. All contributes to atmosphere of hopelessness and fear.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 13d

Also look into the policy (since Sunak) of housing ex-offenders via private landlords. Anecdotally, this is wreaking havoc in communities. Properties become foothold for organised crime gangs, conveniently located in the city. Very difficult to resolve.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 14d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social · 13d

Cover for Celine Leonora's "A Lesson in Murder," published by Arena-Verlag. This was my first time working with a German publishing company and they were so polite, and efficient, and respectful 🥲 13/10 client.

Illustrated cover of a blonde girl in a plaid school uniform looking out from a gothic window surrounded by fall ivy foliage. Reflected in the squares of the window are two boys faces, one blonde, one black haired with glasses.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14d

What I think of every time someone says they're "thinking of selling and moving to UAE". This, and cartels and money laundering

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 14d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers,...

www.theguardian.com

Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14d

Feel like I should just call it a day. Clearly things not going well so far, and feeling very stressed tbh

Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14d

Idk what to do. Support fixed it last time but couldn't this time. In limbo.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14d

Photoshop rapidly reducing it's functionality to nil as it repeatedly deletes my brushes (that I'm using, that I NEED!) on updates.
Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template.
Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14d

Enjoy! Nottingham is great :)

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 14d

Sadly haven't been back since uni days. I imagine the Lace Market is still home to cute restaurants and bars tho, and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is your obligatory tourist (but honestly pretty cool) old pub

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 15d

Only Garmin people will understand this, but I did a textbook sleep. Lol, proud moments.

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Cat Finnie @catfinnie.bsky.social · 23d

Idk, mine have all varied a bit, but mostly a couple of days feeling pretty rough. Panadol and lots of water!