Dire
@direhard.bsky.social
Your designated Dire. Any pronouns. Antipodean Artist.
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Dire
@direhard.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Hello! I am Dire!
I draw a fair bit of D&D art, some OCs, some assorted fanart for games/comics/animation.
I draw a fair bit of D&D art, some OCs, some assorted fanart for games/comics/animation.
There's these plastic tubes that I have to chew on while wearing aligners to help my teeth move into position. I've gone through 3 of them so far and judging by my dentist's reaction that's not normal.
Mr. Dire joked that I need to get a Kong chew toy.
Mr. Dire joked that I need to get a Kong chew toy.
December 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
There's these plastic tubes that I have to chew on while wearing aligners to help my teeth move into position. I've gone through 3 of them so far and judging by my dentist's reaction that's not normal.
Mr. Dire joked that I need to get a Kong chew toy.
Mr. Dire joked that I need to get a Kong chew toy.
Needed to go exchange a faulty case fan, dude at the returns desk called out for help checking the fan I brought back and out from the back appeared a near identical dude with the same voice inflections and speech patterns.
It was like meeting Pumat Sol.
It was like meeting Pumat Sol.
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Needed to go exchange a faulty case fan, dude at the returns desk called out for help checking the fan I brought back and out from the back appeared a near identical dude with the same voice inflections and speech patterns.
It was like meeting Pumat Sol.
It was like meeting Pumat Sol.
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I was disappointed with those little pleather Goromi makeup bags the Sega shop was selling so I made a SaeMaji themed leather Goromi purse for @diyferret.bsky.social for Christmas
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I was disappointed with those little pleather Goromi makeup bags the Sega shop was selling so I made a SaeMaji themed leather Goromi purse for @diyferret.bsky.social for Christmas
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"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip
I watched a lot of movies this year. None of them in the cinema or streamed. I rewatched movies I owned in physical format, or privateered.
I've gotten thinking recently about the lack of media savvy. Not just in young people, I see it everywhere.
I've gotten thinking recently about the lack of media savvy. Not just in young people, I see it everywhere.
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I watched a lot of movies this year. None of them in the cinema or streamed. I rewatched movies I owned in physical format, or privateered.
I've gotten thinking recently about the lack of media savvy. Not just in young people, I see it everywhere.
I've gotten thinking recently about the lack of media savvy. Not just in young people, I see it everywhere.
Do you think if the Emperor of America dies, his sons will attempt to fight each other for the crown?
Because that would be hilarious
Because that would be hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Do you think if the Emperor of America dies, his sons will attempt to fight each other for the crown?
Because that would be hilarious
Because that would be hilarious
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you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.
In the comments of a Young Sheldon clip I saw some dudes arguing about what it meant to be red pilled in the context of "nice guys finished last so never be nice to women"
I don't think any of them have seen the matrix. It's been stripped of context and is now just part of their Incel-ese lexicon.
I don't think any of them have seen the matrix. It's been stripped of context and is now just part of their Incel-ese lexicon.
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
In the comments of a Young Sheldon clip I saw some dudes arguing about what it meant to be red pilled in the context of "nice guys finished last so never be nice to women"
I don't think any of them have seen the matrix. It's been stripped of context and is now just part of their Incel-ese lexicon.
I don't think any of them have seen the matrix. It's been stripped of context and is now just part of their Incel-ese lexicon.
People will say stuff like "there's so much we don't know about the world" then go on to say "aliens must have built the pyramids"
Who is this "we"?
Who is this "we"?
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
People will say stuff like "there's so much we don't know about the world" then go on to say "aliens must have built the pyramids"
Who is this "we"?
Who is this "we"?
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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Today I said one of my coworkers was like a CD-R and not a CD-RW.
I then had to explain what those were.
I then had to explain what those were.
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Today I said one of my coworkers was like a CD-R and not a CD-RW.
I then had to explain what those were.
I then had to explain what those were.
Bloody starving at work so I got myself a big sandwich and some peripheral snacks.
Sat down, opened up social media, looked at some funny memes then wasn't hungry anymore.
I guess I must have spoiled my appetite with dopamine or something.
Sat down, opened up social media, looked at some funny memes then wasn't hungry anymore.
I guess I must have spoiled my appetite with dopamine or something.
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Bloody starving at work so I got myself a big sandwich and some peripheral snacks.
Sat down, opened up social media, looked at some funny memes then wasn't hungry anymore.
I guess I must have spoiled my appetite with dopamine or something.
Sat down, opened up social media, looked at some funny memes then wasn't hungry anymore.
I guess I must have spoiled my appetite with dopamine or something.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
No offence, but that spelling (*You're) needed correction.
No offence, but that spelling (*You're) needed correction.
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
No offence, but that spelling (*You're) needed correction.
No offence, but that spelling (*You're) needed correction.
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The technology basically peaked. It's all incremental tinkering now. Like with digital cameras - the technical differences between the highest end products are only of interest to a tiny percentage of experts. Which might be part of the reason for "AI" being pushed in everything.
My phone is doing all the same things from 2015 with only minimal benefits. The only reason we have to upgrade is increased software bloat.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The technology basically peaked. It's all incremental tinkering now. Like with digital cameras - the technical differences between the highest end products are only of interest to a tiny percentage of experts. Which might be part of the reason for "AI" being pushed in everything.
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This has got to be a fucking troll
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This has got to be a fucking troll
Going through my inks and nibs (another victim of baby proofing). 3 of my nibs I had won in an art comp at a now defunct anime con.
On a whim I wondered if the store supplying the prizes was still around.
They are! And it looks like they haven't updated their website since 2005.
On a whim I wondered if the store supplying the prizes was still around.
They are! And it looks like they haven't updated their website since 2005.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Going through my inks and nibs (another victim of baby proofing). 3 of my nibs I had won in an art comp at a now defunct anime con.
On a whim I wondered if the store supplying the prizes was still around.
They are! And it looks like they haven't updated their website since 2005.
On a whim I wondered if the store supplying the prizes was still around.
They are! And it looks like they haven't updated their website since 2005.
*Making eye contact with the bot account that liked my post because I mentioned SEO*
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
*Making eye contact with the bot account that liked my post because I mentioned SEO*
At some point in the baby proofing process, so much of our things got packed away.
The switch to streaming media assisted in the process of packing away all our CDs into emptied boxes of huggies.
The switch to streaming media assisted in the process of packing away all our CDs into emptied boxes of huggies.
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
At some point in the baby proofing process, so much of our things got packed away.
The switch to streaming media assisted in the process of packing away all our CDs into emptied boxes of huggies.
The switch to streaming media assisted in the process of packing away all our CDs into emptied boxes of huggies.
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The thing that kills me about the LUMI AI stuff is that kids should be, and frequently are, bad at stuff. Allow them to have the experience of being bad at stuff by themselves.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The thing that kills me about the LUMI AI stuff is that kids should be, and frequently are, bad at stuff. Allow them to have the experience of being bad at stuff by themselves.
I'm watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
It's like Elizabethan 'Dude, where's my car"
It's like Elizabethan 'Dude, where's my car"
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I'm watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
It's like Elizabethan 'Dude, where's my car"
It's like Elizabethan 'Dude, where's my car"
When on my period I used to quote Heavy weapons guy from TF2 "SO MUCH BLOOOOOOD!"
I stopped because I had told my co-worker, and she kept mentioning how funny that was I trained myself out of it.
Instead I now quote Lady Macbeth.
I stopped because I had told my co-worker, and she kept mentioning how funny that was I trained myself out of it.
Instead I now quote Lady Macbeth.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When on my period I used to quote Heavy weapons guy from TF2 "SO MUCH BLOOOOOOD!"
I stopped because I had told my co-worker, and she kept mentioning how funny that was I trained myself out of it.
Instead I now quote Lady Macbeth.
I stopped because I had told my co-worker, and she kept mentioning how funny that was I trained myself out of it.
Instead I now quote Lady Macbeth.
Wisdom from Mini Dire: "Farts are poops breathing."
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Wisdom from Mini Dire: "Farts are poops breathing."
Saw an old man the other day casually dressed like Freddy Kruger.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Saw an old man the other day casually dressed like Freddy Kruger.
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If anyone needs a jolt of climate-related optimism, here's the Great Green Wall. In just 10 years these simple, small, moon-shaped troughs halted the spread of the Sahara Desert, cooled huge swaths of land, and are still growing lush ecosystems for local food www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBd...
February 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If anyone needs a jolt of climate-related optimism, here's the Great Green Wall. In just 10 years these simple, small, moon-shaped troughs halted the spread of the Sahara Desert, cooled huge swaths of land, and are still growing lush ecosystems for local food www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBd...
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Of course, the men of Gondor were unable to protect Middle-Earth, and the threat of Sauron was only stopped when hobbits and men teamed up with those of other races and cultures, and worked together for the betterment of all.
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Of course, the men of Gondor were unable to protect Middle-Earth, and the threat of Sauron was only stopped when hobbits and men teamed up with those of other races and cultures, and worked together for the betterment of all.