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Sal (Comms Open)

@gramophoneturtle.bsky.social

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I'm Sal! They/them. Freelance Artist drawing #SalOCs #TWEWY #XenobladeX. #SalStreams on Twitch! #Timelapse See #Commission #Commissions VGen: https://vgen.co/gramophoneturtle Info: https://gramophoneturtle.carrd.co/#commissions #Art Feeds: #SalFeeds

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 11d

Ghostly Spirit Form - Halloween Discount!

Want your OC/favourite character as a spirit or like the Composer from #TWEWY? Get it now, plus a cheaper Surprise Me option too!

vgen.co/gramophonetu...
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#Commissions #ArtCommissions #CommissionsOpen #VGen #VGenOpen

A "Ghostly Spirit" banner showing my two OCs, Null and Father, in a spirit form. There is also a ghostly ghost spirit in the top left and a ghostly bat spirit in the bottom right.

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 11d

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 15m

Hornet for a Tumblr 6 Fanarts request!
#Hornet #Silksong #FanArt

Digital art of Hornet from Silksong, raising her needle with threads surrounding her.

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ITSASHOWTIME @itsashowtime.bsky.social · 1d

( NEO TWEWY OC / KYAKUTO HYOUSHIO )

I gotta show myself before it goes apart
Something that you know
Something that you know

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 1d

As, promised, here's my Guide to leaving Microsoft behind and switching to Linux Mint.

Say Goodbye To Microsoft AI, Ads and Other Nonsense. Switch to Linux Mint!

YouTube video by JayIsPainting at EarthSkyArt

youtu.be

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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when I came up with "buttons" to explain executive dysfunction just because I had an argument with my partner about getting things done?

I made an entirely new series for ADHD Awareness Month explaining motivation & ADHD. Coming next week 👀✨

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Comic showing a person with black hair and yellow antennae struggling to explain ADHD-related difficulties.
Panel 1: The character looks startled as another person enters cheerfully with a dog, saying, “Heyyy, I’m back!”
Panel 2: The person frowns, “You said you would clean up!” The character replies, “I wanted to eat breakfast first…”
Panel 3: The character adds, “But I couldn’t decide on what to eat, so I didn’t.” The other responds, “Well, now you know better. Next time just eat something.”
Panel 4: The character, frustrated, says, “Don’t say it like that! I already knew that!” The other person asks, “Then why can you do it NOW?”

Comic continuing the ADHD explanation using a stove metaphor.
Panel 1: A stove without buttons is shown. Text: “Because my brain is like a stove without any buttons. I know I have to cook, but how do I turn it on?”
Panel 2: The stove stays cold. Text: “Knowing the consequences doesn’t turn on the stove.”
Panel 3: Someone stands nearby; the stove lights up. Text: “When you’re next to me, it’s like you spawn a button for me. You are an outside source of buttons.”
Panel 4: The stove smokes slightly. The other person asks, “What can you do to get a button yourself?” The character replies, “Uhh… I’m not sure… Medication helps a bit.”

Comic concluding the “buttons and stove” metaphor for ADHD motivation.
Panel 1: The character explains, “ADHD is a disorder, it means serious impairment. You can do chores because you have to, right?” The other replies, “Well yeah, I have to.”
Panel 2: The character points to a vacuum cleaner. “That’s because you get buttons for all kinds of things.” The other says, “Look at all those buttons!”
Panel 3: The character shouts at papers, “I did so many pomodoros! WHY WON’T YOU TURN ON?!” Text: “I don’t get buttons for mundane tasks—it’s neurological, not motivational. You can’t just ‘motivate’ a stove to turn on.”
Panel 4: Surrounded by drawings, the character smiles. “I only get buttons for interesting tasks.” The other person says, amazed, “So many buttons!”

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 1d

dragon fruit #art

Illustration of a litteral dragon fruit. They are in the shape of wyverns. There are baby dragons and a large dragon. They have a red and green color palete. The bellies and wings are made of dragon fruit

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 2d

No streams this week. Thought I still could but stuff has come up and it's easier to just cancel them.

Hoping to bring back a Tuesday stream to make up for it next week! See you all then!

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Kizzy 🐈‍⬛ @suouffle.posts.art · 4d

the horrors persists, but so do I
#twewy #ntwewy #fanart

fanart of Coco Atarashi and Tsugumi Matsunae (NTWEWY), shaped like aliens (inspired by little alienz forever art). They both have matching bow ties on their hair. Coco is happy while Tsugumi is melancholic yet blushing. Text: "bow time !!!!"

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 3d

That's an amazing cake! Happy Birthday!

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Angel @angelnightrose.bsky.social · 3d

Here's my birthday cake that I made!! It's chocolate with strawberry filling and I tried doing a buttercream image transfer for the first time. It came out kind of messy but honestly not terrible. :3

#twewy

A photo of a round cake with light gray frosting, a border of black frosting, red confetti sprinkles, and black cat shaped sprinkles. In the center is an image of Sho Minamimoto from TWEWY made of buttercream frosting.

A slice of chocolate cake with strawberry filling sitting on a blue plate.

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 3d

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #PortfolioDay! I make illustrations, chibis, PNGTubers, Hugging YCH and also offer Surprise Me services as well!

Portfolio Day collage of a completed SpindaTuber PNGTuber, Xenoblade X chibi comic, Rose from Library of Ruina using Rip Space, Ghostly Spirits of my OCs Null and Father, YCH I Hug You! banner, and a full body of my OC Father playing on a handheld game console.

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KJETLL // dtiys pinned! @kjetll.bsky.social · 4d

AAAAAAAAAAAA IT'S #PORTFOLIODAY ARTSHARE!!

DROP YOUR BEAUTIFUL PORTFOLIOS RIGHT NOW, ARTISTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #PortfolioDay! I make illustrations, chibis, PNGTubers, Hugging YCH and also offer Surprise Me services as well!

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red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 5d

Cool new thing that Youtube's AI-generated autodubbing is doing: translating non-English songs and reading them out in English AI-voiced monotone over the original singer. This was on by default.

youtube comment from flexman10, 4 days ago
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Random Ai sounding voice:
"Let everything be as the science of your soul desires"
Why am I hearing you?!
Where are you coming from?! "
19 upvotes
SomeGuyWhoLikesVideos replies, 2 days ago
"Youtube video settings, Audio track - English, click it and change it to Russian original "

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x0_000 (sketch commissions open) @x0triple0.bsky.social · 5d

diamond

#pixelart #background #abstract

A tiled background of blue zigzags that interlock to create vertically aligned diamonds, with smaller yellow, red and orange diamonds in the space between vertical groups.

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Holly Bear ʕ ⚆ ᴥ⚆ʔ 📖✍️ @bearhybrid.art · 6d

One of my favorite charities Orphaned Wildlife Center suddenly started posting A/I s/lop when they really don't have to. You loose the support of nature loving people when you use a technology that is using an excessive amount of water and energy. Harming the world for mediocre views isn't it... 🐻💔

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d

This post needs an updated re-issue because AI companies have truly come up with some incredibly novel ways to push this technology that no one wants onto people.

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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xoPEACHI @ TwitchCon SD @xopeachi.com · 6d

Great breakdown! TLDR:
- Don't use third party apps to watch Twitch streams
- Don't watch more than 2-3 streams at a time

Both of these things look like viewbotting to Twitch, so your view will count NOWHERE if you do this!

Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 6d

There have been a lot of theories about Twitch viewership and what Twitch is (or isn't) counting as a result of the view bot update.

We now have an update that I think tries to answer the question "What is a Lurker and what isn't?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlC...

What is and What Isn't a Lurker on Twitch? (Viewbot Update)

YouTube video by Zach Bussey

www.youtube.com

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 6d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Rappenem @rappenem.bsky.social · 6d

Ball of fire

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Seaglass @blurryseaglass.bsky.social · 6d

and yet another morning comes (2022)

#art #glitchart #graphicdesign #digitalart #posterart

glitch art poster. a cascade of polar waterfalls. text reads "and yet another morning comes"

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Sal (Comms Open) @gramophoneturtle.bsky.social · 6d

Time to make our Stream Friends better!
www.twitch.tv/gramophonetu...

#NotMondayCafe #ArtStream #Twitch #SalStreams #VTuber #PNGTuber

Screenshot of my OC Chisa as a floating spirit head with Spirit Bat friend too!

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COLORGEIST @colorgeist.bsky.social · 7d

Update: Demand has been very low (close to non-existent) so I've drastically reduced my prices.

Still getting to those tiny themes and loops too! Sorry for the wait. I'll also be aiming to stream again very soon. 👻🎸🎶

COLORGEIST @colorgeist.bsky.social · Sep 18

Open for work! colorgeist.carrd.co#commission

colorgeist

my profile

colorgeist.carrd.co

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