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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open!
@maybarros.com.br
Demiaroace e genderqueer. Escritora, ilustradora e game designer. 🇧🇷 Writer, artist and game dev 🇺🇸

PT-BR & ENG

commissions: vgen.co/maybarros

maybarros.carrd.co

#art #BRart #indiedev #indieauthor #commission #fanart #autora
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New year, new #PortfolioDay!

I'm May, a queer Brazilian artist, writer and game dev! I focus on fantasy stories with queer characters!

My commissions are open!

patreon.com/naiveheart
ko-fi.com/maybarros
vgen.co/maybarros
catarse.me/maybarros
naiveheart.itch.io
naive-star.itch.io
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I missed this thread a few days ago - it has so much cool stuff, go check it out if you are in the slightest bit interested:
Hey folks, time for another indie #ShowCasey, January edition! Are you an indie developer? Do you have an upcoming game you would like to show off to people? Reply below with a pitch for your game, screenshots/video, and link to the store page! Use the hashtag if you want, only one rule:

No genAI!
a cartoon character wearing a hat and holding a cane
Alt: a cartoon character wearing a hat and holding a cane
media.tenor.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Kpop:Demon Hunters never used AI either. All those characters, costumes, buildings to small props and graphic design were all made by ppl with a story that’s told by real ppl.
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
January 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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No, that is NOT Taliyah! #leagueoflegends #tbshorts
January 21, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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“A fascist worked across borders today. Did you?”
I actually think it's kind of important that all those opposed to the nationalist repressions on the march around the world today figure out ways to be in solidarity across borders rather than participating in the same kinds of nationalist essentialism motivating our enemies.
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Published a year ago today.

No cozy, no cutesy, no romantasy.

No thorns, no thrones, no roses, no TikTok.

And absolutely no fucking AI.

Just one old biker, a load of psychotropics, and a derelict fantasy world, lost to madness.

Cover by @tomsbrown.bsky.social

www.amazon.co.uk/Lugan-Vision...
January 21, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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I want to tack on to this that I think you cheat yourself out of a lot good when you always opt for comfort. You dismiss people who are different or a little tough around the edges, you shy away from new experiences and ideas. Your precious energy gets siphoned off by shit that Does Not Matter.
Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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People are constantly emailing us asking us how much whistles cost. It will always be $0. We send out 100 for $0. We send out 1000 for $0. Folks donating filament & shipping cash will let us keep doing that for as long as we need to, I hope! 💓

79,280 in the past 20 days & counting.
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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lost beneath the ice

#digitalart #fantasy #rpg #D&D
January 21, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.

🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer

Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw

📚🌈📚🪐📚💙

📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
January 21, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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E o tecnofeudalismo torando
Meta diz que punir empresas de tecnologia dos EUA seria 'autodestrutivo' para a Europa
Um executivo da Meta alertou nesta quarta-feira que seria “autodestrutivo” para a União Europeia atingir empresas de tecnologia americanas como retaliação à ameaça de Washington de impor tarifas a países que se oponham a uma eventual anexação da Groenlândia. China está apenas seis meses atrás do Ocidente em IA, diz executivo da DeepMind — Acho que seria especialmente autodestrutivo para a Europa mirar as empresas de tecnologia — afirmou Joel Kaplan, diretor de assuntos globais da Meta, controladora do Facebook, à margem do Fórum Econômico Mundial, em Davos. No encontro, espera-se que o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, volte a defender que o país assuma o controle da Groenlândia, território autônomo da Dinamarca. O alerta de Kaplan ocorre num momento em que países da União Europeia discutem como responder às ameaças de tarifas ou a uma tentativa dos Estados Unidos de tomar a Groenlândia pela força. Empresas americanas de tecnologia ocupam posição dominante em vários mercados europeus, como os de smartphones, redes sociais e serviços de computação em nuvem. Por isso, alguns países do bloco avaliam ificultar o acesso desses gigantes ao mercado europeu. — Milhões de pequenas empresas dependem dos nossos serviços para alcançar clientes, expandir seus negócios e gerar empregos na Europa. Isso só levaria a uma espiral ainda maior de retaliações, prejudicial para todos — disse Kaplan. Ele reconheceu, no entanto, que “os governos europeus terão de tomar suas próprias decisões sobre o que consideram melhor para a população e para a economia do continente”. Também nesta quarta-feira, o secretário do Tesouro dos EUA, Scott Bessent, pediu aos europeus que evitem uma “reação instintiva” e se sentem com Trump em Davos para ouvir seus argumentos sobre a Groenlândia. Enquanto isso, autoridades europeias começaram a discutir a possibilidade de acionar o chamado mecanismo anticoerção da UE — a ferramenta comercial mais poderosa do bloco, por vezes chamada de “opção nuclear” ou “bazuca”.
dlvr.it
January 21, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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I would love to be featured! I have a bunch of freebies listed for starting streamers and this would help tremendously with visibility 🥺 Thanks so much for this opportunity!

ko-fi.com/artbychichi
Support Chichi
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ko-fi.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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One, just ONE, school day like this would have fixed me.
When children are allowed to pilot mechas and school becomes the launch pad ❤️ (from "Gosaurer", 1993)
January 21, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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eu gosto como a falácia do "banho curto pra poupar agua" é usada pela galera que usa IA pra justificar uso intermitente diário e recorrente.

água não deveria ser produto.
IA é um produto e todo produto so tem continuidade se tem mercado
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Valentines launch tomorrow, 6PM GMT 💘
January 20, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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QRP with your wing art!
January 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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☀️ harmon loc'arhys - she/they • 32 • tiefling dhampir • roguelock

#art #oc #ocart #ocsky #ocintro #dnd #dndart
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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QRPed with Alt Text ✨
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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☀️ molten sunlight

#art #oc #ocart #ocsky #dnd #dndart
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Want to read sapphic godpunk?

Punk rocker Giulia crosses paths with a literal goddess back stage and whoops, the new fling's ex wants to OD the world on old magic and double whoops, turns out Giulia has some new magic powers too.

Full blurb and shopping links ⤵️

katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...
Once Upon a Punk Show
For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …
katelynforrest.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Genuinely useful, paradigm shifting technology should largely be able to sell itself. The fact that they're desperately trying to find ways to get people to adopt it as they hemorrhage money says everything you need to know.
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Saiu 🥳❤️
Primeira vez que organizo uma chamada de dossiê, e o tema é...
🥁🥁🥁

✨ SHAKESPEARE ✨

Aceitamos, além de artigos acadêmicos, produções artísticas que se encaixem no tema (incluindo ilustração, áudio, vídeo, fotografia, poesia, conto etc.)

periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/em...
DOSSIÊ: SHAKESPEARE ENTRE O TEXTO, A CENA E A CRÍTICA: permanências e deslocamentos | Em Tese
periodicos.ufmg.br
January 21, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM