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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 16d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

the feds already have a direct feed of everything via the firehose

their arrival here is for intimidation or propaganda purposes (ie visa threat made by State Dept account)

blocking them all immediately eliminates their ability to make everyone see their weird little videos and flaccid quote dunks

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

anyway with the feds here i would advise you to not post any plans about anything you wouldn't like the feds to associate you with

that includes building azorious control

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

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🍉🦂Sharjo🦂🍉 @sharjo.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who does monthly donations to Wikipedia, please donate to wikipedia some time, if you've got anything to spare

It's invaluable

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 2d

THANK YOU SARAH 👏💖 yes I've got this!! I've faced my fears a million times before, and I'll do it a million times more!! Eventually one of these times WILL be the breakthrough to the next thing!! 😤👍

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 3d

SO much of the cultural and artistic nostalgia that society chases was just art made when people got paid to do it. Lavish movie posters made by human artists, video games made by people without sixteen different investment companies breathing down their neck, movies made by studios taking a chance.

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 2d

dead-set committed to facing my fears. I can't keep avoiding things. nothing is happening, which is not what I want. next few months will be interesting. let's see how it goes 😎☀️

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New Title Cards Every Day! The Official DBZEpisodes Account @dbzepisodes.bsky.social · 2d

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 2d

I FINALLY GOT AN APPOINTMENT WITH MY PSYCHIATRIST 😭😭😭🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🙏🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖💖

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 2d

Thank youuu 😭🫂 and I'm so sorry you're going through it too!!

🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 2d

this is some yaoi fanart

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3d

Uh, maybe Jesus should leave a little room for himself.

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 3d

thank you nashies 😭🫂 ughhh this is such an awful feeling

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 3d

Neon Autumn

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 3d

If you're on SNAP and you need help, add your links below so I can boost them.

If you're not on SNAP, please share the replies and donate if you're able.

Link's not around so we do what we can, right?

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3d

SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks

Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 3d

| Villain |

To all my fellow people pleasers out there... 😌
#originalart

an illustration of book being pierced through by a sword, from the wound the thorns with red tips are growing, slowly changing into flowers, a red bookmark is there to symbolize blood.

the book reads 'It's alright to say No. You will always be a villain in someone's story...'

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · Jan 24

this is making the rounds on facebook so i thought id bring it here for u m'lord

screenshot of a post i made on twitter

Corey Brickley Illustration. Ju:
@CoreyBrickley
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i struggle with a brain that wants to stiffly copy whatever reference i'm using and one thing i've found helpful:
1. draw big blocky shapes over the reference
2. turn off ref and redraw big blocky shapes
3. draw in figure with big blocky shapes overlaid
Traducir post

photo of model posing as an elegant elf woman that ive blocked out with a chunky red brush

in a separate window ive redrawn the red blocks, then have drawn details over the red blocks, using the photo+red transparency as reference

final doodle of the figure drawing without the red blocking

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 3d

oh no, the trapped feeling is returning 😭 godddd how does this keep happening

It feels like something just completely takes over me and turns my world upside down and now here I am crying and feeling terrified of just being alive

why can't I just exist? why am I not allowed to do that?

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 3d

I've had so many jobs

getting another one shouldn't send my body into a panic like this

but its the jobs themselves that have caused this deep trauma within me

I dont know how to overcome this

I need the job bc I need more income to live

I feel ready to try again but at the same time I'm scared

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 3d

I'm gonna try to get a job again but I'm terrified

my mind is fighting me so hard rn

Like yeah I'm tired, but not always?? I'm mostly just scared

I'm scared shitless

I hate admitting that I'm scared but I am. It's embarrassing that jobs genuinely terrify me like they're a threat of death

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re wearing a Halloween costume here this year, please don’t dress up as our boss. He’s very sensitive about his cloven feet and tentacles.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3d

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Possessed opossum 🔜 Furpoc @possessedopossum.bsky.social · 3d

70s equivalent of encountering a woodland fae

Human Ashton leaning against a brick wall with a white bicycle that has a flower basket. He asks "need a ride?"

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🎭 LESLIE ☕🎨 @misslattesart.bsky.social · 3d

Same, I mainly just wanna visit Atlantic City for the casinos there. I definitely want that shirt when I go 😂 (I experienced the "full service gas" thing in Oregon when I was up there on a cross-country trip, it was so weird & I was NOT expecting it LOL)

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