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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3h

Pointless bullshit, same as with the constant stream of new smartphones.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4h

404Media has a grim take on Microsoft ending its support for Windows 10: "There’s 400 million computers that are going to enter the waste stream."
www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 3h

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.

We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 3h

The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25

AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears

ebx.sh

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Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 5h

Prints arrived and they are perfect 😭✨

Photo of a printed illustration. It shows all 13 player characters from Critical Role's fourth campaign.

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #PortfolioDay 💖🎨

Hi I’m Toby, I work mainly in the TTRPG and CCG space. I love world building and fantasy, and I’m particularly interested in projects with diverse characters and cultures

🌐 www.tobyfoxart.com
✉️ [email protected]

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Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 2d

/Destiny brings together the strangest of people.../

Probably my most ambitious group piece yet, just based on pure numbers - likely the only one I'll do for this campaign, oof -- 13 is a lot, folks!!!
(As usual the designs have my own vague spin on them 🫶)

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart

Digital Illustration of all 13 player characters from Critical Role Campaign four. They are all rendered in a sketchy line style and coloured in reds, blues and greens.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 2d

www.reddit.com/r/WorkersStr...

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Mel -- (MonarchFisher) @monarchfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Wow this is awesome!

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Ksenia Berndl @blue13beast.bsky.social · 7d

I love the #CriticalRole 4th Campaign already!
Here is my take on #TeorPridesire more a vibe than an illustration. Hope you like! 💙
#criticalrolefanart
If you like my art please consider to support me on Patreon or check out my commission info in bio💙this will help me a lot!

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Mel -- (MonarchFisher) @monarchfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, liberals are actually super about selling their soul for money. They don't care

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Lio 🌿 @ MCM Q-21 @kroovv.bsky.social · 5d

Gravehearts chapter 1 is now live on itch! 🪦💛

kroovv.itch.io/gravehearts

and an illustration of 3 characters surrounded by an orange autumnal tree and graves. One character is a cat clown doll floating above the right shoulder of a large buff man with a beard and overalls, then floating over the man's other shoulder is a slightly transparent cowboy with green hair and heavy scars.

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Mel -- (MonarchFisher) @monarchfisher.bsky.social · 3d

!!!!

a man in a suit and tie says oh my god okay it 's happening ..

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says oh my god okay it 's happening ..

media.tenor.com

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Charissa 🌺 Comms Open @charissacuriel.bsky.social · 4d

🌺 Commission for my friend @nyxaiko.bsky.social 🌺

She really just let me throw a full rainbow in here <3

[ #commission | #portrait | #procreate ]

Digital portrait of a woman with three big flowers staggered at the bottom of the canvas. The woman has neon blue hair and softly painted features in contrast tot he heavily saturated rainbow colors in frame. The flowers are each large and different with some colors shifting from the full rainbow to the bottom right flower that is mostly blues, purples, and reds.

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🔻 Eric van Kaathoven @ericvkaathoven.bsky.social · 4d

Heel duidelijk filmpje. Fascisme benoemen!

Stop zondebokpolitiek!

OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 5d

Volgens D66-leider Rob Jetten moeten we met extreemrechtse partijen blijven praten. Maar experts zeggen dat zulke gesprekken extreemrechtse standpunten juist normaliseren. De vraag is: herkennen we fascisme nog wel? www.oneworld.nl/mensenrechte...

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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely true, and this is a big part of why it has such presence in queer communities as well.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 4d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mel -- (MonarchFisher) @monarchfisher.bsky.social · 4d

does he know what he looks like?

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⛧𝕺𝖒𝖊𝖌𝖆 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝕶⛧ @omegablack.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hopefully this will boost my presence on here! Been working on a Silent Hill series that's based off my own shit cuz I like thinking about what my silent hill would be and it would probably be a long boss rush

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

They are trying to kill us

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Landeg @landeg.bsky.social · 4d

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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Mel -- (MonarchFisher) @monarchfisher.bsky.social · 4d

your colors are always SO COOOL

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Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 5d

I've started a new (written) DnD campaign and despite having barely started, I'm already so unwell about it.
Here's our /extremely normal/ party...hence the hashtag for them: #TheCuriosities

#originalart | #ocart