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@monkeyminion.com
Space/Science/Pop Culture #Artist. Pro Con Artist. Creator: BORBS & more. He/him. Clients: Netflix/Disney/AppleTV. link.space/@monkeyminion
#art
NO AI
I vet all follows. I block liberally. I cuss a LOT.
#art
NO AI
I vet all follows. I block liberally. I cuss a LOT.
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@monkeyminion.com
· Nov 11
Monkey Minion Home
Monkey Minion is a 2 person team based in Wichita, KS creating art, books and merchandise featuring space, science, nature and pop culture themes. Geeky goodies made by and for geeks.
www.monkeyminionpress.com
I suppose I could do a station identification:
I’m Dane. I’m an artist and with my wife @ashliehammond.bsky.social run Monkey Minion and we go around the country selling art and arty accessories at comicons.
I skeet/reskeet a lot of art related stuff & progressive politics. I block all AI/NFT/MAGA
I’m Dane. I’m an artist and with my wife @ashliehammond.bsky.social run Monkey Minion and we go around the country selling art and arty accessories at comicons.
I skeet/reskeet a lot of art related stuff & progressive politics. I block all AI/NFT/MAGA
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square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
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Happy #smallbusinesssaturday!! 🛍️This holiday please consider shopping small. ✨My online store www.goodwalrusgoods.com has tons of cute prints, sticker packs & sheets as well as stationery goods that make perfect holiday gifts! 🎁 Every sale helps me keep afloat—happy holidays! #shopping #holidays
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Happy #smallbusinesssaturday!! 🛍️This holiday please consider shopping small. ✨My online store www.goodwalrusgoods.com has tons of cute prints, sticker packs & sheets as well as stationery goods that make perfect holiday gifts! 🎁 Every sale helps me keep afloat—happy holidays! #shopping #holidays
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@monkeyminion.com has swears! They've used 382 profanities in their last 4,586 posts.
🥇 "shit" (77 times)
🥈 "fuck" (60 times)
🥉 "fucking" (56 times)
🥇 "shit" (77 times)
🥈 "fuck" (60 times)
🥉 "fucking" (56 times)
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@monkeyminion.com has swears! They've used 382 profanities in their last 4,586 posts.
🥇 "shit" (77 times)
🥈 "fuck" (60 times)
🥉 "fucking" (56 times)
🥇 "shit" (77 times)
🥈 "fuck" (60 times)
🥉 "fucking" (56 times)
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so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
There’s a bot that counts your profanities?! Fuck yeah. Let’s see how I stack up @profanity.accountant !
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
There’s a bot that counts your profanities?! Fuck yeah. Let’s see how I stack up @profanity.accountant !
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I wish it’d hurry the fuck up and pop.
Tech companies are pouring billions into AI chips and data centers. Increasingly, they are relying on debt and risky tactics. Financial analysts are worried there's a bubble that will soon pop.
Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever
Tech companies are pouring billions into AI chips and data centers. Increasingly, they are relying on debt and risky tactics. Financial analysts are worried there's a bubble that will soon pop.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I wish it’d hurry the fuck up and pop.
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AI Data Centers are the new pollutant factories to put into black neighborhoods that they pretend wont kill us. Gotta love that old school environmental racism.
“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”
In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk’s supercomputer is making them ill
Colossus, an xAI supercomputer, is blamed for worsening air pollution in a historic black community
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
AI Data Centers are the new pollutant factories to put into black neighborhoods that they pretend wont kill us. Gotta love that old school environmental racism.
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And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
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You read that right - we’re doing a sale *AND* free stuff! Inflation be damned! We don’t do sales often, and this one won’t last long, so get it while you can! monkeyminion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
You read that right - we’re doing a sale *AND* free stuff! Inflation be damned! We don’t do sales often, and this one won’t last long, so get it while you can! monkeyminion.com
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Somewhat more urgently requesting signal boosts and testimonials this round, as my unemployment officially ran out today; and I continue to send out job applications like letters in bottles, with roughly the same rate of response.
WRITERS! Want to troubleshoot, level up your work or learn a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice or come back from burnout?
I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
Coaching for Writers
Want to troubleshoot a sticky project? Level up your work or learn to tell stories in a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice, push past a block, or come back from burnout? Establish …
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November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Somewhat more urgently requesting signal boosts and testimonials this round, as my unemployment officially ran out today; and I continue to send out job applications like letters in bottles, with roughly the same rate of response.
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
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Please keep putting pressure on PayPal. Stories like this are becoming more and more common. Artists don’t deserve to lose their source of income over payment processors being puritanical/anti-small business.
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Please keep putting pressure on PayPal. Stories like this are becoming more and more common. Artists don’t deserve to lose their source of income over payment processors being puritanical/anti-small business.
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Do you know a relatively well seasoned Community Manager looking for work?
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Do you know a relatively well seasoned Community Manager looking for work?
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them?
Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.
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my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky.
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky.
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.
(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)
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11/28 Friday Mutual Aid Thread
Link isn't here because the Mods are Racist
We save each other and honor Link and his mutual aid work
post your mutual aid needs below
donate if you can !
share if you can !
report scammers !
comment below to boost !
Link isn't here because the Mods are Racist
We save each other and honor Link and his mutual aid work
post your mutual aid needs below
donate if you can !
share if you can !
report scammers !
comment below to boost !
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
11/28 Friday Mutual Aid Thread
Link isn't here because the Mods are Racist
We save each other and honor Link and his mutual aid work
post your mutual aid needs below
donate if you can !
share if you can !
report scammers !
comment below to boost !
Link isn't here because the Mods are Racist
We save each other and honor Link and his mutual aid work
post your mutual aid needs below
donate if you can !
share if you can !
report scammers !
comment below to boost !
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people keep asking "why doesn't he just cross over to the other side?" so i have used technology to extend the image
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
people keep asking "why doesn't he just cross over to the other side?" so i have used technology to extend the image
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I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
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Maidens of Midnight, my debut lo-fi horror collection, is up for preorder. I'm proud of this weird little book, a collaboration with excellent illustrator @luciaretamales.bsky.social, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what @brianevenson.bsky.social wrote on the collection:
Some advance praise for @charibdys.bsky.social THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT from the brilliant @brianevenson.bsky.social. Featuring cover and interior art by @luciaretamales.bsky.social, and cover design by @grossandcolorful.bsky.social. Limited to 150 copies, with 90 sold in pre-order already.
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Maidens of Midnight, my debut lo-fi horror collection, is up for preorder. I'm proud of this weird little book, a collaboration with excellent illustrator @luciaretamales.bsky.social, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what @brianevenson.bsky.social wrote on the collection:
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Now this is journalism.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Now this is journalism.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
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Apropos of nothing.
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Apropos of nothing.