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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Mar 28

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.

(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).

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Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain

Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you 😊

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, ok. She actually uses her nose to feel her way around so I think it would confuse her. But she’s a low speed dog, it’s probably a good idea for the more boisterous types.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10h

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Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely! Thank you 😊

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😊

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 9d

We've all done it, eh?

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Cartoon of a man throwing a pig in the air. Caption: "I threw cochon to the wind"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

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Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

I hate when this happens

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Cartoon of a man looking at a sausage (which has a face, arms and legs, and a duck, the sausage says "Have you ever eaten a sausage or a duck? the duck says " 'cos if you have we're gonna fuck you up"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, how lovely!

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Yes, I’m always careful not to feel sorry for her.

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t seen those before. What does it do?

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. I never her describe her as ‘poor’ because she’s very happy and much loved.

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

They're very adaptable and live in the moment. She's a happy little dog.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

@tinyearlobe.bsky.social Here's that thread. I hope your parents can find some comfort in it. You love the dog just the same and it's great to know they're not suffering. They're very adaptable and live in the moment. She's a happy little dog.

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

This is our dog Nutmeg.

She will be 12 this month. She lost her eyesight gradually a couple of years ago. We knew she had cataracts from her milky eyes, but one day we realised they had got pretty bad. (How we realised how bad they had got is another story I will post on here at some point).

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

And it’s not the first time she’s done this. I know there are scientific reasons for it, but that doesn’t stop it feeling like magic.

I think her hearing has deteriorated a bit so she’s not quite so confident now, and generally a bit more of an old lady, but capable of astonishing us.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Recently my wife drove her to London, six and a half hours for what is normally a 4 hour journey. As they turned into my mother-in-law’s road, still several hundred yards from the flat, she started whimpering excitedly.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

She had always been an off-the-lead sort of dog and I soon found she would trot along just behind me, listening to my footsteps, so that I could walk her up through the centre of Exeter early in the morning when there weren’t too many sounds to confuse her.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

She adapted really quickly, clearly using smell, sound (I think a kind of simple echo location, hearing sound bounce back off surfaces) and well developed mental maps to navigate her way around.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

About three days after the operation she was a different dog, up and about, curious about the world, keen to go for walks. It was remarkable.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

She was very subdued, spent a lot of time lying in her bed, reluctant to do anything. A few days later she was having her operation. They kept her in for a day or so and then we took her home.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

She had various other complications causing her pain and the vet told us the best thing to do was to remove her eyes.

This is a shocking thing to hear because it feels like so much personality resides in the eyes. But we accepted this was the best thing to do.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Cataracts are often treatable but after numerous visits to the vets, tests etc. we learnt that hers weren’t as they were a result of a thing called retinal atrophy. By this point she had no sight in one eye and little in the other which was disappearing fast.

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