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i used to draw things

40+ he/him/they english
furry/art/3d/memes/luls/wtfs/rats
afterdark@ratwhispers
magats trumplicans and ai-bros instablocked
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ecmajor.bsky.social
Portrait of Alphonsine Saint-Gâteau
A bust rendering of the gemsbok Alphonsine. Her face is in profile, wearing a shiny choker, a bra, and dangly earrings. The art emphasizes her lines and wrinkles, as she is an older woman.
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
ratwhiskers.bsky.social
I think I lost a couple of decades of my personal artwork and all the working files that went along with them. I had an external HDD I called "Cold Storage", and I suspect all those files were on that drive. That drive appears to be fully cooked.
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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yoshitura.bsky.social
I had to #winniethepooh #roo #kanga
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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lichjuliorra.bsky.social
ratties 💞✨

#art #digital #draw #drawing #украрт #study
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
artists and designers using ai like
cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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miraclebutt.bsky.social
*grabs crotch*
TRY'N HUNT THESE BELL BEARINGS, BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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paperaviator.bsky.social
hey i made an zine about spotify's sins, inspired by @glasse.bsky.social's spotify bio

if you want to print some, DM and i'll send you the file!
SPOTIFY SUCKS and how you can better support your favorite artists Lineal by Frank Adebiaye, with the contribution of Anton Moglia, Ariel Martín Pérez. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. Karrik by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Lucas Le Bihan. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. SOURCES: Herstand, Ari. “Takedown Fails: Artists Are Seeing Their Music Removed From DSPs for Streaming Fraud They Didn’t Commit.” Variety, 12 Apr. 2024. Krukowski, Damon. “Solidarity.” Dada Drummer Almanach, 3 Oct. 2023, Krukowski, Damon. ”Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me.” The Gaurdian, 30 Nov 2023. Lopatto, Elizabeth. “Not Even Spotify Is Safe From AI Slop.” The Verge, 14 Nov. 2024 Maddaus, Gene. “Variety.” Variety, 4 Sept. 2024. Omarji, Sophia. “I Was Laid off From Spotify After Moving to Sweden for the Job. I Had to Leave the Entire Life I Built Behind and Am Still Looking for Work.” Business Insider, 31 Jan. 2025 Pelly, Liz. “The Ghosts in the Machine.” Harper’s Magazine. Starvos, Jennifer . “How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex.” In These Times, 10 Mar. 2022. Willings, Sam. “Daniel Ek Earned More From Spotify in the Past 12 Months Than Any Artist Has Ever Earned on the Platform.” MusicTech, 5 Aug. 2024 SPOTIFY PAYS VERY LITTLE (if at all) Spotify pays a measly $0.003 per stream! You’d need 406,000 plays/month just to make the national minimum wage—assuming you publish your own music and don’t have a record label to do that for you, because labels typically take 50-90% of your royalties! Besides, minimum wage is still TOO LOW to live comfortably! For smaller artists, any music that does not achieve 1,000 streams in a year will not receive any royalties at all (Krukowski). FAKE ARTISTS Most Spotify users rely on Spotify’s curated mood playlists (e.g.“Ambient Relaxation” and “Bossa Nova Dinner”) as background music. So Spotify figured users wouldn’t notice if they replaced the REAL music by REAL musicians in those playlists with FILLER music under FAKE artists’ profiles, so they don’t have to pay royalties to the real artists. This filler music, called “Perfect Fit Content,” consists of mass-produced stock music commissioned from a handful of anonymous musicians that Spotify completely owns and profits off of. These tracks receive millions of plays that could have gone to real, working musicians (Pelly). There’s a plethora of problems regarding AI and Fraud on Spotify: Fake AI-generated albums are put under real artists’ profiles, which fraudsters profit off of. The real artists can do little to stop this. (Lopatto) Many artists have been the victims of unwanted artificial plays, including many artists I know: artists’ music is mysteriously flagged for artificial plays, and the artist is forced to remove the song/album or face a fine or even be banned from the platform (Herstand). There’s also nothing stopping people from just uploading AI-generated music (made from huge libraries of copyrighted music) and profiting off it. AI itself has way more problems to unpack, which could be its very own zine… SPOTIFY SUPPORTS THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Prima Materia, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s investment company, had invested €100 million ($114 million USD) in Helsing, a German defence tech company that has developed military drones and AI software to aid in military operations. (Starvos). WHAT YOU CAN DO It’s clear that Spotify does not actually care about the livelihoods of musicians. CEO Daniel Ek infamously tweeted that “the cost of creating content” (i.e. music) is “close to zero.” Sure, I guess the hours, experience, equipment, etc. to make music is worth nothing! Meanwhile, Ek made 345 million dollars last year (Willings), while laying off 17% of their workers in 2023 (Omarji). Support your favorite artists more directly by buying their music on services like Bandcamp and iTunes. Digital albums typically cost $5-10, and your purchase will have a bigger impact than your streams ever will. And can listen to them FOREVER! At $12/mo., if you only use Spotify to stream the same few albums, you’ll save money in the long run if you just buy the albums. Buy CDs, vinyls, and other merch! Support your local music stores! Switch to a better streaming platform like Tidal or Apple Music. Tidal pays the highest, paying an average of $0.013/stream—that’s over 4 times more than Spotify’s average. They can pay up to $0.05/stream ! Apple music falls just behind, paying $0.007-$0.01/stream on average. Musicians cannot strike or organize a boycott on Spotify without being sued under antitrust laws, since the musicians are considered independent contractors, while Spotify is the “customer” (Krukowski). Tell your representatives to support the Protect Working Musicians Act, which would allow independent musicians to organize and fight back! Join/Donate to the United Musicians and Allied Workers who are fighting to regulate streaming, restrict AI, eliminate Ticketmaster and Live Nation, and more!
February 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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clover-nsfw.bsky.social
noticed that youtube seems to have extended their "AI summary" "feature" to more (all?) videos, so here's a little something for ublock

www.reddit.com/r/youtube/co...
remove the A I video summary generation
www.reddit.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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edrobot.bsky.social
I hate how everything bad in the US, no matter how small or arbitrary, ends up boiling down to some combination of capitalism, sexism and racism.
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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radiantg.bsky.social
If you like Studio Ghibli, Knives Out, The Owl House, or Frankenstein, here’s what the creators are saying about A/I.

🚫 SAY NO TO GEN A/I 🚫
"Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is. [...] I never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. - Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli was "utterly disgusted" when he was shown an A/I demo in 2016 Yeah, f*** A/I. It's something that's making everything worse in every single way - I don't get it. I mean, I get it in a 'This makes sense to save money by not paying artists' way? But then, what the f*** are we doing? Is this where we want to be?" RIAN JOHNSON ON THE USE OF A/I Hollywood Dana Terrace Unsubscribe from Disney+, Pirate Owl House. I don't care. Fu*k gen A/I NEWS THE OWL HOUSE CREATOR DANA TERRACE ON DISNEY + SOON HAVING A/I-GENERATED SHORT-FORM CONTENT FROM USERS Source: X | ®DanaTerrace @FandomWire | FandomWire.com Guillermo Del Toro “I'D RATHER DIE THAN USE GENERATIVE A/I.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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axellycan.bsky.social
Good to know this now before anyone gets too excited about this game.
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
ratwhiskers.bsky.social
I don't have any memes saved but do dig thru this thread because its gold i swear
miyak.bsky.social Miyak @miyak.bsky.social · 23d
You're(sic) last saved meme is your moral philosophy

👁 👁
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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luigiyagami.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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higglyth.bsky.social
Commission for Polar 🦋
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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trubbol.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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lukathemouse.bsky.social
Professor Squeako here... If you use gen AI to do tasks for you, what are you doing with your life!!! Say YES to using your brain 🐀🧠

26- Rats against AI!

#rattober #rattober2025
Drawing of a rat standing next to a board, the board has a chat gpt logo with a text saying NO!! next to it, under it is a brain drawing with the word YES!!! next to it. The rat looks angry and is pointing to the board with it's mouth wide open as if he was shouting to the viewer.
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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waterabsorbant.bsky.social
there u go again girl.... dunking on that AI video by sharing it to thousands of feeds... further perpetuating their reach :)
October 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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ecmajor.bsky.social
being like "i want less ai in my pinterest" is basically like saying "i want less brown in my stool"
October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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lupopossum.bsky.social
Me at work pretending to be neurotypical, straight and not a furry porn artist
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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shogsotg.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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mrhands31.bsky.social
It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Oct 16
Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.
ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you
'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'
metro.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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robmacwolf.thevoice.dog
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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wonderwoozel.bsky.social
Art for @chiropica.bsky.social of their character Erminio 🍁
Eurasian stoat (Mustela erminea) named Erminio Picard
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social
Portland Energy
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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arcxlight.bsky.social
3 Rat Moon
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM