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Jay Steel

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art 🚫 No AI 🟩 comms open pfp credit to my 9-year-old. say hello to mayor pickles. villain origin story: i wrote to marvel as a tiny baby child wanting to be a comic artist but they never wrote back. i’ll let it go when i’m dead

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Path of Night Podcast 🔜PAX Unplugged @pathofnight.bsky.social · 10d

What's this? More?

The campaign trailer is now live on YouTube!

youtu.be/k2JRCCf3LIc?...

War of Ages Campaign Trailer

YouTube video by Path of Night Podcast

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 11d

Lastly, my favorite bonus piece I’ve ever made! All the players plus the ST of the new season of #pathofnight: medieval style. I have to give medieval monks their due, this art style is harder than it looks

check out episode 0, released just today, over at their channel ➡️ @pathofnight.bsky.social

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 11d

@pathofnight.bsky.social’s Dark Ages character art, set 2/2

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 11d

Today is the day! Thrilled to have worked with @pathofnight.bsky.social again to make the character portrait art for the new season of #PathofNight: Dark Ages. Reading about and researching each character was a blast!

Check out Episode Zero sneak peek over at their channel ➡️

[Set 1/2]

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 16d

Jokes aside, it was a blast to do!

Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 17d

An image of the 1993 cartoon bobcat Bonkers giving a thumbs up, with large red text from the show reading “Bonkers.” It has been edited with additional text to say “Lost my Bonkers there for a minute”

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Path of Night Podcast 🔜PAX Unplugged @pathofnight.bsky.social · 18d

Hey everyone! In anticipation of the War of Ages starting soon, the extremely talented @steelart.bsky.social has created a full page from an illuminated manuscript for Path of Night!

They did a crazy amount of research into marginalia; the whole piece is up now on in high resolution on our Ko-Fi!

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 20d

I have chronic dry eye and sometimes get this especially if it’s a heavy screen time day (like Hades II release). I recommend the Refresh Omega-3 drops (they come in individual vials) to help reset and moisturize! My eye doc told me to use those.

Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · 26d

In retrospect we probably should have seen this coming from a dude who unironically called Walt Disney “the most positively important person of the 20th Century”

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 11

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life. bit.ly/45Zs0Mx

New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have this official permit from the @pathofnight.bsky.social team

a man in a red shirt is tied up by a man in a brown hat and says i have a permit

ALT: a man in a red shirt is tied up by a man in a brown hat and says i have a permit

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Sep 2

exactly how I was explaining what makes Superman so great the other day. Like most people, Superman is a person trying to do good in a world that makes achieving that end very hard. I find that way more relatable than many other superhero stories

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · Sep 1

Good Superman stories are almost never about who wins the fights. They're about how to solve the problems.

Superman can do massive, mighty things. The story is about his figuring out what massive, mighty things he should do. About understanding, not about overpowering.

kaufmak.bsky.social @kaufmak.bsky.social · Sep 1

Which has always made Superman a tough character for me to like. I always think, “how can this guy lose?”

Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 31

Aw. That’s a bummer. On me for not fact checking.

Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 30

Big lady #dnd #fighter

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 30

There’s certainly a lot of issues with the Catholic Church now and historically, but the abolition of the death penalty is absolutely one thing they get right.

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Catgirl Martlet 🐦🐈‍⬛🌊💙 @zenithmartlet.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey Firefox users.

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 29

A screenshot of a tweet from Elon musk’s twitter. His tweet says “Working in it!”

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Chris 🎬🎧 @raidercast.bsky.social · Aug 11

Adrian Bliss hitting the nail on the head - that stare into the camera at the end, chef kiss 👌

“Making Art In 2026”

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 21

So like… @noshirdalal.bsky.social is gonna be the English language Wolf for #sekiro again, right? RIGHT?

www.polygon.com/sekiro-anime...

Sekiro: No Defeat is a new anime based on FromSoft's 2019 samurai action game

Sekiro: No Defeat will be a faithful adaptation to the game, with hand-drawn animation from ARCH.

www.polygon.com

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 20

“Around him, the kitchen worked.”

I have a very hard time believing that Pratchett, author of the above trans-affirming line in Monstrous Regiment about one of my favorite trans characters, Sarge, would be anti-trans. Like it’s patently clear he respected trans people if you read that book alone.

Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 18

And a swashbuckler drow 💜 #dnd

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Jay Steel @steelart.bsky.social · Aug 18

Character sketches time give it up for bards whose art is not singing #collegeofglamour #airgenasi #bard #dnd