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Wip but I think I did a good job on the faces

A mantis woman looking violent

My sisters bug oc! #ocs #notmyocs

A blue oceanscape— a ship with a pregnant woman on it, looking out at a roiling sea filled with tentacles

Drew this art for Flowers for the Sea by @zinrock.bsky.social ! ill post the link to my Goodreads review below when it’s done. #booksky 📚🌈💙

It looks So Good

For a series of book cover designs based on different time periods

Wip but I think I did a good job on the faces

Procrastinating from editing by making my protagonists in the sims

Is there something in the air right now bc same

Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

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one of the fb groups i follow had someone ask about ai editing and i got mad about it

"it's more than annoying-- it's an experience"

it's like improv with a really, really bad improv partner

generative ai editing is like hiring an editor who will start changing your story randomly based on what the average book is like.

also also watch guy "i need the rolex to get in the room where Business Happens" is also alex jones' excuse for having like five different fancy watches

Also I misspelled David Graeber's name repeatedly throughout this oof

Also I think startup culture and tech culture is FULL of bs jobs -- hiring people who are experts in The Next Big Thing to spin their wheels until it's not the next big thing anymore

Anyway I think the guys should read How to Be Idle and Laziness Does not Exist as companion reads to this one. I do always appreciate if books could kill even if I don't always agree lol

I worked for a company that had a whole team that made vanity YouTube videos for the CEO (highest view count: 200). This was not a large company, and it was larger than my development team. Are vanity project jobs bs?

I think it's a good point that graber conflates several different types of bullshit-- social harm vs service jobs vs jobs that don't need to exist-- but I do think there are plenty of true bullshit jobs that exist.

There are a lot of jobs in those industries that exist to prove that they need to exist. That's tautological, but I know seos whose job is to figure out how to make it seem like SEO "worked", data people who need to prove their data helped, etc.

Another team member threatened to quit unless she was given managerial responsibilities: they didn't have more work for me to do, but created more work so they could keep her. And as someone who has worked in tech, marketing and data, I have to say--

I think it's more accurate to say corporations value the appearance of profit and growth over everything else. I think the true bullshit jobs that graber is going after are a result of this-- ex from my corporate life, I was once hired onto a team bc--

I think this is an interesting episode, but I disagree with the guys on a couple of points-- one is that Michael says a few times that corporations value profit over everything, and this _should_ be true, but--

the shower is a great place to write btw

i figured out how he broke its heart

it's March and I'm still Black, y'all.

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Honestly the best linework I've done recently

I was like "I have at least one moot who will enjoy this" lol