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Artist & developer from Cornwall, UK

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move slow and repair things

06.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 3753 πŸ” 1215 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

2016: the Wendy’s twitter account posts self-aware jokes, opening an irreverent new frontier in brand marketing

2026: β€œCEO mukbang” is now compulsory for all fast food retailers

05.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 606 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17440 πŸ” 5767 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 101

πŸ˜‡ <- me waiting to see RenΓ© in the outfit

03.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

02.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 7712 πŸ” 1436 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 62

mad at wire mother (dell work laptop). missing cloth mother (mac mini)

02.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 699 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

27.02.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 4572 πŸ” 780 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 76
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Our feature artist/tutorial today is this page on SIMPLIFYING HANDS, by the talented @miyuliart! Note that we clearly see the FORMS FIRST, then simplify keeping in mind the PROPORTIONS and OVERLAPS so that even when highly stylised, we still have a hand which OCCUPIES 3D SPACE!

27.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 676 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

26.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 1365 πŸ” 407 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

Burger King employees don't get paid nearly enough to have to put up with this crap, tbh

26.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1181 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 7

I’m going to piss on the grave of anyone in my life that voted for this

26.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 1303 πŸ” 204 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

13.02.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 2302 πŸ” 895 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

24.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 4245 πŸ” 838 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 18

world-historical levels of wholesomeness

23.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 1018 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that

two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

22.02.2026 06:21 πŸ‘ 9034 πŸ” 2690 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 162

Bruce Mouat should be sponsored by poker

21.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.

The tech oligarchs pushing AI do not care if you can afford a computer, because they do not truly love the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd...

19.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 2093 πŸ” 659 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 37

I think it's cool for Olivia Colman to get a lil non binary with it

19.02.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

19.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 24948 πŸ” 5169 πŸ’¬ 449 πŸ“Œ 147

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

18.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 20820 πŸ” 5580 πŸ’¬ 217 πŸ“Œ 374

Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession

17.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 1246 πŸ” 347 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
I'm a London parent who hasn't vaccinated my kids against measles, let me explain

I'm a London parent who hasn't vaccinated my kids against measles, let me explain

It’s weird we never do stuff like this with other terrible decisions. Newspaper doesn’t run β€œI saw a half empty can of Mountain Dew left on the street and drank the rest of that mfer”, and the guy who drank the Mountain Dew is only hurting himself

17.02.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 2117 πŸ” 294 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 28

My favourite thing about the Winter Olympics is developing extremely strongly held opinions about sports I just learned existed two days previously

15.02.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

15.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 10961 πŸ” 2781 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 33
Jennifer
@JenYetAgain@beige.party
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM
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Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

16.02.2026 07:37 πŸ‘ 11834 πŸ” 2715 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 30
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You can get my ENTIRE GIANT SKETCHBOOK TRILOGY (or single volumes) ONLY on LULU, just search β€œEtherington Brothers Sketchbooks” in google - the Lulu store page will be the top result :)
Lorenzo!

#gamedev #animationdev #conceptart #comicart

14.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"They hate to see two woke bitches winning."

"They hate to see two woke bitches winning."

New response to any criticism of my podcasts just dropped

14.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 6435 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 7

These are called honor killings πŸ‘

11.02.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 1119 πŸ” 265 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 2