Ash

Ash

@ashspots.bsky.social

Give me a teapot large enough and tea on which to fill it, and I shall create a world.

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Small PSA, if you have your twitter linked to your patreon you might want to think about unlinking it. Last month my twitter was flagged for sensitive content and within the same week my patreon got flagged for nsfw too. I hardly linked or mention my patreon so I feel the only way it would -

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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South Terrace, Cork city centre: polypody, heart's tongue and maidenhair spleenwort ferns spring from a damp old brick wall. If your eyes are open to it, we're surrounded by the relics of our lost natural rainforest heritage.

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Something spoopy with a hint of dog 🎃⚰️🐺 #halloween #werewolf #shuck #barghest #wolf #graveyard #spoopy #fantasyart #illustration

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Here's a post of all the current dinosaurs I've done for my teacup dinosaur series, I started doing these back on 2023 and have been ever so slowly adding to the collection! The dilophosaurus on the last slide being the most recent 💖 I had originally been looking for-

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If you're looking for art to accompany a press release, this is what I do. I have a PhD in astronomy and space illustration/animation is my specialty. This piece, on green white dwarfs, is one of my most recent commissions. Please don't use AI. Use an artist. Thank you. #sciart #scicomm #blender

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Bluesky going all in on vibecoding is bad enough, but the fact that they announced it *only on twitter* and kept it quiet on here is so fucking nasty they know nobody here wants this

Thought @bsky.app was the anti-AI platform? Shilling for AI on another platform while saying you carry the torch for human creativity.. Not a good look

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PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

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To celebrate Goth Christmas 👻 Ive been releasing spooky short stories every day this month! These went out daily and now - these are the last 3! They were fun to record and I hope you stick around for the new ones to come ❤️ Welcome to #spookymonth #shortstories #narrator (link to vid⬇️)

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Welcome Ammonitritor scientacivium, a new Early Triassic omphalosaurid from Svalbard! 🤩 The new skull confirms omphalosaurids were a group of specialised pelagic ichthyosauriforms that likely fed on ammonoids. New paper from me and my collaborators is out now in Biological Reviews!

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A nearly complete skull of an omphalosaurid 🤩 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #geologia #paleontologia #paleontology #paleobiologia #paleobiology

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For any creatives out there today who are struggling because they constantly compare their work to that of others, I have some advice for you from The LEGO Movie; "Don't worry what the others are doing, you must embrace what is special about you."