Red Dread Mike

Red Dread Mike

@reddreadmike.bsky.social

Animator-artist hybrid powered by ancient nightmares & non-Euclidean movement. Calls the city of Vancouver, BC home. 46 - He/Him - Demisexual - Professional Nerd

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A request from my World of Darkness Storyteller (DM for those more familiar with D&D) to do a sketch of the boss of the current story arc. I'm still learning Clip Studio Paint, so the veterans are going to spot the default brushes and textures - but needless to say, I had a BLAST.

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The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

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Replying to @tahk0.bsky.social

he mentions how, even if AI can accomplish something (which he also mentions it doesn’t get it), it halts any progress of the craft in the future source: youtu.be/jiTS9LclmeM?...

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I’ve had a really rough last like…month, and Dressmaker has given me such a sense of joy and calm, and an appreciation for both seamstresses and indie developers. It’s allowed me to flex some creative muscles without tapping into the same energetic well that making comics draws from.

Alexandra Orlando@alexgorlando.bsky.social

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

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At the writer’s fest, an author said the genesis of her new book was something she found in research from several books ago, but wasn’t relevant to that first book. Then it marinated until she saw a pony. But sure, get ChatGPT to tell you that one single fact you need. That won’t have consequences.

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My love for corvids continues to grow daily 🖤🐦‍⬛🖤

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Crows have brains “in the fast lane,” according to Andreas Nieder, who showed in a new study that they make perceptual decisions twice as fast as primates. #neuroskyence By @sarahthau.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/cro...

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‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

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“Irony is a means of depriving the object of its reality in order that the subject may feel free….Irony is thus destructive and what Kierkegaard worries about a lot is that irony has nothing to put in place of what it has destroyed.” — Donald Barthelme, “Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel” (1970)

Keter-Class Kobold@koboldred.bsky.social

bringing this back around

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eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I've signed this, and today's world with more and more people forced to rent, this is needed even more. "Pets are family. It's time B.C.'s housing laws recognize it. Will you add your voice to make a change?"  spca.bc.ca/advocate/202...

spca.bc.caVote for pet-friendly housing in the October 24 provincial electionPets are family and it's time that B.C.'s housing legislation recognized it. The October 24 provincial election is your chance to speak up for pet-friendly housing.

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When the cold creeps in and the wind is howling, the only cure is to curl up with a feline friend. Ghosts and specters enjoy a good lap cat, after all, they were only human once too. 🍂🐈‍⬛

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A lot of people want to « have  made art », not « make art ».

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

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In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

jan6memoryproject.orgThe January 6 Memory ProjectA public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.