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Okay, found the stats I didn't get during October (due to an obscure expired SSL cert issue) and yes, the previous rate-limiter threshold was too high to serve any purpose. So let's try a rate that's 20 times more aggressive for November. The Butlerian Jihad lives. We will never relent.

"a.i." bot queries have crashed the site until the end of the month. I will aggressively tighten the rate limiter for identified bot traffic. But determining what's an appropriate number for the site is a trial-and-error thing.

Sometimes I think about how a Steam affiliate program could help support so much game reviewing. And to a smaller extent second-order material (mods, TTRPG adaptation, formal critique, fanfic, guides, in-game photography...) Then the alarm starts shining and I wake up. Oh no it was just a dream ! 😿

TFW he is heading for his laboratory in his invisible car and you must reach it first

I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!! Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏

"What if… Rus did the cover?” - 2nd in this seres. This is NOT an official cover. I have NO idea when (or if) Snake Eyes will show up in the Skybound / Image G.I. JOE series, but this is my idea of a cover to introduce him to the Energon Universe.

One person does not want you to see this movie. But everyone else does.

Sleep. Sleep. I need so much sleep. To heal the damage from the hell summer. That ended on the 15th of October.

One of the protests in Paris, right about now (the funk soul brothers).

There have been circumstances where financial analysis made me laugh aloud, but that one is by far the most accessible. And actually funny.

Ok, no one warned me so I’m warning you: if you’ve ever been in an abusive relationship, You Can See Everything is a really difficult watch.

bluesky went from the most accepting social experience we've ever had online to literally fearing for our child's safety because of the far-right brigading Singal personally stirred up overnight in '24 he does not get a redemption arc for trying to turn down the volume on the mob he helped create

Please, nobody tells Jaheira.

Refurbished our profile for Marvel #Comics' Screener, one of the Acolytes of Magneto in #XMen books. "Wait", you say, "she's the same person as Scanner, whom you posted about yesterday". No she ain't, that can't work. Learn why in this issue of Journey Into Pedantry. Pics, #TTRPG stats, bio, etc..

Yeah. With the much lower skill level needed to attack, the greatly increased speed, the ability to buy colossal computing capacity sold at a massive deficit, etc. the data loss threat level is a smidgen unpleasant. So backup, and backup some more.

It is Wonder Woman Day, & I am painting a new WW cvr TODAY! I can't show it to you yet, so sharing these instead... but hopefully it is my best one yet!

Not only are the Mass Effect games some of my favorites ever, but I have tons of treasured friendships that exist because we connected over mutual love of the series. It's probably the thing I've done the most fanart for. Gutted that Liara will never get to find Shepard.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

Nowadays, the internet sometimes feels like a once well-to-do neighbourhood that became a slum after an industrial park & motorway were built through it. And I'm the lifelong resident who refuses to leave, unable to accept that the decaying, now unsafe area will never regain its former grandeur.

🍃 [ COMMISSION SLOTS ] 🍃 Rent and university expenses are due, so I’m looking for work: - 2 sketch portraits left (60 €) - 1 rendered portrait (360 €) - 1 half-body slot (605 €) Check out the slots here: ko-fi.com/radinsky/com... Thank you very much for your support ! 🖤 [ #commissionsopen ]

Refurbished our character profile for Marvel #Comics' Scanner, a 1990s member of the Acolytes of Magneto in #XMen books. Nobody cares about her, you say? Well not entirely! One small village of indomitable Gauls *always* cares. Pictures, #TTRPG stats, powers, biography, characterisation, etc..

Another beasty you might find on an ancient map. Pentel brush pen on some nice smooth paper. One more addition to the designing of my snail mail club... Wanna get notified when it goes live? Join my newsletter: tinyurl.com/adventure-post #ink #dragon #snailmail

Looking for a couple of commissions, big or small, to top off the month! Jump in my DMs 👐

Flock and hard place Mokoto Masotsa watches over his sheep above a gorge near Semonkong, in Lesotho. About a third of the country’s school-age boys work as shepherds, often spending months away in isolated mountain pastures. Photo: Tommy Trenchard/Panos Pictures

No real gigs since August. Despite dozens of emails and having longtime contacts. >sigh< If you know of a project in need of art, point 'em my way, will ya? www.claudiopozas.com

Through the scarred gateway between surface & abyss, Ishara Marrowfell delves into the uppermost layer of the Infernal realm. Clad in living mimic armor & wielding a mace that shatters fortress walls with ease, she carries the fight to the demons for the ruin they wrought upon her kind. 1/

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Added a mini-character-profile for the Silver Age version of DC #Comics' Harvey Harris. He was a key detection instructor of the future #Batman, yet only appeared in (1) flashback before dying. Pictures, #TTRPG stats, biography and so on, but it's short due to lack of material.

#103 Doctor Doom - Ink and gouache on 13 x 19 bristol #doctordoom

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. Hard to choose as a multimedia artist, but Im currently pouring my soul into Artdolls, so here we go! :D

An educational resource of interest for all of us whose words or art falsely gets flagged as "a.i."-generated. Dr. Bender is a noted expert in computational linguistics. So she ended up being, to people bullshitting about LLMs, what the Scooby-Doo gang is to hornery old men disguised as monsters.

Added a character profile for DC #Comics' Killowat (Charlie Watkins), from the storied 1990s Team Titans books. He's a lightning dude. Like, a dude made of lightning. Pictures, #TTRPG stats, powers (he's a lightning dude), biography, characterisation, quotes... our usual, but made of lightning.

Stumbled on one of these unhinged accounts using throngs of #hashtags. And now I feel badly self-conscious. Since I also use a small set of hashtags, as this account is bridged toward the Fediverse. Where hashtags are a key means to find posts. Do I look weird doing that ?

I've dodged untold amounts of tear gas, yet I just irritated the shit out of my eyes with unexpected vapours from the descaling liquid whilst cleaning an humidifier. FATALITAS !

A little heads-up to all the artists

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Be careful whom you follow and listen to. Accounts that do not provide links or context and do not share calls to action are just building their own following instead of actually providing reliable information or action items. Your time is best spent elsewhere, imo.

Either the Flipboard servers are shitting the bed again, or they have banned me for being too cool and handsome. I know what I believe.