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@gpike.bsky.social
(they/them), webcomicker, birder, interested in things.
Comic: http://www.titleunrelated.com
portfolio: artofgpike.com
#bunstatus #Art
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Reminder that if you're trans like me every day you're alive is a protest. If I keep making art that's a protest. My body and heart are broken many times over; I'm not gonna beat myself up about what extra I "could be doing" beyond the help I already give to others. Cis/abled folks can step tf up.
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Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this wonderful FLAME PAINTING IDEA by @mitcher_meier! I LOVE how a SIMPLE SHAPE can BUILD & SUBTRACT, and in a few steps create something so FULL OF LIFE! This is such a brilliant starting point for AWESOME FIRE! #gamedev #illustration
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Oouuggh
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I returned to Mt Tomah yesterday. The wattlebirds left the Puya flowers unguarded for a few minutes and this Eastern Spinebill managed to slip in under the RADAR.
#birds
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Restless Bowel Syndrome
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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エナガにはピント合わんかった、でもツピちゃん可愛いから見て!の図

#シジュウカラ
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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OHO. BIRD ART, YOU SAY?? i don't even know where to begin #art #🪶
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I love it when they floof their feathers out! 🪶
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I kinda hate that I know more than the average person about a lot of things I don't actually care very much about.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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doo doot-doo do doo doot-doo do doo-doo-doo-doo
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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marimo...
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Waaah!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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apropos of nothing i have been doing some budget projection and it is not unlikely our income next year will be hovering right around the threshhold to get ACA subsidies, so like i could make one amount of money and pay $560/month for insurance or make $100 more and pay $1270/month
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Pleeeeeease let me talk about theeeeeeem… drawing hundreds of comics pages of them isn’t enough…….. I must ramble alsoooo
Wearing a shirt that says “I Want To Talk About My OCs”
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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“But you can bounce lasers off of mirrors the Apollo astronauts put on the moon yourself!”

I mean; ok, pretty good, but have you tried, “Yeah, the government /did/ lie about the moon landings…for example, every time an Apollo astronaut said ‘sunofabitch’ the official transcripts read ‘garbled’.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Oh shit I forgot about Open Canvas 1 xD
Digital art program journey:
paintbrush (win 3.1)
Oekaki boards
Photoshop... I wanna say 5 or 6? (Bootleg)
Paint Tool Sai
Clip Studio Paint Pro

I definitely played with other software along the way, these are just the major milestones xD
Digital Art Program Journey… 😂 Buckle Up:
KidPix on a Apple II
Corel Draw with a mouse
Scanned drawings into borrowed Photoshop and a mouse
College… Photoshop and a small Wacom in the lab
Adobe Suite, Maya, ToonBoom in college labs with large Wacom tablet
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Little bit of Barnacle
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Digital art program journey:
paintbrush (win 3.1)
Oekaki boards
Photoshop... I wanna say 5 or 6? (Bootleg)
Paint Tool Sai
Clip Studio Paint Pro

I definitely played with other software along the way, these are just the major milestones xD
Digital Art Program Journey… 😂 Buckle Up:
KidPix on a Apple II
Corel Draw with a mouse
Scanned drawings into borrowed Photoshop and a mouse
College… Photoshop and a small Wacom in the lab
Adobe Suite, Maya, ToonBoom in college labs with large Wacom tablet
Digital Art Program Journey

- MS Paint
- Photoshop 7
- Photoshop CS2
- openCanvas 7

Also had Clip Studio Paint, but got that on my laptop not long before it died and borrowing a worse one... never was able to get it or iPad fixed ($$)

I've always wanted to try drawing with Procreate+Apple Pencil!
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Ignatz the Accused
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Um… hi. Do you think… maybe… you might like SlumberTown? If you read it, I mean.

N-not that you have to! It’s just… I think it could be nice to read. Maybe even helpful? If you feel alone in the world, like me. Hah.

Sorry. Nevermind. I don’t know what I’m saying.
QRP this post in the exact tone of your OC. Let them say what they want to say - but it has to fit their way of talking!

#dailyocs
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM

I know how it works but I don't even know how you access it.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋

(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I've just finished packing a small surprise gift that we'll be raffling off to a random donor (one must leave a form of contact to win!) that has some of our most popular @magpieevents.org merch 👀

Also the first 50 to contribute can leave with a small thank you as well!
TODAY is our Colorado Springs food drive! We'll be on-site at the Bubbly Bunny (2856 N Powers Blvd, Co Springs 80922) from 11am to 1pm collecting contributions to present to the Chinook Center and their People's Grocery. Don't forget to nab a themed boba! 🧋🐇

See you soon, dear birds of a feather 🪺
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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This is worth another look, just to remind ourselves how easily we're fooled:

www.mentalfloss.com/article/5776...
6 Wild Furby Myths That People Actually Believed in the ‘90s
The NSA, Pentagon, and Norfolk Naval Shipyard thought Furbys were a national security threat, so they banned the toys from their premises in 1999.
www.mentalfloss.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM