Martin C
@mardcon.bsky.social
Background/Layout Artist and 2D designer for animation. Queer, He/Him 🏳️🌈🍉
https://mardcon.artstation.com/
https://mardcon.artstation.com/
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In every industry, man. Execs and managers think there's magic shortcuts but it's all fiction.
And artists+writers have been banging this drum since late 2022!
And artists+writers have been banging this drum since late 2022!
January 17, 2026 at 12:05 PM
In every industry, man. Execs and managers think there's magic shortcuts but it's all fiction.
And artists+writers have been banging this drum since late 2022!
And artists+writers have been banging this drum since late 2022!
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Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.
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message from martin warnio hodgkinson #avengersdoomsday #robertdowneyjr #funnyjokes #marvel #disney
audio by @gavtrdq.bsky.social
audio by @gavtrdq.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
message from martin warnio hodgkinson #avengersdoomsday #robertdowneyjr #funnyjokes #marvel #disney
audio by @gavtrdq.bsky.social
audio by @gavtrdq.bsky.social
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Over here, recruits! Brown Bag Films is currently searching for a Storyboard Artist working #Hybrid in #Dublin. Interested? Visit the direct link below.
Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.
Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.
Storyboard Artist
Great vacancy Storyboard Artist hiring now
milo-hr.my.salesforce-sites.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Over here, recruits! Brown Bag Films is currently searching for a Storyboard Artist working #Hybrid in #Dublin. Interested? Visit the direct link below.
Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.
Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
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"Please don't think I'm tolerating CSAM publication just for the money"
Minister for Communications and Media Patrick O'Donovan has hit back at claims that Ireland is lax about regulating companies like X because of the high levels of corporation tax we receive from tech firms.
jrnl.ie/6928613t
jrnl.ie/6928613t
Minister says it is 'utter rubbish' that Ireland is soft on X because of corporation tax
O’Donovan said it is “beneath” politicians to argue such a point.
jrnl.ie
January 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
"Please don't think I'm tolerating CSAM publication just for the money"
"Unfortunately, the AI had directed me to a tire store which had apparently closed several months ago and was now a Korean barbecue restaurant. They will not sell me any tires. I don't know what to do now."
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
January 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
"Unfortunately, the AI had directed me to a tire store which had apparently closed several months ago and was now a Korean barbecue restaurant. They will not sell me any tires. I don't know what to do now."
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Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
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A number of colleagues have used Grok - with non-premium to edit their own images to generate intimate images.
No checks or warning messages just straight into it.
No checks or warning messages just straight into it.
A number of colleagues have done the same this morning.
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
A number of colleagues have used Grok - with non-premium to edit their own images to generate intimate images.
No checks or warning messages just straight into it.
No checks or warning messages just straight into it.
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Left is what it originally said, right is what it says now
Website was quietly updated overnight
h/t @kortizart.bsky.social
www.comic-con.org/cc/things-to...
Website was quietly updated overnight
h/t @kortizart.bsky.social
www.comic-con.org/cc/things-to...
January 14, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Left is what it originally said, right is what it says now
Website was quietly updated overnight
h/t @kortizart.bsky.social
www.comic-con.org/cc/things-to...
Website was quietly updated overnight
h/t @kortizart.bsky.social
www.comic-con.org/cc/things-to...
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Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
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If you need some gaming recs, you NEED to listen to this one. Casey is full of knowledge and I am STOKED to have discovered Kingdoms of the Dump. Also featured: Our Games of the Year!!
I got to record a podcast with @pushinguproses.bsky.social and @mattaukamp.bsky.social about the best games of 2025, and of course I immediately start talking about Bruce Campbell.
Episode 77 - 2025 Games of the Year with Casey Explosion!
YouTube video by Save Your Game
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
If you need some gaming recs, you NEED to listen to this one. Casey is full of knowledge and I am STOKED to have discovered Kingdoms of the Dump. Also featured: Our Games of the Year!!
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Have these people considered that Simon Harris is making fools of them?
January 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Have these people considered that Simon Harris is making fools of them?
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Sooo uh, apparently Ko-Fi unlisted my my page because it spontaneously got so much attention they assumed it was a scam and made me send in a bunch of verification that I’m a real person that they’ll “verify within 7 days”. So that… sucks… but thank you everyone for supporting me that hard
I just saw what everyone’s contributions to this have been after a long day of customer service emails and phone calls and I’m so grateful to all of you I could start crying again ;~;
But uh… I guess I have a ko-fi if you’re taking pity on me and want to throw a couple bucks my way while I figure out what I can do ko-fi.com/coelasquid
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Sooo uh, apparently Ko-Fi unlisted my my page because it spontaneously got so much attention they assumed it was a scam and made me send in a bunch of verification that I’m a real person that they’ll “verify within 7 days”. So that… sucks… but thank you everyone for supporting me that hard
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A caricature of Brian Cowen in the nip led to the scrubbing of RTÉ news archives and a Garda visit to a radio station within 24 hours, just to give a sense of proportion to this foot-dragging.
“So now you have the Gardaí, the AI Minister and multiple legal experts including @iccl.bsky.social saying the legislation is all there already - it’s going to be increasingly difficult for the Government not to take a position on this”.
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A caricature of Brian Cowen in the nip led to the scrubbing of RTÉ news archives and a Garda visit to a radio station within 24 hours, just to give a sense of proportion to this foot-dragging.
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Disgusting. Genai doesn't deserve to be shown because there's nothing worth seeing. People who use it don't get to have a spot in an art show. There is NO reason to allow it because every space it takes up -art show panel, booth, table- belongs to a real creator.
Comic-Con should be a celebration of illustrators, comic artists, writers and so on. Elevating the actual craftsmen and women who make the works that fans love!
Instead it opens the door to slop that can only exist due to the stolen work of those same creatives, to then displace creatives. Gross!
Instead it opens the door to slop that can only exist due to the stolen work of those same creatives, to then displace creatives. Gross!
January 14, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Disgusting. Genai doesn't deserve to be shown because there's nothing worth seeing. People who use it don't get to have a spot in an art show. There is NO reason to allow it because every space it takes up -art show panel, booth, table- belongs to a real creator.
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If I were a shrewd person, my super small easter eggs would be a way to incentivise getting the hi-res version of the comic on my Patreon, but in reality it's just that I'm accidentally too zoomed in while I'm painting...
www.patreon.com/dresdencodak...
www.patreon.com/dresdencodak...
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
If I were a shrewd person, my super small easter eggs would be a way to incentivise getting the hi-res version of the comic on my Patreon, but in reality it's just that I'm accidentally too zoomed in while I'm painting...
www.patreon.com/dresdencodak...
www.patreon.com/dresdencodak...
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Sam Altman is gonna have his Elizabeth Holmes moment and I cannot fuk'n wait for it.
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Sam Altman is gonna have his Elizabeth Holmes moment and I cannot fuk'n wait for it.
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A closer look at our firey boy
January 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
A closer look at our firey boy
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I read the rules, and AI art cannot be for sale and must be labeled AI. But once you let it in the Art Show becomes an AI bar and no artist will drink there. So what you said. They are testing the waters so we gotta fight it now.
January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I read the rules, and AI art cannot be for sale and must be labeled AI. But once you let it in the Art Show becomes an AI bar and no artist will drink there. So what you said. They are testing the waters so we gotta fight it now.
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this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish
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Reading Agatha Christie's lesser work does show you how much of what counts as "fair play" in mysteries depends on the assumption of shared social context.
Just read a short story where the crucial clue was, as Miss Marple says, "Gardeners don't work on Whit Monday. Everybody knows that."
Just read a short story where the crucial clue was, as Miss Marple says, "Gardeners don't work on Whit Monday. Everybody knows that."
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Reading Agatha Christie's lesser work does show you how much of what counts as "fair play" in mysteries depends on the assumption of shared social context.
Just read a short story where the crucial clue was, as Miss Marple says, "Gardeners don't work on Whit Monday. Everybody knows that."
Just read a short story where the crucial clue was, as Miss Marple says, "Gardeners don't work on Whit Monday. Everybody knows that."
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Hello!
Its my birthday so I'm running a sale on most stuff in my shop till Sunday.
If you ever wanted to pick up a print, or simply attempt to buy my silence, then this is an *excellent* time. All 2D prints, stickers and my art book are on sale!
bossrushstudio.etsy.com
Its my birthday so I'm running a sale on most stuff in my shop till Sunday.
If you ever wanted to pick up a print, or simply attempt to buy my silence, then this is an *excellent* time. All 2D prints, stickers and my art book are on sale!
bossrushstudio.etsy.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Hello!
Its my birthday so I'm running a sale on most stuff in my shop till Sunday.
If you ever wanted to pick up a print, or simply attempt to buy my silence, then this is an *excellent* time. All 2D prints, stickers and my art book are on sale!
bossrushstudio.etsy.com
Its my birthday so I'm running a sale on most stuff in my shop till Sunday.
If you ever wanted to pick up a print, or simply attempt to buy my silence, then this is an *excellent* time. All 2D prints, stickers and my art book are on sale!
bossrushstudio.etsy.com
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In the span of weeks, I've gone from someone who has never used Godot, to struggling to "get" Godot, to really liking Godot, to having taught aspiring gamedevs the basics of Godot, to strongly believing Godot's workflow & structure might be the best approach to developing games for many purposes.
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
In the span of weeks, I've gone from someone who has never used Godot, to struggling to "get" Godot, to really liking Godot, to having taught aspiring gamedevs the basics of Godot, to strongly believing Godot's workflow & structure might be the best approach to developing games for many purposes.