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Michael Lauritano
@mlauritanoillos.bsky.social
Illustrator, Author, Adventurer
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In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.
October 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"artists reacting to ai are the same as how painters reacted to photography" i keep seeing this take and want to commit violence for real
June 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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It’s global apartheid, a pyramid scheme, and landlord economics all rolled into one

and it makes people lazier, less educated, and less talented, which is exactly the type of population these oligarchs need to seize and maintain control

But at least we get cool profile pictures out of it, right?
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Take the openpsychometrics quiz and post the first four you know:
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead)
Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting
Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Marcus (The Bear)
May 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
December 29, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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applying for jobs again
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
April 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My fiancée, drawn from life??? 😉
The imagination card from the Everyday Witch Oracle! One of my favorites from the deck that I created with author @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social!

Prints and signed decks available at albaillustration.etsy.com

My artist friend @sarahdvojack.com posed for this with her cat George ❤️‍
March 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This cost $2000 please buy my book. It’s illustrated.
February 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Guess I'm here now. RIP twitter( or X, I guess?)?
August 1, 2023 at 1:48 PM