Pick Up Pencil (sharpening)
@pickuppencil.bsky.social
Learning how to draw different people, places, and objects.
I believe the best art comes from someone learning rather than a ML model or what is mathematically meant to be the perfect image.
Practicing NSFW too
Banner: Louis Wain
reddit: /u/pickuppencil
I believe the best art comes from someone learning rather than a ML model or what is mathematically meant to be the perfect image.
Practicing NSFW too
Banner: Louis Wain
reddit: /u/pickuppencil
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I have a memory of a gnat, so writing ideas to come back to
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I'm impressed at how the AI industry seems to be trying to bring the rest of computing down with them.
It's a bold strategy that I don't think is going to pay off
It's a bold strategy that I don't think is going to pay off
February 17, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I'm impressed at how the AI industry seems to be trying to bring the rest of computing down with them.
It's a bold strategy that I don't think is going to pay off
It's a bold strategy that I don't think is going to pay off
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Happy Horse Year 2026!
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Happy Horse Year 2026!
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Hi everyone, it’s my birthday and I have a request. I love seeing art and seeing people’s intentions behind the art, so share some you have made and let’s all reshare it and enjoy each other’s works!
February 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone, it’s my birthday and I have a request. I love seeing art and seeing people’s intentions behind the art, so share some you have made and let’s all reshare it and enjoy each other’s works!
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Happy Lunar New Year 🧧
February 17, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Happy Lunar New Year 🧧
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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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muscle studies
February 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
muscle studies
February 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If you see this, post something pink
February 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM
If you see this, post something pink
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Veluthe and Astarion discuss what to do with the folks annoying her. Astarion is not helpful.
February 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Veluthe and Astarion discuss what to do with the folks annoying her. Astarion is not helpful.
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Important to add that, for post-war Germany at least, the vast majority of the people who inflicted this cruelty were quietly allowed back into society. Here's an interview with a 91 YO Auschwitz camp guard who lived a long life after overseeing systematic genocide.
SPIEGEL Interview with a 91 Year Old Former Auschwitz Guard
As a young man, Jakob W. worked in the watchtowers of Auschwitz. Charges against him were recently dropped, but he described to SPIEGEL what it was like to be a cog in the Nazis' horrific machinery of...
www.spiegel.de
February 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Important to add that, for post-war Germany at least, the vast majority of the people who inflicted this cruelty were quietly allowed back into society. Here's an interview with a 91 YO Auschwitz camp guard who lived a long life after overseeing systematic genocide.
Artists, quote with something silly!
Pepsiman Drifting against Coke
Pepsiman Drifting against Coke
February 14, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Artists, quote with something silly!
Pepsiman Drifting against Coke
Pepsiman Drifting against Coke
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Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
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my parents did this with steak dinners, smoked roasts & escargot.
i nearly developed an ed & i can barely make myself eat food, in my home, that i bought, with my own money, from my own pantry.
the cruelty inflicted upon these children is permanent, intentional, & unforgivable
i nearly developed an ed & i can barely make myself eat food, in my home, that i bought, with my own money, from my own pantry.
the cruelty inflicted upon these children is permanent, intentional, & unforgivable
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
my parents did this with steak dinners, smoked roasts & escargot.
i nearly developed an ed & i can barely make myself eat food, in my home, that i bought, with my own money, from my own pantry.
the cruelty inflicted upon these children is permanent, intentional, & unforgivable
i nearly developed an ed & i can barely make myself eat food, in my home, that i bought, with my own money, from my own pantry.
the cruelty inflicted upon these children is permanent, intentional, & unforgivable
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1. I'm glad "fighting words" is making a comeback
2. The degree to which fascism is happening for the likes makes me really unhappy. From literal children to the senescent child molester at the top, all these Nazis are content creators first and foremost
2. The degree to which fascism is happening for the likes makes me really unhappy. From literal children to the senescent child molester at the top, all these Nazis are content creators first and foremost
over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
1. I'm glad "fighting words" is making a comeback
2. The degree to which fascism is happening for the likes makes me really unhappy. From literal children to the senescent child molester at the top, all these Nazis are content creators first and foremost
2. The degree to which fascism is happening for the likes makes me really unhappy. From literal children to the senescent child molester at the top, all these Nazis are content creators first and foremost
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AG Bondi, answer the question??
February 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
AG Bondi, answer the question??
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I'm tired of seeing how every corner of the internet has to be safe for children. It doesn't. It shouldn't be. Keep those kids off the web, it's unhealthy for them. Let adults have their space. How about instead of asking us for ID like we commited a crime, you make the spaces we use 18+?
February 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I'm tired of seeing how every corner of the internet has to be safe for children. It doesn't. It shouldn't be. Keep those kids off the web, it's unhealthy for them. Let adults have their space. How about instead of asking us for ID like we commited a crime, you make the spaces we use 18+?
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I'm gonna need to schedule an overseas vacation to get a flu shot, aren't I?
The FDA has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some Trump administration health officials. https://cnn.it/4kt8iyn
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I'm gonna need to schedule an overseas vacation to get a flu shot, aren't I?