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AlpineCamembear
@alpinecamembear.bsky.social
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Play your backlog.
I love art.
Trying to hope.

Occasional artist/musician. 30s. One half of @anagacharts, UK board game designer/publisher.
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AlpineCamembear @alpinecamembear.bsky.social · Jul 3
If anyone decides to follow me for art, you'll probably be disappointed. I sadly can't devote regular time to the hobby so art posts will be few and far between.
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
I should call her...
December 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
30 unique card effects drafted. 4 unique territories drafted. Chipping away at this game bit by bit, on schedule for prototyping by Spring.
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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dirtyhoechata.bsky.social
Traveled to Japan last month and here is my attempt of capturing the vibrancy of autumn in one of the temple grounds in Kyoto #painting #art #landscape
An abstract landscape painting of a pond scenery with trees in the foreground and a bridge in the background.
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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cuffianart.bsky.social
Another World 🎨
acrylics on large canvas 40x30”
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
A study of the quoted piece in pastel.
December 2025

Thank you @cuffianart.bsky.social for this opportunity, I learned a huge amount from this!

#art #pastelart #arts Tudy

(Reposting because I forgot tags again...)
A pastel painting of varying purple shades, representing a forest in perspective. The space is separated horizontally by bands of contrasting yellow.
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
Tendrils
Soft pastel on ingres, Nov 2025

Another practice piece. Working out how to get depth with pastel. Also trying out masking tape methods for clean lines, very challenging with such an unstable medium.
#art #pastelart
A pastel painting consisting of a bright yellow background, on which two flame-like tendrils (Maybe kelp-like is more accurate) writhe. A band of smoky, silvery grey runs diagonally in the top-left corner.
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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dekudeals.com
Shocked looking mm with dark hair loses grip on a game controller, solid blue background Above text that says “IT’S OK TO STOP PLAYING THAT GAME YOU’RE NO LONGER ENJOYING”
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
I say some variation of this to my wife on a bi-momthly basis. She is probably sick of hearing it by now.
flailmorpho.bsky.social ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜 @flailmorpho.bsky.social · 21d
I really hate that gacha is so popular

you could be playing games designed primarily to be enjoyed instead, like just pay once and bam you've got a whole ass game that you're meant to just, play it for fun

why are you playing the game that is explicitly designed to make you dissatisfied
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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aerialembroidery.bsky.social
I've now opened a raffle for this embroidery landscape - direct link below! The listing has full details for the reason and how to enter, the process, etc. This is a vital moment for me so any post engagement/shares will be extremely helpful! victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art
An embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape inspired by vibrant Autumn woods. It depicts trees rich in oranges, reds and golds, winding blue streams, a country lane and wild moorland animals.
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
Seems my discover tab has finally got the message and is now 85% actual human made art. Glorious.
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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tamiwicinas.bsky.social
The frogs will rise.
Cute angry ceramic frog. The frog has “resist” written in the patterns on its back.
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
"Slide"
Pastel on ingres, Nov 2025

Trying some stuff. A (very very bad) style study of Cuffian Art's work, go look at his stuff it's way better than this!

#art #pastelart
An abstract pastel painting consisting of various right-angle shapes placed over a orange-brown background. Brown bands impose at the forefront, beside another brown splodge sitting at a prominent place. A vague attempt to understand Cuffian's style. Learned a little bit, mainly not to overload the space, and that wet-smudging soft pastel is not as good as wet-smuding oil pastel.
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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theahaykid.bsky.social
Reactionary cretins, 1974-2000: D&D is for satanic gays and weirdos
Reactionary cretins, 2001-2014: D&D is for nerds, gays and weirdos
Reactionary cretins, 2015-present: D&D is ruined because of woke, gays and weirdos
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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midge.bsky.social
if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
Photo of a collection of icicles that have formed outside a window that look like a creature or a ghost or a demon idk it’s got a nice ass tho
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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richardfallon.bsky.social
An Abstract (?) Expressionist #FossilFriday: Essence of a Graptolite (2014) by Sue Purcell. It 'was inspired by a fossil I found during a field trip with the fossil club at the Lower Llanfawr Quarry, Llandrindod Wells, Powys. Mid-Wales' (www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting...)
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
Was in the mood to make a dungeon synth album cover.
First person view of Frodo Baggins wielding a sword. He is in a barrow and his three unconscious Hobbit friends are superimposed over the background, dressed in white with a sword laid over their necks. An arm of a wight is visible on the right, as is Tom Bombadil's boot. The writing reads "Mathom - Fog on the Barrow-downs".
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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cuffianart.bsky.social
I painted a big canvas last night 🎨
100x75cm
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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lillikoifish.bsky.social
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
When I accidentally use someone's full forename in an email, and then they add an "er" to the end of mine, I always wonder if they realise my full forename is actually Christoph. Adding an "er" when they've already been calling me Christoph means they're addressing someone who doesn't exist!
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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mikehendley.com
It’s been a busy week with a big focus around AI in healthcare (my day job). But I finally had a chance this morning to start this tufted titmouse in watercolor. Grateful for these quiet moments especially when life decides that top gear is needed. #birds #sciart
A watercolor sketch of a tufted titmouse in a sketchbook. The bird has a small crest, gray back, and warm beige breast. A blue waterbrush rests on the page, and a watercolor palette sits to the right.
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
"It'S a tWo hoRSe rAcE"
Media spin has never been my favourite. So glad to prove them utterly wrong.
britainelects.com Britain Elects @britainelects.com · Oct 24
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
alpinecamembear.bsky.social
I was 13
cheflubu.bsky.social Oh Scheiße, es ist Lü Bu @cheflubu.bsky.social · Oct 21
I am demanding anyone that ever tried to throw a hadouken or kamehameha in real life repost this.
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM