River
@antirrhopus.bsky.social
He/him, Mid-20s, dino nerd, anti-fascist
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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TIL, unsplash and istock images forbid any and all AI on their sites as well as letting AI train on them, ahhhh
sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped
sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
TIL, unsplash and istock images forbid any and all AI on their sites as well as letting AI train on them, ahhhh
sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped
sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped
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Unsolicited artist advice of the day: if you're a freelancer with no back up devices or storage, remember to pick a few things up in the black Friday sales. Even a pen drive to back up your projects so if you have a catastrophic hard drive failure you wont lose everything..learn from my mistakes. 😅
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Unsolicited artist advice of the day: if you're a freelancer with no back up devices or storage, remember to pick a few things up in the black Friday sales. Even a pen drive to back up your projects so if you have a catastrophic hard drive failure you wont lose everything..learn from my mistakes. 😅
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
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not sure how i feel about them yet but i spent a lot of time on them so,, 150 obo #adopt #adoptable
- payment via Paypal/Ko-fi
- make sure to read my TOS (linked below)
- buyer will receive the design's toyhouse profile
- comment/dm to claim
- i will not make big changes to it when you buy
- payment via Paypal/Ko-fi
- make sure to read my TOS (linked below)
- buyer will receive the design's toyhouse profile
- comment/dm to claim
- i will not make big changes to it when you buy
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
not sure how i feel about them yet but i spent a lot of time on them so,, 150 obo #adopt #adoptable
- payment via Paypal/Ko-fi
- make sure to read my TOS (linked below)
- buyer will receive the design's toyhouse profile
- comment/dm to claim
- i will not make big changes to it when you buy
- payment via Paypal/Ko-fi
- make sure to read my TOS (linked below)
- buyer will receive the design's toyhouse profile
- comment/dm to claim
- i will not make big changes to it when you buy
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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They won’t magically start doing so in September either.
Remember. Vaccine critics like Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
Scientists actually HAVE.
This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Remember. Vaccine critics like Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
Scientists actually HAVE.
This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
They won’t magically start doing so in September either.
Remember. Vaccine critics like Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
Scientists actually HAVE.
This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Remember. Vaccine critics like Kennedy often give the impression that scientists haven’t seriously researched whether vaccines might cause autism.
Scientists actually HAVE.
This is a MUST-READ article.
• www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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velociraptor drinking from a waterhole
July 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
velociraptor drinking from a waterhole
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Here's this week's Better Offline monologue. I talk about why you should get into vinyl, and why analog music is so much fun in the digital age.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 07/04/2025 · Bonus · 11m
podcasts.apple.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Here's this week's Better Offline monologue. I talk about why you should get into vinyl, and why analog music is so much fun in the digital age.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs.
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs.
May 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs.
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs.
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I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.
The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza
Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.
gizmodo.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.
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Behold! My most complex animated project to date! I learned a lot about Deinonychus and NPR rendering through this, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. What else can we do with this style? Stay tuned!
#animation #sciart #Blender3D #Paleoart
#animation #sciart #Blender3D #Paleoart
May 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Behold! My most complex animated project to date! I learned a lot about Deinonychus and NPR rendering through this, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. What else can we do with this style? Stay tuned!
#animation #sciart #Blender3D #Paleoart
#animation #sciart #Blender3D #Paleoart
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Happy Birthday to me! As a treat, here's the next #Sketchasaurs short! I recommend headphones because the sound design for Parasaurolophus was fun on this one! #Animation #Sciart #Paleoart #Blender3D #ArtistOnBluesky
July 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Happy Birthday to me! As a treat, here's the next #Sketchasaurs short! I recommend headphones because the sound design for Parasaurolophus was fun on this one! #Animation #Sciart #Paleoart #Blender3D #ArtistOnBluesky
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Me getting caught picking up a snack from the fridge at 3 am:
June 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Me getting caught picking up a snack from the fridge at 3 am:
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It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.
Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.
Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride.
I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶
I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶
We All Need to Be Talking About the Murder of Jonathan Joss This Pride and Beyond
The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.
www.harpersbazaar.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.
Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.
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Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
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It's a shrimp world we're all just living in it
May 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It's a shrimp world we're all just living in it
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Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen?
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
More Oncocerida from Gotland
YouTube video by Kiabugboy
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen?
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
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I'll say this as many times as it needs to be said.
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
April 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'll say this as many times as it needs to be said.
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
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