Kevin Wilson
@curiouslykevin.bsky.social
Designer and artist. Currently tech/design at @hiveworks.bsky.social. Co-writer of Candlelight, a tech and art newsletter. ( https://links.blackcandle.art/ )
I was able to still do this as of today. Whew! If you forgot, now's a good time to log into your LinkedIn and turn this setting off, if you haven't yet.
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I was able to still do this as of today. Whew! If you forgot, now's a good time to log into your LinkedIn and turn this setting off, if you haven't yet.
An amazing thread of advice for artists. Giving me a lot to chew on.
I was talking to a younger local artist who's having trouble figuring out specifically what he wants to do, and you know, it got me thinking about what a dadgummed boon it is to have a very specific lane down which you intend to travel. 1/
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
An amazing thread of advice for artists. Giving me a lot to chew on.
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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@kickstarter.com is such a cool business as it helps creators fulfill their dreams. I can't imagine the TTRPG scene without them
Like every business, its success is built on the backs of its workforce - @kickstarterunited.org. These people keep the company running, and they need our support.
Like every business, its success is built on the backs of its workforce - @kickstarterunited.org. These people keep the company running, and they need our support.
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
@kickstarter.com is such a cool business as it helps creators fulfill their dreams. I can't imagine the TTRPG scene without them
Like every business, its success is built on the backs of its workforce - @kickstarterunited.org. These people keep the company running, and they need our support.
Like every business, its success is built on the backs of its workforce - @kickstarterunited.org. These people keep the company running, and they need our support.
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Tired of seeing AI on pinterest?
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Tired of seeing AI on pinterest?
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.
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Silent Hill F has me drawing for fun
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Silent Hill F has me drawing for fun
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Today I received two pieces of mail from folks who appreciate my artwork and it is like I’m riding high on a kite. Sometimes all I need is a little bit of validation to keep the darkness at bay.
Thank you everyone who helps boost and support me and my artworks. 🌱
Thank you everyone who helps boost and support me and my artworks. 🌱
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today I received two pieces of mail from folks who appreciate my artwork and it is like I’m riding high on a kite. Sometimes all I need is a little bit of validation to keep the darkness at bay.
Thank you everyone who helps boost and support me and my artworks. 🌱
Thank you everyone who helps boost and support me and my artworks. 🌱
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halloween party (2020)
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
halloween party (2020)
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If I controlled an animation studio- any animation studio- I would jump both feet forth. Alas- for good or bd- I do not.
Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet.
After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!
After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
If I controlled an animation studio- any animation studio- I would jump both feet forth. Alas- for good or bd- I do not.
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LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT! Get your submissions in before October 1st, 2:59 PM ET! 📆
✨ Nib & Ink Fest 2026 Submissions are NOW OPEN! Co-op members, submit your comics to the Marketplace, the Webcomic Sampler, and the Oops All Comics Zine! Submissions open 9/1/2025 and end 10/1/2025.
Check out nif.cartoonist.coop/submissions for more info!
Check out nif.cartoonist.coop/submissions for more info!
September 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT! Get your submissions in before October 1st, 2:59 PM ET! 📆
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I think this is a fine idea!
So, I noticed a new evolution in the way comics are displayed in book stores today. I found a shop that placed comics in the comics section, but also on a single shelf at the end of each genre section. So if you are browsing fantasy, the books beyond Z are all fantasy comics.
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I think this is a fine idea!
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Today is National Comic Book Day. Yup. To celebrate I thought I'd post previews from the three books that I had come out this year.
For our final installment of 2025, we have MEAT EATERS. Published by Oni Press.
For our final installment of 2025, we have MEAT EATERS. Published by Oni Press.
September 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today is National Comic Book Day. Yup. To celebrate I thought I'd post previews from the three books that I had come out this year.
For our final installment of 2025, we have MEAT EATERS. Published by Oni Press.
For our final installment of 2025, we have MEAT EATERS. Published by Oni Press.
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Finally... it is done! Now available on Vgen, my customizable spreadsheet is available to help artists figure out pricing based on their unique situation (desired wages, supply & demand, market research, PTO).
It's PWYW! ❤️ I spent ~a month on this, shares are appreciated!
vgen.co/Breadsticc/p...
It's PWYW! ❤️ I spent ~a month on this, shares are appreciated!
vgen.co/Breadsticc/p...
Pricing Calculator (Customizable Spreadsheet) by Breadsticc (@Breadsticc)
vgen.co
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Finally... it is done! Now available on Vgen, my customizable spreadsheet is available to help artists figure out pricing based on their unique situation (desired wages, supply & demand, market research, PTO).
It's PWYW! ❤️ I spent ~a month on this, shares are appreciated!
vgen.co/Breadsticc/p...
It's PWYW! ❤️ I spent ~a month on this, shares are appreciated!
vgen.co/Breadsticc/p...
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my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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I saw this originally on mastodon, but want to draw attention to it here- really good breakdown of how exactly payment processors function and why you can only DIY it all so far
@itsnero.com
I have a question, have you read this article? Another artist I follow had made a post on Pillowfort about it a friend there showed me.
voidfox.com/blog/payment...
I have a question, have you read this article? Another artist I follow had made a post on Pillowfort about it a friend there showed me.
voidfox.com/blog/payment...
Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP
voidfox.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I saw this originally on mastodon, but want to draw attention to it here- really good breakdown of how exactly payment processors function and why you can only DIY it all so far
This doesn’t mean it’s easy, but I’ve been feeling strongly about this. I think Patreon can make you think it’s something inescapable when lots of people are running their own membership sites or newsletters. And have for a long time. I strongly want Patreon to work for artists, not the reverse.
Hey y'know this is why it's great to have things like my members website. Which is an independently hosted way for me to catalogue my work just in case this ever happened. Y'know, just in case.
PARANOIA PAYS OFF BABY
PARANOIA PAYS OFF BABY
GOTTA love getting hassled by people via fake patron chargebacks! It's really awesome and cool!
September 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This doesn’t mean it’s easy, but I’ve been feeling strongly about this. I think Patreon can make you think it’s something inescapable when lots of people are running their own membership sites or newsletters. And have for a long time. I strongly want Patreon to work for artists, not the reverse.
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Hey y'know this is why it's great to have things like my members website. Which is an independently hosted way for me to catalogue my work just in case this ever happened. Y'know, just in case.
PARANOIA PAYS OFF BABY
PARANOIA PAYS OFF BABY
GOTTA love getting hassled by people via fake patron chargebacks! It's really awesome and cool!
September 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Hey y'know this is why it's great to have things like my members website. Which is an independently hosted way for me to catalogue my work just in case this ever happened. Y'know, just in case.
PARANOIA PAYS OFF BABY
PARANOIA PAYS OFF BABY