Erica Costello
@ericacostelloart.bsky.social
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Tax wealth not work
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Tax wealth not work
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if you bought a book last week, it has been shipped! there's still a few left so grab yours before they're gone
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you bought a book last week, it has been shipped! there's still a few left so grab yours before they're gone
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Some hand sheets I made for the animation team! I looked at how Dana drew hands a lot and coupled it with my own anatomical knowledge of hands. #KnightsOfGuinevere
September 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Some hand sheets I made for the animation team! I looked at how Dana drew hands a lot and coupled it with my own anatomical knowledge of hands. #KnightsOfGuinevere
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My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
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Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
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1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth.
Many complied and shut down their programs.
Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.
And now, they just beat Trump in court.
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Many complied and shut down their programs.
Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.
And now, they just beat Trump in court.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Boston Children’s Fights Back For Trans Kids: Judge Quashes Trump Subpoena
Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, “No.”
www.erininthemorning.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth.
Many complied and shut down their programs.
Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.
And now, they just beat Trump in court.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Many complied and shut down their programs.
Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.
And now, they just beat Trump in court.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Idle — The Wealth Race
Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!
therichdont.work
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
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This Background Layout is up for paint here: eyecager.gumroad.com/l/pipifanart
It's a fanart based off the animation The Legend of Pipi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cF...
You can use this for BG Paint portfolios! Just be sure to mark it as The Legend of Pipi fanart and credit the original short!
It's a fanart based off the animation The Legend of Pipi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cF...
You can use this for BG Paint portfolios! Just be sure to mark it as The Legend of Pipi fanart and credit the original short!
July 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This Background Layout is up for paint here: eyecager.gumroad.com/l/pipifanart
It's a fanart based off the animation The Legend of Pipi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cF...
You can use this for BG Paint portfolios! Just be sure to mark it as The Legend of Pipi fanart and credit the original short!
It's a fanart based off the animation The Legend of Pipi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cF...
You can use this for BG Paint portfolios! Just be sure to mark it as The Legend of Pipi fanart and credit the original short!
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Useful today: bsky.app/profile/did:...
June 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Useful today: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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links to my things! 🫰🫰🫰
i also make brushes if you’re interested! you can find them here:
🫶 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG
✨ ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin
✨ merlin2g.gumroad.com
🫶 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG
✨ ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin
✨ merlin2g.gumroad.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
links to my things! 🫰🫰🫰
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it’s my birthday!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎂 i’d appreciate it if you could share my art and brushes today,
ty for supporting me all these years 🫶🫶🫶
ty for supporting me all these years 🫶🫶🫶
June 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
it’s my birthday!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎂 i’d appreciate it if you could share my art and brushes today,
ty for supporting me all these years 🫶🫶🫶
ty for supporting me all these years 🫶🫶🫶
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Learning new things is hard. Week 1 of @warriorartcamp.bsky.social Colored Pencil Sketching workshop with Amy Erickson!
May 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Learning new things is hard. Week 1 of @warriorartcamp.bsky.social Colored Pencil Sketching workshop with Amy Erickson!
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Once more for those at the back:
CRESCENT COUNTY IS COMING TO KICKSTARTER!
Please follow our campaign and spread the word✌️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...
CRESCENT COUNTY IS COMING TO KICKSTARTER!
Please follow our campaign and spread the word✌️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...
April 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Once more for those at the back:
CRESCENT COUNTY IS COMING TO KICKSTARTER!
Please follow our campaign and spread the word✌️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...
CRESCENT COUNTY IS COMING TO KICKSTARTER!
Please follow our campaign and spread the word✌️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...
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Literally all they do is lie
The Israeli military on Saturday acknowledged that the initial accounts from troops involved in the killing of 15 people in Gaza — who the UN said were rescue workers — had been partially “mistaken.” The assessment came after a video appeared to contradict the military’s earlier version of events.
Israel Says Its Account of Rescue Workers Killed in Gaza Was Partly ‘Mistaken’
The Israeli military had previously asserted that the workers had been “advancing suspiciously” toward its troops. A video obtained by The New York Times on Friday appeared to contradict that account.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Literally all they do is lie
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it's playing the long game, but IMO it's crucial for democratic city leaders to make living in cities the cheaper, easier, nicer option.
- High frequency + redundant + accessible transit.
- Dense housing with options for families (3bd units)
- Shelter for all
- Parks + quality public restrooms
- High frequency + redundant + accessible transit.
- Dense housing with options for families (3bd units)
- Shelter for all
- Parks + quality public restrooms
March 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
it's playing the long game, but IMO it's crucial for democratic city leaders to make living in cities the cheaper, easier, nicer option.
- High frequency + redundant + accessible transit.
- Dense housing with options for families (3bd units)
- Shelter for all
- Parks + quality public restrooms
- High frequency + redundant + accessible transit.
- Dense housing with options for families (3bd units)
- Shelter for all
- Parks + quality public restrooms
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Gonna leave this recommendation here for everyone tired of pinterest's shenanigans
Maybe it will turn sour eventually like everything else apparently. But can we foster alternatives while they are still on the good path?
It has images like the ones on pinterest +community labeling -ai
Maybe it will turn sour eventually like everything else apparently. But can we foster alternatives while they are still on the good path?
It has images like the ones on pinterest +community labeling -ai
refern. | The all-in-one curated image reference platform
refern. is an ad-free, Pinterest-like image organizer, reimagined for creatives — save, find, organize, moodboard, study & share curated reference images all in one app.
www.refern.app
March 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Gonna leave this recommendation here for everyone tired of pinterest's shenanigans
Maybe it will turn sour eventually like everything else apparently. But can we foster alternatives while they are still on the good path?
It has images like the ones on pinterest +community labeling -ai
Maybe it will turn sour eventually like everything else apparently. But can we foster alternatives while they are still on the good path?
It has images like the ones on pinterest +community labeling -ai
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You know what really sucks about this? People upload my work onto Pinterest all the time without my permission, so it'll be scraped now whether I like it or not.
Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI.
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠
March 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
You know what really sucks about this? People upload my work onto Pinterest all the time without my permission, so it'll be scraped now whether I like it or not.
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My 3 completed 16x20” paintings. Is there stuff I would do differently now? Heck ya bud. Am I still happy with these? You betcha I am!
February 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My 3 completed 16x20” paintings. Is there stuff I would do differently now? Heck ya bud. Am I still happy with these? You betcha I am!
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as a reminder, the bare minimum you can do these days is to not use ai to generate art or writing! consider instead paying an artist or hiring an editor :)
February 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
as a reminder, the bare minimum you can do these days is to not use ai to generate art or writing! consider instead paying an artist or hiring an editor :)
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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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Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)
January 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)
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Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
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This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
FEMALE HEAD, LIGHT REFERENCE TOOL
After the success of the first one, I decided to create another version of the lighting tool. So this is the Female simplified head version. Hope it will help you for your works ! feel free to share =...
williamnguyen.artstation.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:40 PM
This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
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women don’t look like any one thing. my unreachable ideal for the world is that gender stops defining what people have to look like. its exhausting and it just causes trouble
December 24, 2024 at 7:26 PM
women don’t look like any one thing. my unreachable ideal for the world is that gender stops defining what people have to look like. its exhausting and it just causes trouble