Michael Torrens
@michael-j-p-t.bsky.social
He/they. I write comics and complain about capitalism. Sometimes simultaneously.
Read my comics and check out my socials: linktr.ee/theshadowarchives
Read my comics and check out my socials: linktr.ee/theshadowarchives
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Quote RP your art with horns 🤘
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Quote RP your art with horns 🤘
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More warm up drawings of these two from the last few months. I'm working on their story a lot for the first time in a long time (it's easier to write than paint while I still work on healing) and I can't wait to show it to you all some day!
#kidlitart
#kidlitart
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
More warm up drawings of these two from the last few months. I'm working on their story a lot for the first time in a long time (it's easier to write than paint while I still work on healing) and I can't wait to show it to you all some day!
#kidlitart
#kidlitart
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Nothin else for it
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Nothin else for it
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I care for a friend w/ complex needs cos it'd be near impossible to find appropriate care for them. The government pays me £200/mnth for doing it. A qualified carer would be £2500/mnth. I save the government 10s of 1000s every year & people that pay less than that in tax still look down on me.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I care for a friend w/ complex needs cos it'd be near impossible to find appropriate care for them. The government pays me £200/mnth for doing it. A qualified carer would be £2500/mnth. I save the government 10s of 1000s every year & people that pay less than that in tax still look down on me.
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Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.
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I think fish would love to fish
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I think fish would love to fish
KOTOR. And while ita being done, just do KOTOR II as well with it
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
KOTOR. And while ita being done, just do KOTOR II as well with it
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Hey y'all, it's time for our second ever #ArtShare!
You know how these work, right?
*Like & Repost!
*Share your arts and a little about you!
*NSFW and SFW welcome!
*No AI, no NFT.
*Tag your friends!
*Lift each other up! Don't pump & dump!
You know how these work, right?
*Like & Repost!
*Share your arts and a little about you!
*NSFW and SFW welcome!
*No AI, no NFT.
*Tag your friends!
*Lift each other up! Don't pump & dump!
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Hey y'all, it's time for our second ever #ArtShare!
You know how these work, right?
*Like & Repost!
*Share your arts and a little about you!
*NSFW and SFW welcome!
*No AI, no NFT.
*Tag your friends!
*Lift each other up! Don't pump & dump!
You know how these work, right?
*Like & Repost!
*Share your arts and a little about you!
*NSFW and SFW welcome!
*No AI, no NFT.
*Tag your friends!
*Lift each other up! Don't pump & dump!
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won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
These people have no desire to use any thought. No joy in critical or creative thinking.
If given the chance, they would voluntarily wipe their minds in return for a big red button that when pressed injected a dose of dopamine directly into their brain
If given the chance, they would voluntarily wipe their minds in return for a big red button that when pressed injected a dose of dopamine directly into their brain
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
These people have no desire to use any thought. No joy in critical or creative thinking.
If given the chance, they would voluntarily wipe their minds in return for a big red button that when pressed injected a dose of dopamine directly into their brain
If given the chance, they would voluntarily wipe their minds in return for a big red button that when pressed injected a dose of dopamine directly into their brain
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
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The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time
September 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
"Sorry ma'am, can't let you and your child use the changing rooms, you don't look conventionally attractive enough. I am banning you in the name of women's safety, apparently. Also you're banned from using any toilet outside your home. For women's safety."
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Sorry ma'am, can't let you and your child use the changing rooms, you don't look conventionally attractive enough. I am banning you in the name of women's safety, apparently. Also you're banned from using any toilet outside your home. For women's safety."
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This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
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This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
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Because the law is an expensive tool to use; because this means it is mostly rich people who get to use it; because rich people are usually men; the law has become a tool of the patriarchy, one which men use to impose their will on women.
In situations where the law tries to decide this for you, I hope there are people like @goodlawproject.bsky.social willing to stand up for your rights to not be property.
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Because the law is an expensive tool to use; because this means it is mostly rich people who get to use it; because rich people are usually men; the law has become a tool of the patriarchy, one which men use to impose their will on women.
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Hell yeah!✊️
Kickstarter union has won a 4 day work week, minimum salary and protection against AI replacing workers!! Unions get amazing things done!!
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hell yeah!✊️
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org