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Pickled Pretzels 🧪⚠️
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Burnt out gifted kid. Too many hobbies, so little time.

I will post art here when I feel like it.

🔞Minors DNI - Nothing personal, just don't want to deal with stupid people
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Made a slight tweak to Bryan's design for the upcoming Toxicsona contest
A tall, lanky slime monster with a yellow scarf made of caution tape
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cyberciti.biz
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
A screenshot of repo web page that reads: Title: Remove Windows Ai Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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godheadheavyindustries.life
so insanely fucking real for this
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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tprstly.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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2house2fly.bsky.social
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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makeship.bsky.social
🚨IT’S GIVEAWAY TIME!🚨
we’re giving away 1 lucky winner a plushie of their choice (plushie has to be live on the site)!

all you have to do to enter:
👉 follow us @makeship.bsky.social
👉 repost this post

the winners will be chosen randomly by the official Makeship account on Dec 2nd at 2PM ET!
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
pickledpretzels.bsky.social
Made a slight tweak to Bryan's design for the upcoming Toxicsona contest
A tall, lanky slime monster with a yellow scarf made of caution tape
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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debjitduttaart.bsky.social
What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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serageranium.bsky.social
@patstaresat.bsky.social on ＡＩ doomerism
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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pickledpretzels.bsky.social
I made a version with Bryan's normal colors. I like this better even if it doesn't match how Toxic Slimes emote

#toxicsona #art #digitalart
An illustration of a tall, blue slime creature wearing caution tape as a scarf. They are happily surprised
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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pickledpretzels.bsky.social
Finally remembered my password, so here's some art

#toxicsona #art #digitalart
A tall, yellow slime creature is happily surprised
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
pickledpretzels.bsky.social
I made a version with Bryan's normal colors. I like this better even if it doesn't match how Toxic Slimes emote

#toxicsona #art #digitalart
An illustration of a tall, blue slime creature wearing caution tape as a scarf. They are happily surprised
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
pickledpretzels.bsky.social
Finally remembered my password, so here's some art

#toxicsona #art #digitalart
A tall, yellow slime creature is happily surprised
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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culturecrave.co
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵

• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses

• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal

"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"

— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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ixnoah.live
In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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stinasdemons.com
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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rj-palmer.com
lmao even the machine doesnt consider AI images to be art
twitter screenshot of idiot asking grok if art can be made by non people to which it firmly shuts his ass down saying AI images are merely a simulation of art.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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alexandria-stone.bsky.social
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
THIS IS THE EMPLOYMENT JELLY Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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susannashore.bsky.social
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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jorgpierre.bsky.social
Once again:
Microsoft is a corporation that turns 30% of it's new code is written by AI into (basic stuff breaking)
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
Alan Moore knows the score
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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arthandle.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM