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Paul
@plauk.bsky.social
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will #art for food; also real bad at #webdev and other stuff...

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plauk.bsky.social
Is it quieter than normal or what?
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
plauk.bsky.social
I'd like to write a Final Destination spinoff where the central mystery is: which characters are made of cake?
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
plauk.bsky.social
rough thumbnail or final? who can tell? #art #comics
rough thumbnail sketch of weird shit... junk raft floating through empty space... beetles and shit
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
plauk.bsky.social
time for bed #art #timelapse
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
plauk.bsky.social
#art
sketch of some old guy with a ratty beard
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
plauk.bsky.social
The future of the world's economy right here folks
Google AI overview of the word "barley". It begins by describing barley as you would expect, but then as it tries to describe its flavour it quickly loses its shit and just keeps repeating "nutty flavour" over and over until it just runs out of space. I feel like this says something about our survival as a species, honestly.
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
plauk.bsky.social
After marvelling for years at Eddie Campbell's black and white art in the original version of From Hell, I've been thinking about avoiding even shades of grey in this thing I'm working on. But, I dunno if I can pull it off. 1/2 #art
greyscale comic panel: some wooden posts standing in murky water. There are hints of weird shadowy shapes under the surface that... If we're being optimistic, are probably just seaweed or something. Speech bubbles: "Have you brushed your teeth?" "Uh huh" "OK. Tuck yourself in. Time for a story." "What kind of story?" "A TRUE story."
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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biancanogrady.bsky.social
What Australian outlets edited out of the opening of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley Awards speech on press freedom:
(The full speech is here: www.walkleys.com/dont-kid-you...)
A screenshot of a section of Kerry O'Brien's speech. This section is outlined in red, with the note 'Missing from The Age/SMH version: "First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago. “Having excluded independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel’s bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it, Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed. “Importantly, what we should acknowledge tonight is the impact those Palestinian journalists have had in return for their sacrifice. “They have confronted the world with powerful evidence that has gradually taken on the look and feel of genocide in real time—in our living rooms as well as the corridors of the UN and its agencies. “It is significantly due to the courage and stubborn determination of those journalists that no reasonable citizen of the world has been able to look away. They and their surviving colleagues have provided an irresistible clarity of truth that has profoundly influenced global public opinion, to the point where even some close allies have been compelled to condemn the nature of Israel’s ongoing war, and declare their recognition of the State of Palestine." This section is outlined in blue with the note 'Missing from the Guardian version': “They and their surviving colleagues have provided an irresistible clarity of truth that has profoundly influenced global public opinion, to the point where even some close allies have been compelled to condemn the nature of Israel’s ongoing war, and declare their recognition of the State of Palestine."
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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beatskelton.bsky.social
I GENUINELY HATE THAT WE USE THE SAME TERM TO REFER TO THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE AND THE CODE THAT MAKES TAILS FOLLOW YOU AROUND IN SONIC 2.
July 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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james.tarnation.lol
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
plauk.bsky.social
Tom Stopp'd
:(
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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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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ramiismail.com
Steam intentionally killing an old, respected, and beloved decade old indie game studio through bullshit policy is fucking wild
santaragione.com Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 16d
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
The "Where's My Wife" Fit Featuring 4 protaganists all wearing Jeans, A green / dark shirt, and bomber overcoat. James Sunderland Sebastian Castellanos Alan Wake Ethan Winters
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
plauk.bsky.social
3 in 1 #art #timelapse
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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chrisbratt.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
plauk.bsky.social
going on a few days in a row now #art #timelapse
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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molly.wiki
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
Posters advocating Worldcoin eyeball-scanning orbs coming to San Francisco. They've been graffitied with orange spray paint: "Orwell was right" "Smash the orbs"
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
plauk.bsky.social
some old guy; mostly ear #art #timelapse
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
plauk.bsky.social
evening warm up #art
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
plauk.bsky.social
1am self portrait #art Read alt text for bonus art tip
Rough sketch; self portrait. It's approaching 1am. Didn't erase anything no matter how shit it got. This is mirrored because I was using phone to see... if you flip it horizontally you'll get an extra jump scare. Here's your bonus art tip: Don't go for years without drawing and expect to not suck. You're welcome.
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
plauk.bsky.social
For the last couple of weeks, have been unreasonably agitated. I think I manifested a migraine just from frowning too hard while staring off into the middle distance.
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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burgerbecky.bsky.social
The last toast by the legend herself:

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky
lindken.com
lindken.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
plauk.bsky.social
found a good pencil brush at least. is #art now?
extremely sketchy sketch of some doof
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM
plauk.bsky.social
You stop drawing regularly for a year and shit just disappears from your brain and hands, doesn't it.
a fairly shit illustration of a giant beetle driving a barge and smoking a pipe. Handwritten caption: "The beetle at the wheel, Cabbage, their guide (who'd smoked more words than spoken) sniffed the air, picked up the scent of something that had died and indicated thusly to prepare..."
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM