Ross
@roostarr.bsky.social
Scottish Zoologist, Geek, Artist and Time Traveller.
He/Him 🌈 🇪🇺 🏴
He/Him 🌈 🇪🇺 🏴
@hannahartwork.bsky.social Just saw your work on the new CR release and I just had to come tell you how gorgeous your Keyleth is, truly beyond words to do it justice!
March 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@hannahartwork.bsky.social Just saw your work on the new CR release and I just had to come tell you how gorgeous your Keyleth is, truly beyond words to do it justice!
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This is a thing in the UK, folks. Just cleared all of my stuff from it and disconnected future use.
UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments]
January 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is a thing in the UK, folks. Just cleared all of my stuff from it and disconnected future use.
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Anyone got any good recs on stained glass artists?
This piece belonged to my grandpa, it’s his initials, Clark Cornwall Shire. It hung in the window of his office and I was so honored when my Mom gave it to me. I will always regret not saving it.
I need some help recreating it ❤️
This piece belonged to my grandpa, it’s his initials, Clark Cornwall Shire. It hung in the window of his office and I was so honored when my Mom gave it to me. I will always regret not saving it.
I need some help recreating it ❤️
January 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Anyone got any good recs on stained glass artists?
This piece belonged to my grandpa, it’s his initials, Clark Cornwall Shire. It hung in the window of his office and I was so honored when my Mom gave it to me. I will always regret not saving it.
I need some help recreating it ❤️
This piece belonged to my grandpa, it’s his initials, Clark Cornwall Shire. It hung in the window of his office and I was so honored when my Mom gave it to me. I will always regret not saving it.
I need some help recreating it ❤️
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Folks, this is personal. Our amazingly kind & generous next door neighbors Greg & Cynthia need help.
Like us, they lost everything & right now they don’t have a place to stay.
Please help them get a roof over their head so they can begin to rebuild what they’ve lost.
gofund.me/117e2bc4
Like us, they lost everything & right now they don’t have a place to stay.
Please help them get a roof over their head so they can begin to rebuild what they’ve lost.
gofund.me/117e2bc4
Donate to Rebuilding Our Lives After Home Loss, organized by Greg Middleton
Many of my friends and family members have reached out to me and my family about t… Greg Middleton needs your support for Rebuilding Our Lives After Home Loss
gofund.me
January 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Folks, this is personal. Our amazingly kind & generous next door neighbors Greg & Cynthia need help.
Like us, they lost everything & right now they don’t have a place to stay.
Please help them get a roof over their head so they can begin to rebuild what they’ve lost.
gofund.me/117e2bc4
Like us, they lost everything & right now they don’t have a place to stay.
Please help them get a roof over their head so they can begin to rebuild what they’ve lost.
gofund.me/117e2bc4
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The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, published today, proposes legalising the mass theft of IP by AI companies. And the government has already accepted its recommendations, revealing the ongoing consultation on AI & copyright as a sham.
More thoughts here fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opp...
More thoughts here fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opp...
The AI Opportunities Action Plan is a huge blow to the UK's creative industries. Unfortunately, Labour seems to have made up its mind.
The AI Opportunities Action Plan, commissioned by the UK government and written by Matt Clifford, was published today. It’s a 25-page document that outlines a plan for how the UK can “embrace the tran...
fairtraining.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, published today, proposes legalising the mass theft of IP by AI companies. And the government has already accepted its recommendations, revealing the ongoing consultation on AI & copyright as a sham.
More thoughts here fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opp...
More thoughts here fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opp...
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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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.
An old one but I suppose it's about time I shared some of my art on bluesky too.
Part of my reinterpreted Scottish Folklore and invented Fae creatures series.
Cait Sidhe - The Fae Cat
Part of my reinterpreted Scottish Folklore and invented Fae creatures series.
Cait Sidhe - The Fae Cat
December 16, 2024 at 2:26 AM
An old one but I suppose it's about time I shared some of my art on bluesky too.
Part of my reinterpreted Scottish Folklore and invented Fae creatures series.
Cait Sidhe - The Fae Cat
Part of my reinterpreted Scottish Folklore and invented Fae creatures series.
Cait Sidhe - The Fae Cat
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This is precisely it. Streeting and his allies believe that allowing a child to continue to be trans is ‘harm’ because they see being trans as inherently bad. Conversely they see conversion therapy, starting with denial of medication, as ‘good’ because it might ‘save’ someone from being trans.
The scandal of the Cass Report is that the only harm was the speculation that an affirmed trans child might develop into a healthy trans adult.
These medications are safe in all other patients because we know there are no physical ill effects. Being trans at all is what they see as harm.
These medications are safe in all other patients because we know there are no physical ill effects. Being trans at all is what they see as harm.
Good to see some Labour MPs standing up to their party’s transphobic policies…
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
December 15, 2024 at 8:02 PM
This is precisely it. Streeting and his allies believe that allowing a child to continue to be trans is ‘harm’ because they see being trans as inherently bad. Conversely they see conversion therapy, starting with denial of medication, as ‘good’ because it might ‘save’ someone from being trans.
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I also do not want another pandemic.
Masks are incredibly useful when it comes to the flu. After the first year of the pandemic a strain of flu was declared extinct (and that was the era of imperfect masking! remember DIY cloth masks?).
Masks & hand sanitizer.
Masks are incredibly useful when it comes to the flu. After the first year of the pandemic a strain of flu was declared extinct (and that was the era of imperfect masking! remember DIY cloth masks?).
Masks & hand sanitizer.
Man, I don't want another pandemic. I'm still a gross little goblin from the first one.
Patient hospitalized with possible bird flu infection in Louisiana
The individual had been exposed to sick or dead birds thought to have had the virus, health officials said.
www.nbcnews.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I also do not want another pandemic.
Masks are incredibly useful when it comes to the flu. After the first year of the pandemic a strain of flu was declared extinct (and that was the era of imperfect masking! remember DIY cloth masks?).
Masks & hand sanitizer.
Masks are incredibly useful when it comes to the flu. After the first year of the pandemic a strain of flu was declared extinct (and that was the era of imperfect masking! remember DIY cloth masks?).
Masks & hand sanitizer.
Trash company run by trash humans treats staff like shit yet again surprising absolutely nobody!
Wyrmwood lays off 50% of their workers, films the aftermath, and puts the whole thing on YouTube for content... including a response to Rascal’s request for comment.
Wyrmwood’s bitter medicine is proving hard for audiences to swallow
Wyrmwood lays off 50% of their workers, films the aftermath, and puts the whole thing on YouTube for content... including a response to Rascal’s request for comment.
www.rascal.news
December 13, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Trash company run by trash humans treats staff like shit yet again surprising absolutely nobody!
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reminder that all this AI stuff is using up all our water and kicking climate change into overdrive :) for absolutely zero reason
December 12, 2024 at 1:13 AM
reminder that all this AI stuff is using up all our water and kicking climate change into overdrive :) for absolutely zero reason
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I am horrified by FedEx's current commercial portraying a driver who killed a rattlesnake while delivering a package as a hero. I have written a letter (text below) to FedEx marketing officials and hope that you will do so as well, and will share this post to get more people involved. 1/4
December 9, 2024 at 6:04 PM
I am horrified by FedEx's current commercial portraying a driver who killed a rattlesnake while delivering a package as a hero. I have written a letter (text below) to FedEx marketing officials and hope that you will do so as well, and will share this post to get more people involved. 1/4
Just a friendly reminder that the SA are huge bigots and don't help those in need... Don't give them a damn thing and find other places to support that don't discriminate!
December 7, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Just a friendly reminder that the SA are huge bigots and don't help those in need... Don't give them a damn thing and find other places to support that don't discriminate!
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Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER
November 23, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER
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✨TTRPG ART RAFFLE✨
Win a collection of 400+ high quality, diverse fantasy TTRPG portraits drawn by me!
To enter:
🔹Follow & Repost
🔹(Optional) Leave a comment and/or tag a friend
🔹If I reach 9k before the end, there will be a 2 winners
🔹Ends on Nov 30th
Good luck, everyone!🙌✨
#artraffle #dnd #ttrpg
Win a collection of 400+ high quality, diverse fantasy TTRPG portraits drawn by me!
To enter:
🔹Follow & Repost
🔹(Optional) Leave a comment and/or tag a friend
🔹If I reach 9k before the end, there will be a 2 winners
🔹Ends on Nov 30th
Good luck, everyone!🙌✨
#artraffle #dnd #ttrpg
November 17, 2024 at 9:01 PM
✨TTRPG ART RAFFLE✨
Win a collection of 400+ high quality, diverse fantasy TTRPG portraits drawn by me!
To enter:
🔹Follow & Repost
🔹(Optional) Leave a comment and/or tag a friend
🔹If I reach 9k before the end, there will be a 2 winners
🔹Ends on Nov 30th
Good luck, everyone!🙌✨
#artraffle #dnd #ttrpg
Win a collection of 400+ high quality, diverse fantasy TTRPG portraits drawn by me!
To enter:
🔹Follow & Repost
🔹(Optional) Leave a comment and/or tag a friend
🔹If I reach 9k before the end, there will be a 2 winners
🔹Ends on Nov 30th
Good luck, everyone!🙌✨
#artraffle #dnd #ttrpg
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Hey folks, a reminder:
Don't use Gen ai.
You can either afford an artist/stock art, or you can't.
If you can't, you can make your own art/designs or abstain.
Or you can cheaper your entire brand and communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine.
Don't use Gen ai.
You can either afford an artist/stock art, or you can't.
If you can't, you can make your own art/designs or abstain.
Or you can cheaper your entire brand and communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine.
November 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Hey folks, a reminder:
Don't use Gen ai.
You can either afford an artist/stock art, or you can't.
If you can't, you can make your own art/designs or abstain.
Or you can cheaper your entire brand and communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine.
Don't use Gen ai.
You can either afford an artist/stock art, or you can't.
If you can't, you can make your own art/designs or abstain.
Or you can cheaper your entire brand and communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine.
I'm so glad this place is really starting to get going, it feels so good to have a feed full of beautiful real human art, adorable fellow nerds and kindness!
November 11, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I'm so glad this place is really starting to get going, it feels so good to have a feed full of beautiful real human art, adorable fellow nerds and kindness!
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A free preventative block list
November 6, 2024 at 6:06 PM
A free preventative block list
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This this THIS
November 4, 2024 at 7:25 AM
This this THIS
Wooooooo! More Mira Grant! Seanan never disappoints in any of her series, but her particular brand of sci-fi creepy as Mira is a gods damned delight! Whilst you wait go read the other Mira books, you won't be disappointed!
October 21, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Wooooooo! More Mira Grant! Seanan never disappoints in any of her series, but her particular brand of sci-fi creepy as Mira is a gods damned delight! Whilst you wait go read the other Mira books, you won't be disappointed!
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🔥PALE TIDES is on Kickstarter🔥
My dream TTRPG that I've spent the last 9 years working on will finally launch on October 31st.
Wishlist it now so you can get in on the early bonuses!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...
My dream TTRPG that I've spent the last 9 years working on will finally launch on October 31st.
Wishlist it now so you can get in on the early bonuses!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...
Coming soon: PALE TIDES: A Game of Folk Horror and Witchcraft
A new horror roleplaying game by Paul Scott Canavan. A pale moon rises. Forgotten horrors stir. Gather your coven and prepare to hunt.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
🔥PALE TIDES is on Kickstarter🔥
My dream TTRPG that I've spent the last 9 years working on will finally launch on October 31st.
Wishlist it now so you can get in on the early bonuses!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...
My dream TTRPG that I've spent the last 9 years working on will finally launch on October 31st.
Wishlist it now so you can get in on the early bonuses!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal...
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It is also probably worth noting that they can only say "for 3 years after infection" because they only had data for up to 3 years after infection.
October 10, 2024 at 1:30 PM
It is also probably worth noting that they can only say "for 3 years after infection" because they only had data for up to 3 years after infection.
If you see this, Congratulations you just won The Game! Never again will you have to worry about losing it! You're free!
April 16, 2024 at 11:48 PM
If you see this, Congratulations you just won The Game! Never again will you have to worry about losing it! You're free!
I have successfully escaped the musk swamp formerly known as twitter! Now to find everyone and help others escape!
October 19, 2023 at 9:29 PM
I have successfully escaped the musk swamp formerly known as twitter! Now to find everyone and help others escape!