I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Artist, writer, editor, reviewer, pet appreciator from Manchester. Commissions, editing services available at zuul.art@outlook.com. https://patreon.com/RyeZuul https://ryezuul.substack.com/ SFF, horror, occultism, religion, philosophy. Any pronouns. 🖤
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I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I will have a look!
Lmao
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Happy birthday dude! Love your work, keep doing it!
It’s my birthday today! 🎈 I’d be delighted if people shared this around to help me celebrate turning 29 🎂 Also, hello to any art directors, my folio and contact info is in the replies 😉
Yeah, makes me want to start a TikTok bot farm.
HEY BLUESKY It is my birthday soon and my wife is asking for ideas for presents. I like horror and art and (ps5) video games. Do you have any recommendations for gift ideas? We will also give to charity so that is covered. I suggested the Arcane art book already. #Cat photo tax attached.
Biblically-accurate Wittgenstein
What is the equivalent engagement state of threads btw?
Ofc shit takes and toxicity exist and I still get drawn in, but it's nothing like the nazi and TERF cruelty on twitter and FB. Mostly I am also in a positive art bubble, so I like here and there and sometimes join in, but I'm not as outraged and debate-y. Better for me, worse for engagement. Idk
I think there's a bunch of legit analyses here. I've noticed my BlueSky activity falling recently and I realised it is because I don't really want to argue with people, whereas my attention was thoroughly ruined on Twitter back in the day because it was bombarded with endless shit takes.
You say with your AI imagery. :V
I have no idea who you are but if it helps I will sneer at you because I'm cooler than you.
So long, Mayor Bowser
None of those things suggest that being left wing prevents murderous and brutal authoritarianism. I actually don't think Newsom would jail LGBT/political opponents as frequently as left wing revolutionaries have, historically, as Trump dearly wants to do. Every pointed finger has four pointing back
Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later
Castro is proof leftists would be fine with Trump if he was a leftist. The average far leftist opposition to Castro jailing leftist non-state unionists and LGBT people?
I have bad news for you regarding leftist history if you think playing to an audience is somehow limited to any one group.
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Incredible bit of reporting from the Manchester Mill. One of the main flag shaggers protesting illegal immigration was done for people smuggling in 2016. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Maybe don't?
LOL
Thanks, that's at least pointed me in the right direction!
Wild! I'm not sure if I want to mount them or just have them in a kind of art book.
I don't think ideology is that straightforward - there will be some of that but generally it's multifactorial and directionality is all over the place because it's an individual product of experiences and culture.
I'm sure there were a bunch of interactions with the Archbishop of Canterbury too.
He famously went for Ted Haggard and George Bush so I don't think I agree with that.
Naturally this also caused anti-muslim bigotry, libertarianism and anti-migrant attitudes in some (e.g. Pat Condell). Nü Atheism never promised political alignment outside of secular principles. It wasn't great at spotting its own cultural biases, and spawned grifters and clout chasers.
The early 2000s era had Bush pushing apocalyptic evangelicalism, the Catholic church spreading aids across Africa by lying about condoms, the child abuse scandal, and 9/11 all going on at the same time - it felt like the lunatics had used polite society to stifle debate and force respect/submission.
The internet made it harder for reactionaries of that time to control ideas and societies, and people could finally escape these horrible cults in a trend that has not reversed. These are positive developments although reactionaries have since thoroughly ruined the internet now too.
Ngl I think that period of 'new atheism' was really needed to boost the need for open critique of religion in the much more homophobic and Christian supremacist Bush era and with EMB Islamism taking off worldwide again.
That's not how I experienced it, but I can understand why people felt that way. There was a pugnacious straight talking aspect to it that bifurcated into both woke snark politics (via freethoughtblogs) and reactionary debate bros & evopsych gurus, and Guardian TERFs via skepticsinthepub I believe.
I'm open to it but remain skeptical of a combat focus. I will make up my mind when it comes out, but I like what I've heard of the story ideas so far.
Fair enough!
Great start! I'd suggest trying to boost line weights for the silhouette, flow and points of interest. It's such a small thing to add and adds loads of character imo. 🤩
James Lindsay going MAGA and Dawkins going TERF are sad developments to anyone with both a brain and heart.
These are some of the nicest hands I've ever drawn, I think. I have a bunch of A5 paintings like these - does anyone have any ideas for how to display them?
Plus a lot of justifiable anti-wokery turned into such a plainly obvious grift and weird fellow traveller direction of travel so fast that it poisoned much of the discourse anyway. At least wokies generally want to address mostly real social ills while anti-wokies want... fascism? Lies? Cruelty?
Truer words never spoken
What, do you want us to NOT have the plagiarism-and-water-poisoning machine that usually does math right???
Hey, if you're an author and you've been affected, remember to put your claim in.
That's so pretty!
Post a witch if you wish 🧙🏻
It's going to be bad times for all those people who tortured their Sims by deleting the ladders.
Happy birthday! 🎉🎈🎂 Many happy returns
without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
There have been a lot of socially conservative leftists, not least in Cuba, Russia, China...
As for what comes next... they are probably angling for post-legal actions against e.g. ICE and various MAGA cronies. I am sure they'd support the attempted prosecution of MAGA cronies too.
Trying not to post much politics on here, but I think this should count as textual analysis that should be shared far and wide. Let's call it centrist hijacking, or bad faith anti-wokery. Or simple propaganda techniques.
Environment concept art I made for my game pitch - Manchester town hall under attack from Lovecraftian physics-ruining monsters. #art #procreate #conceptart #digitalart
Case in point - my wife was listening to some radio based on a real band and some band came on that sounded weird with a song called "Old Germany" which is about bleeding for your country(!) Far right Germans had pumped out like 10 albums for this "artist" this year.
Whoa, I have 2k followers, cheers everybody! Probably time for me to do an #artshare - MONSTERS, Satanism, occultism and the GOTHIC please! Introduce yoselves, post, repost, comment and like if you have the energy. :) I am sure you know the drill; #noAI #nonft #art - be edgy & sexy but SFW-ish
Technically that's Zuul there. 😉
This one looks familiar
Me omw to flirt with you
This band is called DobermannCloe btw.
Case in point - my wife was listening to some radio based on a real band and some band came on that sounded weird with a song called "Old Germany" which is about bleeding for your country(!) Far right Germans had pumped out like 10 albums for this "artist" this year.
Jesus Christ, there's so much AI slop on Spotify now. It needs to go.
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
Call me old fashioned, but I think that torching 1,000,000,000,000 dollars because a chatbot cannot count b's in 'blueberry' makes me think there is something inherently wrong with world's economy.
I CANNAE SEE MAN
Hi boss, I can't come into work today because I remembered PJ from Byker Grove lost his sight due to being shot in the eyes with paintballs and now I'm sad.
Environment concept art I made for my game pitch - Manchester town hall under attack from Lovecraftian physics-ruining monsters. #art #procreate #conceptart #digitalart
I just did these two characters for someone's game concept art in two days, more or less. Phew! Man with hammer, lady with knives, both with a bunch of masks. Always available for commissions as they say... *Massages wrist* #art #digitalart #conceptart
Remember the metaverse and NFTs? I wonder how they're doing. We only have a couple of years left before they become the default society. Adapt or die!
I just did these two characters for someone's game concept art in two days, more or less. Phew! Man with hammer, lady with knives, both with a bunch of masks. Always available for commissions as they say... *Massages wrist* #art #digitalart #conceptart
I am sure I've seen at least one article by this bot.
I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising
Amazing!
But the resonance, Ed, the recursion, the bullet points of the demiurge!
Why in Lucifer's unholy name do all these companies think we need unreliable summaries for things like contracts?
He probably wants to mine it. Is it called mining if it's a gas giant? Harvesting?
Where I post from
Hah, I like seeing unhelpful names for things where whoever was on naming duty was obviously just horny. There's an actaea in our garden called "black negligée".
Mmmmhmmm. MIT reports 95% of genAI pilots at companies are failing fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
(coolant rod pops out with a *sssssss*)
I thought that was also Boyne? I may have got wires crossed. Of course, any LGBT rights should also be subservient to heterosexuals' rights if there's any conflict. That's how we build a healthy LGBTQ+ literary corpus, right? Ensuring normative mob rule and deference to victorian gender norms?
I want to make an LLM startup called Tulip which will automate everything, honest
I want to make an LLM startup called Tulip which will automate everything, honest
"The Argument" and "the left" - as in... bitching about how woke is just as bad as MAGA and we need to eat trans and hispanic people to appeal to the other side while offering nothing of substance to force greater material equality from the top down, I assume?
It could just be the AI content detection.
Lol. Youtube removed my zombie eastenders video for "revelling in or mocking the death or serious injury of an identifiable individual". I could tell them those are fictional characters and that the video was commissioned by the bbc, but their entire appeal process is "click this button to appeal"
Not done any digital art for a while. So here's the #OC protagonist for my upcoming game pitch document set in post-apocalypse Manchester. I love this piece. It all seemed to come together nicely. #art #digitalart #conceptart #procreate
Not done any digital art for a while. So here's the #OC protagonist for my upcoming game pitch document set in post-apocalypse Manchester. I love this piece. It all seemed to come together nicely. #art #digitalart #conceptart #procreate
I know, right? I understand the Clippy movement more and more.
Sharing this so I can watch it later.
Ok so after my rage and bafflement, apparently it's to save bandwidth rather than anything wildly nefarious. Still, YT making its creators' content look like AI strikes me as a wildly out of touch decision.
Thanks for an actual reasonable answer to my blind rage. 😂
WHO IS THIS FOR?
It's called pegging
That'll be the fortune.
Also as we are now apparently mass-endorsing chaos magick, casting death spells on JKR works better if you will it into a unique sigil and burn that sigil and then intentionally forget about the spell, *not* if you post about your desires online. That will weaken it. Everyone knows that.
I dunno man, seems pretty neutral to me.
As skater youths, my friends and I would sometimes just say "bail!" and rapidly leave wherever we were. When I see superjesus flying, it has the same energy.
I got a sunburn like that one year at Download.
Izumi snoozing under the lamp like a dollop of cream #cat #caturday
draw your oc in this!