further solidifies the point of posting your work with ai poisoning applied! it isn’t a permanent solution, but it’s the best we have for if you wanna keep posting with your work not getting scraped as easily!
how does it feel knowing tumblr is the only (i think) safe space with no ai
i’ll be real with you: there aren’t any truly ”safe” platforms out there while good, universal regulations aren’t in place. nothing’s stopping ai bros from going to tumblr and manually grabbing images to train their algorithms on. i feel like platforms not doing the same (or at the very least, making it a permanent easy option to opt out) is bare minimum for any platform that wants to respect its users (yes, including the users who don’t post art, since on instagram for example they’re scraping ALL posts, not just art).
i’m happy that to my knowledge tumblr is still a platform that wants to respect the artist community, but either way i’d still be posting. we aren’t gonna win against ai by running away from the platforms that don’t respect us— we’ll win by staying and supporting each other, continuing to use the current ai poisoning methods, and campaigning for our rights as artists and copyright holders of our work!
Want to help an unemployed college student that's not allowed to have a job and get a super swaglistic drawing for real fricking cheap and eternal gratitude in return?? Then I'm your guy!!
PLS PLS I'LL DO ANYTHING AAAA (I'm new to using PayPal and Ko-fi so pls be patient, I will ask questions 😭)
Hello supporting friends ! My family and I have been suffering and struggling over staying safe and alive for almost 260 days due to the gruesome and catastrophic war over Gaza. Our house and our livelihood source have vanished with the black days of the war and we became displaced, hopeless , homeless and desperate because we can't provide the simplest daily needs . It's a tragedy and hardship. We have been living in a small dirty tent all these sad days, facing famine, terror of bombings , shortage of medical care and with no sanitation facilities . It's incredible hell on earth, and this is why I am asking you to be beside us against these sad days. Support us with the means you have either by donating whatever you can or sharing my link to other donors. Be helpful and supporter to people in need.
I’m so sorry you and your family are in this horrible situation and I wish you all will be safe and comfortable as soon as possible
[francis]
nothing crazy, just a doodle that i ended up painting while zoned out listening to a video essay. lots of errors but it took an hour from start to finish so that’s par for the course lol. speedpaint and other stuff below the cut
speedpaint:
also, been pretty inactive on socials largely due to health issues. the fatigue and pain are ever present. there are a number of things i’m wanting to do (both art related and not) but who knows when my body’ll let me get around to it. saying this not in a “pity me” way though, just figured i’d share my status for anyone who’s curious!
love my half orc making most people look so short and weak /silly
[rubithin, natas]
(rubithin is 6’6” and natas is 5’4”. also, both use they/them pronouns)
Trick or treat, but we pull up a UNO reverse card (whatever that does, we've only once played UNO and forgot everything about it), and we give you this plastic pony we took a photo of once at night.
He says you seem nice so he won't eat your soul :33
i humbly accept this marvelous gift 😁
this is seriously stunning, everyone should go check out @szkicel ‘s art!! tysm for participating <33
Here’s my entry to @caustic-caffeine ’s DTIYS on instagram :D
I had a blast drawing this beautiful character~
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
this is a compiled list of families who have contacted me and have been vetted, with links to the fundraisers and verification, and the fundraisers' progress at the time of them being added to this post. this will help me keep track of everyone, i'll try to update this as regularly as i can. last updated: July 4th
Mohammed Bardaweel: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €6,119 raised of €37,000
Marah Salem: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €11,567 raised of €55,000
Renad Majed: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, £15,473 raised of £25,000
Tahani Shorbaje: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, $15,967 raised of $50,000
Husam Thaher: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €6,975 raised of €25,000
Tahseen Tawfiq: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €15,245 raised of €60,000
Firas Salem: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €33,245 raised of €65,000
Mahmoud Abu Hamam: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, $14,876 CAD raised of $50,000
Issam Aziz/Haifa Aziz: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €21,667 raised of €25,000
Sanaa & Rana Abu Ghaben: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, $5,576 CAD raised of $100,000
Nada Saftawi: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €11,163 raised of €16,000
Ahmed Alanqar: shared by @/palipunk (under the name Abdallah Alanqar but it's for his brother Ahmed), €23,120 raised of €35,000
Mohammed Alanqar: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein (again, under the name Abdallah Alanqar, this time it's for his brother Mohammed's family), €32,017 raised of €38,000
Abdelrahman Alanqar: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €7,110 raised of €20,000
Amira Alanqar: vetted by @/nabulsi, €11,905 raised of €20,000
Mohammed Hilles: vetted by @/nabulsi, €21,735 raised of €37,000
Tamer Al-Deeb: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €17,627 raised of €40,000
Mohammed Al-Deeb: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €18,423 raised of €30,000
The Sharif Family: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, $8,583 raised of $90,000
Aya Maher: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein, €4,388 raised of €25,000
Shahd Muhammad: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi, $8,006 raised of $50,000
Mohammad Al Manasra: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi, €11,020 raised of €40,000
The Shehab Family: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein (under the name Fahed Shehab), €18,861 raised of €50,000
Samer Abu Ras: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi, kr59,051 SEK raised of kr450,000
Bassam Shaqoura: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi, €23,571 raised of €45,000
Ahmed & Abdelrahman Al-Nabih: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi, €4,872 raised of €30,000
Noor Alanqar: shared by @/90-ghost, €5,400 raised of €40,000
Siraj and his family: vetted by @/nabulsi, $3,176 CAD raised of $82,000
Mahmoud Ziad: shared by @/90-ghost, $12,615 raised of $30,000
Raghad Qanou: vetted by @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi, £3,218 raised of £55,000
Eyad Sami: shared by @/90-ghost & @/mohammedalanqer (whose fundraiser is listed above), CHF5,442 raised of CHF20,000
Ashraf Alanqar: shared by @/90-ghost, €2,413 raised of €30,000
i still have a couple campaigns that i need to make sure are vetted in my inbox. please let me know if any of the links are missing/don't work!
my art fight card!!! stardust FTW!!!
i’ll be periodically adding to this as i, well, do my prep for what will be my third art fight! there’s a number of things i need to do:
make references for the ocs that will be on my page (francis, maddox, cecie, iarmys, inanna, and ayelet (ayelet is @boxxed-upkr ‘s)) (three are done, but i may redo two of them..)
make icons for the above characters
make lil chibis of the above charas to sit on my home profile page
after teams are announced, make borders for this year’s attack icons
hunt down a person to do an 800 level revenge chain with, to try to be in the top 3 longest chains of the year
if possible, revamp the toyhouse pages of the public characters there
strikedown = completed
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scene hitlist // revenge chain hitlist will be a long one!! aiming to be one of the top three longest chainers this year!
art fight profile: https://artfight.net/~caustic-caffeine
team: tbd! but i don’t mind friendly fires!
my characters: aside from one, all are humanoids! they exist within a dark fantasy/steampunk setting with healthy helpings of the occult, macabre, and otherwise potentially unsettling ✨on each of their profiles they have links to toyhouse pages with art storage and more info about their lore! references are a work in progress and a few characters i have hidden right now may be unhidden before art fight starts
who i’ll attack: in order of most likely to least likely! mutuals > characters on my hitlists > characters with themes i enjoy > beginner artists/people new to art fight/people with high attack ratios (hmu if that applies to you!) > people who attacked me first > bookmarks > everyone else
other notes: check out my socials for examples of my art! i occasionally dabble in animation, both frame by frame and tweening. if it means anything, i’m an autistic lgbtq+ disabled metalhead 😎. more about me on my site
examples of art range from late 2023 up to a few days ago