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Maybe you’ve answered this before but what deity did you commune with to gain the ability to draw the most SCRUMPTIOUS clothing wrinkles??? I want to yeet my tablet into the sun

It's a lot about just playing with weight and texture (& reference work of course)! I love drawing clothing creases haha

I'll take the opportunity to plug my upcoming online class where I have a chapter dedicated to precisely this

I'm finally done recording all 40 videos for it and may have nerded out a bit too much for some of them

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thanks tumblr for taking down my piece about censorship! heres a more censored version. i think its an improvement, really

(hey. you can still see it uncensored on bluesky.)

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I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

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Boycotting as they dump your private info into the AI is exactly what they want, we need to boycott BEFORE the 13th in order to prevent the data breach, they want to look like they listened after it is too late to keep you safe

Just to clarify that the boycott is about not letting YT have your ID and photo scan. They already have all the information to feed to the AI, and I'm pretty sure even deleting my account and asking for my data to be deleted wouldn't do anything, because that takes like 30 days to take effect. The whole thing is a ploy to get users to fork over their personal identification and have that tied to their watch habits - INCREDIBLY VALUABLE INFO if you are, let's say, a company that can sell that information to whatever government wants to increase the control of their population. We've already seen the power of YouTube and TikTok to shape narratives and change people's opinions in social and political matters, enough to shift elections and organize protests. If the government knows you watch Breadtube on a weekly basis, they can use that to frame you when someone who maybe looks like you sets fire to a car during a protest. If they know you lile First-Person Shooter games, they can serve you only games where you play as the military, they can boost channels that are patriotic, they can even create channels with cute ladies talking about how they love military men, so you start associating military service with fun and love and profit and are more willing to sign up. It's information that allows for unprecedented levels of manipulation of the public.

That being said: FreeTube (https://freetubeapp.io/) and Invidious (https://invidious.io/) are both resources that let you watch YT videos without giving it views. They have been around for a while and are a measure for online privacy since way before all this crap went down. And YT-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) allows you to download audio and video, in case you want to create a backlog for the duration of the boycott.

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Reading articles about MrBeast's dominance of YouTube is fucking bizarre because, from my perspective, the dude isn't even on YouTube. I've never watched one of his videos. YouTube has, to the best of my knowledge, never recommended one of his videos to me. Every thumbnail screenshot of his looks like something you could tell me was a photoshopped parody of YouTube culture, and I'd believe you. No one I follow on YouTube ever mentions him, even negatively or in passing. The first time I ever heard his name was in regards to the quality of his ghost kitchens. The only way I know he isn't a mass, shared hallucination is that I've witnessed the thoroughly mid-looking chocolate bars he sells at Walmart for some reason

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just laughed hysterically at the gripping foods with force twitter account

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you should be niceys 2 me. Thanks

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Personality hire

Working Cats

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The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted the FDA about possible Cesium-137, or Cs-137, detected in shipping containers at four U.S. ports, the FDA said Tuesday in a press release. Testing on frozen shrimp from the distributor, Indonesia's BMS Foods, also tested positive, the FDA said.

However, no shrimp that has tested positive for Cesium-137 has entered the U.S. food supply, according to the FDA.

The FDA is still recommending a recall on all products from BMS Foods that were shipped after the company's shipping containers tested positive for Cesium-137, even though the products themselves have not tested positive.

The following Great Value brand frozen shrimp products should not be eaten, sold or served:

Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp, lot code: 8005540-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027

Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp, lot code: 8005538-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027

Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp, lot code: 8005539-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027

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wake up in the morning. see picture of blorbo. im not dead and i can still look at pictures of blorbo. it'll be alright as long as i can still look at pictures of blorbo. you agree.

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I was trying to think of a way to explain why this is stupid and also ghoulish. I think I came up with something.

Imagine you are an engineer designing body armor. You are tasked with making sure the body armor can stop 10 different types of bullets. In your first attempt, you create body armor that stops 6 of the 10 bullets. You start selling those because that's pretty good protection. You can save some lives while you continue to improve things.

You already know how to stop 6 bullets, but you really want to figure out how to stop the last 4. So you do exactly what you did before, but add a few more layers of Kevlar and a steel plate.

Your boss, RFK Jr., says he wants a test of the new and improved body armor. But he says you have to give one test subject the real thing and the other test subject fake body armor that does nothing.

And you're like, "Hey, can I at least give them the body armor that stops 6 bullets? We already know that gives some protection. We only need to compare the new armor to what we already accomplished."

And RFK says, "No, please shoot a person dead. It's science."

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Just lost a few braincells reading an nyt article about gen z "treat culture" and I can't even fathom that this is a thing. We're living in a dystopian hellscape where someone spending $5 a week on a cookie is considered a wasteful brat because they should have just gone for a nice free walk instead and saved the $250 a year that roughly equals four days' rent. That's why these ungrateful kids can't buy a house, naturally.

I am ALL for free treats, like hiking or reading in the park. But at some point you can't budget your way out of poverty, and you will literally go mad if you deny yourself basic pleasures that are literally all around you. They even lamented that little treats could snowball into doing something absolutely unforgivable like learning how to play the guitar or buying concert tickets.

At what point do we just start saying out loud that living an enjoyable and fulfilling life is now only acceptable at a 100k+ salary, and if you're one of the millions of people unlucky enough not to be in that category you should just eat dirt and be grateful?

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