My Trash Heap

I'll dump my tf2 art here when I remember to, and maybe even some original stuff, too

[littlemsterious]

McCoy just described a place as something “you have to see to believe. like something out of Alice in Wonderland”

and it kinda just looks like rural Nebraska

Leonard you’re in a park.

[sparklywaistcoat]

FYI Meta now allows your Insta photos to be mined for AI without your consent unless you opt out.

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[researchplaceholder]

I would once again like to remind folks that the et al. at the end of a published article means someone published this as part of a community. Scientific research happens collaboratively. This is a super cool topic. But just highlighting one person instead of a team supports the ideas of an individualistic society and hides how much community and government support goes into this kind of work.

[lortharn-art]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

YEE-CLAW :D

[daddysdeepdesires]

@joy-and-whimsy-official

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This Yee-Claw is joyful and whimsical!

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Ancient Nord Amulet

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Ray Lederer

[falloutconceptart]

Maxon

Concept art for Fallout 4

Art by Ray Lederer

[frozenthoughtbox]

As much as I love TES and Fallout and as formative as they’ve been for me, with all the firing of all the brilliant workers who have made these series into the masterpieces they were

I’m thinking

Maybe Microsoft just… isn’t worth it anymore.

I don’t know if I want to support this kind of thing anymore

[shiningbean]

(where's his coat?)

[uesp]

Pictured: Concept art by Ray Lederer, one of the two concept artists who worked on Skyrim. After the passing of Adam Adamowicz, he was the only Skyrim concept artist remaining at Bethesda, but was let go of this week.

[pigswithwings]

FOR THE LOVE OF LITERALLY ANYTHING AT ALL CHECK YOUR BLOG THEME COLOR CONTRASTS. I CANT FUCKING READ YELLOW ON WHITE I CANT SEE YOUR PRONOUNS IN PALE ORANGE ON PALE BLUE I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOUR BANNER IS WHEN ITS IN DARK RED ON DARK GREY. FUCK YOUR LIFE

[pigswithwings]

check your colors with this. if it fails accessibility for anything then there is someone out there who can't read your shit

[pigswithwings]

actual color combos i have seen on here (demonstrated with this website). dont piss me off

[pigswithwings]

happy disability pride month. i would really love it if i could actually read peoples blogs that'd be nice

[sapphic-scarlet-dynast]

Beyond the fact that people getting laid off was bad obviously, it has been incredibly annoying to see gamers act as if Bethesda employees deserved it for "doing nothing for 15 years" despite them releasing multiple major releases during that time, including a brand new game that wasn't a part of their established franchises, with pretty standard development times of 3-4 years with the exception of Starfield which took longer for multiple understandable reasons. But since some of them didn't like or don't play Starfield or 76 they decided that the lay offs are awesome actually, and that ESO devs being gutted is also good despite them also actively clamoring for more Fallout and Elder Scrolls. Nevermind the fact that among the people laid off there were multiple TESVI developers, including Bethesda veterans who designed iconic parts of the series, but so many are just defending it as "Bethesda needing a push" and mocking employees being upset that the studio with one of the highest retention rates suddenly having their coworkers laid off without warning. Also the fact that so many gamers also seem to believe that the next elder scrolls will be trash anyways and "low quality and unfinished like Starfield" despite that game being the least buggy game Bethesda has released and it including mechanics that had been requested by people for years, but people just ignore that and still claim that Bethesda has just been "simplifying their games" still and demanding that more people be fired. Gamers are some of the most annoying and entitled people on earth.

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Found this on Linkin, posted by a game dev friend of Ray Lederer

Dane Olds is a legendary 3D Modeler.

Fuck Microsoft those greedy fucks

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

[ama-kitkat123]

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

[penanatomy-studies]

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

[zheida]

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

[iascus]

Reblogging to spread awareness

[my-art-tutorial-blog]

the goldmine folks

[adhd-alien]

With ADHD, a lot of what we do or go through can be misinterpreted - by others but also by ourselves if we get told something often enough.

This is the first part of my series hoping to clear up wrong assumptions and to help you find the words to communicate and share what it looks like from your side.

Keep in mind that this isn't supposed to excuse any and all behavior or diagnose anyone, but more of a communication aid.

Special thanks to Tabby and Ellis to endure my over-caffeinated ramblings!!

[adhd-alien]

Why is there such a big gap between wanting to and actually doing something? Explained with SQUIRRELS!

[shiningbean]

work a bit on my understanding of values