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They/Them || 🇨🇦 Freelance artist, QA tester & occassional pngtuber ✨✩°｡⋆ My Art ⋆｡°✩✨

[nixtetic]

Where to find me!

NIXTETIC 2024

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Go ahead, give it a look. 😏

[sketchmatters]

Rhulk, Disciple of the Witness

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[tendermiasma]

Subscribestar quietly updated their TOS yesterday to ban a load of previously allowed content at the behest of payment processors. There are no safe platforms. This will keep happening and we have to fight back.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art, Substar, itch, Patreon, etc)

This is your chance to tell them directly that you don't want to be told how to spend your money:

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

✨ Guidance on submitting an effective comment per the Free Speeh Coalition via ECR News:

"YES it's a good idea to comment on this as ero creatives. the FSC is also submitting a comment. Summarized advice from the FSC (from their lobbyists) was that you should tell your story/explain why the issue is important to you, and – most importantly – clearly say what you want the Fed to do about it. In this case, eliminating "reputation risk" from the Board's supervisory programs."

Before anyone suspects this is only going to benefit republican institutions, remember that last year the OCC specifically named adult industries as a sector facing unfair debankment.

Please leave a comment as so many others have done already! Artists need you and you're going to need you too because they never stop with what you personally find distasteful. They are insatiable and you will watch your livelihoods, what you love, disappear too.

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

Fuck censorship!

[nixtetic]

plucked right out of the sky based on this photo by @a-wasp-in-the-hand

[sketchmatters]

V^ directive(modified/HARPY(Conductor))==input(required) ^V

Koregos, the Worldline! I LOVE the Desert Perpetual raid and the Vex, so I wanted to draw something that encompassed each encounter. More under the cut.

Close-ups! This took over 150 hours of work and is the most detailed and time-consuming drawing I've ever created. I wanted the Vex to be true to the way they look in-game, so I took screenshots of each, sketched over the screenshots, then did the line art over the sketch. The backgrounds are mostly freehand, and I individually drew most of the stars.

I tried to make a timelapse using CSP's feature but it made my tablet lag so much that I had to delete them. But I did make a ton of WIPs! CSP also has a "work time" function, so that's how I measured the time it took.

Shout out to @bioluminosity for their cool brushes I used and art that was the inspiration for the space background I painted, and to @monstyra for the invaluable feedback and keeping me sane while I worked on this! Go follow both of them!!

Drawing this while listening to the raid music was the best thing ever.

[novella-november]

If you are on a Windows 11 computer, pause everything you are doing for one minute and:

Open computer settings

Click on Accessibility on the left-hand menu

Scroll down the Accessibility menu and click on the Keyboard Option

Under the "related settings" tab, click "Typing" which should have a description of "spellcheck, autocorrect, text suggestions."

Turn off the AI "correct misspelled words"

and most importantly: turn off Typing Insights.

[ID: a screenshot of the above mentioned Windows 11 settings, showing that Typing Insights is now turned off, with the following description from Microsoft: "Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type To help you save time and type efficiently, Windows can learn to suggest words, autocorrect spelling mistakes, and interpret swiped typing. Take a look at the insights below to see up-to-the-minute stats on how Windows has learned to improve typing for you. These stats are stored only on this device and Microsoft does not collect the typing insights data." End ID]

"But Mx. November, it says right there Microsoft doesn't collect the typing insights data!"

I mean, yeah, it says that..... for *now.*

It also only specifies that Microsoft themselves don't collect it, and they wouldn't have made this something that I was automatically, secretly opted in for without my knowledge if they didn't have something to be gained by me not knowing it exists!

I only found this because a cat walked on the keyboard and turned on Filter Keys and while trying to figure out why my keyboard was just making chirping noises instead of typing, I happened to click on "typing insights" by accident.

Generative AI, and especially AI that is used to "personalize" and track your activity across the web and on your computer are never going to be in your best interest, it is always going to serve these companies in whatever way will line their pockets the most, and all it takes is updating their terms of service once, and then all of that data they promised they weren't collecting suddenly all belongs to them.

[nixtetic]

It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Waow, im old!!!!!

[nixtetic]

Videoman's & Flashman's love/hate-child Vox… 🎥📺💡

[nixtetic]

im going a bit crazy bc i cant find a post on here that talked about...

divorcing/separating yourself from the thing you do. any activity.. so then failure doesn't mean you're a failure. something about ego/identity. i think it mentioned art....

[shed-some-light]

reminders for today:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

[gappo2slappo]

Hornet and the Baby

[dduane]

GOP Senator Mike Lee's bill to make all pornography a federal crime in the US has advanced to a committee for review.

Get. Onto. Your. Representatives.

(And romance fans / writers? THIS MEANS YOU.)

[teoejsgsjdvxjsmbajak-deactivate]

hey guys just here to say that the new online safety act in the uk has blocked the suicide hotline

this is extremely problematic for very obvious reasons and i have no idea what the fuck this country is fucking coming to

childline has also been restricted

if you're a uk citizen and still haven't signed the petition please do so

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

even if you're not a uk citizen please reblog to spread the word !!!!!

this isn't safety, it's censorship

[nixtetic]

I've been seeing Palestinian aid request blogs getting deactivated/deleted...

anyone know why?? like my guess would be bc some are scams but i've seen ones that are vetted that got closed

[tricitymonsters]

Great and now there's this. Theres truly no room for an ounce of complacency this is a direct attack on queer creatives.

Here's a link to the whole thread for more context

[tricitymonsters]

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu

Hey, so the ACLU is gearing up to take this on if yall have room to support this org, it would mean a lot to me (and other adult queer creators). As always, word of mouth is really important here too so reblogs are greatly appreciated.

[nixtetic]

My piece the for the ASSIMILATED Zine, featuring Lethe and Lorelei playing a totally legal game of chess.

Check out the zine link below!

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💬 0  🔁 47  ❤️ 75 · UNEXPECTED VARIABLE DETECTED. [] ASSIMILATED: A Destiny Vex Fan Zine has arrived, fresh from an alternate timeline! Thi

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