KopperKitsune

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[lemonsharks]

always reblog money snake

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[d-e-w-p]

save

[clatterbane]

There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

[clatterbane]

Also just going to leave this here.

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

GitHub - ReVanced/revanced-manager: 💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[meriwetherwrites]

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

[nightguardmod]

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

[flootzavut]

I also love that I rarely see one of these that threatens bad things if you don't. (And when I do, I refuse to reblog them, even though that gives me anxiety, because I refuse to pass the anxiety on.)

Fuck those horrible chain emails. The birb is a great improvement.

[smallpwbbles]

I took him for granted bruh the way my gears have been running hot thinking about his character since the ep aired

[samthefrank]

I was just coming to post with requests for people's favorite Caine fics, because I have a mighty need!!

Who's got a recommendation for me? Anybody able to help a gal out?

[blorbospinninhouseplant]

Gather 'round ye young ones:

Individual Caine fics:

Horse_Cheese.PNG by Ice_the_Irken | Caine leaves his mic unmuted while making an adventure

Just forget it! by wheresmy200bucks | Are Robots Trans?

Heartless by The_Spam_Specialist | Caine physically puts a heart in his body

A Human’s Touch by KiwiQueen13 | Hard To Explain Just Trust Me

Aishite by MeaslyFurball | Caine will do anything to be loved

57 Measures of Restraint by RiverMagnet | A Caine that was built to torture

Critical Error: Resetting to Default by The_Spam_Specialist | Accidentally predicted ep 8

Series:

Questions and Answers by Ersatz_Einstein

Putting the digital in TADC by Sparkhearts2

The Ringmaster's Written Reminders by The_Spam_Specialist

TADC and IHNMAIMS crossovers:

Circus of Screaming Mouths [series] by Blueberry_Muffin_Massacre

Caine's Guest Collaborator by Ashykat

My fics:

Worker Bee by UniformReads (Account locked)

Memory Already There: Override Save? by UniformReads (Account locked)

Reccomended tag: Caine-Centric (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Discord servers:

Caine Angst Club: https://discord.gg/KZvhtqe6

THE CAINE CRASHPAD [formerly known as the Caine Funeral Committee]: https://discord.gg/KKGYhNce

Last updated 3/26/26

[smallpwbbles]

Thank you for my entire life oh my god I will feast tonight

[drhoneycombhoneystick]

I'm eating good for the rest of the month holy

[lazuli-starlight]

... i think I've read most of these already but lets dive into the ones I haven't, huh? (Also "Questions and Answers" is PEAK)

[the-spam-specialist]

May I also offer The Psychology of a Broken AI written by yours truly (masterpost is pinned on my blog)

Just make sure you read the tags before going in. Long story short: Pomni starts giving Caine therapy after she stops him from ending his own life.

[madsciencepottery]

You have been visited by the twocumber. May you receive twofold luck in the coming days

[guttedpulsars]

here is a master list of great art tools that can make your workflow easier! 👇 (consistently updating)

posemaniacs.com/en

if you want to learn human anatomy with the benefit of preset poses, this is for you! you can use it standalone, but as a bonus you can also import poses into the clip studio paint 3D models. (File -> Import -> 3D Pose (Posemaniacs)

line-of-action.com

great for gestures and observational sketches!

zvork.fr/vls/

browser based rig for lighting & shadows

MY FAVORITE BRUSHPACKS

truegrit texture supply - https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com

Photoshop & Procreate Textures and Brushes | True Grit Texture Supply

Game-Changing Brushes, Textures and Effects for Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and Affinity. Level up your digital art

thedawner procreate & csp packs - https://ko-fi.com/thedawner/

Buy thedawner a Coffee. ko-fi.com/thedawner

Become a supporter of thedawner today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love.

ADDITIONAL TOOLS COMING!

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[myfairkatiecat]

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

[sirowsky]

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

[etheringtonbrothers]

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Lorenzo!

[doncdesole]

Hello! I love your art! Would you be open to sharing your process, especially around how you start your paintings? Or at least, going off of the time between the L4D2 stream and when you posted that painting, you seem like you can paint really fast... do you have any tips? (My art tends to take a while, but that's also probably mostly because I'm inexperienced.) Thanks! Hope you have a good day/night/whatever <3

Aww thank you and absolutely! Lol this isn't the first time I am hearing that heh, so I suppose I might be on the faster side when it comes to drawing. But yes, I can give some tips! Also, if you see my streams, I'd encourage you to hop on. I'm always happy to explain what I'm doing, it's also maybe easier to see the process in real time, vs me trying to explain it lol. Otherwise, here are some basic, high level tips that should (ideally) help you out, because I know it's what has helped me gain speed: (In no particular order- these are ALL equally important) 1.) work small (zoomed out) for 80-90% of the time that you're working on a particular piece. ONLY the last 10-20% of your time will be spent zoomed in, polishing and adding details - think, 'how large would this drawing be on my screen if I were drawing it on a sheet of printer paper irl instead?'. Totally easier said than done, i know, I personally struggle with this terribly. However, the times when I am able to successfully stay zoomed out of my drawing for the majority of the time is when my work comes out looking its best and taking the shortest amount of time.

2.) Use clipping masks. I use these religiously, basically i block in the character/foreground/etc with (usually) a neutral gray first. Then I create layers over top (clipping masks) and color inside of those. You can create a clipping mask in photoshop by right clicking the layer icon and selecting clipping mask. OR you can use the shortcut which is alt+left click on the boarder between the layers you want to clip between (say the boarder between layer 74 and 70 [see below]). Using a clipping mask is much easier as you're not having to worry about staying inside the lines. Below is an example, grey base layers are highlighted in yellow (there's two because I wanted to split up bubble and caine) and the clipping masks where I will do my coloring are marked with blue arrows.

3.) Lay down your base colors, basic shadows and highlights using a LARGE brush. DON'T get bogged down in staying within your lineart, first get everything to roughly the correct color and general lighting you want, before starting to refine the color boundaries. 4.) Learn the shortcuts!!! And better yet, create your own! This is advice I almost never see artists give other artists, but I feel is probably the MOST important piece of advice I can give. I get a lot of flak from friends for changing my reload button from R to E and crouch from ctrl to caps lock for my fps games LOL, but default DOES NOT MEAN BETTER. My photoshop settings are comprised largely of shortcuts I've created, and it makes swapping between tools I use regularly so much faster.

A couple of examples would be ctrl+T for the transform tool. V for move tool, crtl+f to flip canvas horizontally, alt for eye dropper tool. Ctrl + X to toggle layer view on/off, ctrl+z to go back and ctrl+alt+z to keep undoing. One of my favorite shortcuts in photoshop is alt+right click (hold) and drag to change brush size quickly. Have fun, make your own, do whatever feels easier for you. But understand it will take you a little bit of time to learn all of your new shortcuts, don't give up during this phase it is SO WORTH IT. But yes, be aware there will be some discomfort the first few times you sit down to draw, but make a point of using the new shortcuts till they stick. (Edit: forgot to mention these can be changed inside of the 'preferences' menu in photoshop). 5.) Practice in a sketchbook with a pen or marker. Do studies and learn to draw using something you can't erase. You'll see how it makes your lines and mark making more confident, your art/sketching faster and you less likely to overwork your lines/second guess yourself. Hope some of these help! Good luck!! <3

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[mckitterick]

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

[greelin]

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

[meilintheempressofdreams]

Reblog for unexpected $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[symbolblue]

uhh did i forget how time works or was the first post in december 2018 and the second in august 2018

[greetings-inferiors]

Reblog for time travelling $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[kotori-mochi]

Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)

Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)

BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney. Mostly nature art)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)

Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)

Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)

Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)

Pikat (art advice and critiques)

Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)

Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)

Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)

Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)

IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)

Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)

NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"

[animalphotorefs]

Boosting this in case any of the programs and books suggested are useful.

All the photos on this tumblr ad the animal photo reference site I run is another resource available for artists to use!

As long as you’re not using AI to create your art, you can reference / trace / draw / recombine / make any sort of art you want, with any of the photos, for free.

[reo-speeddragon]

There's also MORPHO, a really good book series on anatomy by Michel Lauricella, with very clear explanations and sketches!

And for pose references, there's @adorkastock who shares a ton of them for free, with different models and props, and her website is amazing <3 you can also buy pose packs from her.

[cipheramnesia]

I wish I could tell everyone in the world, who thinks they did something wrong when the file they imported from its native software into one of Google's online equivalents is completely broken in Google, that the only mistake was using something Google made, their work is perfect as-is, and if it was imported because they work for a large institution which requires a standardized format and picked Google because they know the name, I'm sorry and that is awful.

But if you did it on purpose and on your own, it's a bit on you and you gotta stop using what is becoming a company infamously consistent at making the worst version by leaps and bounds of every software, especially office software.

It was already bad before "AI" now it's worse.

[ms-demeanor]

If you're looking for replacements for Google in your personal life:

Libre Office is a FOSS desktop office suite that produces perfectly sensible documents that are easily read and opened by other programs.

CryptPad is an open source zero-knowledge encrypted online office suite that allows collaborative document sharing so that multiple people can work on the same document at the same time. The free version has 1GB of storage, there is more storage with paid versions.

ProtonMail is a free email service with encrypted email capabilities and a strong focus on privacy.

Use Firefox instead of chrome wherever possible. Please, please, if you're using an android phone install Firefox mobile and add the ublock origin extension and stop seeing ads.

For more detailed information about how to get google out of your life, please read my deranged pamphlet on the matter.

[junglejim4322]

Good things will happen in September

[junglejim4322]

I completely forgot I scheduled this post a year in advance and woke up to see the cat fish of fortune had come in the night to deliver the good news. Auspicious September everybody