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Ammy the Artist
@ammytheartist.bsky.social
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KC Local art cryptid. I like bugs, birds, other animals, and aew.

Commissions are open.

I block ai
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Ammy the Artist @ammytheartist.bsky.social · Aug 6
I'm working hard on these ACEOs. I want to get at least 80 done by October for the Olathe arts festival. We'll see!

DM me if you'd like to purchase one of these. ($10 including shipping)

#aceo #artforsale #miniart #Clevergirl
A bunch of ACEO cards. The first one is a chickadee with COURAGE written under it. The second one says CONFIDENCE with a husky. The third one is CLEVER GIRL with a raptor. The last one is a squirrel with WONDER written under it. A close up of an ACEO of a raptor. It has CLEVER GIRL written under it in fancy handwriting.
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Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license.

This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film.

Link below 🔗👇
July 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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I need new waterproof boots for the inevitable snow this season. Cant afford them without a few more sales.

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October 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Okay. Just gotta get thru the next two weeks and then lazy late fall/winter can commence.
October 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Rest in peace, PAC. we're all gonna miss you a lot. #aew #fanart #pac #wrestlesky
A close up portrait of professional wrestler Pac with a grey and brown watercolor background
September 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Pac 😭 😭 😭
September 28, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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New work up for the #birdnerds !

#warblers #iris #sciart #mushrooms #borb #birds #baptisia #nativeplants

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Two yellow-rumped warblers fly toward a purple iris. Jack o lantern mushrooms and baptisia encircle them. Near the base of the circle there are snakes curling from behind the birds. This piece is inspired by the fall migration of these birds and the doilies my mom always made.
September 25, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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I hate this stupid car based infrastructure. I want to bike to work. I want to take public transit. But I can't. Fucking...cars.
September 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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"we're having a worldwide apocalypse event and we need to raise awareness about it. Let's use the machine that directly contributes to the problem to raise awareness about it!"

Fuck your ai use you stupid twat.
September 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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The garden has brought me immense joy this season.

#leavesisplants
Giant swallowtail butterfly Giant swallowtail butterfly SPHINX MOTH Red banded hairstreak
September 13, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Attention Philadelphia!

We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public.

Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck!

RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
September 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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I wish I was rich so I could be debt free and then give all my money away to people who I like. ._.
September 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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August 27, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Hangman Adam Page wearing a Dolly Parton shirt and pink flower jeans
August 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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A moment of zen in the garden.

@amy.wrestlejoy.com sent me these seeds earlier in the season and I'm so happy they're blooming.

#leavesisplants
August 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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I made enamel pins. I love them.

#pride #oktobegay #pins #rainbow #corgi
A card with IT'S OK TO BE GAY written on it with rainbow font. There is a corgi shaped pin with a heart shaped butt shape that is rainbow patterned. My logo is on the right of the corgi. It's a fancy A with a bird on it.
August 21, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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Halloween might still be a few months away for normal people but for me Halloween is every day

#halloweenart #sciart #moth #opossum #marsupial #pumpkin #animalart #animalillustration #illustration #spoopy #whimsy #whimsigoth

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A digital painting of a mom opossum and her four babies on a big black branch. There are pumpkins in the middle ground and dahlias in the background. They are bordered with an art nouveau frame with two rosy maple moths at the bottom.
August 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Did this piece recently for Mother Jones for their article "Should We Kill One Kind of Owl To Save Another?"

You can read it here if you wan to learn more about this issue that is impacting wildlife in the Pacific Northwest www.motherjones.com/environment/...
An illustration of a Northern Spotted Owl and a Barred owl clashing in a dark moonlit wooded space over a long red string that they each pull on as it wraps around their bodies and the enviornment
August 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Attention Ecologists!

We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists!

Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A fish is a teacher, wearing a button-up shirt with a collar. He says "Volunteer to speak with classrooms in front of a chalkboard that says "Skype a scientist needs YOU!". A snail on his desk says Help! And a shrimp says "Lego league is coming!" and a nervous seahorse says "this year's theme is ecosystems"
August 14, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Me: hey so I feel like I'm one minor inconvenience away from having a medium sized breakdown
Coworker: oh have you taken your meds?
Me: oh I forgot that was an option.
August 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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text that says "i dont want to be strong anymore i want nice things to happen to me for free" over a crusty image of a rat from super mario 3d world
August 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
ammytheartist.bsky.social
I'm working hard on these ACEOs. I want to get at least 80 done by October for the Olathe arts festival. We'll see!

DM me if you'd like to purchase one of these. ($10 including shipping)

#aceo #artforsale #miniart #Clevergirl
A bunch of ACEO cards. The first one is a chickadee with COURAGE written under it. The second one says CONFIDENCE with a husky. The third one is CLEVER GIRL with a raptor. The last one is a squirrel with WONDER written under it. A close up of an ACEO of a raptor. It has CLEVER GIRL written under it in fancy handwriting.
August 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Day 5 - Scarlet Macaw

#AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #Birdart
Marker drawing of a scarlet macaw looking up at the viewer. Its tail is twisted to fit into the square picture. There are stars, berries, and sparkles around the macaw.
August 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVORITE THINGS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW BAD AND ITS OK. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN TRY DIFFERENT MEDIUMS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVES FUCKING NASTY. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WI
Image of Jacob Wysocki screaming with poorly edited text that says "you are AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL."
March 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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The print making experiments continue!

Let me know if you want one of the black and white ones. $15 plus $6 shipping. The colored one I'm not letting go of just yet unless you make me a tempting offer.

#linocut #woodzilla #swamp #frogart #dragonfly #art #artforsale
A series of linocut prints featuring a dragonfly, lotus, frogs, flies, and stars. The last one is hand colored in and not just black and white like the other ones.
July 29, 2026 at 1:57 AM