Fabrizio Biondi

GG Story of the Year 2025: Crypto Gaming Collapses as Funding Dries Up

so it’s going well then

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

Things like these, my friends, are why A/I slops will never reach human creativity, ingenuity, and the innate urge to create something so deliberately ornate, well-thought, and beautiful.

Amazing artwork by Andy! You should go commission him at mece.art/Jonesylium !

Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting

Hang in there, struggling artists

No better way to fight fascism than supporting a transition fund! Please support my friend!

LAST CHANCE! 🚨

Mecenates is sponsoring a FREE art raffle! 😍

Win a personalized artwork by Caemi, known for her iconic Critical Role designs 🌙✨ @caemiel.bsky.social

She’s donated one rare commission slot, and we’re giving it away to you! 🧡

Enter by Sept 28 👉🏼 mecenates.com/caemi-art-ra...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

An illustration of an old truck in the woods filled with pumpkins, with a pumpkin frog, several ghost frogs, and ravens about

welcome autumn! 🍂 🎃

Soo we're holding a give away for my friend's project - if you're interested check it out here ❤

A FREE personalized artwork by Caemi??? Count me in! 😀

If you are a scientist please consider signing our letter. If you are a concerned citizen (you should be!) you can find here a number of ways to make your voice heard: fightchatcontrol.eu

Party portrait featuring our very small dnd party of ten, plus a random skeleton as a vampire metaphor. They're all looking very dramatic and/or sad, apart from Solvi who seems to be having fun for some reason. Will looks like he's on a romance book cover.

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[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

Just here to support our artists. 🥰

These pieces are done by @jonesylium.bsky.social

Go see his art gallery or create your own at mece.art! 🧡

New defense unlocked 🤝🏼

We just enabled Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth to protect our artists’ work from AI crawlers.

It sends bots into a maze of fake data, meaning your art is safe with us!

We’ll keep building a safer place for art 🥰

Join our community: community.mecenates.com

#supportart #artist

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Queer Artist of the Week 🌈

To celebrate Pride Month, Mecenates is spotlighting a new queer artist every week: voices worth hearing, art worth seeing. 🧡

This week: Andy (he/they) @jonesylium.bsky.social

See his (and many others) art here: community.mecenates.com/Jonesylium

And follow for more!

A painting of Lune from Clair Obscur

Game of the year for sure.

*pays super attention*

"He's do dreamy, so mysterious"

The moon tarot. In a fancy room with a tapestry of huntsmen and hunting dogs, Mars is rising up from a crystal like coffin in which he was likely sleeping. He looks up to a window not shown in the picture, but seemingly there's a bright moon outside. Behind Mars there's a tall mirror with a frame of flowers and pommegranates; in the reflection, Will is holding a tower chess piece, a moon framing his face. Above all, blue wild roses and a long shadowy clawed hand reaching out from the dark. In the foreground, wild blue roses with gold leaves.

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[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Queer Artist of the Week 🌈

To celebrate Pride Month, Mecenates is spotlighting a new queer artist every week: voices worth hearing, art worth seeing. 🧡

This week: Terry (he/she) @waywardbeat.bsky.social

You can see Terry’s art and commission conditions at: community.mecenates.com/caemiel

In case any of y'all need a catchy protest song idea, a little demo of how to play the anti-fascist "Bella ciao"

sheet music by Manuela Gößnitzer for Wikipedia article on "Bella ciao"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_c...
#anti-fascist #antifascist #protest #protestmusic #resistance

When you get tired of scrolling through socials, try scrolling through art instead 🫶🏼

Here are just a few examples of how art can pull you into a world of calm and wonder.

Artists featured in the video: Storytelling Art, Giorgia.h Illustration and Srish Creates 😍 you can find them from mece.art ☺️

Important for US activists to understand that laws cannot protect you.

Armed soldiers are on the steets. They are violently arresting judges and mayors and US Senators.

They are kidnapping people from churches, elementary schools, and hospitals.

Your only protection today is anonymity, opsec,

Mars following his late bosses up an empty theater stairs. They're all wearing white and gold because it matched well with the golden stairs and the snake made out of money, crawling up the picture. At the bottom center, a square shows the seaside. Other green squares appear on the picture, with various symbols in them. Under the seaside square, there are a bunch of lemons.

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[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

You can see Caemi’s art and commission conditions at: community.mecenates.com/caemiel

Give her a follow and you’ll get a notification when she opens her commissions 🫶🏼