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This colossal Montezuma Cypress in Santa Maria del Tule, Mexico, with a girth of 35+ metres, is said to be the thickest tree in the world. Its age is disputed but appears to be at least 1,000 years (photo: Cook/Jenschel, National Geographic) https://t.co/WecippYGhU

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Enormous wave off Nazaré, Portugal. Surfer Mason Hyce Barnes for scale.

A genuine request for help from everyone in the game. This video is from a great friend of mine and a huge positive influence on my life Eddie Hughes. He was the referee for a game where he blew the final whistle a few minutes too early and had to bring the players back out on to

So important. People act like climate change has just happened when in facts it’s been forced upon us by the richest people in the world. It’s the biggest and most deadly corporate scandal in history

Aerial view of a group of Basking Sharks, a relatively rare sighting as they're predominately solitary creatures

In need of an owl wizard/researcher/ecologist, can anyone recommend someone? Signal boosts appreciated 💚

The change from Twitter, whose logo is a little bird, to X, greatly references Clamp's work X-1999 in which Kotori's death (whose name means "little bird" in japanese) leads to the apocalypse, symbolized by X. In this essay, i will-

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Also, if you are an artist thinking "If they paid me to make the art, it belongs to them," please inform yourself about copyright. You're at risk of being ripped off, if the wrong person finds out about that.

But people going "You commissioned it, you can do whatever you want!" are wrong. Copyright laws predate the internet, and posting someonething online is a lot more like printing it in a newspaper than sticking a printout of it on your homework folder.

I do think artists absolutely should be up front about their policies, and I think an artist not allowing people who commission them to post images on social media or other websites in a "look at tis image by [artist] of my character!" or as a user icon is... weird.

...but using an image as avatar or banner online is publishing it, and the copyright owner can decide if that's allowed or not. And the copyright owner is the artist, unless something else was negotiated.

The three other points in the quoted tweet - desktop wallpapers, use around the table during RPG, printing it out for yourself - are to the best of my knowledge fine by copyright because it's private use (in addition to being impossible to track, anyway)...

OK, in the "WTF, artists can't tell me I'm not allowed to use a commission as user icon, can they?" discussion, there's one thing that might clarify the logic behind the "yes, they can" answer: Posting an image online is *publishing* it, like printing it in a magazine.

Common cases for personal vs commercial use of commissioned work 😊Personal Use: - Socmed PFP and banners - Desktop/mobile wallpaper - Getting it printed for *just yourself* - Using it in private ttrpg campaigns If you (client) aren't making money off of it, then it's fine* (+)