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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

new Quake map: "Mermaids in the Basement" for Quake Rooftops Jam + my level design notes and inspirations www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/10/new-...

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new Quake map: Mermaids In The Basement

Design notes for my Mediterranean rooftop village themed single player Quake 1 map.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026

truculence ball

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ball animals are the best This bird is called Bearded reedling

To the left, a photo of a Bearded reedling, on the right, an illustration made with Flipnote Studio.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Samson @samlenzartwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three shadowboxes, many months apart, now connected :) #warhammer40k #infinitythegame #trenchcrusade

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incredible tone, good resonance and finish, a soupçon of rattle at the end if you’re into that, 9/10

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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B A L D E R @balderdragonslayer.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Reworking and expanding lots of stuff in here. 🤫 #abyss #indiegame #gamedev #vitaisland

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just ran across one of Jack Kirby's collages in an auction. Lovely weirdo things. This one is from 1970.

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We could all be watching a badass robot puppet fight a bunch of other puppets right now if we choose to...

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026

Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣

a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach

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WᐰRFORGED @warforged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm posting a different angle because I'm really proud of how my Billbine came out.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

he is sitting with me

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Izra @izra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

im really hungry. ravenous even... #metroid

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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…

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Mom @milph.mom · 07/08/2025

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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SPRAWL zero @sprawlfps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPRAWL zero is out now! Available on PC via Steam, Steam Deck & Epic Store - Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2. Thank you to all our supporters for making this possible, we owe you the world! store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/...

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57E @57e.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When yabba hits the dabba in the doo

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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆 @ducktwacy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

While the iron is still hot with the Looney Tunes posting, I love how ruthlessly cold this is

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57E @57e.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful September

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Noah 🌳 @rainingketchup.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

POTENTIAL MAN is out now! Embark on your quest to become the next great tree in this RPGMaker short story. Will you fulfill your true potential?

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Umbra 🇺🇦 @umbragarbar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Feathered bug Sulphur-crested Scolipede [ #art #pokémon ]

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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s the weekend! Let’s stretch a little with these cats. Cats seem to know better than we do how to truly relax. Stretch your legs, loosen up, and let go of the week’s tiredness. I hope these little cats bring a bit of ease and a good mood to your weekend😊 #shouxinsketch #cat #sketch #sketchdaily

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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 28/08/2026

Imagine Aseprite or another #pixelart program inside Blender? Pixel Perfect Pixel Art drawing and texture painting on top of the model in the 3D viewport and in 2D. Drawing, painting, selection tools, layers, texel density (pixel size) setup and density zones (multiple pixel sizes). #blender3d

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TimTam- (Caudle) - Remembering Roo @caudlewag.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The fact that one of the most interesting versions of Captain Hook is probably from the 90's Fox's Peter Pan & The Pirates, is kind of crazy. HA they went hard with his dialog....man I haven't seen this in 20 years.

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Nanafushi/ナナフシ @zigzig-booom-cq.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

空の頂点！🐕☁ フワフワと空中を移動するぞ！ #OC #creature #イラスト #創作

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Lux!🔪🎃 @luxlucifer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

oh fuck new video limit means i can upload breaking bad type beat

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Ollie Canal @olliecanal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Effect I saved this one during the colouring phase so you can see how it works, and how easy it is to hide in your drawings. Most of the UV ink is invisible under normal light. I changed a few details in the final pass. #furry #furryart #otter #oc

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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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