iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hampus Viklander @spookystirfry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You'd have to be a fool to not like belt clutter

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Hampus Viklander @spookystirfry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Belt clutter added!

digital line drawing of an aquatic humanoid clad in coral, scale and shell armour wielding two swords. Their lower body is replaced with octopus like tentacles

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MAGA Farmers Right Now

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Denman Rooke @denmanrooke.com · 29/09/2026

The very predictable side effect of not hiring junior roles and replacing* them with AI instead. *AI can't actually do the job of humans. (Credit: inspired by a tweet by a @Dylanszn01 on twitter)

Who killed Hannibal? meme with the text over man with gun "Companies replacing Junior Roles with AI" shooting another man on a couch with text "Junior Artists". Second image is the text: (5 years later) Why can't we find senior talent?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026

Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.

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Artful Meg @artfulmegalodon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Beginning the tragic search for a new job. Shit's bleak out there. Mom advises me "I know you don't like ai, but maybe you should start playing around with it, just so you can say what you think about it from experience." I say "I cannot explain how viscerally repugnant that is to me. Just... no."

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/09/2026

Got notified an artist was located, hired, and paid for work through HireHumanArtists.com and I couldn't be more thrilled Pls hire more artists through here!!! Support human made! #hha

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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just encouraging all Mac users to contact Apple and tell them it's BS that Siri and Apple intelligence can no longer be fully disabled in the latest update (OS27). Reports vary by device, but between 10G and 30G of AI garbage models downloading. I just wiped and will be staying with 26 for a while 😡

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Artful Meg @artfulmegalodon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just said this earlier, but I'll say it again: The actual distinction between fine art and illustration is that illustration is *art intended for reproduction*. That's it. That's the only qualifier. (Taught to me by my illustration professors.)

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Andy Karl-Son of Wolfman @andykarlson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Go to hell, The Wall Street Journal.

Screenshot of a WSJ headline that says, George Lucas's Museum Confuses Illustration With Art

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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW WILDWOOD TRAILER JUST DROPPED!!! I was in the department that built the wild-wood itself. Come see all our hard work! youtu.be/bJQGtSeLPII?...

youtu.be

Wildwood – Final Trailer | Get Tickets Now

YouTube video by LAIKA Studios

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not great at “promoting things.” I’d rather be out with the birds, covered in feathers, taking care of rehab cases, and sketching designs with a mug of tea. But we made something I’m really proud of, and I wanted to share it with you. We just added 19 new designs: tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8 🪶

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Artful Meg @artfulmegalodon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Got some for a friend! (She's gonna love 'em!)

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Sefirot @sefirotgame.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The spirits made to root up metaphysic weeds, And tangle of the two-and-seventy creeds; Do not forswear that wondrous alchemy, 'Twill turn to gold, and cure a thousand needs. Io and behold, our new class, the Alchemist.⚗️ —————————————————————- Follow now: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Ashley Mackenzie @ashmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just got two of these this morning and this is a great example of the usual tells, it’s always good to know what to look out for!

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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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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Artful Meg @artfulmegalodon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Illustrative art gets no respect in the world of fine art museums! Even the Met gave us the runaround when we tried to see the (1!) Maxfield Parrish it said online that they had. This place as a whole wall of them?? Oh, why must it be 3k miles away?

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Artful Meg @artfulmegalodon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s it like inside your head? (Pretty, mythological, and vaguely aware my hair is bugging me.)

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Isa Art and Illustration @isaillustration.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Quote with your blue art

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Kaya's Kosmos @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🎉 Birthday today! 🎉 As is tradition for an artist on Bluesky completing another lap around the sun, I ask if you could please give my art a share if you like what you see! Thank you 💖 🎨 - cara.app/kayaskosmos ☕ - ko-fi.com/kayaskosmos

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🌶️ Motte! 🌶️🔞 @extra-spicymotte.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

don't hatewatch it. don't pirate it. don't waste your time with it. fuck JKR and her mediocre at best books. it won't kill the sadness in you to dig your claws into this rotten IP

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

you can be sure I never used AI & never will not in my work, not in my private life, cause I value too much what's lost in this garbage tech

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP king…nobody played baddies like you. 💔

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 15/08/2026

Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.

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Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Supplemental: This is a great intro to developmental levels in drawing. Most people never make it past the schematic stage into early realism. If you give a child access to LLMs, though, they will always think it looks better than their own drawings, and no one will ever be able to draw.

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How Children Learn to Draw – A Developmental Guide for Parents & Teachers

A research-backed guide to how children's drawing develops from ages 3 to 12+. Covers the four developmental stages, what to expect at each age, and how to support your child without pressure.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 13/08/2026

Someone has ordered 6 of these! And I only have 5 sheets! So that means! I am making! Another 50! Very shortly! great for marking prints (and closing print bags), books, and more. They're pretty cheap so order as many as your lil heart desires and I'll keep making em

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100% Human Made Label Sheet - Shop Aimee Cozza Illustration

A whole sheet of pre-cut 100% Human Made No AI Used badges for use on prints, books, products, and more. You get 72 labels per sheet and they ship flat. Roughly 8.5x11" but each label is like... an in...

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🏴‍☠️ Rikki🤘 @punkdawg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I hate that I'm beating myself up for not being able to draw for myself or my OCs, instead of being understanding of my circumstances

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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Hell Alka @hellalka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today is my Birthday!! I would be grateful for repost of my works >////<

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE'S A TINY SHINY BIRD IN PANTALOONS

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

enshittification ouroboros

the anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heart

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 08/08/2026

It’ll fetch content from your Google Drive if you didn’t turn off the feature allowing for “Smart Content” (if Workspace account) or if you have linked apps/not turned off search personalization. Workspace: help.lafayette.edu/disabling-ge... Personalization: myactivity.google.com/search-servi...

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For my 3,500th daily sketch I thought a bit about what to draw, whether to put in more effort and make it a really good one, whether to sketch an OC, etc... well, instead you get this Squirb -3500 🎨🐡🪶 #art #birdArt #pigeonSky

A sketch of a square feral pigeon, facing the viewer, on a white background. It is made with pencil and watercolours. Squirb

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cynthiaf-g.bsky.social @cynthiaf-g.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Opening new commissions, Character sheets! I will only be opening two slots for these for the month of August since they take some time. Here are some examples with two of my OCs c: !!!! (DM me or email me if interested, thanks!)

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