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Ave 🏳️‍🌈

@avemakesgames.bsky.social
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Technical Lighting Artist @ TNM, PNW, trans girly, lesbian, what more terrifying words can i add? I mostly share peoples art and occasionally say something dumb :p

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 7h
Hiding away.
A photo of a view from a bird hide, overlooking a lake. The window frames the view like a painting.
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Dani Yuan | commissions open @dagger6.art · 23h
FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands pretty ridiculous. (alt text added)
A post from a FurAffinity developer blog which says:

 What makes this situation frustrating is that the bar for what advertisers consider "adult content" is very very low. For example they consider plus size characters, two characters hugging, and "barbie doll nudity" to be adult content, despite these being normal everyday things that are not adult at all. This is why you may see other sites with restrictions on how characters cant be posed or dressed "too provocatively."

We receive a daily list of items that they have flagged as violations and have to sort through them. If they're legitimate violations, we re-rate them. If they aren't, we don't touch them. Submissions that are not violations of our policies are still held against us.

We have had many email conversations, Zoom calls, and even an in-person meeting with representatives to help resolve this to no avail.
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 9h
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 14h
Not everything needs to be polished into the same familiar shape. We need games that feel like they could only have been made by these people, from this place, carrying this history. We need artists with something strange, specific and deeply human to say. That ai could never.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think if an effective altruist wanted to put their money where their mouth is, they would give me $50m so that I and my team can grow and make some world changing stuff
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Alioth Fox (@ Carolina FurFare) @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 02/10/2026
TLDR: Fur Affinity's advertising partners are demanding that they ban adult content. Sciggles and FA want to firmly tell them to go fuck themselves. If they're going to be able to afford to do that, they need the community's help. Pitch in. Keep furry weird. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...
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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal
Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorship of the internet and third parties forcing sites to ...
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rowan @purrowan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
merry autumn
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026
Using LLM-based products like chatGPT doesn't make you "understand AI" any more than smoking crack improves your knowledge of pharmacology. The technology is inherently misleading and self-propagandizing, it's a pump for exploiting user bias.
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Lynn Zero | PlayNeoNeuro.neocities.org @lynnlandra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watching fascists utilize free speech, free assembly, tolerance, and the vestiges of democracy that exist in this country, to weasel their way into power just so they could take away all those exact things (and more) has been one of the most horrifyingly fascinating things of the last two decades.
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Lamblimped Cryo (35 days) @cryolithius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FA regardless of your personal feelings, is the core of the fandom and losing it would mean YEARS AND YEARS of art, messages, pages, and memorials for people that have passed, would be gone. We CANNOT allow ourselves to rely simply on sites like bsky, twitter, insta, etc. etc. to be our defaults.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/09/2026
The picture for LGBTQ+ Americans has changed in recent years, and for trans folks the change has been the most extreme. That's the upshot of a new report, out today from the Movement Advancement Project. More from @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Wave of Anti-Queer Extremism Is Charted in New Report - Assigned Media
Movement Advancement Project illustrates its speed and “near laser” focus on trans people.
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
idk if it would alleviate my long term fears BUT i will say, if there's a pricing squeeze coming as the top AI companies scramble for profit, it's gonna be *very* funny to observe from the sidelines as my life is strictly improved and my work is completely unaffected
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Ave 🏳️‍🌈 @avemakesgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Laied down for a nap to be awoken by a surprise wobble of everything. Turns out a 4.0 earthquake happened an hours drive away. A bit of a new experience for this midwesterner turned seattalite.
Map of the Washington sound and surrounding region with colord circles indicating recent earthquakes. The red pin is in Butley where a 4.0 went of earlier today about 9km deep.
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sure feels like i'm being slurred every time a cis liberal says the word transgender
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thank a trans person today for being in your life while surviving in the face of a world that would prefer we didn't
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Perhaps the best evidence for AI-driven arts job loss is that all digital arts industries are losing jobs while most live arts still chug along Sectors like graphic design, streaming, & movie recording have experienced historically unusual job loss since ChatGPT's launch
a graph showing job losses of between 20-5% in all digital arts and gains of 15% in most live arts
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olyester 🌼 @cco00oo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
on sale
A digital painting of Leafeon

A leafeon naps in a basket of peppers at a produce stand bathed in sunlight. Partly eaten peppers sits nearby, while the price tag has been replaced with a half-off label: "leftovers" They're a bargain, so pepper stir-fry it is tonight. Now then... let's make sure we don't wake the little sleeper
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good to demonstrate to vet Ross my sheep feeding technique, what could go wrong? Thanks Kate
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 27/09/2026
had a chat with someone yesterday and told them, and not that I'm saying anything innovative here, but I really can't imagine why I'd want to look at something no one cared enough to actually make, or read something no one cared enough to actually write.
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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To the game devs going to a chat bot to somehow make a game, your no Senshi.
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♡ 𝔴 𝔬 𝔩 𝔣 𝔦 𝔢 ♡ @vvolfae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
coping with body changes by giving all my main fursonas a baby and a mom bod 👌🏻
wolf x deer fursona holding her fox x deer baby
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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 25/09/2026
They clearly wrote all of these questions to lead a Doomer answer, but Ed never gives them that, but she still has to ask the Doomer questions because that’s what the producer thought he was booking. And then nothing he’s said is very scary but she has to end the interview by saying she’s terrified.
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Ed Zitron on ABC News talking about actually regulating AI and the truth behind its economics
YouTube video by Ed Zitron
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...
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It's the accountability, stupid.
Doing crime
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gamedevs when they see tech debt: #gamedev #indiedev
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One Piece Dead
Alt: The upper half of a zombie bursts from a grave, arm outreached. Luffy from One Piece walks up to it, and shoves it by the head and shoulders back into the dirt.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
feeling more and more confident in my stance that these are anti-humanity people making anti-humanity technology they want to create the minimal friction society for humans to just manifest whatever they want, as far away as possible from the friction of imperfection and the beauty of humanity
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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 24/09/2026
residuals for devs really special in that it’s kinda the single issue you can spotlight that basically chain combos into every other shitty labor issue in gamedev why shouldn’t we get residuals?
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Dan YuriS (SFW) @danyurissfw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
[ #mlp #mylittlepony #art #pony #sunsetshimmer #equestriagirls #EquestriaGirls4Ever ] I was really happy to take part in an event like this again—and, honestly, I think this was the first time I’ve ever drawn so many tiny details... I’m not sure I’d want to do it again😅
Sunset Shimmer on stage with a guitar
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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 24/09/2026
i think one big factor (among many) as to why AI has had such a foothold in coding spaces is because the majority of people dont consider programming to be art
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Kirbz @kirbizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
vibecoding should mean you're wearing sunglasses and listening to vaporwave whilst you code ai took everything from us
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 19/09/2026
RESIDENT EVIL 2 R.P.D. 🗺️ 1F/2F 1998 vs. 2019 comparison. (full resolutions in my galleries as usual.)
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graskip @graskip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Esther @ethan8bit.newgrounds.com
anthropomorphic mouse with white fur and hair in a bun
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
cynical take - 1mil at 70USD is 70 mil. chop off 30% for platform fees, now we're 49mil. Assume the publisher is 100% recoup, that's 9 mil. Then the split after... let's be GENEROUS and say 50/50. Final income for 1mil sales is: * $4.5mil for studio * $44.5mil for pub * $21mil for platform holders
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Vixen the Bimbo Fox @bimbofoxvixen.com · 20/09/2026
You've healed too much to not raise the bar on who has access to you
You've healed too much to not raise the bar on who has access to you
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The EU Kids Act will make private servers illegal as it stands now. Read up on the Act yourself: hub.edri.org/index.php/s/... Contact your MEPs, tell them to scuttle this bill, and sign the Stop Killing Internet Initiative to ensure the protection of our digital spaces: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.
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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@ameliasandrine.com This is yours, forever.
Four-panel meme of the Geordi La Forge variant of the Drake no/yes meme.

The top left panel is Geordi holding a hand up in caution at an inaccurate term, and the top right panel says "Anti-trans Democrat".

The bottom left panel has him pointing and smiling at a better term, and the bottom right panel says "Biological Republican".
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janm (commissions open) @jankapnoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I accept commissions for short animations and GIF loops :3
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Ave 🏳️‍🌈 @avemakesgames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So when are these theft companies going to start getting slapped with charges of 250k for every stolen media and jail time like they did to people for downloading a MP3 in the 2000’s?
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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
hittin the akira slide on the e vial 💉✨ twitch.tv/upandoutcomic
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Ave 🏳️‍🌈 @avemakesgames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
20 y/o me would be shocked everything worked out as well as it did! I have our dream job, transitioned and look good, i have lots of close friends, my parents still love me, i left Michigan, i literally have to fend off people asking me on a date lmao. Did pretty good. Just took longer than hoped.
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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The lighting in them miniatures is spectacular. If you’re an environment artist you don’t need to make massive complex spaces you can make slices like this. Smaller scope and just as valid if you dress them right.
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