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Barbara 👽

@barbsart.bsky.social
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✩ concept artist | illustrator | gamedev ✩ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ➩ portfolio: www.artstation.com/barbsart ✩ loves visionary sci-fi & ecology 🚫 NO GenAI/NFT

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/09/2026
The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Max and I will be showcasing our new zine + hypertext fiction game set in our worldbuilding project Diluvium at UGE! Come say hi! 🪶
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.”
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Foxglove - Beautiful to humans. Poison for machines.
Poison your art for AI before you post. Strip metadata, embed hidden messages, disrupt AI training. Everything runs on your device.
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Are you ready for #ArtFight yet? It will be my first year participating! Feel free to share your usernames so we can follow each other :) My profile is artfight.net/~barbsart #ArtFight2026 #TeamTragedy
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hello @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I wanted to share that I created the Biologist and the Crawler in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.. they are friends now! I’m in the process of building Area X but the lighthouse building takes a while to unlock!
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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Realistic "draw with me" YouTube video where the artist spends a good 15 minutes browsing their WIP folder, then reorganizes their layers, then real quick checks social media for 35 minutes before drawing a single circle with the eyeline cross on it, then afk for 45 minutes
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
At this point, generative AI has to go the way of the dinosaur. It literally has to be rooted out and the companies associated with it driven out of business. The idea that it continue in its current form is intolerable and a complete disaster at a time when we have no margin for error as a species.
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Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Do you work in the games industry? Join us for the first Game Workers Conference, online May 22nd & 23rd ❤️✊🏽
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I’m active on Mastodon at gamedev.lgbt/@barbs btw..
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Barbara 👽 (@barbs@gamedev.lgbt)
50 Posts, 110 Following, 88 Followers · ✩ (concept) artist | gamedev | writer
 ✩ MA Experimental Publishing @xpub@post.lurk.org
 ✩ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ
 ✩ loves visionary sci-fi & ecology
 🚫 NO GenAI/NFT
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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 18/03/2026
image of a nonsense graph from McKinsey claiming "By 2030 the metaverse could generate $4 trillion to $5 trillion across consumer and enterprise use cases
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/03/2026
There is a massive disconnect between the indie games community and the technoloy industry at large, Paul - the disconnect being that indies try to make games and a large part of the technology sector makes disposable startups to flip as much VC money as possible at the expense of everything.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 09/03/2026
edit of tweet about feeding cats to coyotes but changed to be about billionaires feeding game studios to shareholders
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Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Google with AI buttonsGoogle without AI buttons
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
woman of tomorrow #supergirl #supergirlwomanoftomorrow #art #sketchbook #dccomics
A sketchbook sketch using black ballpoint pen of Supergirl from DC Comics. It was referenced from the comic Woman of Tomorrow. She is facing the viewer, her arms are spread with hands balled into fists. There is crackling energy surrounding her. Her hair is floating. The “S” emblem on her chest and her skirt are drawn in a red pen color.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/02/2026
Godot's marketing strategy for 2026: let Unity exist.
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Unity says its AI tech will soon eliminate the need for coding
Company CEO Matt Bromberg claims AI will empower non-coders and seasoned developers alike.
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Sheng Lam @8bitwizard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
more sketchbook
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Natalia Zaitseva @nataliadraws.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Luckily, I've gotten much better at this lately!
A three panel comic titled "Portion control". A person is looking at art online. At first they are motivated "That's some interesting art... Maybe I should try that too?" They keep looking at more art and feel motivated: "Wow!! These artists are so good! I can't wait to go practise so I can catch up!". As they look at even more art, they get overwhelmed: "They're so many... Why am I even trying...?"
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
economists ran the numbers and, uh, it's bad!
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
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Kenze Wee @seppukudoge.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Rusted shell. #pixelart
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adelle k. @ RCCC I-46 @klimtsonian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
this was my heated rivalry etc etc
Fanart sketch of Merlin BBC as an art nouveau-style illustration. Arthur stands in the center of the frame, holding his sword.  Merlin is casting magic above him, flanked by portraits of Gwen and Morgana.
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Over the weekend @bunkes.bsky.social and I participated in the B1T JAM! We were only allowed to use 2 colors for this game. In Webgardener, you are a gardener caring for your website. Plant links to explore the world wide web! dionpeek.itch.io/webgardener
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Webgardener by Dion Peek, Barbara Mathijssen
You are a gardener caring for your website. Plant links to explore the world wide web!
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daffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @daff.space · 30/11/2025
shareholders
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🦋
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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!
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Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Groyper Wars
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Dion Peek @bunkes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
One of the first sketches I ever made for Bloody Hell 2. This was also one of my first ever isometric sketches, and I quickly learned that overdrawing engine blockouts was way quicker than doing it all by hand :)) Check out @punintendedgames.bsky.social for more! #pixelart #gamedev #isometric
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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Hans Moleman in the Simpsons, inside a phone booth with birds crashing into it and cracking the glass. He is talking on the telephone. The caption reads: “I need the most on-the-nose metaphor you have. No, that’s too on-the-nose.”
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Um... I may have gotten carried away in writing my review of Strange New Worlds season 3...
That’s what makes Star Trek inspiring. That’s why it matters. And that’s exactly what Strange New Worlds seems to forget—or worse, what those who own it want us to forget. What happened to “risk is our business”? Isn’t that why we go out in a starship, why we’re aboard her in the first place? Instead, Strange New Worlds has become hollow postmodern product—nostalgia without context—designed to reinforce cultural norms. It sells a “centrist” vision that treats fascism as just another side in a debate, while framing marginalized voices who challenge the hierarchies fascists exploit as the real threat. At best, that message encourages passivity; at worst, it actively vilifies those already marginalized for daring to disrupt the status quo.
I want a Star Trek that resists the expectations of today—not by flattening villains or throwing punches, but by daring to represent a dream of a better tomorrow that we should reach for. Something new. Something braver. A Star Trek that challenges power in the present tense, that resonates with us not just as nostalgia but as a rallying cry. That speaks directly and overtly to the world we live in, the forces shaping it, and the struggles we face right now. That’s what Star Trek once dared to be. That’s what it should still dare to be. 

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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
[ eurydice ] #severance
A digital illustration of the character Mark from the TV show Severance. It portrays the last scene of season 2, where Mark leaves his wife Gemma behind to stay on the severed floor with Helly. Mark, in the foreground, is drawn in a red hue. The background, portraying the door to the outside and a crying Gemma in the window, is painted in a contrasting teal hue. Mark is covered in bright red blood. His expression looks puzzled.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek)
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a group of people standing in a field with their bodies made of plants
ALT: a group of people standing in a field with their bodies made of plants
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
hail life on the verges
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Liabell /リアベル☄️ ✨ @liabell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George
A Twitter reply from Boy George to JKR. JKR said something predictably terfy. 

Boy George’s reply: 

This is your obsession and it's pretty relentless and for no reason. You don't get to decided who or what anyone is except when you write. In the real world people can and always will be what they want to be. You can't stop it but you can continue to make young kids lives more difficult. You are cruel JK, you have started to look cruel in pictures. All this obsession is wearing on your expression. The pictures of you mocking 'trans' people like Winston Churchill after the Supreme Court ruling. Your endless comments about how rich you are. It's depressing and tacky and proves you are desperate to mean something but sadly you are just being mean.
As my hilarious friend David Hoyle always says.
'Ladies & gentlemen and those of you still deciding. There are two type of people, nice people and c***s.
I do not expect any positive response and you will continue to be supported by women who see you as some kind of gender hero. Women are not better than men and men are not better than women. As a man, a biological one, rah, rah, I have no issue with a girl becoming a boy or the other way around. As a gay man who has worn make-up since 14 l had lived my entire life feeling awkward and afraid using male public toilets.
It's not easy being different and you are only making it harder. Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs. Or listen to your fellow Scott Sydney Banks and he will hopefully help you understand that this is all in your head.
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
SEEING DAVID BYRNE LIVE NEXT YEAR !!!!!!!!
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
qrp with your header art! ☀️
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 29/04/2025
To be clear about my viewpoint: GenAI is only inevitable if we let it be. The only way to fight against something that we are being told is inevitable is to not use it and disprove the theory. We don't need to find "ethical" ways to create GenAI. We need to blank it out and make it embarrassing.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This article is a perf exp of how folks are going to use any excuse then can to feel ok with watching Harry Potter because they care more about getting to watch their show then systemic harm against trans people that they can distance themselves from. And Nick Frost is actively helping that.
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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A solo dev the size of 10 devs
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The season unfolded for sure.. I have a lot of thoughts but I think I’ll write a blog post about it sometime.
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
YEEESSS oh please make the creature book accurate…
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