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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Coyote Vs Acme is available to stream now. I encourage everyone to watch it!

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 29/09/2026

Hey! I'll be live with Mend, George, and special guest vocalist Lyria on Thursday to go behind the scenes for the latest Rivals of Aether 2 event trailer, MECHA MADNESS GX! Come by and take a look behind the curtain.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Act like it.

Graphic with a quote from KAPOW Handbook, it reads:

“People engage with politics when politics engages with their real lives. Give them a reason to show up."

At the bottom, it displays the URL: https://kapow.works/handbook

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Rivals of Aether II @rivals2.com · 17/09/2026

⚡Rivals of Aether 2 is 50% off on Steam for ONE week starting now!

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 13/09/2026

I have had a super hard time actually sitting down and watching shows these past few years, but this week I binged a show that legitimately may be a top 5 show of all time for me. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a MASTERPIECE. What a profound and beautiful story. Go watch it, please.

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Oczy and Badeni: Cosmic Connection

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You should watch The Boston Strangler

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026

nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

up to something

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P2 📺🐹 @p2isonline.com · 18/09/2026

📺MY FIRST SUBATHON EVER🐹 Starting next Friday all new, recurring, and gifted subs unlock an exclusive chat badge PLUS model reveal goals, new games to back seat, and embarrassing punishments!

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 19/09/2026

This is a fantastic teaser for a fantastic movie. Go see Resident Evil, y'all.

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MOTION in MASS @motioninmass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is what we're about. Staunchly anti-AI, community-focus forward, people connecting with other people to share and make cool stuff. bsky.app/profile/moti...

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MOTION in MASS @motioninmass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hello, it's been a minute! Fellow MA-based artists, animators, motion designers, filmmakers, audio engineers, voice over artists, and anyone else under the motion media umbrella!! Where you at? We wanna connect.

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Snake is Back

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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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🍃 e d e n @edentimm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"All the best accidents are things you don't court. They just occur from the interaction with reality" god, what a mind, what a heart

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Chairman George @superbunnyhop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a game about helping Snake overcome AI psychosis by destroying walking mobile AI data centers and stealing their graphics cards

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Seeks to tilt.” Right. Try: “Tries to steal” Just state the truth, folks.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From "CARNAGEMAN:IKE" indie project (animation + comic) by Domenic Romano @domrom.bsky.social Character Short 1 "Ike" >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPA4...

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 13/09/2026

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 12/09/2026

This video by @turndownforwalt.bsky.social covering the lead up to and the events of Rivals of Aether 2 at EVO 2026 is fantastic. Check it out if you haven't already! youtu.be/pkTSxbqkXK8?...

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Melee Legend Enters ONE Tournament a Year. He's Never Lost.

YouTube video by turndownforwalt

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 10/09/2026

Well it's that special time of the year again— I'm available for short term and long term #freelance #motiondesign, #animation, #compositing, and #graphicdesign from September onwards! Hit me up at chris@chrismaher.xyz, and find more of my work at chrismaher.xyz and instagram.com/Mahamarr. Thanks.✌️

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 10/09/2026

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

I genuinely love everything about this explanation. No notes. 10 out of 10.

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⭐︎ Dan Root ⭐︎ @danroot.work · 07/09/2026

Does anyone know of any animators who animate 2D FX on top of live action footage? Thinking of 'Is Tropical' by The Greeks as an example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwrb...

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Is Tropical - The Greeks (Official Video)

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Historian here. Let me explain how in the past far-right parties in Germany have caused problems not only for their own country, but for other countries as well: (1/?)

Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Even here in Maryland, this story hasn’t been getting enough attention. Read this thread. Watch the videos. Share it widely. This is what solidarity looks like Showing up for your neighbors and protecting them from terrorists like these is fucking rad as hell. Heroes, all

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Sock @flyingmuffinmom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Howdy yall, I’m the sock in this post. I wanted to thank you all for the visibility you’re helping this issue get. It’s been quite important to me to get to this funeral because my grandpa was one of the few people in my family who supported me throughout his life, thank you all again <3

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"even my friends don't text me back that fast" is a nuclear burn

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is large scale disenfranchisement and now SCOTUS has even less excuse not to reject Trump's EO on mail voting. Allowing him to move forward would have clear negative harms to voters that could not be reversed, even as his claim for authority over voting processes is legally dubious.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 02/09/2026

"Should we mention the candidates' positions and ideology to better explain why this election went this way?" "No, this is political news, that would only confuse people"

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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

100% of the senate candidates who have visited Gracie's Ice Cream have knocked off younger moderate challengers while yelling about trans rights. You love to see it. (Markey's visited during two campaigns now.)

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Rivals of Aether II @rivals2.com · 01/09/2026

Check out the new Rivals 1 Throwback mode! This new rotating queue will only last 1 month so hop on

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Parker Simmons @parkersimmons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey, we made Catsuka 🙏 Here's the second animated piece I directed for the Spongebob x One Piece campaign. Same team as before!

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 01/09/2026

This trailer. Holy moly, what an incredible project. MECHA MADNESS GX is here after months of hard work and collaboration. I directed, edited, provided cinematography, motion graphics, music by the incredible folks at Moonsailor, vocals by LyriaYT, full credits in the video.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR TEXAS VOTERS.

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