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As much as Adobe deserves to be dunked on I really hate the whole "hey claude please copy this software for me lmao" shit that's going around right now. We don't need vibe coded adobe copies when good alternatives already exist. I hate Adobe, and I hate vibe coding.

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Phirmth @phirmth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Secondary note: I fucking love that in the middle of this huge update they also snuck in move lists and put the game on a 50% off discount because THE DEVS REMAIN GOATED and this game simply keeps getting better with every update

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 06/10/2026

🔥 RIVALS 2 WORKSHOP IS FINALLY OFFICIALLY OUT! 🔥 Custom characters and items are available to play in the Steam Workshop, but that's not all. We've updated from Unreal 5.4 to 5.8, we now have a new Move List for each character, new Halloween cosmetics for Gouie and Fleet, and more! @offbrand.games

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 05/10/2026

This is fantastic! Give em a follow and check out their work.

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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Henry Thurlow @henry-thurlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll be looking for animators soon to help on something I'm directing. I'm open to giving a chance even to artists who haven't participated in Japanese productions before, so if you're interested (and have a VERY good portfolio!) send me a message or post a link to your work!

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 03/10/2026

If there's one thing I hate about this era of news media, it's how often I see articles with what appears to be vital information about ground-breaking scandals or data privacy that directly impacts everyone, only for them to be pay-walled. Like I understand financially why that is, but holy shit

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 03/10/2026

today - right now - is a good day to make sure this number is in your phone, MA pals

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jojomama38.bsky.social @jojomama38.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 03/10/2026

My birthday is one week from today, and I have no idea what I want to do for it! The gears want to turn, but my head is empty!

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James Kochalka Superstar @kochalka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ARCO is a GREAT movie. Now on Hulu, Disney, Kanopy…and available to rent elsewhere youtu.be/e4RrOe8IbI8?...

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ARCO - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters January 23 / Everywhere January 30

YouTube video by NEON

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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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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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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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @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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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 22/09/2026

I'm so sorry man... I am beyond proud of you. Better things are coming to 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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𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 @chrismaher.xyz · 19/09/2026

It somehow manages to strike a fantastic blend of insane body horror and campy humor for an incredible experience. Cregger has an incredible skill in building the tension of any scene, horror and humor. That control, along with a love for what makes this series Resident Evil l, makes this film.

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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

Well, there's this. www.instagram.com/p/DcmhkMlESV...

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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.

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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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