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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 23h

"we can't make video games without AI" only makes sense if you think video games were invented about three years ago. anyway, here's doom played on an old calculator powered by potatoes

two hands holding a ti 84 calculator next to some potatoes with wires coming out of them

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 8h

Giving Transformers One a rewatch and I'm once again reminded that this is one of the best portrayals of Megatron

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 6h

...if that's real, this dude's going to die a really miserable death.

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Chaotic Washbear 🏳️‍⚧️ @bunlikeschaos.bsky.social · 7h

Decided to mess around with replacing a background in a photo using some free assets I found on some vfx sites.

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 8h

...the X-Mansion is the Olympic Village of the Marvel Universe.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mister Sinister: okay, fine. This is why I made backups. I can just use the clone. Mister Sinister: seriously? Demons? It’s the 1980s, why do we still have demons?

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had to go deep in the archives for this one

A comic depicting a fake educational film in which Mister Sinister tries to trick Scott Sunners and Jean Grey into having unprotected sex by lying to them about birth control.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The True Origin of Comet the Superhorse!*

Kon-El: Superhorse? Jeez, how many animals did Krypton blast into space?
Comet: I actually used to be human. My ex girlfriend put her finger in my the part of butt that turns you into a telepathic horse and turned me into a telepathic horse.
Kon-El: is
Kon-El: is that something i have to worry about

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This comic made me feel so angry when I first saw it. It makes me so mad for comic artists. People are so good at making so much money from our work and letting us live and die poor.

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Fearless Freep @fearlessfreep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exactly what you want a Superman moment to be.

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Fearless Freep @fearlessfreep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Johns understands something critical: Brainy is friends with the rest of the Legion.

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Fearless Freep @fearlessfreep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now knowing that Gary Frank is British, I do have to give him props for getting one past his American editors for how Stone Boy flips the bird.

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Fearless Freep @fearlessfreep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This whole bit is a quick retcon done right, expanding on what we’ve read, not dismissing anything, and fitting the characters and story wonderfully.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 02/10/2026

TIL that this recurring TNG minor character was played by a stealth trans woman she’s in 43 episodes and several of the movies

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Fearless Freep @fearlessfreep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brainiac 5 as played by Henry Winkler.

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Measuring the number of Jessica-Roger rabbit pairings in an economy as an indicator of how many men have the economic security to set aside their internalized misogyny and prioritize a fulfilling humiliation fetish over the demand for a partner's economic subservience

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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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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Laserdiscs, Laser players, XBR monitors... If you had a *lot* of disposable cash in 1989, then you too could enjoy a new dimension in anime clarity. 📖: Animag Issue 7, 1989

A snapshot of an ad for Laser Perceptions in San Franciso, where all kinds of laser discs and equipment to watch them on can be bought or rented.

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😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Actually yes. And he's not the first far right weirdo to suggest this idea. Also if sucking on a straw makes you think of blowjobs, then... You give or receive TERRIBLE blowjobs

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Books on the go in the early 90s: the Sony Data Discman. Just been reading about this while downloading a 0mhz collection version of the books and a software reader. Released in late 1991 and early 1992 for $499.99, it had a backlit LCD and used the EB format stored on 3" CDs in hard-case caddies.

From the Museum of Information site: a photo of the box for the Electronic Book Player DD-8, the Discman, with a photo of the unit itself and a hard caddy CD next to it.

Also from the same site: an overhead viw of the discman with a Pocket Interpreter disc have inserted into a caddy.

From the same site: a photo of the Data Discman showing its little querty rubber keyboard, direction keys and YES NO buttons. Plus the LCD screen with quite a clear blue-line artwork of a street scene, the title page for the Pocket Interpreter software.

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This...is not gonna work out the way he thinks it will.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Loving South Park continually using ableist slurs, anti-trans humor, AI imagery and the continual idea that “small penis makes you less of a man” as humor that everyone loves. But they say “Trump bad” so it’s ok right?

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/10/2026

one of my all time favorite shots

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct. 2, 1926: Ku Klux Klansmen leaving a night rally outside Groton, Mass., find themselves ambushed by a group that uses downed trees to block their paths, fires guns on the hooded figures and shouts, “Down with the Klan!” A check of hospitals shows no wounded men.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When the genAI bubble pops, so does Oracle, and when Oracle pops so does more of a third of US media companies, whose immediate and reflexive action will be to set fire to their entire archives. In 2008, Universal had a massive warehouse fire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Un...

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2008 Universal Studios fire - Wikipedia

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When some comics became intangible online, paper became *visible* to artists again, leading to beautiful new paper comics. Now, when some "art" becomes inhuman, *we* become visible to ourselves again. What beautiful new *human* art might be the result?

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 02/10/2026

this feels to me like Netflix acknowledging that they don't want to become a full-fledged studio and instead want to concentrate on being the streaming service you WANT to have because it has So Much Stuff, which is probably the right play

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy.

A copy of Roy Lichtenstein’s “pop art” comic book panel painting where the text and sound effects make it clear that the work was not original nor created by Lichtenstein.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DC using this as the cover for their Finest trade about their Romance comics is a phenomenal “fuck you”

Cover of DC Finest’s Romance collection taken from Secret Hearts #88 drawn by Werner Roth and John Romita Sr.

Lichtenstein’s “Crying Girl” (1964), a direct ripoff of the Roth/Romita panel

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Besides the fact that not enough people realized that he was directly tracing these things with no real creative additions, the case for Lichtenstein depended on him adding a perceived level of contempt for the source material, which was what supposedly made it 'high art'

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Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

... I suddenly get Mark Rothko's antipathy towards Lichenstein.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Used to be a big Lichtenstein fan. Then watched "Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation." Not a fan anymore. The most damning thing in the documentary is the art gallery owners trying to defend his practices. boxd.it/FXKo

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Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation (2022)

Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by the feature documentary WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. Along with Andy Warhol, Lic...

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I pissed off Andy Warhol’s estate, when I was working at the Hirshhorn Museum. I’ll always be sad that I didn’t get a chance to piss off Lichtenstein’s people too.

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petrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Huh it's almost like having an emotional connection to the art through personal meaning and/or narrative makes for better art than "I want something that looks kind of like this except more slick and polished" Unrelatedly, isn't it interesting how everyone finds AI images to be bland and soulless?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lichtenstein’s entire oeuvre was offensively shallow and profit-motivated from the jump. His original premise of recontextualizing “low art” was done better, earlier, and with way more joyful subversiveness by Marcel Duchamp, AND he lacked the skill to even render the work he supposedly “elevated.”

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Steve Luc @gr33b0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After reading this thread, it occurred to me that Roy Lichtenstein is basically the Patron Saint of A.I. "art"; Stealing other people's work and then repackaging it back to rich idiots who heap praise on it because of what they paid for it.

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a reason I call Werewolf, "The People Killing the Earth Have Names and Addresses: The Game."

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We all know Vampire, so I left Monday blank, and we're starting today with Werewolf: The Apocalypse. The universe's three foundational spirit entities were the Wyld (wilderness and creation), the Weaver (civilization and stasis), and the Wyrm (destruction and balance).

Werewolf: The Apocalypse's five editions: 1st Edition in 1992, 2nd Edition in 1994, Revised Edition in 2000, 20th Anniversary Edition in 2013, and 5th Edition in 2023.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The mass of humanity's beliefs can influence reality as a collective. Mages are people who have Awoken to their innate potential, and can influence reality on an individual basis. They call this "magick."

The covers of four editions of Mage: The Ascension: 1993's 1st edition, 1995's 2nd edition, 2000's Revised Edition, and 2015's 20th Anniversary Edition

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In most games, death is the end. In Wraith: The Oblivion, death is just the beginning. You're a wraith, a ghost. The empire of the underworld, Stygia, is run by Charon. You're here because there's something you've left unfinished in the material world (the "Skinlands").

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/10/2026

I'M GONNA NEED SOME EXCOMMUNICATIONS PRONTO SIR like come on, surely we have earned a treat

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