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Gelatinous Rube @rubejelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Planet maker for Lancer and Traveller

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 28/09/2026

Introducing this idiot! One of Atlas' other iterations - a kobold adventurer, very smart but dumb of ass. She goes exploring to sate her curiosity and bring back treasures for her dragon "master" (they're just dating). #furryart #ref #kobold #oc

A reference sheet for a purple kobold, with front and back views, close ups of accessories and a bust of her pointing a finger up smiling with her mouth open. Text reads (top to bottom/left to right): "MUSEUM DATABASE"; "ACCESSING FILE K-A"; "ATLAS_THE_EXPLORER"; "LOADING BIOGRAPHIC DATA >"; "ENTITY NAME... ATLAS; DESIGNATION... EXPLORER; SPECIES... KOBOLD (DRACONIS_REDACTED); GENDER... NON BINARY (SHE/THEY); OCCUPATION... ADVENTURER"; "LOADING BIOMETRIC DATA"; "AGE... UNKNOWN; HEIGHT 1.10MT (ALLEDGEDLY); WEIGHT... 80KG (ALLEDGEDLY)"; "LOADING VISUAL DATA"; "JEWELRY"; "15;12;15;16;11;14"; "GALACTIC MUSEUM DATABASE ACCESS > PUBLIC".

A reference sheet for a purple kobold, with front and back views, a detail of a large star-shaped hammer with star charts inlaid, close ups of accessories and a bust of her pointing a finger up smiling with her mouth open. Text reads (top to bottom/left to right): "MUSEUM DATABASE"; "ACCESSING FILE K-A"; "ATLAS_THE_EXPLORER"; "LOADING BIOGRAPHIC DATA >"; "ENTITY NAME... ATLAS; DESIGNATION... EXPLORER; SPECIES... KOBOLD (DRACONIS_REDACTED); GENDER... NON BINARY (SHE/THEY); OCCUPATION... ADVENTURER"; "LOADING BIOMETRIC DATA"; "AGE... UNKNOWN; HEIGHT 1.10MT (ALLEDGEDLY); WEIGHT... 80KG (ALLEDGEDLY)"; "LOADING VISUAL DATA"; "STARGAZER'S HAMMER"; "SIDE; FACE"; "JEWELRY"; "15;12;15;16;11;14"; "GALACTIC MUSEUM DATABASE ACCESS > PUBLIC".

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 22/09/2026

No stream today cuz I have a doctor’s appointment uwu have a creature

A petscii portrait drawing of a purple kobold

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

JWST IC5332 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2nA2zE3

Yes, you can use this image! The attribution line is:
NASA / ESA / CSA / Judy Schmidt

Dust lanes of IC533. Processed in much the same way as NGC628. A visible / Hubble view of this galaxy is here: flic.kr/p/2nxgwuB

Red (screen layer mode): MIRI F2100W
Orange: MIRI F1130W
Cyan: MIRI F770W

Extra overall brightness in grayscale: MIRI F1000W

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 18/09/2026

Hey celsys when are u gonna release a linux version of CSP so I don't lose my goddamn mind

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savin dos louvadeus 🦗 @sav.trevastropicais.art.br · 18/09/2026

sabe quem curte encomendar ilustra artística de espécie nova de inseto no brasil? eles mesmos, o projeto mantis :p se liga na ilustra da espécie descrita em 2023, 'Microphotina cristalino', feita pelo BRABÍSSIMO Henrique Vieira!

Ilustração de Henrique Vieira encomendada pelo Projeto Mantis para divulgação da publicação de sua espécie nova de louva-a-deus 'Microphotina cristalino'. A arte traz um poster simétrico com uma representação artística inspirada na forma e cores da espécie ao centro, com um fundo em degradê roxo com silhuetas de enormes árvores características da RPPN Cristalino, na Amazônia do Mato Grosso. Vemos o inseto ilustrado ventralmente, "olhando pra gente", com pernas e braços semi abertos e asas bem abertas e simétricas, num estilo de arte com muitas curvas remetendo à um artnoveau. Temos letreiros amarelos no topo "Projeto Mantis" e no rodapé "Microphotina cristalino - Austral: Mantis da Amazônia - RPPN Cristalino - Brasil, 2023".

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 18/09/2026

Casual reminder that I’m always open for these!

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 16/09/2026

Giver of life and the giver of speed. Ever we take; even her gravity. Her glowing beauty is something to see. Bigger and brighter; she cometh to me.

A sketch of an anthro moth on her knees, looking shocked as many dead planets hover behind her, aligned in front of a blue sun

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 18/09/2026

When someone asks me why I don’t have bug booba

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⭕️ Red Hed 🔴 @patrickcaldes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You guys heard of Myst?

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 16/09/2026

Nyehe it’s not subtle at all but I guess they didn’t know the band x3 Anyways I love king gizz! Those verses have been bobbing in my brain for a while now so O figured theyd fit with the art

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 16/09/2026

Giver of life and the giver of speed. Ever we take; even her gravity. Her glowing beauty is something to see. Bigger and brighter; she cometh to me.

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 15/09/2026

This is the best fanart to come out of the game x3

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Jojão do Tarô @jojuticaba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kobold time! Couldn't resist ASCIII drawing my fav kobo~ This one is for my dear @explorermoo.com ~ ✨💛

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Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms! @explorermoo.com · 15/09/2026

LOOKIE LOOKIE ITS ME AS A KOBOLD LOOK LOOK LOOK AAA

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Ripley Arachnid 🕷️🌈🪲🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

extremely tragic beetle love story

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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

starting to get sick of tubes and wires 😂

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Arc 🔞 @datposterior.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's a lovely little treat me and @epicureanarchitect.bsky.social got for our anniversary, new goober creatures that I absolutely love, big drake and a lil moff Made and designed by the lovely @sushiikando.bsky.social, thank you for this yet again!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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sancho 🔆 @sanchomps.com · 12/09/2026

smiling big and wide when i get to draw eliksni ocs ✹ #destiny2 #destiny2art

Digital sketch of an Eliksni OC based on Destiny 2. He has a large, fat build wearing a grey vest with a white dress shirt, blue tie and a layered pleated skirt. A blue coat with fur trim hangs on his shoulders. He wears spats and one toe is accessorized with gold claw. He holds a cigar spewing ether in one hand, and a cane on the other.

Digital sketch of an Eliksni OC based on Destiny 2. She has a two horned helmet with stasis crystals spiking out. She has more stasis crystals around her scarf. Her armor has bright cyan tubing, the same hue as the crystals, coiling around. Her cape and arm bands have fur trims. She wields a jagged blade in one hand.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED @calligiovanini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bird of Prey (Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous)

Digital painting portraying the Nintendo character Samus Aran, from the Metroid series, as a ravenous creature on top of a totem.
Samus, a woman wearing a full futuristic space suit with giant round shoulders and an arm canom, crouches on top of a totem while holding a pink flame with a off-putting bird claw shaped hand. Her arm canom on the other hand oozes a yellow substance. She looks at the camera like she has just noticed us.

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Insectember day 6: Neotibicen Tibicen Common name: Swamp Cicada Nobby the swamp cicada wants all the attention, and will use any loud means necessary to get it 🗣️ ✨Adopt Nobby here: vgen.co/quilbug/shop 🎨 #insectember2026 #anthro #bugart #adopts

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized white and green swamp cicada wearing a little acorn hat on its head. The swamp cicada has a stout stature and a cheeky pose. Its intricate transparent wings are folded beside its abdomen.

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__eirik @strotchy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Type Me Home, new game from @sinksadventure.bsky.social, which I did the audio for, is coming out soon. First time doing C64 / SID sound for me. 🕹️ store.steampowered.com/app/4772200/...

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Type Me Home on Steam

Type in commands with your keyboard to guide a lost baby lizard through wild platforming challenges and reunite it with its mama.

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