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Fen AU @feee.sh · 28/09/2026

I've unlocked the Fortis in #Tyr and it's exactly as much fun as I'd hoped it would be, particularly now that I've outfitted it for maximum mobility. I just haven't quite figured out how to use its mines well yet.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 28/09/2026

kitchen duty

the monks havin a gab while leisurely preparing dinner

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Fen AU @feee.sh · 26/09/2026

Well, it's two years today since you left us, Xin. We love you, and we miss you. It feels strange to be getting older and growing up without you. I'm an uncle now, and damnit, I ought to be able to pester you with baby photos! We're doing alright. Wherever you are, I hope you are too.

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kysh @emberpaws.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hold your friends close. tell them you love them. you will never know when you get to see them, hear their laughter, see them smile for the last time your time here together is a flicker of a candle flame and you will miss their light once they have gone

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ralandy02 @ralandy02.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A pair of Double-barred finches for today’s theme #Borbs

A concrete pedestal bird bath surrounded by Correa shrubbery and eucalypt mulch. There are a pair of tiny birds on the edge of the bath which have soft brown backs, black and white spotted wing feathers and distinctive white faces and bibs highlighted by narrow black lines and on breast and face. Their beaks are silver-grey and their eyes are black.

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still out making art in the mountains

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D. C. Fitzgerald @dcfitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Temperate Rainforest Ecosystem featuring bryophytes (mosses) colonizing a mature vascular host tree (conifer) and its exposed root flares. The moss-covered root system provides a complex habitat (microniche) for soil microfauna, invertebrates, tardigrades & beneficial mycorrhizal. #ecology #nature

This image highlights a dynamic Temperate Rainforest Ecosystem featuring bryophytes (mosses) colonizing a mature vascular host tree (conifer) and its exposed root flares. Biological OverviewEpiphytic Moss Growth: The moss growing along the trunk and root bark functions as an epiphyte—a plant that grows on the surface of another plant for structural support rather than taking nutrients or water from the host tissue. Bryophyte Characteristics: Mosses are non-vascular plants (lacking true xylem and phloem) that absorb water and dissolved nutrients directly through their leaves via osmosis and atmospheric deposition. Host Tree Structural Adaptations: The prominent root flare at the base provides mechanical stability to anchor large trees in shallow, saturated forest soils.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’ theonion.com/american-medical-assoc…

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GanryuArt @ganryuart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm open for old masters painting commission. Pick a work for me to reinterpret with your character. Contact me t.me/ganryusasaki or ganryusasaki.art@gmail.com I'm looking forward to working with you! ᓬ(•ᴗ•)ᕒ #furryart #art #fursale #commsopen #commission

An oil painting of a snake bard and plague doctor sitting at a table beside a large open window, through wich you can see the sky, a few houses behind a canal. In the lower left corner, at the feet of the bard there lays a border collie with it's head and ears perked up. Under the table, below the plague doctor is a curled up red panda. Which is like the paining above the doctor a reference to the painter.

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Jykinturah @jykinturah.corvid.dev · 23/09/2026

A magpie in techwear art by @ricebatt.bsky.social linktr.ee/ricebatt

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Lins & Grimm @lingrimm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sketch scenery for deathsfeline n theycalmehavoc

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Miradella @miradella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(OC) Dandelion Glade

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Fen AU @feee.sh · 17/09/2026

Bwugh. Well, hey folks, time for my turn to be post one of these. My dear friend Amanda was just rushed to hospital, and here we are two days later, with a cancerous mass removed and a partial bowel resection. If you can spare anything for a trans veteran, please do. Thank you. gofund.me/7ebb0e9ec

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Donate to Amanda’s Cancer Treatment and Doctor, organized by Amanda Kerri

I’m Amanda and this is for me. The other night I ate a bag of Oreos. I swear it wasn… Amanda Kerri needs your support for Amanda’s Cancer Treatment and Doctor

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Fen AU @feee.sh · 17/09/2026

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Donate to Amanda’s Cancer Treatment and Doctor, organized by Amanda Kerri

I’m Amanda and this is for me. The other night I ate a bag of Oreos. I swear it wasn… Amanda Kerri needs your support for Amanda’s Cancer Treatment and Doctor

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am so excited to show you this drawing from 6 years ago

A drawing of a creature with a body like a porcelain jar with legs, the body is covered in painted roses and there is a lid where the neck and head would be. The top drawing shows the lid closed, the second drawing shows the lid open with snakes sleeping inside

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Roosevelt: New and slightly improved

A drawing of a reference sheet for artists of a character named Roosevelt who is a porcelain jar with legs and a lid where the head and neck would be and seven snakes emerging from the mouth of the container

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Amy Gann @amygann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For the #birdoftheday theme of #birdbuddies, I have to include my favorite bird friends. The third of the group is out of frame, but was close to this sandhill crane and whooping crane. #birds #crane #whoopingcrane #sandhillcrane #protectnature #EastCoastKin

A whooping crane and a sandhill crane stand on a hiking path. The sky is bathed in an orange glow and the birds are slightly out of focus as a heavy fog dissipates and at this moment is a fine mist

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Sharlan @sharlan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'd put my camera away to head home when I heard an insistent chittering really close by. Guess this guy just wanted a glamour shot. #birds

A wren with bright blue head, black chest and the cutest little feets.

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Sharlan @sharlan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Pied Currawong collecting sticks for a nest. #birds

A black bird with white butt and tail tip. They have a stick in their beak and are perched in a gum tree.

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Fen AU @feee.sh · 12/09/2026

Tyr has been a surprisingly excellent game. Really scratches the arena shooter itch *and* the tank shooter itch at the same time, without being unpleasantly adrenaline filled as the former and without the community toxicity of the latter! Love what I've seen so far and am looking forward to more.

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Shwonky @shwonky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

he put on his good boy shirt for the tax office

rat in his good boy shirt on his way to the tax office

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Gusya @angrygooseberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

fish! fish! fish!

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 11/09/2026

skinks in robes

to the tune of duran duran's girls on film

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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?

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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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ℙ𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕚 𝕁𝕠𝕖 ✨🍇🏳️‍⚧️ @valhund.art · 09/09/2026

Found a dead worker hornet on the driveway, felt inspired to make a nature journal spread about hornets. I had a lot of fun with this one, drawing, painting and watching true crime documentaries. #art #natureJournal #watercolor #EuropeanHornet #bugsky #ink #sketch #drawing

Sketchbook spread of a nature journal about the European hornet. Sketches are done in pencil, watercolor and brown ink.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A few places on this beautiful planet that made me feel (and look) small.

A selfie of me standing on the edge of a tall, rugged red rock cliff overlooking a vast canyon landscape and the Green River some 1,300 ft below, all under a soft, cloudy, golden sky.

The House group of sequoia trees with 6'3" me standing right in front of them for scale as they tower over me out of the frame.

A distant selfie of me standing in nearly waist deep water of the middle of the Rio Grande River with massive canyon walls on either side and clear blue sky overhead.

A photo of me standing near the base of the powerful Skogafoss waterfall in Iceland. I am center frame, wearing a gray and orange jacket, and standing on light-colored rocks. I am dwarfed by the entire frame filled with white water plunging down the falls.

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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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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Monday, September 07,1953

P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN
SLUGGO: I HAVE AN IDEA, NANCY
P2- THEY WALK BEHIND A WOODEN FENCE
SLUGGO: LET’S STAND BEHIND THIS FENCE
NANCY: WHY?
P3- SLUGGO: THIS IS LABOR DAY ---
LET'S GIVE THE BOSS AN EASY STRIP TO DRAW

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Fen AU @feee.sh · 08/09/2026

Day eight of daily migraines and I am officially no longer vibing

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 07/09/2026

page still in progress but can i please use em dashes in my stupid little art book without a bunch of people assuming i used a robot to write it and getting mad at me

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Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

seal emotions (2022)

watercolor painting of various seals in states of distress, silence, or mournful vocalizations

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Izrez @izrez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lizard by campfire. Sketch for Purples over on FA. :>

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Tom Cadwallender @tomcadwallender.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Saffron-crowned Tanager in southern Peru.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When I wished to live in interesting times I meant a renaissance for point-and-click adventure games

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

edge of a cornfield digital painting

of poppies and other plants infront of rugeley power station

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Fen AU @feee.sh · 31/08/2026

Oh boy kids, it looks like it's time for M i g r a i n e M o n d a y! Are you ready? No? T O O B A D

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Moa @moa810.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🪶I’ve completed Avian August 2026! I hope you enjoyed my art challenge. Be kind to birbs🫶 🌈 Avian August 2026完走しました！　多種多様な鳥たちが末長く生き続けますように。 #AvianAugust #Birds

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Male Satin Bowerbirds are well-known for collecting blue things, but they also like yellow things and will occasionally pick flowers (from my garden) to impress the ladies. #birds

Photo of an immature male Satin Bowerbird with a small cluster of yellow flowers in its beak. The bird is various shades of green with a few black satin feathers visible as it is starting to molt into its mature colours.

A mature Satin Bowerbird standing on a birdbath with a large cluster of small yellow/orange flowers in its beak. The bird is black satin with a blue-ish sheen and bright violet eyes.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A male Brown Cuckoo-dove (L) tries to woo a female (R). #birds

Photo of two Brown Cuckoo-doves facing each other on a wooden railing with greenery behind. Both birds are visually similar - various rich shades of brown and cream - but the female is duller and darker, and the male (on the left) is distinguishable by iridescent feathers on the back of his neck. The male has lowered his head so these feathers are more noticeable.

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