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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 15h

I love evil women with great boobs and the men they rope into their bullshit 🎨 violetwitchhh

A majority red scene with a woman in the back, chin resting on her hand and wearing a winged headdress. Her eyes glow white. She is illuminating a winged elf man beneath a white crescent. He is reaching out over a crowd of bloody, outstretched hands

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 15h

I have two new ones now because I have a problem

A brown skinned indigenous woman with two toned sunglasses, a hat, boots, shorts and a fringed leather jacket

A dark skinned elf man with brown and gold wings, a burgundy robe, and a black and white bird cuff on his ear

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PL @yomyamn.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

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bun brained pao ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ @gildedblood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe this is a hot take but I need people to not take "call out" posts at face value. Do your own research. Make your own judgement. Too many posts on socmed about smth are painted by the op's bias, and people flock to these posts like it's fact despite no evidence. Show the damn evidence.

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Was having fun with BST until it got to the board thing. What the actual fuck

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Leo / Casey Mongillo @caseymongillo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After TEN YEARS, my Fallout 4 radio and companion project, WRVR, is now available for PS4 and PS5! Add it to your game today! creations.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/... @fallout.bethesdastudios.com

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maya kern @mayakern.com · 07/09/2026

i've also made the difficult decision to open a gofundme the goal is high, but every $7,500 buys me another week to raise funds to pay this off LINK: www.gofundme.com/f/help-maya-...

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Donate to Help Maya Kern Stay Open, organized by Maya Kern

Hi all! My name's Maya. I started my small business in 2015 selling skater skirts with my… Maya Kern needs your support for Help Maya Kern Stay Open

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ev 🐱🕸️ (design raffle in 📌’d!) @evrclover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it goes the other way around too u gotta be okay being a little annoyed with your friends. like not in a letting them be unhealthy with you way, but in a People are flawed and can’t be 100% perfect way. otherwise you will have no human friends & will look to things like chatbots for catered solace

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

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

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sneak peak! 👀 A new pose pack for the girly girls is dropping Wednesday! 🤍🪻 TrueRef: Just the reference you were looking for

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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for "the robot that tells you to kill yourself", "the pervert glasses", and "the camera network that stalks you"

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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Edit of the Snatcher intro text. Green text against a background now reads "This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who reject GenAI and commission extremely niche pornography from real artists every day of their lives.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Did you too see it drifting all night on the black river? Did you see it in the morning rising into the silvery air?” Odette skateboard for DROP IN: Skate Deck Art Show 🎨

Odette - black& white skateboard design of Odette's transformation and the Swan Maiden in folklore.
Illustration is a football skateboard shape. At the bottom curve is a black border followed by a porcelain edge filigree pattern with dashes/ lines. Inside the curve is a constellation design mimicking the star patterns of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria known as the "Swan Prince" castle. Grey stars on a white background with fine line ink. Above the border is a metal embossed moon medallion in grey with daisies and a moon. Large stylized white waves morphing into magical energy as they transform Odette are overtop the body of a painted outlined swan turned to the left with its wing folded down with speckled grey patterning mimicking vintage ballet costume patterns.
To the left of the swan is a large silver sacred heart with jewels, radial background, a sword vertically piercing it and an arch with three jewelled stars. Below is a rendered and outlined oval link chain winding behind the elements. To the right of the white swan is a faceted 8 point metal star with fleur de lis arm segments and a large diamond in the middle. Flying through the chain link is a Russian striped folk arrow. Above is the black swan counterpoint Odile flipped in reversed. Over top is a paisley like folk pattern of Russian like embroidery of flowers, vines and curved tear drops in flat toned greys. Above is a matching mirrored medallion of daises but with a sun instead for the time restraints of the spell from the ballet. The top curve is a tangle of branches/dark leaves in black on a lighter black background. Overtop are white fine line inked chamomile flowers in reference to Tchaikovsky's sister Aleksandra who inspired his ballets and the area of Russia they grew up. The border is split into white on the top & black on the bottom. Behind both swans are walls with a tile pattern of black 8 point stars lined in white on a grey background framing an empty space doorway is shaded wall moulding.

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yall this dressmaker game is all I've ever wanted. The years of early 2000s dress up games have prepared me well

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME

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matt @ 7.56 @donthebreeze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ultimately the problem isnt discord its age verification laws. any platform people would move to away from discord would obviously eventually be big enough to also be under scrutiny from International Lawmakers. thus likely forcing them to implement age verification as well

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not mad at it! Weird I just painted my nails that color tonight

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trans lives matter more than Harry Potter

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🌙 deja/dove @dejasquietplace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"vibe coding" is such a tepid term for what it actually is. we should call it dipshit coding

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Una @sleepinguna.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

#FF14 #エスティニアン #Estinien 髪を括るニャン殿

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yote @altbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

black sheep #ffxiv #estinien

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fishu @ gateway fate 800 @goldfishu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

eye for an eye

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Asahi's Corrections Officer @ comm grind!!! @smuggestsage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

OH MY GOD I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG GAMERS I WILL DO A GIVEAWAY WITH TWO!!! WINNERS!!!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHHHHH 🌸Like & RT to enter! 🌸Must be following (new is ok!) 🌸MUST LIKE ASAHI (NON NEGOTIABLE) 🌸Ends 9/3 at 12am EST!!!!!!!

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I will continue to be the biggest hater that Starbucks doesn't include anything sugar free on their fall menu or even their normal menu beyond shitty vanilla

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뭠가 @gosemfdlrlfeo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

니드호그 에스티니앙

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B'runi Masna-Nunh — In Mentor Hell 👑 @ver-caster.etheirys.social · 21/08/2026

Hollaring

An image depicting a DPS standing with an AOE on top of a black mage in their leylines

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Luce Northstar 🔞 @lucezozzerie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

tumblr is having a great one about this, little masterpiece of a post I'd say

first post reads: Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.
reblog reads: "you're less internet savy than a 13 year old mormon" is a diabolical thing to say to someone, I support it
original: tumblr.com/silverwolf1249/825380941390348288

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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

favorite ffxiv characters from each expansion

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🍀Clover Teapot🍀- Waitlist full! @cloverteapot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There is a sort of radical hopefulness about the future you can only achieve by having gone through the direst of times, because the only way through is through, there is no looking back or half-guessing or moping. You just gotta do it, you gotta live, and that's it.

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My hottest take is that we shouldn't be employing ANY offshore call centers to handle medical needs. It wigs me that they have access to sensitive information, history, social security numbers, just saying it out loud where everyone in the background can hear. There is 0 way its HIPAA compliant

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taro @tarotoro0.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Recent illustration practice with new brushes! #ffxiv #ffxivart #ff14 #ff14art

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Alex @axmdoes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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Asahi's Corrections Officer @ comm grind!!! @smuggestsage.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

money's tight so new group activity launching with 799 oomfs

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is lovely…. #BookSky

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ɴᴇᴘʜɪʟɪᴍɪʀɪᴜᴍ (is back in fenrir) @nephiieatsuranium.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i keep thinking BiS means 'bitch in sight' and i think it's time for me to learn more raid/game terminologies :(

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wizard in a backpack @kazenzakis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the level of gaslighting transmasc people face about the harm we face is truly insane to me but then i step back and realize how the most common way to view us even in trans spaces is as a failed woman. and i understand why people get away with it lol

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Turn Down For Hwæt @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter. And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.

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🍀Clover Teapot🍀- Waitlist full! @cloverteapot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if you answer ''no'' to this you should probably reevaluate how you work, how you go through life, how you handle your schedule and your day. Relying on AI for daily tasks you used to do by yourself, in my opinion, will only make you rely on it more and more in the long run.

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