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7enn @jenn59959.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Garden #FF14 #meteion #art

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Walking, moving my arms, and especially making a fist or flexing my fingers

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Developer making a big deal about a browser extension/mobile app they're working on that will filter out AI slop from feeds, socmed, etc Only to reveal that they vibecoded the whole thing. Amazing. No notes

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

....Grande Chai. Trenta Chai. Flat White Chai. It writes itself

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SINNANDA @jonnasse.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

#ffxiv

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Asahi's Corrections Officer @ comm grind!!! @smuggestsage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know finding out that every other thing is ai is annoying and exhausting and a lot of people are close to throwing their hands up and being like "whatever, I don't care anymore, it's everywhere", but that is what they want...that is how they normalize it...pls stay strong and reject genai...

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Because I'm a spreadsheet sicko, I made a little cheat sheet for the various noun/adjective forms FFXIV uses for people and places. I'm sure I've missed some, but these were the ones I was able to quickly find in the lorebooks and the wiki! 🔗: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Noun and adjective pairs for the people and places of Final Fantasy 14.

People:
Au Ra Auri
Elezen Elezen
Hrothgar Hrothgar
Hyur Hyuran
Lalafell Lalafellin
Miqo'te Miqo'te
Roegadyn Roegadyn
Viera Viera

Alternate names:
Drahn Drahn
Dwarf Dwarven
Eldite Eldite
Elf Elven
Elvaan Elvaan
Galdjent Galdjent
Hhetsarro Hhetsarro
Hume Hume
Milalla Milalla
Mithra Mithran
Mystel Mystel
Ronso Ronso
Shetona Shetona
Tonawawta Tonawawtan
Viis Viis
Xbr'aal Xbr'aal

Places:
Ala Mhigo Ala Mhigan
Alexandria Alexandrian
Coerthas Coerthan
Corvos Corvosi
Doma Doman
Dravania Dravanian
Elpis Elpis
Eorzea Eorzean
Eulmore Eulmoran
Garlemald Garlean
Gridania Gridanian
Gyr Abania Gyr Abanian
Hingashi Hingan
Ilsabard Ilsabardian
Ishgard Ishgardian
Kholusia Kholusian
La Noscea La Noscean
Limsa Lominsa Lominsan
Nagxia Nagxian
Norvrandt Vrandtic
Othard Othardian
Radz-at-Han Hannish
Ronka Ronkan
Sharlayan Sharlayan
Thanalan Thanalan
Thavnair Thavnairian
The Azim Steppe Steppe
The Black Shroud Shroud
The Rak'tika Greatwood Greatwood
Tuliyollal Tuliyollan
Tural Turali
Ul'dah Ul'dahn
Yanxia Yanxian

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apparition of arden👻 @wakingnaturally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

saw a woman say that sometimes we forget. and we just feel like people until we’re reminded that we’re not seen as people. and honestly that is like the hardest part bc sometimes you think someone sees you as a person/that you can be a person with them for a long, long time and then you’re reminded.

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Patron Saint of Whores @0hmama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyway, large breasts and body fat are constantly sexualized for no fucking reason while skinny bodies are not. fat bodies and large breasts are considered fetish content before they are considered People Existing in Their Bodies as Nature Intended in the Same Clothes as Thin People.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 🐱🕸️ @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 "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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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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🦎 Chai @ Tural's Best Sunning Rock @flarestarred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

...Oh my god her. My childe. And thank you for the opportunity!

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That catgirl 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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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

Its called Dressmaker! Its on Steam :> Oh god Rinamru takes me back....

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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 · 21/09/2026

No I get it, that wigs me as well. ESPECIALLY when its cis men because some of these situations aren't sexual in the least bit, so its purely the pain/humiliation of women they get off on. Like why THAT, please examine!

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