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micol @mic0l.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

my honest reaction: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why do the worst people always live forever and the good people leave us too soon??

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New trailer for "The Lovers", an indie Filipino short film by Studio Heartbreak, coming to Youtube in a week. www.youtube.com/@studioheart...

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charlee d. bryant (@ɢᴇᴛ.ᴠᴇɴᴛ) @getvent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

and that's it for SLEEPING GIANTS behind the scenes stuff! watch the full CARTOON CARTOONS short here > tinyurl.com/SLEEPING-GIA... — #storyboards #animatic #cartooncartoons #sleepinggiants

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 29/07/2026

It's so disappointing. It makes me question all kinds of things about how people value art that I'm not fully able to put into words, but it scars something deep inside my soul. And SO many places do this now. It's like seeing a sign on every corner that just says "I hate you" over and over again.

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 29/07/2026

Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Damn who would have thought people don’t want soulless garbage and especially don’t like the icing out of human creatives lol

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Michael Longfield, executive director of Cycle Toronto, said the decision is a step back for evidence-based decision making. 'I want to be clear that bike lanes do not cause traffic congestion. Removing them will put people's lives at risk,' he said." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Ontario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC News

Premier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m...

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 07/08/2026

"We're gonna have to accept games are $70" "We're gonna have to accept no physical games" "We're gonna have to accept AI" "We're gonna - Do people ever fucking question why we should be accepting these things instead of fighting for something better?!?

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 06/08/2026

I can’t think of any time in history when someone said “the ads won’t be invasive” and then they weren’t. If you say “Yeah, your ads are in a place that no one will see them or think about them!” The advertiser will say “no” OF COURSE ads will be obnoxious, that’s what people paying for them want!

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

more creed doodles upon ye

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wealthy bro dudes like Shopify CEO benefit way more from public infrastructure than we do. Their delivery trucks, trains, and planes use our public roads, waterways/ports, and airports. To make them bank. But we should get no vote compared to them? Nah bro, you should get no vote for freeloading.

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grassflu.bsky.social @grassflu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Skullgreymonnnnnn

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Some artworks from "Goodbye, Lara". The first episode is out.

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Goodbye, Lara is freaking GORGEOUS wtf???!!!! I’m crying this has to be yuri

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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One animator put it plainly: “You have no idea how frustrating it is to see press release after press release touting how much money our animated film made and how many nominations we got; then [the studio] turns to people who have worked here forever and says, ‘We don’t need you anymore.’” Heh.

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Hollywood Can’t Survive Without Animation. So Why Won’t the Industry Respect It?

Animated films made billions in 2026 while Pixar and Netflix cut jobs. Inside animation's paradox and its long shut-out from the best picture race.

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Laser @lasersinger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It really disturbs me that the first place visible AI content seems to be going is preschool media. The least discerning audience, most easy to manipulate and influence.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

MORE DEFENCE SPENDING THAT WE'RE GIVING TO A US DEFENCE CONTRACTOR I AM LOSING MY FUCKING MINDNDNDDNDNDNDNNDNDNDDDD

Globe and Mail headline reads: Canada to buy nearly $2 billion in armoured vehicles from new 'strategic partner,' US defence contractor

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Robin and Ramy witness Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation, in all its foreboding majesty second illustration for R. F. Kuang's Babel - illustrated edition, out now from Harper Voyager 40x30cm ink on claybord

a black and white scratchboard drawing. In the background a very large tower looms over Gothic buildings overlooking a vast paved plaza. In the foreground, two characters wearing black Oxford robes walk towards the tower.

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Weird Al Swearengen @peterlynn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.

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Laser @lasersinger.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I've been reconciling this one lately, so this is more of a philosophical one - know what you want from making art. A lot of artists want different things out of the job. I think its important to recognize what your goals are and focus up on making them achievable.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Jun Suemi Wizardry illustrations. archive.org/details/wiza...

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!! NEXT FRIDAY: MAGICAL MEOW MEOW STUDENT FILM SENSATION IS OUT!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJsT... Seriously. This doesn't even look like a student film. It's insane. I'm SO PROUD of my students for making such an amazing film!!!!! #animation #animatedfilm

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NEXT FRIDAY: MAGICAL MEOW MEOW - PILOT

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's very true. Not that you shouldn't read/watch things in your medium but inspiration can come from anything and the more things you experience & are interested in the more rich your stories will be.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My favourite coffee shop Has started projecting anime onto the wall each morning and today there showing Haikyuu!!

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LorTheDestroyer | Foul Tarnished @lorthedestroyer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"but you buy digital too" Yes, because I play a MASSIVE amount of indie games that don't get a physical release Wanting physical to stay doesn't mean I want digital to disappear. It's about CHOICE.

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's that time again! I rolled off of Starfire! about a month ago, and I'm looking for full-time work again! I've worked in 6-11 and Adult Animation. Please keep me in mind for any of your Directing or Storyboarding needs! You can check out my work at sam-king.net

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 07/07/2026

If we had a few laws about what digital "ownership" actually meant, I bet that would solve quite a few of the problems people have with the physical vs. digital stuff. That might require a congress where the average birth year isn't "before the invention of chocolate chip cookies" though.

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Looks like the Sony PR team has begun its consent manufacturing operation among the media in the past 24 hours. I wonder how many other gaming outlets and influencers this week will also happen to put up posts/articles/videos declaring that eliminating physical media from consoles is good, actually?

Tweet from the official Gizmodo account posted 16 hours ago linking to an article with the headline “Game Discs Deserve to Die.” The accompanying photo is that of a hand with painted fingernails placing a silver-bottomed disc into a PlayStation 5.

Tweet from the official Polygon account posted 23 hours ago stating “I won’t mourn Playstation discs” with a link to a self-styled “spicy takes” op-ed column. The accompanying photo is of a PlayStation 4 ejecting a copy of 2013’s Killzone Shadow Fall, the first PS4 title to sell over one million copies whose servers were nevertheless shut down in 2022 such that all you can do with a copy these days is play its lackluster single player campaign.

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NEXT FRIDAY: MAGICAL MEOW MEOW - PILOT

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Xbox laying off ~1600 employees today (8%) as it announces "most significant restructure" in its history: ▪️Double Fine/Compulsion Games are going independent ▪️Ninja Theory/Undead Labs have been sold off ▪️Arkane is reviewing "potential strategic options" news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

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Resetting XBOX - XBOX Wire

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 05/07/2026

-it is not *good* enough it needs to be of higher quality' but then I will start and notice 'wow I do not have the energy for high quality next to work', and then you kinda just don't do anything? it's really annoying, not sure how to combat it tho

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 05/07/2026

do other pro artists have this thing when like, you suddenly cannot doodle and post stuff for fun anymore bc you think it is 'not up to par' and you get really in your own head about it? I used to doodle a lot, memes, reacts, blorbo stuff; but lately I am like 'wow-

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Since season 1 of witch hat made it through 4 volumes, if they do the same with season 2 we’re getting a certain scene from volume 7 that’s gonna be so insane I can’t wait!!!

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 04/07/2026

“Renting” a movie digitally: You pay a small amount and you can watch it for 30 days after which it disappears. “Buying” a movie digitally: You pay higher amount and it will disappear at a random point in the future.

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Austen Payne @frenchfart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There have been times where a game I wanted or my GF wanted was sold out EVERYWHERE and so our only option was to buy it digitally. how many people WOULD buy physical copies if supply met demand?? Instead now they’re just removing that option entirely.

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NatAsh Snyder Williams @anateforfate.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sony: “Man, I don’t think I’ve shot this foot enough. Let’s keep doing it.”

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