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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 16h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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AshnoAlice @ashnoalice.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Lalafell Summoner #FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVART

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 2h

Have a beautiful night~ 💕

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 13h

Meet my newest fabric art creation: Ronanan Raucous the Witch Homunculus. I designed and hand-sewed him, as well as his tiny witch hat. Ronanan knows a number of tiny spells that only work on tiny things. For example, he can turn an acorn into a slightly smaller acorn. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art witch homunculus Ronanan. He's a weird little gray humanoid with an oblong sort of head with wobbly black eyes with wobbly gray pupils. He has a black nose, an open black grinning mouth with two sharp gray teeth. He's wearing a hand-sewn black witch hat I made for him. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely photo of Ronanan where he's resting on my palm with his hat beside him.

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ren nolasco 🔪 @rennolasco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

chegou minha cartela da #Remedy na lojinha !! Alan Wake, Control e Quantum Break dançando Herald of Darkness 🕺🌀🔦 Link: loja.rennolasco.com/product-page...

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Megayeti in your basement @megayeti.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

vintage gunslinging babygirl

Vash the Stampede fleeing rockets in a state of partial undress. Kuroneko looks on.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excuse me wtf is this. We all know what's missing here and the obvious absence just makes it more noticeable.

Magic card called Dance with Goblins. David Bowie as the Goblin King is there but his signature bulge is not.

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Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 01/10/2026

Happy World Postcard Daaaaaaaaay! 🎉 Today’s the day to grab a postcard and send a "paper bridge" and a bit of joy into the world. Whether you’re sending one card or a whole stack, celebrating at a meetup or writing quietly at home, we hope you have a brilliant day! #postcrossing #WorldPostcardDay

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It's World Postcard Daaaaaaaaaaaay!

World Postcard Day is here, and we’re celebrating this wonderfully inefficient little invention the best way we know how: by sending postcards. Join the fun today by writing at least one postcard to s...

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Inspiring Badger @inspiringbadger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a wonderful time seeing Poets of the Fall last night. So much energy up on stage! Such wonderful music! I made a playlist of the set list for the show, to share the experience because not everyone can go to London for a concert. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Feath🌠 🔜Infurnity @paintinfeather.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Process of the recent work🏃

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 20/06/2026

Artists, drop some creepy art

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Chappu @chappuvt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's almost spooky month so time to share my starter pack of amazing horror #gamedev s who don't use AI. If you want to be added it would be awesome if you told me a bit about the cool #horrorgame you're working on✨ Also if I'm following you but you're not in this pack pls leave a comment as well♥️

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Inspiring Badger @inspiringbadger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the reason I flew halfway around the world. Yeah, we're doing a lot of London things while we're here, but this is the entire why.

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Inspiring Badger @inspiringbadger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyone out there playing Meow Tower? I'm looking for friend codes! #MeowTower

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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

here with you

big walk fanart. 2 blorbos holding hands and a light and looking at the stars #bigwalk #gameart #fanart

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ready to share your game with the world? Why not do it in the Day of the Devs Digital Showcase--Game Awards edition! You'll be in great company!

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Non veg related content. Chonk being kind. Shes become quite nuzzley of late

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026

We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats." Any takers? ❤️

Three screenshots of our facebook post about Jaffa Cake the unlucky mog

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Kara Corvis @karacorvis.vtubers.social · 26/09/2026

TLDR: Game is made by nazis

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Diana Chan @thingsbydiana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✨🌕🥮 Happy Mid Autumn Festival

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Paraply @paraplyshop.com · 25/09/2026

Do I by any chance have any follower in Copenhagen that could do me a favour :'> ?

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 23/09/2026

Fellow indies, it’s that time! Get your submissions in for Day of the Devs, Game Awards Edition!

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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

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Potachi! @potachi.ink · 17/09/2026

The King's Wish

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sandwich thief #kaseyart

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!

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Inspiring Badger @inspiringbadger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm nowhere near Portland, so someone needs to go but a Small Handful of Little Guys and show me what you get! That mystery packet is calling to me, but alas, California.

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CRAN🦎 @crantime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Howdy! There's somebody reposting my cartoons on Tiktok. Seems they've stolen from other artists too. If you've got a minute, I'd love some help reporting this frick!

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you encounter something a bit interesting.

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Éidín Ní Shé @eidin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Solidarity with the snail today 🐌

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Posting this here as well as insta.I preordered a ltd statue of The Ancient Magus Bride with a company called Figurama in April 24, cancelled in Oct 25 promised refund in 3 months. Nearly 12 months later- Nothing. So going public to warn others: Do Not Buy From Figurama

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WereZeki @zekidragon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's 9/11 so I get to remind people that Mimi was at ground zero canonically

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Inspiring Badger @inspiringbadger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wow, it's good to see @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social takes patient privacy so seriously! I told them two years ago that it's possible to see from one bathroom stall into the adjacent stall at the Daly City Kaiser through the TP dispenser, and today I see the dispenser is still there!

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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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Fantastical Publications @fantasticalgeographic.com · 10/09/2026

Do you have a spooky destination we can add to the directory of our upcoming Halloween issue? Drop links to your listings in the comments and we'll check them out!

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Fnkgif Haunted House in a Storm

ALT: Fnkgif Haunted House in a Storm

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meet my newest fabric art creation: Bernadette, Bloop, and Blaborthork the Bitter. I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered this trio of ghoulish, otherworldly sisters. (Bernadette is tallest, Bloop is second tallest, and Balborthork is small but mighty.) jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art ghost sisters. Bernadette is a white ghost with a gray face, large twinkly black eyes and a little frown. She has twirly head whisps that look sort of like ghostly horns. Her body is covered with hand-embroidered red flowers, along with green and red line markings.

Near her is Bloop, white ghost with a small face in the middle of her body. Her eyes are slightly different sizes and she has a little frown.

Near these two is Blaborthork the Bitter. Blaborthork is an extremely tiny ghost with starburst black eyes and a little frown.

There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's a lovely photo where Bernadette is resting on my palm. We can see her back. There's a lovely red flower embroidered on her back with four green lines around the flower.

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Nix~🍉 @punklenix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally got all of these pendants finished and listed at the KoFi shop! Selling each piece for $5+shipping (US only) So if you see something you like, grab it before it's gone and help an artist keep making art! Cheers! ko-fi.com/mcetching/shop

Screenshot of a digital storefront with listings for custom made glass items. Leaf pendants made from wine bottle glass, moon pendants made from stained glass along with random glass textures, shapes and colors available.

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Kythryne Aisling/Wyrding Studios @wyrdingstudios.com · 08/09/2026

In case anybody else needs to know this or be reminded, the syrup from canned pears can help with nausea. I’ve been taking the max dose of zofran for days and even so today has been… not good. Finally remembered about pear syrup and made myself sip some and it settled things right down.

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Rabbit @rabbiting.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Front-line necromancing ☀️

Smiley-faced figure with red hooded and tattered cloak holding an entrenching tool and lantern. She is colourful and geometric with celestial motifs and many triangles

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