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Laurin

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Review Artist in games. Pathfinder 1e player🌿🌲🦋🌙✨💛 Do you ever look at the sky and feel like you’ve seen it somewhere you’ve never been before?

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Laurin @laurin.bsky.social · 6h
Critical Role s4 episode 37. #criticalrole #ep37
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 8h
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joseph Alleman,Born (1975)American “Prairie Sky” Oil on canvas, 16 x 12” Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hugo Henneberg (Austrian, 1863–1918) "Der blaue Weiher (The blue Pond)", 1904. Linoleum Cut on four Plates (blue, purple, black, brown) on Japanese Paper, 29.4 × 29.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cyril Cox (Canadian Artist, born 1958) "Late Afternoon Light", 2022. Acrylic on Canvas, 48 × 36 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Laurin @laurin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’ve never had anything forced into my face as much as ai is. I’ve been harassed, abused, heckled, pressured, etc, and still nothing comes close to how frequently ai is pushed into my life. I’m sick of it.
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animal crossing pics @goj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Animal Crossing Wild World (2005) #acww
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Laurin @laurin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know why but the lighting between 11am and 4pm bothers me regardless of the season. Everything feels off during that period of time.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 21/09/2026
damn if only there were 300-500 devs who could help with that
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We at [insert any AA/AAA studio here] have never bothered to listen to our staff or really recruited to support our existing staff to make games well/sustainably so now [insert execs] would like to continue to take your money and not really listen to our expert staff who make us money x 1mill
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You should assume to a first approximation that basically every AAA game franchise with a sufficiently large cast has a dating sim pitch sitting around that the designers were perfectly serious about but got laughed off by someone higher up
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#infosec
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
Like this gives the Saudis a content veto power over EA, Bioware, Paramount, CBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and BET, and if the newest merger gets approved they’ll also have content veto power over HBO, CNN, the whole WB universe, Discovery, TBS, TNT, plus the PGA and ATP. It’s pretty stunning.
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Lindsey Wailes (looking for work!) @linwail.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My two @streetsofzine.bsky.social entries from a while back. Dystopia and Sunset. I don't think I ever posted them here. I am pretty proud of them, especially the sunset.
evil red pillars behind a weird city on a lake. the air is bad to breathea red sunset with a field of flowers and trees on the horizon
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 18/09/2026
People would be shocked how often a romance mechanic is planned or pitched for a game that could genuinely benefit from it, only to be blocked by a single oldhead dude in leadership despite everyone else being into the idea because he thinks romance game play is "weird" or "cringe."
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm so sorry to all of you who have never experienced the life-changing privilege of attending a Debra Wilson VP session
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Starless Eagle Nebula and The Pillars of Creation - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2nxreCe
www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Nebula...

This image shows the famous Pillars of Creation region of the bright Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) in Serpens.
Constructed from monochrome exposures in two very narrow wavelength bands of ionised Hydrogen and Oxygen, the data has been combined into a colour image to reveal this highly detailed and very dramatic scene. The bright colours are due to emission from the ionised gases, energised by light from nearby stars. The stars were removed during image processing to fully reveal the intricate structure of the nebula. Orange-red nebulosity corresponds to H-Alpha emission, and the blue areas are OIII.
The core area of the nebula was made famous in 1995 as the "Pillars of Creation" by images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are giant columns of gas and dust, approximately 9 light-years long, that are slowly being eroded away by intense radiation pressure from nearby young stars.
The nebula lies 6000 light-years distant in the Sagittarius arm of our Milky Way galaxy.

Image details:
Date: Sep-Nov 2021, June 2022
Exposure: Ha OIII: 450:690 mins, total 19 hours @ -25C
Telescope: Homebuilt 12.5" f/4 Serrurier Truss Newtonian
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha/OIII
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
what's weird to me is how frequently people use AI to reproduce things that you can already easily obtain for free. like how many human made separation of powers infographics were already freely available on the internet via a 5 second google search?
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Sugar Bunny Shop @sugarbunnyshop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you wanna be spooky but it's still 98 degrees out 🥵💦 #halloweencore #blackcats
A black tank top on a wood hanger with a print featuring a faux logo for Whiskers & Wonders Catnip Tea with a black witch cat in a witch hat and dress with a broom.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Timothy Barr (American, born 1957) Staghorn Sumac, 2018 Oil on panel 23 x 27 inches Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.
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Pat Stares At FOREVER @patstaresat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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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?

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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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Robert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Terada's art proves how hard a Dark Souls vibed Zelda game would go
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026
If you use "A.i." to advertise your business I assume you're running the rest of your business with the same lack of attention and care.
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'll be going over How I do Environment Layouts both Exterior and Interior! 😀 My favorite part of Visual Development! Feel free to join in if you're interested! 👍 www.patreon.com/NKim
Matcha Bakery illustrationInterior layout of the Matcha BakeryInterior and exterior decor in the Matcha Bakery
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Cat Family
Cat Family
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Blossom bat inspecting a flower: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Laurin @laurin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Simple confession: I have never done a shot (alcohol) properly and I have no interest. I will sip that in front if you, idc. Also I was handed a 4oz “shot” the other week. My friend, what? That’s so much at once.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026
Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.
We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Actually you know what, let me just
A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reading this www.theguardian.com/environment/... and thinking how straight-up weird it is that so many people in tech want to spend time litigating the details of hyperscale data centres and not just commit to designing more sustainable solutions
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Laurin @laurin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Blue “between” hours are the best hours.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Renato Guttuso (Italian Artist, 1911–1987) Evening in Velate, 1980. Oil on Canvas, 72 × 83.5 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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꒰ᐢ..ᐢ꒱颖琦Gwyn @gravenmyth.com · 31/08/2026
In the Age of Gold 🍂 #eldenring #エルデンリング #oc #art
Artwork of my Elden Ring OC Megaera leaning over a balcony with Messmer the Impaler who stands looking up at her with a hand reaching towards her face. They are bathed in golden light and branches with golden leaves are seen coming from above. In the distance behind them are some buildings of Leyndell, The Royal Capital.
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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 01/09/2026
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
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