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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve started running this year, and I have a half marathon in a few weeks. I love my weekly weekend long run but holy moly I always feel so dead afterwards lol

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i think any discussion of getting into games needs to acknowledge the difference between pursuing game making as a craft vs game making as an industry

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I think one thing that was amazing about Project Hail Mary is that it just felt great to watch a high budget film that hadn’t been garbled through the IP nostalgia extraction machine a dozen times

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Been getting into porridge lately

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A study from Google Maps of somewhere in Alaska for #PleinAirpril I want to get to painting outside more this month but sometimes the weather disagrees with me

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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Does anyone else notice how many online space dedicated to hobbies have become intensely about consumerism? I want to hear how you’re using your journals/notebooks, not your massive collection of unused collector’s editions >:(

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you ask me about any of these games, it’ll probably trigger a 15 minute unskippable dialogue (especially Pentiment) my9games.com

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Life is short go to your local sea shanty festival

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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

John Edgar Platt (1886-1967)

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I hit GOLD in my local secondhand bookshop today. This was £3! 🤯🤯

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I really really dislike it when a recipe assumes I own a stand mixer

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

And when the world needed her most, she vanished (Phoebe Bridgers)

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I love London, best city in the world, forever grateful I get to spend my 20s so near to it. But I am also Oxford Street’s biggest hater

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faun @faungrove.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

play pentiment 🫵

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

8 years late but god damn Breath of the Wild is amazing

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 05/11/2025

Take me with you 🫀 man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". The scene depicts Frankenstein's monster carrying Elizabeth Lavenza.

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Rama Duwaji becoming the First Lady of NYC is a huge win for arty girls with french bob haircuts everywhere

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qntm @qntm.org · 02/11/2025

I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Del Toro’s Frankenstein (In IMAX!) gets a big fat thumbs up from me. I have daydreamed about an adaptation of my favourite book this good and this visually stunning for so so long

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I don’t care if it makes me a performative male… I love totes!!

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

3 day hiking trip in the Lake District. We hiked about 60km in total, which has been painful for the body but amazing for the soul. Safe to say my Southern mind struggles to comprehend peaks like these

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I had such a lovely and busy time at Develop yesterday. Waking up today felt like returning from the dead, however

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sai ✦ fefw @radiostarkiller.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

thinkin about pentiment and how i want more games like pentiment

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 10/06/2025

I don’t know what career can top the feeling of seeing the disparate part parts of a video game come together and become something alive and more than what one could have planned for. It’s like real life alchemy, every time

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

look, I don’t have much positive to say about jobs right now. but growing your creative skills is never a waste. in a world that prioritizes “good enough for non-experts” and the simulacra of competence, growing a practice of critical and artistic thought helps you from sliding down into the muck.

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Valentino Lasso🌿 @valentinolasso.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.

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Maxine Lugg @maxinelugg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hi Bsky! 👋 I'm Maxine, I'm a 3D Character Artist and I've been working in the games industry for 1.5 years (: I love nature, fantasy, literature and folklore 🍃🫶 #gamedev #3dart #characterart #gameart

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