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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Make stuff. For the love of all that there is, please just keep making stuff! Doesn't matter if it's bad, good etc. Just *keep* making stuff.

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Genshin Impact EN @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Birthday, Kamisato Ayaka! #GenshinImpact #KamisatoAyaka Please forgive me. I got a little held up while getting ready. You don't often see me with my hair down, do you? Usually, I would make sure everything was in order before seeing anyone.

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Leshen @leshen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good to have a reminder every once in a while. It's easy to do, and the problem is likely to get worse. So make it a habit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back to work... hätte doch noch die dritte Woche nehmen sollen 😔

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Liking things rules, actually.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 23/08/2025

Grace just sent this me this tok of a woman accidentally recording her cat in slow motions, and I am SOBBING from laughing so hard

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ich war mental bei "unverschämt", aber utopisch klingt netter.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

EU-weite KV heisst halt, dass du behandelt wirst & Medikamente bekommst. Es heisst NICHT, dass du das ohne Kohle bekommst. Rechnung kannste daheim dann einreichen. Hasse so Leute.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A little motivation

4 panel comic:
Panel 1: forg is drawing. There’s some extra pencils and some coffee on his desk. He says “all I can do..”
Panel 2: he is now doing work on his computer. Looks like he completed some drawings. He continues “..is my best”
Panel 3: he is now making some food in the kitchen, wielding a pan and wearing a tiny chefs hat. He continues talking to himself “..and my best..”
Panel 4: at the end of his long cozy day he’s in bed, and finishes his sentence “.. will do”

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Erst an der Uni (welch Ironie), kam das "oh wo kommt dein Name her?", "achso, wo bist du geboren?" als Frage unter den Leuten so richtig offensichtlich auf. Abklopfen des Sozialstatus, hat die Familie Geld ja nein, gibt man sich mit denen ab, ja nein. (Ich habe nicht bestanden, weil Arbeiterfamilie)

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ich bin in der Großstadt aufgewachsen. Meine besten Freundinnen in der Grundschule kamen aus der Türkei und Kroatien. Knapp d. Hälfte meiner Klassenkameraden kamen von "woanders". Später eine Koreanerin als BFF. Auf dem Abishirt "urdeutsche" Namen hälftig zu Namen aus aller Welt; hat keinen gejuckt.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oha wow! da saß ich grad im ICE zw. MA und FRA... nix mitbekommen, aber das is glaub ich auch gut so!

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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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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ich habe zu danken!! (Cd läuft schon!)

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Katzen sind aber auch hart zu ignorieren XD sieht gut aus ♡

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Feuerwehr Frankfurt @feuerwehrffm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#Nidda Ein offensichtlich verletzter Schwan auf der Nidda konnte gestern sicher an Land gebracht werden. Er wurde an einen Tierarzt übergeben. 🦢^vh

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi, it's me. Your idiot friend from the internet who had no idea that the snail that made that big shell could have killed me if it was home. You're not really supposed to pick them up to admire them. 🌠 #TheMoreYouKnow

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Es geht auch beides. Why choose.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ich hab meinen Job echt gern, aber nix schlägt das Gefühl zu wissen, dass man ab Do 15:30 Urlaub hat

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Judy Garland's Hilarious Vacation Prep

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ab und an ne Gehaltserhöhung ist schon nice, aber sonst bin ich im Job auch echt zufrieden.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ist es auch. Im Umkreis wird aktuell fröhlich umgezogen, Neubau in den Blick genommen, Beförderung gewollt, Jobwechsel überlegt. Und ich so: stresst euch das nicht? Was ist "falsch" mit dem StatusQuo? Natürlich darf & soll man sich weiterentwickeln, aber nicht auf Krampf und weil das grad alle tun.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

oh mann, ja! Ja! Das geht mir seit einiger Zeit durch den Kopf. Das nie endende Jagen nach noch mehr (Geld/Immobilie/Anlage/Konsum) steht mir sonst wo. Es scheint, als sei Zufriedenheit eine charakterliche Schwäche. "Wieee du willst nicht *mehr*???"

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wenn der ICE überpünktlich am Gleis bereitgestellt wird, man direkt in Ruhe sitzen kann, und der Zugführer gute Laune hat, da ist auf einmal alles gar nicht mehr so schlimm.

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Snoopy Headin' Home

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Susanah Grace @susanahgrace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stop fucking using genAI. Not even for a joke, not even for that oh so cutting political satire. Every time you use it, you are actively taking food out of our mouths. You are using the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it.

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Kratzbürste @kratzdiebuerste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ich hätte ja echt gerne die Resilienz von Gras. Völlig vertrocknet, verwelkt, verbrannt, plattgetreten, fast ausgerottet. Bißchen Regen drauf und schwups ist es frisch grün wieder da. Fas-zi-nie-rend. Und sehr beneidenswert.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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tabbymouse.bsky.social @tabbymouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You know jokes about "having the braincell"? Well, having read the Clocktaur wars, Swordheart, & about half of Daggerbound I'm pretty sure @tkingfisher.com gives the party braincell to the gnole ...cause the humans are high int, low wis, and dense as hell

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I Fucking Love Them Reza Farahan

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

British actors getting the email from Warner Brothers...

Two images of Bilbo Baggins from Lord Of The Rings, holding the One Ring and coveting it.

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Gute und schlechte Neuigkeiten beim Tierarzt... aber sie wurde wieder sehr gelobt und betüddelt 😊🎀

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Minti @mintistorm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Konnte im Studio heute in der Kraftmessung wieder Fortschritte feststellen. Man "sieht" zwar nix aber es ist dennoch ein gutes Gefühl, dass "etwas" passiert.

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Rigby: Strong I Am Strong in Regular Show

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MajorFlake @majorflake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I just got these stickers in the mail that are the most me thing on earth

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