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I love animation so I wish I could say that, but idk that it seems any safer. Woodworking's cool as a hobby, but I don't trust myself with power tools. I guess for now my plan B is "hope the insanity subsides"

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Carrion @cutlaska.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Gaia x Machina #pixelart

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Phendan @phen.dev · 28/09/2026

Tell me about it

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Phendan @phen.dev · 26/09/2026

Not sure what the original is but in my head I read this to the tune of Massive Attack's Teardrop

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Phendan @phen.dev · 25/09/2026

I think it wears on a lot of us, caring for the craft suddenly being something we have to defend. Not that we're the first, lots of a11y and UX folks know this tune well (among others). Still, lots of people sharing neat things around here though! Trying to focus on that.

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Alex Griendling @alexgriendling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I made a collection of 34 sci-fi vector design elements - useful for micrographics, motion graphics, FUIs, general world-building, and all else in between. Deepspace Approach Vectors is available for purchase via the Lunar Saloon Shop. lunarsaloon.bigcartel.com

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 24/09/2026

Today's art is Blue Haze by Penleigh Boyd, 1919, AUS. Take a moment to follow the outlines and the fine texture in this watercolor piece and to breathe in the mountain air

a hazey morning scene with a pastel colored mountain covered in trees. the lights are pastel yellow and shadows pastel blue, with gentle browns and reds all over.

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JPV Art (Comms Open) @jpv-art.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

SOLCOM. Siquijor-Class spacecraft with Orion. Equipped with massive sensors to find any target within Sol. Can't hit what you can't see. Setting where sneaky aliens invade our star system, so we spent more money on nukes or whatever. Bit late for shiptember but eh. ToughSF? Hmmm... defo not HardSF

Massive starship with massive sensors and an Orion Drive and radiators so SOLCOM can find enemy aliens and shoot them or something.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 19/09/2026

LLMs don't even meet the basic dictionary definition for intelligent, i.e. having "the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations". 0 for 3.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As LLMs make it increasingly convenient to get answers without understanding how stuff works. I think P5 is more important than ever. I learned by experimenting and figuring stuff by myself. If you did as well, please consider donating to the P5: processingfoundation.org/support/donate/

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Phendan @phen.dev · 16/09/2026

Strange that a dev has to say this to an artist, but yeah I think it matters that all the bots do is make poor facsimiles of innately human things, and yet you're presenting them as more magical than they are

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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Barbican postcards from me and CP&B; not a bad place to spend a Saturday. There’s nothing like it. 🌿🦆

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Phendan @phen.dev · 15/09/2026

Agreed. I think I worry more about the inverse problem, namely a type telling me a thing exists when it doesn't everywhere. I think it's happened multiple times now that I used requestIdleCallback and only remembered that it needs to be polyfilled when I went to test in Safari

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Phendan @phen.dev · 15/09/2026

Been in need of a good foobar replacement ever since moving mostly to mac. This looks promising! I've gotta nitpick tho, shouldn't it obviously have been called "Petrichord"?

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Phendan @phen.dev · 15/09/2026

Can vouch for Geoff being a wonderful writer and editor. I got to work w/ him on my first article (for Smashing), and he was super gracious and really helped improve the piece. That's a person you want as an outlet, and he deserves to be paid. Not that it should need underlining @digitalocean.com

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham

Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that

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Phendan @phen.dev · 15/09/2026

I think this scandal is literally the first time I've thought about him since having the exact same moment watching GoT

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Phendan @phen.dev · 15/09/2026

(pretty sure I also called it blue at the time but) heh yeah, sucks to be that kid

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/09/2026

My thoughts exactly. A small part of me wants to feel haughty that clearly kid-me was right when he argued with the other playground kids that indigo is the best color. But mostly it just sucks that anything I make with it is going to seem less original now

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Eye, the international review of graphic design @eyemagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kitching in Kyoto, eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ki... #letterpress #typography

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/09/2026

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most or all of these rely on MCP plugins or some equivalent for the AI to do anything? In other words someone built a communication layer that lets it hook into the program. The models don't have to be getting better for you to feel like the agent can do more stuff

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/09/2026

What's an example of a program meant "only for human interfacing" that you've seen agents handle well?

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/09/2026

Good on ya. I've somehow evaded joining tiktok, and it's a good thing cause I know I wouldn't be immune to it either. I just exhaust my following feed on here and then go do something else, and I think that's the healthiest / most enjoyable social media's ever been for me

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/09/2026

Holding out hope that all this can't last forever. Something's gotta give, surely. I just hope it's before people give up on this field entirely

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 14/09/2026

I cannot stress enough what a HUGE talent Jonathan Djob Nkondo is AND he is impossibly lovely too ❤️

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Froyo☆Tam @froyotam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

CONTROL wordmark + animation, made in deluxe paint iv

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 10/09/2026

Sorry to vent, I try not to do it too much. It's just not a great feeling to be told your craft doesn't matter by people who clearly didn't care about it to begin with

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Phendan @phen.dev · 10/09/2026

Clicking that does nothing btw, the following feed just breaks after scrolling a bit. The post showing app is currently refusing to show most of the posts, but vibe coding is the future you see!

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Phendan @phen.dev · 10/09/2026

I was gonna let it rest, but it's just so weird to me that the CTO of this place seemingly spends all his time waxing lyrical about how awesome AI is and how not using it is delusional, and meanwhile this has been happening for I think over a week now?

A screenshot of a bluesky feed with an error message that reads "There was an issue fetching posts. Tap here to try again."

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KZ @kzxcellent.live · 10/11/2025

I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.

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アジャラカ | Đesigner @ajalaca.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🏙️ひる／🌃よる

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Phendan @phen.dev · 07/09/2026

Ah yes, the morally authoritative take of "why do you people refuse to join my smoking habit? You're the reason it's not less cancerous already"

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dswnt ✦ @dswnt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Week 88, Parallel Universe of Windows (Rewrite): Luna + Plex (Windows '03, 2003) #weekly #design #AlternateTimeline #os #concept

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Nick Coupland @nickcouplandart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The joy of Brutalist patterns.

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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

zeet studio gesture drawing with @yuckieducky.bsky.social 😌tuofu

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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Work as Wendell Berry writes:

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Phendan @phen.dev · 04/09/2026

Fun thread if you're into typography

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Painting by Mike Howat. ‘Circa 1984.’ Acrylic on board. Size 61 x 46 cm

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Phendan @phen.dev · 03/09/2026

Among my personal favorites: Transistor, Bastion, Journey, Firewatch, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest. Maybe Hyper Light Drifter if it doesn't have to be background-listenable

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Phendan @phen.dev · 03/09/2026

Weltschmerz. Vhy reinvent ze vheel.

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