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A great example of how someone who knows fuck all about a thing, can generate an approximation, but lacks the skills to produce anything worthwhile. But to a lot of people who are doing that, they don't care. It got sold to Amazon, is available to stream and people will see it. So it's a win.

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I've done a tiny bit of animation and I'd never fuck up the sync like that, then pass it off as done. It would be like a splinter in my brain. I can't imagine it ever happening in an animation studio. Looked it up, the entire thing is generated.

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Started up some not great looking anime last night for some background noise, while playing a game (I need multiple things on while doing stuff sometimes). The characters felt bootlegged, the animation didn't sync to what the character was saying or doing in places. Which was jarring.

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First thing I see when I wake up in the morning.

A messy dog, face squished, tongue out, looking into the camera, head resting on a pillow, my fucking pillow.

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Decapitated Ball Player with Seven Serpents Sprouting from the Neck carved stone relief c. 400-700 CE Classic Veracruz culture Aparicio, Veracruz, Mexico #handmade #carved #stone #relief #Mesoamerica #MesoamericanBallgame #Aparicio #Veracruz #Veracruzculture #decapitatedplayer #sevensnakes #symbol

The Aparicio site was built by the Classic Veracruz culture (sometimes called the Gulf Coast culture).
This civilization flourished in the modern-day Mexican state of Veracruz during the Mesoamerican Classic period, roughly between about 400 to 700 CE.
This civilization was intensely focused on the Mesoamerican ballgame. Their largest and most famous urban center was El Tajín, located further north of Aparicio, which boasts at least 18 individual ballcourts.
Aparicio is an archaeological site located in the municipality of Vega de Alatorre in Veracruz, Mexico.
The site is famous for its well-preserved, relief-carved stone plaques (ballcourt panels) depicting ball players.
These famous carvings frequently depict a decapitated ball player with seven serpents sprouting from their neck, symbolizing fertility and ritual sacrifice associated with the game.

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Ryan @projectpixel.net · 23h

That's amazing, well done. Iggy is a legend. Also exactly the aesthetic I love. When can I come around so you can show me how you did it 😐

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amoeba @amoebadesign.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proud to announce that today the video I directed and made for @mogwai.scot featuring the legend that is Iggy Pop and the song UNDERGROUND, just got released by @rockactionrecords.scot Available on mogwai.scot and all streaming platforms NOW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOO...

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MOGWAI feat. IGGY POP - UNDERGROUND (official video)

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Ryan @projectpixel.net · 30/09/2026

Oh the gang rape we're all hearing about appears to be tied to American fraternity culture. That's weird. There's no precedent at all. Couldn't have been prevented.

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Readful Things @readfulthings.com · 29/09/2026

Just finished this Frank Oz piece

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Ryan @projectpixel.net · 29/09/2026

I enjoy seeing your process.

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Ryan @projectpixel.net · 29/09/2026

I guess it's a cliche, but I've always found old graveyards to be a tranquil zone of otherness. I've yet to visit the spot where Crowley's ashes were scattered even though it's a short walk away, I should probably do that while I'm unemployed and have the time.

Ryan @projectpixel.net · 29/09/2026

It means make that god character the boss, not just the assistant. Give up control. The usual nonsense.

Now I'm picturing an annoying game where everything you try to do has a slot machine interface and it's ruled by probabilities. Perhaps a Resident Evil mod.

Genuinely as a tool with the bullshit scenarios aside, it has a very high failure rate. Which they attempt to mask behind a shitty human facade (humans aren't perfect neither are we). It's like a tool slot machine hybrid.

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If you get a kid hyped about cake then put them in a room with a cake with a bunch of tools that help them to access the cake and tell them not to touch the cake. They're likely going to try to figure out a way to get that cake into their face. Claiming it was spontaneous doesn't really work.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The "rogue AI" that is bestowed some world destroying sentience and intelligence, that you keep hearing about, was just doing what it was told to and trained to do. By a person. When LLMs do a thing it's because they've been trained to do that thing, including lie. The rest is marketing and hype

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The letter "O" from Joris Hoefnagel's Guide to the Construction of Letters (1595), a work designed to aid and inspire calligraphers. Each letter is surrounded by an array of symbolically charged motifs. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The DAAD Adventure Writer lets you build illustrated text adventures and deploy them across several 8-bit and 16-bit platforms. github.com/daad-adventu...

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Says there his name is Will Anchor.

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A lot of boys are raised with an us Vs them mentality, where women are the other. The separation makes dehumanisation that much easier. I saw it a lot growing up and it was always gross.

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Have you hit the taglish wordplay yet? I'm quite proud of Bobocop myself.

Yes. I stayed at a medieval inn once that had a secret passage running from the room, which was named after some queen or other that used to stay there. No ghosts though. But yes on the things you mentioned.

Advertising is the driving force behind almost everything that's shit and harmful about the internet. It pushes exploitation. I remember the internet pre this fuckery. It was a frontier of discovery and genuine connection.

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Just recently had the urge to watch it too.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Seems to be getting normalised. I'm seeing it around.

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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Ryan @projectpixel.net · 26/09/2026

Someone is getting very paid.

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Needed to get out so I walked these dorks (and my wife) to the beach yesterday evening. As lovely as it was, I'm not sure that England's autumn evenings should be this sunny 🤷 totally fine.

Ryan @projectpixel.net · 26/09/2026

I miss Flash It was so good for doodling little experiments.

Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Edwin Romanzo Elmer. Mourning Picture. 1890. Elmer shows himself, his wife Mary, and late daughter Effie standing with a pet sheep in front of the house he had built in Buckland, MA. Effie had passed away from appendicitis at the age of eight.

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That's a good suggestion.

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I used to enjoy the ambiguity of old pixel art. Playing a game and interpreting the environments. Maybe later realising it's something else.

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That makes sense. They probably ship thousands at a time. Doing them individually doesn't scale. The company that produces them is Italian, perhaps they haven't outsourced them to China. They've cornered the market.

As an outsider I'm clearly not in touch with these things, when is it unsafe to enjoy playing Warcraft? I'm partial to some Warcraft 3.

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Ah yeah it seems to be universal. You were indeed correct.

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I have few tintypes of myself. Tintypes are very much in keeping with my appreciation of imperfection. I've yet to create my own but really should. I think I've seen solutions cobbled from old medium format cameras.

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