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I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥 @lamantia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you've ever been unclear about what grooming looks like, it's this.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If need be, could have someone contact them for you so they can unblock and allow you to delete the rts

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Miss Trixie @misstrixie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It angers me so much when people defend abusers with "but what about the art?!?!". What about the art (or science, engineering, politics) that wasn't created because spaces were made inhospitable to women. There's so much in the world, I can live without art inspired by hatred of women.

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Chron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 30/09/2026

Listen to The Board, folks

The Board from Control says "Support independent/lonely media as they are underfunded/poor yet essential"

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have the problem of not minding being in larger servers but I can only dedicate my attention to like... one. I'm a minimod for a server but I kinda mostly stopped talking in there after becoming more active in the official NIN server, and there's a couple others I'm in that I also barely talk in.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This aint even the same person HELLO??? Proving yet again us trans and GNC folks are shape-shifters

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE ALBUM EVER MWAH MWAH MWAH #animation #nineinchnails

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disappointed I am unable to see the new Resident Evil movie but it is probably for the best I do not see something like this in a theater, considering how I did not handle Backrooms well and almost had to go into the hallway for a brief moment to regain composure

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LOVE THIS GUY SM you always make lovely weirdos (affectionate)

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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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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THANK YOU can we please get a kaiju villain that we -don't-see much of?? I would have been happy to see Biollante or even Hedorah

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I bought some piano books over the weekend, hoping to crack em open soon... guh

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me: man my motivation for finishing owed art stuff is barely there Brain: hey if you finish all your owed art, you can focus on music studies Me, reluctantly picking up my iPad stylus, knowing that my brain is right:

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saw Coyote VS ACME today. Go see that when/if you can, it's really damn good!

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I just saw the vod and was like YOOO I GOTTA GO TELL DAI- OH SHE ALREADY SAW IT LMAO but this is awesome, super happy for you 💙

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don't want to hear crowds of people esp when I'm overstimulated, I don't wanna talk to strangers on public transport I wanna be left the fuck alone. If I want background noise from the world I will take a walk in the park to hear the birds, cicadas, and wind through the trees.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

that one all the way to the right.... 👀

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Cloud Creature @0ceancoast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There isnt one correct way to have a relationship with art. U dont have to always love making art to make it, sometimes it will suck and it will be hard and thats okay too. Sometimes making it despite those feelings is how u enjoy it again

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Trying to regrow your wings, huh? You do know you can't get them back... right?" #art #procreate

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Tinky reborn just so she could see you again

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I started late af and am trying to do as much as possible 😭 glad they added on one extra day but lowley wish it was a week lmao

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

iirc his mother runs a cult? And he probably pays a fuckton just to be in films. I think he helped get TRON Ares greenlit, which while I do appreciate an attempt at reviving the series, I wish he wasn't in the film at all

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You should also check out American Psycho, he gets axed to death by the MC

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

artfight attack for @/bumpkin_le_pumpkin

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Okay finally talking about one of my writing projects in proper: Flagrare. It finally has a title. Idk where I will go with this project but I'll show tidbits of characters and world building here and there so you get a better idea of things. Got refs and stuff to sketch up.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was today years old when I found out Garageband is on iPad. Until I get a desktop & slap FL Studio onto it, this will have to do. Let's see how much of a pain in the ass this is to learn to use and navigate...

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Oooo updated refs! I found I liked drawing them when I had them, I should do some gift arts soon >v>

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Turn on airplane mode for like 15 sec then turn it back off, that should reset which tower you're connected to. I had to do this when visiting Canada a few times because it kept setting my location to being in Texas for some reason but airplane mode fixed it each time

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Played some Meccha Chameleon with friends tonight and I'd have to say this is my magnum opus

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I also had to MAKE my cake pans out of aluminum foil because I didn't have any 6-inch pans, the smallest I own is a 8.5-inch. I was unable to just go out and get the pans I needed so I had to improvise.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It was supposed to be 3 layers but with the strawberry slices I was worried about stability so only used 2. I also wanted to put fresh coconut shavings in the frosting, but the coconut I got turned out to be moldy 🤢 Oh well, it's still delicious! This is my favorite cake I've ever made

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm 29 today. Made myself a Portal-based cake entirely from scratch :>

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The green makes it feel more lively and less dead tbh. I can't wait for me and my partner to have a house that has colorful rooms, it's gonna pop off in there 😤

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wishing you a full recovery! 💙

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm wanting these so badly but I have no idea if any dentists around here do such a thing!

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It seems people are often afraid of liking their own art work due to the worry of being perceived as egotistical or conceited, but you can still love your work and have a huge driving force behind that acting as a love for learning and improving. You can be proud and seek joy while you grow.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The slime one has cute moments but it can be a bit dark at times, fair warning. The spider one sadly never got a second season (it's based off of a light novel so if you wanna finish it you'd prolly have to read that) but it's pretty good.

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