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Kam!🌻 @ comms open! @kitnkamoodle.bsky.social · 11h

I am back from my busy time off of GETTIN MARRIED and it's time to reopen my commissions! Link to the submission form and more info in the reply. Not looking for art right now? Then shares are always super appreciated!! 🧡 [ #commissions #artcommissions ]

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 8h

the thing in The Spear Cuts Through Water where the dead interrupt the text in italics??? and their voices necessarily undermine the aesthetics of empire (and of epic fantasy as a genre)??? genius. im sick with envy

"My invitations are not given lightly," she said.

He entered and slid the door shut behind him. Hanging pots of jerin powder kept the room cool. The walls and floor were lush with drapery woven by the textile fleet, the rug beneath his san-daled feet patterned with a complex network of curling vines and jewels. In the tilting ships that housed his looms, we wove these masterworks for our Lord Induun. The fabric stained with our salted sweat and the blood from our broken fingernails. Shelving units were populated with rolled-up scrolls, bound reams of parch-ment, bottles of ink, brushes, and tied-up bundles of spare quills-and a tea set, immaculate in both craft and upkeep, which the commander now lifted by the tray handles as she invited him to take a seat.

Over a small fire she prepared for them both a cup of bitterroot tea, plucked from one of Lady Panjet's private reserves. Six days a week we spent, bowed like supplicants over the rows of shrubs, picking only the best of the leaves; the backs of our necks burned by the unblinking sun. Keema bowed, honored when Araya used her own water rations to feed the pot, and he thanked her.

"You're welcome, Keema of the Daware Tribe," she said, chuck-

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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Gen AI has given us many things such as: - vibe coded trash uploaded daily - inflated billionaire egos - copycat slop of popular indie games - huge increase in scam techniques - absurd price spikes across hardware - mass scale theft of creative works - increase to cost of living - mass job losses

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Rivaan @rivaanash.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

wait, psychic power aren't real????

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The Sea is Our Stage @seastage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We're ready to officially announce that our free-to-play pirate yuri visual novel, THE SEA IS OUR STAGE, will be available on NOVEMBER 10TH, 2026 via Steam and itch.io! ☠️🏳️‍🌈 You can also read ACT I early via our demo during Steam Next Fest from Oct 19 - Oct 26 🙈 #SeaStage #VN #yuri #OCs 🩷

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

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⚡matty⚡| COMMS OPEN @radicallymaxton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oct/Nov Slots are now OPEN!!!! 🍂🍁🎃 Opening up 1 DND Party Slot, first come first serve! (links below)

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

en.wikipedia.org

Non-place - Wikipedia

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t improve on the headline

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thrilled to share the cover art for "From An Antique Land," a new short story @reactorsff.bsky.social will publish on November 18! Art by Jon Juarez, editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social

red overhanging rock and blue ruins below.

From an Antique Land

by Jeff VanderMeer

Illustrated by Jon Juarez

Edited by Ann VanderMeer

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for #I'm Looking For a Zombie episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for Vertex Force episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS KOSA failed to pass in the US Senate (thanks to Paul, R.), but remember this was the FOURTH attempt from American politicians to get it passed. Expect another attempt in the next term; stay vigilant, and do not let the USA adopt ID-collecting laws such as the SCREEN Act & KOSA.

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Rivaan @rivaanash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yoooo! Love how this turned out. Thanks for drawing my boys!

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Xankas Endstone @xankasendstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The stars are pretty today. I hope you can see them too, wherever you are." Reverse 1999 inspired gacha splash art for my sona Xankas!! Commission by the lovely and amazing @basuracake.bsky.social

Xankas laying on his back in a body of water, reaching up towards a shooting star, his wings blending into the reflection of the night sky in the water.
He's surrounded by piles of books, potted plants and a metronome.
The borders of the splash art resembles a book and the left corner is burnt in the shape of a silhouette.

Close up of Xankas' splash art in the style of Reverse 1999's character screen.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Rivaan @rivaanash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...why do i feel like "your mom" joke would be very low brow right now...hmmm

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey folks, I had a big thread about AI and art that really popped off, and now I have some attention, so why don't I make a little thread of upcoming indie games I'm looking forward to that have neat artstyles? And a lot of these games will have demos to check out, so maybe give them a try?

Screenshot from Tenebris Somnia showing a creepy guy with head candles bathed in shadow

Screenshot from Hymm to the Eyeless God, showing a party based RPG with a top down view of a path through some woods, and it appears as if one of the insect like player characters is casting a spell.

Screenshot from Mandrake showing an isometric view of the interior of a building, a character called Nessa's portrait is on the left side and says "Thanks for coming to Pevenny with me Morgan. I'd have hated doing that alone."

Screenshot from Hark The Ghoul, there's a gaslight street lamp in a dark alleyway, on a crate sits a big wheel of cheese, underneath the lamp is a small rat like guy who might be cheesed to meet us.

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Katav 🐺 g(r)ay wolf 🐏 bighorn(y) ram @katav.gay · 28/09/2026

if you don't support this movie the lesson Dreamworks is going to learn is that we need 12 more Boss Babies

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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TiXDiXL @tixdixl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You all have to see @twstinginthewind.bsky.social 's cursed shitposts from tonight's session.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

youtu.be

The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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tctc @toastcrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

love to witness the mass loss of privacy rights across the world and directly perceive a big part of it turning out to be for reducing legal hurdles to gambling advertising

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Rivaan @rivaanash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*Tosses a tiger at you and runs away*

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ImpactFrame [COMMS OPEN!] @impactframe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Going to be doing some flying tomorrow morning, so I'd like to bring back those airport sketches I was doing a while back. Followers, drop your characters in the replies, and I might do a quick drawing of them while I travel! (Assuming I don't end up napping, that is... this flight is EARLY)

A manga panel of Quifrey from Witch Hat Atelier drawing a spell.

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Rona Altana @ronaaltana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Discord finally confirmed for real when they're rolling out age verification service-wide (tomorrow) and I've not seen a single person make a peep about it

discord.com

Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults

We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.

motherjones.com

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Rivaan @rivaanash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There she is! thank you so much!

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𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮 🌿 @ramahuro.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

HOW IT WORKS… 🌿send me $50 and ill draw 3-4 sketches of your oc throught the page, but it must be in artistic freedom terms! 🌿you may choose between 4 smaller sketches or 3 bigger ones, or leave it up to me! 🌿it is allowed multiple slots per person.

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Rubeki Games 🛩️The Hollowing Demo Live!🛩️ @rubeki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

✈️Just announced in the PC Gaming Show✈️ The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim Your job is to maintain communications towers at various airports and outposts in the Megastructure FREE DEMO OUT NOW!! link below 👇

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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KringeKobold @kringekobold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🦎Announcing the Kobold Sub-A-Thon!🦎 Due to some circumstances out of my control, we'll be doing a subathon through the rest of September over on twitch.tv/kringekobold with a ton of fun events planned! Goal is to stream basically every day until I can't, hope to see you around~!

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ImpactFrame [COMMS OPEN!] @impactframe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A commission for a client of their dragonborn arcane archer. Thank you for commissioning me!

A blue dragonborn wearing dark armor and a cloak with glowing stars.
The kneel and aim a crossbow as lightning bursts from the tip of the bolt and streaks around them.

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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Rivaan @rivaanash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Currently made all of my saving goals for the year so far! Been saving funds up to go back to school and should be able to do so and some next year!

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Jack Kaiser @jackkaiser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Speedpainting commissions for the day were both beefy lads, one more literally so than the other.

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