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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think the Castle-Ratizens have found my mtg card illustrations from last year haha

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Well it's time to begin my SDCC fomo.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

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Walty @waltometry.blacksky.app · 07/02/2026

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What if robots could do all the things that make life living for us, so we could just march joylessly towards death as cogs in the machine?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/07/2025

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

this guy has helped create a bunch of movies i love so I don't begrudge him for shit like The Minecraft Movie. but i genuinely don't understand how you can love Calvin and Hobbes or respect Bill Watterson as an artist and want to do this

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TONY GRAYSON 🗻 @tonycomputerentertainment.com · 18/12/2025

Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane? Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

« pushing hard on genAI » for no gain in efficiency lmao maybe stop then ?

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 16/12/2025

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

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XEECEE @xeecee.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip

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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 08/12/2025

"art is inaccessible/artists are gatekeepers" is the biggest self report in the world that whoever is saying it is, at best, buying in to incredibly tedious learned helplessness or, more likely, is just a huge fucking loser.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I hope the ocean of rancid pornography/pointless brainrot that comes from this deal was worth spitting directly in the face of artists, animators, and craftsmen. You know, the people who actually built the mouses empire with human creativity and devotion to their craft. deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

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Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora

Disney will make characters from 'Frozen' and 'Star Wars' available to Sora under $1B deal with OpenAI.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

it’s Halloween time

Photo of a Halloween sounds cassette, copy and title reads

LISTEN IF YOU DARE TO THE FRIGHTENING SOUNDS OF

HALLOWEEN SEX

FUCK: THIS TAPE IS NASTY AS HELL. ZOMBIES HAVING SEX IN GRAVES, DUSTY MUMMY WRAPS COMING
UNDONE, GRIM REAPERS SUCKING EACH OTHER’S FOREVERDICKS, WHIPS, CHAINS, VEINS, AND PAIN!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Ok finally posting the last of this initial run of Castle rat fan art: the Rat Reaperess! I love that the band has an arch nemesis to fight every show, and I loved the new mask and fight choreo from The Book of Beasts tour.

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Ok finally continuing Castle Rat fanart, the Rat Queen herself! This was definitely the hardest one for me to nail down, probably felt the most pressure to make it good haha. I'm happy with how it ended up but I've got plenty of ideas of how I'd like to improve the next one.

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Heidi MacDonald @ NYCC @comixace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it." @jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just worked up the energy to start posting here and now I'm seeing all the talk about people debating leaving the platform lol sigh

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Next up, The all-seeing Druid! This one was definitely inspired by the photo shoot that the band did..I think just after the first album? I knew I wanted a forest background, I actually meant to add some blurry foreground elements for depth as well but completely forgot.

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Next up in the Castle Rat illustrations is The Count! Although I think this is the first one I actually finished. I worked on them all kinda concurrently. I had a general idea for a background on this one but didn't want to get too detailed since they were going to be sized for Magic cards.

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

First up, the Plague Doctor, bassist for the band! I knew I wanted to feature the mysterious potion that resurrects the Rat Queen during the show. Was shooting for "cool and mysterious" with this one. .... Maybe with most of these.

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Rob Negrete @robthesentinel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Gonna kick off my Bluesky account with a super fun personal project that I just finished up (well, for now): Castle Rat fan art that I made into Magic card proxies!

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