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Two Creatur @twocreatur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Introducing Shifting Shores, A co-op clean-up collectathon game for up to 16 players! Clean, collect, and explore the islands to uncover the history and secrets the shores are hiding. Wishlist it on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/5211340/Shifting_Shores/

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Sunny @sunjuicypins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well...hi there. Me and @fronomeeps.bsky.social are making a game called "Shifting Shores". Check out the page for the game on @twocreatur.bsky.social . You can now Wishlist it on steam. store.steampowered.com/app/5211340/...

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

we gotta stop falling for the Noun in Possessive Noun playbook

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2026

trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Never be a scab. You'll betray your fellow workers and the company STILL won't respect you. It's a lose-lose.

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S4tanVA/W.F.P LEWDTUBER🔞 @s4tanva.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A Grimmy Dewdle at work.

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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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DecodeVen @decodeven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I need to remind everyone, especially after their presentation today. Level-5 has been very openly using Generative AI in their game development and are proud of it. This includes their newly announced titles such as New World of Steam, Yo-Kai Watch 2 and Curious Village Remake.

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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sony: we are getting rid of game discs forever fuck you Microsoft: our next console cant even read game discs fuck you Nintendo: Samus is BACK and BOY, is she HUNGRY

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

After nearly a month from my place being flooded... I'm back to streaming, with the new XIV patch and story content! What's in store for the lead-up to Evercold, and why are there a million monsters in Mor Dhona?? twitch.tv/sam_leonhart

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Sam_Leonhart - Twitch

Hi, I'm Sam! I'm a Variety Streamer with a focus on Square Enix and Nintendo games! Final Fantasy XIV is a constant on my channel, with a smattering of other Final Fantasy games, Pokemon, Kingdom Hear...

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WereRosie Riot 🌟COMMISSIONS OPEN🌟 @rosieriot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

if you want to offer some support this month i'd appreciate it I want to knock out my current queue as much as I can before I leave for Seattle but some financial support would help take some stress off me ko-fi.com/rosieriot/goal #mutualaid #furry

werewolf girl going bwuh

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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ya gotta read all the way to the end for the cherry

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henemimi 🎀☁️ OshiConbini SUNDAY! 🐓 @henemimi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

in a million years it would have not dawned on me to do fake ad reads to kill the monetization of harassment social media videos. thank you intelligent beautiful bird furry whose moving beak entranced me into paying attention

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🦊 MythiccVixen 🔞 @mythiccvixen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Check your voter status! Vote.gov Doesn’t matter what state you’re in. Always check your status before voting day. Do it months before because there are often deadlines to fixing it. Make sure everything is active and accurate.

vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/09/2026

This is low-level propaganda that elides the real story, which is that the younger candidate in this race is an anti-trans clown and the older candidate is one of the Senate's strongest progressives. Please vote for Markey in MA, friends. The old guy is the only choice here.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tom Baker looking increasingly deranged as Professor Plum on Cluedo

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My favorite Mr. Beast moment was when he got punched in the stomach by Mike Tyson and for the briefest of moments, Jimmy Donaldson's lazy grin was replaced with an expression of animalistic fear. For an almost imperceptible window, there were no metricd or merch opportunities, only flesh and pain

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:

PC Gamer headline: "Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'"

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TeamFourStar @teamfourstar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Roshi can never be trusted with streaming services, but maybe he likes to #supporttheofficialrelease?

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COINTREAUPRO @strings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Republicans are fucking pedophile freaks and I think Dems should spend a lot more energy repeating that fact and making them play defense on their pro-statutory rape policies

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Costco pulling Callaway golf clubs from stores and refusing to sell Trump’s ground mystery meat shows us that it’s possible to put people over profit and still come out on top..,👇 Shop Clean. Shop Costco. 😎✨

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 Animate! Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The same dog being used to convince you Toothless is real is also increasingly being used to hunt you and your neighbors down for being nonconformist

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Solazz @urameshiya.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

happy pride month by the way

A picture on a white background with the trans flag colors in the top left and Jack from Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin on the bottom with his fist held out toward the viewer. Text above him reads "Repost this if Trans people can kill Chaos with you"

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edgemis @edgemis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy 13th anniversary to A Realm Reborn today! #ff14 #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv #ffxivart #finalfantasy

Digital artwork featuring Venat, Ryne, Minfilia, Lyse, Ysayle and Wuk Lamat from Final Fantasy 14. They are celebrating on a grassy field. The composition is roughly based on FF11 heroines artwork by Fumio Minagawa.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

People consistently argue more surveillance will reduce policing but we’re just not seeing that actually manifest on the ground, instead we get this.

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My parents are just shy of $2000 dollars away from reaching their goal, but even the $16,000 will not be enough to rebuild the house. If you are able to give, or know someone who can, please help us out. My parents don’t plan to move, this is their home, our family’s home. We need the help.

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Kane @demikane.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So many people get to experience the Beauty & the Beast unit soon

Old 2022 Tweet from @TheOmegaVirus

Mgs4 boss: *Tries to give Snake a lapdance and dies"

Drebin: "That was Angry Armadillo, she was forced to eat cement as a child"

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just donated to help SPIDER-MAN, who took on nazi scumbags trying to invade Minneapolis again. Arrested by our local cops (boooo) who were diligently defending their racist turd pals. Let’s help good ol’ Webhead with his defense! (PS I can vouch for the GoFundMe creator) gofund.me/6f36a1ac1

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Donate to Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense, organized by Ash Chudgar

Awesome update: I'm in touch with Spider-Man's family, and we're setting things up so t… Ash Chudgar needs your support for Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

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WereRosie Riot 🌟COMMISSIONS OPEN🌟 @rosieriot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Call my baby Lollipop, tell you why Her kiss is sweeter than an apple pie 🍭🐶🍬 #werewolf #puppygirl #furry

a werewolf girl dressed up all in blues and pinks while sitting on a huge lollipop with the text SUGAR RUSH in big letters both behind and in front of her

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you follow national news, you may have heard about the flooding in Indianapolis. Our house was essentially ruined by 3+ feet of river water, which ruined almost everything we owned. A friend set up a GoFundMe to help, and we desperately need it. Don't feel pressured to give, but please share. 1/8

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Donate to Help David and Sally Recover, organized by David Beam

David and Sally Bartrom are lifelong friends of the organizer, and this fundraiser is being cr… David Beam needs your support for Help David and Sally Recover

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Donate to Help David and Sally Recover, organized by David Beam

David and Sally Bartrom are lifelong friends of the organizer, and this fundraiser is being cr… David Beam needs your support for Help David and Sally Recover

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pokemon Infinite Fusions 2 only has up to Mauville ready, so it's time to wrap that up. Not going to be going long, but if this all takes less than an hour, I'll throw up FFXIV and do the seasonal event. Let's play some Pokemon! twitch.tv/sam_leonhart

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reinbowsketch @reinbowsketch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've always wondered: what if namine could use her powers on marluxia? #art #kingdomhearts

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New Pokopia update dropped today! Let's pop in and check it out, despite not touching the game in a few months! Gaming. twitch.tv/sam_leonhart

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Sam Leonhart @samleonhart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Until I'm too exhausted to think, we'll be doing a short stream of Pokemon Infinite Fusions! Let's get into Slateport and see why these pirate guys want into the museum so bad, I guess. Fuck, I'm tired. twitch.tv/sam_leonhart

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taran @taranarchy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Make no mistake: the endgame of these bills is to de-anonymize the internet and create a digital panopticon tracking everything you do so the state can disappear you for saying or doing shit that they don't like.

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kay ✨ VGen Comms Open 💚 @naivecandy.net · 31/07/2026

This can apply to folks using Ko-Fi, VGen Payments, etc - not just using Stripe directly. Please check your "plans" under "settings" 💀

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Michael Fitz-Gibbon @penguintruth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just a reminder that Chuck Huber, like his sexual predator pal Vic Mignogna, is a total scumbag. #anime

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