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Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m in this image and I don’t like it

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very revealing dive into the government’s plan to make anime/manga/games a pillar of the economy. Japan already is a “story superpower.” If it wants to stay that way leaders need to tackle structural problems rather than pray for AI magic to fix them. annatachibana.substack.com/p/japan-want...

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Japan wants to be a “story superpower.” Can the people who make the stories afford to keep making them?

I opened one ministry's plan to make anime and games a 20-trillion-yen export. The people who make them were mostly in the footnotes.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

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Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think still such a funny single comic panel of Spider-Man.

Peter Parker:

"... You know, I actually *did* read some Ayn Rand in college? I spent a week thinking I was, like, the new John Galt.

"Yelled at some protesters. Fun times.

"Gd, I hate myself."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Blackfolk have to adhere to PHD levels of fluid unwritten social rules, particularly wrt to the full spectrum of expression daily not just to keep a job but also to mitigate our chances of being frisked so yeah I don’t buy it when them folk say it’s too hard not to say a slur just bc of reclamation

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My 35 pound weighted blanket came today. It feels like the unconditional love I never got as a child. 10/10

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Went to my partner's show on Sunday. It was casual enough that I could play with some gesture drawings at à picnic table while I watched. #siggisart #lifedrawing #gesturedrawing

Sketchbook page filled with marker gesture drawings. Each gesture is of a different musician playing an instrument. The largest one features a light-haired man in a tank top playing the guitar.

Sketchbook page filled with gesture drawings in pen and marker. The largest one features a black-haired man with a mullet playing the guitar.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Belle @ autumnal wonderland! @torrentempress.neocities.org · 15/09/2026

I lied about the other post this video which sums up the discourse this week and around the atmosphere is actually my magnum opus. this is it, this is everything, this is the entire thing.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know what? Let's all start bringing our sketchbooks to sports games. Let the artists invade! We'll take over the stadiums! Anyways, Wriggly field was so special to me as a kid and it was great to be back there with my family. (The Cubs lost. All was right with the world) #siggisart

Sketchbook page featuring 12 different gesture poses.
"Leading Edge" is written in bold at the top. The gesture figures are barely more than lines showing various stages of swinging à bat and pitching à ball.

Sketchbook page featuring 10 gesture drawings. Each figure again, in different stages of swinging a bat or throwing a ball.

Selfie. 4 people sit in a stadium. Three have hats. The person with orange hair does not have a hat. The man on the end is giving a thumbs up.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this MAGNIFICENT animation, by the talented James Baxter! Note how each of the THREE SECONDARY MOTIONS are slightly OFFSET to emphasise different parts of the action: HAIR jumps UP, SKIRT billows DOWN, RIBBON wraps ROUND! #anime #2danimation

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Concepts like "purity tests" are DEEPLY routed in fundamentalist Christianity and rape culture. They don't work because the world doesn't operate on a good/bad binary. Decolonize your mind. The more you radically accept the human condition for what it is, the easier it will be to spot toxicity.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This morning I was rereading some early passages from a story draft. I got to the end of the passage and I was upset. I wanted to know what happened next. Unfortunately I have to write that bit. Fortunately. I get to write that bit.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I genuinely enjoy Haruki Murakami. I like the dream-like flow that questions reality. I, however, cannot stand how all the women breast boobily through the narrative. Like they can't take up space unless they enter nipple-first.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am SO TIRED of feeling with depression and anxiety. My brain is screaming at me about the state of my kitchen, while it feels like lead weights are tied to my limbs and the floor is made out quick sand. I'll trade my brain for toxic goo at this point.

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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I still don't know what the interface looks like

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Writing feels so daunting. When I stop putting pressure on myself to write something good, and instead just write something fun? Suddenly it doesn't matter. I'm being lead around by characters I barely knew at the start.

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the moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m happy to have Labor Day twice but let’s remember why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe.[18] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative,[19] formally adopting the date as a United States federal holiday through a law he signed in 1894.[2]

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X92🔞💖💜💙🏳️‍🌈 | LOONA SIMP 🌙 @x92.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is how it feels to have a blorbo

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Do I know anyone going to LBX this year?

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every time I see see short-form "micro-dramas" invade my feed, I can't help but hear the ghost of Quibi whispered on the wind. Katsenberg's screams are still echoing somewhere in Silicon Valley.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My partner has to sleep next to me cuddling my Garrus Vakarian body pillow. Can you imagine being this insecure and still in a relationship?

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Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Since I think it's been online on YouTube long enough and I don't think I'm gonna get more than the $5-6 from it from the last few years of views, and the fact there's longer uploads here on Bluesky now, here's the entirety of my short film 'Snif & Snüf'. Watch and enjoy!

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW ESSAY ON PATREON: I use Potter as an exp of how corporations manufacture complicity by weaponizing "no ethical consumption under capitalism" against us. Just because we can't be pure in our consumption doesn't mean we don't have a duty to be aware of our choices. www.patreon.com/jessiegender...

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Harry Potter & the Corporate Manufacturing of Ethical Complicity | Jessie Gender

Warner Bros wants to make you feel complicit in JK Rowling’s bigotry so they can make money. So last week I made a video about how casual H

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I cant tell if AI is spoofing AI to market AI. I'm so tired.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It FINISHED! I'm happy with what I managed to come up with for the smoke. It really adds the character the scene needs That being said, I never want to do fx sim again. #siggisart #siggimation #Animation

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Anthony Dean @diversetechgeek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I notice when TV animation came along none of the characters got gloves, save for Bullwinkle (whose gloves look like kitchen gloves). A holdover from existing 50s theatrical animation trends? One less thing for Hanna-Barbera to draw/animate (despite their characters already having hats, etc.)?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/08/2026

This video is being suppressed by the YouTube algorithm for some reason. You should watch it! It's about Prairieland youtu.be/XtqT_OWhQqY

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They Printed a Zine. The DOJ Gave Them 450 Years. (ft. Melissa Gira Grant)

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Wasnt this just in Spider-Man: Brand New Day as the henchman's weapon of choice? This is literal comic-book villain shit.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I love bringing my sketchbook to live music events. Musicians have such a vibrant stage presence. It makes for great gesture studies. If you're lucky, sometimes they'll even sign it. #siggisart #lifedrawing

Drawing of the musician TALK singing into microphone. The drawing is signed LSD TALK.

Picture of myself and TALK the musician. He's wearing a large white suit with sequins and a large bedazzled moon belt.

Rough gesture studies of TALK in various positions singing and dancing.

Various gesture studies of JULIE BLACK as she performed at the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival.

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Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @swolesome.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fellow Canadians, what if I told you that you can, in fact, be opposed to Carney’s awful neoliberal decisions while agreeing with him on the bare fucking minimum acknowledgment that Trump is bad? He’s doing the exact same shit here that paved the way for the Trump regime in the US. Don’t be a mark.

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Every time a man tries to flirt with me and starts with "You're Beautiful" I roll my eyes. I once had a man scream at me for 2 minutes for responding "Yeah. I know." (This has happened pre and post transition. Which is hilarious on its own)

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Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It does not surprise me that Ken Sim works with pedophiles and human traffickers. While we're here, is Kristi Noem still affiliated with NovaRed? It's been a while since I lived in South Dakota, but I think I have some business à to settle with her.

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Del Winters @del.winters.rodeo · 13/02/2026

oh my god??

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