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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That’s good Bluesky

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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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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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RichaadEB @richaadeb.com · 08/09/2026

abiding consentless data theft and the collective lowering of education and consumer standards, higher prices and utility expenses, promises of mass job displacement and unregulated environmental impact in exchange for "being more productive" doesn't make you savvy, it just means you're a mark.

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Orin 🚀🦏 @orinoxide.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do Not Engage. The UK media are not in the business of presenting subcultures and minorities in a positive or even sympathetic light. If you are in any way outside the mainstream you are a potential target for the next moral panic.

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Hiro! @a-dragon-from.space · 29/08/2026

Hey, critters. The media's interested in furries again. As someone who's been in the fandom for well over two decades and has worked as a journalist, here's a quick guide to Dealing With The Press: If a journalist approaches you, SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUC

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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 26/08/2026

State of SaaS

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Viscera 🔞 @viscera.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

use face wipes when you can't wash your face. Have disposable plates for when you can't do dishes. fold your laundry into a bin if you can't sort it into the closet. graze on your fridge contents if you can't cook. put rainbow foil on your windows so you don't see how dirty they are. who cares

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maya apparitionpussy @membrane.hellstar.plus · 28/12/2025

wrestler who loves databases named John Schema

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SplotchDog @splotch-dog.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sometimes furry art can celebrate it too in really cool and creative ways, which I've seen you do to great effect. In fact I was reminded of this when catching this video that really celebrates Black Caribbean culture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDBw...

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SOUNDKILLAZ - Razor Sharp V.S. Ruff Rydas

YouTube video by pepoeke

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Instant Transmission

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 14/07/2026

Friendship for artists in their 30s is just spinning the slot machine to see which one of us gets the depressive spiral this week

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I genuinely think that a lot of creative processing happens while waiting, like in a lineup or for a kettle to boil. I never noticed how much I was missing that until I started doing my ”offline” months. Doing nothing is very important!

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

hating your art is not a virtue, it's a sign of burn out or mental illness. the same way your muscles ache if you exercise too much or your stomach hurts if you're starving. learn to identify it as a sign you're pushing too hard or expecting too much of yourself somehow and check in with yourself.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 22/06/2026

With ALT text. It also should be noted that all of those things are still available. Stop using genAI & search on your own. The reality is that living under capitalism means they will monetize anything they can get their hands on & convince you that you need to buy it from them. You don't.

:Screenshot of a Twitter/X post from Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14.

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts, & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

19:30 - 20 Jun 26 - 2M Views

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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VIRTUAL DOG 💥 @heychikinan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I didn't know they had ads like these in the 70s 🌈 (mixed media collage, happy pride everyone!)

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SplotchDog @splotch-dog.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Furry parrot drag queen named Polly Amorous

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✨Kirm✨ @antonballdeluxe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.

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☁ CorrieZodori - (18+!) - COMMS CLOSED @corriezodori.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A reminder of where I stand. Thank you freaks for being the backbones of society. 💙🔥 #furryart #zodoridoodles

A color drawing of a pastel furry spitefully laying down and gesturing their hand up to some text that reads

I don’t want your AI slop

I need art made with the loving hands of horny weirdos

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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tyreforhyre @tyreforhyre.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

even if you're like me who is a fucking wooden board you gotta follow people who are into being transformed into an inflatable goo dragon to exercise the plasticity in your brain into understanding that the internet shouldn't be full of people only talking about their chipotle burrito bowls

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ZeTrystan @zetrystan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm searching for something to protect my sofa from Blue's nails, and I find it funny how obvious some of the art was made by a furry artist. Good for them ahah, get your bread.

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s really frightening.

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may 👑 @fawndly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

ok well this made something click in my head for some reason

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woob @woob.zone · 20/05/2026

think i just got the perfect Dwarf Fortress notification.

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Oatmeal 🍎 @oatsterz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Whenever a post of mine breaks out of the usual furry circle it looks like this

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 20/05/2026

Just swimming by to say hello.

Ink painting of a sea lion with their head above water. Below water their body is very inky and blurry.

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琥狗ハヤテ @kuku-hayate.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thank you for always liking and reposting 🦊💕 #Soup

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Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The only way to know for certain that an image wasn’t made using Generative AI 🖋️

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cola @colamander.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

tomodachi life living the dream

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օttr @fangfluff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

reference.mp4

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ONSTA ☕️ VTUBER💫✨ @onsta.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

EVERYONE!! IMPORTANT NEWS 👁️👄👁️✨ If you'd like to catch up on @dilfosaur.bsky.social and I's chaotic production of Chilchuck's Inferno... THE PERFECT WAY TO IS HERE. REALITY TV EDITS AND ALL. (All My Heroes Are Deaf, you're my hero 🥺) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Je...

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BLORBO ISLAND REAL? ONSTA AND KARINA IN ON IT? - CHILCHUCK'S INFERNO #1

YouTube video by all my heroes are deaf

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jude paw picture diary 🔜 TFCON ORLANDO @judepaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

i am really sick of the anti-sex attitude in fandom in general. "gooner art style", "this is for gooners", "the gooners will ruin this" PLEASE get off the internet and experience life, demonizing intimacy makes you sound sheltered at best and like a demented Baptist boomer at worst

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Kris 🐾💜✨ @krisispiss.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

saw a post about art discourse over using references, and while I agree using references is normal and should be done, the post said to "draw a horse riding a bicycle from memory" and I just wanted to try cause it sounded fun

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I love that at heart Minecraft does still draw inspiration from Dwarf Fortress, in that this guy decided to build a particle accelerator to remove a zombie instead of just hitting it with the stick, which is true DF behaviour

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SplotchDog @splotch-dog.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Using an Atom Smasher to tenderise my mobs.

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Arkie🌸 🔜 Furrific @soulsilveriv.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Now now, don't go calling Nigel Farage a cunt. He lacks both the warmth and depth of one. 🙃 But yeah, this is straight out of Trump's playbook, god damn.

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