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Rook

@trashbird.gay
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They/She ~ aka Vivian ~ level 39 ~ Trans ~ AuDHD ~ Twin Cities, MN I attempt art and game dev

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riri 🍙 @venusinta.bsky.social · 13h
⭐️ minumulto na 'ko ng damdamin ko 🌹 [ #oc #yumeship #wlw ]
Two characters laying in bed together. One is asleep, one is awake. The one awake is looking at the other with yearning. She touches their pinkies together. Around their wrists is a bracelet made out of santan flowers. The piece is framed, with a third character running in a circle in the upper middle as if a halo.
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you afraid of the dark?
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas
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🦁 FunkyLion 'Yuyake' 🦁 @funkylion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Getting tired of untested vibecoded ports that are just buggy and because no experienced coders are around, they can't fix it? Never fear, as I have listed decomps and recomps done by actual people and it will continue expanding! If you know any, lemme know!
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Block Block Block - Demo on Steam @woodblocksgame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking something to create this weekend? This tiny builder game where you stack wooden blocks with different shapes to bring your diorama ideas to life just updated this week with new content and is 20% off on Steam🪵❤️
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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the Unremembered. 🎨
a half body of Mismar posing with her hands with rings. she has a confident smile.
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ICARIAN @icarianarts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dianna and Kihel and Kihel and Dianna
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meg 🖤 @megrocks.com · 02/10/2026
autumn kisses
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026
Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍
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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A bold transmission. #Art #DarkArt
B/W image. grainy and gray. A tall, tall skyscraper pokes above the clouds, a transmission tower on it top, and a red recon on the peak of the mast. A crescent above the tower sprays sparks.
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TeoPyon @teopyon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🏹💥💚 (sorry for reposting again, but there where a few small things that the more I looked at them the more I hated them and so I wanted to fix them🥲) #totk #zelink #zelda #リンゼル
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TeoPyon @teopyon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
❤️‍🩹💤🕯️ #sketch #zelink #totk #zelda #リンゼル
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🌷 vanemiin 🌷COMISSIONS OPEN! @vanemiin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Been in a very Midna mood lately #loz #twilightprincess
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Zorreta @zorreta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
farewell #pixelart
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Ello @ellohcee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Artober day 1 - wings I tried to go for an art nouveau style #art #angel #artnouveau
Digital art of a fallen angel with dark fur and feathers, black on their hands and feet  and at the end of the tail. They have two main pairs of wings and several smaller wings on their back and head. The angel’s face has gold markings and stars, their visible eye glowing with a pupil that resembles a star. The angel wears gold jewelry and manacles on their wrists and ankles, chains dangling from them. A long gauzy blue fabric wraps around and drapes from the angel in elegant waves. In the background is a very stylized halo behind their head in an art nouveau style with circles of delicate flowers, swirls, and various other designs. The borders of the image are a soft peachy orange color on a muted blue background.
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All dressed up and ready for Halloween! Matching my coyote son @antoncorazza.bsky.social
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.
A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 02/10/2026
I remember falling into that same logical trap
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 02/10/2026
The best game from the worst person.
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Level Up day, @acolytesynpai.bsky.social !!
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The spooks are nigh @antoncorazza.bsky.social
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
given a quaternion rotation q, q² doubles the rotation √q halves the rotation qˣ scales the rotation by x as a rule of thumb - whatever operator you would use with vectors, like, say, addition, elevate it to the higher order operator (multiplication) to do the same thing on a quaternion
a table comparing vector operations to quaternion operations side by side, highlighting the similarities. the quaternion variants look almost identical, except they use the next higher order operator in each expression. ie: multiplication instead of addition. exponentiation instead of multiplication, etc.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it's important to consider toast's little mittens
toast (the cat) loafed in bed with his little mitten paws sticking out
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☠️ShadowZiggy☠️ [Commissions Open] @shadowziggy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Hollow Knight [Done on stream] #art #fanart #hollowknight
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People get demoralized when transitioning when they discover that beyond the initial identification of "the problem," transitioning itself will not make you happy. What it provides is the POSSIBILITY for happiness by allowing you to more easily participate in romance, community and self-improvement
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dresses
Drawings of Sei in three different outfits
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sei ⭐
Various drawings of Sei in different outfits and poses
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Momo, Umo
Momo and Umo in the middle of a jump with some magic effects around them. Their full names are Mozorian and Ukumo. They’re as traumatized as an OC should be.
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 22/09/2026
I am aware that my documentation is currently lacking, especially in regards to the management application that is used to manage the site's contents. I am more than happy to assist artists and authors set things up in exchange for feedback.
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 22/09/2026
In light of Tapas.io announcing their shutdown, it's a good time to post my open source template for running an active webcomic using a static site host. It is still very rough, but is designed to be a no/low code way for artists to control their own content. github.com/VivianVerdan...
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GitHub - VivianVerdant/gloomjam: Static site template for webcomics on neocities or similar hosts.
Static site template for webcomics on neocities or similar hosts. - VivianVerdant/gloomjam
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 22/09/2026
All the best plans are questionable
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You’re up!
Eile is pointing at you with a big smile and very questionable plans.
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Yeva - Comms open @swampedyeva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Valley of the Kings #oc #art #comic #manga
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Yeva - Comms open @swampedyeva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New vs old (2 years ago) #art #oc
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you see this, post green art
Illustration of a greenhouse-like work station. Eile is looking at a little bug on a plant. The trees on the background have eye-like barks and there is a Pheeli plushie on a shelf
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sei and Saria. They’re judging your fit.
Illustration of two smug gals looking down at you. I should’ve added a Labubu to Sei’s bag.
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 19/09/2026
I'd let them choose my fit any day. They're both very gender 🥰
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Momo and Umo. Momo is in blue, Umo is the gremlin-er of them both
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Rook @trashbird.gay · 17/09/2026
I'll take some of that candy in the bowl on the left.
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Leaf 🍉 @leaglem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Take the book, yay or nay?
A dark room filled with books an artifacts. Two characters, Ikko and Umo, are facing a desk with a book covered in cobwebs. Behind it, a character covered in cobwebs as well awaits for their choice.
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phoe @haedyllic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
11/100 hero of time #zelda
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heejaaa @heejaaa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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JoCat is not fast @jocat.net · 09/09/2026
Samus viciously choking/absorbing something while staring angrily through her cracked helmet is the hottest thing I've ever seen in my life
Screenshot of the scene described from the newest metroid ravenous trailer
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Yeva - Comms open @swampedyeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Freya #art #oc #Pleiades
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
By Jocelin Carmes
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Aki_FumikaVT Butterfly Vtuber @akifumika.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
store.steampowered.com/curator/4624... The #FallInLoveFestival is happening on Steam, hosted by @vnstudioelan.com . I will be sharing some Visual Novels this coming weekend, but please check out this amazing sale and wonderful Indie Developers <3
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Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival
fall in love with these romance-themed visual novels!
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The Sea is Our Stage @seastage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Announcing THE SEA IS OUR STAGE! A free-to-play fantasy yuri visual novel telling the tale of a nobleman's daughter whose quest to return home is up-ended by the arrival of a chaotic androgynous pirate. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1118300 #SeaStage #VN #yuri #OCs ☠️🏳️‍🌈
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The Sea is Our Stage on Steam
A free fantasy yuri visual novel in which a noblewoman uncovers her father's evil plot and, along with her lowborn friends, takes to the seas to flee from high society. Her plan to right her family's ...
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Yeva - Comms open @swampedyeva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Brutus" - Em Beihold #OC #OddOneOut
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Lumaga @lumaga.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The online shop has been updated with new keychains :D 🗝️ shop.lumaga.net
A product picture showing five diferent acrylic and softwood keychains
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