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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trying to figure out how to say "fairy" and "ferry" in a way that makes them sound different. And without making any of them sound like "furry". I feel like there should be some small indie game called "Furry fairy's ferry" where you are a furry fairy, ferrying people across a lake.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One thing with generative LLMs in indie game development is that now, more than ever before, a game can look on the surface as if a huge team spent years making it only to then reveal that the actual human design choices wouldn't go past a second draft under any circumstances.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not going to even attempt to join in on Inktober but I AM going to look at cool stuff other people do!

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sharing this in part so I find it easier (even though I've saved the post but I forgot about that site function all the time) Not sure how many I'll do but I hope it'll at least be something.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know how posts have a language selection? It used to be that it changed to whatever I had selected last - if I had answered a post in swedish the next time I wanted to post something swedish was selected. But now it seems to always turn to swedish no matter what.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split image of fine red needles of cuprite on one side and chunky clear quartz crystals on the other.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listening to british stuff on youtube and it's amazing how british english can sound so smart no matter what the person says, but also so stupid no matter what the person says, all depending on dialect. Though, I guess that's true for all languages, if I think about it.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What it feels like taking photos of shiny things.

A hand holding up a painted pendant, but it has a shiny surface and the light hits it in such a way that it's very hard to see what's on it.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know we live in the overstimulation era of the internet but I for one think not every video needs a voiceover and background music. 😐

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Added a thin layer of gold over red on a pendant and the effect is so cool where it gets orange-red in shadow but simply gold with direct light on it! An effect that simply doesn't show at all on a photo or at least not when I'm trying to take photos of it.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux has done some good sculptures! Sure, most of them have a bit of that rather typical "classic" look. Nothing Earth-shattering. But inspiring and I really like the facial expressions on many of them!

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The strawberry overkill @tsoverkill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And here's my moon art for the harvest moon last night as a gallery. I do make a lot of moon inspired art 🤔😅 #moon #harvestMoon #FullMoon #moonArt #sketch #artSky #art

Sketchbook page with an inkpen sketch in it.

A sickle moon with a content looking face turned toward the upper left, the eye just an empty hole like in a mask.

Below that an electric guitar with a glittery pickguard held by two hands coming out of the dark background.

The background is a starry sky turning into a stylized, silhouette forest made up of naked trees diagonally from the bottom right to the upper left.

Calendar turned sketchbook.

Inkpen sketch of a portrait of a female figure with a giant moon for a head.

Her face, on the other hand, is the appropriate size for the rest of her body, thus looking very small on the big moon surface. She is looking at a melting ice-cream scoop, with a pattern resembling planet earth, in a cone that she is holding in her hand.

She is wearing some kind of futuristic looking space suit.

In the background a dark starry sky.

Calender turned sketchbook on a grey surface.

Inkpen sketch portrait of a female figure with a moon for a head, the upper right part is designed as a sickle moon, the inside is black with the craters shaped by white dots. On the inside the facial features are created by white lines, except for the upper lip and eyes, which are created as usual.

She is holding up a hand to her lips in a shushing motion, the other hand is bracing the huge moon head.

She is wearing a crinkly dress.

In the background there's a night sky with stars and clouds.

Photograph of a calendar turned sketchbook lying on a dark grey surface.

Black and white inkpen sketch. The motif is designed to look like a portrait

A mask is hovering above empty upper clothing.

The clothes are minimalist and strict, a heavy fabric collarless jacket with round, decorative buttons, inside there's a white shirt with a simple round standing collar.

The mask is a sickle moon shape with a curled up upper tip, below it's designed like a human face, the inside of the moon shape is empty.

Behind all that an empty, starry night sky, the moon is in the middle of the masks eye hole where it looks like an eye, to the left a star also looks like an eye where an eye hole would be.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did a proper, once-a-year kind of cleaning of my work space and now I can't find things. I'm never cleaning again. The dust bunnies can overthrow me, I don't care.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes but what of the early worm? …to shreds you say

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joubin's squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) is a funky, little squid that looks like one of those head massagers. It has a max mantle length of 9 cm and a long tail which is thought to mimic sinophores. They are also the closest relatives to the even more lanky bigfin squids (Magnapinna) #SQUIDtember

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean. The squid is very thin and has a orange colour. It has a long tail extending from its mantle and is waving in the water. Its arms are long and thin, and are extending out and curling back in. The arms are a slightly orange off white.

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean, with the camera centred on its head. It has black beady eyes. Its arms are long and thin, and are extending out and curling back in. The arms are a slightly orange off white. Its body is thin and is orange. Its tail is outside of the frame.

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean. The squid is very thin. Its mantle is off white and the rest of it is reddish orange. It has a long tail extending from its mantle and is waving in the water. Its arms are long and thin, and are loosely spread out.

A close up of a Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean and reacting to the ROV. It has black beady eyes. It has long, thin arms that are mostly white but they have orange chromatophores on them. The chromatophores are more visible near its head. Its orange body is quite thin. Its head is in the ROV's shadow.

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The strawberry overkill @tsoverkill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now she's all dressed up and ready for her tea party 🐙🧡 What do you think about the finished piece? Would you like to join her? #octopus #artsky #sketch #surrealism #art #originalArt #tea

Calender turned sketchbook on a wooden surface.

In it an inkpen sketch of a skinny, elegantly clothed young woman with an octopus for a head, the tentacles curling in front of her.

She is wearing an elegant black satin corsage vest with a short sleeved white blouse underneath, a short, black pleated skirt, nearly knee high suede stilettos and under that bright suspender stockings with an octopus like pattern on it.

She is sitting, legs crossed in a very upright stance, on a vintage style wooden chair at a fitting café table, a cup of tea delicately held up with one finger and braced by the rest with one hand, the other hand is reaching for a cupcake with a creamy topping on a plate on the table.

On the coffee table there's, from left to right, a simple vase with some plain, stylized flowers and leaves in it, a sugar dispenser, a saucer for the tea cup and behind that the plate with the cupcake.

Above her an elegant lamp with beads and string hanging from it.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wonder what effect Trumpism is going to have on fictional villains in the future. Or if it already has had an effect on how villains are written.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am once again whining a bit about how phone cameras take away colour and increase sharpness, effectively ruining the shine and softness of any kind of paint. There are solutions but I have a cold and am also lazy. Complaining is more low effort.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not 100% done yet but so far I'm happy with it! There are some absolutely gorgeous paintings of snail shells out there and I hope to become at least decent at it myself one day.

A hand holding a dark stoneware clay pendant with a snail shell painted on it with acrylic paint.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know Garfield cartoons aren't known for high quality. It is what it is, it does the job. But in a time when AI stuff is everywhere with it's soul-less abundance of detail, I look at these screenshots where every wobbly line was made by someone who looked at it and was like "that'll do".

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i have a different depression for each season

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Har precis lärt mig att smultron heter "wild strawberries" på engelska och känner mig faktiskt lite... besviken?

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'll probably work a little bit more with it but in some lights it looks kinda yummy! (Also I'm painting the clay stuff again and I'm proud of myself because everything is kinda unnecessarily hard right now)

A hand holding a dark stoneware clay pendant with a red berry, perhaps a kind of strawberry, painted on it with acrylic paint.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wonder what mineral would have to be up against quartz for me to not vote quartz. I say I love all minerals but in reality I kinda do have favourites don't I.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's the rest of the (non-green) troupe.

Medieval helmets that look like Gonzo, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie, and Sam The Eagle

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

again, if a voting bloc supports the candidate that says "we need to eradicate ALL maple trees," you're not going to peel away their support by saying "well, we propose to only eradicate HALF of them" because you've agreed that maple trees are a problem and why would they vote for a half measure

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Vaccines are so cool but why does that image look threatening? 😅

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If I added some leaves on their head, would they look like a fruit or berry? 🤔

Digital drawing of a reddish orange, anatomically incorrect octopus.

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René Campbell @renecampbellart.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Added in the shiny reflections and he is pretty much done. I'd like to touch up certain areas after resting for a bit, but I may as well show him off early. This is "Regal", a male Australian blue swimmer crab that took nearly 250 hours to paint, spanning over 3 years #sciart #crustmas 🦀

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not the intelligence of the machine that worries me - it's the intelligence of the people building it.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know old houses with dust and cobwebs are common scary things, BUT... Imagine a house in the woods: It's dark and cold - no lights nor heating. No perishables or anything like that anywhere - no food and no plants. But the entire place is spotless, clean and looks new.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"How do you make all these comics so fast?" "AI makes all illustrations for us" Meanwhile, in the next room, illustrator Anna Ingvarson cries from sleep deprivation.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't comment on things on youtube so just moving this over here to write down some thoughts (so I can get them out of my head) Comics with different languages is, I think, rather fun problem solving. It all depends on how different languages are used. These are good ways to do it, but...

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Characters speaking other languages? Don't overthink it!

YouTube video by Bad Ink Studios

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Found a weird guy. I saw a leaf moving despite there being no wind and when I went to pick it up, something retracted inside. It was very alien.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The impact of a title.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Welp. Now I want to learn how to paint on clothing.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oodly doodly. I remember at some point in my childhood I realized how easy it was to draw mushrooms and then I just drew lots of mushrooms because it was so fun because I had just figured out how to do it. Same when I figured out balloons and cake pieces. Good times.

Digital doodle sketch, slightly surreal in nature, with a person who has mushrooms growing on one side of their body and with a lot of hands on the other side. The pupils and irises are blank white and the whites of the eyes are fresh blood red.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Papier-mâché miniature fawn. The figure is mounted on a screw that goes through the back of the box. - #SciArtSeptember Day 7: Fawn 🦌

An photograph of a tiny sculpture of a fawn suspended in a small wooden box. The fawn appears to be leaping. The back of the box is lined with green and gold paper. The box rests on a wooden table.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Woop. Frustration doodling. Therapeutic.

Digital doodly drawing. A more or less human shaped, green creature with unknown number of limbs is floating in a pinkish void with an, in comparison, blue whirl over their head, seemingly sucking them away to a different coloured void.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is peak human. If you don't look like this you're ugly, I'm sad to tell you. Also I can't draw anymore. I'm lost.

A rough, digital drawing of a distorted, green human.

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Shade of Stars @shade-of-stars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Snails. Each drawing is small, 15x15cm, watercolor pencils and colored pencils.

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve seen it >100 times, but I’ve never been about to capture it until now. Presumably, it is spawning (but I can’t be positive). But what is the green cloud, and what is the smaller blue squiggly??? #blackwater, #blackwaterdiving #polychaete

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok, I've read through this article about Leopardus tilcayo and it's cool and all but I wonder if left out the cat's name on purpose. He's ten years old, lived in captivity for basically his entire life, so what is he called? (This should not matter but I still want to know)

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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.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm listening to a lot of stuff on youtube and I know that environment is exhausting and just plain bad for creators but whenever someone more or less starts their video with "don't forget to like and subscribe" it quite often just makes me not watch the video at all.

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Zxo @zxomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even though they aren't very similar, they still makes me think of SCVs from Starcraft somehow. Which makes me wonder what a full RTS-game with crabs could look like :o

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