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margaw 🌙

@margawart.bsky.social

December 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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sun ☀️🌊

@sunncean.bsky.social

🌙✨💙
#nyx #hadesgame

December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Kirjolintu

@kirjo.bsky.social

Merry Christmas!

December 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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Matthew Mercer

@matthewmercer.bsky.social

I had the immense pleasure of chatting with Josh of Mythical Kitchen for an absolutely wonderful talk, and a mind-blowingly delicious Last Meal:

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Critical Role's Matthew Mercer Eats His Last Meal

YouTube video by Mythical Kitchen

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December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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Jupiem 🕊️

@jupiem.bsky.social

Melinoe 🧡 Trying some new brushes #Hades2

October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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Jupiem 🕊️

@jupiem.bsky.social

Deadlock my beloved 💛 #valorant #art

December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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MAF

@velnna.bsky.social

Boosting with this video clarifying that the situation isn't that bad youtu.be/h7TGzVl4fIQ?...

December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM

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lexo

@jazzums.bsky.social

let's keep him #essekthelyss

December 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Uolevi

@surkea.bsky.social

We don't need AI, but we do need a livable Earth. We can't have both.

#fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI

July 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

Monday's Premium: How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026 - the largest funder of data centers is pulling out, Oracle is suffocated by debt, OpenAI's running out of money, and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is shrinking.
Here's $10 off annual.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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judy 🌷

@judilyart.bsky.social

sweetly 💜 a full sketch page on my patreon

a messy sketch of two nude femmes kissing on a bed. one is muscular with black straight hair, holding the face of the other. the other is leaning in with her leg on the bed, with light colored wavy hair.

November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Frost || 3D Models & Reviews

@3dfrost.bsky.social

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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Elwyn Rain

@ewylana.bsky.social

5 years ago I decided I wanted to create art like the one in DnD books. I might be not here for now but I learnt a lot, especially on how to learn.

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A comparison of two drawings, one showing a rogue in brown cloak running with a rapier in her hand. The second one showing a tiefling mercenary sitting on a stone wall. A strong difference of complexity and rendering is visible berween the two.
Accompanying text : 5 years of drawing progress
What I learnt on how to grow as an artist

December 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM

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Karla Ortiz

@kortizart.bsky.social

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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2 Mello

@2mello.net

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game.

Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 13d

Keita Takahashi (Katamari, Wattam, Noby Noby Boy) has moved back to Japan, and says he may be forced to quit the games industry due to To a T underperforming.

He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.

(Read more at GamesRadar)

A screenshot from Noby Noby Boy, a PlayStation 3 game by Keita Takahashi. The screenshot features a multi-coloured caterpillar type creature with a dog sitting on top of it, as well as a man standing atop another dog behind him, and an abundance of odd creatures in the background

December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM

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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸

@tujiux.bsky.social

(adhd) sometimes it takes me 3 hours to watch a 2 hour movie.

December 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM

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.chantal//RYAN

@thoughtrise.bsky.social

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed

the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized

text says:

Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved.
Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like.
Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch.
This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Maren 🦎💚

@rennerei.bsky.social

💜💜💜

December 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Kat Tsai

@chuwenjie.bsky.social

My little brother had an idea for a game while he was still just a kid in high school. 8 years later, he has managed to bring UNBEATABLE to reality through nothing but blood, sweat and tears, and with the incredible contributions of his teams at @dcellgames.com and @playstack.com

December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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JuliArtWorld

@juliartworld.bsky.social

the last days of autumn

We already had our first snow a few weeks ago. It’s a beautiful contrast to the colorful landscape and a reminder that winter is rapidly approaching.

Autumn never lasts long enough for my liking

This was the patreon print for november.