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Haradoshin! 🐛

@haradoshin.bsky.social

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

Tumblr post that says “the world isn’t kind” OK???much more importantly are you?

“the world isn’t kind” skill issue. I am

“the world isn’t kind” not yet it isn’t.

This is a threat.

December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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InsaneoBerry

@insaneoberry.bsky.social

Lil video from my setup during Spillexpo 2025 🎁🕹️❄️ Thanks so much to all the amazing people who came by, extra big shoutout to @tokestrashcat.bsky.social @velvian.bsky.social and @fennecwinnie.bsky.social for keeping me sane during the weekend and helping out tons #gingerbreadholiday #indiedev

December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

cinema_nasties 1d
Al defenders are so embarrassing

j.paulmonter 2h
All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good.

drachelbarr & 20h
• ••
Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output.
Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity.
Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk

@bpavuk.neocities.org

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

www.newsweek.com

December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM

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Clever Mia

@readvesna.com

it was a real battle but i got root motion working with the unity nav mesh agent finally. now the big problem is that without attacks, sounds, or any move anims other than a little shuffle, the enemy is Too Cute

September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Victor Nordahl 🫎

@vicnor.bsky.social

Artists and writers, quote with your queer characters!

Ty and Lukas (and many more queer characters) from my comic series "Ville Poter" (Wild Paws) 🦊🍁

#villepoter #comic

September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

UwU

“Oh did I see you posting A.I?

Instant unfollow

Are you trying to argue with me about it?

Instant block”

There is a small cartoon portrait of myself, a round-faced Asian guy with round glasses and short hair, saying, “I’m just not that patient.”

September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM

Velvian

@velvian.bsky.social

I'll never not be a fan of the prints my shoes leave behind

September 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Velvian

@velvian.bsky.social

I've been listening to and looking for more songs that encompass the feeling of a kind of "hopeful loneliness", like these ones:
Do you have any suggestions of similar ones..?

September 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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Animation Obsessive

@ani-obsessive.bsky.social

Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.

September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

lol

Signs left at the empty table making fun of them

September 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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HearthFox ΘΔ

@hearthfox.bsky.social

Some facts about Depression

Depression
Leaves You exhausted no matter how much you sleep.
Makes you lose interest in things you love and makes everything feel impossible.
Makes you feel sadness, shame, helplessness, pain and then makes you believe it is your fault.
Convinces you that people you love have forgotten you.
Can make you think uncontrollably about ending it all.
Isn't your fault and does not make you unworthy of the love you deserve.

July 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

Three panel comic:

1st panel: Two crudely drawn stick men:
Stick man 1: to make art that is popular you have to be really good at drawing

2nd panel:
stick man 2: but if that’s true

3rd panel: both characters are looking at a spot beneath the comic (where the likes are)
Stick man 2: why does this comic have thousands of likes?

August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Kirsty aka ScrapHeapChallenge

@gaydemonicdisaster.bsky.social

July 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM

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DanoGambler

@danogambler.bsky.social

First scenery piece I've done in a LOOOOOOOONG time. Feel a bit rusty, and it's not something I'm very experienced in.
I still need to practice this some more, but now I'm ready to draw some more Aardesh and others ;3

July 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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Yeet Kune Do

@yeetkunedo.bsky.social

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Velvian

@velvian.bsky.social

I know I don't post stuff very often so I thought I'd compile a bunch of unfinished ideas and concepts I have going and I'm still working on.
These are are all part of a story I have going in my mind and I'm still writing.
In no particular order.

July 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM

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Kezrek Laczin

@kezrek.bsky.social

Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens...

✨❄️🧊

(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)