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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · Oct 17

To all who find this page, hello!

I’m an aspiring independently trained artist and writer. Mainly I draw paleoart (dinosaurs and such), but also kaiju, some specevo stuff, cartoon and retro anime/manga fan art, and general sci-fi & fantasy stuff. Feel free to follow me if any of that interests you.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 17h

Check out this animated short, it features a 🥁feathered dinosaur🥁

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 6h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT LOOKS AMAZING! The rendering and animation! The music! The visual of ground sloth playing in the snow like absolute goobers! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS

*absolute cinema*

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 First Look | Apple TV+

YouTube video by Apple TV

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 14h

I’m quite liking what I see here. The American mastodons, Arctodus and those little reptiles(?) look great. Only designs I’m iffy on are the Nanuqsaurus. Their arms look pronated and the head seems too allosaur-like.

Hope a trailer drops soon so we can get a better look at them.

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 1d

NEW #SurvivingEarth POSTER REVEALED IN MIPCOM CANNES!

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 2d

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 20h

Finally, a Thursday morning actually worth getting excited about.

YouTube thumbnails for a preview clip of the upcoming paleodoc mini-series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age and a recently released French 2D animated short film featuring a white Yutyrannus called "Tears of The Mountain".

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely grateful I grew up in a time before ChatGPT was ever a thing. At least whenever I messed up in school, I did it on my own with no AI to use as a crutch lol

Clay TN (He/Him), TTRPG Reviewer & Solo Actual Player @clay-tn.bsky.social · May 23

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 1d

It's past time to be loudly opposing the ongoing attack on the education system and boycotting gen AI and the billionaire losers betting our country's economy and resources on this slop. But if you haven't yet, today is a good day to start

Headline 1 (NPR): "What parents should know about PragerU Kids videos, ehich can now be shown in Florida schools"
Headline 1 Text: "Some videos downplay slavery, question whether humans really cause climate change, and insert opinions into what otherwise appears to be educational content for children."

Headline 2 (MSNBC): "Propaganda platform PragerU is primed to capitalize on Trump's PBS cuts"
Headline 2 text: "The right-wing media outlet has been portrayed as an alternative to PBS children's programs - and it has gotten a boost from the white house."

Headline 3 (NPR): "'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history,
Al-generated fiction"

Headline 4 (CNN): "Exclusive: Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out "woke' teacher applicants today"
Headline 4 text: "Teachers from "liberal" states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new
assessment, to be given for the first time today, that "keeps away woke indoctrinators," according to Oklahoma's top education official.
The decision to use the assessment, developed by PragerU, a conservative media company whose teaching materials are now approved for use in public schools in ten US states, opens a" (text cuts off)

Post from More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS which reads: "NetChoice, a tech industry association that represents Amazon, Google, Meta and more wants to increase Al use in schools.
They're promoting Louisiana as an example of "Al education done right."
Here's part of the image they shared in that tweet:"

Attached is an AI generated image of a teacher with text that reads "generative AI for creatuve minds - Louisiana clasrrooms" (classrooms is misspelled)

Headline 5 (Bloomberg): "Al Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring"
Headline 5 text: "Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers."

Headline 6 (Fortune): "Sam Altman's Al empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it's
'scary'"

Headline 7 (yahoo! finance): "75% of gains, 80% of profits, 90% of capex-Al's grip on the S&P is total and Morgan Stanley's top analyst is 'very concerned'"

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 1d

Re: every headline involving education

A 4 panel comic.

Panel 1: closeup of a new textbook on a kid's school desk. The cover reads "World Histeries - sponcored bye PragerU + OpenAI"

Panel 2: The kid opens the book. Page titles include "How slavery boosted the enconemy" and "12 reasons hitler wasn't wrong" along with an ad that reads "more with a pragerU subscription and another that says "10% off openAI" with a QR code.

Panel 3: the kid looks up at the teacher, lifts the book, and says "what the fuck is this"

Panel 4: an exhausted teacher, still passing out a stack of the books, replies "your senator picked it"

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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzan, an absolutely legendary artist.

He made some of my all-time favorite film posters, including the one for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Also genuinely love this one painting he did based on TLWJP. He and Noriyoshi Ohrai set the gold standard for film posters imo.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 3d

Assorted drawings I've done but maybe not shared. Fighting elephant seals, the Paleogene pantodont Coryphodon, a Black rough-necked monitor, and the Triassic trilophosaur Teraterpeton.