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Archa

@archapxl.bsky.social

Anya, the Sheep Witch

December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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cuteosphere

@cuteosphere.bsky.social

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM

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Kevin (ケビン)

@ktnguyen.bsky.social

I think a lot of translators are the same way, especially over the titles we hold closest to our hearts.

Translation requires a high degree of writing skill to make lines punch when we want them to punch, to weave when we want them to weave, and more.

Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 1d

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM

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Daiz

@daiz.moe

Let's make this clear: if you claim to be leftist, pro-LGBT, pro other minorities etc, then you MUST stand up for freedom of artistic expression, which means defending the right for legal but icky art to exist. Not doing so directly empowers the worst kind of actors wishing to eradicate minorities 🧵

November 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM

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nrcgray.bsky.social

@nrcgray.bsky.social

Here's a sketch of sailor Jupiter as a fantasy knight I did:

#sailormoon

December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM

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sekiyu

@omusubi5498.bsky.social

港のオヤジ

December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM

Voltic

@voltictl.bsky.social

perhaps mahjong is nourishing for the soul after all

A final Mahjong Soul score tally showing me with 82700 points, spiking my right-side player down to -11500

December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Will Koehler

@willk3d.com

How about an app that weighs your heart against the feather of Ma'at

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

we gotta do something about the tech world

November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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zac 3amsoda

@3amsoda.bsky.social

had to hit a hateful anon with the northern lion summon

November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Kelly Turnbull

@coelasquid.bsky.social

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM

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@okaliz.bsky.social

🐰🫳🐺🧡

November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM

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maullarmaullar ☄

@maullarmaullar.bsky.social

Happy birthday to the coolest spidor on the web! I'm always learning something neat from your streams!

#Amiyart

November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM

Voltic

@voltictl.bsky.social

New Frankenstein was so sad but so good 🥹

November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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@fakku.net

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November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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Use Piper Beam!

@roodypatooti.bsky.social

August 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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Kellen 🎃

@thetrueduckman.bsky.social

No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 8d

Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!

Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say

Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!

dlvr.it

November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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Elizabeth Smith

@instantsunrise.bsky.social

• Nvidia calls it DLSS Frame Generation
• AMD calls it fluid motion frames or HYPR-RX

Elizabeth Smith @instantsunrise.bsky.social · Nov 25

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏

@sarenstone.com

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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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💉🔪🩸kelly 'arekay' yeo🩸💉🔪

@kellyarekayyeo.com

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

Cartoon meme of Sonic the Hedgehog (from Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, Jan 1994) lying down and looking smugly at the camera with a speech bubble that reads:
“I want bad art made slowly by real people
AND I'M NOT KIDDING”

November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM

Voltic

@voltictl.bsky.social

time to finally update the media thread for the first time in months

November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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WitchOfAvalon🔞

@witchofavalon.bsky.social

Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM