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@dnotive.bsky.social

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Matt 🌈/ 🐾/🖤∞/BLM/ Minneapolis/ΘΔ Lvl. 38 • Goth-ish • 🚀 Cat Dad • Pitiful Furry • AnEx Staff • MLP Survivor 🔞 Music Producer, DJ, Writer, and Award-Winning Filmmaker! #Synthwave on @newretrowave.bsky.social contact: [email protected] linktr.ee/dnotive

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · Oct 17

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Hiya! I'm Matt, but on the internet I'm "d.notive"

The main thing you're going to know me for (if anything) is my music! I was an early darling of the #Synthwave thing so I'm an 80's nut.

I'm also a furry. I made a fursuit. My fursona's name is "Roland" like the synth company.

ME! A dark-haired dude standing at a keyboard during a live show, making a goofy face while tickling the ivories.

A black and gray dog fursuit partial looking down at its gray and orange handpaws. The wearer is also wearing a plaid/flannel shirt.

A white third-gen trans am parked in a parking lot in front of autumn foliage.

Black dog fursona with a gray jacket and orange shirt. His ears are back and he's wearing orange-tinted sunglasses, staring off screen with slightly brown colored eyes. Art by Coffinberry.

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know how the Bsky staffers are SO bad at basic optics.

Parsing through her other follows it looks like she just follows a wild variety of people? (including Kamala, Colbert) and even if she just said *that* it would still be at least marginally better?

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NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · Feb 17

Couldn’t say it better myself.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 10h

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The Hedonic Adjustments of J. Alfred Prufrock, CFA @bkmacd.bsky.social · 13h

Biblically accurate bullpen

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 1d

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 11h

No worries! I'm glad a couple of folks are finding it helpful.

𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 12h

God SAME.

It's so rare I walk away from a modern movie and go "I need a physical copy of this"

𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 12h

... but I guess if you're not interested in art and you just want to slap together "content" then... have at it?

𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 12h

... and I think, more earnestly, if we really interrogate ourselves about our artistic processes, that kind of raw, unfiltered connection with strangers is terribly scary.

I think that's the REAL reason people defend using AI in their processes, even if they don't grapple with this deep down.

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 12h

You can't make art without having meaningful conversations with the world around you. You have to go out and experience something. FEEL something. You have to make meaningful decisions. You have to make compromises.

Every single choice you make is an opportunity to build a connection with you.

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 12h

More importantly: Art is a conversation. Art is about connecting with people. Art is about wielding the power to make people *feel* the same thing at the same time.

AI creates a simulation of human connection... but that's all it is. Every prompt generated is a conversation that never took place.

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 12h

The world is full of artists putting 100% of their effort into their craft and trying to be heard. Leaning on AI to shortcut parts of the process kicks you to the bottom of my interest list.

If you can't be bothered to put your creative mark on 100% of what you make, why should I care about it?

Rick or Treat! @theotherrickfox.bsky.social · 13h

Frankly, if you're going to use AI for your cover art, then I'm gonna think you did the same for your music and think you didn't give a shit about that either.

Don't shoot yourself in the foot, musicians. Hire a real artist. Do it yourself, even. Anything but Gen AI.

Sgt. Hare Apollo @sgthareapollo.bsky.social · 14h

When it comes to music, “If the cover art’s AI, I’m passin’ it by!™”

Share if you agree

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 15h

I mean long-term mold exposure can definitely affect your brain and cause inflammation that leads to increased anxiety and memory issues... soooo, non-zero chance?

𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 16h

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 18h

🥹 I'll work on being less of a recluse for you

𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 18h

omg Happy Birthday my esteemed Blutual!

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Shimi ·⃝⃤ @shimi.bsky.social · 19h

Dear #Therians finding it hard to reach or reclaim your creaturely selves… this one is for you. Put it aside for when you struggle.

That Light Inside You…
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THAT LIGHT INSIDE YOU

That “hole” we sometimes feel in the center of us? It isn’t emptiness. It’s a light. A core. It’s what remains when every human costume forced upon us has been smashed off the floor — the pulse that refuses to die even when we forget how to listen for it. It’s a tiny space… that’s why it often feels: quiet, unreachable, hidden beneath trauma, scar tissue or silence. But it’s never truly gone.

We may meet creatures who tell us they’ve felt distant from their creaturely and animal selves; that their connection used to burn brighter, but now it flickers. I want to remind you — as the elder wolf at the table, (tending her own light) — in the midst of everything terrible and wonderful — flickering is still fire.

The disconnection isn’t a failure; it’s a season. The creature self can go underground like hibernation. The light doesn’t vanish; it waits. You can’t force it open with willpower or rationalise it into the open. You reach it by remembering softness — the warmth of breath, the weight of fur — imagined or real — the rhythm that existed before words before human thought before guilt and shame.

There were times I thought I’d lost my light too — when the world grew so impossibly loud in my head and the human masks became too heavy to lift. But every time I’ve fallen quiet enough, the light has stirred, and I’ve known she was still there: the creaturely ember that endures even when the rest of me forgets how to howl.

If you feel nothing right now, that’s OK! The light doesn’t demand anything; it simply is. Touch the earth. Breathe. Feel the wind move across your skin. Cry, bark, purr, shout, weep. Creature will feel it. It always does.

That light was never a hole to fill — it is the part of us that remembers what we truly are: whole, creatures of light and love, wild, beautiful and free — waiting to be met again.

And if it flickers and splutters? Fear not. That light inside you will come back. It never went away.

— Shimi & Critter

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 20h

What's particularly egregious about this is that they could probably have realistically done a run of 16-20 "normal" 45-minute episodes (just like we used to get) and still covered the same amount of story material. It would just require more concise beats/structure and that's the real "lost art."

QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 1d

Netflix trained y'all to accept first draft streaming movie slop. Writing has never needed commercial breaks more than rn so y'all can understand structure and story beats.

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

Based on some of the people I follow, I think this is more true than satirical.

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 22h

It's really a shame that Luc Besson turned out to be such a fuckin' creep, because I genuinely do love his movies... but "The Professional," for example, just hits different now knowing that Besson was a middle-aged dude with a 16/17 y/o pregnant gf while making it.

𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 22h

Movie poster for "Nikita"

A woman in a short dress sitting on the ground, propped up against a bloody wall while she's holding a gun and looking up off camera.

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 1d

The image is a six panel black and white comic

Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..."

Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that"

Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope"

Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine"

Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope."

Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to a campfire with the words " write that down write that down " above them

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𝖉.𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 @dnotive.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon character with hearts in her eyes is laying on a table

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