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Kris Asick @pixelmusement.com · 4h

New No-Nostalgia Retro Gaming video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/On7bDsLE-ic

Masters of the Universe: The Movie (Part 2) - NNRG Week 94

YouTube video by Pixelmusement

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Edward Delandre @dedart.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oil painting from 2023
Oil on wood 40"x30"
#traditionalart #oilpainting

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DOS Games @dosgames.com · 5h

No, YOU spent the last 45 minutes playing Jones in the Fast Lane in EGA while listening to an all-Oasis playlist! #dosgames #dosgaming

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 11h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 10h

Enshittification, explained

Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

YouTube video by CloudFest

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zaebucca @zaebucca.itch.io · 9h

Happy #PortfolioDay!
I place and sometimes animate pixels. I really like top-down environments, tilesets and limited palettes.

A top-down view of a cathedral-like structure, with many columns. At the very center, a giant baldachin, firmly standing on twisted columns. The altarpiece is mounted in a rich baroque frame, surmounted by stained glass rose window. A tall, bat-headed vampire is guarding the altar, with bats flying around. A richly adorned pipe organ can be seen to the eastern gallery. Along the transept in front of the absis, two enclosed naves host a Pietà statue and a reliquiary.
Many huge chandeliers hang above the central nave, and lots of candles are scattered around the cathedral. A few zombies and skeletons are marching towards the entrance, where a group of adventurers is preparing for battle, being surrounded.

To the side of the absis altar, downward staircases lead to the crypt. A huge skeletal dragon guards a closed gate. Many huge chandeliers hang above the central nave, and lots of candles are scattered around the cathedral.

Below the Cahedral, an underground Ossuary crypt, with walls made out of bones and skulls. An eerie light permeates the various locales, featuring grates, numerous walls of wax, monumental coffins and pillars. A Lich warlock is channeling dark magic by a sarcophagus.

The Tower above houses a giant bell. A faraway city can be seen from the terrace, as a Griffin guards the bell beam.

A secret room with four chandeliers features many tombs. There, a lady-like demon with bat wings floats above a marble coffin.

A topdown pixel art remake of Ruin Valley, from Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen. Many ancient structures can be seen emerging from the steep cliffsides and lush tropical vegetation: temples, tall palaces and mysterious pathways and towers. A moltitude of pokemon and trainers can be seen around. To the east, the ocean with tall waves and a jagged coastline. Water and fossil pokemon live there. At the center of the valley, the legendary pokemon trainer Red is entering the Dotted Hole ruins. Peculiar rock formation resembling regi pokemon are scattered throughout the environment.

A top down, aerial view of a city and its outskirts by a swampy river. The streets are filled with people, and the architecture has a distinctive early twentieth century aesthetic, with rich bent iron structures.

A collection of tiny pixel art pokemon scenes, featuring:
1. Chinchou swimming under the waves
2. Lanturn jumping above the waves at night
3. Corsola on the seafloor
4. Horsea in a cave underwater
5. Seadra in a kelp forest
6. Kingdra among whirlpools
7. Swinub at home, sleeping on a carpet
8. Piloswin taking a bath in hot springs
9. Mamoswine traversing a snowstorm
10. Cleffa hovering in space
11. Three Clefairy dancing at Mt. Moon Crater
12. Clefable in the middle of a pond, looking at the stars
13. Porygon in a strange labyrinth
14. Porygon2 running on a mobius strip
15. Porygon-Z floating in an old screensaver
16. Bonsly sitting on the porch as the rain starts to fall
17. Sudowood taking shelter from heavy rain in a mountain cave
18. Mew looking at the viewer through fish-eye lens
19. Sunkern floating in a summer meadow
20. Sunflora basking in the sunlight over a sunflower field
21. Celebi flying through Ilex Forest

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Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 1d

One of Hands
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🖼️ Prints
www.inprnt.com/gallery/helv...

🃏 The Wormsong Oracle Deck
helveticablanc.bigcartel.com

A single red hand reaching upward toward a black circle. The background is filled with collaged sheet music.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 8h

Cover by Bud Sagendorf.

Popeye the Sailor #67 (1963). The cover features Popeye, Olive Oyl, Wimpy, and Swee’Pea looking on as the ghost of Patcheye the Pirate, Popeye’s great-grandfather, rises from a treasure chest. His parrot, Matey, sits on his shoulder.

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Burger Chef (seeking Jeff) @bansheefunk.bsky.social · 5h

Dem fighting werd, Bubsy

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Matt "These are the fun posts" Presents @mattpresents.bsky.social · 8h

I'm playing that new Jimmy Neutron game
www.youtube.com/live/g_LGdVn...

Jimmy Neutron and the Dice of Destiny

YouTube video by Matt Presents

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 11h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 7h

Hit “Notify Me on Launch” so you don’t miss it!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/2o4...

Coming soon: Sony: Personal Audio - A Visual Journey 1955-2025

A visual tribute from Obsolete Sony celebrating more than seven decades of Sony personal audio devices!

www.kickstarter.com

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 7h

I’ve spent the last year working on this. Every iconic Sony portable audio device ever made, all in one book. Kickstarter launches in one week.

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 12h

hard at work

illustration of a white sheep sewing a quilt- the sheep uses an antique-looking black sewing machine with yellow and blue folk art flowers on it. the quilt is made of different fabrics, all with a floral theme. the sheep has her tongue sticking out to show the utmost concentration.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15h

Eric Trump is legally prohibited from operating a charity in the state of New York because he stole money from children with cancer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

Please enjoy a 1910s Chaplin paper doll in these trying times

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 14h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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ACID KEG COMICS "The Housewife's Friend" @acidkeg.bsky.social · 11h

Go Team Geek!

Jamie Hewlett illustration for Naples Comicon.

#comics #comicart #jamiehewlett

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11h

"The activism being done in the underground and its various levels of online / offline community is not meant to be glamorous. It’s not “content” to be shared by influencers as a slickly edited TikTok, or an edgy tweet, or an Instagram slide deck. It’s the un-monetizeable and deeply unsexy work"

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11h

Activism and community building online may be critical, but it's also increasingly subject to surveillance. Trans and queer activists are looking toward new models, with degrees of visibility that balance safety with surveillance, just as sex workers have learned to do.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 11h

This is the who the gop is

They cannot be negotiated with. They cannot be compromised with. Anyone still arguing to reach across the aisle needs to be primaried and forgotten. Any pundits or columnists arguing for bipartisanship need to be ignored

These people are hostile, act like you have sense

Politico @politico.com · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 17h

Web design trends in 1999

– Backstreet Boys
– Bikini
– eBoy
– Mortal Kombat

#WebDesignHistory

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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