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Barbara 👽
@barbsart.bsky.social
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✩ concept artist | illustrator | gamedev
✩ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ➩ portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/barbsart
✩ loves visionary sci-fi & ecology
🚫 NO GenAI/NFT
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Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Oct 24
Hi Bluesky! I'm Barbara, an artist from the Netherlands. I specialize in concept art, but also make narrative games with sci-fi and ecological themes!

You can find my previous work on my artstation and itch:
🌱 www.artstation.com/barbsart
🌱 barbsart.itch.io
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ikax.bsky.social
Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!
Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
www.wrecka.ge
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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chrisbratt.bsky.social
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
The Groyper Wars
September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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bunkes.bsky.social
One of the first sketches I ever made for Bloody Hell 2.

This was also one of my first ever isometric sketches, and I quickly learned that overdrawing engine blockouts was way quicker than doing it all by hand :))

Check out @punintendedgames.bsky.social for more!

#pixelart #gamedev #isometric
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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stevenperkins.bsky.social
Hans Moleman in the Simpsons, inside a phone booth with birds crashing into it and cracking the glass. He is talking on the telephone. The caption reads: “I need the most on-the-nose metaphor you have. No, that’s too on-the-nose.”
September 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Um... I may have gotten carried away in writing my review of Strange New Worlds season 3...
That’s what makes Star Trek inspiring. That’s why it matters. And that’s exactly what Strange New Worlds seems to forget—or worse, what those who own it want us to forget. What happened to “risk is our business”? Isn’t that why we go out in a starship, why we’re aboard her in the first place? Instead, Strange New Worlds has become hollow postmodern product—nostalgia without context—designed to reinforce cultural norms. It sells a “centrist” vision that treats fascism as just another side in a debate, while framing marginalized voices who challenge the hierarchies fascists exploit as the real threat. At best, that message encourages passivity; at worst, it actively vilifies those already marginalized for daring to disrupt the status quo. I want a Star Trek that resists the expectations of today—not by flattening villains or throwing punches, but by daring to represent a dream of a better tomorrow that we should reach for. Something new. Something braver. A Star Trek that challenges power in the present tense, that resonates with us not just as nostalgia but as a rallying cry. That speaks directly and overtly to the world we live in, the forces shaping it, and the struggles we face right now. That’s what Star Trek once dared to be. That’s what it should still dare to be. ALT TEXT CONTINUED IN FOLLOWING POST
September 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
barbsart.bsky.social
[ eurydice ] #severance
A digital illustration of the character Mark from the TV show Severance. It portrays the last scene of season 2, where Mark leaves his wife Gemma behind to stay on the severed floor with Helly. Mark, in the foreground, is drawn in a red hue. The background, portraying the door to the outside and a crying Gemma in the window, is painted in a contrasting teal hue. Mark is covered in bright red blood. His expression looks puzzled.
August 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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innes.bsky.social
still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose
August 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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djlonelygirl.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
barbsart.bsky.social
Movie you’ve watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek)
June 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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nolnir.com
I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
hail life on the verges
June 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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liabell.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Seen this going around but I’m
Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George
A Twitter reply from Boy George to JKR. JKR said something predictably terfy. Boy George’s reply: This is your obsession and it's pretty relentless and for no reason. You don't get to decided who or what anyone is except when you write. In the real world people can and always will be what they want to be. You can't stop it but you can continue to make young kids lives more difficult. You are cruel JK, you have started to look cruel in pictures. All this obsession is wearing on your expression. The pictures of you mocking 'trans' people like Winston Churchill after the Supreme Court ruling. Your endless comments about how rich you are. It's depressing and tacky and proves you are desperate to mean something but sadly you are just being mean. As my hilarious friend David Hoyle always says. 'Ladies & gentlemen and those of you still deciding. There are two type of people, nice people and c***s. I do not expect any positive response and you will continue to be supported by women who see you as some kind of gender hero. Women are not better than men and men are not better than women. As a man, a biological one, rah, rah, I have no issue with a girl becoming a boy or the other way around. As a gay man who has worn make-up since 14 l had lived my entire life feeling awkward and afraid using male public toilets. It's not easy being different and you are only making it harder. Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs. Or listen to your fellow Scott Sydney Banks and he will hopefully help you understand that this is all in your head.
June 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
barbsart.bsky.social
SEEING DAVID BYRNE LIVE NEXT YEAR !!!!!!!!
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
barbsart.bsky.social
qrp with your header art! ☀️
June 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
To be clear about my viewpoint: GenAI is only inevitable if we let it be. The only way to fight against something that we are being told is inevitable is to not use it and disprove the theory. We don't need to find "ethical" ways to create GenAI. We need to blank it out and make it embarrassing.
April 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
This article is a perf exp of how folks are going to use any excuse then can to feel ok with watching Harry Potter because they care more about getting to watch their show then systemic harm against trans people that they can distance themselves from. And Nick Frost is actively helping that.
June 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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bombsfall.bsky.social
A solo dev the size of 10 devs
June 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
barbsart.bsky.social
The season unfolded for sure.. I have a lot of thoughts but I think I’ll write a blog post about it sometime.
barbsart.bsky.social Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · Apr 12
The new Doctor Who episode was so much fun!! I already adore Belinda, can’t wait to see how the season unfolds 💙
June 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
barbsart.bsky.social
YEEESSS oh please make the creature book accurate…
June 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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mollytanzer.bsky.social
Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much
May 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
barbsart.bsky.social
Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know:
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

And all four are ICONS 💛✨
May 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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motoridersd.pug.ninja
An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666
May 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM