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Alona in the Dark @dantalona.bsky.social · Oct 18

Since I see it everywhere, I guess I make a list of the things I like:

◓ Pokémon
◓ Nimona
◓ Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
◓ Deadly Premonition
◓ Epic Seven
◓ Suikoden
◓ Resident Evil
◓ God Eater
◓ Dead by Daylight
◓ Final Fantasy
◓ Breath of Fire
◓ Ace Attorney
◓ Bayonetta
◓ Wild Arms
◓ OCs

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wwxwashere.bsky.social

@wwxwashere.bsky.social

forcing myself to finish writing the fic i started for my own enjoyment

December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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Kelsi Jo

@kelsijosilva.bsky.social

Hey, instead of yelling at people about not using Alt text, if it's really important with you, post the alt text in comments.

Accessibility is important, yes, but let's not forget that people have different levels of energy to provide them.

It is not always malicious intent.

Spike R. Monster @spikermonster.bsky.social · 4d

i think the accessibility features on bluesky are great but because i don't use the platform often, i always forget they're there. whenever i post my art, i post the same thing on all my socials at the same time, so it's a lot of copypasting.

a screenshot of a bluesky interaction. the first post is by bluesky user spikermonster posting a drawing he made of an adult lydia deetz from the beetlejuice cartoon, wearing a victorian vampire outfit. the caption says "of the palette variations i made i think this one might be my favorite." the palette has lydia in teal lighting in front of four gothic windows showing a purple night sky.
the second post is by bluesky user kimifw simply quoting a post by jnxouaquaga which reads "How are you *still* not using alt text
Is it a blatant "fuck you"?
Advertising "I am a dickhead and cannot be forced to care"?
Bc it sure seems like it."
this user has been leaving this quote on several random posts from what it seems.
spikermonster replies: "i’m really not used to using bluesky yet, sorry. i don’t spend much time on here and i’m usually in a hurry, plus describing my own work just feels very strange to me so i get stuck trying to think of how to do it."

December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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🍓🍋🥝cozy august 🌸💐🌼 living large in lumiose

@cozyaugust.bsky.social

sycamore and lysandre looking at christmas village

December 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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Der Postillon 📯

@der-postillon.com

Gaming-Skandal: Spieler von "Buchhaltungs Simulator" arbeiteten unwissentlich für echtes Buchhaltungsbüro www.der-postillon.com/2025/12/buch...

Gaming-Skandal: Spieler von "Buchhaltungs Simulator" arbeiteten unwissentlich für echtes Buchhaltungsbüro

Hamburg (dpo) - Dieser Skandal dürfte die deutsche Gamingszene erschüttern: Spieler der beliebten Reihe "Buchhaltungs Simulator 2025" des Hamburger St

www.der-postillon.com

December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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🔥Burningbluey💙

@burningbluey.bsky.social

Words cannot describe how much I love her 🥰

Mega Audino, who I associate with Cherry Vine, AKA my girlfriend I love so fucking much and wanna be with already!

December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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Josh Foreman

@josh-foreman.bsky.social

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 5:37 AM

Alona in the Dark

@dantalona.bsky.social

Finally completed the Pokédex for Z-A. Am nowhere close to finishing Mable's quests.
Oh well.

November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Wyrdle (They/them)

@wyrdle.bsky.social

conversation in limbo
more #pokemonlegendsza comics.... Featuring L and Lysandre yayyy

1/2

November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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🏳️‍🌈Laukis🏳️‍⚧️

@laukis.bsky.social

Sure, Zygarde.

November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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daily bunnies 🐇✨

@dailybunnies.bsky.social

A brown bunny closely faces a glass door, curiously looking at a tortoiseshell cat on the other side.

November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar)

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social

As promised! (We start, of course, with Lysandre. And Pyroar + Litleo. They were playing together on the beach)

I'm pretty satisfied by the first one :)

#Lysandre #PokemonTrinacria #PixelArt #Pokemon #PokemonXY

June 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Alona in the Dark

@dantalona.bsky.social

Ich hasse es immer, wenn Youtube mir Videos "automatisch synchronisiert". Grad sogar ein deutsches Video auf Englisch. WTF?! Alter, nein! Lass mich Videos in der Originalsprache hören, ohne dass ich es erst umstellen muss! >_<

November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM

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Vina

@kataphraktanna.bsky.social

PSA to anyone thinking about playing where the wind meets , I was recommended to try it out by friends but found out that it had AI chatbot npcs and uninstalled immediately. Posting here to let people know since the game itself does not openly say it uses AI and it wasted my time today .

November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

It’s a bit funny to me when folks accuse anti-AI artists of “gatekeeping.” My dude, Midjourney charges you $60 a month for images, while real artists remind you that you can make it for free and experience the joy of the process. So who’s really gatekeeping?

November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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Greta

@loveycloud.bsky.social

pink + cat ears 💗

November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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まるの

@suketohanahana.bsky.social

ぬくぬく秋の森🍁

November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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Zeboyd Digital Entertainment

@zeboydgames.bsky.social

Placeholder images in game dev are blatantly obvious so you don't accidentally keep them. Solid colors, "WIP" text, an out-of-place asset from your last game, etc.

When a company says that an AI asset got in as a placeholder, they're either mind-boggling incompetent or lying to you. Probably lying.

November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM