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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you!!! 👼

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✨ sparkle goat ✨ @sparkle-goat.bsky.social · 9h

that full pv is so cool whoa

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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Ling @l1ng.bsky.social · May 29

https://pinksea.art/did:plc:prml6levlihffkbcslznuqyq/oekaki/3lqbv3ii52kg5

#pinksea #motogp #bez

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Bertoni @thebertoni.bsky.social · Aug 24

Foto meme de um tipo de efeito dominó em que as peças ficam gradativamente maiores, um homem esta prestes a derrubar a peça menor onde o texto diz em inglês "learning to draw" (aprendendo a desenhar) e na peça maior no final da fileira o texto diz "everybody knowing what your fetishes are" (todo mundo descobrindo quais seus fetiches são).

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · Aug 20

Disappeared, right before my eyes

Black and white drawing with screen tones. A group of people from a circle holding hands in the woods. Their heads warp and their shadows stretch out as one of the people becomes a beam of light. Dark palm trees and eucalyptus frame stars overhead.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Bevil 🔜 MFF! @thebevil.bsky.social · 14h

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 9h

omg I love ThriftBooks... epic... thank you! ☺️

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 10h

this is so sick.
please read hotblood.

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 9h

YEEHAW!!!!

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sippysip the fruityjuice @emererre.bsky.social · 11h

FULL TRAILER HERE SHE IS 🐎🔥🔥🔥

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 11h

icb my yaoi is animated... #myyaoi #myanime

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⚡🐏Bad Ram🐏⚡ @deerest-ewe.bsky.social · 13h

Easily the coolest project I've ever worked on!
and with friends no less 🥹🥹🥹

YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT IN FULL ITS AMAZING!!

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

THANK YOU POLKS!!!!!!! 🥹

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vui 琪 @ anirevoTO @vuikay.bsky.social · 14h

SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS FINALLY OUT 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

TYSM CARINA!!!!!!!

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ʎǝupʎs 🌙 @sydneyjones.bsky.social · 14h

My friends are the coolest people in the world actually

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

THANK YOU!!!

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

someone call the National Film Board I'm so serious

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

RIGHT! I FEEL CRAZY! IT'S SO FUCKING COOOOOOOOOL

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 13h

*I helped with backgrounds but @alkaliblue.bsky.social did all the real work... it's my dream to produce an animated film, I'm so grateful for the opportunity to team up with ALKALI BLUE 💙 🇨🇦 #MadeInCanada

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 14h

WE DID IT! WATCH OUR PV! I'M SOOOOOOO PROUD OF THIS*

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 14h

THANK YOU RIN!!!!!!! AL & CO WORKED SO HARD AND IT REALLY PAID OFF!!!

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ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 14h

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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