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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 1h

Gorgeous bird!

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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Slightly Furry® Beverage Co. @slightlyfurry.bsky.social · 10h

TOMORROW, join us for three nights of gaming passion from @fastestfurs.com! We're bringing back our cocktail special where partial proceeds will benefit Trans Lifeline, and we'll have a LIVE speedrun from our taproom on Saturday!
#SouthEndPublicHouse #FastestFurs

Fastest Furs Fall Fest, Thursday October 9th through Saturday October 11th at SouthEnd Public House - a Slightly Furry® taproom. We're open 5-11pm Tuesday to Thursday and 5pm-12am Friday and Saturday.

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Baba Is You @babaisyou.bsky.social · 8h

Fox has been added into the game, and with this we're about ready to upload the new build for betatesting!
#babaisyou

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 10h

My mom bought a Tesla a couple of months ago (ew) but I don't think we've had any issues. Although I did have to mention how much Grok sucks ("Did you hear about the MechaHitler incident?") when she used it to ask about that night's game

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RetroAchievements @retroachievements.org · 14h

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements.

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Clarifying RetroAchievements’ Goals

TL;DR RetroAchievements supports openness and celebrating retro gaming, but we will not provide a platform for games that contain illegal, hateful, or otherwise abhorrent content. Achievement sets for...

retroachievements.org

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't done that yet

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 13h

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 12h

Always great to see more of your art, Ube!

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 13h

Happy with this response. I checked the code of conduct and they now list the criteria that disqualifies a game for an achievement set, rather than just nebulously listing a set of 4 games that aren't allowed. RA is a really cool concept and I'm glad they didn't bend the knee to shitty folks.

RetroAchievements @retroachievements.org · 14h

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements.

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Clarifying RetroAchievements’ Goals

TL;DR RetroAchievements supports openness and celebrating retro gaming, but we will not provide a platform for games that contain illegal, hateful, or otherwise abhorrent content. Achievement sets for...

retroachievements.org

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 1d

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

The original Bad Bunny

The Ice Cream Bunny, huge and terrifying

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 15h

You know it’s really bad here when people are concerned about making art that shows Klan members as the bad guys

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Breezy 💖🏳️‍⚧️ @bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social · 19h

This is MY DAY >:3

Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 1d

Happy International Lesbian Day to me and the rest of us!

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RyyBOOdo @ Vacation Oct 8-22 @ryyudo.bsky.social · 20h

My dad drove us in a loaner Tesla this morning where Grok AI:
Turned itself on
Would not turn off
Instructed how to tell it to stop (did not stop)
Instructed how to tell it to play music (did not music)

After setting the volume to 0 and sitting in silence, an advertisement forced the volume back on

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drachenmagier @drachenmagier.bsky.social · 21h

I keep hearing that artists have to keep creating, to preserve hope, to make people want to carry on…

…But that is really hard to do when you scrape the bottom of the barrel yourself. Can't pass on happiness if you barely have enough to carry yourself through the day.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 18h

I've been loving seeing people look up non-social media sites of artists they love and learn stuff they didn't know, or that they can support the artists soon on tours/events! Copy me and pitch the same idea to your people. It's never been more "fuck platforms", let's find and bookmark REAL websites

2 Mello @2mello.net · 1d

Let's do a web search exercise. Think of your favorite artists and creators and find their NON SOCIAL MEDIA links--websites, stores, blogs--then share them in the replies. Also your own if applicable. Then bookmark their website/subscribe to them directly if you haven't. Let's get really connected.

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 19h

Good. Perish.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 20h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Brian R., AKA Meck, the Slightly Bionic Bun @brianrenadette.bsky.social · 20h

Happy birthday, Bro!

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 1d

Whew. Breathe.

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‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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