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Edzio K.
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Angularity and reactivity. Immersive Sim. Project Anarres developer. Anarchist. He / Him.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · Mar 21
All but text is in a gradient of black to red. A woman with grafting artifact lines traversing her face, skull and neck stares toward. An expression either neutral or with an air of contempt or with a subtle note of curiosity; something of an eye caught during a violent saccade. Her right side is distorted as if through curved vertical glass panes that refract to repeating waves. Her name is white beneath a bar code — Anaïs Vos. Protagonist of Project Anarres (202X). An independent game by yours truly and @terminallyonline.dev.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · Oct 20
Leviathan (2014).

Keep thinking about this masterpiece from director Andrey Zvyagintsev. One of the best films of the decade and indeed ever made — it stares without compromise at the tidal history of a nation, all its power and cruelty and tragedy, crashing into several characters.

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With the sun low over the horizon we see a two-storey home by an estuary a cool-blue that contrasts with the warm light of the dwelling. Framed by a repetitious wallpaper, we see a woman sitting alone at a table with a gaze fixed forward as if all energy was requisitioned for a basic composure. Against a brilliant sky, slate clouds on a orange firmament we glimpse a dark ruin illuminated proudly by an improvised fire within. In the gray innards of a car likewise surrounded by a gray landscape, a disheveled figure seems utterly defeated in his downcast glance.
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d
From "Niccolo" graduation short film (Gobelins school, France).
Inspired by Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini.
And I can also feel Yoshitaka Amano's influence, clearly.
Coming October 8 on Youtube.
www.instagram.com/niccolo.gobe...
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 1d
I'll have you know these are the finest poultry medallions cut to resemble the great leviathans of old.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 1d
I rarely felt such accomplishment as taking down the Last Judge. I wasn't even upset that I was standing too close and with too little health and had to do it all again.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 1d
From the demo of Sword Hero (2025).

An incredible morsel that gestures towards a masterpiece somehow solo developed. The systemic riches of a Gothic (2001) or Arx Fatalis (2002) enjoined to a fighting system whose weight, consequence and sophistication leaves so much else revealed as milquetoast.
"How come you're back so soon?" The merchant is attired in regal purple in the cobblestone walls of this hold. Stars or silver bursts are scattered over his finery that does not veil the steel prosthetic where all that was his arm below the elbow was once. Tomes and swords and potions of hues various spill over the counter, the shelves, ground, all. Darius is his name. The point of the estoc rests over the shoulder as though a penance weight for a sinner to an obscure order. An iron grate is the sky above, channeling its softness into precise squares. Leaves and bushes overgrow the entrance into the arena whose opening is irregular like a gored hole. Death awaits at least one party.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 2d
Paul Jenkins, Phenomena: Junction Red, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136065
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Kluger
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Lobo @midnightlobo.bsky.social · 2d
it was an honor and a joy to have you & care for you for so long. i will miss you for all of the tomorrows i have left.

I love you, my silly girl,
Sheba
2010-2025

thank you to everyone who enjoyed my girl with me. she is no longer in pain.
my tortico sheba looks into the camera lovingly. she has a splotch of orange that goes up her small nose. her fur is black and white with splotches of orange throughout. she is wearing a grey sweater with a forest green collar with a lime green bell attached. her white whiskers splay out like constellations. i will miss her for the rest of my life.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
Exceptionally impressive work as usual.
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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 6d
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
I write this after having set a new personal record on dumbbell presses (40kg for 5) and incline curls (25kg for 5) this week and becoming far stronger than I've ever been at this weight.
A gym selfie of yours truly, cropped to show off the developed bicep, brachioradialis and tricep after setting a new personal record for dumbbell presses with a 191cm frame, 87kg.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
Ought throughout this thread implies can. If joint issues or ability constraints restrict you to low-weight or low-intensity exercise, then you have all of my encouragement as that still confers wonderful mobility, skeletal muscle and quality-of-life improvements beyond one's youth.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
Embrace failure where safe, especially on machines or with dumbbells. Lift as strongly as you can and develop the requisite knowledge of your body of when you can push past failure with partial reps or momentum. Either is vastly preferable to never moving the weight at all.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
For progress after years of lifting that's what it takes. If you can check your phone during a leg press or hold a conversation with a gym partner, effort is being left to waste. Increasing intensity is hard yet far more efficient than so many superfluous sets or junk volume.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
Your face is red. Your limbs or entire body is shaking. Your expression is a Max Payne grimace. The speed of the bar is at a crawl compared to your first rep. Whatever isn't directly contracting for the movement is trying to involve itself in an emergency offensive. You look like you're in labour.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
Most people in the gym who are not beginners, simply don't train with sufficient intensity. I myself plateaued for too long mistaking a merely hard set for the best I could've done.

It sounds like facile advice — "try your hardest" but so few actually know what that looks like in training.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
This is a photo of Steve Reeves (1926-2000). His physique was attained in what is called the Silver Era of bodybuilding — before steroids. He remained a natural lifter all his life.

To this day, he visibly mogs so many "enhanced" lifters. But there's really no hidden trick in his training approach.
In monochrome, a statue sculpted toward a majesty of impression. Striated muscle flaring out and around and articulating a strength that remains little peered. A countenance as commanding and handsome as any other element of conscious development. It's a black and white photograph of Steve Reeves (1926-2000).
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
I posit there's really not much that one can say that is actually novel, let alone constituting a paradigm shift. Be wary of sensationalist video titles and advice without nuance — GROUNDBREAKING. NEVER do THIS exercise. Why YOU'RE NOT GROWING. Do THIS for MAXIMUM GAINS. THE ULTIMATE EXERCISE.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
There's an entire industrial complex of influencers who try to sell silly prescriptive advice — use this supplement, stress the eccentric phase, do Bayesian curls instead of incline curls, focus entirely on the stretched position, feel the contraction, you must retract the scapula, never deadlift...
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
Consistency simply means you stick to at least three training sessions per week. Every week. Contra one herculean session on a given Sunday, genuinely fatiguing, and then not doing anything for a month and then trying to make up for it with two back-to-back sessions. Reliable effort each week.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
For a new lifter, there's really only one piece of pertinent advice. Consistency. You can pretty much do anything in the gym and as long as you're adding weight week-to-week on heterodox movements, you'll make eye-popping progress in three months. With sufficient sleep and protein.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 3d
#Fitness thread.

There's so much dubious advice out there, I feel compelled to share a little of what I've learned over the years.
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Lobo @midnightlobo.bsky.social · 8d
i love you and i will always love you
my tortico cat sheba lays in her hammock attached to a window. her little head is facing outside and she calmly and quietly observes the goings on. i loved her the first time i laid eyes on her. she has been with me for so long and through so much. when it is time, i will miss her every day after for the rest of my life.
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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 5d
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 5d
I still have trouble grappling with just how much is done in so few choices and details. It's just the epitome of style, imo.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · 5d
I cannot overstate the contributions of The Designers Republic. Their artistry is so unspeakably elegant and impressive.
The specifications of a racing craft from Team Feisar. Typography as angled as the vehicle's chassis, minimalist in ornamentation yet every choice disproportionate in effect. Among so many contributions of The Designers Republic. As though a canyon whose walls are scalloped by erosion, the vaulting storeys of a city of concrete, columns and anonymous windows. All beneath a pale sky almost occluded by the towers that rise in dominance of a horizon invisible. This is the world beyond the safety barriers of the track.
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