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FAT IS THE UNIQUE BEAUTY

@hugepawbs.bsky.social

December 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Matt McMuscles

@mattmcmuscles.bsky.social

People begging for Switch ports of 3DS games that are still trapped on there, and we got this. 😑

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10h

Virtual Boy accessory up for preorder for Switch Online Members www.nintendo.com/us/search/?s...

December 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM

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🦝🏴🔥 AntiFa Trash Panda Won’t Calm Down 🔥🏴🦝

@kittystryker.bsky.social

Shopping small is meaningful!

@Ilyndseybelle
this is what 50 bucks means to a small business. $50 is nothing to a billion dollar company. start shopping small

@meownikaa
whoever just placed a $50+ order in my shop, thank you so much that literally just paid
for half of my groceries tomorrow

November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

WE CAN MAKE THE INTERNET FUN AGAIN

THAT IS WITHIN OUR POWER

MAKE A WEBSITE

PUT ALL YOUR DUMB SHIT ON IT

SHARE IT

NOLNIR ✨🌠💫@ indefinite hiatus @nolnir.com · Jun 20

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 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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Rami Ismail (رامي)

@ramiismail.com

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.

There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM

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SeymourCox

@realseymourcox.bsky.social

As I thought more about platformer ideas, a crucial detail hit me. In a 3D platformer, a good chunk of time will be spent seeing a protagonist, from behind.

So here's Altesia the snail! Of course her shell fits her, silly! Just gotta, yknow... cartoonishly resize to make it work!

Lineless drawings of a potential platformer video game protagonist; Altesia, a grey snail woman with a red shell, a bandana, hi-top sneakers, and fingerless gloves. She is bottom heavy and has defined "whiskers"

December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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Only Jerry

@dahecksajerry.bsky.social

Happy Chrismin, have a Pokémon themed 12 Days

December 23, 2024 at 12:34 AM

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Fatty's Den (MINORS DNI)

@fattysden.bsky.social

I have a message and I wanna share it in the most memetic way possible, plus with a cartoony fatty too for y'all! Likes and rebleets appreciated to spread the word!

#fat #fatfetish #weightgain #expansion #bbw #chubby #pinup #nsfwpinup #lewdpinup #art #nsfwart #cartoon #nsfwcartoon #thicc

A drawing I made based on the "I Want Shorter Games With Worse Graphics" meme. This picture contains a cartoony blonde SSBBW posing seductively, drawn in the style of Shane Glines. The words in the speech bubble around her are as follows:

"I want independent cartoons for adults funded by suspiciously wealthy furries and fetish/kink lovers made by both animation industry workers and fetish/kink workers to promote sexual freedom and in order to reject corporate hegemony and I'm not kidding"

December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM

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Josephine, Devourer of Worlds

@josephinedragon.bsky.social

The two fuckass toads from New Super Mario? They look like this actually

My mind’s eye said so

September 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM

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Sarah Andersen

@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

The image is of a comic titled "Winter."
Panel one depicts monarch butterflies flying. They say, "We take a long journey south."
Panel two depicts a bear hibernating underground. It says, "I fall into a deep, impenetrable sleep."
Panel three depicts a squirrel holding an acorn, with other nuts scattered around it. Off camera, someone asks, "How do YOU survive?"
Panel four depicts the squirrel having grown enormously round after having eaten all the nuts.

December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Buhk

@buhk.mustelid.party

Backed up 🐺🦌

December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Dominic Tarason

@dominictarason.com

Sabrina Carpenter: Braver and more powerful than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4d

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

This is the way.

December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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Mads Sherrick

@sherrickmads.bsky.social

wheatley in the tumblr sweater :3

October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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☁️TORI.PNG☁️ 🔜 HOLIDAY MATSURI

@toripng.com

🌐

#art

clippy drawing that reads "have you considered using your brain instead of asking chatgpt?"

November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Yay, Sound of Joy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

@yeaunganimation.bsky.social

Old #animation of Iago.

Rip : Gilbert Gottfried.

November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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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

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Tyler, from the Internet

@tylerfromtheinternet.com

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 10d

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

www.windowscentral.com

November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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2 Mello

@2mello.net

Feels like this is probably the ideal year to stop even hate-watching and live-posting the game awards. I feel like we can exercise that amount of restraint and self-love, yeah?

November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM