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mouthful of honey

@braindrill.lol

January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM

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MintyChip ΘΔ

@mintychipart.bsky.social

January 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM

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Katie Croonenberghs Art

@kamakru.bsky.social

Hey remember how all of Mississippi was blocked on BlueSky due to an age verification law?! They're going to try to do that in Washington State! COMMENT and CALL on this one!

www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

January 11, 2026 at 6:36 AM

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Element★

@elementpnw.bsky.social

hey guys, washington state is attempting to sneak through a mandatory age verification bill like the ones that have gotten NSFW sites and sites that host NSFW content blocked in various other states and some countries, please help and submit a comment opposing it

app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

Send a comment

app.leg.wa.gov

January 11, 2026 at 6:26 AM

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Jackal

@forestfright.art

I know that you're empty, I know that you're empty
#ffrightart

January 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM

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Cariboops

@cariboops.bsky.social

Bit of a painting study based on Rembrandt's "Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes." Though the subject is now a big bear man, and the banquet is thankfully ending with belly rubs!

A digital painting of a fat polar bear man seated comfy and contently in a soft chair. He has one arm resting on a clothed table with an opened book on top, while the other arm gently caresses the top of his plump belly in between his soft pecs. He's wearing orange drapery on his forearms and hips that flows downwards like a waterfall of cloth. There's also an orange cloak around his neck and shoulders that's pinned by a jewelled golden broach, with a chain of jewels attached to the broach that curve onto his shoulders and under the cloak. He has even more elegance thanks to the golden beads around his wrists, and a set around his neck that is buried in the thick fur there. There's two canine people in the room both looking in wide-eyed awe at the bear, with the foreground canine reaching a hand forward with hopes of touching the bear's big gut. Something I'm sure none of us are also thinking about. There's the signature of the artist on the chair that reads "Cariboops F: 2026" in cursive writing.

January 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM

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USFWS Most Wanted ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️

@wolf.moda

January 11, 2026 at 1:14 AM

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ev

@diannasoreil.bsky.social

thanks zero thats really cool of you to say

January 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM

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Stephen Pierce

@stobor.bsky.social

Audiophiles: “you need artisan 8 gauge length-matched copper shielded speaker cables”
Tay:

January 10, 2026 at 11:33 PM

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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.bsky.social

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

Kotaku @kotaku.com · 1d

Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.

"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."

https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429

January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM

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AXEL LYCAN 🔜 FC

@axellycan.bsky.social

I like to call this Magic Box Syndrome.
A belief that computers are far more capable & advanced than reality because they can't tell the difference between animation and physics simulation, a unique credulity for hucksters pitching too-good-to-be-true replacements for intellectual/artistic laborers.

Kotaku @kotaku.com · 1d

Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.

"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."

https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429

January 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM