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Cabramso @cabramso.bsky.social · last wk.

catching up on @rangedtouch.bsky.social 's lord of the year and this stupid 0.5 second joke has been inhabiting my brain for days.

a digital illustration riffing on the "de-bimbofication" meme format, titled "the bilbo-fication of thranduil". depicts the tall, slender and glowing elf king thranduil stumbling across the redbook of westmarch, reading it, and transforming over five drawings into the short, round hobbit bilbo.

Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, April 7, 2026, humans inexplicably stop aging, dying and being born (17776 or What Football Will Look Like in the Future by Jon Bois, 2017)

A conversation. 1: How long has it been like this? 2: On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging. 3: Ham cheese. ham cracker. cheese cracker. ham and cheese cracker. ham and cheese. 1: Why? 2: We don't know. Nobody knows.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I want every app to have a UI like Managing Your Money 2 (1996)

anthony (AFK)@panecasio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 OFF” label graphic

facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 ON” label graphic

real world photos of Tom Welling and Anne Hathaway have replaced the game’s characters

Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍 See it in action!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere.

Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes.

Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen.

iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth!

Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 9mo ago

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9mo ago

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10mo ago

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

clyde bruckman's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 11mo ago

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

CNN@cnn.com · 11mo ago

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️@usili.bsky.social · 12mo ago

the struggler @veiledshore.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

KTLA 5@ktla.com · 12mo ago

Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · last yr.

[ Bridge to eQualia ] cyber-noir webfiction 14.1k words, CC0 1.0 Universal Maggie, a security researcher moonlighting as a internet sleuth, uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism. Please share with a friend if you like it ^w^ blackle.itch.io/bteq

Bridge to eQualia by blackle

A security researcher/internet sleuth uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism.

blackle.itch.io

remy siu | 1000xRESIST @remysiu.com · last yr.

Our Peabody speech for 1000xRESIST. “This art form is barely unearthed. It’s too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.”

On behalf of sunset visitor, Nhi and I want to thank the Peabody board for this huge honor.

We put so much into this game, what we wanted to see ourselves.

We yearned for stories of the Asian diaspora to be allowed imagination. For diversity to include diversity of form. For our stories to contain risk and experimentation. As people of colour and artists, we wanted to see our whole selves represented – and for this not to be sanitized or erased to appease soft power or timid tastes.

We didn’t know if we’d have another chance. For people like us, sometimes we only get one chance.

I want to say to the game industry, resource those on the margins and seek difference. Take chances again and again. This art form is barely unearthed. It’s too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.

Always be moving, transforming. Be water.

Thank you and hekki grace.

Remy and Nhi backstage at the Peabody Awards. Behind them, a sign says “quiet please.”

sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now!@sunsetvisitor.studio · last yr.

surreal, so hekki surreal

blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · last yr.

dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night

michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · last yr.

on destroying the internet

when i talk about "destroying the internet" i guess it should be read in concert with the comparison to iconoclasm, which did not destroy images entirely, but attacked images *in specific contexts* to argue their presence there was unnecessary or harmful.

similarly, my ultimate desire would be to "destroy" the internet by changing the shape of it: a general end to ubiquitous computing, for instance, with the understanding that while connection and communication is good, yes, great, there are places where computers and the internet do not need to be, or even places where they should not ever be.

as someone who's been online for a while, i've seen the shape of the internet change a ton, and i know it's going to change again. in fact, i think the primary appeal of the internet to the capitalist class is how quickly it can be changed, how quickly it can be made to move, how many situations where access to it can be made compulsory, and how significantly your life is impacted if something happens to even one of three or four websites.

so if i say "destroy the internet" i say it with the knowledge it will certainly be destroyed, is already right now being destroyed, regardless of what we do, because profit can be extracted when they shake their ant farms and wait for us to generate more culture in the ruin.

but i think there's a utopian horizon somewhere in there, because the protean nature of the internet also means *this doesn't have to be* what the internet is, and *this doesn't have to be* how we live on it.

michael lutz@ztul.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm not saying I spent 20 years fucking around on the internet and 10 years studying Protestant iconoclasm in grad school to ultimately arrive at the position of "we should use the tools of iconoclasm to destroy the internet" but I'm not NOT saying that

Charon's Ferry: Collector's Edition @charonsferry.bsky.social · last yr.

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · last yr.

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

SharXIII @ AWU '26 @sharxiii.bsky.social · last yr.

A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · last yr.

Trans Rights Readathon is March 21-31 🏳️‍⚧️ and since it is especially needed this year, I made a booklist of trans horror authors to seek out and discover (myself included). These are exceptional works of fiction in a variety of formats, so please—take your pick (but do!)