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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026
It's not good for you. It's really not.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 10/10/2026
EXPLAINING CANADIAN THANKSGIVING TO AMERICANS
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mitjili Napurrula is an Indigenous Australian painter from the Northern Territories #WomensArt
Colourful painting with stylised repeated leaf morifs, dots and orher significant forms on a white background
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m in the horror movie I’m in the cautionary sci-fi tale I’m in the combination horror movie cautionary sci-fi tale
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You're Welcome Back Anytime Lee Munn 2022
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
guess what you can disdain, distrust, & generally diss Guilfoyle w/o trash talking her face I know MAGA women change their faces so DJT will like them & I know that LITERALLY doing violence to yourself to appease men is a survival mechanism in the male supremacist society that's killing us all
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?
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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This Is Just to Say I have trained the AI to read to our baby the one you were probably expecting me to interact with Calm down AI is awesome so sweet and so cold
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dang what a quote. Sarah Gille: “One of my office mates in the general exam, the qualifying exam for doing research at MIT, was asked: How would you explain chaos theory to your mother?” Her mother coded chaos theory w Lorenz.
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AL F 🌱 (she|her) @al-fox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They were premixed specials a couple of decades ago: I don’t think I could handle it any more, ha. Definitely an efficient night out!
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An absolute giant.
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AL F 🌱 (she|her) @al-fox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh wow - that really is the end of an era. Their double Long Island ice teas were a dangerous introduction to the West End when we first moved to YVR
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
every now and then I meet someone whose whole vibe is gil from the simpsons and they’ll be talking my ears off about something and the whole time I’ll be thinking “damn the simpsons really nailed this type of guy.” but deep down i think everyone’s one bad day away from being a gil. except me
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 05/10/2026
Solo teen hiker hoisted from mountain cliff after using AI to plan route, North Shore Rescue says (Grouse Mountain)
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Solo teen hiker hoisted from mountain cliff after using AI to plan route, North Shore Rescue says - BC News
A solo hiker who used AI to plan his route was hoisted back to safety by North Shore Rescue volunteers after getting stuck on a mountain cliff Saturday afternoon.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 05/10/2026
DON'T 👏USE👏AI👏TO👏PLAN👏YOUR👏HIKE
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Libraries and parks are great because everywhere else costs $120 I swear to god
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AL F 🌱 (she|her) @al-fox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Start at the beginning of this - it’s worth it. (But this is a good spot to grab your attention)
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just having a quiet laugh to myself that the guy who wrote the "I'm a professor and writing doesn't matter" bullshit op-ed at the Times then had to immediately respond to his own article with more writing addressing the things he didn't get to include in the article. It's the little joys, really.
Joe Cruz, Opinion Guest Essayist: One thread I didn’t have room to pursue in the essay is that writing is itself a technology for cognitive offloading. It lets us put memory and attention and concentration into the world rather than carrying everything in our heads. That is enormously useful, but it might also mean that we exercise some capacities less.

The humanities and social sciences are so lopsided in privileging writing — and I suspect ease of assessment is a major driver — that we have obscured the costs to these other capacities for thought and have become lazy about imagining alternative ways of cultivating them. AI dramatically highlights the same question. 

What kinds of thinking should we be willing to offload, and what kinds do we want students to keep practicing for themselves?
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Heart of the Forest Emily Carr 1935
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are the Wildflowers Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2024
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AL F 🌱 (she|her) @al-fox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wherever you go, there you are.
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🏳️‍🌈🎃Brendan Agnew🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Dude, that's fucked up" and "Hey man, what the hell?" are a good start - works equally well with friends / acquaintances or complete strangers. Don't let your mates get away with bullshit, and don't leave it lying if some rando starts it hear you. Chuds thrive on social permission - deny them it.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
I would also like for my siblings that live differently, more loudly, more radically than I do to have the same freedoms and rights as I should have. I am not an exception or a model tranny for cohering in the ways I do. There is and should be no “correct” way to “deserve” rights as a trans person
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Alec @alecjira.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I find that, among the people it's easy for me to dislike are those who are like versions of myself I try not to be
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like, this should be the thumbnail image for any story about Musk going forward. It should be his primary image on Wikipedia. Children should have nightmares of him when they hear his name, even if they're too young to understand why he sucks.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Granny Keeping Her Eye Out Kareem-Anthony Ferreira 2021
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 17/09/2026
Context is everything 1/2
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
he did many of cher’s and dolly’s most glamorous gowns but what i will always remember most about bob mackie was this iconic look. and i think he’d be fine with that.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026
Nashville International Airport is set to be renamed to honor Dolly Parton after a unanimous vote by the local airport authority. Once the effort clears all the hurdles, it will make Nashville one of the few major cities in the U.S. with an airport named after a woman. trib.al/feFqYJV
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hummingbird IV April White ~ Sgaana Jaad ~ Haida 2006
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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