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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 4h

These fucking guys, man

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12h

Playing Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more.

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 14h

Does anyone, anyone at all like the iOS practice of putting a whole bunch of app settings in a separate Settings app rather than in the apps themselves? It’s baffling to me.

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 05/10/2026

I brought up porn writing at today’s big meeting of all the writers guilds, and a) I stand by it b) it was a valid comparison to the issue we were discussing c) porn should be unionised too tbf

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 04/10/2026

The best kind of movie is the kind that gets exactly 50% on Rotten Tomatoes and the fresh half think it’s a masterpiece and the rotten half think it’s an abomination unto God

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 04/10/2026

Have arrived in Auckland for the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds AGM. Let’s gooooo

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway, a movie culture without the possibility of insane overpriced whiffs will be a less healthy movie culture, and I'll eat these words the day that I can say that David Ellison has taken at least three big creative gambles, but I'm not holding my breath. x

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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GOD SUEDE YOU! BLACK EMPEROR @suede.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Curious after a recent conversation: Please be honest, without looking it up can you name any New Zealand city? (Kiwis/Aussies exempt of course)

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 02/10/2026

That monkey’s paw is getting arthritic as fuck these days huh

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026

Letterboxd Holds Seance To Ask James Dean His 4 Favorite Movies theonion.com/letterboxd-holds-seanc…

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Ben Allan @benallan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If the same publication is getting called both a "left wing rag" and "right wing propaganda" all the time regularly (and they are, you will discover this very quickly when you tell strangers you work for a newspaper), maybe it's a little bit of a Rorschach test, eh.

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Marty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work.

A screenshot of a post on Threads by Joe Hill. The post reads: "Here’s a thought about the purveyors of AI. They aren’t selling assistance—they’re selling dependency. You give up on acquiring one skill after another, give up on the knotty, meaningful struggle to acquire those skills and AI takes over. It isn’t freeing up time so you can make more of yourself. It’s encouraging cognitive surrender so you can be less."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A cool thing about the world is how many movies there are one might watch. Anyway things are bad but that, that’s pretty good.

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 01/10/2026

Trump Media merging with a nuclear fusion company is like Allbirds pivoting to AI except just a different dimension of totally fucking bizarre

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No interest in relitigating the strengths and weaknesses of the sequels but the lamest take as proven by time is “but the good guys won so why are things bad now?”

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 30/09/2026

an AI cannot meaningfully be horny therefore an AI cannot meaningfully make music

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 30/09/2026

Got my tickets for THE DEVILS on the big screen, and the 24 Hour Movie Marathon, a previous instance of which was one of the two previous times I've seen THE DEVILS (or most of it, anyway) on the big screen

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 29/09/2026

Who am I gonna see at the IAWG next week? Probably nobody on here!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 28/09/2026

I really need to get “when someone tells you who they are, believe them” tattooed on some readily viewable part of my body, Memento style

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 28/09/2026

These things "work" by hoovering up your data. Your messages? Your emails and documents? Every click and mouse move you make? (Ever clicked yes to the "Enable telemetry" option?) You are two things to them: a source of data for their data soup, and a customer to sell it all back to.

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re so excited to share the trailer for BLACK SHEEPS with the world! This film was handmade with love and care (and many litres of fake blood) and I can’t wait for people to see it.

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Black Sheeps | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

debbie sounds like fun

Handwritten door sign reads “All Girls With Long Hair - Must Be tied UP.
Thank you
DEBBIE”

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 27/09/2026

Lmao I’m literally flying up the very next day for a different conference

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 27/09/2026

Shit, wish I was gonna be in the same city as NZGDC, would totally say hi

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 27/09/2026

I just wish I didn’t have this autistic brain that overthinks every single decision I ever make both before and after making it

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 26/09/2026

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Countries by how New Zealand they are

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

AI is the ideal technology for people who want problematic results but also want to dodge accountability for them. It’s effectively the same shit as Two-Face flipping a coin and calling it fate, there’s just way the fuck more coins in the air

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

I am newly a free agent again. Looking for opportunities in stage, screen, or games; in NZ/Aus/Canada; and in writing, directing, performance, editing, VFX, previs, sound design, or composition. And if you’re a producer looking for weird-as-fuck and/or funny-as-fuck genre projects…hmu dog I gotchu

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

and no. silent hill is not a therapist. it is not a crucible. it has no intent to refine you. it is an actual monster that's trying to tear you apart don't confuse "what the narrative is doing" (a character goes through a trial and comes out changed) for "what the monster is trying to do"

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

Strange New Worlds S4: big step up from the disappointing S3. Nowhere near the dizzying heights of S2, but it’s got a few eps in it that I would rank with the series’ best. Plus the puppet episode, which was a lot of fun. Only a couple clangers. I’m gonna miss Ethan Peck’s Spock when it’s over.

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

Look I have felt it deeply over the years

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

Rad. Our version didn’t have an exterior (just different rooms in the house that would get redressed while facing away from the audience) but the chase scene ending in the cop getting killed rotated through the whole “house” and was fucking awesome. Theatrical equivalent of a Steadicam oner.

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

Curious what that set did. Did it open up? The theatre I work for did a production some years back with a revolving set. Technically quite a difficult play if you go hard on props and FX etc.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 24/09/2026

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 23/09/2026

There is a whole other Top Ten’s worth missing from here (Breaking Bad / BCS, The Leftovers, Battlestar Galactica, Lower Decks, Game of Thrones, Last Week Tonight, The Americans, Severance, Toast of London) but this is my list right as of this moment. (Twin Peaks was season 3 of a pre-2000s show.)

The Knick, The Rehearsal, Andor, Bojack Horseman, Veep, The Comeback, Review, Chernobyl, Hannibal, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

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Andrew Todd @ IAWG @andrewtodd.co.nz · 23/09/2026

If only it wasn’t literally illegal for screen industry unions to strike in New Zealand (thanks, Peter Jackson!)

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