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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

listening to the audiobook of Howl’s Moving Castle and as much as I love the film I do think Miyazaki is a coward for cutting Howl in this fit

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Annica 🦭 @annicaseal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The first casualty of bug season has fallen into Adena’s jaws. She is not sorry (for eating it or for all the shit she knocked down on the kitchen bench when trying to catch it)

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Looey (Comms open!) @looey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I've been rewatching Frieren to prepare for s2 and i keep sloppy crying at every other episode from how relatable a lot of the character's predicaments are. they really know where to pull on the heartstrings the hardest. #freiren

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26/09/2026

*panicked yelp*

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Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of the anti non canon ship discourse is a mixture of a complete collapse of creativity and the continuing inability to not need characters to be morally pure to be interesting or worth investing in.

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feef @feefal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Inspired by a recent interaction

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🦎 LIZARDBETH 🎨 @lizardbethart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

D&D night! We're fighting a bandersnatch! Monk (piloted by another player as their primary player is out) swings at it and... DM - Miss Monk - aww, dick... DM - That's about the only uninjured part of it Monk - (rolls again) CRIT!! DM - ....their dick explodes.... why am I saying these words?

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Pearly Sweetgrave @sugarblind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(i read Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com and once again my brain has changed irreparably)

Amy Adams holding a sign that says i do not eat human meat

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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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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What if I pirate/buy second hand/etc. my Harry Potter stuff? You are still keeping her cultural relevance alive, which is how she keeps getting big money deals Also, you are immersing yourself in the creative output of a bigot. It is time to let it go. You are required to let it go.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 02/09/2026

Even aside from Rowling being an insane monster, Jesus fuck I am sick of hearing about Harry Potter

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have to say I’m really enjoying the “fuck Johnny Depp’s new Scrooge movie” side of bluesky today, what a pop culture moment uniquely suited to bring us all together

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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." Idk bro I think the ghost of Christmas yet to come should have shown his employees feeding him to the fire for warmth

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The Lovers" is now online on Youtube. An indie/crowdfunded Filipino short film by students brand-new to the animation industry. Directed by Alice Mao & Sophia Paez (Studio Heartbreak). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUa2...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened, not something that was happening, that must always be happening to her.

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Annica 🦭 @annicaseal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

lrp that said Adena will still go crazy for her favourite pom-pom ball to carry around in her mouth while screaming

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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Emily E 🌱 @emilye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

a bit of nettle & bone fanart! maybe my favorite thing I’ve read this year.. tysm @tkingfisher.com for strange old women and their chickens, middle aged romance, and also a dog made of bones

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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Dom Noble @dominicnoble.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Man, it feels like every significant British actor who I was even a tiny bit fond of has decided to become involved in the Harry Potter franchise in some capacity and they can all lick my nuts.

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Em!! @emggily.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

😭😭😭😭😭

A doodle of an artist in agony as the text "I WILL FINISH THIS CREATIVE PROJECT" repeats in the background.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/08/2026

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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FortAngel @fortangel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@tkingfisher.com has lowkey ruined most het romance for me with Paladin's Strength because *don't these people understand how much hotter it is when the female love interest is a giant werebear nun instead of a tiny delicate 'quirky' girl?* Clara/Istvahn OTP

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is fucking terrifying

Separate research supports the concern. Anat Perry, a Helen Putnam Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and associate professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, co-authored a paper in Science examining how sycophantic AI responses erode users’ ability to calibrate their own judgment. The paper found that when AI systems consistently affirm a user’s position, the user’s capacity for independent evaluation degrades over time.

Joanna Stern, NBC’s chief technology analyst and author of “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything,” has documented the creep of AI dependency in daily life. Her reporting has shown how users begin with low-stakes queries, such as what to cook for dinner or what to wear, and gradually escalate to consequential decisions about careers, finances, and relationships. The trajectory from convenience to reliance is difficult to reverse once established.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Chainsaw Man x MAPPA 15th anniversary

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We urgently need enforced disclosure of AI usage in TV shows & other media. These AI models use stolen work to displace human labour. It is reasonable to demand disclosures that let you avoid media made with them. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

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Hauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just so I'm clear, if you phone up Rowling's helpline, you are at risk of having your phone call tweeted out to her 14 million odd followers for a ridicule party?

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Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

banging pots and pans together down the street yelling that our perception of an all-white history was created by past creative decisions to depict the world at the time as all white, and that this actively plays into that falsehood for now and the future. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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Andy Serkis Gets Asked Why New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Cast Is All White Actors: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Be Doing a Politically Correct Casting-for-the Sake-of-Casting Version of the Film’

Andy Serkis' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' has only announced white actors for its cast, following the lack of diversity in other flms.

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Annica 🦭 @annicaseal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

man seeing all the hype for Nolan’s Odyssey is really tempting me like maybe I should risk the tinnitus this time…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/07/2026

MOODY PALADINS: Converting people to kissing books since 2017!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

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Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today on Decoding Everything: @carolinesiede.bsky.social writes about how Disney has forgotten that animation can do what live-action can't www.decodingeverything.com/disney-has-f...

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Disney Has Forgotten That Animation Can Do What Live-Action Can’t

The live-action ‘Moana’ remake proves realism is overrated.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

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