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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Excited to see @lizthegrey.com and @hazelweakly.me speak about Observability Engineering at the SRE NL meetup now

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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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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I feel like there are people who admit they benefit from compiler assistance and people who wrongly believe they're perfect or somehow otherwise better off without it

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

But then it is possible hiring people to do that is cheaper than it was to pay for the old vendor software and the people to look after its integrations

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Please share with the class and teach me when you know. I've been trying to do something similar for the last few years and struggling.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The story feels tailor-made for Bluesky

Screenshot, white text on black background. “When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in, and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies,” says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University who led the study.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Got a similarly simple solution to the Transgender issue. Just let people transition and be fucking normal about it and mind yer own beeswax

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There really is a simple solution to migration. And its to be fucking normal about it and stop being a nationalist racist

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

youtube.com

Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why.

YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Do me a favor. Respond or quote this with the most recent piece of media (book, short story, album, painting, statue, game, anything) by a *trans creator* that you loved. Drop a link. Boost their signal.

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Be right back, writing a VC pitch deck for a worker co-op where all decisions go via the CEO chatops bot

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I feel like when I'm vibe coding, I don't feel as much of the reward from things working as expected, and also am more vigilant and paranoid than usual about the code

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Folks doing platform engineering and developer experience work on stuff like this and might be worth investigating in your future

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Uh oh, I've never thought of it like bottom experience helping with being a good top

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

When I used to be in a boymoding era, and came across as both trans femme and trans masc, I remember getting this both ways, and it was hard to tell sometimes whether the person was trying to be right or intentionally wrong

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm surprised that those letters are in alphabetical order, but maybe shouldn't be

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I hope you now have the space to process and heal

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 13/11/2025

if you can't embrace the fact that you suck at a thing and keep being bad at it until you get good enough that you stop being bad at it, you'll never get good at anything

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I probably use it wrong, because it's never felt like a welcoming community for me

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Brooccubus (sinmounds and lustbait) @gymbrat.northsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tapping the sign

r/trans

u/RedRhodes13012⚫ 4h

Seeing people deflate when I explain simple facts of my reality bums me out.

Vent

"No, I can't go on that cruise to Italy with you, because I'm struggling to get a passport that doesn't put me in danger. I'm scared I might have trouble getting home."

"Yes, I'm looking at other job opportunities/leaving my position working at school, which I love so much. It's becoming unsafe for people like me to work with children
- I got a death threat the other day."

"Will the doctor/therapist/etc. you're recommending be safe for someone like me?"

"Before I meet your parents, I need to know if they know about me. Will I be safe?"

"I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue, I'm sorry."

Seeing it actually register on people's faces that this is my life- that these policies are real and affect real people they know and love- is a really bitter pill. On one hand, it's sad to have to break such depressing news. And on the other hand, it feels so isolating and infuriating that people who love me apparently have no clue any of this is happening unless I take the time to inform them.

Just needed to get that out. Thanks for listening.

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Long before LLMs, there were sites with people writing a lot of words but not saying much at all

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

They realised they can't explicitly do conversion therapy anymore, so now they just terrorise young trans folks by dragging them along forever instead. It's evil, and one day hopefully there'll be justice.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

PinkNews has long been a trash bin website. Do not use their materials

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I can tell other people that some amount of sadness and disappointment is worth it for the opportunity for joy, but why do I also need to learn this myself

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

More seriously, AI psychosis is very concerning

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The reason AI is boyfriend, is because it is difficult for it to have less humanity than a lot of people on dating apps or running a lot of the world.

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

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Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

today is Trans Day of Visibility see, you are transgender

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

this week's post is about how trans visibility is, somehow, a threat to power margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-visibi...

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Our Visibility is Somehow a Threat to Power

or: on Trans Day of Visibility

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

humans are not designed for the amount of feedback being a public figure on social media provides. Whether it's praise or criticism, receiving an avalanche of nonstop attention is profoundly corrosive to your brain.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/02/2026

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.com

Fact Check: Jesse Singal Lies About Trans Care At The New York Times

The New York Times spreads misinformation about transgender people yet again.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

maybe this makes me weird but when someone who irritates me goes out into the world and does a good thing, I find that to be a good thing if everyone i found annoying was standing up to fight this, the enemy would have no chance at all

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This was one of the best pieces I've read in a while for some challenges I've been having lately. Thank you for writing it.

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 12/04/2025

xeiaso.net/notes/2025/a...

xeiaso.net

Anubis works

Xe Iaso's personal website.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 07/04/2025

My favorite question to ask in order to learn this is “if you were in my shoes, how would you, as a new hire, go about being impactful at the company?” It’s a great question because it’s disarming and the honest + politically safe answer is still informative. Plus they might not even know!

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bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦 @bailz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

And what are the cost estimates for that versus tape for backups?

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 02/04/2025

I'm incredibly proud to announce the Fediverse Security Fund from Nivenly Foundation (@nivenly.bsky.social). It's a time-and-funds limited experiment, where they will pay for the responsible disclosure of high & critical security issues in open-source Fediverse software: nivenly.org/blog/2025/04...

nivenly.org

Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund

Security bounty fund to sponsor contributors who responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities in popular open source Fediverse software.

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