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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 12h

Shopkeeper: You don’t understand; it will cost you your SOUL. Me: Yes, this fucked up system of extraction and exploitation erodes the humanity of its perpetrators and participants alike with every purchase, I KNOW.

Cethan Leahy quote reposting tumblr post riffing on the demonic shopkeeper who grows increasingly exasperated trying to explain the evils of his store to a customer aware of the evils of capitalism

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s SO much. And managing your party at that level takes so much more time than in BG1.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yup, that’s the book all right.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m begging showrunners just to bring back the “Previously on…” montage. It did this job so much less obtrusively.

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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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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The scene in Porco Rosso where Marco tells the story of his most horrific dog fight and subsequently witnessing his best friend and the dead pilots of all wars ascend into the quiet sky has to be one of the best in any Ghibli movie.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s hard even to call it “written” given the dialogue is assembled almost wholecloth from podcast conversations. No love for the one about sitting with the dead, or the conversation with his mom? I thought the prison of Samsara episode was pretty great too.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No question this guy they keep quoting is an absolute ghoul from the way he talks about identity and rejection.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They think this is just some trendy thing we do instead of an agonizingly difficult decision born from decades of hurt, with no better solution in sight.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What a quintessential “they don’t make ’em like this no more” movie.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Demands, complaints about past experiences, or a list of types of guys he’s not into. 🚩 A profile about things he’s excited to do or try. 🟩 AI-touched photos (sorry if this one’s universal). 🚩 Smiling face pic, a joke, or something indicating warmth or a sense of humor. 🟩

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh lol it's the SAME GUY who everyone called out for making this error about Werwulf.

Screenshot of article headlines from news pieces about Werwulf and Romeo and Juliet by Borys Kit

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once again the writers at Hollywood Reporter demonstrating they do not know what Old English means.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s for sure a powerful filtering mechanism in waiting a few decades to see what’s stood the test of time once the hype cycle has long worn out. I find I’m far more likely to appreciate a 20- or 200-year-old book that’s still being recommended over one published a year ago.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The more time goes on, and the more often I’m burned by glowing recs of bad or mediocre books, the more I’m coming around to his point of view.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a friend who doesn’t read novels by living authors because the whole book review ecosystem has become so relentlessly, uselessly positive that it’s difficult to impossible to parse what’s worth his time from recommendations alone.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love the Durlag’s Tower expansion dungeon that’s basically a giant practical joke about how nobody but the Thief should ever lead the party anywhere. *Fighter takes two steps in any direction* *Explodes*

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s telling that Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s weakest efforts are still hugely influential films any other studio would be proud to call their masterpiece.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky Letterboxd review by Caleb:

Certainly the most generic and forgettable of the Ghibli stories, and the one I can most easily imagine having been produced by another studio. There’s very little of interest to say about our two leads or primary villain, though the secondary pirate villains turned sidekicks are a comic delight.

I’m not convinced the hijinks-laden, often Fleischer-esque register of the action and chase scenes in Laputa are a good fit for the more serious moments where the violence suddenly matters and isn’t just for visual comedy. There’s maybe an intended audience tension here, with much of the movie feeling written and directed for six-year-olds before pivoting to heavier subject matter on a dime. I don’t feel that same tension in other Miyazaki movies with a wide audience appeal, in either their heaviest or lightest moments.

So why 4/5? I struggle to rate anything with animation this lively and confident any lower, even if it represents a transition from a rougher earlier era before the studio demonstrated their highest mastery of the art. For all its shortcomings, Laputa: Castle in the Sky is a fine children’s film bursting with the visual imagination we all love Ghibli for, and there’s no denying its influence on many other features (and video games) to come, Ghibli and non-Ghibli alike.

As far as audio versions go, this is unquestionably the worst of the Disney dubs—understandable given it was the first before they figured out how to localize anime in English better than anyone else out there. Vocals are way out of sync with lips, and the kids are simply miscast. Watch in Japanese with subs.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They’re playing I Need Some Sleep by Eels on the radio like it’s 2004 and the Shrek 2 original motion picture soundtrack just dropped.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is such a beautiful portrait.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Leave it to me to make a 4/5 review of an animated masterpiece sound negative. I just wish I could love Princess Mononoke the way so many others do.

Letterboxd review by Caleb:

My central frustration with Princess Mononoke remains. The movie never stops moralizing about nonviolence and “ending the cycle of hatred” amidst a situation in which all peaceful negotiations have failed and there is no choice but violent resistance against the genocidally destructive colonial-industrial incursion. Ashitaka becomes so annoying by about the third time he’s preaching his useless sermon. Miyazaki does everything he can to complicate the situation and place sympathetic actors on all sides without ever altering the math of this basic equation.

Takahata’s Pom Poko, despite being a movie about bouncing raccoon dog balls, always manages to be the more morally coherent and dramatically compelling counter-colonial ecoterrorist fable.

Mononoke nonetheless looks and sounds amazing, the graphic violence remains astonishing, and I do love the colorful cast of characters.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You don’t hate this party enough.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Systems: - Into the Oddish - Sojourn RPG - Mythras - FKR Adventures: - The Secret of Vileplume Mountain - Black Death, Pale Fires - Ravenloft - The Isle

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can't say it made me comfortable how many guys at my school adored that movie.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Guess we’re gonna start running computers on human neurons before we understand the first thing about consciousness, qualia, and how they arise from neural processes.

medicine.nus.edu.sg

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Who amongst us hath not had Hell Rat days?

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some are literally just Bloodborne bosses.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If the idea of Slay the Spire x Fucked Up Pokémon sounds like any fun to you, you should give Decktamer a try. I'm loving the tactical loop of it and all the comically grotesque creature designs.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Makes a great gift for the Pokéfans in your life, even if you don’t think you’ll run it!

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I ran Into the Oddish at Strategicon Gateway and was told by organizers it was the most popular game of the con (yes, even more popular than my own game systems 😏). An equally big hit with 8-year-olds and 48-year-olds. So many people asked me to run more sessions of it next time.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Which is good for them given how many coyotes, raccoons, cats, possums, and large rats we have in this neighborhood.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was worried when these two mourning dove chicks disappeared from their nest on our porch joist, but they’re back on the porch wall now and looking none the worse for it! Must’ve learned to fly a little bit.

Two young mourning doves on a wall covered in bird poop beneath a fruiting orange tree

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No punishment I could fantasize about for these people would do anything to change the irreparable harm they’re doing to our world and our future.

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October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The shadows were too dramatic to resist.

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