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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What is the fundamental American prejudice against all politicians? That they lie about everything, because they care about nothing except their own power; they just say whatever it takes to get elected. Democrats in general have no idea how to overcome this prejudice. They just embody it.
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Post a picture of you from another era
St Lucia (probably) with the boys at the volcanic springs, but really could be one of many Caribbean islands
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Atlas all up in this airbnb ready for his close up, mr. demille
A brindle patterned english mastiff reclines seductively on a lurid green couch beneath a white faux fur blanket
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Deffo the best score from the Lopez Island farmer's market.
Jimothy lives!
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
A set of steps leading to turbulent water with the caption: "there's something about the sight of steps leading down into the water. it feels like the ocean telling me to come home"

And the response, "That means you're a selkie love"
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Love it when a product line toggles between "what's in the bottle" and "what it's for" so dramatically
A bottle of vitamin gummies made from hair skin and nails
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think I've mentioned this before, but they refurbed these bike racks with a new "Welcome to Everett. Ride! Bike! Play!" slogan earlier this year. Nothing says welcome like permanently locked bike lockers.
Bike lockersA picture showing all of the lockers are permanently locked
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Low clouds obscure the top of Whidbey Island as the train heads south out of Everett, but the sun is still lighting up the shore. #trains #sounder
A view of Whidbey Island taken from the Seattle Sounder
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... How we treat our heroes is at least as important as how we treat our villains. (Fauci is a hero)
nbcnews.com
GOP senators vote to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth during tense hearing
Fauci declined to answer senators’ questions more than 100 times during last week’s hearing, angering Republican lawmakers who have targeted him for years.
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
When you accidentally give a fuck

Anger bear says: Give me back my fuck
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you see this post your mentor
static.klipy.com
Blade Runner Tears in Meta
Alt: Blade Runner tears in rain monologue: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Monochrome Monday
A man in the surf with a tattoo looks out to sea on the Northeast coast of Grenada
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Honestly, I think it's incredible that anyone still falls for that trick after all these years
CNN headline - What makes the Trojan Horse sequence in "The Odyssey" so incredible

An image of a wooden horse surrounded by people
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
After years of selective breeding, the Lilliputian greeting squad was formed. Nine Inch Hails
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You know what I need in my life? Fewer apps that pester me to turn on notifications once a week. Seriously, die in a fucking fire, app devs. I'll even put up with the smell it makes when I piss on your embers.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Okay here's my Disability Pride Month Story Recommendation Thread! I'll update it across the month with books and short stories that I love. (It won't be daily because I am quite disabled and life is about to avalanche on me.) So! Here are things that ruled and that you should read.
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My uber is here
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Cooler If You Did
Alt: Cooler If You Did
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Show me a picture of yourself that captures your essence
A young man and his father cook together while wearing fun hats
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cast yourself as a villain
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Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
Alt: Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Follow to the meme source and make your own today!
Conservative bobbleheads flank a photo of a Black Adonis holding aloft a giant black dong before some police during the Seattle protests of 2020.
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... How often do you think of the (holy) Roman Empire? I thought it was just a metaphor for the patriarchy, but the fash is even more sinister.
theguardian.com
Fears of Catholic schism as defiant sect ordains ultra-conservative bishops
Consecrations by Society of Saint Pius X bring automatic excommunication for bishops – and crisis for Pope Leo
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it's Lazzie B! once again!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
another opportunity to PSA that 'trans' and 'women' are two separate words, by the way. you can see here how they're using 'transwomen' as a noun, not as a type of woman, but as their own set. please break those words up. bonus info: it's also not hyphenated!
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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Women: if you think men have a poor understanding of female anatomy, just you wait until AI replaces your gynecologist. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
bad AI illustration of a menstrual cup
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kami @karekareo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Morning, morning (ghostpup) teaser! ✨ Support the creation of this short on the link below! On a routine job, a jaded young witch encounters the ghost of a dog that is mysteriously immune to her anti-ghost spells.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈
A rainbow colored box turtle looking nervously out of a drab gray shell. There is text above him that says “It’s OK if you’re not ready yet.”
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
To my beloved el jibbities, we are more beautiful, more needed and more resilient than they can comprehend. We will not just survive this time, we will deliver justice and we will thrive
a beautiful rainbow hovers over a powerful waterfall. an orange cat is superimposed but not at 100% opacity so the waterfall rainbow shows through
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Rough day at the office. Going to relax and unwind with some Murderbot. Thanks for that, @marthawells.com!
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
On the one hand, the CDC is asking for volunteers to help with Ebola screening at US airports. On the other hand, Americans exposed to Ebola are being sent to Kenya for observation and treatment unlike past outbreaks where they would be brought home. 🧐😡🧐😡🧐
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Cruise ships and sailboats and just a generally beautiful day on the sound. #sounder #trains
A view of the puget sound from the seattle sounder. Clouds enshroud the olympic peninsula and a sloop with dark sails is flanked by several cruise ships in the distance
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish the most recent cat photo on your phone.
A lilac pointed ragdoll loafs on a cat bed with lights behind
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This job has its perks. (humans for scale)
a pair of New Glenn launch vehicles getting prepped for their next mission
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.bethcato.com/bready-or-no... @bethcato.bsky.social this recipe is so... so... good. Sorry not sorry that there were no pictures because we descended on them like a pack of wild hyenas. OMG. So good!
bethcato.com
Bready or Not: Farmer’s Cheese Cookies | BethCato.com
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
make a band out of two others portished seven
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... We're all about due for a rewatch of these gems anyway...
m.youtube.com
Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self - YouTube
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
this is open to every american to comment on, and it only has 220 total comments! if we want to stop this we need a LOT more please share and encourage your cis friends to do the same, we need you!
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Me, a fantasy novelist drawing on historical sources for world-building, making sure the narrative's central characters have distinct and different names. Actual historical sources for names: everyone's called Michael.
Memorial to Michael Warton, died 1688, whose father, grandfather, and eldest son were also called Michael.
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 08/05/2026
Pip + pottery #comic 1/8
7-panel comic

1. pip at the pottery wheel, giant lump of clay before her
2. pip's hands pulling a well into the centre
3. pips hands pulling the clay back further
4. pip pulling the clay up into a cylinder
5. pulling clay up so high pip has to stand
6. clay cylinder is so tall now that pip has to stand on books to reach the top
7. pip is happy and sparkling
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
He's a public-transit lavaballer's lavaballer.
A man sitting at the top of the stairs on a double decker train has his leg fully extended into the companionway
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Drop a fight scene you loved...
media.tenor.com
a man says " you seem a decent fellow .. i hate to kill you "
Alt: a man says " you seem a decent fellow .. i hate to kill you "
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
x.com/i/status/205... Sorry about the link to the other place, but it's super cool getting to share one of the things my team works on.
x.com
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
There Will be Grogu
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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The most recent meme in your camera roll describes your mental state.
text above: when you accidentally give a fuck

A disgruntled stuffed bear holds out an open paw

text below: give me back my fuck
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Sounder mornings #trains #sounder
A view of the puget sound from the seattle sounder train. A laden barge heads south west out of everett under cloud skies and calm seas
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I present unto you, Baron de Balzac von Manspreader.
A man lavaballs across three seats on a Sound Transit bus.
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
x.com/JeffBezos/st... Talk about sticking the dismount. #space #rocketry
x.com
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NG-3 integrated hot fire complete. Let's go! #rocketry #space
A New Glenn launch vehicle during a static fire test. Water from the deluge system is shunted off to the right side of the image with great force.
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Captain Catboss @choster.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Dog ownership has its moments
An english mastiff leans down to rest its head on a coffee table
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