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the raccoons ate all of my koi @classicmax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
caves of qud
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026
Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable
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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Dude, what the FUCK is going on in this Netflix OJ Simpson docuseries?
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Gary the Cat @greatgramsofgary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just a tiny cat in big mountains
A grey and white cat sits on a rock. Mountains are seen behind him
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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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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Re: the most recent round of AI generated music, some of which is utterly convincing as plausibly human to my ear
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 19/04/2024
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026
josh (oldfriend99)
@oldfriend99

Caillou's dad: (texting) caillou is freaking the fuck out

12:15 PM · Nov 24, 2015
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 30/08/2026
Not to worry, Ben-Gvir is a fringe figure who does not represent anyone or have any say or anything, he is only the commander of the entire police and prison system in Israel.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Nancy Grace
@NancyGrace • Follow
I can hardly cook a pot of macaroni & cheese-so how did this mom allegedly help kill & dismember her hubby's former lover?! #DismemberedMom
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/08/2026
The Genocide Convention does not require a single person be killed for it to be violated.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2026
Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my point is that you can feel however you want about piker or anyone on the left, but there's a literal nazi descendant who is a state lawmaker and running for congress during a presidential administration that reveres nazi values and policies and that's the actual danger to jews.
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Kirby Air Ride went through many iterations before it hit the Gamecube - like this version on the Nintendo 64! Clean footage of what looks like a pretty randomly generated landscape (You can't even reach the goal!) See more! archive.gamehistory.org/item/6bcb8c…
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/08/2026
Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clapped during a presentation.
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Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting
Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clapped during a presentation.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's too bad the Age of Discovery is over. I just found something
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tweet from Josh Denny
@JoshDenny
I’ll be 43 in a week. I’ve been mostly single for the past 18 months, and I’m just now realizing that my intelligence has ALWAYS been THE biggest issue in my relationships.

Not getting old, or fat; Not having professional failures. 

Look at dating site blurbs. No woman EVER lists high IQ or intelligence in their “wants” section.

Women actually DESPISE men of high intelligence.

It is their single greatest insecurity.Tweet from Josh Denny @joshdenny
Just emailed @chipotletweets. Thanks for ruining our day. Burrito bowl in the bag sideways=ruined $400 jeans.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
To deny the past is to deny the future.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Witness my Act and Deed", 1882 - Frank Paton, British (1855 - 1909)
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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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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Actually pretty funny for a bunch of ex-Republicans to join the Democrats and then immediately start asking other Democrats if they're secret Republicans
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
CNN ANCHOR: As President Trump's approval ratings drop, how can Democrats harness the protest movements we see today? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Well I call him President Parachute Pants ok? Too much ballroom. Yet he's fumbling the ball of protecting healthcare. So I urge all Americans to obey federal agents.
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@TheAncientWorld

A typical complaint fielded by Babylonian administrators: “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.”

(image of stone or clay tablet with the caption: Map of canals and irrigation systems to the west of Euphrates. Babylonia, 1684-1647 BC)
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/08/2026
What a lot of Americans do not know is that the Southern border is dotted with mass murder sites where white supremacist militias (such as the Rangers) performed lynchings and mass executions of Mexicans and Indians. To this day, bleached skulls with bullet holes in the head can be found out there.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lots of your posts are not increasing shareholder value
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026
BREAKING: Dogs Running
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
learning that the WNBA news cycle about trans people involves zero trans people feels like coming accross a cartoon dust cloud that dissipates to reveal there's only one guy in it kicking his own ass
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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Even more visitors will be flocking to Iceland for the solar eclipse, so here’s a much-requested phrase in Icelandic (“Hello. I am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”). Icelandic pronunciation tips: youtu.be/ivLPqkEaKOI
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
beloved intern/volunteer Fiona described zygopines as having "large pathetic eyes that look as if they should begin welling with tears" and she was right to do so
one of the various tragic zygopines of bugguide, this one an allegedly undescribed species of Cylindrocopturus. Its huge sad clown eyes are accentuated by its white body color.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Not to get all smug or whatever, but for the last 3 days I've been drinking my coffee & eating my lunch out front because my plants have been a hotspot for monarchs. People keep looking at the butterfly then saying some version of "Holy shit, it's working". And let me tell you, that shit rules.
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 05/08/2026
They stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.

WINONA MINNESOTA
POLICE
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Press Release
Winona Police Department
8/4/26
On 8/1/26, the Winona Police Department discovered that all eight of our city's Flock cameras were missing. That evening, an officer noted that there'd been no recent activity on the cameras. Officers subsequently checked the various locations where the Flock cameras were placed and found that the poles were cut down near the base. Officers located the poles nearby in the weeds, but the cameras had been removed. As of 8/4/26, the cameras have not been located.
The stolen cameras were stationed in the following areas:
Two near Hwy 61/Bundy Blvd
Two near Hwy 61/Hwy 14
Two near Hwy 14/Knopp Valley Dr
Two near Hwy 43/Homer Rd
The timeframe of the thefts appears to be between July 29th and August 1st.
The cost to replace each camera and pole is approximately $3,000.
The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Anyone with information related to the thefts can contact the Winona Police Department at 507-457-6302 or by calling Winona Area Crimestoppers at 507-457-6530. You can also submit a tip online through https://winonaare acrimestoppers.com.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 05/08/2026
Banger
In June I asked El-Sayed about Rs potentially using his whole name (or the fact that his brother is named Osama) against him. 

His answer:

“I hope that they will. Yeah, my name is Abdul. I’ll say the whole thing: Abdulrahman Muhammad El-Sayed, and I want you to have health care, because you know what? Chances are, you probably had a doctor you trust with a name like mine.”
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/08/2026
i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I had become accustomed to thinking that a viral post on Bluesky was 4000 likes but every day for the past week I’ve seen something like this that has 27,000
Confused Donald the Duck with text saying Riddelle me this Why is there money for corporations but not for we the people
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
when I get mad at a stupid comment online
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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