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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
he's bored and angry and all he wants to do is stand in front of a crowd of people cheering for him that's why he did the midterm convention, that's why he's doing this, and he's well beyond giving a shit how it affects any other republican candidate I love that for all of them
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm good thanks
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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?

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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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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I do have a litmus test for my candidates now and it's that I want them to be genuinely pissed off, not pretend pissed off
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jon @disparition.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ai killing lots of people is indeed a valid concern, but imo it’s less to do with ai’s abilities and more to do with its inabilities. that is, ai wont kill as a hyper-intelligent murder machine but rather as an incompetent “decision assistant” in fields like health or military target assessment
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
How long it takes and how hard it is to undo the damage will depend in large part on the political will of the people elected to do it. If you get hand-wringing caveat peddlers who want to deliberate for years before acting it'll never happen. Plan has to be ready on day one
"Why's it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?" yeah, undoing every single thing he's done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The United States has never looked weaker or more ridiculous and incompetent to allies and enemies around the world than we do right now.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You can just say "No, shut up." You can. It really is that simple. He can't make you.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I understand the political realities regarding impeachment in general, but in all seriousness, if I were a Canadian watching the US adamently refuse to impeach Donald Trump for repeatedly threatening a treaty ally with imperial conquest, I wouldn't trust Americans ever again.
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"
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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
headlines now are just like “did the FCC chair violate ethics by letting the CEO of Paramount give him huge bags of cash labeled with dollar signs during merger?” and “RFK said explosive diarrhea is normal and measles aren’t real. We fact check some of his statements“
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"if elections keep turning out like this, things might get bad. watch out."
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
sorry i don’t want my tax dollars paying for school lunches i want them spent on litigating the enemies of a 79 year old child
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
here is your horoscope for today
A text from D: Everyone needs to shut up and be less stupid
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 22/04/2026
yyyyyyep
When Democrats lose and demand unity, the demand tends to run one direction. Voters are told to get behind the party. The party is almost never told to get behind the voters. Booker’s Michigan speech is the most viral recent version of that demand, delivered in the register of a parent disappointed in a child. It’s also, if you look at the research on bringing Biden-to-dropoff voters back into the party, about the worst possible speech he could have given.
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/04/2026
I am also on a work trip and will try to record something even cooler
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Defector @defector.com · 07/04/2026
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector
There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is a supervillain monlogue. I will never understand how anyone can watch this man say things like “a whole civilization will die tonight” and fail to recognize evil when they see it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
He's threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they'd use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice
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spooky content enthusiast @wuhanclams.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hmm
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/04/2026
Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 01/04/2026
Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is what social media is meant to be about.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.
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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Hello JD Vance this is the Pope speaking. God specifically disregards your prayers. You are alone in a universe filled with connection and love. I hope this helps -Leo
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/03/2026
this is what happens when you let this much wealth and power concentrate in the hands of so few people nobody wants any of this but them and they’re the only ones who get a vote
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/03/2026
it's hard not to keep coming back to the fact that they could simply have Not Done This they could have not bombed Iran! the strait would be open! we wouldn't be staring down a massive global economic crisis! none of this had to happen!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The president of the United States decided to give someone he thought was a good guy but weak on security a shot as the nation's top counterterrorism official.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
yeah this is how like 30% of the electorate works
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
For at least 10 years journos have been working so hard to dissemble and obfuscate under the Honorable Notions of What Journalism Is and now even the people whose water they’ve been carrying are like wtf I’m trying to be racist
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