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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Paris Hilton personally healed my AI psychosis” is a very 2026 story

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🦇 SCARE-sha 🦇 @spacethey.gay · 12/09/2026

one day theres gonna be a special jail for transphobes that people dont come out of

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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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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026

Nope. There is no animus. You're playing with an automated algorithm that's being assigned too many privileges with outcomes based on probability. That's like "shit I lost control of this giant bolder I was rolling down a crowded street, it must be magic."

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026

Statistical pattern matching coupled with granting the software the ability to do shit you'd never ordinarily allow a script to do is causing fuckups. People aren't losing control of "AI," they're bad at their jobs.

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spencer @spencer7-5.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ngl, one of the best arguments an ultraleftist ever made to me -- one that still gives me pause -- is when he said that Americans talking about Democrats sound like Israelis talking about the non-Likud parties

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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.

A screenshot of the Wayback Machine page when trying to access the suppressed Amnesty report into anti-trans organisation and networks in the UK saying "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine".

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

This chart has so much explanatory power, I could post it everyday

A NYTimes headline reading “10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump’s First Full Month” with a chart showing DEI as the only issue being positioned over the “positive impact” axis

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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

eat the sky

lino print of a black raven in a black circle; inside the circle is a powder blue tangle of wispy lines; outside the circle the same blue repeats the words “eat the sky” over and over the whole background

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Mookie Alexander @mookiealexander.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Since Covid is in the news again for... reasons, two things strike me from 2020: 1.) How news outlets used the phrase "So Americans can get back to work" during lockdowns. 2.) The behavior change among certain people the minute we knew who was dying/disproportionately at risk of dying from Covid.

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Hannah @hannnaah.northsky.social · 30/07/2026

Letterboxd review of Into Darkness by Brandon Reese from 2022. Best description of JJ Abrams I've ever seen

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A practitioner of the lost art of truly ethical horniness.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

you get too sleepy in the forest these big cats come and pick you up by the back of your neck and put you in a bed inside a big tree. then you wake up and check your phone and the bill is simply astronomical

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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

[falling past the event horizon of a black hole] ooooooo big stretch

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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Hapsburg Chin Fetishist @discordiarwe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’m often asked to leave social functions because I cannot stop repeating this

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happy filth_oween @filth-waste.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

we need a modern john henry who is determined to fuck up with unwavering confidence and use obscene amounts of resources better than any AI. we need a hero

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Like "meritocracy": "amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look" bsky.app/profile/jame...

latimes.com

Editorial: Who benefits from discriminatory college admissions policies? White males

If the Trump administration really intends to examine discriminatory college-admission policies, as a New York Times report suggests, it had best be prepared for what it will find: A lot of white peop...

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lizard @lizzzard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

millennials don’t realize the potential dangers of their intense group nostalgia

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

not quite. your teenage years are for swallowing the ocean. your 20s are for swallowing the sky. your 30s are for swallowing the earth. your 40s are for swallowing the blood, which is all that is left. your 50s are about swallowing your self, turning you inside-out and starting the whole cycle again

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jack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

shows don’t even get residuals any more rainn my man you are complaining about the legroom on the last chopper out of saigon

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🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈 @wallyaurora.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

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jonathan little @empiregardens.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

everthankful for writing like this, capable of producing tears. if you don’t already subscribe, go do it. it’s absolutely worth it.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 04/06/2026

Sr. Baudrillard señalando a una cerveza pequeña

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A screencap from The Simpsons. A white van is parked in front of a building with its back doors open. The side of the van has two guys in black suits and sunglasses holding a pizza on it. Above and next to them reads "two guys from Quantico pizza."

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The sensible newspaper dickheads helped usher in the end of democracy for the cost of being able to dehumanize trans people, the homeless and Palestinians and that’s the entire story.

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Losing Our Minds at the End of the World @losingourmindspod.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Bare Witnessing: Reflections on Changes in Myself after Five Months of Genocide in Palestine www.patreon.com/posts/996205...

Bare Witnessing:
Reflections on
Changes in Myself after Five Months of Genocide in Palestine
Just now
I want to say a few words about the changes I've noticed in myself from watching the Gaza genocide unfold. I hope this isn't self-indulgent; I have talked extensively on the situation for Palestinians in Gaza and will continue to do so, as this is clearly the most important thing about this moment. But these changes I feel in myself I also see happening in other people, so I would like to reflect on them a bit in case others can relate, so that we may better understand what permanent changes to our societies have been wrought by watching these live-streamed horrors for five months and seeing everyone's reactions thereto, our own included.

Since October 7th I've certainly been shocked to my core by the violence, the cruelty of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, the endless stream of horrific videos and images of precious children now turned to incomprehensible masses of flesh and bone, headless babies, someone's whole world difficult to look at, as well as the psychopathic comments of Zionists around the world that make my skin crawl, mocking dead and orphaned children-that all has changed me, maybe in necessary ways but surely not for the better. I can feel the weight of it all even now as I write. I can feel that it is never leaving me. That I have lost something I won't ever get back-perhaps innocence, perhaps something more important than that. But I knew evil like this existed.

I guess I was less sure about good, and so overwhelmingly that has been what has surprised me most about this, and probably has effected the greatest changes in me. First, the heroic Palestinians in Gaza: the armed resistance and the
doctors, journalists, ambulance drivers, nurses, fishermen, parents, siblings, the scores of men and boys digging survivors out of the rubble with their bare hands after each bombing, the women and girls sewing diapers for newborns out of recycled PPE. I've never seen whole generations of a people resisting together like this before, I had never seen solidarity like that, and I don't really know how to say what it has meant to me to see this fierce, unshakable, determined resistance to genocide, from the armed fighter running up to an IOF tank with only a grenade and a prayer to God, to the little girl comforting her younger sister in the crowded hospital after their parents were killed.

Seeing the bravery, the righteous defiance of an evil, colonial nuclear power that wants to erase them and drive them from their land... I don't have
the words. I cry whenever I think about it. I'm crying right now. Maybe one day I'll be able to talk about it intelligibly. Not yet. But I'm very glad for whatever change it has brought in me; I can tell I need it, and will need it again soon. I think maybe it's hope, or
something similar. That's part of it. It's also a certain heightened awareness, an easier fellow-feeling; the nerves of my moral organ are more sensitive now. The roots of my heart twist and clutch their way through the whole world now, and I feel the tugs of others' suffering even more keenly than before. But more than that, I can't say.

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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

if socialism is so good, then why has the ruling class violently prevented it from getting implemented over and over?

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tiff :) 🇨🇭 @integrandma.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

getting this as a bumper sticker

cancer_blood69
@cancer_blood69
They want you to get a job so you can't drive around for hours and notice The
Pattern

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this is a masterpiece

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TinCan’s spooky ghost @thetincanandroid.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

got a big ol dumper? social cues sometimes a stumper? I’ve got news for you

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 09/05/2026

many of us try to keep way too many balls in the air but when you really think about it you quickly realize that you absolutely cannot drop any or horrible things will happen and you'll die alone

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

the safest thing of course is just to delete Chrome and its application libraries entirely. Firefox also pulled its own sneaky AI crimes recently, see steps for disabling all that here

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

⚠️ Chrome's update installs a 4GB AI model file to your device without your consent! To disable the shitty AI mode*, go to chrome://flags/ and search for these, toggle each to "disabled": optimization-guide-on-device-model prompt-api-for-gemini-nano ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point -

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.