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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Last week little Gigi was dumped in the jungle and came close to death. She weighs just under 5lbs. Today Hank came in to see her. He said she is under his watch from now on. Anybody messes with her call him immediately he said ❤️
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A 90 second tour of some of our very sickest new arrivals. Every dog in this video would be in huge trouble (a couple would be dead) were it not for the medial care. Some very special dogs here ❤️
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jimbo had pretty much given up. Now everything has changed ❤️
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Europe is now asleep. 🇺🇸 America and rest of world we need your help! I am currently 50km into the 120km run to raise money for Tina’s hospital. You can donate here 🙏 www.happydoggo.com/tinas-hospit...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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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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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/08/2026
I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Iran War of monument renovations.
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iKE PASTEL @ikexpastel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is taking me OUT!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Routine reminder that US cops kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day.
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More than Just Collateral Damage: Pet Shootings by Police
The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforc...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The space between a question and an answer has value, and that value should not be engineered away,” Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist and former Google engineer, writes about AI's instantaneous search results.
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Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
What used to be a meandering journey is now an immediate arrival at your destination.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 02/07/2026
JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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The Key Ways Trump’s Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sienna in Thailand November. Just saved from a life of living on the streets. Sienna in Wales yesterday exploring the countryside. I’d love to be inside her head to see what she is thinking ❤️
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/06/2026
For more than two decades, Mona Khalil protected the endangered sea turtles that laid their eggs on a beach in Lebanon and kept predators away from the hatchlings. On June 4, she was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, and on Friday, she died of her injuries, a close friend said.
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Mona Khalil, Defender of Sea Turtles, Killed in an Israeli Strike in Lebanon
For a quarter century, Ms. Khalil ran a guesthouse and worked to protect endangered sea turtles who every summer lay their eggs on a stretch of beach near Tyre, Lebanon.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Iran War of monument renovations.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So proud of just how far Rocky has come.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
started >>> going
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 14/06/2026
using LinkedIn is the cognitive equivalent of huffing jet fuel
Congratulations to the world's first trillionaire, Elon Musk. Elon has done more for humanity than countless millions, and we should be grateful for his contributions.
However, my humorous side took over, and I thought the following:
What if Elon, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos were out to dinner together? Elon stepped away from the table to use the restroom before the bill came. While Elon was gone, Gates said to Bezos, "Let Elon get it, he's made of money!"
Sorry, my brain is working overtime!!!!
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 09/06/2026
whoa, man [pauses for deep bong hit] totally
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
She is a very special girl indeed is Marilyn Monroe. It takes a lot to break a dog but she was very nearly there. She is utterly exhausted. Time to start changing her life
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Should this mark the extreme extent of a bubble, let no one say there weren't some absolutely gigantic red flags www.ft.com/content/9528...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “One of the great but incomplete moral revolutions of our lifetime has been the expansion of our compassion to encompass farm animals in a limited way, even as corporate agriculture pushes in the other direction,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
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Opinion | What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Had a chat with Independent Senator David Pocock and journalist Marian Wilkinson about the oil and gas lobby, climate change and where it all went wrong.
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How We're Getting Fleeced by the Gas Industry with Marian Wilkinson & Royce Kurmelovs
YouTube video by David Pocock
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/05/2026
Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Not now Shiela 🥰 I’m on Duty
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/04/2026
Sometimes the answer to “how do stupid things keep happening?” Is “people can find intelligent-sounding ways to rationalize anything”
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/04/2026
“Their main goal is not to scare us away. They're shooting to kill” Palestinian villager, Akram Abu Ali, who lives in the occupied West Bank witnessed Israeli settlers shoot and kill a boy who was trying to save his friend from being beaten. Read Theia Chatelle’s report: zeteo.com/p/israeli-se...
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Jake @waveturtlejake.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Rest in peace to all the soldiers that died in the service
I dive in her cervix
2 CHAINZ "UDA REALEST”
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You won’t believe what little Stormzy does every night before bed. He is just too precious ❤️
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
To all who celebrate
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We just learned about this incredible book. Every day it is a joy to be able to give our senior residents a happy, healthy life, but it’s also sad knowing what a rare opportunity it is for farmed animals to grow old. 💔 bsky.app/profile/isal...
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
remarkable how every investor in this FT piece basically says: a state that heavily controls capital, with a central bank subordinated to government priorities, is a safer heaven in the new geopolitical reality of petrowars www.ft.com/content/7221...
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Chinese government bonds emerge as lone war haven
Yields on China’s debt are down marginally since the start of the conflict while those of other major economies have risen
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I just love how regal Sienna now looks. It is as if for the first time in her life she is proud of herself ❤️
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 19/03/2026
Wildlife traffickers selling protected animals on Facebook use coded language to evade moderation. Research by Bellingcat and @mongabay.com has identified nine groups, with more than 70,000 members combined, leading back to six profiles and one broker in Indonesia. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
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How Wildlife Traffickers Are Using Coded Language to Sell Protected Animals On Facebook - bellingcat
Coded language used in thousands of Facebook ads has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade the platform’s bans for years
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid
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