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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4h
foul ball to the dick
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 16h
Having never played an Ace Combat game before, I'm pleased to say that Ace Combat 8 is a delightful experience. The replay mode after missions is unexpectedly entertaining.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 02/10/2026
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All she ever dreamed about was leaving.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 02/10/2026
Voted 🗳️
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kinda fucked up that “Star Wars Zero Company” doesn’t have a colon but “Star Wars: Galactic Racer” does. I won’t even get into “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order”
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Scott Ellison II @hawkse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No hyperbole here. Of all the racing games out there, this is the one to play. I'm enamored with this game in a way I never thought I'd be. It's the closest thing to being a perfect game.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 02/10/2026
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All she ever dreamed about was leaving.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026
Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 30/09/2026
The level design in Control Resonant is superb and they somehow keep one-upping themselves as you progress further and further into the game.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tripularity. Tripularities are best.
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Ben McCarthy @benricem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025)
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid
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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025
Shared: I've missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles) gkeenan.co/avgb/ive-missed-sam-for-…. A poignant story of growing up and growing apart
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I've missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles)
A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.
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cygnoir :prami_pride: @cygnoir.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025
Pulpy, shame-studded preteen moments captured exquisitely in another terrific piece by @keenan. social.lol/@keenan/1149447417795648…
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Keenan (@keenan@social.lol)
Today, I wrote about one of the first dates I ever went on, and also about the movie Titanic. https://gkeenan.co/avgb/today-my-brain-wanted-to-think-about-one-of-the-first-dates-i-ever-went-on/
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Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hi, new fan and community member here! :) Quick question: why did the artist make what they wanted to make instead of what I wanted? I understand they enjoyed making it, and that you all enjoy it too, but I just think they made a huge mistake not making my thing instead. Thanks!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 25/09/2026
Just plugged my kitchen scale into my computer's USB-C port to charge it.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 25/09/2026
Goddamn, Control Resonant whips ass.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 24/09/2026
I've lived in Poland for just over three months (!) and I have only seen one pickup truck.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 24/09/2026
Recently returned to Crimson Desert, and have now put in nearly 120 hours into it. I still have no idea if I enjoy this game or if what I'm doing is fun. A truly baffling experience that I am inexplicably drawn to.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 23/09/2026
Far and away the best thing about iOS 27 is the auto-suggest pasting from clipboard.
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austin @powerllama.com · 21/09/2026
*blues riff* BA NUH NUH NAH NUH
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 21/09/2026
Walking back in the cold rain with my kebab box.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
when you're trying to get ice sometimes the cubes humiliate you on purpose
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Panic @panic.com · 17/09/2026
me when I finally reply to your email
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, copic marker, and colored pencil.

A man in a sweater vest carefully walks through a field of wild flowers. He’s concerned about accidentally stepping on his colleague so he calls out, “Don’t wanna stomp ya out. Clap so I know where you’re at.” Beneath the flowers we see a very teeny man, also in a sweater vest, clapping to make his location known. Their plan works. No one is stomped. 

The meaning of this piece is open to interpretation. If we don’t take the scene literally, the smaller man could be a version of the larger man that exists somewhere in his subconscious. A part of him that needs to make itself known so it isn’t forgotten (or stomped out). Artist’s note: I usually start off drawing with no plan to turn it into a “comic” or whatever this is. For this one I started by just sketching flowers. I think originally I had dozens of little creatures clapping before simplifying it into the final version.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 17/09/2026
Holy fuck, Furious is a good show.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
[being murdered] murderer: (murdering) what are you doing on your phone me: (putting away phone) my bad what's up what's going on
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 16/09/2026
I miss when life was simpler, like when I could make my commute bearable simply by airdropping astronaut sloth to random strangers on the L.
A sloth dressed up as an astronaut, styled like a NASA crew photo.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 16/09/2026
My wife said I looked cute.
Selfie. I have a dark mustache and salt & pepper (mostly salt) beard on my chin. I’m resting my head on my fist, my tattoo on my forearm is visible. A dark forest scene with watercolor clouds of pink, purples, and blue filling in the gaps between the tree.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 13/09/2026
Scoot McNairy
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@TOS_Violator

the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 02/09/2026
A little while back, I wrote an essay about my cousin. Growing up, he was the person I looked up to the most, but eventually his extreme views became too much to bear. It took time to process the grief I felt. Continue to feel. gkeenan.co/avgb/ive-mis...
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I've missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles)
A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 11/09/2026
Day three after color session.
My forearm with my new tattoo. Silhouetted forest that wraps around my entire arm. In between the trees are watercolor smokey clouds in bright pink and purple. A large crescent moon peeks out from the pops of color.Arm turned slightly to show more of the color work. Hints of aqua blue mix with the pinks and purples. Arm turned further to show more of the blue color that pops out.
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 10/09/2026
Lanterns is fucking great television.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food
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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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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 09/09/2026
@robdelaney.bsky.social apologies for my boldness, Rob, but I wrote an essay about losing my cousin I thought you might appreciate.
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I've missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles)
A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.
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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Indigo 1.3 is available now! We've got a bunch of great new features I'll get to in a sec, but first up is a new pricing option. Indigo was great value if you used both Bluesky and Mastodon, but a little pricy if you just used one. Now there's a $19.99 plan for single-network use 😀
A marketing image showing a screenshot of Indigo’s new paywall with a single-network option
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austin @powerllama.com · 08/09/2026
app good
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 08/09/2026
Oh hi
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Aniline Applications (@anilineapps@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Manually Pair Profiles To help power a bunch of other cross-network features, we’ve made improvements to how Paired Profiles are added. You can now add them manually and Indigo will ask you to confirm pairs it detected
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The Independent Variable @independentvar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I leave the US in less than three weeks tiv.today/i-leave-the-us-in-less-th…
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I leave the US in less than three weeks
gkeenan.co When an opportunity like this presents itself, it feels absurd to turn it down. I've lived too much of my life trying to cling to what feels comfortable, and it's never been worth it. Really wonderful to see Keenan and Katy make that big jump across the pond
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 07/09/2026
Is my laundry damp or just cold? A Memoir
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
nathan fielder vs elizabeth holmes is like what if wario had his own wario
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Keenan @gkeenan.co · 06/09/2026
My favorite thing about learning Polish is that I've been crying a lot more, so there's that.
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