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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 19h

That Brewers / Padres game was awesome

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Oliver Hamlin @oliverhamlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Autumn is almost upon us

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Airport shuttle bus driver has a Naruto headband with fake yellow hair sticking out. Shine on, you wild dude.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI prompt, with the user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have a lot of Ross stories. Here's one of them: KDKA-TV's newsroom is in Downtown Pittsburgh, on a plaza with a little park. A few years back, several of us were watching through the windows as a gentleman exhibited some concerning drug-induced behavior, until the point when he was slumped over

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NihonTiger @nihontiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Boy, it would be something if everyone tuned in and made this the most watched Mystery Wrestling show to date

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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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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Putting this in my calendar for next year. Ty

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's not really investigation, but if you're ever looking for a puzzler to scratch that itch I've been putting a lot of hours into Bilkins' Folly (which is only 4 bucks right now) store.steampowered.com/app/1526370/...

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Save 82% on Bilkins' Folly on Steam

Percy’s on a quest to find his missing relatives, and he needs your help! Join him and his beloved dog Drayton as they adventure through a series of unusual islands, solve puzzles to uncover valuable ...

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ready to watch the game under these blue skies whenever yinz are!

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

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Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 08/07/2026

RYAN O'GRANDSLAM.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026

new metaphor just dropped

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Gonna need to see a lot more dessert pics wtf

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's 2026 and there's still not another Crimson Skies game

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Mystery Wrestling @mysterywrestling.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The #InfiniteRumble starts NOW! WATCH it LIVE: www.twitch.tv/eviluno www.youtube.com/live/VQQor1a... DONATE to FIGHTING BACK: tiltify.com/@fighting-ba... #MysteryWrestling

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Mystery Wrestling & Fighting Back present The Infinite Rumble | 24 HOUR CHARITY WRESTLING EVENT

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Mystery Wrestling @mysterywrestling.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The #InfiniteRumble is LIVE TODAY at 11:00 AM ET! A 24-HOUR CHARITY PRO WRESTLING LIVE STREAM! Help us raise money for Fighting Back and the Canadian Cancer Society! Watch it LIVE on: www.twitch.tv/eviluno www.youtube.com/live/VQQor1a... #MysteryWrestling 🤼‍♂️

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Mystery Wrestling @mysterywrestling.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The #InfiniteRumble is LIVE THIS MONDAY! A 24-HOUR CHARITY PRO WRESTLING LIVE STREAM! Help us raise money for Fighting Back and the Canadian Cancer Society! Watch it LIVE MONDAY, June 22nd at 11AM ET on: www.twitch.tv/eviluno www.youtube.com/live/VQQor1a... #MysteryWrestling 🤼‍♂️

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Lmao that's badass, but it's also fucked up that you would post this when I'm smoking like 3 lil baby lbs of country ribs.

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You tellin me this blank piece of shit is supposed to be a white dragon?

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Homie sneaking pepperoni before taking a slice

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

First time in my life I got a juror summons. I'm so excited!

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The pirates game tonight is an apple exclusive event? You serious?! That's trash

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@pirates.com is this accurate? It seems accurate

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Registration going live tomorrow

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yinz think ryab will let me on his cruise? Also that's real?

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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 14/04/2026

94 SECONDS OF PURE BUCCO BASEBALL!

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Chat. Chat. Seriously. The Pittsburgh Pirates. Lmao hell yeah

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

To all who celebrate

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Turning into a baseball guy. Buccos sweep the Orioles and we're on a 5 game win streak!

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JSmithOTI @jsmithoti.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Is this the movie Jade Cargill is supposed to be in?

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RACCOIN @raccoingame.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🎉 Go wishlist on Steam while you count down the minutes!: tinyurl.com/36zt9ckm #raccoin #newsteamgames #indiegames #coinpusher #roguelike

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Allegheny County Government @alleghenycounty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It’s finally getting warmer, which means more time to enjoy the outdoors, including walking. Whether you’re walking to school, work, a grocery store, to a bus stop, or just getting some exercise, staying safe while crossing roads is critical.

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