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The Ghost of Halloween Past

@jxilon.bsky.social
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All My Best Skeets Has Typos. Just keeping the same thing as other places, probably should be updated: Dad wearing a lot of odd-job hats. Writer. Photographer. No longer a teacher. he/him

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Starting my day making some art.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 17h
Instead, have it refer to itself as "the system." All of a sudden, all that wank from the press releases about skynet-levels-of-consciousness is clearly revealed for what it actually is, which is a large language model.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 17h
For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wow. Yeah, I’d consider myself firmly in the later group and if there are two groups in publishing I would never ever mess with that’s 1 and 2 right there, but you’re probably right. One good burn and she’ll be back on top.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lol, I don’t even know what is happening today, but wow is that so perfectly accurate based on what’s happened before. 🤣
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No matter what else one may think about Lanterns, I think it must be incontrovertible that Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler are both fantastic in their roles and absolutely perfect together.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Along with their featured collections for the month Criterion Channel has also added a whole bunch of Dario Argento films!
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's ok though! Rodgers losing on throwing an interception isn't as good as Rodgers losing by eating turf, but it's pretty great still!
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sigh
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You're welcome!
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I watch Aaron Rodgers play football so I can cheer every time he gets sacked or throws a pick. Aaron Rodgers eating turf never fails to bring me joy. The danger is that jerk is always a danger for a comeback that ruins the whole experience. So far he's still losing and has eaten a lot of turf though
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have trouble distinguishing one or the other as more famous, but “I learned it by watching you” gets a lot more use, at least, amongst my friends
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(Was Diagnosed Celiac about 5-6 years ago at like 42 years old so, have had to do lots of figuring out how to switch from a lifetime of eating whatever to figuring out GF, hence the lots to say, but I’ll stop the flood of info here unless you want more!)
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh and if you like soy sauce - tamari sauce is almost always gluten free and an excellent switch option. Oh and x2 - glutenfree pancakes are pretty great.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also, in my experience vegan restaurants are often a great place to get GF food too and I find the staff often super knowledgeable and helpful in such places.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Find Me GF app/website has proved really useful to me especially while traveling and I have found some wonderful restaurants to eat at that way. When it cones to restaurants in general large chains are suddenly your friends cause their menus will often have everything labeled.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can make your own fried stuff, like fried chicken but using potato/corn starch and 1-1 gluten free flour. I make a kick ass kind of Korean Fried Chicken that way. Often fried stuff like that works better actually cause the GF crisps up more.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, for example most gluten free breads are going to be most enjoyable as toast, even just lightly. Pastas nowadays are good, but leftover GF pasta has a much shorter lifespan before it sucks. Lasagna is amazing stays great for days. Going to try pizza? I recommend extra cheese & sauce be invovled.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are you in Canada cause at least one tidbit of info I have is Canada specific. Generally speaking one good tip to remember is that things that are supposed to crunch already are going to work pretty good in a GF version. Things that are supposed to be soft are dicier.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Theory: Ben Johnson with a very capable but not sensational QB talent might be the perfect combo, like how a great writer or director can benefit from a good editor to keep them reigned in *just enough*.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know as a Lions fans it's bad for me for the Bears to win games and all, but it's impossible not to be enjoying this performance.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Case Keenum is kinda kicking ass through sheer composure.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Couldn't agree more. She's fantastic. She did directed and wrote Mickey and Nicky and instead of being celebrated for it because it's amazing they basically nuked her career. So aggravating.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll demand Being John Malkovich, The Limey and Titus are in discussion for best movie of the year. I'm probably going to make people know how much I love The Thomas Crown Affair. Then I'm going to remind people that Fight Club and Cruel Intentions are part of the great heritage of '99 too, lol.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m not alone!
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hah. Whereas, every single time I see Kyle Chandler, I think about him in that show.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Or it could not. lol. Whiplash inducing here.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok, this football game needs to settle down. lol
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is not to say I don’t consume media. But along with algorithms we also live in a world of niches and abundance of choice in media and how we engage with it. Quite simply the moment you think the words “well everyone knows about” you are wrong. Full stop.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So folks like me who use neither of those except for the rare thing a friend personally shows me to watch not only doesn’t know of the song’s existence before today but doesn’t even know why I don’t know of it because I don’t know which way of consuming media I don’t use is its vector.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This angry Rolling Stone take says sooo much about the Rolling Stone writer’s utter failure to understand modern society and media consumption that it really should disqualify them from writing any more. This is the first I’d heard of the song even existing and know nothing about what it’s about.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heh. I meant that they really really tanked, quite purposefully. Like, tanked fantastically. I hate tanking in sports, but when your team gets devastated by injuries or, say, banished from its own country, arena, and homes for a season, I make allowances.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yep. The Tempo were clearly aiming at "relevant immediately" and got wrecked by injuries. This is similar to how the Raptors ended up with Scottie Barnes. Did they go tanktastic to do it? Yes. Was it completely reasonable as they were banished to Florida for a season of no fans during Covid? Yep.
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gutted me to get to the bottom of the list and see that it’s an Americans thing only, but *highly* recommended to all you Americans. Such a great show.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The confrontation and hat shooting scene in A Few Dollars More alone makes the movie a masterpiece.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Had a buddy working with me temp for awhile, a best friend, and I’d joking come up with ways to”fire” him each day. He still has the one I created on my phone that was a two panel comic with Kirk-Khan Shouting “You’re fired!” That I faxed to him from my phone while in a doctors office. No AI needed.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Having been thinking about this and am finally rewatching it today and only more strongly believe it is “the one”. If I wanted to show someone one of these films and have the best odds of them loving it, I’d show them For A Few Dollars more.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do you have any idea how many pictures a pro photographer takes in a shoot and how meticulously the creative side of some thing like a pro photo shoot combs through the results to get exactly what they want? even if cultural context was missing from the creators, some one eventually saw it who knew
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Be racist, and play dumb after, and act like people are “too sensitive” has been in the playbook for at least two decades now.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Of course in a company that big many of the people involved wouldn’t have had any intentions, many wouldn’t have even known about it. But you’ll never convince me some people didn’t move deliberately and aren’t snickering about it right now.
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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, about the Converse ad, I’m just going to point out that when people do something like this deliberately they are going to have the story to explain how it was a mistake already prepped and I frankly wouldn’t trust any stranger rushing into people’s mentions to explain it on behalf of the company
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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