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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

is it didactic when the pitt looks directly at the camera and recites some statistics about how fucked the medical system is or tells the audience to be more woke? yeah, probably. but the audience is stupid and needs to be told directly.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 19/09/2026

I did manage a decent selfie of the makeup at least

A selfie of a smiling woman. Her eye makeup matches her dress, which is blue and green.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 19/09/2026

My husband freely admits he can't take a good photo of me to save his life: "you're thinner than this! You're prettier! This doesn't look like you!" But he tried to for my birthday dinner last night and these were the most ok

A woman standing in a blue-green dress with full makeup and a a slightly unamused smile

A photo of the same woman from a high point of view, mid-speak

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 17/09/2026

I had a dream that I was being firehosed with like, pineapple juice, and it was so delicious and I drank so much of it, and I woke up in the middle of the night so thirsty and drank the full glass of water by my bedside table and I'm now on my second little can or pineapple juice

Two empty 6 ounce cans of pineapple juice in front of a tall empty water glass on a counter

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 16/09/2026

CW: biiiiig bugs I saw, with mine own eyes, a tarantula hawk wasp sting and drag away it's paralyzed and still-alive prey. She dragged this tarantula down one wall, across the grass, sidewalk, the whole street, the other side's grass, sidewalk, and up another wall into a flower garden. Bonkers

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 15/09/2026

Yesterday I spent 6 hours wrangling an AI agent to write test cases that could have taken me 2 hours. I ended my session with: "I hated every single second of this. I could have written these test cases better, faster, and with more conciseness than this stupid fancy algorithmic math..."

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 15/09/2026

The thing about Marfa/West TX/Big Bend is that it makes me feel so small and insignificant in the face of such a beautiful, alien, and frankly dangerous landscape, and it makes me feel that much closer to the earth that I call home. It does not care that I exist, and that's beautiful.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 15/09/2026

My husband made a very charming joke this morning and I took his hand and said, "there has not been a single day where I have regretted marrying you" he paused for a moment, then he shouted "I LOVE AI!!!!" shortly followed by "I HAVE TO INVEST, BRO"

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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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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026

"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 26/08/2026

FIRST DOLLY NOW THIS??? THIS IS UNTENABLE

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/08/2026

AI detection is a) also AI and b) apparently about as reliable as a dowsing rod

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Orange Guy holds up book and says “I’m gonna read a book”

Panel 2: Orange Guy looks at book cover and says “hmmmmm”

Panel 3: Orange Guy types a query into his phone

Panel 4: Close up on phone screen reveals AI responding with “a chocolate factory is a factory made of chocolate”

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

cooking tip: if you use only half an onion for a recipe, you can put the rest in the fridge and later you'll have a fridge that smells like onion

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

given what we know about birds, you know dinosaurs fucken loved to dance

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 25/07/2026

Feels like y'all are sleeping on this adorable bumblebee video 🐝🌺

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 24/07/2026

In the car on the 2.5 hour drive to the airport, so: thread of vacation videos and pictures (location: Norway) Look! It's 3:30am and the sun is rising!

A photo of an orange sunrise out of the front windshield of a car.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 23/07/2026

Last day in Norway. Went by FIL's grave earlier this week and said goodbye to most of the in-laws yesterday, so packing with big bittersweet feelings today.

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ceej @ceej.online · 19/07/2026

tapas for everybody

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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 09/07/2026

Oh to be a pedestrian in a European city where the cars automatically stop for you when you cross the road 😍

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 08/07/2026

It is Norwegian strawberry season. I am shifting into summer vacation mode Norsk jordbær er beste jordbær don't @ me

A paper bag just packed full of small bright red Norwegian strawberries.

A paper bag just packed full of small bright red Norwegian strawberries, seen from the top.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 08/07/2026

Walking through the Helsinki airport to customs was a trip, they have an *indoor* smoking area???

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 07/07/2026

Delightful to have planned a trip to visit family in Norway immediately after that game because you see newspapers like this in the grocery store

Huge picture of Haaland on the cover of Dagbladet

"Tirsdag 7. juli 2020

Haaland sjokkerte verden og Brasil Miami, neste stopp!

- VI KAN GÅ HELE VEIEN

NA KAN ALT SKJE

- Solbakken har gjort Norge farlig igjen

GUNNAR STAVRUM

Nå venter de engelske lavene på lørdag

-Derfor frykter de Haaland

ESTEN O. SÆTHER

JIAN CARLSEN"

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

the giant norwegian cyborg is a problem

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

A black and white photo of Watterson sitting at his drawing table.

Calvin and Hobbes riding their red wagon.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 05/07/2026

Did Duolingo also just rewatch the Rejected cartoon?

Screenshot of a Norwegian Duolingo lesson saying "Jeg er en banan," which translates to "I am a banana"

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al-boo @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 04/07/2026

happy birthday hotdogs

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 28/06/2026

the owner of my bar just showed me this “report” he wrote for sunday school when he was a kid. i am fucking crying

stephan M. Viggin mary
Virgin Mary was very pretty.
She said she made a bab without a boy perenis. A mom need a boy peenis and a girl peenis to make a baby. A girl peenis looks very ditterant a boys. So she world know, She was not telling truth. Boys bellive preity girls. Vigin Mary was very pretty.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 27/06/2026

Sometimes you write a reply, hit reply, and *then* see the single thing you needed to know before replying. DELETE DELETE DELETE

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Bernard: Doesn't Look Like Anything To Me - Westworld

Alt: Bernard: Doesn't Look Like Anything To Me - Westworld

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 25/06/2026

Sometimes the hair and makeup is just right

A three-quarters view of a late-30s woman with wavy dark blonde hair, excellent cat-eye eyeliner, and a Mona Lisa smile (aka no smile at all). Her mesh sweater is pretty cute.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 24/06/2026

Got bowled over by a dog named Angel today when I went outside to look at my cactus, and I have never had a nicer lunch break

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 23/06/2026

Taskmaster Australia's been airing and it's an *excellent* season so far

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 22/06/2026

Thanks Roka, the sunglasses are rad as hell

A handwritten thank you note from Roka (glasses company). It says: Karin, thank you for your support. Enjoy your new Rokas

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

is there a forced gay agenda in your entertainment media or is it just that the gay kids you bullied in school for being gay and artsy inevitably ended up working in the arts with a bunch of other queer people, women, and progressives while you got a job as a deep sea fisherman, terry?

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This week’s classic movie I somehow hadn’t seen before was Heat: a moving story of star crossed lovers (Robert de Niro and Al Pacino) who can never be together because they are on opposite sides of the law

Movie poster for the 1995 film Heat. Robert de Niro and Al Pacino looking serious while a little Val Kilmer sits beneath their faces

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 19/06/2026

Jesus fuckin Christ my brain/eyes/somewhere in between

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Every regulation that you don't understand why it exists/think is dumb was written in someone's blood.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 16/06/2026

Oh, man. I always went straight to her section at the library as a kid Thank you, Jane. You made my book-filled childhood that much richer.

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