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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 07/10/2026

I initially misread consternation as condensation, and I was like, yeah! I guess it is!

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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 · 26/09/2026

Great egret and I think a white ibis! That's special, never seen an ibis

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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 · 16/09/2026

I actually left work in tears yesterday because of how much trouble an agent was giving me with a test plan file. I can laugh about it now after a night of sleep, but JFC my dude

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

It is! We were basically threatened with PIPs/losing our jobs if we didn't embrace AI and it makes me fucking sick. I am doing a great job of being polite about it at work but I cannot control my rage when I'm not there

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

...LLM machine ever could. What was the point of my decade+ of experience being excellent at my job if I'm being forced to use garbage like this. No need to respond. I'm just furious about what this idiotic technology has taken away from me." I loved being a QA 5 years ago. This shit sucks

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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

I couldn't have thought of a better synonym for beautiful so I wouldn't say it twice?? Fuck me Stunning Gorgeous Astounding Lovely Wonderful etc. etc.

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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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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 11/09/2026

Happy anniversary, have a wonderful day! (and I have a similar weird anniversary, mine is January 6th 😐)

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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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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 08/09/2026

Ooh, we just finished Furious yesterday. It was excellent

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 05/09/2026

This entire situation has made me the kind of incandescently angry that I don't know what to do with. They are fucking with our beautiful home

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 03/09/2026

Huh, I just watched a special about this house on YouTube 3 days ago. What are the odds

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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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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 30/08/2026

I volunteer at a raptor rehabilitation center and this is what our methane gas burn patients' feathers look like, so that would be my guess.

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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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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 12/08/2026

I *knew* I recognized the Fortunate Son sandwich. Good job Meatball Editor

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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 · 26/07/2026

Some folks were working on building a one-to-one replica of a Viking longboat

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 26/07/2026

Approaching Tønsberg, which is the oldest established city in Norway (in 871). The fortress on top of the hill is dated to the 13th century.

A green and rocky coast with cute houses and a fortress tower on the top of a hill.

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Karin The Dragon 🐉 @karinthedragon.neocities.org · 26/07/2026

(we went boating two days in a row, the weather demanded it)

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

Right? And I hate seeing pesticides used outside of residential homes. We specifically use the pest control company we use at our house because they only do the perimeter, so the bugs don't come inside, but allows them to stay outside, where they live! It's ok for them to live outside!

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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 · 25/07/2026

Spouse playing with Charlotte + boyfriend's dog Nova. Hesten is her favorite toy

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

Some nice climbing flowers in Charlotte + boyfriend's backyard

A pot with pink flowering vines crawling up some wooden stakes

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

They're just little guys, Molly! They don't know that the tasty mouse is stuck to a glue trap!!!

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

Spouse + Charlotte were putting on much thicker Norwegian accents than they have to talk to me about a military building on this part of the coast, which is a bit that always makes me laugh

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

Okay, I was awake for about 40 hours and slept for 11 and have finally gotten enough coffee. More Norway incoming

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

...that was a long flight. I think I've slept for 1.5 hours in the last two days so I'll pick this up after sleeping to catch up on the jet lag

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

The number of screech owls we have to wash glue off of at the raptor center where I volunteer 😠😠😠

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