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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been hearing a lot of discussions lately about the perceived decline in trust of science and scientists. So, worth revisiting this piece -- which provides some important context for those discussions. #SciComm 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists

“Propaganda works” is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering postpandemic distrust of science

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Heartbreaking: the most irritating person you know did something really funny

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[P] Christopher Walken is the new Brawny Man, and he *fucks*.

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kris anka @kristaferanka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My variant for X-men United 9

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The size of a kitten oh my god

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Dazzler will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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Jeff @rogue576.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Outrageous and unacceptable: The feds have yet to hold anyone accountable in Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring besides Ghislaine Maxwell. Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Survivors’ Rights Restitution Act. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/8EUV1gHd

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Epstein accountability NOW

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At no point did I predict where any of this was going www.youtube.com/shorts/n0k8U...

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Average Male Mid Life Crisis

YouTube video by Plan3

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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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Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Real, not AI: taken by reliable friend of a friend at the NY State Fair this past weekend. Goodbye summer till next year.

Astounding real life food stand at New York State Fair, selling BACON in every possible way with two different signs for each style. Looks like AI at first glance but isn't (friend of a friend took photo during past weekend)

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gambit and Nightcrawler are two X-Men who actually enjoy their lives.

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

David Dastmalchian is now one of those actors where him just being in a project increases my likelihood that I'll enjoy it, can't wait to see him as M. Bison.

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

At least Chick Bongo is managing those kayak margins and raccoon protocols like a champ www.youtube.com/shorts/88qei...

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How to fail your AI interview #corporatehumor

YouTube video by Graham Dot Zip

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AI interviewers are a new disgusting layer in our capitalist hellscape www.youtube.com/shorts/wp_zk...

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Do not try this in your AI interview (part 8)

YouTube video by Graham Dot Zip

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you can just turn your addictions into a paying job you will never rest a day in your life

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There is a pervasive, enduring assumption that superhero stories are exclusively masculine preserves. While men & boys have inarguably dominated the history of superhero comics, the wedding of Spider-Man showcases the indelible influence of a connotatively feminine genre–romance. 1/12

A splash page from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 depicting the wedding ceremony of Peter and Mary Jane.

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Petition to make 9/25 a national Dolly Parton Day.

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I want to write a Fantastic Four comic where we meet the head of Ben Grimm's High School and he turns out to be a criminal but the FF lets him go. Why? Well, it's the principal of the Thing.

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Phoenix Bryan @kdbryan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Along the same lines, I learned that bougie ass golf courses are even more of an affront to the homeless/waste of land than I thought www.axios.com/2026/08/19/a...

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The data center fight is hitting a fever pitch. Here's how they actually work

They're often big, windowless warehouses without any humans in sight.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Let me introduce the crew. *points to enormous muscular guy.* This is Big Dog, we call him that because he's huge, ha ha! *points to slim average looking guy* and this is Medium Dog. I'm sure you can guess why! That's right — he communes with the spirits of the departed

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The sad irony is that, despite claiming that brutal mass deportations would help Americans, a recent analysis found that surges in ICE enforcement actually led to overall job losses for both immigrants AND American-born workers. www.brookings.edu/articles/ice...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So this big guy came into the bowling alley I work at, acting all tough, then I see he’s starting some beef with some guys, and throws a bowling ball at one guy’s face and puts another guy’s hand in the fryer. I’m about to go kick the shit out of him. His name’s Reacher and I think I can take him.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I just think it’s neat that Spider-Man was Marvel’s first superhero and is still the most popular.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Someday we’ll find it The Kaiju Connection Godzilla, and Mothra And me.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎶🎶 Why are there so many Songs about Mothra? And why she has friends in a clam She’s Queen of monsters That live on an island Shoots webs from her Diaphragm So some will say and Some call them titans I know they’re wrong Can’t you see? 1/

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't want to be judgy or mean but seriously, fuck transphobes forever, they are awful.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Under Trump & RFK Jr.: -22,000 cyclospora cases and 2 deaths -Multiple ongoing salmonella outbreaks -Measles cases at 35-year high -New "forever chemical" pesticides in our food supply How the hell is any of this Making America Healthy Again?

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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Plot twist!

Ben Affleck smirks in a Burger King commercial: “Sometimes You’ve Gotta Break the Rules”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

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