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The person Jennifer Whitmore is questioning is Paul Savage who is the CEO of dogs.ie , a dog selling website. Of course he is. #spéirghorm

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 16h

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Ed Maxwell @edpaintskrieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's pretty fun coming up with some interesting mini dioramas for the base of my mega gargant.

An unpainted WIP model of a medieval peasant sat on an outhouse toilet. The outhouse has been smashed around him leaving him understandably a little confused and rather perturbed.

The model outhouse and peasant in place on the base of a huge giant model striding past in the background. The giant has just knocked the top of the outhouse leaving the fortunate peasant behind.

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JewelKnightJess "R" Us 🎲🖌️🎮 @jewelknightjess.com · 29/09/2026

I love the Rogue Trader jet cycle because it always reminds me of a garden railway locomotive

A space marine in blue rides a black jet engine

A man in blue rides a black garden railway loco

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is the 36th Anniversary of The Best of Both Worlds Part 2 - so gotta wheel this out again - can i get 100 reposts (unsubtle hint 😜) This poster was a long long time in the making but it's one of the few painting's I've done that I'm actually proud of. #startrek #thebestofbothworlds #fanart

A fan art poster painting for The Best of Both Worlds from the 1990 two parter of Star Trek The Next Generation

A Painting of captain picard being assimilated surrounded by 6 borg

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 23/09/2026

Why is a national newspaper reporting on this. He holds no public office. He is a member of no political party - influential or otherwise. His past political campaigns were barely notable at the time, given how long-shot they clearly were from the start

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Russ Nicholson Middenheim Wetherspoons #wfrp #oldhammer

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kermit the Frog ys one thousande tymes more real than Tilly Norwood

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

HAPPY GOLDEN AXE WEEK! All episodes drop on P+ on Wednesday.

Key art image for the animated show Golden Axe featuring various fantastical characters - airs 9/16 on paramount plussss

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's "This is Information" from the 2002 9/11 Tribute Anthology comic is one of my favorite comics ever – its metaphorical approach to narrative had a profound influence on my comics making. I share bits of it in class frequently, but worth revisiting on this day...

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 10/09/2026

Ikea has released a Skyrim mod where players are accompanied by a Kallax shelving unit voiced by Matt Berry. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ikea-ha...

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Ikea has released a Skyrim mod where players are accompanied by a Kallax shelving unit voiced by Matt Berry | VGC

“Your inventory woes end here,” the Kallax Storageborn mod promises…

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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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James Longstrider @jameslongstrider.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hear hear! If you want wizards, witches, magic and fantasy by a British author, pick up a Terry Pratchett book~ (he was also a huge ally)

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.

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Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and Al-generated child pornography.
ASHLEY BELANGER - 27 AUG 2026 21:52

- An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok Al, stands in Times Square in New York City. Credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU /
Contributor AFP

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Kirioth @kirioth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP you absolute legend

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

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Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker

Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The absolutely, 100% most pathetic human on the planet

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Mike Nolan @michealnuallain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A favourite coffee mug repaired with a Kintsugi kit from @wearedesignist.bsky.social Not as neat as I'd like but that's the point of imperfections.

A broken coffee mug held in left hand with golden strands along its cracks showing a Kintsugi repair.

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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 04/08/2026

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

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Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Do you want to read about the last known trial by combat held in the middle of Dublin during the sixteenth century? Great. Here you go open.substack.com/pub/medieval...

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Blood in the Castle Yard

The last recorded trial by combat in Ireland took place in Dublin Castle between two O’ Connors of Offaly. What does it tell us about the Tudor conquest of Ireland?

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Chris Hutton - TTRPG Insider @newsnerd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mischief Game Store, a game shop from St. Paul who stepped up during the recent ICE incursions in Minnesota, received the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. Congrats!

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s really starting to grind me down

The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”

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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you're a fan of Bisley then here's a long form video of him going through every page of Slaine and saying things like 'Fucking hell, I love that' to his own work and why wouldn't he!? youtu.be/PoC7YAKR--c?...

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EXCLUSIVE Simon Bisley interview, part two - The 2000 AD Creator Tapes

YouTube video by 2000 AD

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You can dismiss any news that appears in the format "Elon Musk says [blank] will [blank] by the end of [blank]"

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Trump’s talking about Lindsey Graham like he’s a past drummer of Spinal Tap.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Sam Neill ‘You are unique. There is only one you. And that is you there, right here, for better or worse. Except that there is no better, and there is no worse. It’s just you.’

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

AND THE AULD TRIANGLE WENT

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/07/2026

Seen on r/adnd and r/OSR, a 3D build of the 1979 AD&D White Plume Mountain dungeon by u/Robster3000, including the terraced zoo of charmed monsters, the floating stream, the turnstile, and the rotating funhouse corridor oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8215838... www.reddit.com/r/adnd/comme...

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Your weather threecast

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Taylor Swift Updates @taylorswiftinfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Dolly Parton’s message thanking Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their $2 million donation to her Imagination Library! “I'm blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude. Now, it's evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives.”

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In a just world, Cynthia Rothrock would be 10x as famous as Steven Segal and Chuck Norris combined.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

BTD - Illustrator Hannes Bok - his cover for John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? - The inspiration for Howard Hawks's The Thing - First Edition, Shasta Publishers, 1947

a human figure with the grotesque head of a three-eyed monster with flowing red hair

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Therefore, this Dicastery, in the faithful exercise of the functions entrusted to it, considers it necessary to state that this act constituted the delict of schism, with the canonical consequences for the sacred ministers and lay faithful involved. Indeed, as was already declared in 1988, "such disobedience-which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy—constitutes a schismatic act" (cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei, 3).

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Mini of the month - John Blanche Entry 17 by @mxhollyclara.bsky.social We Are Legion #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

A Skeleton Horde marches across a dark and foreboding countryside. A menacing, twisted tree looms in the background. The skeletons recede into the distance, like there is no end to their numbers. A very “Heavy Metal” banner of a skull with a rose in its mouth is being carried by one of the skeletons. The banner reads “We are Legion”. It’s more than apt, because those of us who have been inspired by John Blanche are Legion - and are always grateful for what he gave us.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

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