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M'lyn

@mlyntc.bsky.social
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TV and movies, Kraken/Canucks/Penguins, meteorology, Viking Age, gemology and woodcarving nerdery.

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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You want to nourish and wow your audience with your vegan practices, you'd better deliver a dish that improves on their expectation. I want a baker to knock me over with their vegan marzipan or olive oil cake, not to deliver an inedible snickerdoodle that would be out of place at a gas station.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's a three-ingredient recipe and you changed one of those, then acted surprised when it baked like an oily brick? Macarons themselves are one of the most amazing alchemical wonders of cookery, why are you futzing with the magic??
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I always love the earnest baker who is completely ignorant of chemistry, too. I've been watching the Bake Off Professionals series and shook my head at a PRO CHEF who used black sesame instead of almond flour in her macarons.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You want to cook and provide vegan food, fine. There have been GBBO contestants in years past who have tried doing vegan spins on challenges. But when your beliefs preclude you from being able to even taste test a dish, why the hell should you expect anyone else to taste or eat it?
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hopping late onto the American criticizing GBBO bandwagon but maybe for something different. I don't understand vegans who want to cook something they refuse to taste themselves.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a small and petty thing but jesus almost all of these signatures look like ASS. Let's bring back penmanship so we can have cool signatures again, not this stuff that looks like a six year old did it.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Karen Zack @kjzack6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New @blairbraverman.bsky.social podcast episode today, #UglyDogs!
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What to Carry, What to Burn
True Crime Podcast · Edge-of-your-seat survival stories, as told by adventurer and dogsledder Blair Braverman. How did Ada Blackjack endure a brutal Arctic winter alone? Why did one shipwreck crew wor...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*Hugs*
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂 Now is it pronounced "peeka" or "p-eye-ka"?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
It's been pretty obvious for a while now that the US is losing global supremacy and it's up to us whether we do it gracefully or in mushroom clouds.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of those magical sounds of the wilderness when you're in the middle of nowhere. 🥰
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In practice though, it really seems like we're moving towards, "AI is a productivity tool that enhances the employee you have, but often doesn't really let you replace them, so much as get more out of them, in some fields. In others, it's mostly useless so far."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/09/2026
Excited to reflect, absorb, and emit light EXTRA WELL today ✨💃⚡️ #BiVisibilityDay
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Re-posting with typo fix and re-boosting this for the US east coast time folks, I moved to Scotland and landed in an unlivable flat, so am offering 15 drm-free books of mine as a thank you for anything you offer as a way to get into a safe living space:
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 22/09/2026
Today’s Fall Equinox at 8:05 pm ET marks the start of astronomical fall in the N. Hemisphere and is when the Sun is directly over Earth’s equator. Now through the Winter Solstice, the Northern Hemisphere will receive less ad less direct sunlight as Earth continues along its tilted orbit.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 21/09/2026
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Break a leg!
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh man, I was going to suggest you go that route. Maybe it's shitty store by store. I just called one and was able to leave a message and get a call back from the pharmacist.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm sorry it was a shit experience. Did you call a national number or a local?
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's a little thing but I love how badly Jared sticks out like a sore thumb. Nobody near him, wooden posture, the dark shirt sets him apart in the front row. Looooooserrrrrr. 😂
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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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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This scraper account posts other people’s stuff without credit. They grudgingly post a separate attribution after the fact, if enough people call them out. Any time an account says “dm me if you own the original,” just put them on the block list. Don’t let these accounts get a foothold here.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Silly goose, he doesn't have media literacy.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Damn, that's a shame. 70 isn't a spring chicken but not really that old either.
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've seen other authors complain of this, too.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's still not okay for an ER doctor to deliver bad news like a shitty punch line. But I think it happens a lot because doctors have terrible bedside manner (that's why the phrase exists!), and I don't think it's an accident. 😡
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think there's a very strong overlap in the Venn diagram of "smart enough to do this job" and "lacking sufficient empathy to talk to humans". You see this play out in The Pitt with various characters.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Marisa Kabas doesn't need me piling on while she's processing an awful trauma, so I'll say over here that I'm not surprised an ER doctor said something wildly inappropriate. I once had an allergist tell me that the solution for my problem of all my friends having pets was "get new friends".
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This brought to you by another deep dive into Clickspring videos. Try to not cry after watching the final three minutes here, in which Chris meditates on Marcus Aurelius and the nature of creating art. youtu.be/XsmGHMic8vs?...
youtu.be
A Guilloche Dial In Sterling Silver - Cutting Traditional Guilloché On The Straight-Line Engine #3
YouTube video by Clickspring
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Me, holding a newspaper, looking off into space: I should buy a rose engine.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
we should do this every year on the anniversary of her passing. think how much better the internet is today when everyone is just talking about one of the purest souls who ever lived. annual mandatory "1 out of every 3 posts must be about Dolly" day
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
oh I love this. this feels correct
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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Rosemary Kirstein @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I never quite understood her -- until this podcast series. It knocked me over, lifted me up, brushed me off and sent me back on my way. We were so lucky to have her. radiolab.org/podcast/radi...
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Radiolab Presents: Dolly Parton's America
We enter the Dollyverse.
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly made times less hard for a lot of people thoughtcatalog.com/nicolestawia...
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Dolly Parton Funded an Oscar-Winning AIDS Documentary in the 1980s When the Reagan Administration Wouldn’t Act
Parton lost friends to AIDS in the 1980s and put her production company Sandollar behind Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt that wen…
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
reminder that this is what auto supply chains in North America currently look like. Random parts can cross the US/Canadian border half a dozen times www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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Luce Northstar 🔞 @lucezozzerie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
tumblr is having a great one about this, little masterpiece of a post I'd say
first post reads: Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you. 
reblog reads: "you're less internet savy than a 13 year old mormon" is a diabolical thing to say to someone, I support it
original: tumblr.com/silverwolf1249/825380941390348288
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