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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 28/09/2026

4) the noise the relay in my UPS makes when it does its weekly self-test. RANDOM DEATH IN THE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am a writer of the words & sentences (some funny). I’ve done most things: written gags, speeches, scripts, TV ads - if you require such an individual, then I am that person. Website (here) www.mathew-owen.co.uk any RTs (or whatever they’re called on here) gratefully received. Cheers👍👍

mathew-owen.co.uk

Mathew Owen | Speech Writer | Manchester

Bespoke wedding speeches from a professional comedy writer.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, male opera singers dubbed with ship’s horns

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's a long shot but Bluesky is as good a place as any for this: does anyone have a ticket they can't use for the Zeteo launch at the Barbican tmrw? I will buy it off you if so (I have one, I just want to take my kid).

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch the EU treaty negotiations in 1991" "Maastricht?" "She was a bit"

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Dir: Martin McDonagh, 2017)

Wile E Coyote holding up a sign which says "it's a limited number of signs"

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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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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 06/09/2026

All the studies show that if the resources are provided, it costs less than the cruel option.

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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 05/09/2026

Great film for introducing the idea of circular reasoning to the kids

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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 02/09/2026

This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered to have been a very bad move.

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 30/08/2026

we need a "search in replies" feature so i don't have to read every reply to know if someone's already commented what i want to comment

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yep, 3 episodes of Autistic comedy and this 4th ep is where we have a lot of Apraxic Autistics explore their feelings & sense of self (they always but an accurate Content Warning at the start) … big character development ep on @sararoseg.bsky.social’s always excellent sitcom “It’s a Superpower??”

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Dr. Hesse Daria 👒 [bæddelstar galactica] @thatdoll.online · 17/08/2026

sad girl at the coffee shop- you can fix her, dude, trust me. get really invested in that.

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 17/08/2026

Substitution.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

JESUS. You’d have thought the park around the corner were on fire with the shoutiness of this alert. I’m going to start getting very annoyed about this blaming of individuals setting up BBQs (which they obviously shouldn’t!) as a distraction from oil companies’ decades of greed. Send 🚨 about that.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

BLOODY HELL UK GOVERNMENT

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Mags @deadbloke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fucking hell Burnham. Pack it in

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did my phone just beep? What now, I'm busy trying to get this disposable barbecue going

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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 14/08/2026

Well, I just nearly shat myself, anyone else? #bbq #tinkeringaroundtheedges

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Every few months people are like “Is BlueSky dying” and every few months it doesn’t fucking matter because who gives a shit

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

They did the thing SO WELL

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

we're just normal men

Woman (rose byrne I think?) leaning her head against a CGI rabbit

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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 08/08/2026

POST MORE CATS YOU COWARDS!

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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 04/08/2026

I am so tired. There is no bandwidth left for even the most basic tasks. Make it stop.

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NeedANewName @needanewname.org · 28/07/2026

Israel triggering NATOs article five before Russia isn’t something I had on my bingo card..

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 27/07/2026

Five autistics walk into an autism support group - before immediately realising what a stupid fucking idea that was. And that’s before the mysterious earthquake and useless magic powers. It’s a Superpower?? Chapter One is out!! allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower

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Jeff Livingstone @defjeff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When I was a bairn, my world revolved around Tom Baker, Kenny Everett and Bill Oddie. I couldn’t have adored The Goodies more and laughed like a drain at each sketch. That he was a birder too made him all the more special, there weren’t many around on tv and I learned a lot from him. Gan well, Bill.