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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A good thread.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Paul Killeen @pkilleenphoto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'The IsolatedTree' Delving into some old files from 2025, I came across this image and felt it deserved another look. Sometimes an image only reveals itself with time. #FineArtLandscape #Ireland #Minimalist #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026

Days left for the Livi Talbot anniversary sale, including the temporary discount on the new hardcover. All books on sale direct--including the audiobook bundle--here: payhip.com/skyladawncam...

Promo for the anniversary sale. Background image is of a woman rock climbing in silhouette against an orange sky. Text says "Happy Ten-Year Anniversary Livi Talbot" with confetti. The first three book covers in the series--each with a silhouetted woman in different backdrops--are in the corner with the lowered prices, and then there's a larger book cover for the deluxe hardback, this one looking like a pulpy vintage book with a woman fighting a dragon. "Deluxe special edition hardcover now available, $49.95 for a limited time"

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

167k+ lbs of raw beef, pork, and goat meat recalled after being distributed with fraudulent inspection labels www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One thing I miss from Colorado are watching the huge storms and building clouds cast full of lightning roll through. The visuals! (I didn't like the storm damage and tornadoes though, that I'm glad to be out of, particularly the hail). Gorgeous video capture, it's breathtaking.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026

"What a fantastic book. I don't know where to even start with the raving." -Smart Bitches, Trashy Books /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Trade... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesand... Kobo: store.koboboo... #Romance #HEA #CycloneSeries

Cover of Trade Me, a white man holding an Asian Woman. Text: "Milan knocks it so far out of the park that it's 200 miles away." - Fresh Fiction

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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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?

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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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Tim @sixfootinshoes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Because in my culture, to love someone is to allow yourself to be changed by them." 🎯🎯🎯

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

IMAX has announced the original Star Wars will be released in IMAX 70MM for the first time next year, alongside Star Wars: Starfighter. And yes, seems to be the ORIGINAL version of Star Wars. Like, the actual, original version. From 1977.

Star Wars 50th Anniversary Re-Release and Star Wars: Starfighter to Receive

Coveted IMAX 70mm Film Releases in 2027

Disney and Lucasfilm Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Star Wars with the Iconic Film’s

First Ever Release in IMAX

Star Wars and Star Wars: Starfighter — both the original and very latest films in the iconic saga that forever changed cinema — will be presented in IMAX 70mm film upon release in 2027. The upcoming releases will mark the first time fans can experience the Star Wars universe in the gold standard film format, which is experiencing surging popularity among fans worldwide.

Star Wars will be presented in IMAX for the first time ever — in digital or on film — as part of its highly anticipated anniversary re-release on February 19, 2027. The newly restored version of the 1977 original will also be shown across a select number of IMAX 70mm film locations.

On May 28, 2027 — the 50th anniversary weekend of the original Star Wars — Lucasfilm will release Star Wars: Starfighter, an all-new standalone adventure from director/producer Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine, Stranger Things) and starring Ryan Gosling (Drive, Blade Runner 2049, La La Land, The Place Beyond the Pines, Barbie, Project Hail Mary) as Kade Auberon. The Filmed For IMAX release was shot with IMAX-certified cameras and will be converted to IMAX 70mm film prints for release in a select number of IMAX film locations. As described in details shared at this year’s D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, when a cynical rogue is confronted by his mysterious past, he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny.

Star Wars: Starfighter also stars Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, Flynn Gray, and Amy Adams. The film is written by Jonathan Tropper, produced by Shawn Levy and Kathleen Kennedy, with Ryan Gosling, Dan Levine, Mary McLaglen, and Josh McLaglen serving as executive producers.

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“‘Anyone can come up with a bunch of “interesting things that happen in sequence”. But if there's no emotional undercurrent, if there's nothing holding it up, it's just empty spectacle.’” 2/2 From The Q&A with @yogoldsmith.bsky.social: Andor S2 Q&A - Tom Bissell - Episodes 10-12, May 13, 2025

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Andor S2 Q&A - Tom Bissell - Episodes 10-12

Podcast Episode · The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith · May 14, 2025 · 1 sec

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mary Poppins (1934)

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 31/08/2026

OH GOD CELERY NOT LETTUCE DO NOT ADD LETTUCE TO THE CASSEROLE

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

W1731820189 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/iC6rc4

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Y'all. I know you're tired of my running on about this, and I *want* to give you a break over the weekend, but I CAN'T fail these cats. They need a HOME. They're affectionate, relaxed and in decent health, and their issues are MINOR and EASILY MANAGEABLE. All we need is to find That Person.

Gray cat with white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/08/2026

So I’m gathering up my weird nature facts for the Hugo ceremony—I am the toastmaster, and this is gonna be EDUCATIONAL—and I found one that was actually a little more unsettling than I wanted. You all prepared?

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Dina James @dinajames.com · 25/08/2026

When Rosalynn Carter passed, evil bastard Henry Kissinger followed shortly thereafter. It was surmised by some that she was allowed by the Universe to remove an asshole of her choosing from the world she left behind as a way to balance the scales. Dolly Parton has now entered the chat.

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Popcorn Guy Enjoys Popcorn While Relaxing

Alt: Gif Popcorn Guy Enjoys Popcorn While Relaxing

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 24/08/2026

...My adoptive mother miscarried *five times* (which is why I eventually got adopted by her and her husband). ...Be hilarious if that was the cause in her case, and the "fault" wasn't hers (as he apparently insisted) but his. :/

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/08/2026

The unified theory of fanfic evil remains unbeaten.

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have a book coming out!

The Bone Mask by L.A. Hughes book cover. It’s a high heat snowed in romantasy. Stand alone about 300 pages. There’s a horse who sucks. You will love him.

Bruin from The Bone Mask by L.A. Hughes. He has shoulder length brown hair, a sword and he’s blushing because he needs you to fix him

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The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.com · 18/08/2026

Cass is an instant buy for me. One of the best and most criminally underrated authors working in the field.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 17/08/2026

Thread: high-end wedding hardware, as the excellent Crone says.

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Anna Podedworna @akreon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So excited to share this illustration I had the pleasure of creating for Bloomberg Businessweek for the article “The Steamy, Magical and Now Very Lucrative Romantasy Business” by Hannah Miller and Madison Muller. Such a fun one to work on! Art direction by Chandra Illick.

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Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 13/08/2026

My favorite photo from today's eclipse. 📷 Andrew McCarthy cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea-sha...

From the photographer: "My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea"."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/08/2026

Hi! I write historical (and some contemporary) romances. Here's a list of my books by series in reading order. www.courtneymilan.co... /jb #HistoricalRomance #ContemporaryRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA

A collage of book covers by Courtney Milan, featuring women (many diverse) wearing gowns in rich jewel tones.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!

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The Dragon Has Some Complaints

Check out The Dragon Has Some Complaints - <b>"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of te...

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If we really must take ethnic background into account, well, we could consider what ethnicities the Greeks considered beautiful. Let's ask Herodotus: "The Ethiopians...are the most beautiful of all men" (Histories 3.20)

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/07/2026

pretty sure I actually just plagiarized the Beyond series in this post now that I think of it. fairly sure "would never tolerate being merely tolerated" is in Beyond Pain. LOL

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Obsessed with this new JWST image 🤩 Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Alyssa Pagan (STScI) 🔗 science.nasa.gov/ass... 🔭🐡🧪

In infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals bright protostars in star system FS Tau and a tapestry of background galaxies. FS Tau B, the orange protostar slightly right of center, is thought to be responsible for the orange outflows amid the dusty region.
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.com · 02/07/2026

Not now four black eggs surfacing from the dark heart of the ocean

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/06/2026

A stunning photo of the crescent Moon. And above it, a point of light. The only other large rocky world we will ever visit: Venus. Image credit and copyright: Debra Ceravolo

A crescent Moon, illuminated from the top right, seen through clouds. At the top is a bright point of light: Venus.

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Arr Ghoulish David @arrdavid.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Asking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.

I am forty. I have wrinkles and grey hair and I would have a walking stick to help me walk.

Rita Monaghan, 9

I am forty. I am turning old. I just left work because I cannot manage going up and down hills. I know I will soon die.

Jennifer Turner, 8

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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 15/06/2026

SILVER & BLOOD is on sale for $1.99 in the US, maybe today only? Filled with cursed forests, deadly beasts, magical libraries, and a slow-burn romance between two wary, reluctant allies. Amz: miha.li/SB_Amzn BN: miha.li/SB_BN Apple: miha.li/SB_Apple Bkshp: miha.li/SB_Bkshp More: miha.li/SB

The book cover on a pinkish background surrounded by the following text with arrows pointing back to the cover:
He’s grumpy, she throws an apple at his head.
Fairytale vibes, but make it sexy.
Magical library.
Forced proximity.

SILVER & BLOOD ebook on sale for $1.99.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Remnants:One" The first in a mini series of paintings on coffee stained watercolor paper. Sepia in tone, impressions of another world. Ivory black watercolor and white gouache with finest details in black liner and white gel pen. #dragons #watercolor #ACEO

An ACEO mini painting the size of a trading card. The paper is stained with coffee, the painting using only black watercolor and white gouache. A mountain peak with a distant moon and white dragon flying overhead. Hills with trees fade into the distance. The artwork is mounted to black backing board with a couple of photo corners. Text reads kamakru.com

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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

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