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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 21h

Congrats and all the best to the teams!!! The party is gathering and you have my swords! 🏹⚔️🛡️✨👊🏼🔮 Please read up on it and sign the petition! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7h

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Ben McBride @monsterpopcorn.com · 10h

[31 DAYS OF HORROR] DAY 7 - BLOODY TENNIS. Fresh out of Fantastic Fest, this horrific tennis academy tale is mainly inspired by Italian horror, namely SUSPIRIA, with a dash of Julia Ducournou’s RAW.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Earlier this year, I was fortunate to spend a few hours talking with Heather Langenkamp about her time with Wes & with the NIGHTMARE movies. Here’s part of that conversation: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/wes-tober-he... Open to free & paid subscribers- shares greatly appreciated! 🖤

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Wes-tober: Heather Langenkamp Reflects on How A Nightmare on Elm Street Changed Horror and Her Life

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pre-order (for the Kindle version only, at the moment) is LIVE. The book will be released October 14th! www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLWZK7M...

Cover for Castle Freak: The Official Novelization

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're in TX, even if you voted in the primary, you need to check and make sure you haven't been purged for one reason or another. Especially if you have a Spanish surname.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Damn man, I’m sorry she’s going through all this. Glad it sounds like she’s on the mend. Take care of yourself.

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CBCC🔜NYCC @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Out Today - New Comic Book Day - THE NIGHT OF THE OWLS COMPENDIUM collecting the first 12 issues & all the spin-offs. Grab it & listen to our recent episode with @ssnyder1835.bsky.social about the Court of Owls, 15 Years after the first appearance: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/scott-s...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rob Saucedo @robsaucedo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Houston! Just in time for the spooky season, signed copies of my graphic novels WHERE WOLF and CURSE OF THE WHERE WOLF are now available for purchase at Brazos Bookstore! If you enjoy werewolves, whodunits, and wreading, grab a copy today.

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That Tony Scott Drummer Dude @tjmackey432.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After almost 2 years I finally got to meet back up with the legendary Carmelita Valdez McKoy and as expected we had an amazing time! Join us on the “𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧” of all Cult Movies episodes where we talk all things Mommie Dearest with Anthony & Matt, including what may be the coolest shower of all time!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This looks awesome, just added it to my wish list.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The last entry in my One-and-Done Horrors series is John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Come for the world ending vibes, stay for the killer opening credits, all the Susan jokes & Jameson Parker’s card tricks. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/one-and-done... Open to free/paid subscribers!

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One-and-Done Horrors: Prince of Darkness

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

This can fuck off entirely.

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Bryan Christopher @evilthiccness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you’re always giving @derekdeadly.bsky.social shit for giving spoilers and then literally drop the entire plot of a movie when someone in chat just said they haven’t sent it yet. Sorry again @wickedkitten13.bsky.social 😬 @dailydead.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/dailydeadtwi...

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You Went Full Derek - DailyDeadTwitch on Twitch

Watch DailyDeadTwitch's clip titled "You Went Full Derek" on Twitch.

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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ONE LAST SHOT starring Scott Adkins is a satisfying conclusion to maybe the most ambitious series in modern indie action. Somehow they do ROPE-style filmmaking on tight budgets and schedules, and the story is engrossing enough that I forget to think much about the technical side. (Now on VOD.)

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One Last Shot | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA

ONE LAST SHOT is an event movie within the world of indie action: director James Nunn (GREEN STREET 3: NEVER BACK DOWN), writer Jamie Russell and star Scott

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Using AI to help you learn is like hiring a robot to lift for you in the weight room. It’s not simply that you don’t develop the muscles the weights were meant to exercise; your muscles actually atrophy if you do nothing but watch the robot heave away."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m so sorry about your dad, Kaci ❤️ Glad you’ve at least been able to find some comfort and solace in a new friend. She is so precious.

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Charles Bruce @the8thcurse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I intentionally worked the word filmatism into this review as a tribute to my favorite film critic @outlawvern.bsky.social who not only has been an inspiration and influence but was the one who first put me onto Scott Adkins and the UNDISPUTED sequels back in the day.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing like gutting a studio to bring in basically all new devs…only to gut it again as soon as the project’s done. They’ve completely done away with job security in any form.

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CBCC🔜NYCC @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We chat with Scott Snyder about Batman: The Court of Owls, his first major reboot, and how it all led to Absolute Batman by embracing a fallible Bruce Wayne: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/scott-s...

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Scott Snyder on Batman: The Court of Owls: 15 Years Later

We chat with Scott Snyder about Batman: The Court of Owls, his first major reboot, and how it all led to Absolute Batman by embracing a fallible Bruce Wayne.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My takeaway from this is that Microsoft is moving from a studio-focused model, which is where they based their acquisition decisions on what companies could just operate independently with no oversight (which was stupid) to an IP-focused model where everyone loses autonomy in service of properties.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is pathetic framing, you fucking losers

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry, man. Hoping you can muster enough energy to enjoy yourself soon. Not being able to focus on or enjoy anything is its own hell.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him for a generational wipeout of Texas Republicans

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oof that stinks, glad you got it taken care of though! The unintended zombie cosplay isn’t ideal, but might be a fun bonus?? Haha

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CONTROL Resonant - Launch Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvA...

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hope you get taken care of and get outta there quickly!

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Today marks the beginning of our trial against Rockstar to hold them accountable for firing workers who were trying to unionise. In order for us to see this through to the end, we need your support. Please donate to and share our fundraiser for the Rockstar 31: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5Omj...

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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31

Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What if we took the worst lessons of the Cold War and the War on Terror, chopped them up, and snorted them up our nose

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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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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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about