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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

this is 10x more impressive than a strike

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

but what if i want to vibe cream a rat poison flavor in my ninja ice cream maker?? it's my right as an american to do so. it will have 60 grams of protein in addition to killing me instantly

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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 23/01/2024

Google maps screenshot with McDonald’s highlighted. Rating, 3.5. Featured review: “It kept my burger warm for long.”

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Felicitea (working on comms!) @coffeecatcurios.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you are wonderful! and if you don't yet realize how great you are now, I hope you do soon. be patient with yourself every day! #pokemon #sylveon

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Spooky the squirrel @steadysquirrel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Home cooked” does not mean “good”. I’ve made meals I wouldn’t inflict on anyone

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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๖ۣۜRadiant @radiantderg.dev · 19/09/2026

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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 13/09/2026

Grim

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aster 🌺 @flatbat.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

me every single day :3333333

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the dark chuckler @dungeonbgm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

all timer for me

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Delicious Pretzel @notgoodatlogins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was given anxiety and imposter syndrome by God because She knew the only thing that could stop a bitch like me, is me 💅

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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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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just don’t 😃🚫 [ #cuteart #illustration ]

A cute goofy, tiny white cat with a big smile holding up a disproportionately large & more human hand, palm out towards the viewer. On it reads: “if you talk to me about using an AI chatbot I WILL crash out.” The illustration is off a soft red background and made with primary colors.

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laney @saltmalk.in · 07/09/2026

how haunting, to miss an old idea of home

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Sin (Commissions Open) @sinarts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some of my friends and I had an idea for a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon piece with us as pokesonas. We're on our way to the next adventure! @etzir.bsky.social @rrerrptile.bsky.social @bimbuppy.bsky.social @angrykobold.bsky.social @notgoodatlogins.bsky.social

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Miss Cryptid🔞 @misscryptidart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I've made so many friends this way

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lex 🍳 @strayserval.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

wizard that only works in cartoon slapstick. conjures an oversized big hammer to smash you with. teleports you away over the edge of a cliff as you’re running at him but holds you there so you’re still running a bit. spell that makes you YEEAGHH AHH HOOO HOO HO

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Ben Munson @munson.land · 14/08/2026

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