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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

now this is a funny thread, but the truth is, it makes a fundamental error. Every romance reader knows that it's Nora Roberts who is gonna take you fucking down. This is a woman you should NEVER mess with.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what this asshole is spending his lame duck term on. Doing AI bro exec orders while vetoing bipartisan bills that would make Californian lives demonstratively safer.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

There are a lot of things they can't do. But there are also a lot of things they can get caught trying to do and force the republicans to constantly publicly fight them on the most popular shit imaginable.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

u know that old adage about how u do not want to know how the sausage is made i for one love to learn the secrets of the sausage making from creatives

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

I need this app to stop pushing group chat on me. I get it. We all fucking get it

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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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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The machine can replace anyone else's work, that's fine, that's unavoidable, but of course my lawyers spent a long time making sure it wouldn't replace mine."

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The biggest fallacy out there is that art can't be learned. The notion that it's gatekept away because some people are born with ability and some people aren't. No. It's a skill. You improve it. The Mona Lisa wasn't 101 art. He worked on plenty of shit to get there.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Maybe we should just bring out Liz Cheney on a stage. Maybe that will help us win more than the people already winning their primaries. 🫠😒

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

At some point, you have to tell people who are using their pain to justify their bigotry that the thing they're doing is unacceptable, and 25 years later is well after the point in question.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 04/08/2026

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Kids were bringing covid home and killing their older family members. Teachers were getting sick and bringing it home to their families. I'd argue the real problem wasn't closing the schools (the right thing to do) but that we did it without providing resources or infrastructure for it.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/08/2026

Regular reminder, Newsom isn't just a regular corproate villain, he has a sadistic streak too.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

besties the form closes in 24 hours, BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/07/2026

I'm also going to say this, a thing I will die mad about. When the news broke about Alex Kozinski, the first comment he gave was trying to discredit Courtney by mentioning this book and the sex in it, trying to imply if you write about sex then you can't be sexually harassed at work. Anyway.

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 07/07/2026

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/07/2026

Our top two earners so far on the auction are JD Vance's Shitty Bookclub and Samuel Alito is a Whiny Pissbaby Group Chat. Joy & spite in action.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/07/2026

Your reminder that I will be giving a talk entitled "Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby" and for $20, you can attend. For an additional $20, you can get a friend in on it. If we pass 500 seats sold, we'll have two seatings of the talk.

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 30/06/2026

Hello everyone! On the day before the auction, we're going to talk about WHY we do this, something that has particular salience on the day that final SCOTUS opinions are released and we once again have to try to remove the knives from our backs.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/06/2026

Do you want to give $20 to voting rights organizations AND hear about why Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby, with reasons that range from legal discussion to him lacking basic home training? Well. Starting tomorrow, you'll get that option.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fuck every single Democrat that has ever been willing to compromise on trans dignity, rights and humanity. I hope you assholes are pleased with yourselves. I don’t know if you could’ve prevented this moment, but you should’ve been fighting every step of the way.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026

Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/06/2026

One last little thing: there's a side conversation about how you have to run moderates in order to peel off voters from blah blah blah And I think this really misunderstands why people are voting for the GOP.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/06/2026

Look I went to the Democratic caucus in Pueblo, Colorado this year--a party faithful event that is so arcane that people don't even know it happens and exists. These ARE the people who knock doors. These are the volunteers. Anyway, so many of them were upset with the Democratic Party.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/06/2026

I know the ratio on this is already ridiculous but I was still thinking about it when I got up this morning. We're not your resources. We're not your volunteers. You're the ones constantly asking for OUR money even though most of us have so little. We'll keep primarying anyone who doesn't get that

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/06/2026

just updated the running totals on the @romancingthevote.com page and man oh man, this year's gonna be WILD 👀

the running totals say: 446 auction items, 3,016 Buy it Nows, and 272 donors

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/05/2026

This reminds me of the people getting mad at Aggressive Cooking Tutorials and so much of this is class coded. You just don’t like it when people eat food that’s accessible to them.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/05/2026

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 30/04/2026

this is where my rage about this topic started, lol

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/04/2026

If you recognize which unnamed woman is talking because you're asked for comment and the comment makes it clear which of the woman's rape stories match your memory of events, and you text that specific woman and say "stop telling people I raped you," that is.... sure an admission of something.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Every time Louis CK gets work I think about Will Smith being banned from the Oscar's for a decade for defending his wife from a dude who wouldn't stop verbally attacking her. 🤔🤔🤔

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I said it with my whole chest: ROMANCE IS THE REASON for Heated Rivalry's success! www.today.com/popculture/t...

Romance is the reason. Romance is the most popular genre of books published. A romance TV show that really hits the ‘cinematic beats’ of a romance novel — I don’t think we’ve ever seen it. This feels to us in the romance genre what we get every time we read a romance novel. Welcome to the club. The thing about this adaptation is it never shies away from the idea that the feelings of Shane and Ilya are what’s really important. Romance readers are not ashamed of the idea that the people you fall in love with can change your whole life. When I see a romance adaptation that’s a little too cool for feelings … you have to really lean in to the idea that there is nothing shameful about love, and the people you fall in love with being important to your life and your happiness.”

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Deven Rue 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @devenrue.com · 10/01/2026

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I honestly don’t think there’s a single figure in American history who has fundamentally shifted the way I understand the world I live in more radically than Fred Hampton. once you know the story you can’t un-know it and you see it repeated everywhere

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/12/2025

and if you want to know... why Donald Trump is the president It's because the Ecru measure Goodness as being able to handle snakes rather than avoid them.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/12/2025

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

?? It’s rats leaving a burning building, looking for the next pile of trash to snuggle under. Y’all love trying to force a redemption arc on the most heinous of people and that’s part of why we’re in this moment in time in the first place

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/11/2025

Bail out the people who are harmed, not the bad companies that caused the harm.

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 27/10/2025

Why would someone who thinks civil rights are negotiable--especially for trans folks like my kid--think they deserve my vote? That simply means they're too eager for power and too morally flexible to be trusted.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/10/2025

I’ve set up a recurring donation with mine. Even $5 a month can help a lot—usually way more than we, who don’t buy in bulk, could buy in equivalent.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24/10/2025

Sam's Club is part of Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart workers are among the largest recipients of SNAP in this country. Apparently, some Wal-Marts will help employees fill out SNAP applications as part of their HR paperwork. When people start going hungry on Nov 1 part of the reason is companies underpay them

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