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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 2h

The family was watching some kind of news or informational program that involved someone "meeting an alien," they showed the first image I'd ever seen of your classic grey. I still don't care for them lol

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Erica Van Houten @epvh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The user interface passing the Turing Test has all kinds of horrific downstream consequences. Humans will assume it has the same features as them and follows the same rules. All of these assumptions are false and can be exploited to influence their users.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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🍄‍🟫 spore 🍄‍🟫 @sporeprince.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i try to be a deeply forgiving person, i try not to hold resentment for people i have loved. sometimes it’s really hard not to 🫠

resentment is a mortal wound. if you do not tend to it, heal it, it will fester, it will rot, YOU will rot.do not poison your precious life. let it go. live.

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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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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a place in town that has a banh mi cheeseburger and I just tried my first one tonight I've seriously been missing out all summer lol, hope they bring it back for next year's menu

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saving for later because All Them Witches That's it, that's the post

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also I pretty much only hang out on my moots feed, so if I'm missing stuff I apologize

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ngl its crazy how there was a whole humanoid canid subspecies that died out in the middle ages because they overwhelmingly converted to christianity, became monks/nuns, most took vows of celibacy, and now no one talks about them???

a small ivory figure dated to 1500s denmark depicting a fox in a monk's outfit

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Jason Copland @jasoncopland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For those that need to hear it.

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Rosehr Photography @rosehrphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mother Nature showing off her best metallic paint job! ✨ Spotted this stunning little jewel bug flashing some incredible iridescent colours on my walk today. 🪲🌿 #Photography Hans-Joachim Rosehr #JewelBug #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #InsectsOfTwitter #Wildlife #BugLife

A close-up photograph of a brightly coloured bug resting on a thin, brown, textured branch. The bug has a striking, iridescent shell with vibrant red and metallic green patterned markings. The branch is surrounded by long, narrow, green needle-like leaves.

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just got to see ACME vs Coyote. Might be the newest flick I've seen up here in my tenure. It was really cute!

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Love and Rockets/Idles kind of day.

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🌈VHS KILLED THE RADIO STAR 📼📹 @vhsdragoness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The new gen furries Would be having a heart attack if furries were still moving like they did in the '90s and 2000s.

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Get the snip. Get the implant. Make your Self secure while you can.

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dh570.bsky.social @dh570.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If birth control is in the drinking water, so is viagra and every other pill.

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Since the mountain was out showing off this morning have this blurry photo of what we call Termination Dust, aka the signal that hard winter is a month-ish away.

Newly fallen snow sits atop a mountain peak, which is lit up by a rising sun across the fjord.

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Tabaqi 🐾 @tabernak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t really see the damage from “oops all gambling” culture going away for a very long time, it’s just fucking EVERYWHERE now

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fuckin Tad Williams books Taking up multilplicities of their physical space on my shelves WHY are you so fun to read?!

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Merystic @merystic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

20-somethings, I need to give you some advice. I just took a walk down memory lane, thru photos from when I was an insecure, worried, depressed 20-something. 1…yes, it will actually get better. 2…LISTEN to those who lift you up and tell you you’re beautiful. You’ll look back someday and agree.

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everything is a traaaapppp. Existing is a false front, everyone is going to think what they think regardlesssssssssssss of facts

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Enjoying a beautiful, not windy, rainy, 50ish degree day in SEAK. Feels like home.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 17/09/2026

Color photograph, looking directly at a bright orange and yellow cosmos bloom

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who cares what 20yo me would think? 20yo me knew less than nothing😅 poor thing

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Learning there are cilantro flavored lays in Thailand rn and I am not going to be okay until I get my hands on some

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Having fun in the sun showing @ryannktsu.bsky.social bits and pieces of Skagway! They are on a tour right now but we will reconvene soon for more shenanigans

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All pins have been unlocked and with just *3 days left* we're getting close to our next stretch goals. There's an exciting surprise with the scarlet macaw pendant - have you seen what's next? tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8

A graphic design banner for the Visionary Vultures pin campaign featuring the next two stretch goals (jungle fowl earrings and scarlet macaw pendant) and showing that $25+ pledges get free crane colt sticker sheets as well

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ope, it's 9am. There goes the internet *zhoop*

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wish I could just spawn an Omelet recipe in my #FieldsofMistria save lol

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Izixs @izixs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Forsooth! Rawr.

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Stimulate me (more, more)", graphite on paper, 7x11", 2026- $250(Cdn) (30% off to Canadian residents.) #art #sciart #invertebrates

A black & white drawing of 2 crumpled Red Bull cans, side-by-side. The can on the right is a little taller than the one on the left. A speckled slug is sliming off the can to the left to the table top between the 2 cans.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

loved by the sun

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I made some sketchbook art in this vein years ago and got SO MUCH SIDE-EYE ABOUT IT when I shared lol I'm grateful I have better people in my life now💖

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HiddenStash @hiddenstash.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chimney swifts doin their thang in NE Portland

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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🐴 Jam 🍂 Comms open! @wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I wish i could opt out of being perceived as a gendered being

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Lost in the dirt, covered in vines @pandragon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Found somebody's sona sticker?! We're everywhere lol

A cartoony fursona sticker of an unknown ginger and white cat wearing shades and a dark collared shirt throwing the horns

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