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🤘🏿🏳️‍🌈Kalen Whitfield🏳️‍🌈🤘🏿 @jazlyte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2 years, hundreds of joints, thousands of furry dollars later we are a week from ASS

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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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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 22/06/2026

With alt text. "We built the library. Someone else started charging admission." This is what I hear when someone says, "Don't get left behind." It's more of a Gold Rush than anything else. They mean if you don't make the move to (literally) take advantage of others' work first, someone else will.

Tweet from Suraj Sharma on June 20, 2026.

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

Al companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 08/05/2026

"i wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo "lmao" said Gandalf, "well it has"

a cartoony drawing of frodo from lord of the rings, holding the one ring on a chain and looking tired and upset with his huge blue elijah wood eyes. apologies / thank you to original "lmao well it has" meme poster J. R. R. Jokin

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this is a masterpiece

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

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FrogCass @frogcass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

When playing certain games, you gotta ask yourself Am I enjoying this or am I making ice cubes? You deserve better than ice cubes.

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

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Doctor Omega @docomega.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?

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orc @orcanist.gay · 07/12/2025

When he's hung but he's ace

Price sticker that reads "wood (decorative)"

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Sed! (But also Sami!) 🩷💛🩵 @sedwert.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Smushed like mochi... (Don't worry this is Sami Enrichment™) 🎨: @noarustar.bsky.social

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AugustRiot 😝 @irritableboy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Anytime I hear about Expedition 33

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Aaron Potter @aaronpotter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Well, this is it. After two-and-a-half years of work, conducting interviews, playing so many games, and then writing it all up into something legible. 50 Indie Games That Changed the World by me and @bitmapbooks.com is out NOW! Order your copy here: t.co/MolyUy9L35

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

They're opening a 2000s nostalgia diner where you can eat totinos in a humid basement and listen to System of a Down, if you get ten punches on your loyalty card they'll let you get euthanized there!

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Liz Alfos @touloutoumou.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

nah i wont finish this joke

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PossumPlay @possumplay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My personal word filter is changing "Gah, I feel old" to "I fear my own death, just as you do." It prevents me from slapping up a lot of 20-year-olds on here.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

my d&d guy is a green Mage who specializes in summoning off-Leash pitbulls from the doggy day care dimension . and using him is not politics

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PossumPlay @possumplay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Every single new Patrick Wolf release has been SO WILDLY good. I'm going to go insane. INSANE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtO...

youtube.com

PATRICK WOLF / JUPITER : VIDEO 1/4 - "PETER"

YouTube video by Patrick Wolf

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Oh wrestling is fake? Then explain this

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PossumPlay @possumplay.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just a little PSA for all men: There is never a situation where you should post a picture of Jack Torrance in your dating profile. Thank you for your time.

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Jasozz @jasozzgames.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

hmmmmmmmmff 🍷

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

“thanks so much for the feedback”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

your friend at month 1 of their newest game dev role: this studio is so chill and everyone is so nice. no drama here!!! your friend at month 47: so yes it turns out the team did actually kill and eat the former vfx director, as i suspected. but that was AFTER the interns all died in The Incident

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baggy🌱 @bagplants.art · 11/11/2024

bad art is always beautiful because it means someone is learning how to be creative in this day and age. despite it all

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 10/11/2024

I’ve been on Bluesky for a while now and I’m glad a lot of new people are coming over from X, and if I had one tip for them it would be to get used to seeing drawings of beefy animals with dicks the size of Stanley tumblers.

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LillyV 🔞 🏳️‍⚧️ CAKE DAY 🍰 Sept 13 @lillyvont.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Bernie coming in hard and not fucking around. The democrats fucked everyone in 2016. I’m still pissed about it

Bernie
NEWS: Sanders Statement on the Results of the 2024 Presidential Election
November 6, 2024
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election:
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.
Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.

Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.
Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.
Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government's all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.
Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.
In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.
Stay tuned.

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