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Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 11h

This shit is so god damn annoying. Fix your country. Stop waging unprovoked economic war. Close the concentration camps. globalnews.ca/news/1208422...

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U.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Some American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border.

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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026

Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These titles are the last ones I logged at #TIFF26... Of these, I liked YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER the best. FUTURE TENSE may also end up as a hidden gem! #LastFourWatched

A screenshot from Letterboxd showing movie posters for Half, Future Tense, A Good Little Soldier and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Full trailer for You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder/Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Horror movie of the year perhaps? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_...

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You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Didn't expect this take, but I'm very curious! At least it isn't a retread of the relatively period-accurate versions we got in the 2000s.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

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Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I would play the hell out of an open-world Bean game with a destructible environment, where you just cause chaos by walking around. A point multiplier activates for every posh English character you offend

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Ryan McGee @ryanboston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

*gets megaphone, stands atop a mountain* THIS SOUNDS DEEPLY LIKE MY SH&T!!!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/

A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.

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Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This thread about someone trying to hijack convention panels to get authors to "collaborate" (meaning "How about you write this story I had AI generate the idea for, and we'll share the credit"), have I ever told you about the time I watched someone hit up George Lucas with The Worst Collab Pitch? 🧵

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Kit @hoosierkit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Holy shit, they're trying to teach incels how to talk to women

DiscussingFilm on x
@DiscussingFilm
Players may need to learn how to maintain a relationship for GTA 6.

• Optional romance story between Jason & Lucia - managed by having the two spend time together outside of missions

• Ways to strengthen the relationship include going shopping, visiting hair salons & doing robberies together

• Ignoring text messages from the other may negatively affect your relationship

• When playing as one character, you can summon the other to help out

(Source: https://ign.com/articles/gta-6-new-gameplay-details)

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly's cover of Stairway to Heaven, by the way, is the best, most imaginative cover of that song ever recorded. I actually think it improves upon the original because when Dolly sings it, you get the feeling that the narrator believes heaven in hell are real and you better watch yourself.

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Might have to switch to MapQuest now

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excellent thread

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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

these dragon-men who compulsively hoard wealth have existed throughout human history but i do not think this current batch understand why we have so many stories about heroes slaying dragons and distributing their hoards

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

That's why Google enshittified search: they had no competitors, so the worst ideas of the worst people at Google could be shown to make the most money, and so Google deliberately made its search results worse: pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/n... 39/

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Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“‘Shows what these American pigs know – Bonhomme cannot even be killed by conventional means,’ said Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette, as Bonhomme was moved to a secure location.”

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No, sorry, he's still dead.

screenshot of post from EW reading "watch val kilmer, brough back to life by AI technology, in an extended clip from his posthumous film, 'as deep as the grave'." with a picture of CGI Val Kilmer in a priest outfit

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

do not, my friends, become addicted to transistor based storage, or you will resent its absence

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Surely there is some mistake! There's no way this tax applies to me, a retired diplomat who lives in Paris who spent millions of dollars renovating the 12 million dollar apartment I never intended to live in. There must be some mistake

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The TV show The Middleman would do things like randomly have a shirtless Mark Dacascos fight dozens of Luchadors and use something called the Wu-Han Thumb of Death on their leader. We used to be a proper country.

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Marc Dacascos In Middleman

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This was a pretty fun #LastFourWatched. I was conflicted on MOTU but it kinda won me over as I thought about it. Can't wait to see what Kane Parsons does next. And VOICEMAILS FROM ISABELLE proves Zoey Deutsch is a rom-com expert. #LetterboxdFriday

A screenshot from Letterboxd showing posters for Voicemails from Isabelle, Masters of the Universe, Backrooms and The Odyssey

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Setting aside the genie claim (patently ridiculous), "broadly benefit" gives him plenty of flexibility to screw over at least part of humanity.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Joined @jasonchen16.bsky.social for another episode on some recent summer movies, including DISCLOSURE DAY and SUPERGIRL. Our ODYSSEY episode will be coming up next! open.spotify.com/episode/40GG...

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Episode 141 - "Thank god Emily Blunt is in this." [DISCLOSURE DAY, SUPERGIRL]

The Extra Buttery Podcast · Episode

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As the owner of several AMC theater franchises, you can imagine I'm extremely left wing. But I bet you didn't realize I'm so left wing that I'm willing to bleed thousands of dollars every time I show the Odyssey to an empty IMAX theater to create the impression that a black actress is pretty.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I hate this headline. I hate it so much. Let me tell you why. It makes it sound like the AI was "cast" in a movie, except the movie is being made by the same people who made Tilly, it's all in house, I might as well announce that Dan Olson has been cast as the host of a Folding Ideas doc.

Variety article "Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned', Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor'

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Saw some people wistful for this tradition, but there's no reason to feel low. These women are engaged in a process known as waulking, in which weavers soak freshly woven tweed in vats of stale urine. Then they beat the cloth until it softens and shrinks. The work songs help keep rhythm. 🧵

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not to be that guy but Netflix is not "re-creating" Gene Wilder's voice because Gene Wilder remains dead. It's using software to make a noise that viewers may think sounds like Gene Wilder (in a show that also sounds tone-deaf for unrelated reasons) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n...

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Willy Wonka Competition Show at Netflix Uses AI to Re-Create Gene Wilder’s Voice

The streamer had the permission of the late actor's estate to generate the voiceover.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/06/2026

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

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Chet Wydrzynski @realchet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Driving WB on O'Connor, just as you cross Victoria Park. There's a little dip in the road and it bends and suddenly for about 3-4 seconds the CN Tower is directly in front of you. It's so unexpected to see it in Scarborough and so brief. And makes me happy every time.

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Robert Snow @robertsnow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I already have Barry Lyndon but I'm NOT not considering this

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 19/06/2026

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

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