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Ryan Coldtreat

@rytron.bsky.social
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AI-free since and for forever. Fuck ICE, free Palestine, and do not fuck with my trans homies. (film directing, eurorack, TJPW, queer shit 💖💛💙)

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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 10h
Currently reading BOOK GOES THE BRIDE and one of the chapters is called CUNTBLOCKER and this book is everything i hoped it would be
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Liz Whitmere @lizwhitmere.bsky.social · 18h
Hey friends, my film is playing @accesshorror.bsky.social! Some wonderful work in this programme.
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and then you have the maroons who insist on calling Nobuhiko Obayashi's fever dream horror film "HAUSU" even though it's literally called "HOUSE" even on the original Japanese poster art! Into the locker ya'll go
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would just go berserk-mode against Ramiel www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j6W...
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i could probably beat ramiel in a fight
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accurate depiction of the excitement of eurorack modular synthesizers
the saddest white guy you've ever seen with black rim glasses and a black beanie hat, long hair spilling over his shoulders. He's imagining modular synths in his head, particularly Mutable Instruments' MARBLES, and he looks like he just watched Bambi get eaten by the three bears while Goldilocks watched from a hotel room cuck chair.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Double church service, j horror found footage edition
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you have a steam deck and you play in bed, i recommend you get one of these from Ali Express
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Liz Whitmere @lizwhitmere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Quibi mastermind Jeffrey Katzenberg?
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A repeat church service for me but new for her household. If i had to choose only one I’d still pick Shin Godzilla but maybe just stop being a cop trying to force me to choose
Godzilla Minus One movie poster. White frame with Godzilla appearing in the silhouette of Godzilla
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tonight’s church service was LADY BATTLE COP. 1312, but I’d let her arrest me
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Luke Higginson @lukehigginson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
♥️📀💜✊
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I recorded ten minutes of sci-fi horror alarm sounds with my modular synths. So now i need to make some sci-fi horror film i guess
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LEARN 2 PIRATE - dashare.zone ADMIN
LEARN TO PIRATE!!! NEVER PAY FOR COPORATE MOVIES OR T SHOWS - THEPIRATEBAY10.ORG - PRIVATE TRACKERS - OPEN-SLUM.ORG - OPENSUBTITLES.ORG - SCI-HUB.EE - FRIEND WITH PLEX - USENET STILL WORKS LOL - SOULSEEK STILL WORKS LMAO - TORRENTFREAK - DONT PAY HBO MAX AND HULU!!! DONT PAY DISNEY AND NETFLIX!!!! USE A VPN OR SEED BOX IF YOU WANT "OR DON'T WHO CARES, THEY DONT SEND LETTERS TO YA ANY MORE" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What do you mean she’s 68? Jennifer Tilly is eternal confirmed
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Hellshake Yano will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I for one am shocked to learn in 2026 that Ed Sheerin doesn't have a backbone
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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Met a producer at tiff who started talking cuz he also has a Mohawk. heavy punk rock aesthetic, talked about how he can’t go to protests anymore because he’s too likely to punch cops, gave me a film zine, neat i thought. THEN he told me about how he uses chatgpt. I threw the zine into recycling.
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Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would be the worst film programmer at TIFF. I’d go around the world, watch all the new movies, come to programming meetings and say, sorry folks - I haven’t seen anything good this year. We’ll be playing Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest in all my time slots. Ok bye!
Eli praying to He Who Walks Behind the Rows with corn on the cob
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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My sister and I were texting about something; I was trying to be charitable and give due credit to someone for something they did 35+ years ago. She dropped this gem that basically encapsulates a lot of the comics sphere, lol.
“Some of the worst people alive did something cool on the 90s”
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
updated the Utena v Saionji wave. Might call it done unless vision strikes in the future, time for the next seg vimeo.com/1217800776?s...
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Waveolutionary Girl - I HAVE A SWORD
This is "Waveolutionary Girl - I HAVE A SWORD" by Ryan Couldrey on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“Most films are kind of afraid of joy; they feel safer communicating fear, suffering, anxiety, a lot of people substitute triumph for joy, and with SPEED RACER, we weren’t interested in triumph, but can a family who take such joy in the art form, can they change the world?” - Lana Wachowski
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@SoliSolstice

what blows my mind about everybody neglecting human experiences in favor of being on their phone 14 hours a day is that like 95% of you suck at being on the phone. can’t post for shit, 100 unread wikipedia articles in your tabs, getting groomed on discord. you are not good at it
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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A.I. destroys fundamental human deep curiosity and takes away the (very good for you) discomfort of failing and problem solving. This is like those trees they tried to grow in a protective bubble--they grew fast at first but the roots were shallow and weak from lack of wind stress so they died.
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ooooh with news like this it might be a good time to invest in Fade In stonks. On the TSX of course, cuz it's Canadian. Kill'em all!
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Ripley🪽 @skullingway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Possible WIP #rgu #art
Anthy from revolutionary girl utena looking sinister towards the viewer with the sword of dios
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
an anon in a sumo discord made this clutch Japan Grand Sumo X Evangelion with Aonishki as the Shinji
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BancyCo @bancy.co · 03/09/2026
As part of Alone With You's 10th anniversary celebrations, we've brought the newly updated game to the Epic Games Store — and it's FREE on PC until September 10! 👉 store.epicgames.com/p/alone-with... #indiegame #gamedev #gaming
The game icon for Alone With You sits next to the logo for the Epic Games Store. Text says "FREE on PC until September 10."
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I too would like a mayor who fights dirty for the sake of the city and citizens they represent, please
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Freshly calibrated Oneiroi with help from Befaco support after i thought i bricked a unit by deleting a file i shan’t have during a firmware update and then not following the procedure correctly afterwards.
A Befaco brand Oneiroi modular synthesizer. Black label face with 8 red faders and a whole lot lot input ports and knob’s of various sizes. A red multimeter is below it
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I wrote about CAMP MIASMA, its playful eroticism, the trans killer in horror, Jane Schoebrun's intelligence in suggesting the spaces between fantasy and identity, and their preoccupations with a necrotic nostalgia for all things analog. www.patreon.com/willowcately... (no paywall)
a still image from Camp Miasma of two women embracing in a magical snowy forest. The texture is like Guy Maddin meets Lisa FrankJane Schoenbrun has become an easily recognizable figurehead of the New Trans Cinema, because they have focused so intently on creating a cinematic language of disassociation and dysphoria. Richard Brody called them a “poet of solitude”, but any trans viewer will tell you that the solitude of their prior films is born from a multitude of factors; brought on by feelings of discomfort in ones own identity they were assigned at birth, and the sociopolitical anxieties that breed ambient, and sometimes explicit forms of violence upon trans people. I Saw the TV Glow’s Owen (Justice Smith) is frozen for this reason, but because Schoenbrun obfuscates the touchstones of cliche trans narratives by filtering them in genre elements, their films can also be saying more than just what is easily understood by trans viewers who recognize the similarities between their characters and our lives. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is like this too, and is still driven by questions of bodily discomfort, while also alluding to the way that cinephilia can disorient queer people who take in bad images—like that of the transphobic serial killer—and find recognition due to a paucity of other images. Schoenbrun’s excellence has always been akin to a magic trick of serving two audiences at once: the trans viewer who picks up the coded language of their pictures, while also, at the same time, presenting a narrative that could be legible for an audience who is not trans. We saw so much writing about I Saw the TV Glow from cisgender critics who believed it was about the perils of nostalgia, and analog preoccupations, and many of those findings were true, but the trans response to the film was treated as an almost holy experience by many who had never encountered a film that spoke so deeply to their experiences before.
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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 31/08/2026
When you get to be my age, you outlive everyone, one by one, until someone outlives you. Welcome back to another edition of the Sunday Scaries. buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...
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The month that stank.
Everywhere it's been the same (Feeling) Like I'm outside in the rain (Wheeling) Free, to try and find a game (Dealing) Cards for sorrow, cards for pain
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
new favourite Firefox extension (Google banned this extension from Chrome in 2017) addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo...
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AdNauseam – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-CA)
Download AdNauseam for Firefox. Blocking ads and fighting back against advertising surveillance.
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
and you thought I couldn't get any madder about ai bullshit. Get off Gumroad, a vast swath of your past and future customers are going to boycott it anyway gumroad.com/gumclaw
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Gumroad
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dsm-5 gum @burg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Cereal Killer from Hackers (1995) in the middle of his "we have no names, we are nameless" line. You'd think I'd go with Phantom Phreak, wouldn't you? Too on the nose, and not in his voice. This is some shit Cereal would say while like Phreak states at him like, dude, I'm right here, what are you talking about.
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Kevin Kasch (他妈/他妈的) @tenletters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Not seeing this other pic posted on this platform just yet, and I might prefer it for its capturing the moment Spidey knocks the sunglasses off Jake Lang's deserving face, under a cross, with the epithet on the sign Lang's people were waving around obscured enough that it doesn't take over the shot.
Spider-Man (or a counterprotestor doing a convincing job posing as the superhero) punches living troll and white supremacist Jake Lang in the mug, and the photo captures glasses falling from Lang's face.
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Some narc better call the Toronto Police I found a $20 on the ground last week UwU
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Would’ve been nice if literally any of the puppeteers were in the credits for the episode
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fuck ai, long live practicals: enjoy tonight’s episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds where my partner got to puppeteer Ortegas youtube.com/shorts/Mg1GY...
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Sneak a peek at "Level-Five Transporter Accident!" #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
YouTube video by Star Trek
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’, was 9 years old and enamoured with ‘Come As you Are’
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
in the last week I've noticed that Instagram is showing me non-stop AI posts. Not posts made with AI specifically, but posts that PROMOTE ai usage, be it "training", convention speaker video, etc.
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
when a producer friend you like wants your notes on a doc that uses Grok of all things to animate archival photos, and your note is "I won't watch it because the director used Grok or any gen ai in the film but man especially Grok", I wish they would just take that note. Cut the ai, I'll watch it.
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Ransom 🐈 @ransom.cat · 16/08/2026
Even if you're just a viewer and not a streamer, tell them through metrics that you reject AI: Twitch.tv > Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI: OFF
A screenshot of Twitch's settings.

Twitch.tv > Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI: OFF
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/08/2026
Apparently Lilly Wachowski does s tier alt text
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Baby's first wave seg (think Racertrash rather than AMV). Share if you love princely pink haired women named Utena just slappin' around self-loathing queer men named Saionji vimeo.com/1217800776
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Waveolutionary Girl - Utena vs Saionji
This is "Waveolutionary Girl - Utena vs Saionji" by Ryan Couldrey on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Ryan Coldtreat @rytron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Listening to Carola Baer's album that was recorded as a cassette demo in 1991, given to a now-forgotten friend, and lost only to turn up in a Portland Goodwill box of stuff in 2017, and subsequently lead to an album release. It's like haunting chamber goth carolabaer.bandcamp.com/album/the-st...
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The Story of Valerie, by Carola Baer
11 track album
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