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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Digger's critic score is insane. Just saw it. Absolutely SPECTACULAR.

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Data Centers are being built in secret. 🤐

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

maybe im crazy but i found primetime really boring and weird in the same way i found ren faire boring and weird. lots of style and "cool shots", but feels very distant from the characters its showcasing....very outside looking in and not in an interesting way

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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

home prices don't make sense to me because like...surely at some point all the people who can afford million dollar homes would have them? but no?? there appear to always be more people who can afford these homes??

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

everyone's on neopets again. flight rising is for the real heads. i've got so many halos, i could sell those bad boys at any point and be dragon-rich

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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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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

as someone who has been looking forward to the wildwood movies since i read the books (and am still THOROUGHLY excited) i feel like they are marketing the movie all wrong but that's just one field mouse's opinion

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.

irishtimes.com

Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026

Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.

goelect.txelections.civixapps.com

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

apropos of nothing just want to say it's incredibly easy to not use AI. like, insanely easy

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

hmmm thinking of leaving this website. unfortunately you may find me mostly on instagram

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

i was cleaning the tub, laid BUT A SLIM FINGER on the spout and it fell clean off the wall

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

every instagram show is fun for 5 minutes before they inevitably shift their subjects from normals to celebs and nepobabies

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

amandaland took a few episodes to find its footing (aka tone down amanda) but WOW i honestly may like it more than motherland

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

the angels' door

Digital drawing by Sara Rubin of a purple anthropomorphic creature with a pointed nose. He is dressed like a clown with big ruff collar and pointed hat. He walks through a galactic purple doorway that is adorned with ribbons, angel statues and stars.

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

good omens did not need extra seasons. BUT i think it had massive potential to do something great in those follow up seasons and probably in the hands of anyone else it could have done so - don't think we'll ever see characters like A + C again but i would love to be surprised

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

i have been a jack white stan since i was like 14 and i will usually suck up any slop he plops on the ground but that art (save for his furniture work) is NO BUENOOoOOOOOooOo

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

enjoying blacktongue thief. not my usual fare (it leans 'normal' fantasy/adventure) but so far it feels like darker discworld and I like all the worldbuilding and GIANT BIRDS

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

reading hollow by brian catling - i am enjoying it, sort of the 'beach read' of biblical horror.

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Everyone is weird. leave car seat headrest alone

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

i stress about messing up menial communications at work meanwhile people are out here fucking up international policy and major media franchises on the daily

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

yall im gonna need someone to read the works of vermin so i have anyone to talk about it with.

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

idk maybe if this many shows are fumbling the endings this badly again and again, something needs to change

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

one important thing is that human "aziraphale" wears a slutty gold chain and that should not be overlooked #go3spoilers

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

continuously shocked by how little writers seem to understand their shows, characters and fanbases. #go3spoilers

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

everyone really glossing over the fact that those initial folks got hantavirus BIRD WATCHING AT A DUMP. BIRD WATCHING IS A DISEASE!!!!!! STOP! LOOKING! AT! THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

happy blorbo day to all those who celebrate

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Shane Madej @shanemadej.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In our inaugural episode of The Quizard's Pit we learn about, among other things, a 122 year old woman who met Van Gogh and said he smelled. Join us every Monday for the foreseeable future!

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Watcher @wearewatcher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Press F to pay respects (new Ghost Files out on YouTube now): youtu.be/ZUmJwznWwsg

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

holding public figures‘ feet to the fire is rarely worthwhile but man it’s a bummer to see people who tout themselves as progressives go to the bezos met gala

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

give the people what they want: movies about weird spheres inside of dolls

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Shane Madej @shanemadej.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXCITING: Launching a new podcast with @mattyistalking.com about pals learning things! Give the trailer a peek and join us for the inaugural episode next week. (Hopefully we aren't killed by the omnipotent space wizard forcing us to participate in this podcast but idk!) youtu.be/I-b9Or49ljk?...

youtu.be

The Quizard's Pit | Podcast Trailer

YouTube video by Watcher Podcasts

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

there is no alarm tune superior to jack johnson's seminal chill down hit 'banana pancakes'

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

im actually a big fan of tricking people into seeing original films by editing the trailers so they just look like horror romps

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