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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October weather...kill me now.

Weather forecast with the following highs:

Today 91°F
Fri 101°F
Sat 101°F
Sun 101°F
Mon 99°F
Tue 99°F
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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meiko Kaji (star of Lady Snowblood) struttin' through the subway in the 1970s.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

15-year-old man had his yearly checkup. For an old guy with asthma, kidney disease, and grumpiness, he's doing pretty well. #catsofbluesky #cat #sphynx #sphynxcat #blackcat #felinegood

A black sphynx cat standing on a soft lilac-colored blanket at the veterinarian office.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a special treat for all my followers, I will now shut the fuck up for a while.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thomas Mann's DOCTOR FAUSTUS is a perfect allegory for America. I mean, yeah, another country historically too, but America.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the organists I work with always gets a kick out of my band t-shirts. Today I briefly got to tell him about Black Midi.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a car to cry. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...

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His car is still sitting there

An ICE kidnapping in Austin

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the record, "shiraz for brekky" was a joke because it's 3AM and I just got off work and the walk down Hollywood Blvd is hell, so might as well sip some wine and enjoy the powerwashers atomizing the piss and shit and vomit with a few sips of wine. Funny, haha.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Until a few minutes ago, I was just dipping in for the free stuff. (Thanksomuch.) At some point, later than sooner for a dope like me, you gotta put yer money where yer mouth is. I went for the undiscounted $6.66/month because I totally dig the value there above the discount. Support cool things.

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The Flenser @theflenser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Listen to Uboa’s new release “Every Reactor Four a Friend” and support Xandra. 100% of proceeds from Bandcamp sales of “Every Reactor Four a Friend” received in the next 30 days will go toward covering the cost of Xandra’s SRS. uboa.bandcamp.com/album/every-...

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Owsley...where are you now?

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's a movie with less than 60% on RottenTomatoes that you consider to be a perfect movie? Like not a bit, a genuinely perfect film. #movies #filmsky #cinema #harmonykorine

Screencap of RottenTomatoes.com page for the film GUMMO, with a 39% Tomatometer score

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But no more of this.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my favorite movies is getting a fatbox release...with the TV version I've never seen! Saw this at The Silent Movie Theatre back when it was new and immediately fell in love with it. And I'm excited for the video essay by @dakotanoot.bsky.social! newwavevideo.myshopify.com/products/lov...

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Love Exposure: Perfect Collection (4K UHD + Blu-Ray) Limited Edition N

Raised by his strict Catholic father, Yu turns to photographing women from beneath their skirts in an increasingly desperate attempt to seek forgiveness for his sins. His life changes when he meets Yo...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

AI has not made us better, more productive, more successful or grown the economy outside of GPU sales and data center construction. It has also made the price of every single device of every kind more expensive, depressed the housing market, and increased literally everybody’s cost of debt.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is your general reminder that the technology behind this bullshit homunculus is what the worst among the elites and most zealous people on the planet want to filter your medical records, tax records, all entertainment, social media, and your children's education through.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

David Ellison is a fucking worthless ghoul. So tired of these soulless subhumans acting like they matter.

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Luigi Intensifies Meme - Luigi Mangione

Alt: Luigi Intensifies Meme - Luigi Mangione

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dawg we don’t need to “create jobs” for Palestinians we need a rogue ethnostate to stop dropping grenades into their kids’ cribs using our drones and weapons.

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stancil calling AI's ability to "think...astonishing" yeah I'd be astonished too if someone lobotomized me and told me the magic box knew the end of my sentence.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"[S]he poured out monstrous ineptitudes with extreme volubility." —Colette, CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music

Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somehow this Rose Droll album escaped my notice until recently despite my love for Your Dog. The entire album is great, but this song made my mind its home & I am all the better for it. Check it out! #music #rosedroll #album #song #musicsky #ismusicskyevenathing? #songsky? #idontknow #justlistentoit

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With Strangers, by Rose Droll

from the album With Strangers

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Really hard to overstate just how central AI video slop is to the broader authoritarian project. It allows people to visualize fantasies without having to pay the social costs of such actions, while desensitizing people about the act itself. It's 4chan on steroids w a veneer of respectability.

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Kino Lorber @kinolorber.com · 15/09/2026

E. Elias Merhige’s experimental cult classic beckons you into the realms of the unknown, as a pure cinematic experience that defies conventional storytelling and visual norms. The 4K restoration of BEGOTTEN (1989) opens in theaters on 9/30 at IFC Center in NYC before touring: knlor.com/begotten4k

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Nonsense, of course, that it isn't good to laze in an armchair! Nonsense, of course, that workers who labour all their life don't die young and exhausted! But naturally one mustn't say so. In the 'Examination Syllabus' things don't happen as they do in life." —Colette, CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Has anyone else read this? I am loving it so far. #booksky #reading #novels #book #literature

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wish everyone who blasts music or radio programs on a train or bus a miserable life. Fuckers.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Iñárritu's thought process on Digger seems to be, "Let me rip off Roy Andersson, but make it way more generic."

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

AI can't do shit on its own. But the people in charge will use it to kill and imprison anyone who's inconvenient. Look to Gaza, look at ICE.

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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At last I am become the bluesky.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just ordered a bunch of hot sauce from Puckerbutt.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mentally preparing myself for the big reaper pepper my friend gave me by getting very drunk so my stomach will already hate me tomorrow morning when I will have it with a potato. It will be okay...I will be recovered in time for Public Image Ltd.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That is all.

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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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Kino Lorber @kinolorber.com · 03/09/2026

The new 4K restoration of E. Elias Merhige's BEGOTTEN will world premiere at Telluride this weekend. Coming soon to theaters and physical media. God Killing Himself, Mother Earth, and Son of Earth – Flesh on Bone are players in a myth of primal gore.

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Casey Wright @sg00001.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"The Monterey Fair" by Richard Fariña is a great non-fiction short story. It's so cool to have a story featuring Thomas Pynchon and Joan Baez; and beyond the coolness, it's impeccably written. #reading #booksky #shortstory #Fariña #Pynchon #Baez

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