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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

Can particles move faster than light? Have a look at the video to learn more about Cherenkov radiation – the discovery that received the 1958 physics prize. This was a key component in the experiments made by today's physics laureate Francis Halzen in his research on neutrinos.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Loved reading Gillian Anderson's thoughts on Camp Miasma's Billy. "obviously everything takes a turn when Kris seduces her. From that point on, she realizes what they can both give each other. She knows what she wants to give Kris, and I think at the same time, what she’s receiving."

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Gillian Anderson Can Haunt Us Anytime

"My happy place is usually where it's quiet and there's nobody anywhere."

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Blastgoggles @blastgoggles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end we accepted that humans would have to do it all." Absolutely profound work and a reminder that a machine doesn't understand horny to horny communication like humans do. This does in fact, completely rule!

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What kittens lack in size they more than make for by being SO SO sharp heheh

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seerr is a really nice (optional) front end that makes finding specific media to add to the Arrs super easy. Once radarr and sonarr are set up, highly recommend Seerr. seerr.dev

seerr.dev

Seerr - Beautiful Media Discovery & Request Management

The unified evolution of Overseerr and Jellyseerr. Request management for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby.

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OK! So, you're looking for the *arrs, Radarr (movies) and Sonarr (TV). Those handle searching for movies and TV shows, plus sorting and grabbing metadata for them. They connect to a downloader (torrent and/or Usenet) that handles the downloading Best guide around is trash-guides.info

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TRaSH Guides

TRaSH-Guides is a comprehensive collection of guides for Radarr, Sonarr, and related media management tools. These guides answer common questions and provide the best settings for your entire media se...

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've got a pretty good setup I've built over the years and have stayed reasonably up to date on things. Did you want some recommendations/links to guides on what people do these days?

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah fuck, Harper is ramming through another omnibus bill? Oh wait no - it's the "Liberals." Who walk, talk, and stink just like Harper's Conservatives.

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh damn! If we met randomly at the grocery store I think I'd forget how to talk for a bit 😮

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Tess Scilipoti @scilipoti.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

dolls to watch out for

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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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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS: RUIN THE FUCK OUT OF THIS ANTI-AI PETITION. this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PETITION and it needs you to verify an email and that's it. do this right now please. thaaaaanks.

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It takes years of studies and community debate to approve a single bike lane, but data centers are going in left and right with the footprint of a small natural disaster and almost no bureaucracy gets in the way.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Stop putting bullets in the gun that's killing us. Boycott The New York Times.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is what I plan to spend the next week writing about.

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@Helsingin kirjamessut 24-25.10. @sarasadeart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Jacob Anderson was amazing as Louis in Interview With The Vampire. Like goddamn how can a man communicate so much heart-wrenching impotent rage and despair in so many ways without it becoming repetitive.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 08/08/2026

this print is making me feel a little weepy

YOU HAVE TO STAY ALVE.
YOU'RE GOING TO BE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL MIDDLE AGED FREAK.
YOUNG FREAKS WILL SEE YOU IN THE STREET AND KNOW THAT THINGS CAN BE OKAY

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Witch Doctor @witchdoctor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Millennials don’t have houses because we’re eating genderfluid avocado toast 🧪

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was a national society meeting, and during the keynote a rival scientist got in a yelling match with the presenter about the subject matter. They both had to be like, dragged away after the 5 minutes it went on.

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Mary's Elm @thewolseleyelm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Winnipeg’s favourite plutocrat-in-residence, Gail Asper, strikes again. The Museum is a Crown corporation. She doesn't own it. “One-sided” is the Zionists' attempt to censor Palestinian voices and perspectives. Rich people's donations always come with tax breaks... And strings attached.

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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 18/07/2026

Them: “There is no greater story of sadness and loyalty than Argos awaiting Odysseus” You and me, who KNOW:

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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

'August Rain At Glenlea', 2026, acrylic on heavy paper. #painting #art

A vibrant, acrylic painting in an impresssionist realism style showing a distant collection of rain clouds backlit by the golden glow of the sun. A small column of rain falls, though not on the foreground where dried, golden red wheat stalks are.

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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Mark Carney is the greatest conservative victory in generations. A complete trojan horse with no defense or recourse against his administrations actions, which amount to a complete rewrite and dismantling of what little public services and environmental protections we had.

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Accursed Dirt Beast 🔞 @aftermoles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsky account is an AT Protocol account - you can use your same Bsky account thru another AT Protocol Client, no migration or loss necessary. Could not be easier.

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

CAN'T STOP. WON'T STOP. DON'T LIKE IT? CALL THE COPS. SMUT PEDDLER IS BACK. Follow the preview page. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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Coming soon: THE RETURN OF SMUT PEDDLER.

Smut Peddler was the vanguard of the new wave of sexy and smutty alternative and indie comic collections. And we're not done yet.

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Carrie Marshall - MySeveralWorlds.com @myseveralworlds.com · 04/07/2026

INSIDE OF THE MIND OF SOMEONE WITH A CHRONIC ILLNESS *How much longer can I put up with these treatments? *How long will this pain last? *Is this too much for the people I love? *Do they believe me? @chronicloveclub.bsky.social #MySeveralWorlds #TheDisabilityGap #ChronicTruths

INSIDE OF THE MIND OF SOMEONE WITH A CHRONIC ILLNESS

*What is my future going to look like?
*How much longer can I put up with these treatments?
*How long will this pain last?
*Are people tired of me being sick?
*What if my doctor can't help me?
*Will there be a treatment that actually works?
*Which secretary do I need to call today?
*How much will I be poked and prodded today!
*Why is this happening to me?
*Is this too much for the people I love?
*Will I have to cancel plans again?
*If I need to go to the ER will they help me?
*What will my test results show?
*Did I take my meds today?
*When will this flare end?
*Can I handle these side effects?
*Do they believe me?

Credit Chronic Love Club

#MySeveralWorlds
#TheDisabilityGap
#ChronicTruths #TheChronicLife

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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

'Leaf Cutter Bee Hut', 2026, acrylic on paper. #art #sciart

An acrylic painting of a leaf cutter bee hut in a field of seed alfalfa. The small plywood shed is mostly off white and has a large door, inside which can be seen the rows of bee hives. Small dots all around the doors represented the domesticated bees that live there and pollinate the verdant crop.

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Bl3iz-Du (OKAMI SEQUEL!!!!) @bl3iz-du.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Saw a couple of posts from US artists saying BSky is now asking them for age verification. Please follow the link in this repost. I’m the UK we’ve had this crap going on for over a year. The methods listed here work great, it’s what I use it (no way I’m providing personal info!)

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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

'Wheat at Glenlea Research Station', 2026, 11x16-inch paper. A long term soil ecology experiment site, primarily greenhouse gas research - check out soilecology.ca/tgas-man/ to learn more. #sciart #painting

An acrylic painting sitting on a wooden easel. It features a slim bit of sky above a mature golden field of wheat that is split down the middle of the frame by tire tracks through the dark soiled field. Water in the tracks reflects blue sky and clouds, bright against the rich agricultural soil.

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's wild that I'm 40 today! I think my 40s will be good 😁🥳

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yeah, it was. I think it was just before they increased it to $250(?)

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Totally a fair point! I share my Plex library with family and some friends but it was also only $99 when I got it.

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Maybe - I hadn't seen them getting in to AI. I assumed they just wanted to charge people every month because a one time payment means less money

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Vy, The Purple Sickle @shockwaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Their lifetime license price going up to $750USD at the start of July is absurd. I bought it years ago and it was worth it then but that's such a huge amount of money now

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