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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Add "For Tax Purposes" to a movie title. I have the 2 winners

Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don't see anyone posting about Gainbridge Super League so... Lexington SC just took the lead in the 57th minute. Brown with some nice hold up dribbling in the final third, sends it past her defender into the box where McCain heads it in.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? "I didn't count on being happy." youtu.be/66r_BtRUgfM?...

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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm "Graveside Plea" Clip

YouTube video by The World's Finest

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My sports week: Lexington SC loses 1-nil to Carolina after missing quality chances in the box Washington Spirit collapse to lose 3-nil UK football falls to Alabama by 28 despite being favored by 10.5 All three losses at home.

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Since this person blocked me: Trans kids deserve to play in sports. Trans kids deserve to grow up. To limit that, to harm them, to even imply that they don't get to do what everyone else gets to do, is evil. I don't understand what's confusing about that.

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@10-5.bsky.social

If you continue to replace what I'm actually saying with what you prefer to argue with, I'm just going to assume you have no actual answer to this at 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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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I guess he doesn't deserve to be there.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is terrific. www.imdb.com/title/tt3226...

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The Equalizer @equalizersoccer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Sanchez’s development within this adjusted approach has been spectacular, and shows up in raw goal numbers." In his Tactics Talk column, @secondball.bsky.social takes a look at Ashley Sanchez and her stellar season for the Courage. 🔐 Subscribe to read! equalizersoccer.com/2026/08/26/t...

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Tactics Talk: Ashley Sanchez’s development epitomizes the new Courage

The North Carolina Courage have finally found their cutting edge, following several years of sterile possession. After 20 games, they have already scored 36 goals, which is more than they scored over ...

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Finally watched Shin Godzilla & it's really irritating/distracting when the dubbing doesn't match the subtitles (words the actor says aren't the same as the written translation). Shouldn't they be the same?

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My wife said our streaming subscriptions were still less than satellite & I didn't believe her so I dug into it: - Cancelled 3 subscriptions we didn't know we had for $29/month - Dropped a tier on Netflix for $8/month - letting Britbox, Apple & HBOMax go at the end of this period for $20-$25/month

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Snow Iris Studio | Botanical Art @snowirisstudio.com · 21/08/2026

I love the argument that those of us who don't like AI just don't understand it. No, I understand it fine. Amazingly I don't feel a need to outsource my brain to an environment destroying plagiarism machine that is as useless as a calculator that can't do math.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@washingtonspirit.com PLEASE review the number of posts regarding the quality of commentary on telecasts & bring back a radio partnership. As a UK basketball fan during the Cawood Ledford era, I prefer watching a muted tv & listening to commentators who know our team.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

After a scoreless 1st half, Lexington SC open their title defense with a 3-nil win over Brooklyn FC... ...in a mostly empty stadium. Come on, people, these women are good! Go to games.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Finally started This Is Us (I saw a handful of episodes over the years so I know it's great).

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 30/07/2026

Tomorrow I’ll have a Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL)-101 explainer up at my newsletter. Subscribe here: www.thefrankiedlc.news

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Home | Out of Your League

Dispatches from the intersection of queer sports and pop culture.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Genuinely amazed Trump hasn't carted around Mitch McConnell's corpse à la Weekend at Bernie's to keep the farce going.

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Bernie's Poolside Chill

ALT: Bernie's Poolside Chill

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Tom Ziller @teamziller.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Youth sports under age 12 should be offered as a public service by local governments. A lot of parents just want to offer their kids a low-stakes opportunity to make friends, build character and get active.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 08/07/2026

The Women's Professional Baseball League has announced team names and branding ahead of its inaugural season, which begins August 1. They are the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells (elaboration on meaning/inspo in this thread).

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

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Darkness Pauls 🎃 @paulle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Post a TV show that starts with the letter S 📺 SWEET/VICIOUS

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I read the last phrase of this post as "into the pickpockets of Trump's allies" & I stand by that interpretation.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

you are the company you keep. if you’re still on X, you are a part of that community. there is no separating yourself and claiming a higher purpose. your presence is tacit support for the worst people in the world.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Post a cartoon you remember that (you think) no one else remembers

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/06/2026

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Somebody run with this. You know those silly geese you dress up & keep by your front door? Miniature José that you can dress up in little jerseys & Spirit swag.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My TL has been full of posts regarding the Star's continued woes. I haven't kept tabs on Racing & this is a heck of a collapse.

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Good Place: Holy Forking Shirtballs

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

LEX SC exercises all the demons of UK Football's past

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Blind ref costs LEX SC a corner

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Super League final goes to extra time. My heart can't take this.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

For the first time tonight, LEX playing it safe rather than to win.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Carolina dangerously close to a DOGSO.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Carolina draws 1st blood in the only minute of 1st half stoppage time.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

LEX SC throwing bombs. If Carolina can withstand the onslaught this could end in penalties. Their keeper putting in a ton of work right now.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

LEX SC has been on the front foot more than I've seen all season. Crisp forward passes. They really want this.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It's Futbol time in the bluegrass!!! (IFYKYK)

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My home team is hosting this final & the giveaway rally towel is not in our colors (green). I assume the league provided them instead of our club but WTF? Instead of something I'd bring to future games this will go in my keepsake box. Does Gainbridge not know what waving a white flag means?!!

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Former Washington Spirit Taylor Aylmer captains Lexington SC in tonight's Super League final.

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Most of my mutuals are following NWSL action today but here's a reminder. That other US league is kicking off their final in 46 minutes. LEX GO GREEN!!!

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Rick M @the-rickster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Lexington SC up 1-0 over Dallas Trinity at the break in their USL Super League semifinal.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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