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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are these the 50 Feral hogs of yore?

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I recognize that grin! My little sister is a pilot and she is the absolutely coolest person I know. A gal and her (*) plane are just the best thing ever..

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trello @nicky.wiki · 02/10/2026

The entire planet is being destroyed in the pursuit of, like, six elderly men's legacies

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's her usual seat. (really) (Ok maybe just the once.)

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Yes I think we actually *should* ruin the futures of adult men who drug and gang rape a woman, thanks for asking."

themollygalbraith > Cornell University

Yes I think we actually *should* ruin the futures of adult men who drug and gang rape a woman, thanks for asking.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's one with a contraction because maybe that WILL make it happen today.

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CALIFORNIA! Confused about PROP 40? 🧵👇 Stop what you're doing & swipe through this graphic thread. Before you vote, you should know how it will impact our communities, our wallets, & our future. ✅YES on 40, ❌NO on 41 & 42 - it's the only way to protect ourselves. Keep SCROLLING👇🏼 Start SHARING 🗣️!

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CALIFORNIA PROPOSITIONS‼️ 🧟‍♂️ Indivisible Ventura took a DEEP-DIVE into the pros & cons. 🧐 Please be sure to check out the rest of this thread for details/reasoning on each one. 🗣️PLEASE SHARE THIS GUIDE‼️ Props 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - ✅YES 37 - ❌NO 38 - ✅YES 39 - ❌NO 40 - ✅YES 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 - ❌NO 1/10

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sorry. I KNOW the point of this is science (& I am here for that.) But JFC we are even littering on the moon! What is wrong with humans???? We ruin literally everything.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Vienna, they broadcast all performances into the square for anyone to watch. I was amazed at how generous and then saddened that "generous" was the word that came to me. The arts are for all. From penny-groundlings to the Opera boxes.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The updated it _again_ to say "(aka early modern English)" lol I see all the Shakespearian scholars, rusty medievalists(me!), English lit majors, and linguists have probably sent a TON of very deserving "so, actually..." 😂 I know R&J is a thing, but I wish they'd do like Coriolanus or 12th Night.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh! Sorry, should have made this a thread... but I think that's also the fun part of horror and fiction. (and blah, I suppose real life) To sit in those uncomfortable spaces and come out the other side safely! I mean we can visit Camp Crystal Lake, but we don't have to stay there!

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hurting animals is almost always a full stop for me. Reading an excellent book right now (The Other, Thomas Tryon) and had to kind of unfocus my eyes a few times because I understood that the author was setting up that this was a Bad Seed kid. (It wasn't graphic at all. It still made me sad tho.)

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just can't feel bad for them. They literally only care when it impacts them. (and honestly she's pretty nonplussed.)They literally voted for a hateful person & these are the tangible results. It's not FAFO because she knew exactly what she was voting for.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is our life right? Mine is "Side back pain spine why?" #modernLiving

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DOUBLE Super-Duper Intelligence.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe if people stop using a made up story aka "the bible" to determine what the basic standard of human decency is, we would ALL be in a better place.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The President of the United States is a rapist and a traitor.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you for mentioning that!!

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry? Not sorry. If you're upset and trying to prevent history from being taught to hide the truth, then fuck your feelings. You learned nothing and are the exact same assholes as your ancestors.

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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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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All of this is just absolutely gorgeous!! (I mean, i Know. Climate change and the weirdness of seasons these days... but omg you have dream yards!)

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 09/09/2026

Just really tired of how much shittiness and suffering and terrible things are being done predominantly, as usual, by MEN and yet we're all supposed to stand against them Except I hear no men talking about changing the fundamental structures & atmosphere that created them & all the other monsters

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 09/09/2026

Everything is being run by genuinely mentally ill men & I'm sick to death of hearing abt an epidemic of loneliness, or an undue importance placed on masculinity, or how they aren't allowed to be in touch w their feelings, etc Who's in charge? Who's ALWAYS been? The reckoning needs to come from MEN

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The reckoning needs to come _For_ men.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Official Motto for the 2020s

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚀Aerospace engineer Dr. Mary Baker died #OTD in 2021. If you've ever marveled at photos from Mars, you're looking at her legacy. A master of structural dynamics, she directly influenced the design & testing of NASA’s Curiosity & Perseverance Mars rovers & the Internat'l Space Station. #WomenInSTEM

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Agreed. I can't even express how I would never have picked up reading fantasy if this was the current vibe.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Also.. as a dorky kid who loved school- being in AP classes feels so cool. Like you are accessing More Knowledge (which you are- but hopefully that makes sense) and is a cool platform into college. This is so lame. Learning is so delicious, not just checking the 5 box for AP exams.

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Megan Kovacs @megankovacs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I recommend this piece, which holds the nuance and reality of these criticisms without being a hit piece on a woman who spent 60 years successfully working in coalition to actually changing the material circumstances for women: alisav.substack.com/p/but-she-wa...

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bUt ShE wAs CiA sO wE hAtE hEr NoW

Gloria Steinem died. Now she’s being canceled by leftist internet warriors. Does she deserve it?

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

With some pondering, (and without really any churchy experience..sorry) I think of it in a "I want to be the notes that tie the voices together in song." I think that it's beautiful imagery.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Because there are two Americas*, we are underestimating the amount of psychosocial grief unleashed this past week Michael Wright Cassandra Wilson Dolly Parton Tim Curry Gloria Steinem In basically one week

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm with you! Stay strong! 🍂 lol I split it up, with leaning into the yearning of full on fall, but don't do Spooky season until October. And Over the Garden Wall absolutely has to wait for October! (I watch horror all year, but the classics and my faves line up in October too)

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The regime of mass deportation is downstream from mass incarceration. Americans have been densensitized to the extraordinary cruelty and violence of the prison system, so that when migrants are classified as criminals, they too can be brutalized with impunity.

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I know. SUPER excited to know that I have had that exact bag in my cupboard since then. (I have the smaller one now, and that one went in the compost.. because why take chances.)

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Uwila @uwila.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This was WAY too far down in the comments. LOL (are we olds?)

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