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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Werner Herzog with speech ballloon as if reading the quoted post
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me vs baggage allowance.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deutschland, musikalisch fremdes Land.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reasons to be miffed about Brexit part 6,791:
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Old graffiti stating "elect Thälmann".
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well fed Germans (some) be like: those foreigners are an issue.
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Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Very disappointing move by The Independent. Loss of its cryptic crossword will be felt both by readers and by the very many new setters (I’ve taught 33 of them!) for whom it’s been an essential route into professional puzzle setting. @the-independent.com please listen to your readers and reconsider!
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I saw a reportedly full length version for the first time in the 00s as a nihilistic teenager looking for the seediest of movies in unseemly places on the internet. It is bizarre that it is getting a big theatrical push this year, but I'm happy it is. Its notorious reputation is deserved.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Deutsche Bahn be like "bitte haben sie Geduld".
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Repost: Things you should know but didn't know you needed to know before knowing: A nasothek is a collection of the broken noses of statues and busts. Now you know.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jeder meiner persönlicher Kommentare/Gedanken würde zur Abmahnung führen...
German Chancellor Merz, visibly uncomfortable
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wer seinen Döner nie mit Tränen aß usw
Döner place in Berlin.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The regret of saying no to a döner in Berlin that hits at 3am.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I couldn’t have said it better, Peter Max.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dark by 8pm, welcome, perceived 20 months of winter!
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2026 mood:
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bob Mackie @ V&A, when?
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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 12/09/2026
An earlier version from THE DALEK BOOK (1964). Artist credits at the front of the book are for R. Jennings, J. Woods & A.B. Cornwell but it doesn't tell you who did what.
"Anatomy of a Dalek", a two-page spread from The Dalek Book (1964) showing a cutaway view of a Dalek with 26 different labels describing the various machine parts and their functions.
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"William Morris x Hello Kitty" is jumping the shark in decorative homewares.
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𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. 𓆩♡𓆪 @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
maisie williams for who what wear UK september 2026 issue, photography by melanie rodriguez & styling by rachel bakewell
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
4 years since The Rock did one if the all time tweets
Rest in peace to Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II. A great woman who sat on the throne as long as anyone in British history.
Sad she will never get to see #BlackAdam V IN THEATERS OCT 21st
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. 𓆩♡𓆪 @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
this cute minidress, hand-embroidered by artisans, is from palestinian brand nöl collective (founded by yasmeen mjalli). nearly forced to shut down after israeli customs destroyed their fabric shipment, they found a lifeline making olivia rodrigo's dress for the daisy chains festival ❤️
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A day to see how bad investments turn out.
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spooky seasonings for a new instance @o-c.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, smoking a cigarette and glancing to his right (apparently being interviewed by an offscreen figure), and saying "Action films are for women. They like the bloodthirsty stuff."
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Captain Midnight @thefilmfair.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY (1997) as seen in Ghana!
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 31/08/2026
robber: GIVE ME THE MONEY cashier: ok 😭😭😭 robber: PUT IN A BAG cashier: they're 25¢ now is that ok 😭😭😭
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Where are billionaires for once?
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fuck yeah travelling abroad!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title reads, "Suddenly Finding A New Obsession".
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, in front of her computer. She has a bored expression on her face.
In the second panel we zoom in on her face. She looks suddenly alert.
In the third panel we zoom in even closer on her face. Her eyes and mouth are wide open in intrigue.
In the fourth panel we zoom out and see Sarah in front of her computer again, but this time she is dressed in a frog costume, surrounded by frog toys, and has an "I heart frogs" poster behind her.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Puce Topshop.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Subsidised solar panels when?
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton turned down Trump’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. Twice.
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
DOLLY PARTON PET PEEVES
1. NOBODY NOTICES IVE GOT GREAT ASS TOO
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The wrong 80 year old has....
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ouija board ghost: “you’re”
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
are you ever just going about your day thinking you look ok and then you accidentally catch your reflection and it’s like omg when did that happen
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Heading to a festival means all the rain we're due gets unleashed on the way to the train station & it subsides at arrival.
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Margot's frock.
Pic of Margot Tennenbaum's fur coat featured in a Wes Anderson exhibition in London.
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks.
Headline of paleontology news article: Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why
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M @vanadis123.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I need this as a portable sign...
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
Just so we get this straight: we can't call Rod Liddle a paedo adjacent racist girlfriend assaulter, but it's perfectly ok for the press to hound black & trans people to literal death, in lockstep.
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