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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A woman in Bend got sexually assaulted in broad daylight yesterday and I still gotta share a big empty bus with one mother fucker who sits right next to me and watches conspiracy videos at full volume. Can women just get like one fucking day?

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is with great disgust and displeasure that I drag you down to the darkness and despair of Tin Pan Theater’s Disaster Dungeon! Brought to you by Bend Film and Pegasus Books of Bend, and hosted by your favorite horror whore, meeee! Three weeks, three movies, no survivors.

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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Drew this sketch of my version of Dakota North the other day - MARVEL ARE YOU LISTENING. WE NEED THIS CHIC HOTTIE BACK IN DA BOOKS (preferably written and drawn by me 😌)

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lovely words about Pegasus Books and another great PNW comic shop from the She-Devil With A Sharpie herself, Gail Simone! As a woman working in comics, as a reader, a writer, a journalist, a retailer, and above all as a Batgirl fan, I owe Gail SO MUCH. On top of that, she’s an absolute sweetheart. ♥️

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also, we commented on a lovely young ladies comics, she had Catwoman on top of her stack, and had gone to my spotlight panel and had Uncanny right under Catwoman. I just thought that was fun. Hi, Olivia!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was clean and orderly and full of amazing books and comics and more. One of the best selections I’ve seen in a long while!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Next we stopped at Pegasus Books in Bend, Oregon…which was a good store that’s been open forever, always enjoyed visiting. But there’s a new co-owner and manager and holy heck, it’s now one of my favorite comics stores anywhere! Say hi to the wonderful and lovely Sabrina, everyone!

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Grabbin’ gas and slappin’ ass. See you soon Portland.

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Lonn @lonndoodles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Step aside Tenchi. Rivals to lovers comin' through :^) #TenchiMuyo #Ryoko #Ayeka

Fanart of Ryoko and Ayeka from Tenchi Muyo.

Top drawings are Ryoko flirting with Ayeka thus making her blush. Likewise on the bottom, Ryoko blushes from Ayeka's flirting.

Some poses are: Ryoko puts one hand on her hip, looks at Ayeka alluringly. Another is Ayeka is behind Ryoko and has her arms almost around. Meanwhile Ryoko with both arms stiffly away from her sides.

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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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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Attention beloved friends, respected peers, and bitter enemies! Ya girl will be roaming around Rose City Comic Con all three days this week! If you’re interested in delightful conversation, desperate pitches, or deranged stickers, just scan the room for my eye searingly yellow hair!

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OVER NINE (HUNDRED) THOUSAND, with only twenty minutes to go! Just for fun, if we can push it to $905,000 in these final few moments I will personally read a scene from my very sincere, very graphic Ryoko/Ayeka fanfic written during covid lockdown. $2,500 to go, I think we can make it!

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Alex Ahad o_8 @oh8.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Kiyone Makibi (Tenchi Muyo) 👀👁‍🗨

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Pat² @patsquared.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So I've loved Tenchi Muyo and its spin-offs for a long time and when I saw the kickstarter for them bringing back Universe, I had to back it. Then I saw that @phildragash.bsky.social did the character designs for it and got even more hype. So here's my first waifu Washu with Phil's design!

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Who could possibly be smarter than the genius so brilliant he needs to argue with a random number generator so that it can feed him witty responses for his own one sided conversations?

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When you try something called a “beer cheese fondue burger” at Red Robin before seeing Coyote Vs Acme, and now you’re in fishnets and bugs bunny ears, shitting in a public restroom for the first time in over a decade, praying the toilet paper lasts as long as the trailers.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is exactly what it feels like to watch a man try to do stand-up at the local open mic and not land a single joke.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Have you ever had a day that was just perfect?

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This also works with chicken mcnuggets, card shops, and boys who will gaslight you.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Absolutely incredible to me that people who are actually paid to monitor and dissect economic trends truly believe in a future where the concept of buying a home still exists. Drink heartily from your chalices of profit, landlords and stock brokers. The sun is setting on your way of life.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We don’t have to live like this. We don’t have to accept constant violence visited by monstrous predators upon anyone who dares to tell the truth. We can listen to women. We can hold men accountable. We can protect each other. We can save ourselves. Avenge her. Avenge the world.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This book made me throw up, sob, dig out my old CD’s, recover fully repressed memories, and actually process my real life trauma. It will fuck you up. It will enrage and disgust you. You will be changed by it, and you will be grateful.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Is Just Kidding Rowling incapable of not looking like a smug, predatory psychopath in every photo? This is the smile of a guest star on a double episode of law and order who got away with keeping a teenage runaway chained in her basement for a year because she runs a dating service for rich lawyers.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Post a meme made by you. But who can choose just one?

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Actual literal best thing I’ve ever seen.

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// ꌗ꓄ꋬꉧ // @staxdeadempress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

every single actor joining the new harry potter series saying "I don't agree with JK Rowling's opinions!"

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Choking back tears begging gen z to believe me that the Dreamcast had a cool aesthetic and didn't look like something you'd order from the employee store at your corporate office job.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Devastatingly unable to be there for the last day of my favorite Mall’s 66 year existence, so I’ll be spending the night watching I, Tonya and eating soft pretzels while hugging all my plushes from the anime store.

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Redcurrant @kaytayto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

ryoko was THE blueprint btw. i have not been the same since #ryoko #tenchimuyo #fanart #retroanime

an image of Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo. She is sitting and floating in mid-air while petting a happy Ryo-Ohki. The background is a pink gradient and a square with a triangle pattern.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I genuinely love public transit, but I also think if someone is playing Jeff Dunham at full volume I should legally be allowed to pop the emergency exit and throw them off the bus.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I don’t love what this says about me, but Kano could get it.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This millennial trans girl simulator is so realistic.

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Chad 'The Spook' Jessup 🦇 @adhdev.io · 25/07/2026

Just a reminder, Johnny Depp lost in court about being a domestic spouse abuser...he won in court that his abused ex-wife can't talk about it.

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is not simply a political coup, but the strong armed theft of our human rights. They pour poison down our throats, saddle us with disease. They blame tacos and eggs for their own chemical assault on our families and neighbors, and they call it “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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Iva 🐛 @ivathehuman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Moomin with a zweihänder 💙

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For no particular reason, here’s this headline and a reminder to my friends in Oregon that open carry switchblades are 100% legal. A belt holster is enough for it to not be considered concealed.

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Armiger Entertainment @armigerentertainment.com · 18/07/2026

Hey, everyone! Due to popular demand, we've opened up some additional slots in the higher reward tiers! But hurry, they're going quick! Thank you all for your continued support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/arm... #tenchimuyo #tenchigalaxy #天地無用 #天地ギャラクシー

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Tenchi Galaxy Anime Pilot

The anime pilot for the spiritual sequel to the Tenchi Muyo! TV series.

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Armiger Entertainment @armigerentertainment.com · 18/07/2026

Still have a need for more #tenchimuyo? Our remaining Kickstarter stock of the "Tenchi Muyo! American Omnibus Edition," illustrated by Matt Lunsford and written by @jdcalderon.bsky.social is now on sale! Visit the shop at the link below and grab one while you can! armigerentertainment.com/shop/

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Shop – ARMIGER ENTERTAINMENT

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Sabs Cooper @witchhatsabs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What’s that line about how climate change is a series of disaster photos that get closer and closer to you? This is a wildfire about two blocks from my house.

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