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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolute highlight of a long weekend camping in Shenandoah National Park public grounds: at the very first raindrop Saturday morning, the cybertruck driver with a badly trained loud dog packed up and left early.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got a senior living real estate ad looking this up. Rude.

Atari 800 with tape deck and 5.25 floppy drive

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

GOTHAM IS BALTIMORE: CONFIRMED

poe house in baltimore, a modest two-story howhouse which the quoted illustration resembles in broad strokes

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh both. I am unbelievably cringe. Mostly in the exact ways that baby nerd looked up at hippie SFF con-running elders and tried not to be. It's great. We have spaceships.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That recipe blog is written by AI now and not even tested. Protip: cookbooks from the local public library require no commitment. Checking books out gets your library funding. Everybody wins.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We get google analytics on the NASA Exoplanet Archive every month and occasionally one specific planet will really shoot up the ratings and we have to hunt down what media property it appeared in this time. 😂

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whatever you're doing, please, just stop for a moment to imagine you're kneeling down on the surface of Mars and trailing your gloved fingers through this beautifully coloured grit covering the ground around you... (Curiosity image) NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026

Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pour one out for my 14-year old pet workhorse Zoom, likely the last manual transmission vehicle I ever own, bought for its breakup energy sound system and a sun roof I eventually had to pull the fuse on when it started randomly opening in the rain.

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milo @mtmilo.net · 30/08/2026

Yes YES The telescope is out

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Roman has launched! But also from NASA TV this morning, this commentator's tie knot. His entire fit. Priceless.

Mobile phone screen shot of launch coverage, white middle aged guy commentator in a dark grey-purple suit with light purple shirt, purple glasses frames, a Roman mission pin, and a dark purple tie in an elaborate knot partner things might be an Elkridge

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nancy Grace Roman was paid 60% of her male colleague's wages. 'the Nobel prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ... told her: “We don’t discriminate against women. We can just get them for less.”' #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭

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Nasa’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she?

The US astronomer battled discrimination in a male dominated field.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nancy Grace Roman was head of astronomy at NASA in the 1960s. The first space telescope she launched was the Orbiting Solar Observatory 1 in 1962. 🧪 🔭

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Satellite, OSO-1, Prototype | National Air and Space Museum

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Looking at this and thinking next time @ypsilibrary.org 's bookmobile needs a fresh paintjob I'm kicking in for an artist to craft a new theme....

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here is another example of *automated cryptogyny*: LLM removed my co-authors, *three of whom were women*. Instead, LLM states I published the paper with a *man* with whom I co-authored *other* papers. 🧵

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Bmoricuan @faelo23.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Everyone in the Bmore area should join us this Halloween at The Rocky Horror Picture Show! (I'll be doing tech, again!) mtbankexchange.com/event/rocky-...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Screening | M&T Bank Exchange

The best Halloween tradition is returning to the M&T Bank Exchange. Learn more about this year's screening of "Rocky Horror Picture Show."

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hell of a year to resolve to stop wearing black every single day

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Earlier this summer, my camp fam set up a little solar/battery-powered open air movie theatre in the forest for a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Some had formerly been cast or regulars across a continent across decades, the differences in callback lines begs a whole anthropological study.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 26/08/2026

the amount of "did you know about *this* amazing thing she did??" stories getting dusted off and reshared on the timeline tonight is pretty magical live your life in a way that makes even the people who already love you need to keep learning new reasons why, even after you're gone

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

👍🏻 A good ten miles of well maintained official bike trail accessible nearly from your doorstep. 👎🏻 It's built on the bones of a world-class city wide trolley system ripped out for the Eisenhower highway project as per the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. No 9 Trolley Trail, Ellicott City, Maryland.

Boardwalk section of a rail trail in a deciduous forest in summer, cloudy afternoon. The railings are either growing moss or reflecting the trees, probably both

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It matters that the White House is a house and not a palace.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A very common DC tourist reaction to the White House is "oh, it's smaller than I thought." And damn right it is, as it should be.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The spacecraft that was hoped to boost Swift to a higher orbit has failed, and now the gamma-ray hunting space observatory is doomed to burn up in Earth's atmosphere later this year. Swift's an AMAZING mission, and I'm really sad to see it go. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-swift-... 🔭🧪

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The Swift spacecraft reboost mission has failed

Swift has a few months at most before it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I used to be embedded in the science department as a writing teacher and one of the hardest things to convince a lot of my scientific colleagues at first was that writing had VERY LITTLE to do with words or grammar, and that it was mostly about critical thinking, process, analysis, and communication

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

weirdly delightful disability moment in faculty meeting when a prof was worried about noise cancelling headphones in class so I explained how they work, that you can still hear & let him try mine: he sat bolt up IT IS LIKE A SWITCH WENT OFF IN MY BRAIN & that’s how he discovered his accommodation 😂

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Also, always love a museum struggling well with its vintage colonialist collections by adding contemporary works in context. Betsabeé Romero's _Guerreros en cautiverio III_ [Captive Warriors III]. Gold and LED on tire, Montreal Museum of Fine Art www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/796...

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Guerreros en cautiverio III [Captive Warriors III]

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, a bold, innovative and caring museum that is welcoming to all disciplines such as the visual arts, history and science.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Right so now that I'm actually home from two extra nights of canceled flight delays, one without our luggage, I can love Montreal again.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is also a story about tech. The witch-hunt against Arday began with a right wing quack running his PhD manuscript through a plagiarism detection software and then going to the press with his unfounded claims. The university that awarded his degree found no wrongdoing but the press didn’t care

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a pleasing factoid: the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is the same size and weight as a T-Rex! Countdown: 15 days to launch! 🚀 AUG 30, 2026 11:26 UTC ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...

A sketch of a T-Rex dinosaur (big feet, tiny hands) next to a sketch of the Roman telescope.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I did not need to read this in a city I need to fly through DCA to get home from

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hey so this is just abuse on a massive scale . It’s the boyfriend who always wants your location on It’s the mom who “ was just trying to help” It’s lovebombing collect compromising information without the love People constantly think abusers don’t escalate They start with themselves

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There's been a string of recent articles suggesting advocacy and activism by scientists risks reducing public trust in science Yet they never mention the risks of passivity by scientists, nor the influence of organised, longstanding efforts to undermine public trust in science Our letter in Nature

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Also true for things like grant selections, telescope proposals, and even mission proposals, though unsurprisingly it's not particularly something people want to talk about much because "we picked the very best" is easier to swallow than "the list could have been different if we met next week."

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thinking about this in conjunction with the article released on how the protection of solar farms made berries sweeter. We can make conditions safer and more pleasant for people while helping communities and the earth at the same time.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/08/2026

it will not. because transparency is not what makes people trust each other, nor do people decide what social behaviors to adopt on the basis of what data has been published

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Underneath solar panels, plants grew much more and used less water, "Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Seem to have sprained my (dominant, barely) hand in the most petty annoying way possible. Things I can do: tear down and pack a tent in the rain, carry heavy luggage, drive, use a phone. Things I cannot do: anything with my hair, type, hold a coffee cup.

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