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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22h

I think if you’re not local to DC it’s difficult to comprehend how fucking sad it is to watch all this happening to this beautiful city. I’m barely local, as a transplant to northern Virginia, and I’m very sad

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I left the industry (from Firaxis) over 20 years ago; I don't think I'm a relevant follow anymore, just wanted to say your feed has been a really great reconnection to things and thanks for it.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 04/10/2026

We just want healthcare

New York Times for today
Superpowers race to put nuclear reactor on the moon

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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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 · 23/09/2026

Her stuff is so good. I have like ten year old pieces I still wear.

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

(🎉! I've got a couple, but at the surrounding skill level of this game, I am certain it's just that nobody thought they were worth entering. Yours was probably actually good.)

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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

The downside of biking to the public library is books are *heavy*, which is what I tell myself when I give up and turn the e-bike motor on barely up a hill.

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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 "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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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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cara esten hurtle

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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 · 13/09/2026

Not well. Partner used to live down the street from where it happened and I'd see her around. She seemed kind.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh no. I read about this earlier without names or photos and was worried it was her. Thank you for sharing.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is, though done particularly badly. I'm fixing up a 1970s US house and everything they're trying to sell me is this kind of hideous. The only part of it I've gone for is replacing 1990 floral wallpaper with that green.

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

Oh hey! Anecdotally, levocetirizine also works (and causes less drowsiness/long-term depression where that is a a Thing).

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

Household inherited a middle-aged hybrid 4wd thing that gets double the mileage of the old manual and fits the camp gear. It comes with exactly one small dent to keep me from fretting about new ones. All further fun decisions postponed.

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

Having woken up very early and not long before launch it definitely took your comment, twenty minutes, and a cup of coffee for it to click who he was, and I had even known that! Just not placed his face. Thank you.

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

Now that I'm actually awake for the day, this man with the amazing fit is Dr. Dominic Benford, the program scientist for Roman, which is why he clearly knows his stuff, and probably why he can succeed at that knot.

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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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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Finally biked whole No 9 trail down & back, grabbing lunch at the end and then the hard part up hill all the way back. Stopped to stuff a backpack with bread and wine from an on-trail bakery along the way, and thus I have completed my transition to a pastoral slice of life anime background char.

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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The No 9 trolley from Ellicott City to Baltimore opened in 1899, along a scenic path carved through woodlands and proceeding into the city for day trips and daily commutes until its destruction for car routes on the city side. At some point, this terrifying picturesque one lane bridge happened.

A terrifying but picturesque one lane steel truss car bridge hovers 30 or so feet over a trail blasted through grey bedrock. The trail has a boardwalk and railings and is itself over a bit of a ravine. Trees grow along the sides and hang over the open space. There is a white pickup truck on the bridge

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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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world's worst goth @worldsworstgoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have fond childhood memories of library trips with a Snoopy-themed wheelie luggage half my own size, and yeah, I've considered it.

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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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Booomorican @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

Very close to the finale, it started raining. No one moved except to shield the electronics. I snapped a phone picture for my memory, and whispered that I was absolutely going to lose it when Tim Curry left us. And I did.

A portable projector screen set up against a copse of trees, backlit slightly by a distant bonfire. Tim Curry as Dr Frankenfurter is on the screen, singing. The caption shows the lyrics "like I'm outside in the rain"

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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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