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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 11h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

2025: What if we got the guy whose vanity license plate reads NOVELIST together with the guy who made a movie about having to run from air?

Firefly Bookstore, New & Used @fireflybookstore.bsky.social · 13h

I did not expect a Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan collaboration, but we're heard good things and have a stack of this co-written supernatural love story in stock.

"Remain," $22.50 in hardcover. Let us now if you'd like us to hold you a copy.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 15h

I only picked one to talk about, but this made me realise that I have 9 tattoos and 5 of them are fandom related. And at least two more fandom ones planned.

Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 18h

If you come at me with "FLUENTLY AND SPONTANEOUSLY WITHOUT MUCH OBVIOUS SEARCHING FOR EXPRESSION" and "TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE FLEXIBLY IN SOCIAL, ACADEMIC AND WORK SITUATIONS" I will tear a new orifice on you faster than you can say "Blimey guv" with a rusty tea spoon I stole from Yumchaa

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 1d

It me:

a bald man wearing a suit and tie is sitting in front of a starz logo

Alt: Patrick Stewart says ”mild shock” then mimics the facial expression of such

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 1d

Courtney speaking truth as usual. I’m white as Wonder Bread and I know for a fact that my family’s names were changed because there are three separate spellings of Meyers depending on which line they were in at immigration. That’s a relatively simple one! And EXTREMELY common!

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 1d

Having to walk to North Station from work today of all days was a bit rude. Glad I’m damp coming home and not heading in though.

Enby person with a soaked green shirt, glasses spattered with rain, and a soaked salmon colour Mystic Seaport hat.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 1d

You were the first person I thought of!

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know anything about Sailor Moon, but I feel like this is something like half of my friends need to squee over.

Chubby Leopard @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 1d

Sailor Selenas!

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 2d

No, that’s fine. I didn’t want to go a whole day without sobbing, @erinjeanwarde.bsky.social. That sermon wasn’t the EXACT call to action and reflection I needed or anything.

a woman is holding a glass of wine and pointing at the camera with the words you 're perfect below her .

Alt: a woman is holding a glass of soda and pointing at the camera with the words you 're perfect below her .

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 2d

Yay Mary!!!

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 2d

Me to them (fully unironically):

Amazing Sweetie GIF

Alt: Kris Jenner leaning towards someone while holding out her camera. The caption says you’re doing amazing, sweetie

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 2d

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 2d

Not even a little!!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 2d

WANT

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 2d

Stand in front of the Birth of Venus and just imagine 20 year old me sobbing while looking at it as tourists were shoving past me.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

I keep saying I’m going to bed at halftime of this UGA v Auburn game, but it’s taken like an hour to finish the last five minutes of this quarter.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

THANK YOU! That’s been really annoying me recently!

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

Easily one of my favourite movies ever.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

Spent quite a while at the Ren Faire, so of course I now have Do Virgins Taste Better by the Brobdingnagian Bards stuck in my head.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

@jrmoockjr.bsky.social says that the way it has worked in the past is to have the event host contact the PB’s office and CC the Diocesan Bishop.

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely same

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 3d

As is tradition on this Day of Coming Out, I remind y’all that I am, and shall eternally remain

A pencils drawing of a woman in 50’s house dress pointing a gun and smiling. There is text that reads “not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you”

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