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Dorian Dawes

@doriandawes.bsky.social

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They/Them Author of A Dream of Saints I thirst trap award winning authors patreon.com/doriandawes

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Have you read my icky little book? It features werewolf and tree related violence and a lot of body horror.

books2read.com/Dawes-Dream-...

cover for a dream of saints by dorian dawes

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 33m

yes we know kid rock is a loser, it's just something ive noticed about mainstream conservative rhetoric "the blue hair and pronouns"

like these freaks wont be happy until we're all iron pressed pasty blond aryans with enough botox to preserve an elephant

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 35m

many have pointed out that kid rock is no person to judge when he dresses like a buffoon

but also god it is weird having grown up in the late nineties and early aughts and despite the dearth of culture multicolored hair was more than acceptable and if you made fun of it you were a loser

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 56m

Ryan Murphy is an absolute cunt

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 7h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 45m

this is why the sequel didnt work for me and that third one ill be skipping entirely

the original tron is so goddamned stylish and they updated its aesthetics to look like an apple store

DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 1d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 10h

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Danny Bowes @dannybowes.bsky.social · 17h

This might be anecdotal/faulty sense of the general vibe but I could swear John Carpenter has gone from "that guy who made Halloween and then, yeah, Starman" to (rightly) "one of the preeminent visual stylists of his generation with basically nothing but heaters" while I've been around.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17h

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

I see the UK has now made the plot of Some Like It Hot illegal.

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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 4h

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 5h

Caste supremacists are fascists and genAI is an infoweapon/toy for fascists.

RR📷 @roshn.me · 6h

I am not surprised. Majority of Indian content on the internet have caste biases. Majority of Indian GenAI users also display a caste-biased behavior.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

www.technologyreview.com

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 4h

That movie is really about putting Milla in every wig possible while she fights guys with swords. It's camp and it's fun.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 5h

Paranoia Agent, also Paprika

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 14h

I really don't like that Satoshi Kon was right about literally everything. It would have been nice for him to miss at least once.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 14h

I had to block someone being extremely weird about this post. Please go see a doctor.

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

I want it understood right now that Peter Thiel is one of the people who believes AI will become God.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

Say no to drugs, kids

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 14h

god too many of these dipshits with similar names

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earth wind and spiders @yuzupool.bsky.social · 4d

its a great time for growing into the person you needed to be around most when you were younger

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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juuni @juunipupu.bsky.social · Aug 7

Knight falling out of Love

[ #oc | #art | #ttrpg ]

knight oc wreg pulling an arrow out of his chest. He looks pained but determined and he has multiple similar arrow scars, that are covered by broadleaf plantain. In his other hand hangs a hunting horn.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

yeah somewhere along the line we just let billionaires say whatever weird crap in the open and not question it

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

I mean I do think this man is thoroughly beyond coherence. Half of these people have driven themselves insane.

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

I do think it is on us to spell it out to people that is the kind of unhinged wacko shit these technofascists believe. For you, normal person, this is a toy. The people in charge however believe they are inventing God and that's fuck nuts.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

I want it understood right now that Peter Thiel is one of the people who believes AI will become God.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

Say no to drugs, kids

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

this rules

Charlie Wagner - Wishlist Hypogea on Steam! @ccharnul.bsky.social · 19h

Ok, Two announcements:
First, I am amazed to report that #Hypogea just reached 10k wishlists, which I couldn't be more grateful for 🙏🥹

SECONDLY (And I'm somewhat nervous about this) here's a short new trailer with some special info at the end...

#gamedev #indiedev

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 17h

🙏🙏🙏

cayce @cayce.zone · 17h

just finished K.J. Bishop's excellent novel The Etched City. Truly superb work, easily and highly recommend. got turned on to it by @jrbolt.bsky.social's excellent piece at Typebar which I also recommend:

www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/i...

Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop's The Etched City - Typebar Magazine

In the surreal and slipstream, ambiguity is strength.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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