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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1h

"The consumers won't care if it's AI."

Ah yes, horror fans -- y'know, the people who famously ask "Are the FX Practical?!" about literally every movie -- definitely won't care that you're feeding them prompt-generated slop. Good call there.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 4h

My latest horror short has a POSTER!

THE CARDINAL.
Coming to a FilmFestival near you in 2026!
#horrorfilm #horror #queerhorror #filmmaking #filmsky #horrorsky #screenwriting

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Jamie Dyer ☸️ @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 8h

US musician Carsie Blanton on the Nazi-like ways of Israel after her kidnapping.

"I'm a Jewish American and in Israeli detention, I was really treated like scum"

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 15h

"I'm not afraid of Artifical intelligence, I'm afraid of Natural stupidity"
- Guillermo Del Toro

🥮Video Game Tax Credit man🥮 @belthazzar.bsky.social · 5d

Plato's cave but they refuse to leave and put more chains on themselves

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 5d

"AI is sentient because it mimics our behavior" bro you are a bronze age peasant who thinks your shadow is a demon

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 16h

The cinematography of FELLOW TRAVELERS is absolutely sumptuous!

The push and pull of Tungsten and Daylight across the decades feels so entwined with the themes and characters lives.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 17h

I think it's making me realise how a shitload of people want to give theirs up for a momentary hit of endorpines

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O'Shea Green (cj) @osheagreen.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to hear George Miller has dementia, oh well.

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 21h

Cannot wait for the Flanagan Correction of that one.

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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 1d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 23h

However you feel about asbestos, it’s here to stay.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 22h

GET FUCKED....

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 22h

Re-animating photos of your dead relatives with AI is so fucked up I don't even know when to begin.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 1 is STUNNING!
my god this thing is lit so beautifully.

Fuck, this show is gonna destroy me, isn't it?

Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

#NowWatching FELLOW TRAVELERS

I'm finally ready.

Poster for Fellow Travelers starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

#NowWatching FELLOW TRAVELERS

I'm finally ready.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Why are y'all still on twitter?

Let's stop pretending it's for altruistic reasons, at least.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

In my state here in Australia we nominally "banned" it but completely carved out massive holes for religious exemptions, and STILL our conservative party booked at the passing of the legislation...

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Conversion therapy remains legal when done by religious clergy but this would allow licensed therapists to engage in the abusive practice. Once they legalize it, the next step is to normalize it and then mandate it. The end goal is the eradication of LGBTQ identity to fulfill their eugenicist goals.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics

Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

www.cnn.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.”

This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

For the record, literally zero people believe in unitary executive theory.

Some people believe in unitary Republican executive theory but that’s absolutely not the same thing.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

"Slippers" is a wonderful nickname for them.

the seed oil sommelier✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 1d

Sloppers polluting communities killing trees killing insects and killing the earth bc we decided as a world that thinking just a little bit every once in a while is tooooo harrrrrrd 🥺

"Why is it 90 degrees in October?" bc you can't make your grocery list without using chatGPT

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La La La Llorona @marisasandlin.bsky.social · 1d

Look at what a smoke show the dude in the Gill Man costume was:

Ricou Browning, the actor in the costume for the Creature From The Black Lagoon

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Phones in cinemas need to be banned.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 1d

You ever realise Olivia de Havilland lived through both the Spanish Flu AND Covid.

Sound and Tense @soundandtense.bsky.social · 1d

Olivia de Havilland could have watched the first talkie, the first color film, the first 3D film, the first televised film, the first home video and the first streaming film and probably still would've smacktalked her sister through every viewing

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