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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 11h

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pikat @pikat.io · Sep 11

paladin peach

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 20

CAPTAIN KRONOS - WEREWOLF HUNTER (Brian Clemens, 1976)

Countess de Lesseps (Geneviève Page) asks a pair of legendary monster hunters (Horst Janson, Patrick Troughton) to pursue a mythic beast which has savagely murdered scores of women and children in the woods around Averoigne.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 20

HIGH STAKES (Tim Aviltssen, 1979)

A veteran vampire hunter (Christopher Lee) attempts to train a Chicago Times film-reviewer (John Belushi) as a replacement. Countess Dracula (Karen Stride) also has her eye on the over-eager assistant.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 20

BATGIRL (Adil & Bilall, 2023)

Barbara Gordon (Leslie Grace), daughter of the police commissioner (J. K. Simmons) forces Batman (Michael Keaton) to take her on as a protege when Gotham City is threatened by a mercenary pyromaniac (Brendan Fraser).

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Bug Enthusiast 🐝❤️ @idolomantises.bsky.social · 16h

Tales of Alethrion is such a painfully underrated gem. It’s a masterclass in animation and wordless storytelling.

Also check out my girls.

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Elithmord 🇨🇦 @jemburch.bsky.social · 16h

It turns out that being well-funded is not synonymous with being good.

As we say in academia, this program filled a necessary gap.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 16h

A lot of people have said that about Keanu Reeves as an actor. He may not deliver the most versatile or dynamic performance, but he is incredibly easy to work with, and will cheerfully respond to everything the director says to the best of his ability.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 16h

#BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #BookSky #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #IrishSky #CelticSky #FairySky #Mythology #IrishMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #IrishFolklore #CelticFolklore #Ireland #Celtic #Literature #Adventure #Quest #Fairy #Faerie #Otherworld

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 16h

An echtra ("adventure") is an Old Irish tale of a journey into the Otherworld set in pagan times. An immram ("voyage") is a similar Old Irish tale, but is set in Christian times and the Otherworldly journey is usually by sea. Both involve meeting supernatural beings.
🎨Zuzana Jezikova
#WyrdWednesday

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 20h

Image is a map from "Gulliver's Travels"
#BookChatWeekly #BookSky #Fiction#Sky #LiteratureSky #FantasySky #Book #Fiction #Literature #FantasyLiterature #Fantasy #Satire #JonathanSwift #GulliversTravels

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 20h

In “Gulliver’s Travels" by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver encountered many inventors with foolish inventions on Balnibarbi Island, including a device for randomly creating sentences so that even people with no talent can write books. Thus predicting generative AI several centuries early.
#WyrdWednesday

A map of the island of Balnibarbi, from "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 23h

The President of the United States calling for the imprisonment of elected officials with no legal basis should alarm everyone, regardless of party.

Social post by Donald J. Trump that says: 'Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!'

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 22h

Mood

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 22h

In poetry, Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner makes the sea a haunted stage. Albatrosses, curses, ghostly crews; it is a voyage where the unknown punishes hubris. #WyrdWednesday

Art: Gustave Doré

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Ibrahim ibnRambam @franktruth.bsky.social · May 26

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 22h

the entire us economy is now entirely oriented around tech who's only use case is making images of mickey mouse doing 9/11 with no other practical application. this industry is valued at trillions of dollars. they are wiping out neighborhoods to make more of this tech.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 23h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 23h

The Wolpertinger

A painting of a chimera of a rabbit with wings and antlers

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 1d

Clotilde Graves/"Richard Dehan"'s story "The Great Beast of Kafue" (1917) tells of a perilous journey to southern Africa to find the last surviving brontosaurus. #WyrdWednesday

Color illustration by Charles R. Knight of a brontosaurus submerged in water in the foreground. Another lighter-colored brontosaurus is approaching the water in the background.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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G @jasky.bsky.social · 1d

higher better further faster stronger

captain marvel aka Carol Danvers of marvel comics avengers in a midcentury modern inspired retro cartoon fashion pinup style wearing a 60e style blue dress with red trim that fades into the background wearing long red gloves and red gogo boots with star regalia on her and around her

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

Bran's Voyage was to find the Otherworld, so moved by a song was he. He sailed west with three companies, meeting Mannanan mac Lir, losing a crewmember to the Isle of Joy, and finally landing on the Isle of Women, where one year is countless decades. #WyrdWednesday

🖼: energy69

Artist energy69's depiction of the Voyage of Bran, showing in very stylized form a galley full of oars and a man hailing a coming chariot on a blue, green, and orange sea, the man within shirtless and looking like Leonidas from 300: he is Manannan macLir, and two other horses run on the other side of the ship, wildly greeting the voyagers. In the far distance, the silver light of Tir na nOg can be seen and a mountain beyond; the sun is setting around Mannanan's head.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 23h

I think of this image a lot

Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the starvation of human beings due to DOGE's coup of the U.S. government

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 1d

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