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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 12h

Don't get too excited, I'm probably dead in the next twenty minutes.

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 12h

We just need a few more and then we’ll be a whole sorority!

Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 12h

Sure, why not?

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 12h

Sure, why not?

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 13h

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON is an all-time horror classic and Wes gets it.

𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 14h

It's my second (of many) entries for #hauntalong this year and I'm surfacing one of my favorites of the Universal Monster movies for the morning crowd!

Today I present you:

Jack Arnold’s 1954 creature–feature The Creature from the Black Lagoon!

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 14h

Sometimes you are entranced by the beautifully mundane, and often you are punished for attempting to understand it. It can be allegorical for the trans experience, for foster care and homelessness, etc. It's the most human to relate to the monstrous, & I believe more games should lean into it.

a black and white photo of a monster with barbed wire around its neck

Alt: a black and white photo of a monster with barbed wire around its neck

media.tenor.com

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 14h

It's my second (of many) entries for #hauntalong this year and I'm surfacing one of my favorites of the Universal Monster movies for the morning crowd!

Today I present you:

Jack Arnold’s 1954 creature–feature The Creature from the Black Lagoon!

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 15h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 14h

Still being rocked by my head cold so more horror movies should surely knock it out. It's morning so let's take it "slow" with CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH.

Poster for CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH, featuring a disfigured face in tthe sky, Mad Max-esque teenagers brandishing weapons (and one riding a motorcycle), and the tagline "Readin'...Writin'...and Radiation!"

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 14h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Darcy @kittenbitten1.bsky.social · 19h

#MusicSky 🎧 #NowPlaying #FaithNoMore

youtu.be/q-L7bb3K_Zg?...

Glory Box ❤️ Faith No More

Faith No More - Glory Box (Portishead Cover) ''Monsters Of Rock '95'' Santiago, Chile

YouTube video by FNM4EVER

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Gabriel Robinson @glowingroots.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing this year’s #hauntalong, I’m recommending Bring Her Back (2025).

Film poster for Bring Her Back, featuring a hand grading the head of a child with red demonic eyes and a circle of blood in the background

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 1d

Due to a fall cold I am catching up on horror movies today. Today I've watched HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW which is a rather tame & charming early slasher and LORD OF ILLUSIONS which isn't nearly sexy or bodymorphic enough for a Clive Barker movie (and where Scott Bakula plays Scott Bakula).

Poster for CLIVE BARKER'S LORD OF ILLUSIONS featuring a black-clad man doing a crucifix pose surrounded by a swirl of blue faces. Tagline: "Trust nothing except your fear."

Poster for THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW featuring a young brunette woman in front of a mirror hugging herself as her white nightie almost stays on. (This scene does not happen in the movie.) It has the dreaded two taglines: "Nothing can prepare you for what happens when she fights back" and "Where nothing is off limits."

Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 2d

#hauntalong crew: keep your eyes as peeled as the person in the golden mask.

Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 2d

THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES - Released in the UK this day in 1974 - Japanese release poster

a golden-masked demon is backed up by a hoard of vampire zombies, below him are images of kung-fu fighters fighting—in fact, everybody was kung-fu fighting

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 2d

THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES - Released in the UK this day in 1974 - Japanese release poster

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 2d

Close-up of Tarzan‘s face and his left hand as he points his finger in the air and looks at someone off panel to say, “I am TARZAN, KING OF THE APES! And in my domain, no living thing may be treated as you treat these men! RELEASE THEM!“

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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 2d

A prologue to stories this week as Jan-July disclosures are made public ahead of election day (October 20). The cash is flowing to municipal parties. (or, at least one of them) pressprogress.ca/how-developm...

How the Development Industry Helped One Edmonton Mayoral Candidate Get a Head Start

Before nominations even opened, Tim Cartmell raised nearly half a million dollars, with roughly half coming from sources with apparent connections to real estate, construction and development

pressprogress.ca

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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 2d

Huge protest in support of Alberta teachers at the Alberta Legislature may have been the largest in the province’s history. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/huge...

Huge protest in support of Alberta teachers at Alberta Legislature may have been largest in province’s history - Alberta Politics

A throng of at least 18,000 people turned out at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton this afternoon to mark World Teachers Day by supporting members of the Alberta Teachers Association who are expecte...

albertapolitics.ca

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 2d

"AI video is very for society. I make rich people richer and poor people go insane!"

The AI Video Everyone Is Talking About

YouTube video by CharactersWelcome

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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