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‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series:

“She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.”

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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September 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29d
A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).
Science and maths degrees offer most value to the nation, says minister
Chris McDonald told a room full of vice-chancellors that science, engineering and mathematics ‘offer the greatest personal, social and economic value’
www.thetimes.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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hannahstrong.co.uk
Everyone keeps saying not to look at the eclipse with the naked eye and here's me
August 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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drcarpineti.bsky.social
The arrested development good for her meme but modified to be Good for It (the clown)
June 21, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’
February 28, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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hannahstrong.co.uk
Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao)
Lisa Simpson running into Homer and Marge's bedroom dragging Bart on a cot, yelling "Mom, Dad, Bart's dead!"
January 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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housegoblin.bsky.social
I hope 2026 is kind to us all
January 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
lmao I love that he loves these goofy little dudes, and that his wife knew he'd be into them. crying
lilabrock.bsky.social lilabrock @lilabrock.bsky.social · Dec 13
el instagram de herzog es una de las mejores cosas que me pasó en este último tiempo.
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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womenofttrpg.bsky.social
The Women Of TTRPG Holiday Gift Guide is here! 🎁

Enjoy our guide full of gorgeous TTRPG options from women-owned businesses. Find amazing gifts for your favourite nerds (or yourself), and support women at the same time!
Women Of TTRPG Gift Guide. Support women makers this holiday season.
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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katbrownwrites.com
Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
"it's basically the It's a Wonderful Life of fucking" is the best description of Eyes Wide Shut I've ever read
bilgeebiri.bsky.social Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · Nov 27
One of the reasons why EYES WIDE SHUT has become such an unlikely Christmas movie is that it’s basically the IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE of fucking. www.vulture.com/2019/06/eyes...
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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helenlohara.bsky.social
This is fantastic news and it should never have taken this long. Congratulations to all the campaigners.
francesryan.bsky.social Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · Nov 26
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
clarelynot.bsky.social
too much frankenstein discourse, but it spurred me into clear out mode and i found my copy of the strain that gdt signed for me many moons ago (pictured with a snap of him signing it!)
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
i’ve seen multiple criticisms of del toro “adding” freudian elements to FRANKENSTEIN that seem to forget this is the dream victor has immediately after making the creature
“I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.”
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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hannahstrong.co.uk
Always read SMK on GDT!!
lwlies.com Little White Lies @lwlies.com · Oct 16
Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material.

Review: lwlies.com/reviews/fran...
Frankenstein review – Jacob Elordi is a revelation
Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy…
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October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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mimimar.bsky.social
a recent commission💙
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
clarelynot.bsky.social
it’s the most wonderful time of the year #LFF
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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October 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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realgdt.bsky.social
Physical miniature elements getting ready
October 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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abbis.bsky.social
Having spent yesterday up in town for gig reasons, my biggest takeaway is that there are a lot of white people with no individual identity or personality who were desperate to be recognised as a part of something, especially if that thing meant being able to litter and piss freely on the street.
September 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
clarelynot.bsky.social
jokes aside, the way that kent has been decimated in recent years is absolutely tragic.
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
clarelynot.bsky.social
wow my degree from university of wales is also looking sus today then
shonamaclean.bsky.social Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · Sep 10
Have just read on the BBC that "the UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region" is to be creaed by merging the universities of Kent and Greenwich, and I'm thinking it's a shame they've never heard of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM