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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 13h

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. "
"You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 19h

Life in Hell 1996 comic by Matt Groening.

The title is “Wisdom of the Ages.”

Four panels. A cartoon rabbit character is in each of the panels with the same bewildered look.

Panel 1: Caption reads, “1960s.” Speech bubble reads, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Panel 2: Caption reads, “1970s.” Speech bubble reads, “Watergate is proof that the system works.”

Panel 3: Caption reads, “1980s.” Speech bubble reads, “Helping the rich is helping the poor.”

Panel 4: Caption reads, “1990s.” Speech bubble reads, “By being the same as Republicans we can defeat the Republicans.”

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sisi jiang / 姜思琪 @six6jiang.bsky.social · 17h

the bond between me and the 1-2 gay people in the group chat who like all my messages…. unbreakable

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chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 17h

LRP: god god godgod god god go

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James Jean @jamesjeanart.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning! Here is the full uncropped poster that I did for @realgdt.bsky.social for Frankenstein

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chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 20h

beloved NiGHTS plush from the 90s… one william dollars…

chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 20h

it’s very very very very dangerous for me to be looking at old NiGHTS merch on eBay.

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Ghostly Homos 👻 @hexhomos.bsky.social · 1d

its so demoralizing how capitalists can write stories about the "heroic" pursuit of money as a measure of human worth and success but we keep having to preface our own shit with caveats and "sorry if i sound like the friend thats too woke"

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chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 2d

I was genuinely kinda scared that it wasn’t going to be available this time around!

chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 2d

got my Novavax shot today thank fucking goodness.

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aquila 🍉 writing comms now open! @belllmonts.bsky.social · 4d

i love you horny horror i love you exploring sexuality and desire through unsettling means i love you sexual repression manifesting as self destruction i love you intimacy transforming into something grostesque yet beautiful i love you finding comfort and love in the monstrous i love y

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moon @moonhotel.bsky.social · 4d

i was rly going through it this morning but at least i was funny abt it

ME: thank you. maybe its ok (delirious) maybe im the omelas kid
ME: no. if i were the omelas kid society would be fixed
CRAB: Yeah they clearly let the last Omelas kid go. We're hiring! Anyone got a spare niece or nephew?
ME: every time the dow drops half a percent they go in and kick the kid in the nads

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chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 3d

thank you Mr. del Toro I owe you my life

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Euronews @euronews.com · 4d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 4d

When we live in an individual mindset, being asked to do anything for others without profit or advancement of some kind feels useless, uninteresting, or burdensome.

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 4d

Capitalism thrives on the individual — it is all about one person’s success, one person’s responsibility to themself. And we see that everywhere today, as each of us is forced to become a brand, a marketable individual to survive, and anything communal is devalued and suspect.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5d

video games can do or contain anything but we are still limited by technology, which allows player characters to move at only three speeds: glacial lurch, gay little saunter, and naruto run

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 5d

you tell this person that their actions are directly contributing to the public disappearance of wide swaths of the population who can't even safely get the medical care necessary to survive and this person goes well it's not fair to me, I have to live my life.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 5d

and THEN maybe you go hey masking in places such as grocery stores, public transit, gee I don't know, doctors offices and hospitals, could be good especially so disabled people can safely see the dr or go on a bus, and they're like, no that's unreasonable.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 5d

it's almost daily you see a moderately known person with a large following authoritatively say that covid isn't a big deal anymore and you go okay so what studies have you been reading because hundreds of thousands papers disprove that and they're just like well because I think so. vibes alone.

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chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 5d

bought a mac coat and knee-high boots… it’s Big Sexy Fall Time

chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 6d

[Shadow the Hedgehog fandub voice]: anyway, back to brooding

chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 6d

having just one person who loves you openly & unconditionally really does open your eyes to all the ways you’ve been mistreated in your life.

chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 6d

and like, I have lived enough now to know that family is what you make it, found family is what I swear by. but even that feels fraught, these days.

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chrysofasma @chrysofasma.bsky.social · 6d

wish I felt like I belonged somewhere. don’t even feel like I belong in my own family anymore because they consistently just don’t show up for me in the ways I need, even if I have clearly communicated those needs.

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