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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
Once again, honored to be included here!
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d
We asked you to vote for your favorite books, movies, TV shows, short fiction, video games, and more of 2025...and now, Reactor is excited to present the results! Congratulations to all the winners!

#booksky
Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 - Reactor
What an excellent year for speculative fiction — in all its many forms!
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December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that. Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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pinksalad.bsky.social
This quote from the WaPo rocks. Artists with integrity are such badasses.
From WashPost article with the photographer, Christopher Anderson: “I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too."
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME04...

You all had one big burning question about Alf Gappen. Our cast attempts to explain themselves at the new WBN studio.

As a reminder, the WBN team will be on a holiday break from December 22nd till January 4th. Happy holidays, and we'll see you in the new year!
Worlds Beyond Number: Everything About Elks
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December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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dimension20.bsky.social
🥁 Drumroll please... welcome back to the Dome, Oscar Montoya!

The trailer for the new season of Dimension 20 premieres December 17th!

📸: Kate Elliott

#Dimension20NewSeason
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
We did it Joe!
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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jenleepa.bsky.social
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
davidbeckler.bsky.social David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social · 13d
Here he is taking the photo.
Charles Ebbets standing on a steel beam as he takes the iconic photo of construction workers having a lunch break on the beam.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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dimension20.bsky.social
Jacob Wysocki will be BACK for the new season of Dimension 20! Check our profile each day at noon PT for the next cast reveal 🛻☀️😊

The trailer for the new season of Dimension 20 premieres December 17th!

📷: Kate Elliott
#Dimension20NewSeason
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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quiara.net
A ton of @aptshadow.bsky.social books on humble bundle for cheap!

www.humblebundle.com/books/adrian...
Humble Book Bundle: Adrian Tchaikovsky's Epic Fantasy by Macmillan
Fantasy fans won’t want to miss this Adrian Tchaikovsky bundle, featuring the Shadows of the Apt series and more! Every purchase supports Cancer Research UK!
www.humblebundle.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
PS1: Yes, get a flu vaccine. Yes, if you’re sick avoid mixing with people and wear a mask (preferably an FFP2 one). Yes, if you are in a crowded indoor space, you might consider wearing a mask to reduce your chance of infection (again, FFP2 one). But this is good practice every winter!
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
The important question is whether this year’s flu season will peak soon (and so we have a ‘normal’ serious flu wave, shifted earlier) or whether it will keep going up and only peak towards end of the year in which case it will be a terrible flu season - i.e. are we in scenario A or scenario B. 6/10
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.

A pissed off thread using data.

Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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mldavies.bsky.social
fuck!! off!!!!!!!!
walkerbragman.bsky.social Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13d
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.

In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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nogoodwyfe.bsky.social
9 cameras on UNC’s campus tracking your realtime vehicle movement and keeping it in a database for cops even though you aren’t even suspected of a crime
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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forbes.com
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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gwillow.me
Their mistake was putting out that excerpt in Vanity Fair. The people who actually wanted to read the book thought they were getting juicy beltway gossip. The excerpt revealed it was just incomprehensible word salad
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
The back of this reads “Daddy with Pinky and Billy” 💕 Photo from my collection, no date.
Black and white photo of a white man in wide lapel pinstriped suit, looking affectionately down at two shorthaired tabby cats that he holds under his arms. He’s in a living room with bold floral wallpaper.
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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youcaughtscott.com
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
Gardening.club 556 followers 1w Our team at The Gardening.Club have been pouring in the hours to achieve something that we finally feel ready to put our name to, and while Al film might be dividing opinions, we want to open the process up and reveal just how much human expertise and craft went into this campaign. There's this idea floating around that Al will do all the work for us. Let's set the record straight: the man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional Production. Yes, this ad is 100% Al. But it was built with the same care that we bring to any live-action film. The brief was tightly prescribed, with a clear mandate for every single scene, so complete control of each shot was essential and pulled off by our team using proprietary workflows, and pulled off spectacularly well, this was not a prompt-and-pray process. Just like a traditional shoot, the film needed a director, real storytelling instincts, and intentional casting, we selected and shaped each Al performer, their look, energy, and emotional presence, to meet the brief just as we would in live action film. It required virtual location scouting, solid references, screen tests, and a countless amount of takes to maintain true cinematic continuity. Our in-house Gardening.club Al and Post team, spent seven intense weeks refining every single frame. They rebuilt shots, debated composition, shaped shadows, and tuned emotional microbeats with precision all overseen by Sweetshop director duo MΑΜΑ. Many scenes had ten or more specialists, with each shot running through a tightly engineered pipeline, Google Earth base plates, style-transfer passes, pixel-level refinements, custom LoRAs, control nets, and bespoke ComfyUl workflows. We composited, fixed physics, balanced lighting, and cleaned artifacts in Flame. New tools, same goal: a film that feels real. Of course, we came across roadblocks. There were many times we were challenged, but the team was able to problem-solve on the spot. This project demanded a team willing to push further than the tech was ready to go. But that's exactly why it works. So no Al didn't make this film. We did.
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Generating video is *immensely* energy intensive. Let's say they produced 3,000 10 second clips for this ad (suspect that'd be an underestimate). At 1KWh per clip it's 3 megawatt hours.

Maybe ~400-500 households usage for a day?

newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Artificial Intelligence Wants to Sell You Stuff While the World Burns
Meta is betting on generative AI for a new generation of aggressive advertising. It requires immense energy, much of which will likely come from fossil fuels.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Marcel is already the same size as Francie and he still has a few months of growing left to do. He's going to be a Large Son.
Photo of my fluffy black and white kitten Marcel looking up brightly with one gold eye from his perch on top of a cat tree.
December 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
A huge night for Democrats:

—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.

Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.

This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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theferocity.bsky.social
Life is crazy. @zachstafford.bsky.social texted me last night. “Elizabeth Warren wants to talk to us about Hollywood.”

Me: 😮😅
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15d
We have a lot of questions about the WB-Netflix-Paramount (?) deal so we got on the phone with @warren.senate.gov! To start, is this deal even legal????
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
Part 2 (10 mins) covering attacks on science, civil rights and how Trump wants to be a king.

again there will be some short versions of some of it later this week...

All based on www.trumpactiontracker.info

youtu.be/9fudutXpn08
What's happening to the CDC's views on vaccines? | Beyond the headlines
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM