Gabriel Urbina

Gabriel Urbina

@gabrielurbina.com

Writer and Director. He/Him. The Harbingers ⏳ Hit Singles 🎧 Wolf 359 🛰️ Time:Bombs 💣 Zero Hours ⏰ Unseen 👁️ Dracula: The Danse Macabre 🧛‍♂️ The Signal 📡 Contributor @ Bright Sessions, Wooden Overcoats, The Amelia Project, and MANY others. Onwards

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Go see Wildwood. Seriously, don’t wait—go see Wildwood. What a piece of art. The love for the manual craft, for story that doesn’t hold back, for filmmaking that is not here to answer to stockholders, it weaves all through it. Incredible stuff.

I will be frankly shocked if Wildwood is not top film of the year. It's such a thrilling epic, with so much heart, clever storytelling, great characters, and fucking gorgeous craft. Seeing it in a theater transported me back to seeing Castle in the Sky for the first time. It's that good.

I will be frankly shocked if Wildwood is not top film of the year. It's such a thrilling epic, with so much heart, clever storytelling, great characters, and fucking gorgeous craft. Seeing it in a theater transported me back to seeing Castle in the Sky for the first time. It's that good.

See this one in theaters, folks. See it huge. Be blown away. You'll be giving yourself an experience that you'll measure art by for a while. And this one deserves to blow up. It's gorgeous and handcrafted and it FEELS so loved and personal. Give yourself this wondrous antidote to slop poison.

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Yikes. This is just offloading the important bits of your life. It's not even the cognitive bit (which I think is probably quite bad) that's the issue in this case. This is just giving up an opportunity to do love. That's... well, gosh, I guess it's dystopian.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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The last roses of the year are clinging on despite the increasingly inclement weather. A reminder that it’s possible to be soft and tough at the same time.

Never fear, it won’t be too long before we hear more from Captain Choi!

Jonathan@jpevarnek.net

I only slightly hate you for doing so much exposition with Soo-Jin in the previous episode and not coming back to her at all here.

This is like out of American Psycho, holy shit

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Honestly, you’ve been waiting for this.

Gabriel Urbina@gabrielurbina.com

You want to hear Episode 20 of THE HARBINGERS asap. Don't let the grapevine tell you about what's coming with this one. Get caught up and hear this one fast. It's out Thursday. Preview livestream for it tonight at 8:00 PM EST. Link right here. 👇 www.youtube.com/live/bf74KcX...

It's out everywhere now, wherever podcasts are sold! Again, listen to this one soon audio fiction fans! Don't let the grapevine spoil a big thing for you here!

Gabriel Urbina@gabrielurbina.com

You want to hear Episode 20 of THE HARBINGERS asap. Don't let the grapevine tell you about what's coming with this one. Get caught up and hear this one fast. It's out Thursday. Preview livestream for it tonight at 8:00 PM EST. Link right here. 👇 www.youtube.com/live/bf74KcX...

Finished a new script of The Harbingers today, one that I think has something to make everyone angry! Who wants to guess who the focus character for these shenanigans is?

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This Thursday, on a new installment of THE HARBINGERS... Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Episode 20: "Sweet Dreams" Out Thursday October 22nd

Friends who write plays, what is your preferred software/program for that mission? Final Draft, my usual weapon of choice, has stageplay options, but they don't really make the work look like the play scripts I'm familiar with as I'm writing. And with my brain that means writing will not happen. 😅

This Thursday, on a new installment of THE HARBINGERS... Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Episode 20: "Sweet Dreams" Out Thursday October 22nd

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The phrase they keep using, “suicidal empathy,” means they believe those who help vulnerable people are actually dangerous. “Suicidal empathy” means maintaining vulnerable people is like failing to prune a plant: only by excising the sick parts can the whole plant thrive.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

You get to a coffee shop. Look around. You notice there are eight people in line to order, but only three available tables. There is no discernible way to know if the people in line are getting orders to go or to stay. Is it acceptable to put your stuff down at a table before you buy something?

(Yes, I’ve asked something like this in the past, but I’m fascinated by how opinions wax and wane on this issue.) (Me posting about it is almost always caused by having a surprisingly vitriolic argument about it irl. And that keeps happening, so I keep posting about it. 😅)

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Re the last repost, one of the things that has stuck from my time in the behavioural science snake oil mines was an experiment where if people planned a week of movie viewing they would pick a mix of genres, some 'highbrow' etc but if they picked day to day it was all the same stuff

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Next week, on THE HARBINGERS... You have that in your countenance which I would fain call master: Authority. Episode 20: "Sweet Dreams" Out October 22, 2026

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I think this is a really important thing what finally got me to complete delete my twitter account and remove it from my phone was when enough of the people I enjoyed following had left the platform as long as people still get enough value out of who they can find there, they’ll stay

I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that

Next week, on THE HARBINGERS... You have that in your countenance which I would fain call master: Authority. Episode 20: "Sweet Dreams" Out October 22, 2026

Please. Please. We beg you. Please. 🙏

julia schifini@juliaschifini.bsky.social

hey, pssssst people who are going to guest on podcasts, I got a pro tip for you. ya gotta wear headphones when you record. you gotta do it. the audio decay that happens when you don’t wear headphones?? it’s an awful listening experience. please please please wear headphones