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rael gost pictuers

@jackfeerick.bsky.social

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Proofreader. Editor. Musician. Badger at the teddy bear's picnic. Antifascist, anticapitalist; but I repeat myself. I don't know if love is guaranteed going to save us, but I'm pretty sure it's the only thing that might. He/him linktr.ee/jackfeerick

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · Sep 24

YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER that I'm a working musician, and I am OPEN FOR AUDIO COMMISSIONS! Podcast themes, ad jingles, short film STs, V/O, theater soundscapes, what have ye. Samples in yonder link! Diverse styles, affordable rates. No job too small. Get in touch via the Linktree in my bio! 💋

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Singer - composer - multi-instrumentalist now accepting commissions for tiny songs. Pop and jazz styles, leaning toward the lush vocal harmonies of classic radio jingles. No job too small! • Custom r

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 1h

The one foe even Spidey cannot defeat -- the Dreaded Deadline Doom!

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, this is tailor-made. No highway exits, minimal crossings, only one hill. I'll be getting off work at 9:00 PM, but with a hi-vis vest and some lights the ride home will be doable.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 2h

What if I saved up over the winter -- saving up will be a thing I can do, with a steady paycheck -- and got myself an e-bike for my birthday? WHAT THEN

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 2h

Is it goofy that one of the things I'm most excited about re: the new job is that it's only two miles from my house and I could conceivably commute on foot much of the year? Or by bicycle?

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 3h

JAWS wrapped up in the wee hours, and for the last 40 minutes of the film, in the sky the behind the screen you could see a slow-rolling thunderstorm creeping in from miles away, occasional flashes of distant lightning punctuating the onscreen action, light summer rain starting halfway home. Magic.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, tons! Most recent was FURIOSA, and the drive-in was the perfect venue for the experience. The oddest match-up was David Lowery's very artsy THE GREEN KNIGHT.

Most epic: A double bill of JURASSIC PARK and JAWS the first pandemic summer.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 16h

Name a FIlm you saw at a Drive In Theater.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 3h

The option to not fuck someone with someone else's dick edges ever closer to reality

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 11h

Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move objects by controlling another person's hand via a brain implant.

Paralysed man can feel objects through another person's hand

Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move objects by controlling another person's hand via a brain implant. The technique might one day even allow us to experience another person's body over long distances.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 3h

HOT DAMN

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 13h

Also: Include alt-text with your images, or people will immediately peg you as thoughtless and rude, and they will be right to do so.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Nov 19

A brief thread on alt-text.

Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 13h

So I'm hearing there's a new exodus from The Bad Site, and a surge in membership here. New folks: This is a good time to think about what you want out of a social media site -- to replicate Xitter, or to be part of building something new, with a unique and more inclusive culture.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · Nov 15

My thoughts for newcomers to Bluesky -- I won't even call it advice -- is that, rather than expect to recreate the experience you had on any previous platform, one should consider *why* that experience is not already occurring here.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

we are whiting more sepulchers than ever! and tithes of mint, dill, and cumin are all up!

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22h

these metrics are not meaningfully connected to the claim

Eric Daugherty: JUST IN: Stunning data reveals Christianity is SURGING in the United States

Bible sale: +41.6%
App downloads: +79.5%
Christian music streaming: +50%

What an amazing sight to see.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 14h

That's something we never got when I was coming up in the '80s and '90s; except for classic Disney features, it was very rare for older films to be rereleased. Now you might go to your suburban 16-screener and catch CASABLANCA or JAWS on a Sunday matinee.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 14h

Now I'm curious: Is there much of a repertory cinema scene in Japan, in your experience? S/thing I find interesting -- over the last 20 years here in the States, even as moviegoing overall has declined, the big multiplex chains have embraced special-event screenings of classics.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 15h

Chalk messages?!? Whatever next? Vagabonds stealing Katie's pies from off the windowsill?!?

Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 22h

Good riddance.

Top White House official selling Arlington home after activists write chalk messages on sidewalk | ARLnow.com

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is selling his Arlington home after it was repeatedly targeted by activists. The nearly 6,000-square-foot house, custom built with interiors that "embr...

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 16h

GoFundMe has pretty much stalled out :/ I only have so many (truly wonderful) friends who only have so much to give. idk what to do. -_-

nothing to do but keep sharing it I guess

#MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #Helpsky #Urgent #Emergency

gofund.me/3207c7063

Donate to Help Will and His Mom Take Their Final Step Toward Stability, organized by William Staples

Hi, I’m Will, and while I’ve asked for help publicly before, … William Staples needs your support for Help Will and His Mom Take Their Final Step Toward Stability

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Nifferama @nifferama.bsky.social · 16h

I would love to know the exact history of what this particular strain of bullshit evolved from. Like who pushed this idea first? People in media? Politicians?

Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 18h

This small 80% of the American population that lives in urban areas is completely out of touch with the 20% majority

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 16h

We're very lucky to live in Rochester, NY -- there's a very healthy moviegoing culture here. Doesn't hurt that this is the headquarters of Kodak -- the George Eastman House & Museum runs specialty programs year 'round -- and there's a thriving nonprofit art-house cinema downtown.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

OH DEAR GOD, NO! NOT CHALK MESSAGES! THE HORROR!

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

Spooky shit, y'all.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

‘Do
‘You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
‘Nothing?’

I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
‘Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?’

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.

‘What is that noise?’
The wind under the door.
‘What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?’
Nothing again nothing.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

Just ran across an audiobook of Jeremy Irons reading T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," and my heavens there are some passages here that, taken out of context, will absolutely be fodder for future Halloween mixes

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 1d

And also, Carthy set the words to an adaptation of an unrelated traditional melody -- a Breton pipe tune called "Ar Ch'akouz" (The Leper). So the song as a whole is kind of a Frankenstein's monster of very old elements stitched together into something new.

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 1d

When I saw that video where she "exposed" Mamdani's tweets, I thought it was a one off thing she was doing because her jacket was so comically oversized and if she didn't keep her elbows pinned in it would hang like a tent, but no -- she's a li'l T. Rex 24/7