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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 23m

I routinely spend a great deal of time and effort shooting music videos only to find the footage is nigh impossible to color grade well

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 3h

As an Australian, .getRect() will forever be my favorite function in PyGame

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 4h

Someone come rewire my house so the water heater works during daylight hours okay

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, so this is why so many old Twitter friends are popping up here this week

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 9h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 15h

Taking the W ^__^

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 16h

But wait, what is her supposed plan in the book?

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 16h

Something good finally happened! It's been so long! ^___^

Very pleased with my Wednesday.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 19h

oh, and I made sure to get one that matches my outfit

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 19h

this computer cost me too much money but being able to export a 4K music video in under 3 minutes is really, REALLY nice

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 20h

Is Battlefield 6 any good? Playable in Australia?

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

Me sowing: I'll just shoot this video with no eye towards color or exposure and figure it out later

Me reaping: All this footage looks shit! The colors are so bad! Ahhhh!

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is potentially disgusting, but it SHOULD exist

CodyVella @codyvella.bsky.social · 1d

And another thing. How come we have burrito bowls but not sub bowls? Maybe I want to eat a deconstructed greasy Italian sub with a fork. Is that really such a crime?

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

They're filming something wild in Broken Hill.

Source: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=135...

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah. Australia built amazing burnout platforms for years

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Three years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.”

This is completely wrong.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: modern hydrogen nuclear weapons don’t have the radiation fallout problem of WW2

YouTube video by Interstellar1977

www.youtube.com

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

Something deeply philosophically wrong about posing for a photo next to a city-destroying weapon with a big grin on your face

Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

the USSR did design and test “clean” (90%-plus fusion) thermonuclear weapons. This was a key reason we opposed a nuclear test ban in the 1950s. But neither country widely deployed them because they were not powerful enough for the miniaturized warheads that could fit into MIRVs on ICBMs/SLBMs.

A circular color photograph of the team leaders of the W87-1 warhead modification program (left to right, a white man, an asian woman, and a white woman) standing next to a black Mk21A conical reentry vehicle sitting vertically on a wheeled platform. The Mk21A is roughly as tall as the white man and the white woman.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

Australia's own Pontiac Aztek

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

For me, movie popcorn feels like LESS of a rip off these days, because everything else is so much more expensive in comparison

Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 2d

It's ridiculous how much movie theaters are charging for popcorn these days. I typically don't pay anything for food that exploded.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

You're missing a couple of capital letters and a full stop there, my guy.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

People have a *weird* blind spot around Harry Potter.

I have queer friends that still keep the books and watch the movies.

Just... wild.

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 2d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

All I wanna do is book a vocal booth at a studio with an online form instead of sending 50 emails is that too much to ask

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely recommend it! It's like a bath but you get to relax while it's filling, and the sound and feeling is very peaceful.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

I have done this precisely six (6) times in my life. four times as tragedy, two times as farce.

call that a showerbath. usually only for when you're really depressed and need to be in a warm, comforting rainstorm for a little bit.

toastface killah @toasty.cx · 2d

make up a guy: dude who fills his bathtub with the showerhead *while* laying in the tub

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Perennial Astronaut (BUT SCARY!!!!) @mkdouma6.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not looking it up as I'm sure someone else had the idea already but if I owned a restaurant chain I would come out with a turkey stuffing gravy cranberry sauce sandwich and coin it The Stuffler®

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

...30th anniversary?