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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 1h

It’s only stupid in the sense that they’re playing stupid games so you’re providing stupid prizes.

a lion standing on top of a rock with the words " the circle of life " below him

Alt: The Lion King scene where the priest ape is holding baby Simba aloft on the cliff edge, with the words " the circle of life " below him

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1h

The whole nested thread line but also this:
80% of the US population fits in the Department of Commerce’s definition of urban. The average population density in the US is 2553 people per square mile. (LA & NYC urban areas are 7500 and 6000 per sq mile, respectively).
Urbanites are most of us!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 1h

Our quite progressive downstairs neighbor has a ring camera and I just wince every time I walk by it — one of those things normies just don’t seem to have the memo about

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

these really are unremarkable, opportunistic little shits who are broadly misrepresenting their energy-hoovering, money-losing algorithmic parrots to fleece investors, and take zero moral or ethical responsibility for ANY of their reckless decisions to rush undercooked product into mass adoption

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 4h

* complimentary

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 4h

you could’ve chosen almost any charity and yet

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 8h

“Delivered” is doing a lot of work there
I mean like I can deliver a bag of flaming poop to your doorstep and I suppose that’s accomplishing something too

Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 8h

Ah yes the persecuted underclass of … Cybertruckers

WIRED @wired.com · 10h

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

wrd.cm

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 8h

This movie grows on me* every time I see it. The cinematography is gorgeous — more sumptuous than most of his movies. Darkly deadpan-funny.

(* apt phrasing for a Cronenberg joint)

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 9h

#NowPlaying Ornette Coleman/Howard Shore; the Naked Lunch soundtrack.
#jazz #cinema

Naked Lunch soundtrack cover (Mondo release)

Naked Lunch soundtrack cover (original release)

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 9h

#NowPlaying Ornette Coleman/Howard Shore; the Naked Lunch soundtrack.
#jazz #cinema

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Someone just asked me what this might look like. Well, I suggest Dems could go into these cultural spaces and say, "Look, we have an alternative. We don't have to live this way. All of you chafing under this jackbooted thuggery have an ally in us." Like this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14h

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 14h

Kiss From A Rose is on the Batman Forever soundtrack.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 18h

Lots of people with money who want to make more are telling you this is a tool you have to learn or you'll be Left Behind but as with all tools, you can use your own brain and experience to decide if it's a thing that helps you do your job better and a thing you think is ethical.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 16h

Tried Vintage Story.
Got confused.

woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 18h

gamers of the night roll call

Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 18h

I loved these people.
I loved the puppets more tbh but I did love these people as a child … they made me feel safe and accepted.

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 20h

Bob McGrath’s first scene in SESAME STREET’s first episode. It’s an excellent example of the chemistry between Bob, Matt Robinson, and Loretta Long. This is a trio of young actors charting a new path in children’s programming, & playfully feeling their way...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 20h

Bob McGrath’s first scene in SESAME STREET’s first episode. It’s an excellent example of the chemistry between Bob, Matt Robinson, and Loretta Long. This is a trio of young actors charting a new path in children’s programming, & playfully feeling their way...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.

Dustin @hareandthere.bsky.social · 20h

Curious to hear your perspective on Sora. It seems to be the only real (and terrifying) AI product to hit the market lately. How much mileage are they going to get out of this thing that needs to be regulated out of existence?

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 18h

The Others
The Exorcist
The Shining
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)

Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · 20h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

It's Alive
Dawn of the Dead
Alien
The Beyond

Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 20h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Scream
The Descent
The Babadook
Alien

Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 18h

“My face ain’t hidden, b*tch.. I’m American!”
💯

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 18h

Reposting to “say it louder” 💯

Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 19h

I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work.

Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design.

This needs to be said louder.

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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 1d

Walkable communities & social connection & baseline health needs can result in living longer who knew

The Economist @economist.com · 1d

Many point to the “Mediterranean diet”—fish, whole grains, fresh fruit, vegetables and olive oil. Critics, though, point out that diets differ widely from Portugal to Greece

Why southern Europeans live so long

Diet and exercise, but also urban design and social life

econ.st

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes.

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Clifton B is working on [TBA] @cliftonb.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone know enough about DaVinci Resolve to help me collapse this weird part where it shows the transform properties of the clips in track 3?

A screenshot of my video timeline with a large section under one of the video tracks that I can't get rid of for the life of me

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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