Lydia Choy
@choy.bsky.social
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Tinkering. Formerly director of Substance Modeler, Adobe Medium, games and film vfx.
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choy.bsky.social
I was googling ceramic animal pitchers for reference and I found this amazing one where you pour from a demon rabbit’s brain cavity.
A brown and white ceramic pitcher made to look like a rabbit sitting up and the opening runs across the top of his head and opens up like you are pouring out his brain cavity contents
choy.bsky.social
Just voted YES on prop 50.
briantylercohen.bsky.social
BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!
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charlie-ashby.co.uk
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔
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moonjam.com
This is, essentially, pornography (to me)
designroom.bsky.social
For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.
Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).
www.designroom.site
choy.bsky.social
Product idea: combo AirTag + lip gloss.
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ramiismail.com
One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.
cait.bsky.social
guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps. Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to.
Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did.
If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much.
If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things.
Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours.
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choy.bsky.social
I think it depends on upkeep. A well maintained early 1900s house or midcentury is *chefs kiss*. I also wonder if some more contemporary houses will be able to last another 100 years, in both design choices and materials.
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monteiro.bsky.social
This week’s newsletter is about eating and who you choose to do it with.

“If you had dinner with a trans friend on Tuesday, and dinner with fascists on Thursday, your trans friend had dinner with a fascist on Tuesday.“

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How to eat with others
This is the last painting I did at my old studio. I left it behind. You can support my shenanigans for a mere $2/mo. This week’s question comes to us from...
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writnelson.bsky.social
You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.
stephentotilo.bsky.social
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
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lolennui.bsky.social
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear
choy.bsky.social
This includes highly paid tech workers as well. Sorry—you’re a fancier cog in the machine, not a capitalist. The more people realize that, the more likely a better future for all workers can be possible.
damien.zone
I didn’t read theory or whatever but I’m sure it’s some feature of (neo?)capitalism itself to draw people into thinking that the mere act of *making money to live* is “being a capitalist” which drives people to fight amongst themselves instead of together against the actual capitalists.
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
"but that is not the story" i have so much respect for this brave young woman
dropsitenews.com
Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...
choy.bsky.social
Finished porcelain sleeping kitten #sculpture #pottery
Front view of off-white porcelain kitten sleeping in a ball with one paw sticking out under its head and above its tail which is wrapped around the front Right top view of off-white porcelain kitten sleeping in a ball with one paw sticking out under its head and above its tail which is wrapped around the front Left top view of off-white porcelain kitten sleeping in a ball with one paw sticking out under its head and above its tail which is wrapped around the front Back top view of off-white porcelain kitten sleeping in a ball with one paw sticking out under its head and above its tail which is wrapped around the front
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
choy.bsky.social
Porcelain dove is done. #sculpture #pottery
Front left 3/4th view of an off-white porcelain stylized dove with glossy white and brown eyes and a pink beak, glossy white wingtip and tail feathers Front view of an off-white porcelain stylized dove with glossy white and brown eyes and a pink beak, glossy white wingtip and tail feathers Right side view of an off-white porcelain stylized dove with glossy white and brown eyes and a pink beak, glossy white wingtip and tail feathers Rear view of an off-white porcelain stylized dove with glossy white and brown eyes and a pink beak, glossy white wingtip and tail feathers
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jonathanslaght.com
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
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aoc.bsky.social
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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monteiro.bsky.social
”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“

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How to die
These little ghosts ended up being part of a much larger painting. If you’re enjoying the newsletter gimme $2. This week’s question comes to us anonymously:...
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choy.bsky.social
Yeah it’s just so clever so far. It’s the perfect game to play on a quiet, cozy, rainy day with a warm cup of coffee. The only reason why I stopped playing it at the moment is because I want to show my kid the game.
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luckytran.com
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.