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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 12m

I’ve had a Citibank Visa with Van Gogh’s Starry Night for 20 for precisely this reason.

Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 8h

Wore the special glasses this morning. Downtown Portland, 5th & Washington.

A row of paste up posters on a plywood wall in the style of the movie, “They Live.” Large italic sans serif type reads, DON’T OBEY. A black & white woodcut style image of a frog’s head in the center.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 8h

Petrichor

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 20h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 22h

The slippery slope to a 2028 ska revival. (complimentary)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

Muslim clerics have deemed AI-generated imagery of people ‘haram’ or forbidden. And they told you shariah law would be your undoing.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 2d

Getting that Sea Slug respect!!

Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 2d

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism is reductionist but also real. In a perfect world, you wave resources to research & reach out to vetted local/regional brands that could use your boost. Not sure if you’re in a position to do that but food for thought.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 2d

Shit, just registered plates for my new ride last week.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 2d

TIL some local history of this iconic poster as well as more about the deep historical roots of “the Portland vibe” or whatever you call it. Great 🧵 from a multi-gen Portland’s & historian.

Makes me love my adopted home town even more.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

Here is a poster that hung in my house my entire life, and which my mom gave to me when we moved to CT. The photo in it was taken in downtown Portland in 1978, and the man in it was a bar owner at the time - six years later he became the Mayor.

THIS is Portland humor, which is not new!

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 14d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 3d

Some people just want to watch their replies burn.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Small business network closet.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Sir Gilbert Scott restoration.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Manuscript lost in fire.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a Cubs fan and I’m living and dying with every pitch.

Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 5d

Same. Also, there are none in inner SE that are conveniently walk-bikeable. I have to drive up to Dishman at the crack of dawn.
This: web.archive.org/web/20250620...

Why America Needs More Public Pools

Clean, swimmable water shouldn’t be something only the rich can access.

web.archive.org

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 5d

I had forgotten this was happening. Thanks for the pick-me-up at the end of a long week

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 6d

Way to go my councillor @councilormorillo.bsky.social

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 6d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 7d

After cleaning up the mess of our spit takes… Consider that there is possibly a very scared real person in their evil clutches who is enduring a nightmare so absurd and malevolent it would make Terry Gilliam blush. Let’s maybe dig into that.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 7d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 7d

I haven’t played a RPG/FP game since the days of Doom. I can tell you that not only would I have bought and played the hell out of this, if necessary I would have upgraded my rig, bought controller etc to do so. You miss all the pitches you don’t swing at Ubisoft.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7d

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 7d

AI is like a Trolley Problem for media CEOs, except they don't realize the options are actually "stop the trolley" or "the trolley runs me over six months after I let it run over my employees."

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 7d

The character's name is Roy G. Biv

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 8d

42U
/24
32U

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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 8d

Tuesday is the 7th best day of the week. And I slept like 💩 and am dragging my ass to the office (thanks Mayor Wilson!) but at least I have glorious full moon to look at in the dawn west.

A full moon in the pink sky of dawn setting over tree-lined streets with telephone lines and a green traffic signal.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 8d

the reason:

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