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Fryda Wolff
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I don't have a college degree.

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · Nov 23
My son says I can never stop posting.
My large son Hoggle with his paw curled around my wrist forcing me to use the computer.
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phineas.bsky.social
Hey in case someone wanted to take me up on this still-standing commission offer we are getting close to a cutoff for holiday delivery but we could do it if you got at me soon...
phineas.bsky.social Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · Feb 28
Going to try a thing here... If you want a 9x12 ink drawing of your D&D guy or a pet or an animal you'd like for a pet or something else similar to these, I will draw it and mail it to you for $100. I'll even do a little lettering. DM if interested.
An ink drawing of a tabby cat reclining and looking at you. Some hand lettering says the cat's name, which is Otter. The pen I used to draw it is laying across part of the drawing. An ink drawing of a woman with short hair, wearing chainmail and various pieces of plate armor over a long flowy garment. She's leaning on the hilt of a broadsword and holding a helmet under her other arm. No background other than an outline of tilting Celtic cross gravestone. The pen I drew this with is over part of the drawing. An ink drawing of Edward Gorey as an older man with thin hair and a large bushy gray beard. He’s shown walking wearing sunglasses, a massive knee-length fur coat with a big collar, a chunky knit scarf, jeans, and white sneakers. He’s holding some books under his left arm. Over his head some rough, loopy lettering reads ‘Ogdred Weary’. The pen I drew this with is on top of the paper. An ink drawing of the wrestler Ox Baker, a large, bald man with a huge muttonchop mustache, large eyebrows, and copious body hair. He appears to be shouting something, probably about how he's going to punch you in the heart. He's wearing a championship belt and making some elaborate hand shapes.
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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infinata.bsky.social
“I was just following otters.”
chrismohney.bsky.social Chris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 23h
really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
frydawolff.bsky.social
*appreciation for Criterion Channel intensifies*
shutupmikeginn.bsky.social Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 2d
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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notdred.bsky.social
Please stop showing me Stephen Miller I’m trying to enjoy my holiday
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.

Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
frydawolff.bsky.social
ERICA FOR PRESIDENT. Can't wait to see Priah Ferguson in anything else.

S5 ep3 of #StrangerThings, holy shit. We already knew it was going to be special because Frank Darabont directed. Perfect pacing and editing, they were right to hand it over to Frank. I clapped, I yelled. That's great TV. 👏👏👏
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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redscharlach.bsky.social
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
A small cartoon version of the ceramic Mongolian hedgehog shown in the quoted post. Behind him is the word AHHH in very large lettering. The caption under him says "just keep screaming".
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
frydawolff.bsky.social
Thanksgiving at a fancy LA restaurant (Tavern in Brentwood, RIP) served butter with orange zest, rosemary, and sea salt and we've been obsessed with it ever since. We raved so much, the chef sent us home with a tub. Now we make it at home, recipe's all over the slopnet. It's just nice on whatever.
glassbottommeg.bsky.social Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 1d
The secret ingredient is butter. It's always butter.

We're not hiding a family recipe from you, we're giving you plausible deniability with your dietician.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer

CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Nano Banana Pro also seems to be good at moving the camera when recreating images, which can add a false sense of authenticity to sets of images, for example:
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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asimali.bsky.social
$2.6 million for an AI surveillance system that can't tell the difference between a gun and Doritos, and the Inspector General response is: staff need more training on how to use AI.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
frydawolff.bsky.social
New societal rule: Thanksgiving week is absolutely the right time to trauma dump. I mean when else is it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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robmccallum.bsky.social
Most of the time I don’t know who the person being talked about on here is and if I do it’s been against my will
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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baseball4breakfast.bsky.social
The kombucha girl side-eye/approving eye meme, with “Weird Al music”/“Weird AI music”
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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thedrawplay.com
The prompts are literally the only part of AI art that has remotely any creativity to it. It requires the mildest of effort and thought to experiment and try to give the machine better directions.

They have zero creativity at all
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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thedrawplay.com
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
fatdonald.bsky.social Fat Donald @fatdonald.bsky.social · 2d
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
frydawolff.bsky.social
I'm sorry New Yorkers I'm not familiar with your Adam Friedland but based on the intro, my expectation for humor is high.
ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal
YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show
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November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
frydawolff.bsky.social
Haw haw haw.
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
frydawolff.bsky.social
Torties are ungovernable.
andreagrimes.com Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 2d
I bleached the countertops in preparation for the Thursdaymeal cooking marathon. Went to take a shower before my family gets here.

Came back to the kitchen and
Tipsy the tortoiseshell kitten is lolling about on a (formerly pristine) kitchen countertop
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
frydawolff.bsky.social
The highest compliment. #Frankenstein
Honest Trailers | Frankenstein (2025)
YouTube video by Screen Junkies
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM