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dogwelder

@ga2so.com

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I teach middle school kids how to make weird pictures & movies.
Sometimes I ride my bike. Sometimes I take pictures.
Blog: https://www.ga2so.com/blog/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dogwelder
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dogwelder

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dogwelder @ga2so.com · Dec 14

I've been making fake posters for movies I see this year based on posters for other movies. I'm trying to figure out which ones to feature at the end of the year. If you've got a second I'd appreciate if you flipped through them and told me your favorites. ga2so.com/posters-2025/

Thanks!

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dogwelder

@ga2so.com

Called it, but it wasn't exactly a difficult thing to predict.

Partial screen capture of the Rotten Tomatoes review section for Melania, showing a 6% critic rating and a 99% audience rating.

January 31, 2026 at 3:56 PM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

Dumb things that bother me:
Wonder Man has tons of inside jokes about Hollywood, but didn't get the typeface right on the Walk of Fame star. Boo!

A screenshot from Wonder Man showing a text message on a phone. The text reads "Look who I just bumped into." Below that is a picture of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with the name VON KOVAK written in a typeface that doesn't match the one actually used on the stars. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM

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Meta Resistance

@metaresistance.bsky.social

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

Nine days, eleven movies.
www.ga2so.com/blog/2026/01...

A collage of images from Dead Man's Wire, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Loves of Hercules, The Red Badge of Courage, Nouvelle Vague, The Thin Man, After the Thin Man, Song of the Thin Man, He Who Gets Slapped, Disneyland Handcrafted, and The Testament of Ann Lee.

January 26, 2026 at 5:25 AM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

A sticker on the back of a car shows Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm in his apple car. Written on the side of the apple car: "My other car is RFK JR's brain"

January 23, 2026 at 7:19 AM

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Radley Balko

@radleybalko.bsky.social

This is incredibly fucked up.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

www.theguardian.com

January 23, 2026 at 12:25 AM

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Cris (without an H)

@ambignostic.bsky.social

Hairstylists in the 70s produced a Certain Kind Of Guy

Bobby Vinton in the 1970s, with his hair floofy and feathered and wearing an Evel Knievel jacket with the collar open to show his hairy chest and cross on a necklace

Leo Sayer in the 1970s, with big poofy black hair

Richard Simmons in the 70s or 80s with his signature do

Young Peter Macnicol in a brown jacket and collared shirt, showing off his kind smile and curly perm

January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

Hey, anybody want to knit a hat for me?

Molly White @molly.wiki · 12d

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

January 19, 2026 at 5:35 AM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

Stopped at the bike shop in the middle of today’s ride because my chain sounded weird. And what was the problem? Lubrication.

Oil your chains, people!

January 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

It's the Mid-January Movie Rodeo Roundup Jamboree Festival 2026!
www.ga2so.com/blog/2026/01...

Eleven movies I watched in January: Keep Your Powder Dry, Belle of the Yukon, Peter Pan (1924), Hail, Caesar!, Blue Moon, Moonage Daydream, Real Genius, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Stalker, Cheers for Miss Bishop, and Death Race 2000.

January 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

Today I added a half dozen lines of alt text to an image I made for a website. It’s very likely no one will ever read it, but I was happy to support that probably-mythical person who would benefit from it.

I’m not always that thorough, but I try.

A Fiend Made Flesh 🖤 @cryptidcutie.bsky.social · 15d

A single sentence is not adequate ALT TXT.

Change your settings- so you can't post without ALT TXT

-THEN-

Moving forward- the INSTANT you see a photo you know you are going to post at SOME point -move it to your notes and IMMEDIATELY write the ALT TXT

You are capable. I swear.
🖤

January 16, 2026 at 11:51 PM

dogwelder

@ga2so.com

A video in which I point out a massive problem that @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social has not addressed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRed...

Thursday Morning Movie 2: Tech and The Alamo

YouTube video by Lucas Gattuso

www.youtube.com

January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM

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sweetie π

@sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social

i think we all need to see this rn

a baby chick wearing a polkadot cupcake liner as a tutu

January 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM

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Emily C. Hughes

@emilyhughes.bsky.social

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM

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Peter Stefanovic

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

BREAKING: Technology Secretary Liz Kendall says creating ”non-consensual intimate images”, including with X’s Grok, will be made illegal this week

January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM

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Dana Houle

@danahoule.bsky.social

Suburban woman to the Chicago Tribune:

“How do you radicalize middle-aged white women? You throw tear gas at them”

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 19d

Separate from the obvious misogyny of the last few days, it’s been striking to watch the right wing media apparatus really confront the role of normie middle-aged women as a leading and increasingly radical force of opposition to trump