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Garrett Gilchrist

@garrettgilchrist.bsky.social

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Filmmaker, Artist, Writer, Editor, Film Restorationist, NEShacker. Lost Media expert. orangecow.org. Thief and the Cobbler, Super Mario Bros (Morton Jankel Cut), Shamelessly She-Hulk, Jim Henson Muppet Rarities, Knights of the Lost Media, Raggedy Ann.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm Garrett Gilchrist, writer, artist, animator and filmmaker. I spent ten years restoring the animated film The Thief and the Cobbler, directed a She-Hulk movie, did the extended cut of Super Mario Bros 1993, have written comics, screenplays and novels, and painted covers for many video games.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 17h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

Schools Television rarely got more spooky than the Words And Pictures with the Witches Of Halloween song and the macabre stop-motion tale of a jack-o-lantern that enjoyed scaring people, but you do have to feel for teachers coping with terrified kids...

timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 47m

Where's Dana Barrett? And (checks notes) Grace Augustine I guess

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Dick Cheney: "I used to be a Democrat, but recently the Democrats have gone too far to the left... and lost all reality of what America stood for."

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 5h

It is my belief that Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as a homicide detective, which originally ran from 1971 to 1978 with revivals until 2003, and was based on the 1960 television play "Enough Rope" (revised as "Prescription: Murder") by Richard Levinson and William Link

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck Columbus it's Mrs Columbo Day

TV Guide cover featuring Kate Mulgrew as Mrs Columbo and the caption Here comes Columbo's wife.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 20h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

s/o to everyone from working class backgrounds in the arts and entertainment who clawed their way to where they are without the benefit of family wealth, career experience, or connections

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1d

When I was younger I used to think complaining about nepotism was cope but then I got into the industry and saw it all for myself. I remember an old twitter post being like “working in media is finding out your coworker’s family secretly owns the Empire State Building.” Not an exaggeration!

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 19h

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell yes! H&I, one of several old people rerun channels on my cable system, has boldly stepped up to the plate.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · Jul 21

he still lives on in the world we left behind

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 20h

Jackanory - The Hobbit (12th October 1979). Jan Francis, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham and David Wood conclude the tale of The Hobbit.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 20h

I want to take this opportunity to connect some dots. This is not a mistake. This is on purpose. The right wing ethos hates government oversight. They try to take over government precisely so they can make it less effectual. We see this everywhere that has Republicans in charge.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 20h

Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).
That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive.
They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.
So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 22h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 20h

Obviously AI and very gross

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 23h

The in-universe products for Wonder Man were reportedly artwork made by artists, but then touched up by AI.

Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ In-Universe Poster Art Is Reportedly “Touched Up By AI”

The in-universe products for Wonder Man were reportedly artwork made by artists, but then touched up by AI.

comicbookclublive.com

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