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Ing aka Tophat Artooning

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Artist, indy-comicer. Fan of things. Things are good Portfolio at https://tophatartooning.neocities.org/ https://cara.app/ingakatophatart/all Patreon at https://tinyurl.com/yeyua873 comics work at whatisbrandecho.com

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · Feb 22

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Color sketch of Blitzo from Helluva Boss.

Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 6h

it's stupidly irresponsible they released this tech

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Berserker Piglet @handle.invalid · 7h

Hey ChatGPT, did you take away my mouth so I couldn’t scream?

Good catch! I did do that, my mistake!

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Foster @felmendorf.bsky.social · 9h

Jared Leto, more than any other actor, makes me think of what Robert Pattinson said about method actors in a 2019 Variety interview:

Pictured: Screenshot of excerpted text from a larger Variety interview (Nov 13, 2019):

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Though Pattinson respects the practice of method acting – a technique in which a performer strives for complete emotional identification with a role, both on and off screen – it’s not a style which he practices himself. “I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an a–holes,” Pattinson admitted. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 7h

so really now multi million dollar movie shoots are just make a wish scenarios, only instead of cheering up a kid with cancer it's rewarding a sex pest

Moxie 🔜 blfc @dracocat.bsky.social · 10h

Its wild too because apparently Tron Ares was a different story/film initially but Leto wanted to explore his character so much he convinced the director to change it to focus on him.

“The first iteration of [Tron: Ares] was a different movie, but it had a character named Ares that [Leto] was cast as while we were in pre-production,” Wigutow says, “He really got his teeth into this character and really wanted to hold onto it, and ultimately came to me and said, ‘Let's just build a movie around this character. I want to understand this character, his origins, and I want to take him to a very different place.’ So that's really the provenance and the origin of this specific film is Jared's dogged persistence on getting it done, but also telling the story of this character specifically.”

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Moxie 🔜 blfc @dracocat.bsky.social · 10h

Its wild too because apparently Tron Ares was a different story/film initially but Leto wanted to explore his character so much he convinced the director to change it to focus on him.

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Matias @matiashannecke.bsky.social · 10h

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 10h

It’s so funny how every time Jared Leto does his method acting in a film, the director and crew have to go out of their way to be like “woah it was so intense, he was so in character, it added so much depth” and then you watch the film and he’s giving the most lazy, no-thought performance possible

"I do address him as Ares when we're filming and everybody goes, we get a little bit up. He's the general walking onto set, which is fine," Ares director Joachim Ronning recently told Screenrant. "And it's not
uncommon for actors to do it like that.
And it works for him. And I think you can feel it in any movie he makes. He's completely into the character."

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 10h

Not only did he do this for Morbius, but his insistence on only traveling around on either crutches or a wheelchair caused several production delays because it would take him so long to simply get around set to do things like use the bathroom

While portraying the character of Dr.
Michael Morbius, Leto used crutches and wheelchairs even during breaks because he didn't want to break character. This was a part of his method acting routines.
Although it was helping Leto get more and more into the mindset of Dr. Morbius, the use of crutches ended up getting production delays because Leto would have difficulties in the bathroom.

Director Daniel Espinosa revealed in a recent interview with UPROXX that he didn't mind the delays in production. On the other hand, the director did use a crew member to push Leto in a wheelchair to speed things up just a notch.

“It's more that I think the directors that don't like actors get really frustrated about that. I think it's really mysterious, what they do. Almost all actors, in general, have their own reputation of being an interesting person how he works with their characters. I think that all of them have these traits.”

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Another Terrible Idea @atichannel.bsky.social · 9h

Come on now... This is how you wanna fucking headline this????

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 14h

Dude in grocery store goes “Some common sense advice: masks don’t do anything. Idiot.” I said “Forgive me for not taking ‘common sense advice’ from a guy wearing socks with Crocs in the rain.” I could tell by his face he’s gonna go to sleep tonight thinking about everyone on line laughing.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 10h

The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is

David Noll @david.noll.org · 21d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 10h

The reason this works is they fucking know they would not last 3 minutes if a community rose up in unison when they pulled this patently illegal shit that is so far out of their jurisdiction they could probably be shot down like dogs and a grand jury would say “oh that’s self defense.”

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 13h

The whole humanities thing was always in response to SV's "everyone must study STEM" mantra, it was never meant to imply the elites out there would have turned out less blinkered and indifferent.

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 10h

hearing Rene Girard worked close with him makes me really feel a need to reassess Girard's work

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 12h

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

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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Jayhawk88 @jayhawk88.bsky.social · 13h

If I was getting $1000 per anti-RFK post...

a man sitting in front of a computer with pmitf.com on the bottom right

ALT: a man sitting in front of a computer with pmitf.com on the bottom right

media.tenor.com

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Farts "sʇɹɐℲ" Johnson @fartsjohnson.bsky.social · 12h

Jesus fucking Christ

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 12h

Gotta suck a lot of dick on the road to enlightenment

sixteen different flavors of kauloversace @kauloversace.moe · 21h

im always saying this

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 12h

Tricking Sony into re-releasing MORBIUS to zero gain may be the internet shitposters' finest hours

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12h

This is what social media was *supposed* to be for: expert deep dives. And porn, of course.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 12h

My solution is...a lot of high end philosophy depts exist to teach rich ppl how not to feel guilty about raping the world

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 13h

like even if you accept the "he buys his way in" thing... when HASN'T one of his films flopped hard? why keep making this bad decision?

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 19h

what dirt does jared leto have on hollywood executives that allow him to still get starring roles that is *worse* than the dirt that they must have on him?

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