Mark 2000 Farinas
@mark2000.bsky.social
Bay Area artist and animator. Comics, sketches, and articles about Star Trek and Sci-Fi. Co-Host of Ship Full of Jerks podcast.
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Hello new followers! You're probably all here because @starfleetdesign.bsky.social reposted my TOS Enterprise comparison chart. You all have inspired me to post the updated version with corrected colors, fixed errors, and a lot more observations!
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Empathy is the name of the game on our latest episode! Whether it’s a fungus that repeats your words back to you in #StarfleetAcademy: Vitus Reflux, or a virus turning humanity into a gentle hive mind in #Pluribus.
SFA: Vitus Reflux and Pluribus
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 02/10/2026 · 1h 29m
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February 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Empathy is the name of the game on our latest episode! Whether it’s a fungus that repeats your words back to you in #StarfleetAcademy: Vitus Reflux, or a virus turning humanity into a gentle hive mind in #Pluribus.
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If you stuck around for this week‘s epilogue, we ranted about Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ use of SF geography. It‘s actually worse than we recalled. The Apes are on Bush St which has no cable car and doesn’t even point to the water. The Hyde line they’re on runs on the other side of Nob Hill
February 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
If you stuck around for this week‘s epilogue, we ranted about Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ use of SF geography. It‘s actually worse than we recalled. The Apes are on Bush St which has no cable car and doesn’t even point to the water. The Hyde line they’re on runs on the other side of Nob Hill
This post really, deftly lays out the entire right wing argument for GenAI. Notice it doesn’t just take aim at artists as elites, but also academics, a group of people famous for putting patches on their elbows because they can’t afford new jackets. Everyone is an elite except the very rich.
no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.
![the stupid 'talent is a gatekeeping mechanism' thread that's going around, three posts reading:
tired of having these arguments so i'm gonna lay out the STARK reality of AI for some of you privileged fucks:
1. "talent" is a gatekeeping mechanism that has created a culture of professionalism that is no less of an ivory tower than academia, a moralized proxy for access to time, training, money.
2. being poor means having to make hard choices like:
[a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional)
[b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself)
[c] not doing it at all, or
[d] using AI.
“just don’t use AI” is a luxury position. when people moralize choices made under scarcity, they’re pretending the menu is the same for everyone. it fucking isn’t.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dei7f7zh74xr3hoghei6ke3d/bafkreig5uei5qn5bkwhgniorhoyesfs73ovo76xwfk2yxprmtnbde4cvp4@jpeg)
February 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
This post really, deftly lays out the entire right wing argument for GenAI. Notice it doesn’t just take aim at artists as elites, but also academics, a group of people famous for putting patches on their elbows because they can’t afford new jackets. Everyone is an elite except the very rich.
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A fantastic episode and not just because The Jerks reveal that they'll be guest hosting Trek Marry Kill this month or because they confirm Bryan's suspicion that the Secret Hideout shows have forgotten that Betazoids are telepaths (not empaths), but because it's a very fun look at SFA's start.
Join The Jerks as we cut through the culture war bullshit to review the first two #StarfleetAcademy episodes. Check out our take on a Star Trek series that truly embraces optimism, multiculturalism, and the importance of the next generation while being darn sexy to boot!
SFA: Kids These Days Pass a Beta Test
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 02/03/2026 · 1h 8m
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February 5, 2026 at 5:14 AM
A fantastic episode and not just because The Jerks reveal that they'll be guest hosting Trek Marry Kill this month or because they confirm Bryan's suspicion that the Secret Hideout shows have forgotten that Betazoids are telepaths (not empaths), but because it's a very fun look at SFA's start.
The episode I remember most from this show is the very special Reaganesque “just say no” one. The main character is tweaking out on brain enhancers. It’s also well animated and introduced the phrase “ew, grosski!” to my vocabulary.
February 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The episode I remember most from this show is the very special Reaganesque “just say no” one. The main character is tweaking out on brain enhancers. It’s also well animated and introduced the phrase “ew, grosski!” to my vocabulary.
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Join The Jerks as we cut through the culture war bullshit to review the first two #StarfleetAcademy episodes. Check out our take on a Star Trek series that truly embraces optimism, multiculturalism, and the importance of the next generation while being darn sexy to boot!
SFA: Kids These Days Pass a Beta Test
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 02/03/2026 · 1h 8m
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February 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Join The Jerks as we cut through the culture war bullshit to review the first two #StarfleetAcademy episodes. Check out our take on a Star Trek series that truly embraces optimism, multiculturalism, and the importance of the next generation while being darn sexy to boot!
Perhaps these are not all disingenuous, retroactive opinions, but rather folks who always felt this way but it was considered gauche to criticize a popular artist. When they’re knocked down to human size it becomes open season.
one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Perhaps these are not all disingenuous, retroactive opinions, but rather folks who always felt this way but it was considered gauche to criticize a popular artist. When they’re knocked down to human size it becomes open season.
This, honestly, doesn’t make a heap of sense. Even if they never updated the app beyond making it future OS compatible, it’s on a subscription, usually with other apps. Nobody has to buy it. It can just continue to be part of the bundle. And most of all, continue to work.
Called and spoke with Adobe customer support and the guy told me Adobe is discontinuing Animate because apparently the company can't think of any new features to add to the program and they feel it's gotten stale.
So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
February 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This, honestly, doesn’t make a heap of sense. Even if they never updated the app beyond making it future OS compatible, it’s on a subscription, usually with other apps. Nobody has to buy it. It can just continue to be part of the bundle. And most of all, continue to work.
Watching The Pitt gives me the opportunity to yell out “my god man drilling holes in his head isn’t the answer! The artery must be repaired!” Like every single episode.
February 2, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Watching The Pitt gives me the opportunity to yell out “my god man drilling holes in his head isn’t the answer! The artery must be repaired!” Like every single episode.
A giant monster just rushed into the room, picked him up like a ragdoll, and slammed him against the wall. And yet he can’t look away from the circuits spilling out of the guts of the man he just shot.
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A giant monster just rushed into the room, picked him up like a ragdoll, and slammed him against the wall. And yet he can’t look away from the circuits spilling out of the guts of the man he just shot.
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Salinas Californian, February 1, 1989. Director Henry Jaglom, when Ted Turner was considering colorizing Welles' CITIZEN KANE:
"Orson said to me at lunch, about two weeks before he died--I remember this vividly: 'Please do this for me. Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons."
"Orson said to me at lunch, about two weeks before he died--I remember this vividly: 'Please do this for me. Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons."
February 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Salinas Californian, February 1, 1989. Director Henry Jaglom, when Ted Turner was considering colorizing Welles' CITIZEN KANE:
"Orson said to me at lunch, about two weeks before he died--I remember this vividly: 'Please do this for me. Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons."
"Orson said to me at lunch, about two weeks before he died--I remember this vividly: 'Please do this for me. Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons."
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It’s Sub Rosa day, you say? We have an episode for that!
The Sehlat Who Lit the Sex Candle
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 11/04/2025 · 56m
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January 31, 2026 at 4:07 PM
It’s Sub Rosa day, you say? We have an episode for that!
BELLHOPS. IN. SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
BELLHOPS. IN. SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!
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Happy 17-01 day!!!
I'm not doing anything with the ole gal, but here are some oldies of a 3D mesh that's a quarter of a century old. OMG.. some of YOU are younger than these renders!! 🤣
I'm just going to go sip some prune juice now......😭
I'm not doing anything with the ole gal, but here are some oldies of a 3D mesh that's a quarter of a century old. OMG.. some of YOU are younger than these renders!! 🤣
I'm just going to go sip some prune juice now......😭
January 17, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Happy 17-01 day!!!
I'm not doing anything with the ole gal, but here are some oldies of a 3D mesh that's a quarter of a century old. OMG.. some of YOU are younger than these renders!! 🤣
I'm just going to go sip some prune juice now......😭
I'm not doing anything with the ole gal, but here are some oldies of a 3D mesh that's a quarter of a century old. OMG.. some of YOU are younger than these renders!! 🤣
I'm just going to go sip some prune juice now......😭
Hello new followers! You're probably all here because @starfleetdesign.bsky.social reposted my TOS Enterprise comparison chart. You all have inspired me to post the updated version with corrected colors, fixed errors, and a lot more observations!
January 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Hello new followers! You're probably all here because @starfleetdesign.bsky.social reposted my TOS Enterprise comparison chart. You all have inspired me to post the updated version with corrected colors, fixed errors, and a lot more observations!
Should have tiny disclaimer at the bottom that says “*not to scale”.
Here's the new #StarTrek 60th anniversary bumper video that will play before every new episode of the franchise in 2026, beginning with today's #StarfleetAcademy series debut
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Should have tiny disclaimer at the bottom that says “*not to scale”.
Watched Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” again and still marveling at how wrong critics got this movie. Not only is it not an epic romance of any sort – every adult in Priscilla’s life failed at keeping her from being groomed into an underage trophy – but I’m sure the film’s thesis is that Elvis was gay.
January 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Watched Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” again and still marveling at how wrong critics got this movie. Not only is it not an epic romance of any sort – every adult in Priscilla’s life failed at keeping her from being groomed into an underage trophy – but I’m sure the film’s thesis is that Elvis was gay.
TNG's Season 4 trailer music. I am thrilled to see the exact dance move I've been doing to it on the album cover.
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
TNG's Season 4 trailer music. I am thrilled to see the exact dance move I've been doing to it on the album cover.
TNG Season 4 trailer music was a booty shaking banger. I’m guessing this has to be from a stock library. Does anyone know its origin and if the whole stand alone track is available somewhere? @nsbulk.bsky.social?
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" Trailer — 417: "Night Terrors"
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January 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
TNG Season 4 trailer music was a booty shaking banger. I’m guessing this has to be from a stock library. Does anyone know its origin and if the whole stand alone track is available somewhere? @nsbulk.bsky.social?
Three times this week, twice to my face, I was told by a person much older than me that AI is inevitable and, as an artist, I must use it as a tool or I will get left behind. None of these people were artists and one admitted that every graphic designer in their office hates AI.
January 3, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Three times this week, twice to my face, I was told by a person much older than me that AI is inevitable and, as an artist, I must use it as a tool or I will get left behind. None of these people were artists and one admitted that every graphic designer in their office hates AI.
Ok the Stranger Things finale was pretty good. Hit all the right notes and gave satisfying closure to just about everyone. I whole heartedly recommend. Some spoiler thoughts below. 🧵1/
January 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Ok the Stranger Things finale was pretty good. Hit all the right notes and gave satisfying closure to just about everyone. I whole heartedly recommend. Some spoiler thoughts below. 🧵1/
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Happy New Year all! Looking forward to talking Plur1bus, Starfleet Academy, and no less than three William Shatner movies in 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Happy New Year all! Looking forward to talking Plur1bus, Starfleet Academy, and no less than three William Shatner movies in 2026!
For Mark so loved the Doctor Crusher season one head gear that he gave it to his only begotten vaccine awareness poster.
January 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
For Mark so loved the Doctor Crusher season one head gear that he gave it to his only begotten vaccine awareness poster.
Ringing in 2026 like a woman willing to throw it all away to seduce a gay theater kid.
January 1, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Ringing in 2026 like a woman willing to throw it all away to seduce a gay theater kid.
One problem with Stranger Things S05 is that no way 80’s kids would just fall in line with creepy Mr. Whatsit and his candle ceremony. We all had stranger danger and satanic panic beaten into our heads.
December 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
One problem with Stranger Things S05 is that no way 80’s kids would just fall in line with creepy Mr. Whatsit and his candle ceremony. We all had stranger danger and satanic panic beaten into our heads.