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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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James Halloween @crashlander.bsky.social · 15h

I would make a $400 million movie using the Starfox puppets.

The puppets of the 4 Starfox characters used as promotional images.

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 15h

But… this would be awesome.

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🦇👻 Boo Li Khaw 👻🎃 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been working for 15 years as an animator and I can tell you without a doubt, the best fix I ever found for imposter syndrome is living a full life where your days and worth don’t hinge on whether or not you were a good animator today.

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 15h

Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

Screenshot from Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions:

…replied, "As dirty as movies could get."

This was a challenge to the humanoids, who were sure their dirty movies could beat anything on Earth. So everybody piled into air-cushion vehicles, and they floated to a dirty movie house downtown.
It was intermission time when they got there, so Don had some time to think about what could possibly be dirtier than what he had already seen on Earth. He became sexually excited even before the house lights went down. The women in his party were all twittery and squirmy.
So the theater went dark and the curtains opened. At first there wasn't any picture. There were slurps and moans from loudspeakers. Then the picture itself appeared. It was a high quality film of a male humanoid eating what looked like a pear. The camera zoomed in on his lips and tongue and teeth, which glistened with saliva. He took his time about eating the pear. When the last of it had disappeared into his slurpy mouth, the camera focused on his Adam's apple. His Adam's apple bobbed obscenely. He belched contentedly, and then these words appeared on the screen, but in the language of the Planet:
THE END

It was all faked, of course. There weren't any pears anymore. And the eating of a pear wasn't the main event of the evening anyway. It was a short subject, which gave the members of the audience time to settle down.
Then the main feature began. It was about a male and a female and their two children, and their dog and their cat. They ate steadily for an hour and a half-soup, meat, biscuits, butter, vegetables, mashed potatoes and gravy, fruit, candy, cake, pie. The camera rarely strayed more than a foot from their glistening lips and their bobbing Adam's apples. And then the father put the cat and the dog on the table, so they could take part in the orgy, too.
After a while, the actors couldn't eat any more.
They were so stuffed that they were goggle-eyed. They could hardly move. They said they didn't think they could eat again for a week, and so on. They cleared the table slowly. They went waddling out into the kitchen, and they dumped about thirty pounds of leftovers into a garbage
can.
The audience went wild.

Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 1d

#ref lol.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 2d

Happy Ryan posts
Adam Ruins Everything - Columbus
video day.
@adamconover.net 🚢🛳️⛴️
youtu.be/k8PQXiJiLOY

Adam Ruins Everything - Christopher Columbus Was a Murderous Moron | truTV

YouTube video by truTV

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 3d

The crop tool symbol is based on this actual physical tool, sometimes called an adjustable enlarging easel. Its a piece of equipment you might find in the dark room of an actual photo shop.

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 3d

Forewarning: obviously some major spoilers in that behind the episode.

but yes.

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 3d

Excellent thread - immediately made me think of how powerful, fluid, and engrossing parts of Succession SE04 were; then learning so much was due to multi-cam, full-scene takes.
#postchat
youtu.be/FmK50WDwJnY

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 3d

*takes seat*

Cover Art Guy @coverartguy.bsky.social · 3d

Day 3 of making a collage a day until i find my audience:

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 3d

#ref

Damon Holtz @hrderbyswing.bsky.social · 4d

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Chicago, IL

Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

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Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social · 4d

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 4d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 5d

One of the worst parts of AI videos getting so good is the scapegoat they will be for actual events captured.

like that politician who body slammed a journalist- that barely made ripples- “oh that might’ve been AI” and now it doesn’t even move the needle.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone knows that the classic scientific method is saying something that is wildly stupid and then trying to find proof for it.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 6d

This video never names it, but it nails the “woozle effect”: when something seems true bc sources cite each other instead of an original. The term’s from Winnie the Pooh, where Pooh and Piglet follow their own tracks in circles looking for "woozles." Perfect metaphor for AI ouroboros poisoning info.

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile debuts tonight on The Onion's YouTube channel at 7 p.m. ET.

Finally somebody will release some dang Epstein Files if you know what I'm sayin'!!!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 6d

@chrischirp.bsky.social is doing a fantastic work here
www.trumpactiontracker.info

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7d

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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