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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 18h

Pronouncing it “come up ON you” makes it sound quite modern.

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 18h

Immediately check the tool’s legal agreement for the clause protecting the creators from being sued if a dodgy AI clause gets you in trouble. On the off chance they used AI to write that (theirs or any other), you could have an instant case against them AND a fun news story to sell.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 1d

There are a thousand literary references to Lord of the Rings, but I assert there’s a literary reference IN Fellowship of the Ring.

In Bilbo’s party speech he consecutively calls out the hobbit families Hornblower and Bracegirdle - C.S. Forester’s nautical hero and his good friend.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 6d

That was literally Andrew Wakefield’s original goal when he attacked the MMR vaccine. Could his replacement vaccines actually get a market because of this?

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 9d

I’d say Mega Man X but technically the guy’s a cop. How about Hollow Knight (the first one)?

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 10d

There’s a bunch of these, have fun. Hornblower makes a good follow-up, it was made slightly after and set slightly after.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 11d

Anyone want to make a “Blame Democrats” cover of “Blame Canada” from South Park?

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 11d

How has no one made a “Blame Democrats” cover of “Blame Canada” from South Park?

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 13d

Ray Charles started this, apparently Prince pushed it too (no biopic of him yet). But it took the white idol to prompt articles about it.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 16d

Ffx sake. Seriously though, sounds fun.

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 19d

Does this even happen now with Walters out?

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 19d

All good. One of the few upsides of AI art is that you can tear it to shreds without insulting anyone’s actual work.

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 19d

Ladies and gentlemen, vindictment.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 19d

After watching Napoleon and Hitler come to grief on Russian soil, Russia should know better than to open a second front, let alone provoke every country within range. If it’s not a bluff it’s insane, but this is the Age of Insanity.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 20d

Imagine a UN resolution saying the equivalent of, “Come collect your grandpa, he’s just taken a dump on the floor while
ranting about people of colour, and we’re not qualified to provide the care he needs.” How close to a majority vote would it come, I wonder?

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 23d

I playfully annoy my wife by piping up with “Wire actor!” anytime an actor from The Wire shows up in anything. In the last few months, the reason to do that has nearly always been Wendell Pierce.

Also, he took over as Lex Luthor at the end of the Harley Quinn cartoon.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 25d

Counter-proposal: soft elastic foam flooring.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 25d

There’s a scene like that in Chernobyl. The supervisor who’s asked to record his command just slaps down the document and strongarms the underling. Timing and witnesses are important.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 29d

Yeah, we’re the ultimate remote British colony and the racism is deep.

Harry Connick Jr was on a variety show here and they put on a blackface act. He had to be the one to bring up that there was a problem with that, and the media afterwards commonly argued that there wasn’t. This was in 2009.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · 29d

I was married there in the 2000s. The priest, clearly long gone at this point, was a nice old man who got my father’s name wrong and nearly skipped over our personal vows. We were so annoyed with him over that, but no, THIS is why you get angry at a church.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · Sep 12

If it’s the same character, at some point she was put into a taffy puller. Dern has a foot on Carpenter.

SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · Sep 12

JUST happened to me. Only possible because the directional buttons and all-purpose selector are right in the middle.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sometimes justifiable as a multiple of 3 or 5.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yeah. The lisp gives it away even more than the suit.

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SmartLX @smartlx.bsky.social · Sep 6

The idea of “give a man enough rope” falls apart when the worst he can say is what everyone already knows he thinks and intends, and there are no consequences for saying it. Without accountability, every interview is merely another platform.

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