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it's me, charles gitout.
@pablum.bsky.social
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your most annoying friend.

he / him, trans, lurker (serial liker & reposter) 90% of the time. if i randomly followed you it was bc you said something cool.
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truly who can say
A closeup of an AI image, showing evidence of it being AI: the hands of the skeleton are a mess, and the ribs don't go anywhere and float in the air. A closeup of an AI image to prove that it's AI: two human's arms melt together. A closeup of an AI image showing a detail that proves it's AI: A horse, the reigns of which curve (flatly?) the same way around its neck.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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four books to get to know me.
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt. The Roman Guide to Slave Management by Jerry Toner.
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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A screencap from Better Call Saul, featuring the main character interacting with a potential client, who wants to patent a talking toilet to potty train children. The toilet keeps saying vaguely sexual things, like "Give it to me, Chandler. I want it all."
October 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, two soldiers in Ancient Roman armor, from the cancelled series Rome, produced by HBO.
September 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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from THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID by michael ondaatje.
MMMMMM mm thinking moving across the world on horses body split at the edge of their necks neck sweat eating at my jeans moving across the world on horses so if I had a newsman's brain I'd say well some morals are physical must be clear and open like diagram of a watch or star one must eliminate much that is one turns when the bullet leaves you walk off see none of the thrashing the very eyes welling up like bad drains believing then the moral of newspapers or gun where bodies are mindless as paper flowers you don't feed or give to drink that is why I can watch the stomach of clocks shift their wheels and pins into each other and emerge living, for hours
August 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A slide from a powerpoint or some such; a photo of a woman smiling emptily into the camera next to the words "What is centrism in simple terms?"
August 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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make it gaudier
The painting 'It Has Come To Pass' by Sergei Lukin. The painting, from 1958, depicts a Bolshevik soldier standing in the Winter Palace after it was taken in 1917.
August 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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'gee i hope this weird looking little kid in ABOUT A BOY grows into his... face'
nick hoult in ABOUT A BOY, where he's like, six? eleven? i'm not looking it up. anyway, he's a little british white boy in a british school's uniform (jumper, shirt, tie), standing in front of tinsel and christmas decorations. his eyes are very sharp and blue, his face is very round, he kind of looks like an oompah loompah.
August 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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A panel from the Vertigo comic Preacher (written by Garth Ennis, drawn by Steve Dillon) featuring the protagonist addressing a group of KKK members. He is shouting at one in particular, who has a long drooping nose, is balding, deep set eyes and a weak chin. The protagonist says: "Why is it that the greatest of the champions of the white race turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?"
July 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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If you see this, I implore you to post from your device without context.
A screencap of the Pricemaster, from the Pricemaster. He is a mysterious man (?) in a red and white mask, screaming into the ether (Texas).
July 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"if you voted right everything would be normal right now" "remember the good old days when you didn't have to keep up with politics"
An exerpt from American War by Omar El Akkad. It reads: "Sarat thought about the question. It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But somewhere deep in her mind and idea began to fester -- perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence -- a violence of cowardice, silence, and submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?"
July 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film.
A screenshot from Snowpiercer, a 2013 film directed by Bong Joon Ho. It shows Minsoo (played by Song Kang-ho) holding his daughter Yoona (Go Ah-sung) as they stand in a dingy train car, staring out the window.
July 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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share 4 of your favorite books.
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch. The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt.
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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i'm reading this and feeling the same way
The cover of a book: 'American War' by Omar El Akkad. Along with the title (in red and blue) and the author's name (in black), text also says that it's a best seller, and quotes Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times: "Powerful... as haunting a post apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road." The cover depicts a blue-white sky, the horizon washed out over a flat yellow scrub brush desert; an abandoned building, squat and faded, sits next to a dirt road. In the distance, telephone poles rot into nothingness.
July 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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tapping the sign again.
A tweet from Twitter, by @Chandos_II. It reads: Once you turn 23 it's actually impossible to be smart anymore. Smart is something children are when they do well on a test. You have to find something else to be now.
July 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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What's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays?
The Boxes by William Sleator. The cover of the book shows a large wooden box, with small alien-looking creatures in the foreground. Marco's Millions by William Sleator. The book cover shows a huge silver archway with a galaxy in the middle, and a ivory boat floating in the air. In the foreground, closer to the viewer, are a sea of crablike aliens.
June 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Post the same actor in two roles that show their range.
Jessica Lange in Titus. She is wearing white makeup to make her skin look corpse pale, except on her mouth in an exaggerated black smudge, and over the top half of her face. She is wearing a helmet of knives radiating out from her head. Due to the grainy, industrial tint of the picture, her eyes pop out against the darkness of her makeup like a dark omen. Jessica Lange in Rob Roy. She is wearing period dress from the 18th century in Scottland, a white underdress over a green corset and a dress flowing over the grass. She is sitting on the top of a steep hill with her husband; she smiles at him, eyes full of love.
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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as someone with a learning disability, who does not use ai but recognizes this rhetoric-- the american educational system has been gutted for decades. we have a culture of didactic pedants who love to punch down. generations of people are afraid of their own ignorance and don't know who to turn to.
"I think a lot of the AI love/hate divide comes down to the difference between people who get great joy out of using their brains to figure things out & who really get satisfaction from the process, and people who don't and just want someone to do the work for them and give them the answers."
June 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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oh they shared a tent in the army ifyouknowwhatimean
a screencap from the wiktionary entry for contubernalis, showing that contubernalis means 'ten-mates' or 'comrades', and that contubernales is the plural.
June 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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White text on a black background; a quote from Disco Elysium. It says "Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead."
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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imo the most important thing art does is transmit a specific feeling, often abstractly, often small. in discussions with ai bros this almost never comes up. anyone can tell a story, but art transmits a moment. nothing replicates the emotion of these works except human intentionality (credit in alt)
A scan of a page from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, a book of poetry by Michael Ondaatje. It reads: MMMMMM mm thinking moving across the world on horses body split at the edge of their necks neck sweat eating at my jeans moving across the world on horses so if I had a newsman's brain I'd say well some morals are physical must be clear and open like diagram of a watch or star one must eliminate much that is one turns when the bullet leaves you walk off see none of the thrashing the very eyes welling up like bad drains believing then the moral of newspapers or gun where bodies are mindless as paper flowers you don't feed or give to drink that is why I can watch the stomach of clocks shift their wheels and pins into each other and emerge living, for hours The painting 'Dog with Plate of Sausages (also known as Caesar at the Rubicon)' by Wilhelm Trübner. In a somewhat painterly style, where you can see individual brush strokes melding together, the painting shows a dog's head peeking up over the side of a wooden table with a bunched-up white tablecloth. The dog, who has short brown fur and small pointed ears, is staring intently at a plate of sausages.
May 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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an evil-looking emoji (floating yellow head and hands) smiling deviously while rubbing its hands together.
May 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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'i love fantasy novels, it will be fine'
[minutes later]
May 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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i'm ngl i bought the first baru off the strength of its cover alone. it's a world of difference between this and dickinson's scifi book published 9 years later.
The cover of a book. The title, in swirling yellow text, is 'The Traitor Baru Cormorant', and the author's name, Seth Dickinson, is in smaller white print. The cover features a painted illustration of a woman's face in a realistic style; the face is resting on a dark and misty background. The face is chipping away like a mask, and pieces of the face float in the air, or lie on the ground like chips of porcelain. The cover of a book. The title is 'Exordia' in highly saturated blue, while the author's name, Seth Dickinson, is in smaller brown text. The cover features a huge eyeball surrounded by snakes in a realistic style that suggests stock images photoshopped together; everything is oversaturated in bright yellows and purple-pinks. At the bottom, there's a quote from Arkady Martine: "Dickinson uses science fiction as an ethical scalple, and the results are breathtaking: viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound."
May 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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genuinely the best fantasy series i've ever read. a lot of people dislike it bc it doesn't over-explain itself and it's very VERY dark, which is fair! but it means it doesnt get the buzz it deserves

this is an excerpt where a eugenicist talks to a wizard from the country he's trying to invade:
The sorcerer ignored him. Cosgrad raised his trembling hand and pointed to her. "You will be understood. Do you hear me? I will know your law. If I know the law, I can master it. First the mangroves and then the rest. Even you!" "Death first," the sorcerer said, with the fire of her words spattered down her chin. "Death before we let you into us."
May 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM