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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 12d

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1m

i feel the same way when people love something i know is badly made. like my thread i just reposted about bladerunner 2049. like "can't you see!!" but i don't say that directly to people bc it would be rude

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2m

that is not a normal amount of death much less on-premises death

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8m

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 24m

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 4m

interesting. not my favorite but there are scenes i really like.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6m

this is good but to be great you have to defend people who aren't here legally. none of them deserve to be kidnapped by unidentified masked agents and thrown 30 to a cell without food and water. we should not have a thing that does that.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10m

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 9m

depreciation is a legal decision the IRS makes for you. they tell you how long you can depreciate something. you don't get to decide

from what i've read, the chips will burn out at 3-5 years so quite likely you have to buy new ones while still not reaping the tax benefit from the old ones

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10m

govt contracting can be rich but not THAT rich.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 14m

gonna start a physical info-workspace thread over here bc the one i had on twitter was great

and i can't think of a better place to start than MANICULES

marginalia of little pointing hands!!

feel like i should start drawing manicules in my books instead of little arrows

Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 12d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17m

very curious which lines

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18m

CAC is 3x LCV

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20m

did you know @thomasfuchs.at made a perpetual calendar with tons of themes?

perpetual.day?keeping-up

DOS-style calendar in shades of purple and teal, showing the date, month, and time

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27m

revisiting my poltergeist thread

Amy Hoy (@[email protected])

i wanted to watch a horror movie, thomas didn’t want to. then he heard i hadn’t seen poltergeist. so now we’re watching poltergeist.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 40m

revisiting my JAWS thread

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 5

i never thought of jaws as a 4th of july movie. but we're watching it, and it sure is topical.

also amazing how much the movie just throws at you and trusts you to figure out. they don't make em like they used to.

Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · Jul 4

ok. It's time to watch Jaws.*

*Not only because it's the 4th, but because I have to watch the movie while it is still light out, even though I've watched it approximately one million times already.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 44m

bautista was by far the best part of the movie

it just wasn't good. i don't know how people's standards are so low. if you watch the old and new back to back, it's just glaringly how badly scripted, produced and filmed the new one is. like, objectively! it's not a matter of taste, it's technique

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 45m

revisiting my terminator thread

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Apr 27

now watching THE TERMINATOR, which i haven’t seen before (i think?)

prepare for live skeeting

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

wow. i'd never noticed this. you are SO RIGHT. something so common, just gone. *shiver* actually disturbing

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

revisiting my bladerunner 2049 hate thread. feel free to enjoy it with me

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Oct 22

tonight we’re watching Bladerunner 2049, which i also haven’t seen

hope it’s good

the tiny text to start with is not promising

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

this is your area of specialty so i know this is nothing new to you

but i was amazed to learn about how they made lawrence of arabia feel so watchable by breaking it into 16 little fully complete arcs

How Can Such a Long Film Feel So Short?

YouTube video by Moviewise

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

which is scary. i liked frasier a lot but 😩

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

yes… almost everything is surface, now.

there's nothing underneath it. what you see is what you get. not enough (or any) contemplation going into the product, or coming out of it.

i was telling nina in another thread that the same is now true in *my* profession

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

seems like in design, too, there’s no grounding any more, or sense of what came before and why — everything’s superficial, take it as it comes, even at, say, apple

apple who’s trying to retread “transparent material” for the THIRD TIME and failing at basic UI conventions and losing functionality

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 1h

It feels like these movies are pulling off a magic trick. But it’s not magic. It’s just skill — skill that’s either been lost in the streaming era, or not valued

It’s really instructive, for example, to watch 1984’s “Romancing the Stone” and 2022’s “The Lost City” back to back because… 😮‍💨

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

so you did!! need more caffeine

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

and the really distressing thing is… people don't seem to notice or care!

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h

it really is, bc the same is true of 90s movies. so much great craft. not all of them, of course, just like the 80s… but i watch Twister or even ID4 and want to scream. they're just so well-crafted.

and i'm sad to report the same thing has happened in my industry, software code + design

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · Jul 22

learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research

i’m afraid that’s all gone

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