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Andy Pearlman

@apearlma.bsky.social

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Faculty at School of Visual Arts, Painter. Teach Photoshop for Coloring - comics & illustrators. He/him. Likes puns. https://andypearlman.com/paintings.html

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · Feb 8

With the floodgates open, everyone's reintroducing themselves. I'm Andy, I'm a painter who uses acrylics, I'm a graphic designer, and I teach how to use color digitally at the School of Visual Arts. Some artwork:

People walking on reflective marble, their reflections showing. Stairwell and blue sky day

A beautiful fall foliage day at the Getty museum, a solemn green statue stands alone, looking off into the distance. 30"x40" acrylic.

30"x40" painting, people walking in fall foliage

shot from above of orange and blue umbrellas, people walking by an elevator.

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 4m

yeah, if we get an actual AGI, then we're in basically a whole new civilization with whoever invented it in control* of that civilization.

*assuming the AGI doesn't take control, various governments don't treat that person as a threat, old civilization doesn't collapse into barbarism, etc...

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 10m

even the R judges are effectively neutral on this

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 43m

oh george is the eldritch horror now apparently

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 2h

I'll raise you with two Australians with fake tickets, an elderly French woman who doesn't speak English well, and the Australian woman doesn't realize she has a ticket with a man's name.

With me trying to convince them not to get themselves thrown off the train or jailed after they were caught.

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 10h

Just to be clear here, not asking for recommendations on Steinbeck.

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 11h

I'll think about it. I get the feeling I will intensely dislike his writing.

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 11h

no one assigned it in high school or college, no one recommended it to me?

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 11h

They're very often people who took completely unwarranted risks with brutal downsides and had just enough inherited wealth to skate by.

Thiel's just taking another swing, hope civilization isn't dependent on him getting it right.

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 11h

ive never read steinbeck...

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 13h

aren't you worried an explainer for this is a technically a howitzer?

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 14h

badge of honor at this point

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 14h

a monster with a blue sky in the background is being attacked

Alt: godzilla with a blue sky in the background roaring in a way that could be plane adjacent

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to do your dishes. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don't."

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 16h

literally first time anyone has brought it up in my feed as a reference point to anything

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

if only trump hadn't rif'd the departments controlling for invasive species...

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 19h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

wait, did i misspell? a widow's peek?

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

lol

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

if only trump hadn't rif'd the departments controlling for invasive species...

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 19h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

apparently not enough of us have had a widow's pique

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 17h

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to do your dishes. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cause I don't."

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 18h

i often do some finger exercises, just very gently massaging each finger joint

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 19h

they should sign a series of short term CRs all at once that go into effect one after the other provided the conditions of each previous CR was done.

"Here's 3 months worth of 1 week CRs. If no rescissions, next 1 week CR goes into effect." Stupid way to run a country, but...

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 20h

weird that they sell them only in sets of 3

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 21h

and it only cost them peanuts

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 21h

One of my cats will regularly converse with me, using specific meows that mean specific things and I'll use words he knows back in response.

It isn't a super-complicated conversation by any means, but he's extremely cute while making it.