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Chance Scarily 🎃

@crewless.bsky.social

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Nerd. Occasional filmmaker. Part-time musician. Devil Dinosaur fan. Mayor of Simpleton/King of Wishful Thinking. Enemy of the state (again).

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · Mar 24

I wonder if anybody has posted a feature-length film to Bluesky yet.

Anyway, I’m going to post my first feature, *Hide and Creep*, to Bluesky, two or three minutes at a time.

Here’s the first two minutes and 22 seconds.

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 5h

Paul Smith is so great. I love his X-Men work and wish his run on that book was longer.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 8h

Enshittification is real.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 11h

Just turned on the TV to see AMC showing *Halloween*, slightly cropped from the original aspect ratio. Looked about 2:1 to my eye.

Now they’re showing *Halloween II*, and it’s cropped all the way to 1.78:1.

It’s 2025 and I don’t understand why they can’t just show movies properly on TV.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 11h

Nothing wrong with Holiday Inn Express!

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 11h

Epic poster for tonight’s pizza place gig.

Epic fantasy painting of a barbarian fighting a giant mastodon. Text reads “Eric McGinty” in the Metallica typeface. Smaller text says “featuring Chance Shirley.”

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, nobody is less cool than Cash. He’s famously uncool.

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 14h

That’s a great line.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 15h

Ah! So that was very much intentional.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 15h

*Allegedly* linked to criminal activity?

What the actual fuck.

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 16h

One of the things we have to do is require police officers to wear slightly doofy uniforms again. Powder blue, short sleeves, conductor’s hats, dress shoes, stripes down the legs. It won’t solve everything, but dressing like a mass murderer causes more mental harm than you’d think, too.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 16h

Check this guy out.

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 15h

Good queso is not ice cream, but it’s still good.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 16h

Lately I’m thinking soft serve is the best ice cream.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 16h

That’s badass.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 16h

That dude owes us!

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 16h

That’s awesome. And he looks a lot like our man Flint!

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 16h

I am way behind on blogging. That said, I’m still happy with this very niche post from May about converting old interlaced video footage to something that will play nicely with modern progressive displays.

chance-shirley.blogspot.com/2025/05/deal...

Dealing with interlaced video.

Digitizing old video sources (stuff made in the 20th century) is a hassle for multiple reasons. Probably the biggest is that old video was s...

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 17h

I always preferred the subway. I guess I’m just authentically blue-collar.

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 18h

Oooh, taking the city bus! Look at Mister Hoity Toity!

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18h

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 17h

Frogs together strong!!!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 17h

Nice.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, actual TED Talks are nothing to brag about.

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Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 1d

A useful question in business meetings is “what problem are we trying to solve?”

I haven’t seen many examples of actual problems that A.I. is an actual solution for.

Chance Scarily 🎃 @crewless.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough!