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Kevin Buist

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Art critic, filmmaker, communicator. https://kevinbuist.com/

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 24d

I wrote an essay to go along with this wonderful work by David Lisser released by Transient Labs

It's about mirrors and art history and machine vision. Featuring The Arnolfini Portrait, Las Meninas, Robert Smithson, and more.

transientcurated.beehiiv.com/p/the-machin...

The Machine Cannot See Itself

On David Lisser’s Mirror 404 by Kevin Buist

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 6h

a ttrpg but it’s all tables. The cover is a table you roll on to determine which art is on the cover. There’s a table to determine who was its lead designer. there’s a table for who becomes the GM and instead of rolling dice it’s decided by how many snacks are present

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 6h

I mean, I'm still here every day. But often it just seems like people reacting to bad news and explaining why it's even worse than you thought. Maybe it's just the current news environment.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 28

A digital homage/ripoff of Magritte’s painting ‘The Treachery of Images’. An image of a brown and black tobacco pipe with a curved stem sits isolated on a plain tan field. Below the pipe in black cursive handwriting is the phrase ‘Peut-être que cela arrivera aujourd'hui’ which I sincerely hope is an adequate French translation of ‘Maybe it will happen today’

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i'm just patrick, deep down @ouisequitur.bsky.social · 9h

c'mon now

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Dungeon Delve Bot @dungeondelvebot.bsky.social · 9h

A good-natured rogue has warned you not to enter this spooky gateway. Do you dare enter?

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 9h

Yeah.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 9h

Also! I keep a YouTube playlist of cool cover songs that I find. There are so many great ones. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 9h

Prince covering "Creep" by Radiohead at Coachella. youtu.be/NFXZNt4oLkE?...

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 10h

The problem, for me at least, is that social media is like fishing. You can't really judge it by only accounting for the amount of time you spend actually catching a fish.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 10h

What percentage of time spent on social media is a total waste?

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 13h

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 14h

not a problem, pete will just text them the state secrets directly.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 15h

I'm looking forward to it.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Dec 12

TIL Christopher Columbus didn’t think the world was round, he thought it was a ball with one part rising to Christian Heaven, “like a woman’s nipple”

www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/212/...

Columbus speculated that the earth had a bulge, having the form of a pear (de la forma de una pera) or of a ball with a bulge like a woman's nipple (una teta de muger alli puesta; Textos 215). The world's
"nipple (peçón) was in the East, where he thought he was, along the equator (215). Because of its height, it was the part of the world closest to heaven.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 18h

Easy. Khaby Lame.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 18h

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 19h

Here in Grand Rapids the 65+ crowd has formed the core of the anti-Trump protests since the administration began. They protest at the Social Security building, Tesla dealership, and highway overpasses multiple times per week.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 19h

No Kings. October 18. Be there.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

I would also accept "abolish ICE," so as to avoid an FCC fine.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

I really hope Bad Bunny says “fuck ICE” during the Super Bowl.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

The Texas National Guard troops who looked like this ended up defecting to Chicago.

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