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Xander O’Connor

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I’m a writer and SAG actor of no repute but my wife and toddler like me so that’s nice. I think you’re pretty neat too, friendo! acting bio/clips/representation: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/866894-2403462 I do swear and such so caveat emptor lol.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 7d

part 2 of this silliness (ie, the second and final 2 mins of this).

need it be said: works better if you watch part 1 first (embedded herein)

www.youtube.com/shorts/O9HFb...

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 7h

what

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 9h

phew.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 13h

can you imagine someone saying "i really liked _____" and you knowing that you didn't even write that part? (whether or not you confessed)

ugh.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 15h

The Mailbox That Spits Bones At People

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15h

the way Atsu’s getting paid, they should call her Mon Mothma.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 18h

i look forward to nifty lil videos!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 18h

maybe she's doing the thing where you send out different versions with different terrible punctuation choices to find a leak!

of course...one could do that with a less terribly written missive.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 19h

tired: colonoscopy

wired: poop shoot

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

yeah.

but if I’m gonna do a one on one call with someone I actually care about? I think the edge goes to FaceTime.

And then, in that narrow context, I think artificial eye contact to compensate for the discrepancy between screen and camera? Also good!

Otherwise lol yeah should be a text etc

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

lol A-EYE contact

nailed it…10 hours later

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

here's a refreshingly politics-free (and silliness free; apologies) topic:

AI enabled fake eye contact in video calls (either via Nvidia Broadcast, Copilot plus windows studio effects, dunno Apple right now):

I think it's disingenuous to use in a meeting if it is to conceal you doing other stuff

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

oh snap, you mean the thing from Donny Darko?!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

split the difference and photoshop beard.

or maybe just cut both pics in half and do a Two-Face thing (um, vertically split halves, like two-face, lol)

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

must add beard to pfp.

the people demand it.

well, one people anyway.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

that reeks of effort, among other things.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

actually bought the blades as a “yay shoulder surgery” treat and they are a great weight for some of my rehab movements these days!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

centerpiece is coming along nicely with the addition of the blades.

my wife is a very lucky woman!

(although this is how it currently looks, the blades are actually gonna go on a wall somewhere. Mjolnir does live there or center of our kitchen island!)

Wood dining table with a Mjolnir in the center and now two of kratos’s blades of chaos pointing outward from there.

All on coasters to protect the table, of course. I’m not a monster.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Ocean's 11: But It's Binary for 2

also maybe

Ocean's 11 Minus 1

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Bradley Cooper is on board to star alongside Margot Robbie in the 'Ocean's 11' prequel movie 🎥

Filming starts next year

(via Deadline)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

has *anyone* in the press asked *anyone* in the administration about this repeated insane claim that would mean your 10 dollar medication actually will get you hundreds of dollars of profit every time you renew it?

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

love that i wrote this scandalous mess of a joke and drew the line at "tittyfucking" because it seems problematic somehow.

woke and dirty, that's me!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

i need pics of Alf hog plowing Tom Bombadil's big naturals to get off so unfortunately i'm stuck here.

well, fortunately, i guess.

thanks, @faineg.bsky.social !

giant half face salute emoji aka the one good emoji

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

i think we just call History 2 "the present"

obviously "the future" rounds out the trilogy.

hang on sorry that's "the present: rebirth" and "the future: requiem" as the official trilogy names until we reboot the first one.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

shouldn't kick in).

otherwise i'm with you on texting being king. but given the importance--and pleasure--of maintaining proper friendships and actually *seeing* them, the hangout video chats have value too.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

two closest friends who remain in Chicago once a week ish (uh, not all at once; and there are others i should try to do this with) and in those hangouts i really am just attending to them (while possibly doing laundry or dishes or something but if i'm fully looking away like that, the eye thing

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, that's what i meant about not liking it for meetings etc where i actually either want the other people to know i'm looking at something else and/or don't like deceit so don't want to conceal that i'm doing so (if i'm, say, bored in a longer thing).

i try to video chat with my parents and my

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

curious on, say, @proptermalone.bsky.social 's take on this, ditto @moskov.goodventures.org and of course anyone else who sees this or their potential replies.

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