Andy Pearlman
@apearlma.bsky.social
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:
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between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece
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I try to only laugh out loud when I think I can easily explain it
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I try to only laugh out loud when I think I can easily explain it
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Like sometimes I’ll laugh at a post and she’ll be like “what?” and then I’ll think of how it would take an hour to explain the background to a mild chuckle, and like what are we really doing here?
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Like sometimes I’ll laugh at a post and she’ll be like “what?” and then I’ll think of how it would take an hour to explain the background to a mild chuckle, and like what are we really doing here?
oh, not today satan!
(just a screenshot because no, i'm not trying to tempt myself to eventually breakdown and look at it)
(just a screenshot because no, i'm not trying to tempt myself to eventually breakdown and look at it)
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
oh, not today satan!
(just a screenshot because no, i'm not trying to tempt myself to eventually breakdown and look at it)
(just a screenshot because no, i'm not trying to tempt myself to eventually breakdown and look at it)
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"We're going to prosecute you for sedition, but first...we'll do a uniform inspection!" is something out of Monty Python.
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"We're going to prosecute you for sedition, but first...we'll do a uniform inspection!" is something out of Monty Python.
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there is zero chance the Yankees failed to turn a profit in any year, but especially in 2025 when they were coming off a World Series appearance. If an MLB owner says he lost money, that's like me saying I can fly. You should insist on proof.
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
there is zero chance the Yankees failed to turn a profit in any year, but especially in 2025 when they were coming off a World Series appearance. If an MLB owner says he lost money, that's like me saying I can fly. You should insist on proof.
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
I think something that always makes Rogue One discussion weird is that all the characters, every last one, is an introvert. Where in most SW, there's at least one wild extrovert(Solo, Anakin, Poe) who appears to be just barely in control, but they're the best at what they do, so it does ok.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I think something that always makes Rogue One discussion weird is that all the characters, every last one, is an introvert. Where in most SW, there's at least one wild extrovert(Solo, Anakin, Poe) who appears to be just barely in control, but they're the best at what they do, so it does ok.
"we're going to invest $27 billion in an area prone to hurricanes and flooding, probably not fully insurable for those reasons…"
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"we're going to invest $27 billion in an area prone to hurricanes and flooding, probably not fully insurable for those reasons…"
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Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Worth it, it's far better than every cinematic Star War made since 1980
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
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Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today.
F the Empire. All of them.
F the Empire. All of them.
Andor | Maarva Andor’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today.
F the Empire. All of them.
F the Empire. All of them.
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he's here for bad astronomy and good gastronomy
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
he's here for bad astronomy and good gastronomy
Ukraine, *even if they wanted to go with this plan*, who tf are they trusting for any guarantees of security given Rubio & State can't even line up on who wrote the thing.
Like that's everything that potentially could be attractive in theory and the U.S. is demonstrating now that it is worthless.
Like that's everything that potentially could be attractive in theory and the U.S. is demonstrating now that it is worthless.
State Dept. Spokesperson now refuting GOP and Dem senators’ account of their joint briefing from Rubio - and claiming the 28 point plan IS authored by the US.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Ukraine, *even if they wanted to go with this plan*, who tf are they trusting for any guarantees of security given Rubio & State can't even line up on who wrote the thing.
Like that's everything that potentially could be attractive in theory and the U.S. is demonstrating now that it is worthless.
Like that's everything that potentially could be attractive in theory and the U.S. is demonstrating now that it is worthless.
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has anyone considered turning headlines on and off again?
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
has anyone considered turning headlines on and off again?
does she think out of contention presidential candidates are infinity stones?
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
does she think out of contention presidential candidates are infinity stones?
i really hope mamdani set up a weekly call, it would just be wild if he did
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
i really hope mamdani set up a weekly call, it would just be wild if he did
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i'm sure they can get astronauts to mars with this thing, just without food, water, or other non-essential supplies
lol this image from last night shows SpaceX is popping open LOX tanks during routine pressure testing. The Starship program was being hyped as closing in on rapid commercial launch cadence 2-3 years ago
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
i'm sure they can get astronauts to mars with this thing, just without food, water, or other non-essential supplies
i'm sure they can get astronauts to mars with this thing, just without food, water, or other non-essential supplies
lol this image from last night shows SpaceX is popping open LOX tanks during routine pressure testing. The Starship program was being hyped as closing in on rapid commercial launch cadence 2-3 years ago
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
i'm sure they can get astronauts to mars with this thing, just without food, water, or other non-essential supplies
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Fuck all these assholes
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Fuck all these assholes
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This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
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Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey.
It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey.
It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
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It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.