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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 22h

I saw it coming and I’m still deeply frustrated.

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 1d

Really hoping one day I get to pick up a new edition of Peter York’s Dictator Style and it’s got that hideous fucking White House Christmas display and a Trump Tower penthouse. I don’t expect great things. I’m not blind. I just want that. Come on, world.

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 1d

I have strong feelings about out-of-state NG being deployed for anything other than disaster response. c: it’s small government until it’s not c: it’s ’no more Washington insiders’ until you blow taxpayer money on the kind of worthless flex that only works on people living inside their own assholes

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely enjoying the media literacy in the comments. CNN getting completely roasted

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

literally have a screwdriver in the pocket of my shirtdress right now. the innateness of butch un-gender

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

Same. If it DOES work - I’m sure it’ll suck shit for *some*one and we’ll probably find out it was horribly unfair or something but MAN what a coup. What a move. A flex. Brilliant.

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

Something tells me this isn’t gonna work out (just a hunch) but it still earned a ‘heh’

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 4d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I’ll need to do that here, but I will need to do a high-ish resolution ‘outline’ once I get to a composition I’m happy with

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

I really enjoy doing this. I don’t always enjoy the last step so much, which can involve vectors depending on needs

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 2d

last time I made a satirical movie poster overpaint someone asked me how I create non-existent letters from existing logotypes. if you’re out there… it’s kinda like this

Original Schwarzkopf gmbh logotype at top left. If a font is internally consistent enough, you can get far just flipping existing letters horizontally or vertically. Not quite happy with the proportions of the result yet, and the font itself can only tell me so much about placing accents.

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah dm me, we’ll figure this out

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

I just really, really hate throwing functional tech away, lmao.

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

Before you say “yes, me!” make sure your board is DDR4 compatible.

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

Does anybody need uh… four sticks of 16GB DDR4 RAM? When I’m rebuilding people’s computers, they tend not to want the old parts but they’re often perfectly functional

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

or perhaps that the characters are such iconic archetypes that our feelings about them come pre-installed as people who live in a society. IDK. Kind of off-putting. Fun combat, though.

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

As if you went into the game immediately after watching a “LAST TIME, ON GHOST OF YOTEI” segment in the middle of season two, during one of those tedious combat arcs in a shonen anime

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

It doesn’t do a very good job of making you care about its world. It feels like it expects you already do, and no pathos-building is required. It felt tonally in media res, if not in narrative fact.

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 6d

i’m curious as to what went on in Ghost of Yotei’s writing room. It’s far from a weird story, but there’s something structurally kind of ‘off’ about it. I wonder what kind of production constraints caused this

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 9d

“Can’t be offended if I can’t gin myself up enough to care. Maybe try someone with more get up and go next time”

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 9d

I am fairly certain the Youths outside the convenience store just tried to bully me but joke’s on them: my audio processing is juuuust slow enough that I have no idea what they said. checkmate athetits 😎

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 11d

I shouldn’t laugh but

I definitely laughed

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 11d

Probably the trippiest thing that’s ever happened to me! It was really cool, though. Just totally impractical. Yeah, sure, everything is ‘3D’, but it’s also blurry AND dark AND someone dropped an indie horror VHS filter on it

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 11d

aaaa! Does it cause headaches?

welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t think it would make a difference for me at this point. They did try to eyepatch me as a kid in hopes that it would force my brain to use the bad eye more, but they caught the problem too late for that to work. If your bad eye is actively interfering with your vision, why not eyepatch it

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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 11d

(I’m also right eye dominant, but the left eye does nothing unless I close the right. Even then, the view of the back my right eyelid will slowly take over.)

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