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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for speaking out. I can’t imagine how shocking that encounter was for you but I’m glad you’re not staying silent about it.

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 1d

Good video from @bradsartschool.com. Level-headed but also cautious.

I finally pulled the plug on Adobe and made the switch to this suite earlier this year. Affinity, please don’t make me regret my decisions less than 12 months out.

Affinity Stops Selling Their Software - Store is Closed

YouTube video by Brad Colbow

youtu.be

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty much 99% of all popular TV shows from the past 20 years, but one in particular: GAME OF THRONES. I’ve never seen a single episode, in part nor in full.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 2d

Daveed Diggs, hands down. His work with clipping. is god-tier stuff.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 4d

I’m at the proxy-generating and sequence-rendering phase of this archival project. Which, just like seemingly all the other stages with this physical media-intensive project, just means more waiting.

jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 4d

Late-afternoon stroll with friend.

Athens, May 2025.

iPhone 15 Pro

#greece #athens #photography

A black-and-white photo of a man walking down a narrow street, away from the camera. On his right, a small white-and-brown, terrier-like dog walks beside him, looking up at him. Further down the street a younger couple walks together, and cars line the side of the curb.

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 6d

pretty sure this is the plot of the new Wicked movie

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 8d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 8d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 10d

critiquing the DNC is not supporting the GOP. anyone who says that line is an idiot. most people are unhappy with the democratic party. polling shows that. support for zohran shows that. losing the election showed that.

come and live in reality with the rest of us! care about other people!

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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 11d

Hell yea nyc, fuck ai trash

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 13d

Got my tickets for later this week. Can’t wait!

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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 13d

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: Jeffries praises Eric Adams in a statement, saying he has "served courageously and authentically for decades" and that "meaningful progress has been made" during his mayoralty.

Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”

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earth wind and spiders @yuzupool.bsky.social · 15d

what it feels like to be one of the few people who haven't gotten covid yet

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 15d

🎶 I'm not superstitious, about ya / But I can't take no chance 🎶

earth wind and spiders @yuzupool.bsky.social · 15d

what it feels like to be one of the few people who haven't gotten covid yet

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 15d

OP is so thick-skulled and really tells on themselves: of course it’s not a left-vs.-right issue, it’s always been an elites-vs.-everybody one, like thank you for finally catching on! Actual leftists probably understand that better than anyone (OP probably thinks Dems = left, which lol).

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 18d

This whole thread is worth a read.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 19d

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 19d

How am I just now learning Mickey Mouse is an homage to blackface 😭😭

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 19d

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 19d

How am I just now learning Mickey Mouse is an homage to blackface 😭😭

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 21d

my mom is out of the halfway house and needs some cash to get on her feet in her new living situation. she already has a job. for those who don’t know, she got out of jail pretty recently and was facing deportation this summer. the goal is $2000.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 20d

Y'know what: fair enough, that is what you were asked to do

A sticker on a lamp post with a crudely drawn burning robot and the texy "AI is for cunts, draw terrible art"

Someone has illegibly scribbled over the sticker in blue marker

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 20d

“You’re from New York?! I don’t understand how you’re not all out rioting in the streets!”

That’s so sweet, sir, but let me tell you how we’re the most propagandized population ever and our cops have tanks.

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 20d

We were a little lost trying to find our way to a beach and an older guy with a Palestine flag on his dashboard noticed and stopped to give us directions. Then when he learned we were American he lightly chided us for being “scared” of Trump and not rioting in the streets.

I love Ireland.

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · 21d

lol like the democrats would even do anything other than kowtow to conservative opinion if and when they get back into power

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