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Joey McAllister

@joeymcallister.com

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Mostly organic material and a series of vibrations registering as sound. Abides in the liminal space between the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, where nothing is quite real and anything is possible. Drums, mandolin. Rarely at the same time.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · Oct 11

The universe winds down. That's how it's made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

~ John M. Ford

Electrolite: De vermis.

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Blake Maroney @blakenator.bsky.social · 8h

when we oust jacob, we need to get the new mayor to bring back NiceRide; the best city for bicycling should not be without a public bikeshare program.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 8h

The future is lame af.

We should get offline for a couple of decades.

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 8h

Matt is kind, but I hate that there will never again be anything fun on the internet. What’s the point? Why would there ever be a Keyboard Cat? Why would you post a video of a boulder careening down a hill and just missing a car?

“That’s probably just AI.”

Might as well be now.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it.

The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 8h

Of course it is.

I just.

Flames.

Flames on the side of my face.

Breathing.

Breathless.

Heaving breaths.

Heaving.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

It's a little more obvious that this video is fake in the longer 10-second version that's been going viral on Twitter. (Which I've posted below)

The 8-second video posted above cuts before the AI anchor just resumes into a news story in a very unnatural way.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

AI could never

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Shanna @shannamh.bsky.social · 10h

Ok if we make it to 16 let’s put them all in rollerblades.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 10h

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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One Dog’s Opinion 🐾 @onedogsopinion.bsky.social · 13h

SUITED UP AND REPORTING FOR DUTY 🐸

Small cute dog (Chihuahua probably) wearing a fetching green “frog” sweatshirt/costume.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10h

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Mike Suszek @mikesuszek.bsky.social · 10h

Grumbling when down to my last life in my first smash bros tournament:

Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 13h

Should be illegal to take Kirby out here.

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AJ Gonzalez @ajgonzalezwrites.bsky.social · 10h

A screenshot from the onion that says, "exhausted ken burns urges baseball to stop."

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

I will admit that I am, um … hesitant … to drum in a kilt.

(Still thinking about MIME RIOT daily.)

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

Kilts & Cloaks

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

Yeah, exactly. I was a little “fuck ‘em” as a teen, but not enough to brave wearing a cloak.

I considered a kilt in the era of utilikilts. Had an acquaintance who wore kilts. I could even get a McAllister tartan.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

Oh.

Wow.

Yeah, wow.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

I had a London fog overcoat in my teens that kinda served the same purpose (it was light, but I was in Florida), though I think I probably really wanted a cloak in a world where cloaks were acceptable?

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 17h

KRISTI NOEM: public opinion is cratering. we're seen as violent, bigoted brutes with no legitimacy. quick, pepper ball headshot that priest. no not that one, the handsome and telegenic one

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 12h

Real. Lol

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

It’s so good.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

If anyone knows how to make cloaks, I would like to commission a fancy one (less elfin, more operagoer) that looks like loon feathers.

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 11h

Ok, frogs are fun, but cloaks would be a great uniform, particularly as we head toward winter.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 14h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 14h

Alt text for images in quoted post: Two photos of a lone person standing on a sidewalk in a long hooded green cloak and brown boots, their hands folded politely in front of them.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 14h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

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Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 12h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Andy Fix @ajfixer.bsky.social · 12h

On this day in 1980, the video arcade game PAC-Man was released. I dropped an unreasonably large number of quarters into PAC-Man machines over the years…

#dailynerdpic

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