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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a while since I've seen Independence Day, but I feel like Donald Trump has done more damage to the White House than the aliens did in that movie.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I could do a Cinema Sins style video about wrong with this game "trailer", but who wants to watch a 80-minute video about a 90-second trailer?

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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 1d

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The Death Star under construction beside the White House where the east wing used to be

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 1d

I think I lost brain cells watching that.

a man says it just makes no sense in a netflix advertisement

Alt: Red Foreman, a bald man in a plaid shirt, in a 1970's kitchen waves his hands and says, "It just makes no sense." From "That 70's Show"

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 1d

iPad Air is charging up. Comic pages backed up to it, 30K mAh battery pack fully charged. All ready for today's Atmospheric River and severe weather conditions hitting the Metro Vancouver area.

a man in a blue sweater is dancing in front of a white car in the fog .

Alt: A man in a blue jacket and dark pants is barely able to stand against the wind and rain blasting at him. White text on top reads, "Just a little rain. I'm OK."

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 1d

It failed the Turing Test...
It failed the Voight-Kampff test...
It failed the basic logic test...

It's like they're not even trying anymore.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

He should have tried this in the bathtub...

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

When we saw that scene, all I could think was, "Biggest wave ever, and not one single surfer?"

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

That looks fantastic!

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

Dear shit-sucking telephone scammers: Absolutely no one is buying multiple iPhone 13's on their Amazon account.

Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

I love the Elgato Stream Deck, but this new Virtual Stream Deck is pretty damn useful - I keep my pen on screen a little more instead of moving it to the physical Stream Deck.

Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

Elgato's new update can add a virtual Stream Deck to your screen:

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

I have a Keydial mini, but for changing brush sizes, taking my hand off the screen to use it takes longer than Cmmd drag.

I have a one-handed keypad, but it doesn’t have a scroll wheel. I remapped keys to use [ & ] instead.

There’s also the Tool Slider palette.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

I hope everyone refers to it as the Epstein Ballroom from now on.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

To change the brush size, I hold down Command and Drag:

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

In the Modifier Key Settings, I changed the Command (⌘) key to "Change Brush Size." This is way faster to do large brush size changes than the default larger/smaller brush size keyboard shortcut (square bracket keys) [ ].

The Modifier Key Settings for my Pen Tools. Highlighted in red is "Cmmd: Change Brush Size"

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

This setup is going to be so much fun with Microsoft's huge push for people to talk to their computers. 😖

Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

More on Elgato's Virtual Stream Deck:

Virtual Stream Deck: What it is and how to use it

Virtual Stream Deck brings helpful tools onto your screen, always in reach while you work or play. Streamline tasks and control apps and hardware using your mouse or even a touchscreen.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

You can use a hotkey to show/hide the virtual Stream Deck, but two clicks to do something is kinda pointless.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

Elgato's new update can add a virtual Stream Deck to your screen:

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

In a new first.... I used Affinity Designer 2 to flat part of a panel. Tons of KO concentric circles on an angle in front of an explosion. So much easier and faster to make ellipsis to match the circles, dupe, adjust, and cut from front to fill the circular KO lines.

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Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 3d

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.

OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 3d

How long before he kicks the executives out of the party? ⏳

Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 3d

B.C. Conservative leader Rustad says he won't quit, despite executives' demand letter

VICTORIA — British Columbia Conservative leader John Rustad says he will not resign after the party's president and other members of its management committee told him to quit over "chaos" in the official Opposition ranks.

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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 3d

Almost bought an audiobook... until I saw it has fourteen narrators. That's way too much work for these deaf ears to try and understand and recognize 14 different people.

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