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Xander O’Connor

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I’m a writer and SAG actor of no repute but my wife and toddler like me so that’s nice. I think you’re pretty neat too, friendo! acting bio/clips/representation: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/866894-2403462 I do swear and such so caveat emptor lol.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 7d

part 2 of this silliness (ie, the second and final 2 mins of this).

need it be said: works better if you watch part 1 first (embedded herein)

www.youtube.com/shorts/O9HFb...

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 3h

can you imagine someone saying "i really liked _____" and you knowing that you didn't even write that part? (whether or not you confessed)

ugh.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 5h

The Mailbox That Spits Bones At People

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 5h

the way Atsu’s getting paid, they should call her Mon Mothma.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 8h

i look forward to nifty lil videos!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 8h

maybe she's doing the thing where you send out different versions with different terrible punctuation choices to find a leak!

of course...one could do that with a less terribly written missive.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 9h

tired: colonoscopy

wired: poop shoot

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 20h

yeah.

but if I’m gonna do a one on one call with someone I actually care about? I think the edge goes to FaceTime.

And then, in that narrow context, I think artificial eye contact to compensate for the discrepancy between screen and camera? Also good!

Otherwise lol yeah should be a text etc

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 21h

lol A-EYE contact

nailed it…10 hours later

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

here's a refreshingly politics-free (and silliness free; apologies) topic:

AI enabled fake eye contact in video calls (either via Nvidia Broadcast, Copilot plus windows studio effects, dunno Apple right now):

I think it's disingenuous to use in a meeting if it is to conceal you doing other stuff

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

oh snap, you mean the thing from Donny Darko?!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

split the difference and photoshop beard.

or maybe just cut both pics in half and do a Two-Face thing (um, vertically split halves, like two-face, lol)

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

must add beard to pfp.

the people demand it.

well, one people anyway.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

that reeks of effort, among other things.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

actually bought the blades as a “yay shoulder surgery” treat and they are a great weight for some of my rehab movements these days!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

centerpiece is coming along nicely with the addition of the blades.

my wife is a very lucky woman!

(although this is how it currently looks, the blades are actually gonna go on a wall somewhere. Mjolnir does live there or center of our kitchen island!)

Wood dining table with a Mjolnir in the center and now two of kratos’s blades of chaos pointing outward from there.

All on coasters to protect the table, of course. I’m not a monster.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Ocean's 11: But It's Binary for 2

also maybe

Ocean's 11 Minus 1

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Bradley Cooper is on board to star alongside Margot Robbie in the 'Ocean's 11' prequel movie 🎥

Filming starts next year

(via Deadline)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

has *anyone* in the press asked *anyone* in the administration about this repeated insane claim that would mean your 10 dollar medication actually will get you hundreds of dollars of profit every time you renew it?

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

love that i wrote this scandalous mess of a joke and drew the line at "tittyfucking" because it seems problematic somehow.

woke and dirty, that's me!

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

i need pics of Alf hog plowing Tom Bombadil's big naturals to get off so unfortunately i'm stuck here.

well, fortunately, i guess.

thanks, @faineg.bsky.social !

giant half face salute emoji aka the one good emoji

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

i think we just call History 2 "the present"

obviously "the future" rounds out the trilogy.

hang on sorry that's "the present: rebirth" and "the future: requiem" as the official trilogy names until we reboot the first one.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

shouldn't kick in).

otherwise i'm with you on texting being king. but given the importance--and pleasure--of maintaining proper friendships and actually *seeing* them, the hangout video chats have value too.

Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

two closest friends who remain in Chicago once a week ish (uh, not all at once; and there are others i should try to do this with) and in those hangouts i really am just attending to them (while possibly doing laundry or dishes or something but if i'm fully looking away like that, the eye thing

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, that's what i meant about not liking it for meetings etc where i actually either want the other people to know i'm looking at something else and/or don't like deceit so don't want to conceal that i'm doing so (if i'm, say, bored in a longer thing).

i try to video chat with my parents and my

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

curious on, say, @proptermalone.bsky.social 's take on this, ditto @moskov.goodventures.org and of course anyone else who sees this or their potential replies.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

lol seeing this post again makes me think that Chumbawumba was clearly on to something

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

it works as advertised (and it seems to from my limited experimenting).

No real deceit involved! I'm actually staring at the other person's eyes IRL and this "just" compensates for camera position! Haven't been on the receiving end so that'll further inform my interest in it.

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