Bill Ratel
@billyratz.bsky.social
30-something graphic designer, photog, part-time musician, and cat dad.
horrid news, fuck landlords
Music Hall Of Williamsburg, a key Brooklyn venue over the last two decades, is closing
Brooklyn's Music Hall Of Williamsburg Is Closing
The Music Hall Of Williamsburg is an important Brooklyn music venue that’s been open for decades, and it’s been a staple for any New York music fans this century, but its days are numbered. The venue’...
stereogum.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
horrid news, fuck landlords
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Twitter doesn’t exist it’s a billion ai powered chatbots in a suit
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Twitter doesn’t exist it’s a billion ai powered chatbots in a suit
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chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes
RIP to the Click King. rest easy
RIP Larry Brooks. We had a lot of fun with his Rangers articles over the years but he cared deeply and personally about the Islanders dynasty after covering those players. Also the firsr PR director for the Devils. A true New York legend. I’ll miss his work. nypost.com/2025/11/13/s...
RIP Brooksie: Larry Brooks, Post legend and Hall of Fame hockey writer, dead at 75
RIP Brooksie: Larry Brooks, Post legend and Hall of Fame hockey writer, dead at 75
nypost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
RIP to the Click King. rest easy
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
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Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
September 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
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Me: (looking up at the stars) Ancestors, I need your wisdom
Elvis: 🎶 Whoa little mama, I love the way you shuffle n' shake, uh-huh 🎶
Darth Vader: You need to move to a well-ventilated area, there's a gas leak here
A Cow: moooooooo
Me: hang on, I'm not related to Elvis
Elvis: 🎶 Whoa little mama, I love the way you shuffle n' shake, uh-huh 🎶
Darth Vader: You need to move to a well-ventilated area, there's a gas leak here
A Cow: moooooooo
Me: hang on, I'm not related to Elvis
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Me: (looking up at the stars) Ancestors, I need your wisdom
Elvis: 🎶 Whoa little mama, I love the way you shuffle n' shake, uh-huh 🎶
Darth Vader: You need to move to a well-ventilated area, there's a gas leak here
A Cow: moooooooo
Me: hang on, I'm not related to Elvis
Elvis: 🎶 Whoa little mama, I love the way you shuffle n' shake, uh-huh 🎶
Darth Vader: You need to move to a well-ventilated area, there's a gas leak here
A Cow: moooooooo
Me: hang on, I'm not related to Elvis
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I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.
August 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.
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Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
August 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
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immediate share
"AI can generate a larger volume of creative ideas than any human, but those ideas are too much alike, according to research newly published in Nature Human Behaviour."
via @meganmorrone.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/06/18/a...
via @meganmorrone.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/06/18/a...
AI makes us all think alike
Wharton researchers say ChatGPT reduces the diversity of ideas when brainstorming.
www.axios.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
immediate share
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she’s looking into a new dimension 🌀
June 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
she’s looking into a new dimension 🌀
file this under things we dont need
May 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
file this under things we dont need
thanks i hate it
According Dexterto, this is a test of Google's new "Veo 3" AI they are experimenting with. EVERYTHING you see here is AI generated. 😐
God get me out of this timeline.
God get me out of this timeline.
May 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
thanks i hate it
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me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
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Movie posters have long been a lost art, jumbled photoshop faces designed mainly to show you who is in the movie with often minimal effort put it.
Drew Struzan is a legend.
Drew Struzan is a legend.
March 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Movie posters have long been a lost art, jumbled photoshop faces designed mainly to show you who is in the movie with often minimal effort put it.
Drew Struzan is a legend.
Drew Struzan is a legend.
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there's a big hollywood prop auction going on now with keaton's batsuit, luke skywalker's medal, a ghostbusters trap, etc, but all i can think about is this haunting donatello
propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...
propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...
March 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
there's a big hollywood prop auction going on now with keaton's batsuit, luke skywalker's medal, a ghostbusters trap, etc, but all i can think about is this haunting donatello
propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...
propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...
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He deserves every bit of it but I don’t know how Drake can watch anything on tv at any time and not be worried about this. He turns on Bluey and the dad is like “you know who I’d never let babysit you?”
“We’re halfway through the show, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile”
— Conan O'Brien at the #Oscars
— Conan O'Brien at the #Oscars
March 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
He deserves every bit of it but I don’t know how Drake can watch anything on tv at any time and not be worried about this. He turns on Bluey and the dad is like “you know who I’d never let babysit you?”
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New neighborhood means new views on morning walks, and new views means new photos. So here ya go
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
New neighborhood means new views on morning walks, and new views means new photos. So here ya go
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