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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 2h

For the 8th day of #Orbachtober, the little painting I made on the 6th day of Orbachtober.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 3h

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Inside Dr. Peter Weller's Home Coffee Bar : CAFE DADDY

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 3h

Peter Weller should be President, so we could have old man rants that are charming and bizarre instead of alarming and bizarre.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 3h

I don't know.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 3h

Peter Weller is very weird.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 6h

High schooler learning to draw with colored pencils.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 11h

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 8h

Enjoying a refreshing The Emperor soda.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 9h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 10h

Completely nuts that she can't see the contradiction in her beliefs.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 10h

Justine Bateman came out as MAGA like the day after the election.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"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 AI 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." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Spooky Ana 🤘👩🏻‍🎨 @anageorge.art · 1d

Every so often I come across this in my camera roll again and I immediately post it

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

Autobot.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon experiencing Turtlemania.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

The pizza place I like to go to after dropping off art to be photographed has a new mural.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

The painting I made on the 6th day is not dry enough to scan. Going to try to make a couple Orbachs tomorrow so I don't run into this problem.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

For the 7th Day of #Orbachtober, here's a very quick blind contour (a blind Orbach, if you will).

Lennie Briscoe, exactly as he appeared on television.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes when you read the list of who liked your post

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

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Jerry Lundegaard @jerry-lundegaard.bsky.social · 1d

sorry to hear about your car

if it's any consolation, this sticker is still holding up nine years later, and I'm just as happy with it now as I was when I stuck it here

A green sticker with three white panels

inside the first panel is a green silhouette of a gas pump, the second panel contains the silhouette of a marijuana leaf and the third panel has a nicely drawn image of Jerry Orbach's face/head.

Below the panels in large white capitalized letters is the caption, "GAS, GRASS or JERRY ORBACH" and below that in slightly smaller font it reads, "NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE"

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

First!

Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

Pictures of ORBACH1 taken from inside the Weinermobile.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 1d

When I got it all cleaned up to meet the weinermobile is when I first noticed a spot where the coat was peeling. Like a zombie bite.

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