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garrett miller
@garrett.bsky.social
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boy from maryland, making art, games, apps and creative ephemera, big-time dad, in carrboro nc

starfriends is on kickstarter now!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brainfruitstudio/starfriends-card-game

co-founder, @brainfruit.bsky.social
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our starfriends celebration starts in two hours!

join the discord: starfriends.online/stream

music, drawing, beautiful starfriends action, counting down to the end of our kickstarter ✨
hodge podge of starfriends ephemera for tonight -- live buchla playing, starfriends drawing, and a starfriends tournament
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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the friends have landed!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
our first printed proof of the printed starfriends game, photographed against a pleasant neon orange. this was actually a very haphazard photo taken with my iPhone while I propped the paper up with my other hand, but you wouldn’t know it because that’s cinema magic baby close up of the texture of the game cards. oh what’s that it says “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” and “game” on the cards?? wow if true close up of the box art .. we called this first edition run “starborn”
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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motivational poster
sharpie doodle on a blank playing card of a cartoon star grimacing into blur lines, the words “you are a shooting star” surrounding it
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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yeah.. I used some cheapo light-weight wood namecard holders for character placards in our installed game, but I would have preferred a heftier solution - they worked for our case at the time though, as they were static
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I've tried similar types of things and the vertical leverage of the card unfortunately makes it really easy to topple over. you could maybe do something like this by weighting it on the bottom with embedded lead disc? or entirely metal..
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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we're four decks away from hitting 5k in our kickstarter! we would love your help getting there today

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
two starfriends talking in front of a kickstarter dashboard screenshot. Bernacle on the left is saying "almost at $5k! what will you do with your cut?" and Discount on the right is replying "probably buy more starfriends decks"
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I've never actually used tiktok but I am learning the language of its people

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October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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skafriends, three friends in tropey ska checkerboard hats
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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"starenemies" -- three angry ENEMIES staring back, prominently displaying EVIL facial hair
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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we're going live with starfriends on kickstarter tomorrow! there's no better time to get in the ground floor of the starfriends cinematic universe!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
three little starfriends, the first says "see you later!", the second says "if you buy a deck, that is", and the third says "totally no pressure!"
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I had to draw him
doodle of a man looking perplexed, drawn with brush pen on an envelope
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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wow everyone loves cum park plaza
Five star review: “Just moved to Burlington, was driving around to get to know the area and saw this absolute gem! I was literally screaming with joy in my car. Beautiful place and perfect for a family gathering or simply to bring the little ones grocery shopping. I'll be cumming every day... Maybe even twice a day.” Another five star review: “Great place to take someone for a first date, l took my sweetie here and after fifteen minutes we've been together 15 years, come back for the anniversary and park just like we used to. Bring a change of pants.” Another five stars! “I've been cumming here a lot! I really like this plaza, the parking is really convenient and big so I can cum and go as I please. Only down side, is during the rush hour when everyone cums at the same time, makes it hard to pull out of the parking lot “ A person falling to their knees in front of cum park plaza sign. “Among the best experiences of my life. I'd rate six stars if I could.”
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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excuse me the what park plaza
a shopping center in North Carolina with the name “cum park plaza” and it’s important for screen readers to note the spelling is “cum” like what are we doing here people has anyone been online in 20 years here or what
October 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I find it incredibly funny that Apple gave the watergate hotel its “distinguished building” treatment
a 3d view of the Kennedy center and watergate hotel in Apple Maps app. Both are rendered in a pseudo photorealistic illustrative way, standing out from neighboring flat-colored 3d buildings.
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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this really boils it down nicely.

"Jimmy Kimmel would have had to piss off 20 owners to end up with a suspension before, now, it's one"
Reddit comment by user kylehatesyou. Nexstar's CEO is a right wing goon that gives a platform to the shittiest people you remember like Bill O'Reilly and Chris Cuomo on their Newsnation cable news network. They have a clear bias and will be looking for any reason to express it and silence voices in this moment of chaos. This isn't really about Jimmy Kimmel. We have been failed by our government for decades. The institution that failed us this time was the FCC. Under Reagan and Clinton (and likely now Trump who, Sook, the CEO of Nexstar, hopes will allow him to own even more stations) which removed limits on how many stations an individual entity could own means that Nexstar and their 197 stations nationwide (more than 20 times the amount of over the air (OTA) stations you could own before ownership limits were weakened/ repealed) have a lot more power than they would have 30 to 40 years ago. Jimmy Kimmel would have had to piss off 20 owners to end up with a suspension before, now, it's one. There is still a limit on the number of OTA stations you can own, but it basically leaves room for three major players to control the narrative. Sook is hoping that the current limit that you can only own stations that reach less than 40% of the country, will be repealed completely by Trump, so he can work towards a media monopoly, and end up with even less diversity of thought allowed on our televisions. When you ask yourself why things don't seem to be as good as they used to be, or why the institutions are failing, how we can end up with someone like Trump leading the country, well there you go. That rule just applies to OTA broadcast media, now multiply it across every corporate sector, and the weakened regulations, the failure to enforce antitrust laws through the rubber stamp of every merger and acquisition, the only big laws getting passed giving tax breaks or handouts to already giant corporations so they can acquire more and more while killing good paying jobs through consolidation and offshoring and you see the reason everything fucking sucks. It's not just Kimmel they'll come after. They want to own everything, and they got their guy in office that will let them do that and are doing everything they can to keep that power.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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lol same
September 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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you must love all of your children equally
its a little blender, full of smoothie, dancing a human brain, also dancing! a cartoon apple and wouldn't you know it, he's got some boogie in him
August 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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pretty epic fight playing out on the window sill tonight
a toy plastic dinosaur and a sumo cat silhouetted by a setting sun and a dusty window
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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kid got smote outside the preschool
pavement with two child-sized shoe soles silhouetted by a splash of water, not actual smiting of course of course
July 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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they say its a gross reservoir but I personally think it's pretty great that it holds all that water for all those people
map of mountains and a lake labeled "Gross Reservoir", which I'm sure is some dead guy but leave a better name buddy!!
July 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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made some dudes today
a little bluish grey gargoyle, standing proudly with hands on hips and a kind of "I can do this" facial expression a handsome, disheveled man wearing a dark red suit, a smirk, and a tie that looks ... is that a snake?
July 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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as humans it was our evolutional imperative to investigate Big Metal Thing
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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"ominous"
photos from my camera roll

montana, 2005
california, 2018
maryland, 2018
washington dc, 2016
dark, deep blue night sky with grayish storm cloud centered in vignette two friends walking along the northern california coast in heavy fog, a stray ship machine part washed ashore nearby, blanketed in white a country road illuminated by car headlights at night, driving under stormy blue skies the washington monument, as seen from across the grass of the mall, under a tall, deeply foreboding storm cloud
July 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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having a library that we can walk to now is so so good, and what towns should be!! we visited this weekend and I immediately lost my son to The Egg
my kid reading a book on a bench thats nestled into an egg-shaped carve out. he's laying on his belly and has his little boots up in the air, chin resting on his hands
June 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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as good as it gets
my toddler son riding a toy truck along a bike path through the woods
June 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM