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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 15h

I'd like to get another $220 today! Should be easy!

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 15h

I have not been pushing this as hard the past few days because I am actively moving house! Please back our campaign!

hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

Good afternoon! We're at 12% funded and looking to raise another $230 before the end of the day!!

www.indiegogo.com/projects/aft...

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 17h

they did not need to go so hard on casper (1995)

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Gyrfalcon (jeer-falcon) @gyrfalcon05.bsky.social · 4d

for today:

Since the world has existed there has been injustice. But it is one world, the moreso as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is no question that there is a moral obligation, for those who have to give to those who have nothing.

Audrey Hepburn

Gyrfalcon (jeer-falcon) @gyrfalcon05.bsky.social · Aug 22

for today:

When you forget that things had to be built, you risk inheriting them without gratitude. And if you do that, it's easy for someone to convince you that those things weren't all that important in the first place, which means you lose them.

Any Austin in his video on GTA5 street signs

Gyrfalcon (jeer-falcon) @gyrfalcon05.bsky.social · Aug 14

for today:

There are situations where what matters most is not who is right or wrong, but who is willing and able to help.

Adam Ragusea "Why starving kids need special food"

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Gyrfalcon (jeer-falcon) @gyrfalcon05.bsky.social · 4d

turns out before she was an actress, Audrey Hepburn was just a kid dancing ballet to help fund the Dutch resistance in WWII, and afterward she did advocacy work for UNICEF. learned all that and more from this wonderful video by @hoots.bsky.social: youtu.be/asiJcuNtIJ8

I Ate Like Audrey Hepburn.

YouTube video by Hoots Hootman

youtu.be

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 5d

do u have cortisol face or the natural effects of aging

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 5d

sir you are not contributing to said "masculine energy" in any way

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 5d

that revenge of the nerds, think geek era in the early 2000s feels so charming now on comparison to the corny macho posturing that dorky men are doing now like what do you mean mark zuckerberg wants to bring "masculine energy" to silicon valley

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 6d

that bad empanada guy tweets like he's anna khachiyan For Men™

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 6d

But not ancillary positions lol

hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 6d

Just did. No refund yet... 🤞

hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 6d

I'm afraid I'm in my flop era.

youtu.be/asiJcuNtIJ8

I Ate Like Audrey Hepburn.

YouTube video by Hoots Hootman

youtu.be

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 6d

Got ahold of someone via phone and they were like "yeah the charges will eventually be dropped off and you still have 8 days left in the grace period to renew 🤷‍♀️" but i need to pay rent???

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 6d

I just tried to renew my P.O. box and it charged me multiple times, wiping my account, and also didn't renew my P.O. box. Also no online agents are available to correct the error and refund my money because there's a government shut down.

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Daniel Pirone (He/Him) @dpirone.bsky.social · 6d

The recent @hoots.bsky.social and @caelan.bsky.social Respect the Dead on him is a treat. I think Rowdy Rodney Piper ( staring in They Live ) was more my kind of WWF wrestler…

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

the potatoes you put in the pantry three weeks ago looking up at you when you're reaching for the dog food

laura ingraham and two potato faced men looking like shrivled potatoes

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

The prompts are exactly what I'm referring to in my tweets. I'm critiquing how society commodifies female bodies while disregarding female minds, labor, and art.

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

The fundraiser for @unicef.org on my latest video is at over $1.8k!

youtu.be/asiJcuNtIJ8

Screenshot of latest video featuring an image of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, in the upper righthand corner, the UNICEF (USA) fundraiser is currently at $1852.00.

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

You'll see similar trends in animation re: the way female characters are animated vs male animated characters. But in regards to how generative AI is different from animation, it's because the model isn't being constructed and guided by a person, rather its hallucinated by a machine.

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Ella "RATTLE ME BONES" M 💀 @ecmsquared.bsky.social · 7d

Another wonderful essay by @hoots.bsky.social that ended in me getting eyewatery. Her food videos are complex and multilayered while also being suffused with the joy of cooking - I need to make myself something nice (and drop a donation to UNICEF).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=asiJ...

I Ate Like Audrey.

YouTube video by Hoots Hootman

www.youtube.com

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

Good afternoon! We're at 12% funded and looking to raise another $230 before the end of the day!!

www.indiegogo.com/projects/aft...

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 7d

That is also a product of decades of commodification of womens bodies.

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 8d

So, it actually doesn't matter much that the AI is vacant and devoid of life experience. That's by design. When the gimmick of Tilly Norwood dies down, they'll generate another sexy lady to occupy space on a screen.

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 8d

Actresses are not respected for their ability to transform or bring a text to life. They are not rewarded for the extremes that their male peers are rewarded for going to. Their key job is to be consumable and sexually appealing.

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 8d

The least surprising thing to me is that the first AI actor is a woman. When we imagined an AI actor we all imagined she'd be pretty, young, & white, right? This is what you get when you follow the commodification of actresses to its logical conclusion

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA: Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion’

SAG-AFTRA issued a statement on the AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood, saying she is not a real performer and can never be.

variety.com

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