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Sean Macabre

@macslain.bsky.social

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He/him || nerd person, ambient noise girlfriend, photography, glitch art, and mechs

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Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 14h

"Wouldn't it be awesome to offload the fun part of the job?"
Like, come on

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 15h

MCP: Pathologic 2 tomorrow

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 1d

I legitimately think the marketing team for this went "you know, the early 2000's is super in right now, what if we did that sort of in-your-face design!"
and, maybe, if this wasn't a fucking industry conference that is going through some extremely stressful times and the US hadn't gone full nazi

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 1d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 1d

The last two years have been the in-thing of shoegaze and nu metal:
Julie: youtu.be/7P42-zrcGSY

Chat Pile: youtu.be/h8YoyzosPDw

Güche: youtu.be/ZruN4GeeU4U

Yeule's more aggressive tracks: youtu.be/-AoIWKYXlBE

and that Deafheaven album this year: youtu.be/CH3PmHeJpQ4

julie - feminine adornments

YouTube video by julie

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 1d

28 Days Later Than The Delivery Estimate

Nick Kornek @kornek.zone · 1d

Let the Right One Into the Zoom

Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

The Amityville Honorarium

Reposted by Sean Macabre

Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 2d

A picture of Brian and Hell Hound that says "undiagnosed but everyone's pretty sure"

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

Five Star Images

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

I mean Media Club plus**

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

I think Side Story has, since, avoided embedded images by hosting the images in a post on the Patreon and just linking to that post

Probably better than pulling hair out over Libsyn layouts!

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

Oh i think you're onto something! This is S1E10 of media club plus and its embedded images don't break the layout on mobile.

screenshot of media club plus podcast website. an image of Killua Zoldyck looking like a cat lines up with the below text:

As always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we're watching 2011's Hunter x Hunter, based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togashi. In this episode we cover episodes 30-33, titled Fierce x and x Ferocious, Destiny x and x Tenacity!, A x Surprising x Win, and An x Empty x Threat. Next episode we will cover episodes 34-36, titled Power x To x Avenge!, The x True x Pass, and A Big Debt x And x A Small Kick!.

Featuring Keith Carberry (@KeithJCarberry), Jack de Quidt (@jdq) Sylvi Bullet (@SYLVIBULLET), and Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000)

Produced by Keith Carberry

Music by Jack de Quidt (available at notquitereal.bandcamp.com)

Cover Art by by Annie Johnston-Glick (@dancynrew) anniejg.com

This episode was made with support from listeners like you! To support us, you can go to http://friendsatthetable.cash

To find transcripts of the episodes, go to TranscriptsattheTable.com

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

Appreciate it! hopefully you all have some sort of option on this. Worst case, mobile is just sort of hosed without resized images

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

Can confirm it also continues to do this if I request the desktop site while on mobile. Some CSS stuff looks like its tied to window size in a Bad Way

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe this is the idea. I usually don't post much here about activism except the odd repost usually to focus on more joyous things

.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

think i’ll create a new bsky account for political posts…

i try hard not to dampen the vibe here too much, but i have a lot to share and a lot to say

people deserve safe spaces to commune without anxiety triggers. i also don’t want to self-censor.

Reposted by Sean Macabre

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 4d

They have been treating anyone they've detained on response to the genocide like this for at least half a year, and for Palestinians for decades. These images are from a friend I've known for years before they lived in Israel and this is the treatment she and her partner got for just graffiti 1/2

an instagram screenshot by user Mellamort of a spraypainted wall saying "FCK IDF" and overlayed text: "My name is Kate, I am a political activist and an artist. Six months ago my partner and I were illegally arrested by the Israeli police for pro-Palestinian graffiti such as 'Free Palestine' and 'FCK IDF'"

The post description says: "It has been half of the year since my arrest and only now I feel safe to olenly share this story
ACAB"

"In the morning the police broke i to our apartment without and arrest warrant.

We were willing to go with them to the police station right there on the stairwell, even though they refused to show an arrest warrant.
That arrangement didn't suit them -- they used physical force, wrestled the keys from our hands, and broke into our apartment. Without a search warrant they began to violently scour through the apartment, taking some personal items, later they refused to call it a search."

At the police station they shouted at me and exerted psychological pressure on me.
A group of officers, both men and women, mocked my appearance, including my genitals.
All the documents I was asked to sign were in Hebrew, although I do not speak that language - something I repeatedly told the police. I asked for documents either in my native language lr in English.
After four days in custody, several interrogations and four court hearings I did not see a single document in either of those languages.

During the second search at home the secret police eagerly wanted to find anything resembling "extremist" materials like literature in Arabic, especially of a left-leaning kind.

They also staged a group photo session in front of a communist flag. They tried to use plastic grenades, plastic weapon replicas, a gun-shaped lighter, and a non-working airsoft toy as "evidence". The chief officer said "Take anything that could stick."

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 3d

The Wandroid series are a bunch of Wizardry-likes in the extremely classic sense, and made by I think 1 dude

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 3d

You do the good work, Derek, and it seems like they took note! Its also great PR for Playtonic

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 4d

2/2

Later they threatened my partner and me with charges of illegal weapons manufacturing and dealing, they were obsessed with finding our non-existent connection to Iran.
At all four of my hearings the prosecutor repeatedly implied that I intended to commit a terrorist act because of my "radical-left" views.

At the police station and in prison I was forced to strip naked several times. They mockingly shouted "free Palestine" in my face and photographed me in front of an Israeli flag.

In prison my requests for menstrual supplies were ignored several times after my period began; only after my cellmate asked on my behalf, I was able to get pads.

I consider myself lucky compared to my partner.
In his cell, designed for four people there were six people at once; some slept on the floor, the mattresses were infested with bed bugs.

In addition, the prison they forced him to strip naked, put handcuffs on him, threw him into an empty cell and began to beat him. They then brought a mop into the cell and threatened to rape him with it if he resisted the beatings.
When beating my partner they shouted, "So do you like those Palestinian animals?"

The case of my partner and me are one of many examples of what happens to people who speak out and act against the illegal occupation of palestinian lands, the genocide in Gaza, apartheid and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians across all occupied Palestine.

This is what Palestinians face every day for more than 70 years.

NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE. FREE PALESTINE!

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 4d

They have been treating anyone they've detained on response to the genocide like this for at least half a year, and for Palestinians for decades. These images are from a friend I've known for years before they lived in Israel and this is the treatment she and her partner got for just graffiti 1/2

an instagram screenshot by user Mellamort of a spraypainted wall saying "FCK IDF" and overlayed text: "My name is Kate, I am a political activist and an artist. Six months ago my partner and I were illegally arrested by the Israeli police for pro-Palestinian graffiti such as 'Free Palestine' and 'FCK IDF'"

The post description says: "It has been half of the year since my arrest and only now I feel safe to olenly share this story
ACAB"

"In the morning the police broke i to our apartment without and arrest warrant.

We were willing to go with them to the police station right there on the stairwell, even though they refused to show an arrest warrant.
That arrangement didn't suit them -- they used physical force, wrestled the keys from our hands, and broke into our apartment. Without a search warrant they began to violently scour through the apartment, taking some personal items, later they refused to call it a search."

At the police station they shouted at me and exerted psychological pressure on me.
A group of officers, both men and women, mocked my appearance, including my genitals.
All the documents I was asked to sign were in Hebrew, although I do not speak that language - something I repeatedly told the police. I asked for documents either in my native language lr in English.
After four days in custody, several interrogations and four court hearings I did not see a single document in either of those languages.

During the second search at home the secret police eagerly wanted to find anything resembling "extremist" materials like literature in Arabic, especially of a left-leaning kind.

They also staged a group photo session in front of a communist flag. They tried to use plastic grenades, plastic weapon replicas, a gun-shaped lighter, and a non-working airsoft toy as "evidence". The chief officer said "Take anything that could stick."

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 5d

If you see this, QTP with your top 4 Final Fantasy games 🎮

final fantasy 9 vivi face down on the ground

Final Fantasy Tactics with the text "Hey, Doned! You finish 'Final Fantasy' yet?"

Final fantasy 12. An amalgamation of tiles and icons, with a small picture of a face and the words "Penelo White Mage" in the top Left

A screenshot of Final Fantasy Adventure 2

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 5d

God, I will return to both FF11 and Dungeon Encounters

Reposted by Sean Macabre

The Ingenious Ham of La Hamcha @hamirapingpong.bsky.social · 6d

me: wow, truly nothing actually matters. why bother?

japanese bunny account: mimi-chan is very fat and slept all day. let's do our best, mikata!

me, tearing up: let's do our best, mimi-chan.

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 5d

As with many things these days I have no idea where this goes, but there's a part of me that the eventual jokerfying of the swifties will lead to the burning of the whitehouse

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 5d

are swifties okay

patreegs on instagram says

You need to listen to it once completely through while driving a car alone. Then you have to
listen to it indoors lying down. THEN you pick a few and listen to them WHILE you read the lyrics on your computer. You WILL find that you misheard some of the lyrics. DONT panic. Its COMPLETELY normal and healthy. DONT think about taylors life yet and DONT try to make sense of the lyrics and DONT panic if you dont like some of the songs at first bc your brain will LEARN to like them (evolutionary mechanism).
THEN, continue listening on loop as needed but have 2-3 that you sometimes just listen to on repeat. THEN re-emerge into the world and connect with others about their response to the text. THEN apply practically to your life. THEN examine how they fit into taylors. At this point you can start to lightly engage in online discourse if that feels healthy and safe.

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 6d

These are questions that if you cannot own, or, again, avoid responsibility by saying that you just engineered the protocol then you are not fit for leadership, full stop. At that point you are a 15 year old telling the teacher your dog ate your homework.

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 6d

At one point I would have paid. But the actions and words like this by you and your teams have proven you take no responsibility in what you have built and are maintaining. Why did you push for users with the twitter exodus? Why did you scale up? Why beg investment when no one wants your platform?

Sean Macabre @macslain.bsky.social · 6d

sledding game is the real skate 4