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TheSpookySpaceman 🪐

@thehappyspaceman.bsky.social

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I'm a musician (Dark Matter/The Falsies) who sometimes makes videos and art. JMU Class of '22. (He/him, metalhead) Buy my newest single here: https://darkmattercville.bandcamp.com/track/piss-on-a-tesla

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TheSpookySpaceman 🪐 @thehappyspaceman.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for an amazing night, Superfly Brewing Co.! For everyone who missed the show, here's an excerpt of our performance of "Naughty Jane Austen." #music #livemusic #rock #punk

NAUGHTY JANE AUSTEN #rock #music #livemusic

YouTube video by The Falsies

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TheSpookySpaceman 🪐 @thehappyspaceman.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sorry for your loss. Always a sad thing when it happens. Cherish the time you had with her.

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Kvacm Art | Michal Kváč @kvacm.bsky.social · 20h

🧡🎃QRP your Pumpkin Art!🎃🧡

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Kvacm Art | Michal Kváč @kvacm.bsky.social · 20h

Shadow Mountains (2018)
#fantasy #landscape #vista #mountains #majestic #wonder #art #painting
Get it with many others in Wallpaper Mega-pack 2018!
kvacm.artstation.com/store

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Roku Draws @feralroku.bsky.social · 20h

'Don't care if what they're looking at is AI'

Nah, we've been pretty vocal about how we don't like the idea of Generative AI in our entertainment. But let's see if that statement will still hold within a year or so, Mr. Blum.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Out of Touch Thursdays Deluxe!! @ootthursday1.bsky.social · 16h

KaguraThurschi!

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stingo @stingou.bsky.social · 15h

Day 7: Wither

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13h

🧵Netscape Navigator brought the web to millions. 🌐 It was the first browser to achieve mass-market adoption & introduced bookmarks, cookies, & JavaScript.

See its website on the #WaybackMachine. 1 in a Trillion pages saved ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19961101...

#Wayback1T

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "NETSCAPE.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Netscape website from October 20, 1996, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Aug 28

TV tropes is an incredible triumph. It catalogued and organized the massive writers' toolbox and now everyone gets mad when the tools get used.

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · Aug 27

tv tropes taught a whole generation of readers to mistake basic pattern recognition for gotcha criticism and a whole generation of writers to feel insecure every time they came up with an idea that happened to be in conversation with other ideas

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The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.social · 1d

I followed him on Twitter for a while before I moved to Bluesky, so I always knew that Phil Vischer was a chill guy.

One of the sadder stories I learned was that Eric Metaxes, who co-wrote the scripts of some episodes, cut ties with Vischer in 2021 after political differences between him -

TheSpookySpaceman 🪐 @thehappyspaceman.bsky.social · 2d

I had no idea the creator of VeggieTales was a chill guy. Most people I know of who make explicitly Christian media tend to be crazies.

Also, this series of tweets really highlights just how wild the Book of Revelation is. There's a reason Aphrodite's Child's 666 turned out the way it did.

Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 5d

A message from Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales.

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The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.social · 1d

- him (a VERY vocal Trump supporter) and Vischer (a vocal critic of Trump), which resulted not only Phil, but also any family members blocked from his Twitter. Phil felt upset about it after being good friends with him since 1999.

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TheSpookySpaceman 🪐 @thehappyspaceman.bsky.social · 1d

Granted, I haven't seen much from him outside of the show, so maybe if I had I wouldn't be surprised. But that's still good to hear. And heck yeah, always happy to plug that underrated, strange, weird, brilliant album.

TheSpookySpaceman 🪐 @thehappyspaceman.bsky.social · 1d

So I just finished Lower Decks and I got oddly choked up. Everything I could have wanted in a series finale. 🥹

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 3d

Earth at night viewed from space.

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dilith 🎃 @flurrys.nekoweb.org · 2d

what scares me the most is that the internet is super Corporate now. social media and mobile has pretty much ruined the "wild west" vibe of the internet. even as someone who experienced it i was like a toddler so i cant say much lol

iProgramInCpp @iprogramincpp.com · 2d

AI will probably be the death of imagination. Like little kids won't be imagining what they want to see now, instead they'll make a video of it with AI...

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WTJU @wtjuradio.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for WTJU Vinyl Takeover at Potter’s Craft Cider on Sun, Oct 12, 1-6pm. DJ Schedule: 1pm DJ B Note (Midnight Confession, Tues); 2pm Uncle Dave Lewis (Early Music Show, Sun); 3pm Baconfat (Fantastic Expedition, Fri); 4pm DJ Malpaso (Limerence Addiction, Wed); 5pm Ranger (Monday Meltdowns, Mon)

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

Hampsterdance started as a friendly bet between Canadian artist Deidre LaCarte and her sister. She made a page of animated hamsters set to a chipmunked loop of Whistle Stop from Disney’s Robin Hood (1973). Within months, it took over inboxes & office desktops.

Today, it's gone from the live web.

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "HAMPSTERDANCE.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Hampsterdance website from April 23, 1999, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

This week, join Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle for a conversation on the past, present & future of the Web.

📅 Thurs Oct 9, 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ In-person
➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.

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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 3d

Alena #Lackadaisy

Cropped digital sketch of Viktor from the Lackadaisy series holding his daughter as a baby

Digital sketch of Alena, Viktor's daughter from the Lackadaisy series

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 3d

Look at what we could have. look at what our tax dollars could pay for. Instead we’re paying to have ICE pepper spray directly into the air hole of a guy in an inflatable frog costume

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jim Bevan @jimbevan85.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been upsetting to see over the last two years people I considered friends, in some cases people I looked up to and admired, readily embracing either anti-Semitism or Islamophobia.

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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 7d

AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Happy 76th Birthday to Sigourney Weaver 🎂

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Phanecito @phanecito.bsky.social · 1d

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#Lackadaisy #LackadaisyCats #Fanart

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