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Ryan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 3h

And now it looks like they're using Generative AI to create portraits of the brewers and their staff.

From an email I was sent, featuring a GenAI portrait.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 3h

Shark Tank except they throw the investors into a tank with sharks. 🤣🤣🤣 Follow me for more trenchant observational humor.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 4h

Everyone is (rightly) roasting this, but I think it's truly sad how little this techbro wants to engage with others through art. How empty is their life? Are they not interested in other people's accomplishments, hopes, fears? (No, because you can't IPO on those.)

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 4h

I woke up to this. Five stars.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 19h

This is exactly why I will never use one of those FAST platforms you people love.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 19h

Why are we even talking about the Atlanta Hawks if we're not talking about Spud Webb? Come on, Congress.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 21h

It is here and it looks better in person.

Joe Quinones's basketball-themed pinup of Wolverine and Jubilee. It's gotta be the shoes, right?

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 23h

I'm sure she's fine; she has a lot of fans, but I have no idea why Taylor Swift is spending so much to get me to buy her album on TikTok. There is nothing in my profile to indicate that I am a fan or even someone who might have a passing interest.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 29/09/2026

Bought a new, inexpensive Casio watch on a whim and I have no idea if the face is as small as I think it is or if I'm just so used to how large we've let watch faces become.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 29/09/2026

My mother just called to complain about how Gemini took over her phone and how much it sucks and I'm like lady am i fucking Felix Alphabet over here, making decisions about your phone?

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 29/09/2026

Just saw some footage of him talking about how it's only because of tariffs and how tariffs are profit that Republicans can offer $5,000 to every American this year.

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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

abc you got me all wrong

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

Love the Sam Hadley art on the case for THE LAST BOY SCOUT; wish they'd gone with that for the slip sleeve.

Arrow Video's release of THE LAST BOY SCOUT

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

When the intro of an article is basically a dude's resume.

Technical audits, title tags, link building, and indexing can all go sideways when AI applies SEO best practices without enough context.

Depending on who you listen to, AI is either the end of SEO or its savior. Having done SEO professionally since I was on the team that built Walgreens.com in 2000, I think both are hyperbole.

The truth is that AI can help SEOs do things we’ve never been able to do before — and do them quickly — while also completely derailing our SEO if it’s left unattended. I have many examples of both. But first, I want to focus on 10 times Claude went off the rails and I had to catch it before it could make things worse.

For context, I’ve been using AI professionally since ChatGPT came out, including in my work as a senior SEO at Intuit QuickBooks.

This year, I’ve been digging deeper into how Claude handles SEO, using it for a 41-site audit and guide for the Chicago Independent Venue League (CIVL), and while vibe coding my own AI stylist app, Dressed. Since I can’t share client examples, I’ll use examples from CIVL and Dressed here.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

A+++ for Florence Pugh's delivery.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

Wild that he auditioned three times but never got the role.

Willem Dafoe, standing with his legs spread and his torso down at almost a 90° angle to the floor. His arms are tucked in.

The Klingon Bird of Prey from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and innumerable other pictures.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

Why are people who are smart enough to not be on Twitter getting agitated such obvious engagement bait? Let the dummies post videos about rock glue and refrigerator museum. Keeps them busy.

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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Putting this out there and hoping it has some memetic stickiness. Start calling it SI. Simulated Intelligence. That's all it is. It's trying to appear as such. Can't ever be. It'll also make the technerds really mad.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

Well, dang. We're getting the Final Cut, Director's Cut, and Theatrical Cut with Shout's five-disc release of MIAMI VICE.

Big ol' box for MIAMI VICE: THE DIRECTOR'S FINAL CUT in 4k.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

This is ~really~ good; might have to pick up the Studiocanal blu if Criterion isn't going to replace the OOP DVD with a blu or 4k soon. And god, I love seeing young Michael Gough show up in this era of British film.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 28/09/2026

Tonight's feature presentation.

The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory) is a 1949 film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack. It was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 27/09/2026

What a movie. It's streaming on Criterion right now

Starts off as a fairly faithful adaptation of the excellent Inspector Imanishi Investigates, a procedural crime novel involving the death of an anonymous middle-aged man whose body is found in a train yard. Through the first two-thirds of the film, we follow the investigation as it works its way through fits and starts, complete with seeming dead ends, but once they discover who is responsible for the murder, an entirely new movie kicks in. It's rich, emotional, and very satisfying. An excellent example of taking source material and making something truly cinematic. This demands a high quality boutique release.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 27/09/2026

Wife's at rehearsal. Time to watch some Real Man Cinema.

The Castle of Sand, is a 1974 Japanese police procedural neo-noir film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on the novel Suna no Utsuwa by Seicho Matsumoto.

the castle of sand from en.wikipedia.org

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 27/09/2026

"(A Real Gouge)" may be the single funniest thing I've ever seen.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What Some Folks Mean When They Claim To Have Never Heard Wipeout by The Fat Boys and Beach Boys

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you don’t need to know the pop charts after streaming the same way you don’t need to know the Roman emperors after Constantine

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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 27/09/2026

Five days ahead of its official release, Pet Shop Boys' "A man from the future" will be made available to hear in full during two BBC global radio broadcasts on Sunday, 4th October.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 27/09/2026

Yup, that Whole Bloody Affair cut is a dang hoot.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is a 2004 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It combines the films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), which were conceived and produced as a single film, but split in two. Uma Thurman stars as the Bride, who swears revenge on a group of assassins after they try to kill her and her unborn child.

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Joe Quinones @joequinones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New York Comic Con is coming up! I won’t be tabling this year, but will be at the show and so am taking some pre-commissions ahead of the event. All pieces can be picked up between tables J15-J20 in Artist Alley, just ask for Mark! Please send all inquiries to Mark (splashpageart@gmail.com)

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 26/09/2026

FINALLY took some time to read Amazon's Demurrer against Ijaaz Noohu and I'm pretty sure I was too hasty to condemn Ed Brubaker. I was primed for disappointment by Ellis, Gaiman, etc and I did some Hot Posting. I'm sorry.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 24/09/2026

sure is a nice article you put on substack, the nazi-friendly email platform and blogging service shame you put it on substack, the nazi-friendly email platform and blogging service

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 26/09/2026

"The problem, Left Eye, is that if you say you 'don't want no scrubs,' that means you actually want all the scrubs. That's how double negatives work!" - me, the day I was fired from the TLC songwriting team

TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia. The group's best-known line-up was composed of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. The group enjoyed success during the 1990s,[1] with nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles: "Creep", "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs", and "Unpretty".[2] TLC also recorded four multi-platinum albums, including CrazySexyCool (1994), which received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[3] They became the first R&B group in history to receive the million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for FanMail (1999).[4]

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SpaceX is going to kill imperiled animals & destroy rare habitat in TX’s Rio Grande Valley, some of the very same species & habitats the GOV, env NGOs, & private individuals have invested $$$$, many decades & much sweat restoring & protecting dustyrhoads.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Destroy Texas Horned Lizards

Texas Horned Lizards were in the news at least twice this past week. But you were probably only aware of one instance, if at all.

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 26/09/2026

Oh snap did you know it's curry night?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better.

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