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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had to look it up, but it was a moment this soviet cartoon where out of nowhere this creepy clawed hand reached from a tree hollow for the kid. It messed me UP.

Still from ‘The Mystery of the Strawberry Land’ (1973) of a boy and girl in the woods looking off to screen left, as a clawed hand reaches out of a tree hollow behind them for the boy’s compass.

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How Good is Soviet Science? : 1417s

Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 1417 seconds.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DecadeS? That would imply at least 2 decades. Is he older than you by two *complete* decades? IS HE, CD?

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People are saying "Tom Cruise in old man makeup" but that character doesn't read older than 64, Tom's actual age. No I am not jealous as I steadily disintegrate into a wrinkled, spotted sack of failing organs, decades his junior.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How did Prime know I want to see the skippable recap of the episode it just played and auto-continued from?

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For boring reasons my back bumper used to have a tiny, beat-up sticker that just said "film." One time a car followed us for many blocks, all the way home. It was an older guy and he wanted to pitch me his screenplay. We don't live in LA. He didn't know who I am at all. It was just the sticker.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Idk, some folks over there are pretty tall.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You try to color-correct a shot by painting with watercolor on the monitor ONE TIME…

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DaVinci Resolve color grading gurus on YouTube need to stop telling me that I do everything wrong all of the time.

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ford-Sponsored Schindler's List Intermission NBC/WKYC 3 1997-02-23 : 74s

Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 74 seconds.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

- Mr. Smith, did you go to a corn contest in 2024? - I... went to a... KoЯn concert. In the '90s.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I couldn't have mistyped more things in that first post. It's actually 4x4' panels. And obv red spotlight with red gel sounds dumb. WHATEVER, THIS AIN'T MY JOB

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...Switch to a green gel... oh no, you done been transported to a Borg cube!

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

~2'x2' panel for $40, aim a red spotlight w/a Roscolux 26 red gel through it... dawg, you're on a Klingon bridge.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I told him not to spend his life savings on a “flying car” but does he listen?

Alan, in a NASA shirt, stands in front of a car-sized drone-like vehicle, smiling and throwing a peace sign.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

KURSGESAGT VOICE: Now, we’re just speculating here and there’s no real way to project this far into the future, but imagine yourself personally becoming a technological ultra super god with the power to tame every atom of the universe into a state of perpetually orgasmic hyper-abundance…

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Update: it wasn't too bad! In most shots, the tiny shape change didn't make a difference and any native AE masks stretched with the footage. There was just one part where I had to rebuild a patchwork of photoshop stills over again, but it got refined a li'l in the process. Back on track.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is what I want to say when people ask “how did you come up with the character?”

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Swapping a video (that you've been zooming into, rotoscoping and animating various pixel-peeping graphics around in hundreds of shots) for a higher quality version you just found - $0 Realizing the version you'd been working with was actually squashed vertically by 4 pixels - priceless

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was finally able to track down an actual 3-D version of “AL’S BRAIN IN 3-D”… so if you have a VR headset, 3-D TV, or even cheap 3-D glasses, you can now watch this in the way it was originally intended! youtu.be/LKgKQK7tKIU

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - AL'S BRAIN IN 3-D

YouTube video by alyankovic

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every sound design/music/mixing tutorial: “I’m using Pro-Q for this, but you can use the native equalizer or whatever plugin you want, it really doesn’t make a difference. But I’m using Pro-Q.”

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This would also be awesome as a physical Lunar Lander game.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nooo! Please, I’m not ready! I thought I had more time! 😭

Screenshot of a message:

"Hey Cap,

I lead Talent Partnerships here at Cameo & I could totally see you crushing it on here!

Our top creator has made over..."

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phil @philjamesson.com · 23/09/2026

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

followed you via Starter Pack SUPER ACTION REBEL FORCE DEMOCRACY HERO BAES

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine someone runs up and hands him a DJI mic clipped to like a toy golden hamburger or whatever

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve been bucking gender stereotypes for over 40 years.

Captain Disillusion seated in a red chair surrounded by superimposed pictures of various cats from his past and present. A customized Patreon link button is in the corner, signifying this is a screenshot from the end of a YouTube video.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When someone engages me in a conversation to gain complete understanding of the meaning of my joke post

A still from The NeverEnding Story (1984) of the book shop owner saying to Bastian, "don't worry about it."

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Then how come there was already an emoji for it? 😼

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m just gonna say it. The Whole Foods pizza slice box is too small for the pizza slice. Always. It’s a systemic issue.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, oops, I somehow accidentally cut off a whole month early. Here's the proper version. We're slightly further along!

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anyway, uh, if you're an experienced post coordinator or VFX producer who can make that timeline less sad (and I can somehow afford you), hit me up, sigh

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've always wanted to do a dated timelapse of the edit progress bar I keep on my Patreon Discord as a video goes through the VFX/graphics stage. Since this one's been taking so insanely long, I've tried a partial one just to see. The latter red section are the really really hard bits 🫠

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Should’ve said “this clipped to…”. Evocative language is so important.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This on the tip of a troll pen in a video giving you an update on my freelance artist journey.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really feel that I could capture the essence of Sweetums in a gritty live-action Muppet Show reboot. You must to let me play him.

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