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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 10h

Having some fun in the current After Effects beta. Mixing an earlier variable font animation demo with the new layers as 3D materials feature, Advanced 3D depth of field, spot light shadows and Substance 3D materials. It's a short clip, but so many things in it weren't possible in AE a year ago!

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 12h

These books from @luismendo.com are so great! Perfect size to carry around in a bag or even hoodie pocket. And so easy to pick up an read a story or two instead of scrolling my phone.

Holding Mundo Mendo, Book One in my hand

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 13h

On drones, potatoes, and neighbors. www.theverge.com/report/10021...

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Potato by air

Millennial potato subsidy

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 27/09/2026

Raise your hand if recovering from “there’s an app for that!” No, I don’t need a subscription to catalog a junk drawer. I can just… write stuff down.

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New in beta! Two After Effects features that work great together: ⭐ Layers as 3D materials community.adobe.com/announcement... ⭐ Materials on 3D text and shapes community.adobe.com/announcement...

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 23/08/2026

So much of this hits home. Just do the thing. Don’t just read and argue about and buy more of the thing.

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Death of a Hobby

Fuck it.

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 05/08/2026

A friend is fundraising to open a nonprofit, independent video store in Minneapolis! @thevideostorempls.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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The Video Store MPLS

Help Bring Back a Brick-and-Mortar Video Store to Minneapolis!

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 18/07/2026

I feel like you can tell how a company feels about its customers based on the design of their email unsubscribe screen

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SlyFlourish.com @slyflourish.com · 06/07/2026

The Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster Kickstarter is live! Back it now at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sly... - Eight Steps Expanded - Building and running Lazy Campaign - Ten adventure types - Lazy GM's Toolkit with 60 tools - System agnostic - Stands alone and complements other Lazy GM books #ttrpg

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Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster

Run great tabletop RPGs by preparing less.

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 06/07/2026

Guess who's got two thumbs and just started on the #AfterEffects team as a Quality Engineer after using the program since 1999*? 👍🏻👨🏻‍💻👍🏻 This guy! *in what was essentially the AV Club in high school but still!

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Trash @trashlevania.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Support friends doing cool shit

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/05/2026

Stephan Fleet—VFX supervisor of "The Boys"—made a great video about logistics and safety, politely debunking an internet bozo who asked "why didn't they JUST film it practically?" www.tiktok.com/@stephanflee...

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 19/05/2026

All the tech or apps I’m excited about lately seem to be about undoing most recent tech…

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 18/05/2026

When I lament the loss of the Old Internet, or how Google used to actually work, or how freely we shared links, I forget that a lot of people actually never experienced that. AI slopification is recent, but the decline of the web started long ago, with Mark Zuckerberg leading the charge in the 2010s

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 18/05/2026

Thing is… most aren’t actually trying to “teach” anything. It’s purely for engagement and to show off that they know something. It’s all performative.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/04/2026

Han and Chewie loading their "reward" onto the Falcon in "Star Wars" (1977). I always wondered what was inside those unlabeled boxes, which allowed my imagination to run wild (fuel? money? maple syrup?). Never was there a need for the filmmakers to explicitly say what it was. The magic of movies.

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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 23/04/2026

NASA Landsat - Your Name in Landsat 🛰️ science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

After Effects 26.2 is live! Some big updates this morning: ⭐ Object Matte ⭐ Displacement on 3D Meshes ⭐ Quick Apply ⭐ Proportional Scrubbing ⭐ Import SVGs as Footage helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 01/03/2026

My 10-year-old was showing me “protective pet“ videos. It was disheartening to see how much of it was AI slop but also promising in how well they were able to spot all the tells. “Why would there even be a camera there?” “Did you see the leash go through the table?”

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 01/03/2026

New @weheart.games came in! Excited to get Crownfell to the table!

Holding boxes for Crownfell and Crownfell: Last Stand

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 27/02/2026

“Why are we here if not to try to make the lives of others better.”

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 19/02/2026

Evergreen: bsky.app/profile/shut...

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 18/02/2026

Artists, I want you to hear this and embrace it: you're amazing. I love you and I want you to keep making art. Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you it isn't as important and necessary as it is.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17/02/2026

"what's the plan?" my goodness - beyond self-parody at this point WHAT'S THE PLAN? YOU'RE DESCRIBING THE ARTISTIC PROCESS YOU BOZOOOOOSSSSS

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Puzzle at the children's room of my local library. Absolutely enraging. (And yes, that's the "proper" order, there's a printed template underneath the pieces.)

Photo of a wooden children’s color wheel puzzle, with an odd choice of tertiary colors, and an absolutely nonsensical choice of colors between the tertiaries.

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 10/02/2026

If you still have a Ring camera, you may want to think about replacing it with something a little less Continental Panopticon. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 10/02/2026

I’ve never been more invested in a sport I really don’t understand. #curling #olympics #teamusa

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you want to know what's going on in Minnesota, I recommend following & listening to Minnesotans. I recommend reading the articles we share. Believe us when we tell you what's happening. Check out stories from local outlets & this curated list of stories: www.standwithminnesota.com/stay-informed

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Stay Informed — Stand With Minnesota

Stay updated with local and independent news, firsthand reports, and curated links highlighting developments around Minnesota community defense efforts and immigration enforcement occurrences.

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/02/2026

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 03/02/2026

I can’t believe y’all are going to make me post like an adobe apologist… - New releases for Animate are stopping in Mach 2026 - the app will still be available to download thru March 2027 - as long as it will run on a host system, you can keep using it just like the other old versions of apps

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I keep saying this and obviously it applies to any place where there's a headline-grabbing crisis/war/situation/etc: What you see in the news stories about the Twin Cities, even the deep-dive articles, is a *fraction* of what's actually happening. Countless other stories untold.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 29/01/2026

Whoa, click through to download the famed 2003 “Directors Label” DVD collections of music videos by the masters (Gondry, Romanek, Jonze, Corbijn, Cunningham, etc) with commentary & extras, seemingly uploaded by Directors Label for the 20th anniversary. Incredible resource!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 07/01/2026

I don’t care for Frey, but I do appreciate that he did not mince words, calling a DHS statement ”bullshit” and this quote on live broadcast…

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 05/01/2026

“Simple, low tech and effective” is how I’m trying to do anything these days.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 28/12/2025

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 06/11/2025

I love when things are done the hard way for the sake of the craft.

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 24/10/2025

Look what I just resurrected! hilariously the date only goes up to 2020. Next step is to see if the time Flip Mino HD sensor has any exposed pins to circuit bend…

Holding a Flip Mino HD pointed at a computer screen to show it’s working

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Natalia @ironnatalia.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Yo! I’m at lightbox, boothing with MAKE, a studio from MN. I’m also giving a talk about directing Sunny Side Down on Saturday at 1:30. Say hi!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20/10/2025

I've said it before, but this video on VFX is truly amazing. @tvaziri.com describes this work in such an educational and joyful way. And with lots of space movies, which is a nice bonus. Thanks @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social for this video 👍

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ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 18/10/2025

Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊

Nine Inch Nails "Art is Resistance" flyer, 2007. The Art is Resistance flyer, designed by 42 Entertainment with art direction by Trent Reznor and me, was plastered around cities to draw players of the NIN “Year Zero” ARG to real-world gatherings, secret meetings of “the resistance” in the Year Zero fiction, but also a very real mechanism to plant the seeds of real-world activism into a story about what the future might look like if more people didn’t “wake up and give a shit.” Unfortunately, the future turned out almost exactly like what we imagined in Year Zero, but the message - that art is resistance, and you have a voice - is more important than ever.

Question (u/tiktock34): What do you think is the most powerful combination of art and music today, given our political climate? Im thinking of movements similar to the "Art is Resistance" type of message. Lots of
music and lots of artists but its clear you are passionate about the blend.
Also, thanks for the years! Huge fan Rob Sheridan: I think about this a lot, and wonder what the role of art should be in this particular moment of resistance. It's weird to look back at the NIN Year Zero ARG and "Art is Resistance" campaign from 2007 and see that the future took the bad path anyway, almost eerily to a tee. Not that I expected an album to change the future or anything, but at the bleakest of times I couldn't help but second-guess if art did matter anymore in terms of actually affecting change; if I should have been more involved with organizing or with direct action, if we were deluding ourselves in thinking
we were doing anything more than a cool art project. But then, year in and year out, again and again, right now included, fans tell me - more than any other project I ever worked on, by far - how much Year Zero meant to them, how much the Art is Resistance campaign inspired them, how it changed the way they viewed the intersection of music and politics. They show me the AiR flag tattoos, their numbers from the ARG, the friends they made through the process, the paths they took after - some even met their future spouses! And it reminds me that yeah, what we did mattered, because a lot of fans were radicalized by that experience to be more politically-aware and think more like activists, and a lot of
artists were emboldened to speak out more.
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These days artists/celebs are expected to have an opinion on everything and will even get called out for not speaking up on some things, but back in the early 2000s there was this real cynicism about music being "political." Bands would get so much backlash and told to "stick to music" if they voiced political opinions. I'm proud I helped NIN be one of the bands of the era to really break through that barrier on With Teeth and then demolish it completely on Year Zero, and help a lot of fans come around to how
fundamentally intertwined art and politics have always been. And today? I don't think there's any right or wrong way to combine art / music with message, because I think just making art - any kind of art - is a crucial part of the resistance we need right now. At the core of the fascist project is the removal of intellectual and artistic freedoms, and that tells you all you need to know about how much art matters. Between the billionaire techbros & CEOs showing how much they revile creators by racing to gut their livelihoods, and the grotesquely ugly, unfunny, uncreative anti-aesthetics of the right-wing movement, a systemic disdain
for the arts and sciences is stronger than it's ever been. In a moment like this, we all have to keep making human art and connecting around human art, whether it's aggressive music that calls the fuckers out directly or just cute drawings of cats that make people smile. I know artists who are making very direct and provocative protest art; speaking truth to power loudly and directly is important, but it's not
everyone's lane and it's not the only way to use art right now.
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I also know musicians who are just carrying on with their shows without really speaking out specifically, because they know how many vulnerable people are in their audiences going to their shows for strength and community, and they don't want to put additional targets on those peoples'
backs. Protecting your community matters, too. For my own part, thinking about all of this over the past year was a big motivation in doing my art book right now. The feeling of not being sure who I should be or what I should say as an artist in this moment, how much it matters, and finding along the way that some of the art I was making that was really connecting with people and helping them, was art that wasn't literal with a specific message, it just honestly evoked the way I was feeling and the way I think a lot of people are feeling. The catharsis of feeling together, of knowing you're not alone in the way you feel, of seeing artists who matter to you also feeling the same thing; that gives
strength, and strength is power. It's okay to check out to take care of yourself. And it's okay to find joy in music, art, movies, games, books, sports right now. I'd say it's crucial to find joy, more than ever. They're counting on you sacrificing joy, because
then you lose hope, and then you lose the strength to fight back. Art is resistance, and joy is defiance. If your little drawing of a cat brought you or someone else some joy today, that matters. They want you
to give up. Keep. Making. Art.
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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 09/10/2025

The worst dark design patterns are in school photo and yearbook ordering sites. Ordering a year book and “upgrades” are spread across three different confirmation pages, all of them selected by default and would have added over 50% to the price.

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Paul Conigliaro @coni.gs · 08/10/2025

I forgot about tumblr. Looks like one of mine is still up at least, and set up as a subdomain on my site because of course I would do that. micro.conigs.com

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 08/10/2025

the one thing i like about generative ai is when it is wrong. because it is always very, very funny. it is so confident and so enthusiastic while failing, like the very best clown. so, i'm here to tell you that there MAY be NOTHING FUNNIER than asking ai to do ASCII drawings. here's donald duck:

"please make an ascii art drawing of donald duck"

"here's a cute lil' donald-inspired ascii (sailor hat, pouty beak and all)"

an absolutely incomprehensible ascii art drawing of what seems to be a… maybe a robot with a baseball cap and long arms, with another… telephone robot on his head? i don't even know. there's a space ship underneath? maybe? what is this

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