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Geoff

@geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social
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Filmmaker from Chicago. I love Star Trek, Anime, and the Oxford comma. He/Him. mastodon.social/@Geoffsmeltzer Pixelfed.social/GeoffS

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭
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Geoff @geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9 anime to get to know me my9animes.com/en
A grid of 9 anime posters that include: Flcl, Bubblegum Crisis, Great Teacher Onizuka, Toradora, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tenchi Muyo, Beck, Cowboy Bebop, and Golden Time.
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Lots42 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 @lots42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Multi panels. Click to expand. #tng #worf #enterprised
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Protect trans kids.
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
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Geoff @geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I loved this mall when I was little. Thanks to cbs for this trip down memory lane
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026
Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I keep seeing "pencil slop" being said by AI people as rage bait, and I'm like damn even your insults are ungrounded shallow empty ripoffs of something that already existed.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Absolutely disgusted that panels like this are allowed at Shore Leave con this weekend.
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Armiger Entertainment @armigerentertainment.com · 05/07/2026
NEW TENCHI MUYO! ANIME PRE-LAUNCH PAGE! Kiyone, Nagi, and Ken-Ohki set to return for all-new adventures! Directed by none other than Hiroshi Negishi! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7D6... #tenchimuyo #天地無用
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TENCHI GALAXY - Kickstarter Prelaunch Trailer
YouTube video by Armiger Entertainment
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Couldn't be prouder of the five we made, but I had at least two seasons more in me. Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T'Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I've been thinking about the BTS clip of Superman where David Corenswet stops a scene bc he doesn't understand how it makes sense, so he & James Gunn have this passionate convo about *why* Supes is saying what he's saying and it's such a great example of how much intention there was in the writing
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Geoff @geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I don't need AI I just need a hard drive man 🤣
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Geoff @geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This truly makes me so sick to my stomach
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 12/06/2026
After the heavy rain and wind passed, I pointed my camera at a puddle on my balcony ledge and waited a second. A mini reflecting pool of sorts. Hope you all stayed safe tonight. #Chicago #ILwx #WXy
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Making a list of new places to eat forthwith: China is the second-most populous and third-largest country by area in the world, so its cuisine is amazingly diverse. You can find many regional Chinese dishes and restaurants around Chicago, with the help of our guide.
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A Guide to Regional Chinese Food in Chicago
China is the second-most populous and third-largest country by area in the world, so its cuisine is amazingly diverse. You can find many regional Chinese dishes and restaurants around Chicago, with th...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/05/2026
The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.
Construction photo of the Sen̓áḵw housing project in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I firmly believe that if you helm a project that will cut some jobs by more than 40% so you can make your schlock entertainment, you should be stripped of your union membership and blacklisted from the industry
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Geoff @geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A local historian and beloved Chicagoan was lost. May his memory be a blessing.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Tonight! Take the journey with Geoffrey Baer in Riding the Rails, premiering on WTTW at 7:00 pm and streaming on the PBS app and wttw.com/rails!
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is a fantastic tribute to TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds” which also becomes a tribute to its writer, the late Michael Piller. time.com/article/2026...
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The Star Trek Episodes That Changed the Franchise—And TV—Forever
1990's two-part episode "The Best of Both Worlds" had an outsize impact on the franchise, and on serialized storytelling to come.
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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CBS News Chicago @cbschicago.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Bagel, a beloved Chicago-area deli, is returning to the north suburbs. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/the-ba… 
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The Bagel is returning to Chicago's northern suburbs
The Bagel, a beloved Chicago-area deli, is returning to the north suburbs.
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
'A New Dawn,' the debut feature from Japanese painter Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, is bound to be one of the year's most visually striking animated features. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
no and fuck you for asking
did Ryan coogler steal the idea for sinners from Quentin Tarantino
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/03/2026
Seriously, get off of X. Don't post there and don't spend time there. You will get exposed to propaganda and bullshit that will nestle into the corners of your brain EVEN IF YOU KNOW IT'S BULLSHIT. Stay away.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads

Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X!

See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.
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Geoff @geoffsmeltzer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Shorter Jon Del Aroz: "I don't know anything about Star Trek."
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/01/2026
X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
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Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 08/12/2025
U.S. Senate candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi's campaign downplayed the contributions, calling them just .2% of the millions of dollars he’s amassed.
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Krishnamoorthi rails against Trump, but takes money from MAGA donors
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Capitol News Illinois @capitolnewsil.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
How the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate plan to address cost-of-living issues and how their plans differ. @benszalinski.bsky.social reports. loom.ly/dATqjRs
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How Illinois’ Democratic U.S. Senate candidates plan to address economic issues
Article Summary The three top Democrats running for U.S. Senate recently released their economic proposals to address cost-of-living issues that
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Geoffrey Baer explores why the residents of the City of Big Shoulders are regarded as hard-working, tenacious, and resilient. Chicago Works premieres December 9 at 7:00 pm on WTTW and streaming on the PBS app and at wttw.com/chicagoworks. #ChicagoWorksWTTW #ChicagoWorksWTTW.
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