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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 2h

As a marketer, I cannot stress enough that you need to run every single graphic past 1) a woman, 2) a minority, and 3) a 12 year old boy

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 4h

They don't see hobbies as something you do for fun and enjoyment but as a status symbol, something you "win" at so you can show others

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 4h

I listen to a lot of stuff in the @vintageobscura.net feed, and there's a lot of garage-y stuff in particular that I like but can never truly love because MAN, so many of these guys just could not keep their time together

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 4h

Twenty-four hours from now, something spoopy this way comes (but you can find it early if you know where to look)

A Halloween yard decoration looms against a pristine autumn sky -- a traditional scarecrow but with a skull face and human eyes, holding a scythe. Frankly they're mixing their metaphors pretty badly here. I took this picture outside a local farm stand; the figure is about twelve feet tall in real life.

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, a quick fake poll: I've been doung a lot of process talk about writing and recording music here on main. Is that something that should continue in this space, or should I solo it off on the @roscoesbasement.bsky.social account? Opinions in comments!

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly it's super-cool how mymood and cognition can both dramatically improve after some very basic insight, self-knowledge rocks

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Spooky Sammi Skeletons @froondingloom.bsky.social · 23h

i miss him, man

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23h

[ hastily revising "The Boys of Summer" ]

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spent my free morning working on editing and mixing for Next Song -- placing the whisper-stacked spoken vocals, doing basic gain staging.

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If she ain't a broad, she's a frail, and who wants that?

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To get a particular tone, a guitar player now is expected to scroll through hundreds of presets on their emulating amplifier or pedal, or connect to WiFi to download a patch from a commercial library, rather than twiddle knobs until they get a result they like. This feels insane to me.

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Talking of work, in a very general fashion: I've had a bit of disquiet over the last few weeks b/c I've noticed in myself a certain level of disengagement, dissociation -- even boredom at times, and for the first ten months this job has never been boring

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know "Choosin' Texas" (and a lot of modern country-pop) very well, but I haven't weighed in on it b/c the context for my hearing it -- on a radio in the bedroom of one of my intellectually disabled clients -- sounds like the setup for a cruel and demeaning joke that I absolutely refuse to make

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On top of my annual Halloween mixes, I also do a biennial Election Day mixtape, and hoo boy is the tone giving me fits this time around

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This a great weekend for baseball if you are at the intersection of my particular fandoms (Boston Red Sox in the playoffs tomorrow, Rochester Red Wings playing the AAA championship game tonight in Las Vegas)

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Impeachment and Removal would be lovely names for twin girls

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

George Jetson (to himself): Ah, my boy Elroy

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Get a crash cart, stat! The patient's going into a full

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It only looks like I'm a terrible dancer; in truth, I move without rhythm so as not to attract the Worm

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

every poster thinks they are casually sharing their passing thoughts; every replier thinks they are critiquing a manifesto

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CO FUCKING SIGNED Look, I am the gentile father of an adult convert: How am I supposed to send dorky, over-earnest "Shanah tovah!" Dad-texts to my child without a shofar emoji?

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Needs the truck chase music from Raiders

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You can play a game of Exquisite Corpse with three-quarters of a billion in house money and still have a career afterward, somehow

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I keep seeing people who work in AI saying that they believe AI will kill us all, and I’m reminded of how in professional wrestling from it’s beginnings until November 1997 most if not all wrestlers believed that the survival of the industry relied on the audience believing it was a legitimate sport

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you watch the Exorcist backwards it’s about a bad little girl who was cured by drinking pea soup.

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BONO'S REIGN OF DESTRUCTION MUST BE STOPPED PROTECT WILLIE NELSON AT ALL COSTS

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guide track's done, which I accomplished by copying and pasting the cheesy MIDI versions of each relevant section from my composition software. (I transcribe all my songs to notation now, which I never did before the last few years. I'm becoming my own archivist.)

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And they love "unity" -- which they define as a big man with a gun saying "All right, you scumbags, fall in line or else" -- but they despise solidarity

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Part of my crummy mood is no doubt b/c Main Street is closed down at the railroad crossing for work on the tracks, so I haven't been able to bike to work despite the glorious weather

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I still love my job, but today is my Friday and I am counting the hours til punch-out

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Felt raffishly handsome, might delete later

Work bathroom mirror selfie, three-quarters portrait. Yours Truly, a tall white man in late middle age with a agaved head, neatly trimmed white vandyke, and rectangular half-framed eyeglasses, wearing well-fitting Levi's jeans, a plain gold wedding band, and an Oxford shirt with a button-down collar, plain front, untucked, sleeves rolled up, white with a subtle brown stripe, from Charles Tyrwhitt of Jermyn Street, London

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hit a major score thrifting -- three out of about a dozen pairs of Levi's 505s in my size, all racked together, from which I can only guess that somebody built like me must have died recently

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shape note doesn't usually have articulation markings on the score, and yet

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vivid sense memories of working retail during this period. Probably the last era when in-house chain-store music was mostly stuff that was currently in the charts, rather than 20+ years old.

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're getting too big to fit into the one bed, but God bless 'em, they still try

Fern and Wren, kittens, piebald white and tuxedo black respectively, are smooshed sleepily into a cat bed

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[ Macho Man Randy Savage voice ] SNAP INTO IT!

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