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I have a castle and I want background to it and I want to put little torches in the windows. So I want an alpha matte that is the shape of the castle, but doesn't have the alpha I made for the windows.

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After Effects would be able to do this, you would think, because they are promising to make rotoscoping a thing of the past. But no.

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Now, these are the minimally paid tools, so that could just be a thing for me because I don't want to pay big bucks for those tools. But I also am not even remotely tempted to pay big bucks if you can't do a simply thing like make a mask.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 10h

2 things about AI image manipulation tools that are interesting and related - Midjourney, ChatGPT, and NanoBanana do not appear to know what alpha is and are not able to create it. As a result, it doesn't recognize transparency from masks.

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The real policy nerds already know this, but Vought is a central villain in this administration, someone who simply does not give a shit about the law

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is it possible to spend negative time on Meta apps?!

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Universities should be closing business schools, not ancient departments that are the core of the mission of any university

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This is a wild version of the song, wow

In case you need a reminder of why #AbolishICE is the bare minimum of what needs to be done to purge the federal government of white nationalist militias.

Am I even remotely tempted to rewatch Highlander? No, no I am not

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“Someone who was born long before the Age of Chivalry”

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The “Methos” part of “newmethos,” ya dig?

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Shout out to the Queen needle drop, you don’t put Princes of the Universe on your soundtrack if you aren’t also a massive Highlander nerd

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Masters of the Universe is extremely goofy fun and whoever was expecting it to be a massive hit was a total He-Man nerd as a kid

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It is kinda wild that Prime Video is just a bolt on, not even the main value. I don’t even pay for it directly, so if it sucks, well whatever. And occasionally it doesn’t suck, so great

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was about to complain about ads on Prime Video content, but I still only pay for Prime because if I order like 5 things a year, it comes out in the wash and everything else is bonus

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we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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It’s been a long time, but that Netflix drum hit still means Jessica Jones to me

I had written off this Angel City season when they fired Straus, but holy crap, they are in it. Getting a point off Gotham on the road? Hell yeah

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Rose Lavelle’s hustle remains incredible

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Just need to hold out for 3 more minutes

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Angel City, cardiac kids, hot damn

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Terrible sequence for Angel City, botched free kick leads directly to a Gotham goal. Woof.

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Chilufya whiffs on a golden opportunity to score against Gotham. Jónsdóttir served up a delicious ball to cut out AKB, but no joy, damn it all

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“We thought we were getting Birdman” is probably true except that absolutely no one thought Birdman was going to be a massive hit, so to expect that again is dumb. A dumb thing that studio executives constantly do

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exhibit 1,538,203 on why spending $110 billion for a movie studio is insane.

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Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I didn’t have time to post about the Gutierres goal before Portland put another one in. Oh, shit Gutierres put another one in. What a crazy second half!

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The thing is this is one way capitalism works pretty well when capitalists have to worry about losing money. It really does. But our tax policy has screwed that up.

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Well, Tordin and the Thorns have one back. This is gonna be a wild 30 minutes

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Checked in on Thorns v Legacy and WHAT THE WHAT?!

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A magnificent tribute to the departed Anthony Head as well

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Mae Rides the Bus is gonna go down as one of the great Ted Lasso episodes. Heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once.

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This is a batshit extension of executive privilege, like what possible justification could there be for Trump’s utterances as KC chairman to be kept secret?!

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is one of biggest hits in my repertory. It is an all time banger

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Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vier Gründe, warum Klopp recht hat und wir die deutschen Farben und die Flagge für DemokratInnen zurückholen sollten. 1) Nazis haben sie gehasst und - kaum an der Macht - verschwinden lassen und mit ihren Nazi-Flaggen und Nazi-Farben ersetzt.

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No one in Hollywood was snowed by Ellison's bullshit, but it wasn't aimed at them, it was aimed at Newsom and Newsom loves hanging with billionaires, so it worked.

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That promise to shareholders to make $6 billion in cost savings across the company is particularly galling because that is the financial reality and Ellison is obviously lying when he said the merger would be good for workers.

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"The financial question is even simpler: can it make enough money to pay for it?" Nope. And some bondholders are pretty close to seeing how obviously insane it is to borrow $50 billion for an entertainment company.

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That was our textbook for the Sierra Club Wilderness Training Course!

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One thing that S3 of Serial makes abundantly clear when they spend all that time Cleveland area court rooms: a lot of judges exist in parallel universes that make no sense to regular folk

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Don’t forget “stole money from the National Park Service” as part of that description that should be on every Dem’s lips, ready to reach for it at a moment’s notice

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