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Brandon Williams

@stupidartpunk.bsky.social
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⚡️Episodic Director | Story Artist | Professor⚡️ Solar Opposites | Star Trek: Lower Decks | (he/him) *This account is Rated R* 🚫No AI Portfolio: www.theartofbrandon.com (DM for password) Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employers.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 19h
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23h
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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 Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TIRED: Tablets, phones, and AI WIRED: saws and hammers, and knives futurism.com/health-medic...
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Parents Are Sending Their Kids to a Playground Where They're Given Saws and Hammers to Ward Off Brainrot
Parents wary of smartphones and too much screen time are sending their kids to a junkyard playground where they're free to wreak havoc.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I watched Toy Story 5. It has the same plot as Elden Ring now. Decaying knights lament the glories of a lost age. Lurking in rotten sepulchers they maintain their eternal vigil over a sundered land
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Watching Band Of Bothers for the first time. It pretty cool they were like well we did all this research for Saving Private Ryan, lets make a show!
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From: Crane's Feathers (1977), dir. Ideya Garanina, Soyuzmultfilm
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is I think the best single fight scene in any movie ever…or at least in direct competition with the mall scene in Police Story
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just watched Guyver 2: Dark Hero for the first time in a while. Terrible movie. I love it.
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Im into this…
In Japan a new trend called Jucy Book Rave has people going to nightclubs just to sit quietly and read books while a DJ plays ambient music
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think all Nazis must die not just the surf ones.
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can only get away with this because all the WWII vets are dead or incredibly old. Otherwise they would deck this limp noodle.
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✨🥀Persephone🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
These are so dope
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A few times when discussing the new RE movie people asked if I played the games…
Do not cite the deep magic to me.
I was there when it was written.
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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to make bigots afraid to open their mouths again. Currently, their capacity for hate and ability to abuse others is getting them interviews, podcasts, jobs and political appointments. What it should get them is unemployment and a wired jaw.
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rio's military police have started the Butlerian Jihad
A Rio de Janeiro Military Police man points his rifle at computers. #DrugBust
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meth isn’t addictive it just feels amazing and I want to be on it all the time. What some meth?
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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s an entire genre of music that can be summarized as “Get me the hell out of this factory town.”
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think we should criticize any dem who tries to “move forward” instead of hold this administration accountable as soft on crime.
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Omg I just watched the episode and it was incredible! Seriously a truly spectacular piece of animation joy. Adventure Time Side Quests S2E1 “Death Fiction”
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Edgar Wright should remake Maximum Overdrive.
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is baffling that the Dreamworks Marketing department did not disclose in most of the trailers for FORGOTTEN ISLAND that it's THE HANGOVER, but on an island populated by Filipino monsters and folkoric creatures: letterboxd.com/justindeclou...
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A ★★★★ review of Forgotten Island (2026)
Everyone complains that they want fresh, non-IP animated films. Okay. In theatres, right now, you can go see this original feature-length animated movie packed to the gills with Filipino monsters and ...
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Gary | LOOKING FOR WRITING WORK @mutantastronaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think, more than anything in animation right now, I'm tired of there being an infamous movie and/or show that gets dogpiled on and content creators just follow suit and create slop reaction videos. If you've avoided doing this, or at the very least, TRIED to be nuanced, you rule in my book.
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Animation done in LA!!!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You don’t hate AI enough
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not another heat wave!!!! 🥵😭😩
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the short term I worry Meta’s Muse will be seen as a way to get off the phone and social media but still access the internet.
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that
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Playboy @playboy.com · 30/09/2026
In a December 2025 YouGov poll, 44% of American men said they had not read a book in the past year. Not hot. Men, get to reading.
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Playboy Recommends: Reading a Damn Book
Comedian Anthony Jeselnik wants to get more men hooked on reading fiction. It’s working.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i hate that gemini can convincingly make images that look like drawings with beginner anatomy mistakes and it's 100% because they've trained on every piece of data ever uploaded to their services
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IGN @ign.com · 30/09/2026
Blade 2 was like a "cocaine movie" for director Guillermo del Toro because he was "drinking 40" Red Bulls a day while making the film. "The arterial damage, man!" #IGN30 bit.ly/4j124XT
Guillermo del Toro smiling on the press line for Frankenstein. A Picture in picture of Wesley Snipes as Blade. Guillermo del Toro Says Blade 2 Was His "Cocaine Movie"
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
The last time Democrats prioritized the cultivation of democracy as opposed to jobs training as the end of taxpayer funded public education was 1976. Since that time, they have embraced the neoliberal framing. Let's hope things are changing! asheeshksi.substack.com/p/why-the-de...
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Why the Democrats Probably Won't Save the Humanities
The Republicans are awful, but the other side isn't actually that much better - yet.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just speaking for film & TV there isn't really a job loss due to AI. It's been mostly due to successive punches of pandemic, streaming collapse, union strikes, studio consolidation and interest rates. This trend was in place way before Midjourney was pumping out pictures with 14 fingers.
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Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We dragged our broken bodies to see Forgotten Island and it was great, you should see it! I always want to push for authentic emotion and relationships, and this movie has it in spades. We need more movies with heart like this. Also I laughed out loud at some of the things that got approved in this.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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