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Media, cultural studies, education. Used to research videogames and Let's Plays, still in recovery. A student called me a communist once. Queer guy, he/him. Dip me in chocolate. Podcasting at @flashitpancast.bsky.social !!!!!

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Ok, annoying but necessary nuance here:

This is AI *upscaling*, not Gen ai. AFAIK, it doesnt scrape media or need data centers. No environmental or ethical concerns as of current info.

HOWEVER, I'd still opt out as it will play havoc with low res. It's like motion smoothing, you dont want it ๐Ÿ˜…

29.10.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1121    ๐Ÿ” 677    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Happy Halloween!!

01.11.2025 05:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Manifesting...........

01.11.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
impormable on tumblr: "Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!"

impormable on tumblr: "Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!"

31.10.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 292    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

31.10.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 715    ๐Ÿ” 762    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
An image that says "Got my Halloween costume squared away:", and its a photoshop of an "Oldtaku" bagged costume. The image on the front is of Ken from Otaku no Video holding a ton of VHS. Text on the costume bag reads: "OLDTAKU. Costume includes: vintage anime button-up shirt, bootleg VHS w/handwritten label, huge backlog, bottle of ibuprofen. "

An image that says "Got my Halloween costume squared away:", and its a photoshop of an "Oldtaku" bagged costume. The image on the front is of Ken from Otaku no Video holding a ton of VHS. Text on the costume bag reads: "OLDTAKU. Costume includes: vintage anime button-up shirt, bootleg VHS w/handwritten label, huge backlog, bottle of ibuprofen. "

Once again making silly things for the podcast instagram ๐ŸŽƒ

04.10.2024 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 228    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Episode 126: The Wonka Industrial Complex Featuring a special Halloween intro by Timigi! Itโ€™s that spooky time of year again, and Tom and Alex brave three hauntings! ZOMBIE INFECTION brings gore and violence, AN AWESOME HALLOWEEN briโ€ฆ

Eek! It's our TEETH-ROTTING 126th EPISODE! Candy heists in AN AWESOME HALLOWEEN, American military aggression in A BIN LADEN HALLOWEEN, and some good old-fashioned ZOMBIE INFECTION. Plus, your emails, and a marshmallow science conundrum!

Enjoy! Share! Repost!

flashinthepancast.com/2025/10/26/e...

26.10.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

New episode! Live for the public! It's got three whole cartoons in it! Whooaoaoaoaoaao!!!!!

26.10.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is fantastic, yesssss

31.10.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scrounging through commercial compilations for future B-roll and found a short promo for Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket's run on Toonami's Midnight Run in excellent quality.

31.10.2025 03:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This episode's listener prompt: Tell us YOUR FAVOURITE HALLOWEEN CANDY!

Also: Do you know science? If so, settle our debate: would a marshmallow the size of a sofa kill a person if it fell on top of them?

Answer our burning questions at flashinthepancast [at] gmail .com!

26.10.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Boobie Ray Ogles (1882-1963) - Find a Grave...

Boobie Ogles
www.findagrave.com/memorial/662...

30.10.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it. Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes.

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.

Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes.

grist.org/extreme-weat...

#Climate #Disaster #Weather #Data #Nonprofit

30.10.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.

30.10.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1691    ๐Ÿ” 353    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

I've been slogging through Neal Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell", and it's the most dull and bureaucracy-riddled kind of "upload mind to computer" stuff I've ever read, it's so sad and boring and so is the "world" it builds

30.10.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I find myself coming back to this regularly, it's really distressing and good

30.10.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

29.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5383    ๐Ÿ” 887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

THAT'S HOW!??!!

30.10.2025 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - A Nightmare On My Street (Official Video)
YouTube video by DJJazzyJeffVEVO DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - A Nightmare On My Street (Official Video)

'Tis the season www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVba...

30.10.2025 01:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The USA wasnโ€™t the only country that was fearful of anime & other Japanese media getting popular with the youth. This was pretty much the case for every Western country, though sometimes of a different flavor.

THIS is an actual painting accompanying a 1979 article on UFO Robot Grendizer in France.

30.10.2025 01:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

linguists yearn for the cube

30.10.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I just left Gavin Newsom a message telling him I'll never vote for a presidential candidate who supports genital checks for children. and so can you! 916-445-2841

28.10.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 242    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Send Emma Thompson into the Google offices with a machete and we'll pop this AI bubble lickety-split

28.10.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well don't I feel stupid

26.09.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26139    ๐Ÿ” 6846    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 290    ๐Ÿ“Œ 145
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What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

21.09.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4352    ๐Ÿ” 1172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 116

Perfect occasion for me to re-up my interview with Ian McShane, who narrated the opening to this album while stoned out of his mind with Trevor Horn!!!!

archive.is/GpIVQ

28.10.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New episode! Live for the public! It's got three whole cartoons in it! Whooaoaoaoaoaao!!!!!

26.10.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chainsaw Man is Never Gonna Score

23.10.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4552    ๐Ÿ” 1793    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

holy shit it's beautiful

26.10.2025 04:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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