Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️

Reminds me of the time Justin Trudeau made a non-apology apology for yet another "black face" incident. He somehow maneuvered that into "All of us in Canada must be more racially sensitive."

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Nah, bro. Not all of us. Just you and your weird creepy offensive hobby.

Indeed! :) Robert Rodriguez's "A rebel without a crew" ought to be mandatory reading for all filmmakers / ad people. 🤓

McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

1. Public shaming works. Massive, decentralized ridicule is a mighty weapon.

2. LOL. LMAO, even.

3. The ad agency's defensive comments are fascinating. 🤡

4. I could've made a better ad with a cellphone, a laptop, and $10K. (Most people could've.)

futurism.com/artificial-i...

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Every time you clog a toilet, you exceed someone's expectations. 😌

7-Eleven brand wine. 🤣 (Less than $4 per bottle!!)

A super-chill store display camel, rocking a scarf and listening to some tunes.

The world's coolest good-luck cat! 😎 It's smiling and wearing sunglasses.

A can of beer (?) featuring a relaxing bear and a butler bear next to it.

Japanese things that made me laugh:
8. 7-Eleven brand wine. 🤣 (Less than $4 per bottle!!)

9. A super-chill store display camel, rocking a scarf and listening to some tunes.

10. The world's coolest good-luck cat! 😎

11. A can of beer (?) featuring a relaxing bear and a butler bear next to it.

"In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth." Marcel Proust

#writing

A Shakespearean tragedy in three sentences:

"'AI didn't make this film. We did'

Comments have been turned off on YouTube"

The way the sloppers pretend their organized theft is just as taxing as actual art is genuinely pathetic.

I am Jack's utter lack of surprise.

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You will be visited by three spirits.

A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Nah, it's business as usual here.

Oh hey, I just felt that quake an hour ago! My very first one, ever. 😮

You cannot tell me that this isn't a Muppet.

📝😮

A bear walks into your bar. What do you serve it?

Whatever it wants.

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Me, smiling, in a red coat and a floofy short haircut, pointing at a random statue of liberty in south Tokyo.

After a few too many girlfriends made ubcharitable comments about my long hair (to say nothing of distubing all the random pedestrians!), I've decided to enter my feather-hair era. 🙃 Also, I've found this statue of liberty in south Tokyo, if anybody needs one. 😉

Ghouls.

I beat you to it by a few months. :P (Issue #193) Got another story coming out there soon. :)

a grape walks into a bar. she orders a brandy. morality is less important than optics, if your goal is to survive. the bartender raises her eyebrow and smiles. it's important to smile back. it's important not to let their friendliness distract you, from what they've done. the brandy climbs the glass

This is by far the greatest microfiction I've ever seen on Bluesky. :)

#writing

My new Japan routine: going to parks and museums by day, and to gallery openings by night.
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Movie you've watched more than six time with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

I liked it. :) The sentence after "...to impart priceless untold wisdom" made me laugh!

Best mad science ever. 🤘😈

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Today in linguistic misadventures. 🙃 In Japanese, "kiwaii" means "cute" and "kowai" means scary.

Sooo, I've kinda spent a week telling the locals their country is very scary. 😅🤣

Picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account