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@ritchie.bsky.social

Recovering academic. I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)

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A circular wafer made of old fashioned beef jerky

A circular wafer made of old fashioned beef jerky

Hear me out. Communion wafers for the manosphere.

05.08.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 643    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 10
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David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

02.08.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10307    πŸ” 2072    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 295

Funny how when we were teens we were always looking for ways to get a fake ID, but now we have to be concerned with getting a Real ID

04.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish we would stop teaching American teenagers that poetry is just fancy prose with Meaningful Line Breaks.

04.08.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 500    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 14

update: this worked

04.08.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1681    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 0

Not even joking when I say the educated urban bourgeoise need to develop class consciousness. So much horrid shit throughout the developed world comes from them internalizing that they are illegitimate in a way the β€œnoble” and β€œauthentic” peasants and proles are not.

04.08.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 17

i think the key to turning a weird obsession of any kind into a viable product is to ask yourself what it symbolizes to you and what broader value it may have

04.08.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You wanted... more emails from a prominent Democrat?

02.08.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 965    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 2
propagandopolis Azerbaijani cartoon (1907) showing the devil crying and running away as an Armenian and a Muslim cease fighting and embrace.
The cartoon was published in Molla Nasraddin, an illustrated Azerbaijani magazine published in Tbilisi from 1906 until 1917.
Politically progressive, the magazine often critiqued religious authority, social backwardness and, as in this cartoon, ethno-religious conflict. A period of intense violence between Armenians and Azeris had come to an end the year before this cartoon's publication, with sporadic violence and distrust persisting.
This cartoon was drawn by Josef Rotter, a German teacher and illustrator living in Tbilisi. The text below is quite ambiguous and apparently difficult to translate, reading something like:
'Once upon a time, there was no one in the world but God. But there was also a foolish Armenian and a foolish Muslim, and besides them, there was a devil. One day, that devil... (no more space left)'

propagandopolis Azerbaijani cartoon (1907) showing the devil crying and running away as an Armenian and a Muslim cease fighting and embrace. The cartoon was published in Molla Nasraddin, an illustrated Azerbaijani magazine published in Tbilisi from 1906 until 1917. Politically progressive, the magazine often critiqued religious authority, social backwardness and, as in this cartoon, ethno-religious conflict. A period of intense violence between Armenians and Azeris had come to an end the year before this cartoon's publication, with sporadic violence and distrust persisting. This cartoon was drawn by Josef Rotter, a German teacher and illustrator living in Tbilisi. The text below is quite ambiguous and apparently difficult to translate, reading something like: 'Once upon a time, there was no one in the world but God. But there was also a foolish Armenian and a foolish Muslim, and besides them, there was a devil. One day, that devil... (no more space left)'

propagandopolis Azerbaijani cartoon (1907) showing the devil crying and running away as an Armenian and a Muslim cease fighting and embrace.
The cartoon was published in Molla Nasraddin, an illustrated Azerbaijani magazine published in Tbilisi from 1906 until 1917.
Politically progressive, the magazine often critiqued religious authority, social backwardness and, as in this cartoon, ethno-religious conflict. A period of intense violence between Armenians and Azeris had come to an end the year before this cartoon's publication, with sporadic violence and distrust persisting.
This cartoon was drawn by Josef Rotter, a German teacher and illustrator living in Tbilisi. The text below is quite ambiguous and apparently difficult to translate, reading something like:
'Once upon a time, there was no one in the world but God. But there was also a foolish Armenian and a foolish Muslim, and besides them, there was a devil. One day, that devil... (no more space left)'

propagandopolis Azerbaijani cartoon (1907) showing the devil crying and running away as an Armenian and a Muslim cease fighting and embrace. The cartoon was published in Molla Nasraddin, an illustrated Azerbaijani magazine published in Tbilisi from 1906 until 1917. Politically progressive, the magazine often critiqued religious authority, social backwardness and, as in this cartoon, ethno-religious conflict. A period of intense violence between Armenians and Azeris had come to an end the year before this cartoon's publication, with sporadic violence and distrust persisting. This cartoon was drawn by Josef Rotter, a German teacher and illustrator living in Tbilisi. The text below is quite ambiguous and apparently difficult to translate, reading something like: 'Once upon a time, there was no one in the world but God. But there was also a foolish Armenian and a foolish Muslim, and besides them, there was a devil. One day, that devil... (no more space left)'

please enjoy some Azerbaijani yaoi from 1907

www.instagram.com/p/DMp-8lgNeI...

02.08.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

who is this diva????

02.08.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The most mundane hateful thing about genAI is these CEO's figured out how effective a sales pitch it is to suggest the new thing they raise investment against truly is Apocalyptic. World-ending. Societal collapse level. DEFCON 1. Humanity? Done this time. Anyway, our cap table is avai-

02.08.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Honestly, just as a human being with a sense of empathy, watching someone with barely disguised despondency admit that the basic assumptions of decency she built her life around were false is just… It’s painful to watch.

02.08.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 980    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 11
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Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by itβ€”especially the use of the term β€œstolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lagoβ€”his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew

31.07.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 31493    πŸ” 10360    πŸ’¬ 975    πŸ“Œ 565

i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.

01.08.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9335    πŸ” 1179    πŸ’¬ 270    πŸ“Œ 118

The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting second breakfast

01.08.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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why is it hazy?

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im in the canadian wildfire smoke area, im in the use wildfire smoke area im in the combo canadian wildfire smoke us wildfire smoke area

31.07.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Hah, from a 2002 paper by @rzubek.bsky.social: they point out FPS bots only focus on moving/aiming/shooting, but a big part of players' experience is the multiplayer/social side. So they develop a bot to participate in social aspects of Counter-Strike, called tt14m (trash-talking 14-year-old moron).

31.07.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

β€œCalifornia, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

31.07.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 996    πŸ” 389    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 22

looking at the "this is not a placr of honor" sign and realizing with growing dread that wasps can't read

31.07.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 754    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 5

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

31.07.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4797    πŸ” 858    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 35

literally no other valuables including a very visible laptop. nothing stolen except ten extremely large swords. this is a very odd crime

31.07.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1300    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 7

It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.

31.07.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4151    πŸ” 585    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 38
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This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.

The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

30.07.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2444    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 144
Senh Duong, the creator of Rotten Tomatoes, had been a huge Jackie Chan fan since high school, and the idea for RT came to him after he joined the workforce. The primary catalyst was that he wanted to find reviews of the Hong Kong films of Jackie Chan that he loved so much. That was back during the summer of 1998.

Then, as the planned release of Rush Hour β€” Chan’s first major Hollywood crossover β€” drew near in August of that year, Duong saw the perfect opportunity to launch the new venture, so he hunkered down for two weeks and coded the very first version of the site.

Senh Duong, the creator of Rotten Tomatoes, had been a huge Jackie Chan fan since high school, and the idea for RT came to him after he joined the workforce. The primary catalyst was that he wanted to find reviews of the Hong Kong films of Jackie Chan that he loved so much. That was back during the summer of 1998. Then, as the planned release of Rush Hour β€” Chan’s first major Hollywood crossover β€” drew near in August of that year, Duong saw the perfect opportunity to launch the new venture, so he hunkered down for two weeks and coded the very first version of the site.

One guy got so hyped for Rush Hour that he made Rotten Tomatoes in two weeks. That's how powerful Jackie Chan is

29.07.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In high school, I was complaining about how long the school day was and my teacher turned to me and said, "the days are long, but the years are short" and I was like "what the fuck are you talking about you lunatic" and then the bell rang and now I'm in my 30s.

30.07.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12616    πŸ” 1305    πŸ’¬ 384    πŸ“Œ 76

testing

30.07.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10188    πŸ” 3382    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 53

show this to every consultant who thinks chasing toxic masculinity is the way to getting going men's votes

29.07.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2937    πŸ” 690    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 8
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furry transfem

29.07.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1288    πŸ” 406    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 25

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