Lyndon Hood

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The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything

grab it while you can

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JD Vance and Marco Rubio inside a large shoe floating in the water. Vance is wearing a sailor's cap and his traditional smoky eye

oops I found the border between social media joke and late-night talk show photoshop

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Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

When pondering “lethality,” this quote from Sherman in 1865 comes to mind:

“War means success by any and every means; it is not fighting alone. Bulls do that, and bears, and all beasts, but men attain objects by intellect, and the introduction of physical power, moved upon strategic points."

not refilling the SPR before turning the entire Persian Gulf into a war zone is one of the more astounding fuckups in presidential history

*checks in* also at 92c TBH

'Inadequately sad' - Demands for firing of millions

"Senate Republicans dispute 'it happened' claims"

"Supreme Court to reconsider bar on non alive candidates"

tapping the sign because people keep asking why the market believes trump when he says "no seriously the war is over!"

I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.

I did not expect this government's terrible idea to bite them on the ass so quickly and thoroughly, but it is darkly humourous #nzpol

Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean

Further to our discussion about moral purity in voting and material conditions

Long ago when I was a Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate I’d quote Churchill in support of Europe, or human rights, or against fascism or poverty.
It was a way of getting Tory-ish but Liberal-curious voters to listen (and also made far right explode).
But against badgers…?!
Don’t be an absolute dick.

Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

How things change

I've talked about this here before, but my experience as a journalism instructor is that Grammarly makes students' writing worse. This was true even several years ago, pre-GenAI hype. The mushy, even incoherent sentences it created were what caused me to start warning them off it.

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.

What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.

Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

Disney Animation Has Re-Animated Three Hit Songs In Sign Language “We Don’t Talk About Bruno," “The Next Right Thing," and “Beyond” will get new ASL-animated versions on Disney+ on April 27.

Disney Animation has re-animated three of its most popular recent musical numbers in American Sign Language (ASL) and will debut them on April 27, coinciding with National Deaf History Month.
www.cartoonbrew.com/series/disne...

Just a quiet word for anyone storing jerry cans of fuel in the garage: improper storage of fuel in quantity can potentially invalidate home insurance

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

Garfeye, this time with mostly Garfield's face on Popeye's body. He's holding a can of Lasagna.

Blutodie who is basically Odie's face on Bluto's body.

People said he was "cursed" so I drew a new Garfeye and his nemesis Blutodie.

Hey guys check out this abomination

This used to be my whole tech consulting gig approach but then they started asking the AI first and here we are.

Many years ago, food shop in the local mall:

Try our "delicious" roasts

Email screenshot: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces. The feature will be deactivated starting March 12, 2026. We're sorry, and we appreciate you holding us to a higher standard."

Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,

Thank you for reaching out.

After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

The Emperor's New Shoes