Buddy Toledo
@jessefuchs.bsky.social
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Buddy Toledo
@jessefuchs.bsky.social
· Feb 6
finally began work on my magnum opus of critical détournement, “1,000 Snoopy Butts”
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Avatar-sized budget and production but instead of about problematic space cats it’s about the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
December 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Avatar-sized budget and production but instead of about problematic space cats it’s about the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
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Kevinismus
December 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Kevinismus
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you have my attention
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
you have my attention
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Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”
December 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”
Putting an LLM up against Komar & Melamid’s Most Unwanted Song “John Henry Style”, and while I do not think this is actually possible in any known audio format, I do grudgingly admire the intentless gusto
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Putting an LLM up against Komar & Melamid’s Most Unwanted Song “John Henry Style”, and while I do not think this is actually possible in any known audio format, I do grudgingly admire the intentless gusto
My Xmas Message To The Videogame Industry: Bring Back The Paddle, You Cowards
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My Xmas Message To The Videogame Industry: Bring Back The Paddle, You Cowards
Komar and Melamid present: The Most Unwanted Bird
December 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Komar and Melamid present: The Most Unwanted Bird
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play me like one of your pianos, H. Jon Benjamin
This is how I want people to be posting on Christmas. Do not try to convince Mark Cuban's goofy ass that universal healthcare is right. I want to see pleas for character actors to cleave them in twain with a broadsword. I want people volunteering to get kicked down the Exorcist steps by Alicia Witt.
debi mazar punch me in the stomach for $15 challenge
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
play me like one of your pianos, H. Jon Benjamin
Bing exists in an interesting superposition of being un-canceled due to a combination of 1) the people who care being aware of Giddins’s research, which debunked the most lurid claims and complicated the rest, and 2) the other 99.99% of humanity just not giving a shit what Christmas Guy did or was
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Bing exists in an interesting superposition of being un-canceled due to a combination of 1) the people who care being aware of Giddins’s research, which debunked the most lurid claims and complicated the rest, and 2) the other 99.99% of humanity just not giving a shit what Christmas Guy did or was
Spoiler: it’s not “how to write great hit songs”, although it would be pretty cool if that’s how it worked.
Power Pets: Miranda Lambert Reveals the Biggest Lesson Her Dog Bellamy Has Taught Her
Power Pets: Miranda Lambert Reveals the Biggest Lesson Her Dog Bellamy Has Taught Her
Miranda Lambert reveals the biggest lesson her dog Bellamy has taught her in Billboard's first Power Pets feature.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Spoiler: it’s not “how to write great hit songs”, although it would be pretty cool if that’s how it worked.
I mean, sure, if you’re a famous billionaire. Luckily, most of us do not have that problem.
No shock. This app has turned my mentions, and others, into mostly hate. But there are a few people worth connecting with
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I mean, sure, if you’re a famous billionaire. Luckily, most of us do not have that problem.
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Watching a video ranking the 50 some games a person finished this year and I get that playing videogames is a full-time job for some people but it struck me how incidental finishing a game is to my experience. I play until I get bored and then repeat that every couple years. See you in 2028 LA Noire
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Watching a video ranking the 50 some games a person finished this year and I get that playing videogames is a full-time job for some people but it struck me how incidental finishing a game is to my experience. I play until I get bored and then repeat that every couple years. See you in 2028 LA Noire
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Tom Waits talking to a puppet named TB who's a worm dressed like a newsie with tuberculosis. "WeLl if iT iSNt BeTtE mIdLeR" and she's dressed like a sexy 30s fallen woman. They sing White Christmas with a bunch of junkyard dogs roaming around. It writes itself
December 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Tom Waits talking to a puppet named TB who's a worm dressed like a newsie with tuberculosis. "WeLl if iT iSNt BeTtE mIdLeR" and she's dressed like a sexy 30s fallen woman. They sing White Christmas with a bunch of junkyard dogs roaming around. It writes itself
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For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
December 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
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Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
RIP to Jerry Kasenetz, who if I'm being honest had just as much influence on my musical taste in college as Brian Eno
1968 HITS ARCHIVE: Quick Joey Small - Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus (Run Joey Run) (mono)
YouTube video by AnotherProf
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December 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
RIP to Jerry Kasenetz, who if I'm being honest had just as much influence on my musical taste in college as Brian Eno
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The Card Players, 1892
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12991
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12991
December 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Card Players, 1892
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12991
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12991
This is a very good thread that also reminds me of one of my favorite songs off of 50 Song Memoir, although of course Grace Slick was infinitely less culpable here
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is a very good thread that also reminds me of one of my favorite songs off of 50 Song Memoir, although of course Grace Slick was infinitely less culpable here
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
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i think you can do this but have to design the game around it. you have to have enough hypersurfaces to pen the pointer in to the space of things which might be fun to do. but nobody knows how to do this, quite, and this is a type of constraint, not a type of freedom.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
i think you can do this but have to design the game around it. you have to have enough hypersurfaces to pen the pointer in to the space of things which might be fun to do. but nobody knows how to do this, quite, and this is a type of constraint, not a type of freedom.
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keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
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JIMMY CORRIGAN: GOD'S VENGEANCE ON EARTH
June 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
JIMMY CORRIGAN: GOD'S VENGEANCE ON EARTH