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Sarah the Kel
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spacequesthistorian.com
My friend and composer of my favorite game soundtrack (Space Quest IV), Ken Allen, has a little something to say about a certain campaign you may have heard of.

We're about half-way funded, so please support the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...

#adventuregames #livemusic
August 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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spacequesthistorian.com
Here's a short video about the tribute gig in Portland. Please share far and wide. 🤘❤️ youtu.be/Gobpx9mjZ9Q

Campaign link once again: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...
Help us pay tribute to our friend in Portland
YouTube video by Space Quest Historian
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August 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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spacequesthistorian.com
My band Error 47 is putting on a live gig in Portland in October in memory of our friend Roberta Vaughan. We need your help to get across the finish line so please take a moment to look at our crowdfunding effort and PLEASE SHARE. ❤️🤘

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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kibblesmith.com
One of my favorite things about Star Trek is when Beverly Crusher is like Jean-Luc, I know this sounds crazy but we’re all trapped inside a dog’s dream, and Picard — responsible for thousands of lives — is like, Beverly you are my best friend obviously I believe you were are making this top priority
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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spacequesthistorian.com
One of the absolute pillars of the adventure game community, Roberta Vaughan, is facing a very serious medical crisis. I won't get into what it is but trust me, it's bad.

If you have the means, please consider donating to this medical fund organized by ex-Sierra designer Josh Mandel.
Donate to Ease Roberta Vaughan's Medical Burden, organized by Josh Mandel
This is a fundraiser for our great friend, Roberta Vaughan. She is a guidi… Josh Mandel needs your support for Donate to Ease Roberta Vaughan's Medical Burden
www.gofundme.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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dorkbrainstudios.com
Here's another teaser track from an upcoming game being developed by @asparageeky.bsky.social I'm doing the soundtrack for. This one features Elizabeth Bonn Wilfert on Violin and Viola! youtu.be/mLEXTbgOYqE
Signals - Jon Paul Sapsford (Feat. Elizabeth Bonn Wilfert)
YouTube video by Jon Paul Sapsford
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April 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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robertholmes1.bsky.social
Back in the 1980's my pal Buck Wilcox and I did a bunch of demos on a little four track, this one was always a favorite but was never finished. I decided to dust if off and record a new version. With a cool vocal from the talented Sarah Kelley, Guitar pop lives! soundcloud.com/robert-j-hol...
Angels Know All
Sarah Kelley performs this earworm about the amazing dogs who touch our lives, written by Robert Holmes and Buck Wilcox, and Produced by Robert Holmes in the style of 80's girlbands rock. All instrume
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January 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
asparageeky.bsky.social
I feel like the auto selected Twitch VOD thumbnails are second only to the Target self checkout security cameras - thanks to both for making me look like my best self ❤️
December 8, 2024 at 1:41 AM
asparageeky.bsky.social
Sound up
adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Oct 8
Just been reminded of another of my all-time favourites, Ian Curtis rides a rollercoaster...
October 8, 2024 at 7:13 PM
asparageeky.bsky.social
Repost with a banger photo of you

I will always use any excuse to share this pic of me in front of an actual explosion
August 5, 2024 at 11:11 PM
asparageeky.bsky.social
❤️
June 9, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
this thread has me cry-laughing alone in my house
seamas.bsky.social The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · May 17
When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.
May 17, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
was walking the dogs and saw a car with a woman and a screaming toddler and suddenly a guy ran out from the corner store yelling I GOT EM I GOT EM while holding a bag of goldfish crackers over his head and I got the hell outta the way because I know an emergency when I see one
April 29, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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tillybridges.bsky.social
WE LOVE TO SEE IT
artphobos.bsky.social artphobos @artphobos.bsky.social · Apr 21
Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut

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Text: Artists Against Generative Al. Posting this on behalf of a member who would like to remain anonymous: I'm an art director and supervisor for a large studio. The studio heads had the bright idea before I started to hire prompters. Several bros were brought onto the film project. I absolutely hated myself for not quitting on the spot but stuck with it because it's mercenary out there. Have a family to feed etc. I decided to use this time wisely. Treat them as I would any artist I had hired. First round of pictures of a sweeping Ariel forest landscape comes through and it's not bad. They submit a ton of work and one or two of the 40 are ok. Nearly on brief. So first round feedback goes through and I tell them about the perspective mistakes, colour changes I want, layers that any matte painting would be split into. Within a day I get 5 variants. Not changes to the ones I wanted but variations. Again. Benefit of the doubt I give them another round of Text: the doubt I give them another round of feedback making it clear. Next day it's worse. I sit there and patiently paint over, even explaining the steps I would take as a painter. They don't do it, anomalies start appearing when I say I want to keep the exact image but with changes. They can't. They simply don't have the eye to see the basic mistakes so the Ai starts to over compensate. We get people starting to appear in the images. These are obviously holiday snaps. "Remove the people" "What would you like them changed to?" "... grass. I just don't want them there" They can't do it. The one that can actually use photoshop hasn't developed the eye to see his mistakes, ends up getting angry at me for not understanding he can't make specific changes. The girl whose background was a little photography has given me 40 progressively worse images with wilder mistakes every time. This is 4 days into the project. Text: I'm both pissed about the waste, but elated seeing ai fall at the first hurdle. It's not even that the images are unusable, the people making them have no eye for what's wrong, no thicker skin for constructive criticism and feedback, no basic artistic training in perspective and functionality in what they're making. Yes the hype is going to pump more money into this. They won't go anywhere for a while. But this has been such a glowing perfect moment of watching the fundamental part fail in the face of the most simple tasks. All were fired and the company no longer accepts Ai prompters as applicants. Your training as an artist will always be the most important part of this process and it is invaluable. I hope this post gives you a boost in a dark time. (A pic of text reads 'this machine kills Al' above an arrow pointing to a pencil)
April 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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kiltsandklingons.bsky.social
Who wants to break the news to my wife that I found my true soul mate while on family vacation? Who is the nerd at the Aquarium of Niagara that loves aquariums and Star Trek as much as I do?
A display on jellyfish at the Aquarium of Niagara, designed like an LCARS display from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The jellyfish room at the Aquarium of Niagara, designed like a transporter room, complete with an LCARS display, from Star Trek: The Next Generation. A label on a jellyfish tank at the Aquarium of Niagara, designed like labels on doors and equipment from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The label says: MOON JELLY SCIENTIFIC NAME: Aurelia aurita DIET: ZOOPLANKTON RANGE: MOST OF EARTH'S OCEANS A jellyfish tank at the Aquarium of Niagara, designed in a Star Trek: The Next Generation style. The tank contains moon jelly jellyfish, but the lighting in the tank is neon green and vaguely reminiscent of the Borg.
April 7, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
I love Whiskey Jacks because they’re like “what if we took a crow, but made it look like a cute little plush animal and gave it 1000x the drive to commit crimes
Whiskey Jack looking like an adorable little pokemon creature Whiskey Jack stealing bacon out of a pan Whiskey Jack trying to steal a pork chop while the owner is in the process of eating it Whiskey Jack stealing food out of a man’s hand while he stands in front of a sign reading “BEWARE OF WHISKEY JACK” featuring an illustration of a whiskey jack staring at a hamburger
September 11, 2023 at 2:59 AM
asparageeky.bsky.social
Merlin approves @scalzi.com
February 10, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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thisblackmagic.bsky.social
Yes, yes, love it, beautiful, keep up the good work darlings

futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...
AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Google Report
Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.
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February 1, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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theferocity.bsky.social
“Rosan Eldadah, an Ohio-based real estate agent, also started a crowdfunding campaign to evacuate 40 of her Palestinian family members from Gaza.

Eldadah said that Egyptian officials ask for payments of between $5,000 and $10,000 per person.”
Columbus Palestinian Americans paying thousands to evacuate loved ones from war-torn Gaza
“You pay a fee to evacuate your family from being killed,” Palestinian American pharmaceutical researcher Mahmoud Algharabli told The Dispatch.
www.dispatch.com
January 14, 2024 at 10:06 AM
asparageeky.bsky.social
Then don't make them
guardian-world-rss.bsky.social Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · Jan 8
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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January 9, 2024 at 12:46 AM
asparageeky.bsky.social
I just got the new Lower Decks Badgey ornament set and it does not disappoint
December 9, 2023 at 12:58 AM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago
December 7, 2023 at 3:00 AM
asparageeky.bsky.social
My toddler wanted to nap with a model of the Reliant today and I am very proud of my little budding Trekkie
December 6, 2023 at 10:45 PM