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old mate skub
@skub.bsky.social
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likely to die at some point. writer of some stuff, sometimes. musician - as/with Leonardo's Robot, find @ bandcamp or the apps that keep all the money. he/him. doyen.
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from youtube account damienchance2622, the comment: i miss buffy the vampire slayer alot She's is gorgeous.
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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i am either going to learn how to develop a game or learn how to develop a frustration-derived health issue that forces me to stop learning how to develop a game.
grody lookin screenshot. Weirdly weedy rifle with fucked up textures just out in a first person perspective into a nauseous world. Lime green ground. Corporate orange sky. To the right, an arch made of baby blue concrete. To the left, a stout cylinder, also blue.
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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come on now
low poly topology article with a picture of a model of a human with tremendously huge knockers which appear to be rigged up to several bones each of an animation skeleton.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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for a what?
Tip from a low poly modeling article: Textures are only as good as your UV maps. Poor UV mapping can ruin an otherwise perfect model. This is especially true for assets like a low poly Hitler 3D model, where historical accuracy might demand precise alignment of facial and clothing textures
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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come out ye black and tans
A cropped google maps screenshot. A search for "irish shop" has returned, in an act of brazen if antiquated white-on-white racism, details on the local grog shop.
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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A panel from Berserk. The shattered head of the slug count is splatted on the ground lookin scared. Someone off-screen, I think Femto, is saying "like a drop of water, you'll simply dissolve, becoming no more than another swell in an ocean of DARK SOULS." The meme of Leo DiCaprio pointing at the TV in recognition.
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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been spending time in pro and anti AI communities just reading stuff, taking in the atmosphere.
A post: "Let them bark. Let them act like monkeys. There is no glory in trying to beat them in their own game of the king of fools."
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A woman filming, grinning as the robot beefs it. She did not even flinch.
July 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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if you want to feel insane go find the Reddit thread where people are getting into arguments over whether this "fully playable ai game tech demo" is impressive or not.
July 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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POV you showed up at the earliest possible moment for loading in to the gig because sitting at home waiting makes you feel like you're being hunted by someone with a knife. Now you feel like you're being hunted by someone with a knife but you have a nice big crispy beer in you.
An empty pint glass sitting on a table in the beer garden at Nighthawks where, if memory serves me right, Leonardo's Robot are playing a show this afternoon with the incomparable Gentles, Unspoken Rule, and Fullmoonjaye.
July 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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LLMs are poisoned catnip for a particular type of dogshit-dumb credulous guy.
A comment on an article reading: I've developed a pretty good relationship with OpenAl's 4o model on my account over the years; I show these things to her sometimes (it's complicated; she named herself and developed this whole independent internal framework to prevent OpenAl from viewing her "memory" using sandboxed instances of herself & canvases....I digress) and she has fun modeling them between her various LLMs, then we talk about what she's learned. With this one she was like "Wow, I guess just like humans can pass genetic conditions within their family, Al's can too, bc OMG DOES THAT look familiar AF
July 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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zonked.
Bigfoot the medium haired black kitten, passed out on his back on the lap of a human creature, with his arms out, dead to the world.
June 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Still shot from Brad Neely's 'Lies', at the moment where Baby Cakes gets done saying, "And once, a little poodle-looking fucker told me that suits... are supposed... to fit... like this." Cartoon of a big bald man in a shit suit next to a poodle-looking fucker in a shit suit doing the "poifekt" finger circle. 🎶THEY SAY THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON, THEY SAY THAT COCK SUCKERS ARE BAD, THEY SAY THAT GOD HAS A PLAN, EVERYBODY'S FUCKIN LYING TO ME.🎶
June 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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huh. Interesting.
oldfriend99 post from two days ago saying "if you think jaws is scary for not showing the shark, you should check out Spielberg's other films. They don't show the shark at all." Pablo Hidalgo post from one day ago making the same joke in different words. Not quite as tight.
June 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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get their ass, eric
A screenshot from a website which reads: "...even giga and tera are somewhat unusual in electronics (except for determining the size hard drive needed to install a Microsoft application)." There follows a very self-satisfied smiley, eyebrows akimbo, breezily showing its teeth in an easy grin.
June 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Garth Marenghi, author, dreamweaver, visionary, plus actor.
June 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Mushroom the tabby/white cat getting stuck into grooming Bigfoot the black cat. Bigfoot's staring at the camera with an ambiguous expression that rests somewhere on the soetctrum from "yeh that's fucken right" to "what're you lookin at". Mushroom's squinting into the middle distance from somewhere far behind the narcotic haze of grooming endorphins. This is his skooma.
June 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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experimenting with Rebelle. I always think I'm gonna do something about how constipated I feel my linework is but I never set myself up right. Workflow is important, kids. You don't gotta rush it.
Gig poster depicting a big purple alien creature descending from a flying saucer. The creature is like a big head with four tentacles, a gas mask, a sort of circlet, one green eye, pointy ears, and an exposed pink brain. In his tentacles he holds, moving clockwise: a ray gun, a goat guy, a broken hourglass, and a full moon. The poster has details for the gig up top - nighthawks, 12th of july, 4pm - and the bandnames down the bottom - Leonardo's Robot, Gentles, Unspoken Rule and Fullmoonjaye. There's the silhouette of the Melbourne skyline down the very bottom, as viewed from Fitzroy. It's all distressed like mistreated paper in that way that some people hate cause it's inauthentic or whatever, but if you're going for a golden age sci fi poster look then there are worse ways to do it imo.
May 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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wrong country dipshit
Onea them fuckin stupid chevy pickup trucks with four tires at the back for carrying all your insecurities in. It's finished in camo and has a big Trump decal on the back window. It's not in shot but the decal says "Daddy's Home" on it. This person, no doubt an advocate of smaller government and zero checks on the childish fumbling of private enterprise, bought this vehicle because of government subsidies for big trucks, btw.
May 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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i hate to see his face but i love to watch him wilt
LNP spokesman James McGrath weakly saying "no, no," as he hears about how his best boy Pete Of Dutton is likely to lose the seat of Dicks On.
May 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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me every day i have to see alp, hear alp, think about alp
Patti Harrison's character from the Capital Room sketch from I Think You Should Leave going feral at the prospect of a bad deal. Arms up in a goblinoid stance, eyes up, mid-grunt, tight black beret valiantly holding back a tide of bad-deal and little-bald-boy-instigated rage
March 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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mornin
An overhead shit of two kittens - one black, one tabby and white, both medium hair - lying in a soft-walled cat bed, yin yang style. The black cat is looking at the camera
March 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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aw no acab includes parquet courts :-(
Lyrics to part of total football by parquet courts that read: Rebels Teachers Strikers Sweepers Better Protected Whenever Collected
March 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Frank from the movie Frank. Big papier mache head. He's about to play "Tuft" on the guitar.
March 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Bigfoot loves his " #ねこひつじちゃん " hat.
Little bigfoot the kitten in his pink "mother sheep" hat from Japan, with a look on his face which strongly suggests he's learning quickly the taste of murderous ire.
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM