MC Hawk 🥓☕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@mchawk.bsky.social

Irascible tatty sybarite with an over-fondness for janky decks, comics, musicals, TTRPGs & cinema. Writer of things, singer of songs & occasional dancer. (they/them)

Dolly Parton being an uncredited producer on Buffy is—weird but definitely true—the actual nexus of Dolly Parton being meaningfully actually pretty influential on my life

Dolly's generosity of spirit alongside her countless millions given away shows us just how small and disgusting the the techbros really are. They could help to repair the world and instead they are stripping the copper off the wires.

Nailed it - this is a good thread. Although I still like the notion that we evolved to spot fakes as, at one time, there was something that looked like us that wasn't us 👀 But really I suspect why I prefer practical FX is because I'm an old fart who loves animatronics & exploding miniatures.

javier grillo-marxuach@okbjgm.bsky.social · 3d ago

i often wonder if part of the reason for the "uncanny valley" and the rejection of many attempts to create photorealistic humans and environments in films comes from an excess of visual perfection.

Transgender rights are not a permission—they are the right to live itself 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Existence doesn’t need any permission, you know. Why does the world treat something so simple as if it were optional? It is the baseline of being human ♡ Chiitan will keep raising their voice.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

I just donated to help SPIDER-MAN, who took on nazi scumbags trying to invade Minneapolis again. Arrested by our local cops (boooo) who were diligently defending their racist turd pals. Let’s help good ol’ Webhead with his defense! (PS I can vouch for the GoFundMe creator) gofund.me/6f36a1ac1

Donate to Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense, organized by Ash Chudgar

Awesome update: I'm in touch with Spider-Man's family, and we're setting things up so t… Ash Chudgar needs your support for Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense

gofund.me

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.

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