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@proctorj

Maker of images and sounds. Rider of bikes. Lover of cats and frogs. Professor of light, time, and soundwaves.

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First Film to Depict a Robot Discovered in Michigan Created in 1897, it's over two decades older than the term "robot."

First Film to Depict a Robot Discovered in Michigan

28.02.2026 19:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Correspondent Audiobook on Libro.fm #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER โ€ข Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as โ€œA cause for celebrationโ€โ€”an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of...

It's a multi-person cast, and every one was delightful. You can see all the names at the bottom of this page libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

16.02.2026 15:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right now, Wild Dark Shore, before that Parable of the Sower, before that, The Correspondent which was WONDERFUL (esp. the audiobook) but all these books are about death or apocalypse. What am I doing to myself??

16.02.2026 14:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Goodโ€™s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. Itโ€™s a warm 17ยฐ & sunny!

Iโ€™ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. โšก๏ธโœŠ๐Ÿฝโšก๏ธ๐Ÿšฒโšก๏ธโœŠ๐Ÿฝโšก๏ธ #RIPPretti

31.01.2026 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 5083 ๐Ÿ” 1414 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 90 ๐Ÿ“Œ 115

๐Ÿคฎ

29.01.2026 20:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.

25.01.2026 18:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1311 ๐Ÿ” 231 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33 ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Studentโ€™s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

eat the slop www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

18.01.2026 22:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1310 ๐Ÿ” 232 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
Poem written on Google sheets by Isabelle Correa

Poem written on Google sheets by Isabelle Correa

I Wrote This Poem on Company Time

by @isabellewrites.bsky.social

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

with thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social for introducing me to her work on her substack. #poetry

18.01.2026 15:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 78 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

The ICE murder of Renee Good and the failure of any cessation of the Grok CSAM and nonconsensual image generation are part of the same broader story about the establishment of elite impunity for transgressing all moral boundaries of a humanist civil society with individual rights

07.01.2026 22:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 854 ๐Ÿ” 254 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

My dad turns 79 tomorrow and his birthday wish is to see Anaconda

03.01.2026 02:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Cane Toad New Years Eve spa party was in full swing when Security spotted the camera. He then put a stop to the filming...
#NaturePhotography #toads #AustralianWildlife #wildoz

30.12.2025 19:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 35 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ooh, this looks fun. Kodak going back to its roots, yesss

29.12.2025 23:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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`Other issue please make the new bus priority signal at State and William activated by a sensor or something. traffic at this intersection was already horrifying, now there's an entire rotation given to nonexisten...

OK, update. Is this correct? Is there any plan to add a sensor? Otherwise OOF... seeclickfix.com/issues/20572...

10.12.2025 00:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yassss

03.12.2025 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oooooh, I didn't know this was going to be a thing. Awesome!

03.12.2025 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Horrific story, but note that the cyclist did not die. Instead, he will need significant, costly medical care for the rest of his life thanks to the officer's actions

19.11.2025 19:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fellow elder millennials, this is the "Auto-Tune the News" dude, how's that for a blast from the past

05.11.2025 15:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mirroring police tactics for humor. Sound on!

19.10.2025 01:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 244 ๐Ÿ” 68 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Iโ€™m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

13.10.2025 01:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 2118 ๐Ÿ” 214 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

07.10.2025 02:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1653 ๐Ÿ” 262 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38 ๐Ÿ“Œ 51

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

09.09.2025 12:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 3128 ๐Ÿ” 1024 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40 ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

27.08.2025 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 8749 ๐Ÿ” 2554 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 369 ๐Ÿ“Œ 332
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How Climate Change Is Transforming The Soundtrack Of The Natural World | Defector It is easy enough to read about the climate crisis through the dozens of devastating stories that run each week, warning us of the people who will be displaced or otherwise harmed by the planetโ€™s rapi...

Climate change is altering the natural worldโ€™s soundscape, with declining bird, insect, and amphibian populations leading to quieter environments. This โ€œsensory extinctionโ€ is exacerbated by noise pollution from human activities.

Listen to these recordings in this article from @sabs.bsky.social!

12.08.2025 14:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 211 ๐Ÿ” 96 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

I don't know if I've ever been so stunned by a piece of... entertainment?

24.07.2025 14:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tuned in late online, but from what I can see and the applause I'm hearing, it seems like NFMN has a pretty overwhelming turnout tonight?

21.07.2025 23:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Petition in support of increased housing density and diversity in Ann Arbor As individuals and organizations in support of expanding housing opportunities, we applaud the direction of the city's draft Comprehensive Land Use Plan as an important step toward adding and diversif...

there's a pretty strong pressure campaign on to delay and weaken land use reform in ann arbor.

please sign this petition to remind the council that the YIMBY voters who elected them still want an affordable, growing, and diverse city.

neighborspetition.org

20.06.2025 23:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pretty much how I'm imagining retirement

10.05.2025 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stella Dallas, Malcolm X, mayyybe Flash Gordon

01.05.2025 01:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dr. Alexander Zawacki
@AChillGhost

Grad school

QT of:

katja @uckersSket โ€ข1d
They need to invent the opposite of a gym. You go there and you just get more frail and sickly. Maybe instead of lifting you just sit in a cold dark room and starve
11:12 AM โ€ข 4/29/25 โ€ข 1M Views

Dr. Alexander Zawacki @AChillGhost Grad school QT of: katja @uckersSket โ€ข1d They need to invent the opposite of a gym. You go there and you just get more frail and sickly. Maybe instead of lifting you just sit in a cold dark room and starve 11:12 AM โ€ข 4/29/25 โ€ข 1M Views

Itโ€™s funny because itโ€™s true

30.04.2025 15:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 2982 ๐Ÿ” 309 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58 ๐Ÿ“Œ 29
Francis Ford Coppola speaks in an IMAX theatre with a big slide featuring his face on the screen

Francis Ford Coppola speaks in an IMAX theatre with a big slide featuring his face on the screen

Big Coppola/little Coppola

Speaking to students at the Henry Ford about cinema as art, not commerce, and the pleasure of learning. โ€œYou can drink too much, eat too much, but you canโ€™t learn too muchโ€

28.04.2025 15:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0