Damian Moppett's avatar

Damian Moppett

@damianmoppett.bsky.social

15 followers 77 following 105 posts

e.g. Artist, dog lover and rabid avoider

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

SCOTUS turns prosperous country into an unliveable hell-scape with a couple swipes of a pen.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

8

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Didn’t Vancouver just get labeled ‘impossibly expensive’ like two weeks ago?

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

If your reasons for voting against a party in power are ‘because it’s time’, I hope you a) don’t vote or b) actually spend some, learn the positions, and vote based on the positions of the various parties. If not, you will be responsible for four years of misery and excess climate damage.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I was just being funny

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

This painting is the mother of the next 80 years of abstract painting.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

The rocky outcroppings line up with our protagonist’s penis. Though out of sight, the viewer is keenly aware that the penis, and its affect on the mind of our gentleman, is in fact the danger that lies ahead. Compositionally the genitalia is dead-centre, making all else tertiary to its presence.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Democracy and our inability to understand the seriousness of our current situation, will be our undoing. We’ve let money corrupt our politics so much that there’s no hope of correcting our trajectory. Capitalism corrupts absolutely, and we’ve let it run rampant into every corner of our existence.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Damian Moppett

Patrick Nathan's avatar Patrick Nathan @patricknathan.bsky.social
[ View ]

“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.

16 replies 709 reposts 1502 likes

Reposted by Damian Moppett

Undertow Publications's avatar Undertow Publications @undertow.bsky.social
[ View ]

The other day I was asked over email about our editorial position on Ai. Figured I'd share my response here.

1 replies 39 reposts 189 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I’ll I end up seeing is dozens of cops, apparently you can rent them for a day, if you’re making a movie that is. Oh, also, you can shut down any road, intersection, bridge, block or building for any length of time you like… if you’re making a movie.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Damian Moppett

Jake's avatar Jake @whiskeytown.bsky.social
[ View ]

Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.

18 replies 907 reposts 1910 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Year of the unending raven orgy… seriously!

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I’m of the opinion that parliament should spend much more time making fun of Pierre Polievre’s face.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

It’s rendered both of my landlines useless… unless I’m making a call. If it rings, I’m 100% sure it’s a scam. And yes, there seems to be no willingness on the part of government to lift a finger and address the situation.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

First thing I’ve read that actually tickled my interest in this show

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

There are 1000’s of videos on You Tube on how to caulk. Having just done a little caulking myself recently, I’d say thousands aren’t nearly enough. Like the design of eves trough (gutters), I’d like to know how we’ve gone this long, suffering and held victim to such terrible design(s).

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I’m reminded of a pretty heavy crush my pre-pubescent self had on the fictional lady to the left

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I think it’s impossible to look at the last few years of tech innovation (Meta-verse, AI etc) and not come to the conclusion that tech innovators must think the general public is a bunch of absolute idiots.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Take the tomatoes out to dinner and shit-talk the salmon and lemons all night long.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

You need to fire your photographer. They make everyone look uncomfortable and slightly irritated.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Ok Richard, we’re going to film a five second video of you looking incredibly awkward and fidgety, and use that instead of the normal still photo where we can pick the best one. You ok with that? (Richard looks on, and fidgets even more)

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Did not expect that! Yeesh, gonna be a rocky few weeks.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Must have thought you were some kind of anarchist or something

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Were you not temped to ask: what exactly do you think a novella is?

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Rivers running orange in Alaska, while the news is wall-to-wall dangers of a second Trump presidency is a little on the nose don’t you think?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Damian Moppett

Weightless Books's avatar Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social
[ View ]

New language for our publisher guidelines? "We don't knowingly sell titles that employ generative AI in any capacity. If we find out a particular title was created using AI, we reserve the right to remove AI-generated portions or delete the title from our offerings entirely." Opinions welcome

26 replies 323 reposts 1060 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I think we, as a society, need to finally acknowledge that absolutely nothing can come from placing a microphone in front of a hockey player. Why do we keep trying to crack this nut? We’ve learned nothing about learning nothing from asking a hockey player what they think about anything.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Ever heard of this small country to the north of the U.S.? Jackasses

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

With eyes that could pierce steel, to rip through your heart, and a face that could um, make your eyes itchy

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Damian Moppett

Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
[ View ]

I haven’t seen anyone post Steve Albini’s beautiful, heartfelt post about how he and his family spent every Christmas. I am sure that it will continue in his memory, hopefully long after we’re all gone.

www.huffpost.com/entry/why-i-...

3 replies 67 reposts 119 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

A worm crawled into my brain, ate a portion of it, and then died, is the ultimate flex for 2024

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Damian Moppett

Orion Kidder's avatar Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social
[ View ]

I knew this, but holy shit anyway.

16 replies 319 reposts 516 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Little know fact about the Campbells is that their bagpipes, when played properly, would enable the player to levitate 1/2 foot off the ground

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Now we can all conjure a more innocent image, when a friend says they’re going to go ‘ride the worm’

0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

Classic case of the photograph contradicting the basic tenor of the article

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

All to make you the customer feel like they have more choice. Someone always looses, and in these cases it’s certainly not the investment firm that owns Spotify. AirBnB, Uber, Spotify, Amazon - all represent massive changes to how we spend our money, introduced without any understanding of

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

And we have to think about who is ultimately benefitting from apps like Spotify; you may fell like you have more variety at your fingertips, just like shopping at Amazon. Next time you talk about little bricks and mortar business going under, imagine artists feeling the same squeeze, to survive.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Damian Moppett's avatar Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social
[ View ]

I guess I’m thinking of the difference between what artist were paid in past, compared to now. One play would net, in some cases, $40. Now how much do you think they get? Sure, an artist will pick being heard over not, but it’s an unfair position they are put in.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes