Allan Murphy

@cullenskink

I live in the burnt out crater of Seattle, anarchist jurisdiction, but Scottish - tinseltown was always in the rain. NPC energy, mid table obscurity poster. I don't think that kindness is a weakness. I enjoy pendantry in all its forms. Get off my la

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Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 6d

Not just this, but Clippy is not AI powered.

Microsoft's Clippy, a 1990s animated paperclip with eyeballs and eyebrows, hovers over a piece of yellow lined paper. The caption says "Where is your god now"

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 6d

Mmm, seems like a super guy.

A section from Adam Candeub’s Wikipedia:
“In 2024 Candeub criticized the NIH’s discouragement of research advancing scientific racism”

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 7d

The energy I bring to Bluesky

Ancient and sadly departed UK chat show host Michael Parkinson sits against a brown background, in a brown blazer, blue shirt and purple-ish tie; he has a disinterested or cheesed off expression on his face.
Next to him is Emu, a famous comic puppet of an emu. Emu is about the length of a man's arm (since an arm goes inside to do the beak with the hand). Emu's beak is bright yellow fading to orange; his body is orange, and he has blue tinsel fur along his head and around his body (which is 'hidden' by many tinsel streamers). he has black eyes with a white triangle highlight.
In this picture his beak is parallel to Parkinson's face, and slightly wrinkled which was emu's way of indicating something he didn't like.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 12d

Been thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far.

A comic book frame (from Watchmen) - the surface of Mars and a blue man sits on a small rock with a huge sky full of stars above.
It is of course the hit superhuman entity of the summer (summer 1986), Doc Manhattan - who is having a think about his situation alone, away from people who are annoying and not immortal even one bit, esp if - allegedly - he gives them cancer.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 14d

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 14d

Jeremy Irons is in a suit, with a slicked back hair, sitting a chair with hand in the air as if giving a sermon. The quote is "We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price". It is a scene from Margin Call where he has instructed his staff to sell what they know is junk to other banks, in order to get out from under the financial collapse incoming

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 19d

“Child loses patience with situation child has engineered for self”

A Wall Street Journal headline ‘Trump is losing patience over an Iran war with no clear end in sight’

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· 24d

My Minister for AI

A still from the 1980s UK show Metal Mickey. Some civil servant type people sit at desks and on the right hand side of the picture is a very clunky silver robot with a wide oblong chest with LEDs; and a hemispherical head with two sticking out ears, red eyes and blue panels somewhat like a crap R2D2 knockoff. Fun fact: Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees directed and produced the show.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jul 5

I am a single issue voter

A farmers market sign reads ‘free cheese for dogs’

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jul 3

In your shrivelled world view, with your tiny heart, all you can conceive of is that someone might rip YOU off, and of course, Juno is lying, and now I am lying also, for clout. Everyone is out to get you! The world is terrifying, and unkind! 1/

A venmo transaction to Juno Schultz for fiddy dollars.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jun 20

“Some day this algae’s gonna end”

Robert Duvall as Col Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. He wears a cavalry hat, dog tags but is stripped to the waist. He is crouching on a beach while a helicopter assault is taking place behind him.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jun 16

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jun 11

Maria: Why'd you leave the keys upon the table? Von Trapps: You wanted to Maria: Here you go create another fable Von Trapps: You wanted to

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jun 9

Ah! That’s this fragrance. “Is my fragrance unsound?” “I…smell no fragrance at all, sir”

A fancy clear perfume bottle with a silver dispenser: the label reads ‘Heart of Darkness’ - Timothy Han / Edition.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jun 7

I FORGOT - there's a freakin Dambo troll outside also. What's NOT to love!

A wooden troll, made by Thomas Dambo and standing maybe 2 floors high, stands in front of the entrance to the Nordic Museum in Ballard, Seattle. The troll is made from many small shingles, has spiky hair and big teeth, and is standing looking forward and down with arms by its sides, palms open. As well as being wood, it is also awesome.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Jun 3

Come clean, do you have a conversation pit

A room with lime green carpeting and lime green curtains contains a hexagonal conversation pit - ie an area with a stepped down area at seating height. It could probably seat about 6-8 people. There are green scatter cushions on the It has a pretend stone wall at one side with 2 shelves, contain a turntable; the lower shelf contains many LPs.
Front and center is a Grace Jones LP ( I think, Slave to the Rhythm? But what do YOU think? Have a seat, tell me)

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· May 28

Hey look, probably nothing but the wall of Dem fundraising texts on my phone seems to have abated also. Has someone with 'ideas' and 'principles' appeared?

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· May 23

Recalled some BBC radio comedy sketch. An uptight Brit dad and his son are at therapy. The therapist asks him to say how he feels about his son. "I know him", he tentatively tries. The therapist says "This is your son, maybe you can say something deeper?". The dad says "I know him very much?"

An X post by @Acyn, with a picture from Fox News of Donald Trump (and a man with a protruding belly button, though that's neither here nor there).
The text describes the interview:
Reporter: "Are you attending your son's wedding?"
Donald Trump: "He'd like me to go. I'm going to try. I said this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. He's a person I've known for a long time."

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· May 12

Ostensibly some loafers, this is a pair of shoes carefully carved from two small baguettes. The decoration on the front is some salami with 3 olives and the laces appear to be string cheese

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· May 10

First thrown off Kid Cudi’s tour, now the head of Iran? Paper Planes being in Slumdog Millionaire really opened doors 🤷‍♂️

A Wall Street Journal headline, as snapped by Apple News: “Iran’s Supreme Leader is MIA, Just When Negotiators Need Him Most”

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· May 10

A: Well, this is a very complex question; many suspect Nolan is executing a 'temporal pincer' and we will shortly find out his future ouvre runs in reverse to leave us trapped in the present.

A Google 'common questions' box contains:
People also ask
What is the order of Christopher Nolan's movies?

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· May 1

West Seattle, Capitol Hill, Bellevue

Tina Fey, Timothee Chalamet, and Kylie Jenner sit courtside at a basketball game

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Apr 30

Several extra-special delivery shit days recently (personal, national and global levels included!), but I am reminded:

Snoopy is wearing a red nightcap, and is reaching across a kitchen counter to put spray cream on top of a big bowl of ice cream and chocolate sauce (the containers are visible in the background, and what I hope are chocolate sprinkles in another bowl). Snoopy has a slightly worried expression with a wiggly mouth, which I strongly interpret as 'he is a bit worried he's overdone his ice cream treat' but then all good bois deserve a big treat.
The caption is 'no revenge because I am the love I give, not the love I receive'

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Apr 30

Do they though

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Apr 26

Sir Hiss, a sketchty looking snake from the 60s (?!?) cartoon version of the Jungle Book - he wears a cape and a hat with a feather, and his forked tongue is sticking out.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Apr 20

Get-tae-ken-yer-ABC-Warriors-history

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Apr 4

'Topological emergency', without care, converts into NaN at runtime

An old lady grasps her glasses by the right side, as she looks at a laptop screen.
Or also, a nan looks at a NaN

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Apr 3

Garth Marenghi (a man in a weird black leather jacket and tinted glasses with slicked back hair) is saying “I’m one of the few people who’ve written more book than they’ve read”

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Mar 28

Big fans of trickledown economics out in numbers* at the sovcit type counter protest in Olympia WA. *27

About 30 counter protesters are gathered across the street from the WA Capitol lawn for the “No King Ferguson” rally hosted by the Washington State Republican Party. Protestors are chanting “no king Bob” and talking about their dissatisfaction with the passage of the state’s income tax on millionaires. Signs read "Veto the income tax!' and "2nd amendment and no income tax in our constitution".
It looks, to honest, lame AF.

Allan Murphy@cullenskink· Mar 25

The whole ship shimmies Yeah the whole ship shimmies Asteroids are movin' around And around and around