Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)

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I write stories and make music and videos and digital paintings and iOS apps and whatever You may know me from Former CEO of BabyCorp

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 10d

A photo of Donald Trump's shitty book "The Art of the Deal" photoshopped to look like it says "The Perimeters of the Deal", an absurd phrase that means nothing, just like its author.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 10d

I made a website a few years ago that'd show you whether or not COVID would've wiped out your entire city if the deaths were geographically concentrated there, and if so, what other cities would also be gone to make up the difference. joshcrowley.com/howmanycities/

How Many Cities Gone?
Geographically Concentrating COVID Deaths
Where are you from?
omaha
Omaha, Nebraska (pop: 847,819)
Your city is gone!
...and so is:
Winter Haven, Florida (pop: 267,069)
Snohomish, Washington (pop: 10,154)

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 14d

“You know, and the one guy is like ‘this is an ex-fish! It has ceased to be!’ And the other guy keeps trying to say the fish is alive but pining for the fjords.”

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 15d

Continuing to paint sad-looking Muppets. I actually fucking love digital painting the more I do it, and I think I’m getting better and learning more with each one. No clue in hell why anyone would just go “hey slop machine, paint me Elmo in the darkness.”

A digital painting of Elmo from Sesame Street, a red furry Muppet with big eyes and an orange nose.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 18d

Photo of a fish next to photo of bottom half of a fish with a headline reading “Racist Bass Angry Bottom Half Of Ariel Portrayed By Mahi Mahi In Latest "Little Mermaid" Adaptation”

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 19d

Get ready for the Christmas Carol Expanded Universe!! We've got 9 films slated for 2026-27: Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol Tiny Tim: First Steps Ghosts: The Dark Past Chasing Belle Christmas Never to Come Fezziwig: Origins Tiny Tim Forever Cratchit: Age of Ultron Marley and Me

A photo of Johnny Depp dressed as Ebeneezer Scrooge on the stage at the San Diego Comic Convention. Four men are seated at a long table to stage left, and a massive screen behind them displays a top-half shot of Depp.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 20d

I had no idea Procreate had this feature. Anyway I guess this is how I made my digital painting of Oscar.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 21d

The Electoral College is a huge problem in U.S. politics and everything, but it also doesn't help that the best Democrats apparently have to offer these days are played-out genocide advocates and Republican Lite dorks whose selling point seems to be that they hate homeless people

Excerpt from Intelligencer article reading, "Harris is running in 2028. "Her mindset is that I should have won, and I am going to do it my way because my way would have won, and it was all these consultants that were telling me to take this position or that position, and it was their fault.""

Votehub: Who leads the 2028 Democratic presidential primary? Live, time-weighted average of polls measuring support for potential candidates in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary.

The graph shows Harris at 30.1%, Newsom at 17.3%, Buttigieg at 10.9%, Ocasio-Cortez at 9.8%, Shapiro at 6.9%, and Beshear at 2.8%.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 26d

Some progress. Maybe it’s done? I’m still kinda new to digital painting. Hoping to one day get a more realistic look to these but I think I’m close on the lip.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· 29d

Working on this horrifying painting of a very haunted Grover, titled "I Was Always the Monster at the End of This Book". Not sure if it's done yet. Digital in Procreate. Why anyone would offload this kind of thing to an AI is beyond me.

A horrifying digital painting of Grover from Sesame Street

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jul 2

You're SO CLOSE to the answer, which is that the Democratic primary for President is an extremely flawed and bad system for picking a candidate. Considering this donation map from the 2020 primary, which candidate do you think would've had the broadest support in a general nationwide election?

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jun 27

“If you’re a Democrat but don’t think we should do anything about climate change and believe a woman’s place is in the kitchen, I’m talking to you!”

Facebook post from Van Jones reading “Reasonable Democrats are going to have to get off their couches, roll up their sleeves and start organizing real voters on the ground.
We can no longer rely only on TV ads, digital spend and endorsements. Just donating from afar and complaining about the DSA won't cut it.
The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) can beat moderates in a growing number of blue strongholds.
Why? Because the DSA has patiently built an army of on-the-ground organizers - who go to meetings, help each other, study together and THEN work to turn out voters on Election Day. That army grows every day - election or no election. Their investment in real people grows (and compounds) with each election cycle. The DSA has a bigger army, every time, win or lose.
But at the end of any election, all moderate Dems have for their efforts is a bunch of ads that nobody will ever see again. That's not going to work anymore.
If you are a Democrat who believes in opportunity, dignity and democracy for all — but you don't hate rich people, cops, free enterprise, the West, Israel and the United States of America - I'm talking to you!”

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jun 9

lol oh god, I just looked up Spitting Image Trump and it's pretty delightful, but no, not that, it's like… this crude brown claymation face and I feel like it was part of some sequence where they made the crude face and it sang or talked and then it animated into something else

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jun 4

Ah shit, if I ever become a director (which was my aspiration when I was younger and something I'd still like to do eventually) I hope this doesn't get confusing…

Those who saw the artist's 2022 Netflix documentary Not Just a Girl know there's plenty of material to work with, as the Joss Crowley-directed film touched on Twain's difficult childhood, and how contracting Lyme disease sidelined her career.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jun 4

lmao I'll just leave this here then: Around 90,000,000 eligible voters don't vote, and that's in the Presidential elections. It's way higher for midterms and other elections. You can motivate them to show up by giving them a reason to beyond "we're less bad!"

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jun 3

Matt Forney

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Jun 3

lol reminds me of

A screenshot of a tweet from a very long time ago posted by Eli Lake, edited by deleting characters so that it appears to read "@Bro_Pair I broke my toilet."

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 30

Okay, it's impossible to overstate how incredibly dangerous this is. Google's AI is fabricating things from whole cloth, reasoning backwards from the question it's been given, and it INCLUDES REFERENCES to support its response, but the references have nothing to do with the answers it imagines!

Google AI Overview search result reading:

"In the episode "Daphne Does Dinner", Niles mistakenly serves a meat and potatoes dish containing what he believes are Daphne’s mother's ashes. The shocking discovery results in an absurd sequence of events where the Crane family desperately tries to hide what happened and comfort a sobbing Daphne." (With references to Reddit.)

The Dinner Party Disaster
Niles agrees to co-host an intimate, high-society dinner party to show off his newfound ability to work well with Daphne. Unfortunately, right as guests begin arriving, everything goes wrong: A visiting artist accidentally damages a valuable museum painting.Daphne's cooking starts to burn, and her mother's distracting behavior ruins the mood. To save the party, Frasier secretly takes over the cooking in the kitchen. (With reference to IMDB.)

The "Ashes" Revelation
Frasier prepares a savory dish using a mysterious tin of "seasoning" he finds in the pantry. During the dinner, the truth comes out: Niles reveals the tin actually contained the ashes of Daphne's beloved pet dog (or, in a widely circulated fan theory/misremembered urban legend, her mother's ashes). The horrified party guests realize they have just eaten it, leading to widespread panic and disgust. (With reference to IMDB.)

The Aftermath
The situation completely derails the dinner party, leaving Niles and Daphne dealing with the fallout of the ruined evening. The guests abandon the party, and the chaos leaves a lasting memory for everyone involved, becoming one of the most famous and uncomfortable dinner party disasters in the show's history. (With reference to Reddit.)

At the bottom is the disclaimer, "AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses"

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 29

If you showed me a photo of any of these men in a more modern grey ill-fitting suit and you were like "this is Donald Trump's son-in-law and he's Secretary of the Interior" or whatever I would be like "yeah that tracks". Like, I'm pretty sure the guy in the green hat actually IS Pete Hegseth

A promotional photo from the 1990s Dick Tracy movie showing a bunch of villains—Flat Top, Prune Face, etc, all grotesque-looking except for Madonna who looks like a stunning femme fatale and one guy who looks relatively normal except he wears thick weird glasses.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 29

The entire Trump administration looks like those old rogues' galleries from Dick Tracy comics.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 26

This in particular is something I don't see discussed often enough, as people get banned over hostile sentiments toward people who could probably at this point order drone strikes on U.S. soil and get away with it

This incomplete definition of harm also ignores that politicians and world leaders — and by extension supporters and advocates who empower them — actually have the ability to inflict it on others, whereas a sentiment of ill will carries about as much power as an imagined whisper dampened by the long dewy grasses of a vast open field. You can spend hours every day hoping out loud for someone to die, and while it will eventually happen, it certainly won’t be because you told your friends you wished it would. Meanwhile, your state’s elected officials can actually pass laws that will put you through the greatest misery of your life, and they obtain the power to do so by openly and freely campaigning — including on social media.

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 20

Hey guys I found Jar Jar Binks’s favorite yogurt

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 18

"Everyone stopped protesting" lmao Also, wow, huge surprise that college students haven't been protesting as much considering that the Biden and Democrats in power aggressively targeted them for protesting against Israel's genocide… huge mystery. What could've caused fewer protests??

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 17

Alternatively, maybe he just wants two girlfriends

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 17

Weesa celebratsing!!

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 10

lol had this left open on my laptop and refreshed the page and imagine how bad your thoughts have to be that the single word "fart" in response to what you said gets way more likes

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· May 5

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Apr 23

Are you sure about that?

Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)@joshcrowley· Apr 16

I'm expecting this to be a two-word article that just says "Rape culture." Like… it's not hard to figure out, in the same country where dudes can commit sexual assault and still keep their high-profile careers most of the time and where the President is a pedophile who skirts all consequences.