Tobjorn

@torbjornr

Software Developer by day, anxiety developer by night. He/Him.

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Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jul 10

Well, that's just... I mean I can't... WELL FINE! That's fine.

"Friendship Ended with Mudasir" meme, amateurishly edited to read
"Friendship ended with Shaghik. Now accurate timekeeping is my best friend."
Image in which a man (assumed to be the poster) is shaking hands with another man (whose head has here been replaced by an American Football scoreboard/clock, with crossed out images of Shaghik in the corners.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jul 9

I spoke with my good friend Mitch McConnell today for about 20 minutes.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jul 4

It's literally on the image. It's IN THE PHOTO.

Closeup of the lower left corner of the "artwork" in question, which includes the legend "Tools applied: Generative AI text-2-image and neural style transfer and Adobe Photoshop"

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jul 3

Updated

Edit of a famous XKCD comic called "Dependency" in which all modern digital infrastructure is depicted as a precarious stacking of blocks of different size, with an arrow pointing to one thin, crucial supporting block.
The legend next to the arrow has been edited to read "Sleep-deprived autistic FOSS maintainers surviving in a continuous state of burnout since 2003."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jun 25

I feel like Cheburashka is SURPRISINGLY well-known in the USA, in that kitschy-soviet-animation-referenced-in-cartoons way, but maybe just on sight? Also I may just be very weird, a lot of signs indicate I am very weird.

Cheburashka on a counter in front of Gena the Crocodile, talking to a shopkeeper.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jun 18

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jun 4

Later, they would all remember the horror of that day, of the moment when it happened, when the Shadow of Death fell upon them, when they looked up to the sky for mercy, and found none. "Haha! Death from Above! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" he cried, then and in their nightmares ever since...

A cute little sugar glider with limbs outflung to present as much surface area as possible for a long, gliding jump...

Tobjorn@torbjornr· May 1

Mario "You dropped this, queen" meme, in which the crown Mario holds out to the viewer has been amateurishly covered up by line art of a ukelele.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· May 1

Truly an inspiration to us all.

An orange cat on the floor being super twisty with all his feets looking mildly combative but definitely extremely hard to butter. Alongside the cat, text has been added in a spray-stencil font, reading "BECOME UNBUTTERABLE"

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 27

Me watching the same video (over @mikerugnetta.com's shoulder through a window, for some reason, don't judge, you don't know me...)

Meme image of a man wearing a shirt that reads "SICKOS" leaning up to stare through a window while saying "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 24

... I am now embarrassed at the volume of CMON products I backed, some still sitting in my house MiB because I never got around to opening and using them during The Plague Years...

Certificate that reads

You have been awarded:
one yike
from the Nation Committee of Yikes

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 22

TechBros reinventing the wheel AGAIN like

Famous "Exceedingly Efficient" meme scene from Matrix: Revolutions in which the Architect threatens Neo with the destruction of everyone he loves, captioned "Rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have "disrupted an entire Industry" and we have become exceedingly inefficient at it."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 20

Image of Clippy, Microsoft's original Virtual Assistant that famously interrupted your work sessions to ask to "help" you, saying:

It looks like you’re expecting me to read two pages of mechanically homogenized and extruded writing-like product.
Would you like to:
● Talk to me directly as a human being
○ Absolutely fuck all the way off

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 15

If they weren't a real band, how would they have an album on Spotify, huh? Huh? Answer me that! AND apple music AND bandcamp? WITH a new EP to boot? QED&D.

Very obvious photoshop of a Parks and Recreation meme in which an extremely depressed Ben Wyatt holds up his stop motion doll asking "Do you think a depressed person could make this?"

The doll is covered by a screenshot of the album All That Remains by Broadside, from Spotify, and two words are covered in obvious red overlay letters to make the text read "Do you think a FICTIONAL BAND could make this?"

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 14

I mean, many. It's many. What part of many is unclear? How much more do you really need to know? Why ask so many questions? What could you gain from knowing the answers?

Much-memed still from the television show Severance, in which Adam Scott's character Mark admonishes a skeptical coworker that "the work is mysterious and important."

In this case, it has been re-captioned to read "The sides are mysterious and many."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 7

I hyperfixated on capabilities and best practices for a weekend, so I'm basically an expert now. 🤞

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 2

Important to remember that calculators and computers are named after women like Katherine Johnson, the human beings those machines were built to emulate. When NASA first switched to digital computers, for John Glenn's orbit around the Earth, he REFUSED TO FLY unless Johnson checked their work.

$"Invincible" meme in which the hero Omniman talks to his son, hero name Invincible, while observing fighter jets fly by in the distance, saying "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!" In this meme, Omniman has been labeled "Katherine Johnson." The fighter jets are captioned "A complex global supply chain of rare earth minerals, lithium, silicon chips to produce magic boxes all hooked up through millions of miles of copper wire and fiber optic cable."$

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 2

And games ARE an art. You CANNOT become good at making art without being SOME kind of pervert. Machines can't sublimate their repressed desires into obsessive artistic practice, thus they will never truly "get it." You have to create the old fashioned way, out of misdirected sexual frustration.

Obvious edit of a famous slide from a 1970s IBM presentation. The original slide said "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a business decision."
The text in this version has been sloppily painted over in white to instead read "A computer can never be HORNY, therefore a computer must never make ART."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Apr 1

Wait, wait - you're dealing with a *literal* "Old Man Yells At Cloud" scenario? Abe? Abe is that you?

Still frame from an episode of The Simpsons showing a newspaper clipping with the headline "Old Man Yells at Cloud", and an image of Abe (AKA "Grandpa") Simpson shaking his fist at a cloud.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Mar 18

In my experience...

A meme made of a pair of screenshots from the show "Invincible", in which the father answers his son's question about how exactly you breathe in space by saying "That's the neat part - you don't!"

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Mar 8

Image from the infamous Japanese Parliament Brawl, in which on of the more elderly statesmen clutches the microphone to make a statement while a dogpile of other men fight either to protect or to reach him.
Caption reads: "Would."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Mar 5

I cannot stress enough that 90% of "new" tech-bro-induced problems are already covered by an education in the humanities...

A depiction of the allegory of Plato's Cave in the style of Hellenic pottery art, in which a man puppeteers a shadow of a bird in front of a denizen of the cave, who thus perceives it as the bird itself.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Feb 24

Early boosters really hyped the far-flung dystopian risks of SkyNet and AM and so on turning on humanity to try to pretend the homogenized plagiarism extruder was so much BIGGER than it was, but really, we're just going to wipe ourselves out due to anthropomorphizing, apophenia, and capitalism...

John Connor, the young protagonist of Terminator 2, asks the original model terminator "We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Feb 21

I don't often wind up with a conversation starter etched into my flesh, but when I do, it's because I didn't consider the full ramifications of my actions!

The Most Interesting Man in the World, from the Dos Equis advertisement series, made famous in the form of "I don't always X, but when I do I Y" memes.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Feb 19

*taps the sign*

edit of a printout from a 1979 IBM presentation featuring the adage "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision

Sections have been whited-out and written over in red to instead say "A computer can never be HORNY, therefore a computer must never make ART."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Feb 11

*taps the sign*

Terrible edit of a printout from a 1979 IBM presentation featuring the adage "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision

Sections have been whited-out and written over in red to instead say "A computer can never be HORNY, therefore a computer must never make ART."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Feb 7

Oh, god, yes, weird to say when dealing with audiences in the thousands/millions, but creating art is such an *intimate* and revealing thing, with all the risks of rejection and humiliation and emotional scarring that opening yourself up always entails... "Here, this is ME... what do you think?"

Screenshot from Parks And Rec in which Ben Wyatt leans back from playing the game he created, "The Cones of Dunshire" to deliver a come-from-behind victory against his opponent, telling said opponent that the game is not about the various side goals and points, "It's about the cones" - except in this meme edit, the subtitle has been altered to read "It's about the mortifying ordeal of being known."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Feb 2

The problem is that you CAN'T hide that glorious cover art, either. So, obviously, you need *two* copies of the 'zine edition, and to match the appropriate energy you actually need masking tape and a sharpie. Proof of concept attached, bonus points for more unhinged lettering and phrase breaks...

(Poorly) photoshopped edit of the All's Fair cover in which strips of blue "masking tape" have been attached to hide the original title, replacing it with "Nasha Barridge Stopped a Fascist Regime by Wanting to Fuck Her Pathetic Boyfriend Crazy Style and You Can Too" in a bold handwritten font, as though drawn on with sharpie.

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jan 29

Listen, just because that's an essential part of the Dillin Experience™ does NOT mean I can't occasionally curse his sudden but inevitable betrayal.

Quickly faked screenshot of a fictitious Fallout New Vegas dialogue with a three-armed, three-eyestalked robot named Missus Trimbly, in which the player has chosen the dialogue option ""I could fix her." Yeah? Well I could accept her as she is. You don't like the murder? Grow up. The atrocities are part of her and I’ve decided they're funny."

Tobjorn@torbjornr· Jan 27

Wait, wait, wait, I just caught up through the episode of Kings of Mahatt with the Secret Origin of the hilarious running gag where Mrs Trimbly is always taking care of a young bird and comically unaware that said bird is occasionally meeting a terrible end and being (quite obviously) replaced...