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Andy Pearlman

@apearlma.bsky.social

Faculty at School of Visual Arts, Painter. Teach Photoshop for Coloring - comics & illustrators. He/him. Likes puns. https://andypearlman.com/paintings.html

created June 19, 2023

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Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

I will continue to post Photoshop facts as I remember them. As classes are starting up, this is probably much more likely in the next few weeks.

2/9/2025, 3:57:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah, i really liked the 1 like, will post weird facts thread that happened about a month ago for that reason

2/9/2025, 3:55:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reposted

one like, one weird photoshop fact

28/7/2025, 12:16:48 AM | 70 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

there was, at least when i left, a heavy amount of "look at these current events popular on twitter that are from a RW perspective" etc...I was using the tweak new twitter script to remove all the various nonsense, but a non-expert user would see most of it.

2/9/2025, 3:52:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

yup, conversations with people who know things, who have expertise, who can crack funny jokes, who are reasonably accurate on news, especially relating to their field...where else does one get that except on social media. and blue sky, if one follows the right people, really good at that…

2/9/2025, 3:48:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

good thing penguin has not in the past few years tried to do anything that might need an extra vote from scotus... wait, being handed a note...

2/9/2025, 3:44:30 PM | 12 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

"how can i have reach if i find having reach makes me annoyed???"

2/9/2025, 3:40:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 3:11:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Most vicious parrot ever

2/9/2025, 2:36:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

nate: blue sky evangelicals are why democrats are doing badly

2/9/2025, 2:33:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

It is almost entirely the dual loyalty trope. One can accuse the Israeli government and implicitly, a large percentage of its citizens, of being horrible without simultaneously accusing Jews of being such.

2/9/2025, 12:54:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reposted

!

2/9/2025, 2:01:02 AM | 24 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

lol

2/9/2025, 2:32:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social)

!

2/9/2025, 2:01:02 AM | 24 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

remember the blueostics?

2/9/2025, 1:49:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

it is just killing me that i live outside the city, but i work in the city every day and cannot vote for him for that reason

2/9/2025, 1:33:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 6:38:13 PM | 6453 1171 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

he escaped in carcinisation

14/5/2025, 5:20:24 PM | 63 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

grant morrison/rachel pollack runs are great and for reasons beyond rational explanation, doom patrol, the tv show, is actually based on what those two authors wrote and done fantastically well.

1/9/2025, 10:48:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

fall can be draining

1/9/2025, 10:45:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

not sure if you've ever read doom patrol, but driver 8 is the basis for crazy jane(also fav song here, in part because of that, but because i like it)

1/9/2025, 10:43:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't worry, it is terminal. I mean, you just need to open up terminal

1/9/2025, 10:18:30 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

57, starting 30th year as professor at School of Visual Arts.

1/9/2025, 9:59:22 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

"people mean to me should not do well electorally, this is just common sense."

1/9/2025, 8:22:49 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elle 🐱 (@ellebae.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again

original portrait shot of Barack Obama, highly pixelated on left. Unblurred version on right looks like a white guy with tan ski
1/9/2025, 4:38:22 PM | 2427 597 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

whoo, dodged a ballot there

1/9/2025, 4:15:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

i always like to think that if there is a heaven, it is probably hell for specific people. i don't think there is one for a variety of reasons, but that's the possible upside.

1/9/2025, 4:01:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Bug fix report: replaced the name of all months except September with September to reduce confusion

1/9/2025, 3:34:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

like it could be this: India's biggest "client," a totally one sided relationship, for many decades. They have charged us such high Tariffs, the most of any country, our businesses are unable to sell into India. Totally one sided disaster! Offered to cut their Tariffs to nothing, but too late!!

1/9/2025, 3:15:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

so many passive starts to sentences too instead of declarative

1/9/2025, 2:53:34 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe a light blue "bsky supporter" checkmark or something like that, but I don't think I'm alone in that idea of "you have created something of value to me, I am willing to contribute to help keep you doing that"

1/9/2025, 1:28:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd happily pay $100/year for Bluesky as it exists now even if the option to pay was voluntary and added no extra features.

1/9/2025, 1:24:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

"oh good thing we can just import the food we need when the other two major breadbasket countries in the world are fighting a war against each other and we're tariffing everything."

31/8/2025, 1:50:13 PM | 39 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

all the wars with east asia stopped, if only we were not at war with east asia

1/9/2025, 3:18:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social)

My all-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: Star Wars: A New Hope(with my grandfather and brother, having no idea) My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: The Long Good Friday QT with your answers to these two questions.

1/9/2025, 1:53:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd also note that means in general, you have the NY'er ethos of helping out a lost tourist if you specifically have the time.

31/8/2025, 8:42:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Fall harvest likely to be really weird in a whole bunch of states, even if the government tosses money with abandon at farmers.

31/8/2025, 8:30:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

sisyphus: "i just have to roll a boulder up the hill every day. you have to find your way out of that house? wow..."

31/8/2025, 8:18:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

np

31/8/2025, 8:09:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

there are so many bodies trapped somewhere in that house

31/8/2025, 8:08:53 PM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

definitely why asking questions answered by the t-shirt problems

31/8/2025, 8:01:21 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Jerry, impersonating account(I blocked & reported them)

@jerrychen70.bsky.social impersonating account
31/8/2025, 7:58:50 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah, why not just start at Mayor was struck from behind at high speed

31/8/2025, 7:54:28 PM | 45 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

After my 2nd grade public school teacher tried to hold a nativity play and it got canceled because my parents rightfully said wtf, I'd then mumble through the 'under God' part having recognized that it was not my God they were referring to at all.

31/8/2025, 7:11:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

easily fooled by a facade

31/8/2025, 6:58:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

particularly if one doesn't count illegal police action by the military as the crimes that they are

31/8/2025, 6:28:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kaitlin Ruiz (@kaitlinruiz.bsky.social) reposted

Edmonton: Fiasco (the gray cat) is still missing. please please keep an eye out and spread the word!!!!

31/8/2025, 6:19:37 PM | 56 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

There is no explicit prohibition against the President cancelling elections, so it's hard to see why liberals think they are entitled to elections in 2026 and 2028. by Jonathan Turley

31/8/2025, 6:13:21 PM | 1302 144 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

of quartz he did

31/8/2025, 4:53:59 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

there was one time where we couldn't find one of our cats when a whole bunch of things were going wrong and my heart just sank into my chest. fortunately, he was just hiding in our closet. i hope you find fiasco soon, so sorry you're going through this.

31/8/2025, 4:37:50 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

"these people i've never met in my life, who cares if they live or die if they scare some people who have never had a conversation with one of them in their lives." every single trans student I've ever had has been great.

31/8/2025, 4:32:30 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

results seemed somewhat random. deep cuts on narrow topics rather more generalized potential interests.

31/8/2025, 4:01:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

wait, i tried it again:

same picture as above with everything but word
31/8/2025, 3:51:43 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

strange how he's always there when a cop falls ill with fentanyl

31/8/2025, 2:26:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

and there's nothing trump and dc republicans can do when the people they're counting on to twist the mechanics of voting to favor them are angry at trump and dc republicans.

31/8/2025, 2:03:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

farmers are going to be massively short workers this fall, all the countries that could help us cover food shortages are either massively tariff'd or waging war against each other. we're going have soviet-style grocery shelves and no central pricing. and red areas of red states are going to freak.

31/8/2025, 1:58:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

we're going to have soviet-era grocery store shelves and high prices simultaneously

31/8/2025, 1:54:44 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Step 1. Collect tariffs. Step 2. ????? Step 3. PROFIT

31/8/2025, 1:51:52 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

"oh good thing we can just import the food we need when the other two major breadbasket countries in the world are fighting a war against each other and we're tariffing everything."

31/8/2025, 1:50:13 PM | 39 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

And this is before the fall harvest when farms are going to be looking for workers everywhere...

31/8/2025, 1:48:51 PM | 36 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

It checks the same boxes, but the cool thing about the one I listed is the consistency of the rice. Which is hard to tell without having used it. Amazon does have a labor day sale going on for Zojurushi, but wire cutter liked this one the best of the cheaper rice cookers:

31/8/2025, 1:44:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

i know of at least one of those moving trucks via kid

31/8/2025, 1:38:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

number of times ive been stared at as an adult...

31/8/2025, 12:21:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

well except to feed the cat of course

31/8/2025, 11:49:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

never move again

31/8/2025, 11:48:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Think it is reasonably clear at this point that most of the former kid actors would refuse to work with her unless she changed her views. Especially the important 3.

31/8/2025, 10:28:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Really just ugh. So sorry Karen

31/8/2025, 10:05:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

It used to, but with the change over from metrocard to omni card, they changed that.

31/8/2025, 2:17:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Our commuter benefits card for subway no longer works that way, it goes directly onto an omni card.

31/8/2025, 2:13:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

that the knicks couldn't convince dolan that he'd more than pay for himself with tire advertising is one of the most wild subplots of all that

31/8/2025, 2:08:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah, things where I know I can hyper focus on things and then get a tap saying "stand up, walk around for a minute" annoying the omni card does not appear to function with it or the iPhone

31/8/2025, 2:01:20 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

nuke some food, know I want to check on it in 5 minutes, go off and do something that takes approximately 5 minutes. health info is great stuff, especially the circles saying "hey, did you hit this stand/exercise/etc...goals for the day"

31/8/2025, 1:53:20 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

a dice tower that's a wombat with an open mouth and for rolling 6 sided dice

31/8/2025, 1:30:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

one of my favorite things when I wasn't a pescatarian was taking a chicken, putting spices and vegetables with it, water, and putting all that into a slow cooker on low for 8 hours...

31/8/2025, 1:28:45 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

appears to be a self-replicating error?

31/8/2025, 12:55:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

are we really sure that's a cat, it could be a rare black furry snake!

31/8/2025, 12:51:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

sal and carmine's is/was great pizza when i lived near there about a decade ago, though i think the kids are now running it

31/8/2025, 12:50:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

"if you announce me dead..."

30/8/2025, 10:59:30 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

what do you mean?

a combination of a super colorful turkey and an ocelet cat
30/8/2025, 10:57:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

wait, you don't see the miniature baby land-dwelling orca?

something might be hiding in this photo and i think it is a baby miniature land-dwelling orca circled in red
30/8/2025, 10:47:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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guess today's the day when i find out if a kid i knew as a kindergartener gets to play as a college football player on the first possible day

30/8/2025, 10:42:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the kind of thing where they lose about 48 states out of 50. People can ignore themselves doing well due to D policies, but it is going to be hard to avoid that shelves are barren when only Rs are in control.

30/8/2025, 10:18:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

some of the extra fuel seems a bit eager...

30/8/2025, 9:52:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the jigsaw puzzle will be staring at you in the mirror until you get it done

30/8/2025, 4:09:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if only someone else had OD'd sadly

30/8/2025, 4:03:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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rapscallions are built on hope

30/8/2025, 3:13:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

tbf, he may be in the beginnings of "Ah, who is nigh? Come to me, friend or foe..."

30/8/2025, 3:08:28 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

wouldn't that create a jigsaw puzzle out of your face tho?

30/8/2025, 3:00:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats! Looks awesome.

30/8/2025, 3:04:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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penny coated in fool's gold just to make him feel at home

30/8/2025, 2:55:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ask them if they're now ready to go to mars

30/8/2025, 2:54:05 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Mullis (@stevemullis.net) reposted

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

29/8/2025, 9:14:30 PM | 13305 3557 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

I think, regardless of whatever this is, they are likely at each other's throats in ways that would be hard to predict if they were certain he is about to die or died.

30/8/2025, 1:57:59 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

bsky.app/profile/rick...

30/8/2025, 12:32:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CVS person: why are they depressed at the age of 10

30/8/2025, 12:15:55 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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blocked, reported, tsked at

30/8/2025, 12:14:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same, even for the year

29/8/2025, 11:39:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

Right, but that particular one should be in almost no one's workflow, even if they use it. Like at least rename it Web Colors(last century)

29/8/2025, 10:19:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

still always fascinates me that a basic tool that should see use all the time, has a button that's just wrong for the past 25 years or so almost all monitors, phones, etc...have at least millions of colors. that button serves no real purposes.

Color Picker from Photoshop, with a button named
29/8/2025, 10:07:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Pearlman (@apearlma.bsky.social) reply parent

had no idea of anything

29/8/2025, 9:50:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view