Jake Mauer

@jakemauer.bsky.social

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Fix your hearts or die.

Death Sidious Kermit saying “do it”
The bulbous and organically shaped Mon Calamari cruiser from Return of the Jedi.
A brown and white husky trying to catch a treat with one side of his mouth looking at the camera lazily.
A screencap from the 1941 animated cartoon "Chef Donald" showing a Donald duck stirring ingredients into a bowl with a milk carafe and a non-descript metal shaker to the left and a jar of baking power and bottle of rubber cement to our right.
Hank the brown husky mix is curled up on the couch looking at the camera.
The classic "I Voted" sticker you get in elections in the United States
The front faceplate of a JVC KD-SH707 car stereo. It's silver plastic with a black screen with square white pixels.
A Diamond RioVolt portable CD MP3 player that looks VERY late 90's early 2000's in design. Silver plastic, blue accents, semi-organic shaped buttons.
A picture of the Eiger MPMan F-10, the first portable MP3 player available in the United States. It looks like the black box for a deck of cards but with a tiny digital screen like you'd find on a cheap quartz watch and two glossy silver buttons to either side.
A closeup shot of a Diamond Riō PMP300 MP3 player show it's logo and model number.
"Gowron for Klingon High Council" in the style of Zohran for New York City using Foone's creation tool.
The two spidermans pointing at each other meme
A post from Jon Gruber's blog Daring Fireball that begins: Good and thoughtful graphic essay by Matthew Inman, expressing why he dislikes AI-generated art. It’s been widely linked to, largely approvingly. I fundamentally disagree with the premise. Near the start, Inman writes: When I consume AI art, it also evokes a feeling. Good, bad, neutral — whatever. Until I find out that it’s AI art. Then I feel deflated, grossed out, and maybe a little bit bored. This feeling isn’t a choice. I think it very much is a choice. If your opinion of a work art changes after you find out which tools were used to make it, or who the artist is or what they’ve done, you’re no longer judging the art. You’re making a choice not to form your opinion based on the work itself, but rather on something else. If you refuse to watch Woody Allen movies because of his personal life, that’s a choice, but you’re choosing not to watch some of the best movies that have ever been made.
A brown husky mix dog laying asleep with his head nestled against the armrest of a brown leather couch.
Blu Ray box for the movie Virtuosity held by a person's hand. It's a somewhat abstract illustration with angular tubes and a human head made of half filled in green coloring and half white wireframe with VIRTUOSITY spelled vertically bisecting in the middle.
Box art for the Blu Ray release of Phase IV held by a person's hand. A white background with black ants. The negative space around the ants creates a skull shape. The title PHASE IV A FILM BY SAUL BASS are set in red in an all caps typeface.
Don Draper played by John Hamm in Mad Men wearing a gray knit shawl sweater and white collared button down shirt holding a glass of presumably scotch to sooth his "hot tooth" as he sits up in bed.
A 65% mechanical keyboard, a Massdrop ALT v1 with cream, orange, green, blue, and gray keys. The keycaps are XDA Canvas with runic alphas and micons which have runic symbols instead of the alphabet. The backlight is set to an RGB gradient. They keyboard has a coiled USB cable
A gaming pillow that looks like a large curling puck with a steam deck attached at the handle.
Cover art of the album "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by the Vince Guardaldi Trio. A color illustration of Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus holding hands in front of a Christmas tree with Snoopy sitting at the top.
A screenshot of the icon for Apple's image playground app: an insipid AI generator doe-eyed cat...dog? set inside a blurred gradient bubble
Screencap from The Simpsons of Mr. Burns as Dracula.
A black 27” 4:3 ratio CRT on a wall mount showing the live feed of the sf symphony stage.
A picture of the smug, smeg-headed Arnold J. Rimmer from the tv show Red Dwarf
Screenshot of Hayao Miyazaki saying "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
The Susan Kare designed icon of a wristwatch used as the busy cursor in classic versions of Mac OS
A link that says "Maybe delete my account"
An image of Patrick Gill, a white man who resembles Ralf Hütter, with shoulder length hair holding a "Giant Bomb" mug.
Screenshot of the blade runner final cut art from apple movies that looks like an LA confidential rip off
A circular ceramic incense burner with a smaller concentric circle in the middle. In the very center is a 3mm hole that's too big to hold stick incense, shown here with a stick of incense just outside the hole for scale.
The box art for the Sega Genesis game Jungle Strike featuring an apache helicopter shooting missiles, large explosions and palm trees in the background with the Jungle Strike logo obscuring an F-117 bomber.
Picture of Disco Stu from the Simpsons. A man wearing stereotypical “disco” clothes including purple sunglasses, a popped collar, and a flared white suit jacket.
A 1 bit dithered image of my dog hank taken via webglcam
Pencil sketch self portrait by Picasso in his Tête de femme series showing a distorted globular face.
photo of a flock of white birds flying in a v formation far away from the camera against a blue sky
An open book showing the box art illustrations of Super Castlevania IV and Turtles In Time
A comment from hacker news user paul_grisham that says "People know adding a lane to a highway doesn't reduce traffic but think adding more apartments reduces rents. The solution to homelessness is clear - arrest them."
Headline from Rolling Stone: "Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard ‘Banging’ From Area, Internal Comms Reveal An aircraft heard sounds at 30-minute intervals from the area where the sub disappeared, according to internal e-mails sent to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone"
Front page of twitter.com showing a tweet from elon musk that's a meme image the first-person perspective of someone wearing an AR headset where they're at dinner with a woman showing her large chest and her face is blocked by an infrared view of a tank being blown up.
Picture of a cute as hell brown dog with floppy ears
The BlueSky invite icon with a 1 next to it