Jared Smith

@jaredsmith.bsky.social

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Personal account. Silly guy. philosopher, clinical ethicist. Interested in OCD, bipolar disorder, bioethics, agency, psychiatry, clinical ethics, and AI/ML in medicine. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer etc.

A red haired man in a floral Regency era jacket and vest stares blankly off into the distance
A man in some kind of rough red jacket, with blonde hair and a dark beard, looks over his shoulder as if he’s about to smile and nod at the camera. He is in the woods.
Jim Henson, a white man in a leather jacket with 80’s hair and a bush beard, looks confused and concerned.
Harry Potter crouching in a ditch summoning the concept of a broom Harry Potter, in black wizard robes with gold Adidas stripes down the arms, crouches in a dirty ditch, wand outstretched. White text below him reads “Intentio fire bolt!”
A screenshot of text that reads: “"Dance Magic [its title later changed to Magic Dance] gave me a bit of a problem," the singer explained in a TV interview promoting the film. "It's a song for the Goblin King and the baby. In the recording studio the baby I picked - one of the backing singers, Diva [Gray], had this cute little baby, and couldn't put two gurgles together! And it wouldn't work for me. I mean it just wouldn't go; I kicked it, I did everything to make it scream, and it really buttoned its lip. So I ended up doing the gurgles, I'm the baby on that track as well."”
Billy On the Street asking a maximally neurotypical person what x and y have in common. He is holding a microphone to their face and wearing a gray sweatshirt and red t shirt. His face is both confused and angry. The interviewee is turned away from the camera, with only their dark blue jacket and white baseball cap visible.
Dr Grant’s arm is in the fore of the frame, his red flannel sleeve rolled up to his elbow, and he is holding a raptor claw in his fist. A young boy with a cool patterned t-shirt and floppy baseball cap is staring at the claw in fearful wonder.
A closeup of Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez smiling
Professor X realizing the Baja Blast Midnight Pie ping is coming from inside the house
Two skinny white men in retro high school wrestling outfits stare at the camera. One has dark hair and a red suit and the other has blonde highlights and a blue suit.
In the top frame, a redheaded man in a dark suit dons black sunglasses dramatically. In the bottom frame, a sunrise lights the city of Miami and block letters spell YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH
A white man with a light beard and short, light brown, neatly parted hair stares at the camera with a strange but suave look. He is wearing a black coat with the collar FULLY popped. (Poseidon from Disney’s Percy Jackson)
A man with shaggy head and a goatee sits looking at the camera while another man with closely cropped hair stares at the camera with a puzzled look. There is a ‘NIXON’ button on a paper tray in the background. (screenshot from Zodiac of Tony Stark and Donny Darko)
Johnny Cage facing off against Evil Grimace, who destroyed his $500 sunglasses.
Johnny Cage faces his most dangerous opponent - Evil Grimace.
Gollum, a bald and bulgy-eyed diminutive creature, stares from the darkness and asks “What has it got in its nasty little pocketses?”
“Scarsi did not rule on the merits of the case, writing in the Wednesday order that ‘unlike with the chickens and eggs at issue here, there is no question that an analysis of standing must come first.’”
Bilbo Baggins holding a gold ring saying “After all…why not?”
A brunette white woman in a pink business casual cardigan and blouse faces the camera and says “They’re the same picture.”
A close up of Luke Skywalker with the words “Like my father before me”
A PC game cover depicting a space scene. A man in a skintight blue bodysuit is wearing square Chex Mix shaped golden armor that covers his entire torso. Green aliens in flying robotic suit, tentacle arms outstretched, are firing green goo at him as he shoots electricity out of what looks like a television remote. In the top corner the logo reads “Chex Quest” in cartoonish font.
A disheveled looking white man with stringy long brown hair has his eyes closed and asks “Am I in Hell?”
A cartoon depiction of Godzilla, with dark green scales and a neon sunset in the background. He’s wearing sunglasses without any arms on them because he doesn’t have ears. Below him in white text says “that’s not very croque monsieur of you”
Bruce Willis in a leather jacket sitting on a motorcycle with Maria de Madeiros sitting behind him in a denim jacket. He’s saying “Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”
A fun collage type podcast logo “Til Death do us Blart” with geometric blocks and shapes of brown and red, interspersed among still shots of Paul Blart Mall Cop (Kevin James)
A blonde woman with slicked back hair wearing a purple leotard on the television looks down in disgust as someone holds of a cell phone in her eye line (SEVEN OF NINE/ Jeri Ryan).
A bald man with a sullen and judgmental expression stands among fans in an arena, with his hands on his hips.
Timothy Dalton in a smart looking suit stares across the room with a wild look in his eyes and tousled hair (The Rocketeer). He has a mustache.
Sam Neil sitting in an empty movie theater, smiling at the movie screen while he eats a bucket of popcorn. He is wearing hospital clothes for patients but he has drawn black crosses all over it.
A hand drawn image of anthropomorphic cats with red orange fur and adorned in golden jewelry stands in front of a partially obscured white man with a 70’s Jenner haircut and blonde mustache
Tracy Morgan is in white lab coat with thick black rimmed glasses and there are white fumes billowing out of a machine behind him. He looks alarmed.
Thomas the Tank Engine looking shocked at the attacks on Leibniz and monadology
A movie poster for Lake Placid showing a gigantic crocodile mouth about to chomp down on a woman.
A movie poster for The Last Man starring Hayden Christensen and Harvey Keitel. The two actors are show in either side of the poster in sinister greyscale, and in the center of the poster a person wearing a gas mask has lightning shooting out of their head.
A white guy with heavily gelled hair wearing a black suit and tie screams with his mouth wide open (Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
A middle aged man in khakis with death written on his face looks frightened as he gazes over his shoulder, his gun pointed the opposite way.
A cell shaded image of Keanu reeves sitting in a white suit with a white helmet on, its plugged into the wall and he is looking at his palms.
A middle aged white man with thinning blonde hair is sitting down. He is wearing a blue “Sawmart” workers vest and name tag. He is looking sadly down at the table. (1 Hour Photo)
A screenshot of RottenTomatoes showing the ratings for Mortal Kombat (1995). The tomatometer shows a green splat of 44% and the popcorn meter shows a spilled bucket of 58%. The movie banner shows a still from the film of Robin Shou (Liu Kang) fighting in the tournament. The film description below the scores reads: “Lord Rayden (Christopher Lambert) handpicks three martial artists -- federal agent Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson), Shaolin monk Lui Kang (Robin Shou) and action movie sensation Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby) -- and mentors them. After intense training, Rayden transports the trio to Outworld, the site of an inter-dimensional fighting tournament. There, the three humans must defeat the demonic warriors of the evil Shang Sung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) -- or allow Sung to take over the Earth.”
A well muscled French man in a red tunic with a silver mirror tucked discreetly into his wide belt gives a rousing speech to townspeople. He’s holding a torch so he can see better. No one’s neck is as incredibly thick as his. Not one bit of him is scrappy or scraggly, and every last inch of him is covered in hair.
A man whose skin is in grayscale wearing bulky plastic looking armor with blue lights laced throughout holds up a glowing blue disc. On the bottom of the image reads blue text: “I fight for the users” (Tron)
A cartoon drawing of a pale brown snail with a dark brown shell. Its eyes are narrowed angrily and glowing green and black (Adventure Time)
Two athletic young men look smolderingly at the camera while security officers loom over them in the background. One is bald and the other has a blowout and mustache.
A haggard looking Deckard (Harrison Ford) on the left merged with a photo of a beat up Officer K (Ryan Gosling) from Blade Runner 2049
A brightly colored flyer-style image showing cartoon hotdogs amidst wording that says “July 16th - National Hotdog Day”. On the bottom is a stamp reading “The Old Farmer’s Almanac”
A balding middle-aged white man sits in a featureless gray cubicle in a gray checkered button up, working on his gray laptop while sipping from a gray cup. His smile is painful, and whispers of lost dreams.
A retro 80’s looking computer screen displays a series of sentences. “Greetings Professor Falken.” “Hello.” “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.” (War Games, 1983)
A man dressed head to toe in a hotdog costume is talking to a man at a party and he looks animated and happy.
A stressed out Matthew McConaughey (alright alright) draws deeply from a cigarette, with a thousand yard stare (True Detective)
President Pullman in a fighter jet cockpit yelling “Doesn’t anyone have any bus passes left?”
Tim Robinson, a pale white guy with short hair, is reclining awkwardly on a red couch in a conference room. He’s wearing a dress shirt with a strange pattern on it.
A comic page from Marvel Ultimates series. John Walker is working for Red Skull and they are confronted by Captain America, Human Torch, and other avengers. John Walker lunges for the avengers and Human Torch shoots a stream of fire at his head, setting it on fire as Walker screams. Captain America looks on and says “Jesus, Jim…”
A brown haired man in a brown suit has his head tilted back and eyes staring forward. On his face he is wearing the plastic face of a CPR dummy that he cut off the dummy (Dwight from The Office)
A three panel meme of Anakin Skywaker from one of the prequels, with modified text. First panel: Staring away from Padme, Anakin says “I loved them. I loved them all. They’re my favorites, every single one of them.” Second panel: Looking back at Padme, Anakin says “And not just the original trilogy, but the prequels, and the sequels, too.” Third panel: Anakin is angry “They’re Star Wars, and I enjoyed them like Star Wars. I LOVE THEM.”
A middle aged man I. A bright blue and green Hawaiian shirt is holding a beach ball made to look like an eyeball with read streaks on it. A beach shower is washing away the red. (Ben Stein clear eyes commercial)
A photo of a low res maze. The floor is gray concrete, the walls red brick, and the ceiling brown wood. (Windows 98 maze)
A creepy old wooden cabin that seems to have a skeletal face (Evil Dead 2).
Rust Cohle intensely smoking a cigarette (True Detective)
“Strikingly, in all its written and oral consultations on death and mental illness that led to the sunset clause, the CPA failed to provide evidence or issue a single caution about suicidal individuals receiving psychiatric euthanasia, never even mentioning the words suicide, suicidal, or suicide prevention, despite well-established data (and repeatedly expressed member concerns) regarding risks of exposing the most marginalized suffering from life distress to premature death in those situations.” Excerpt from QT source.
Sandra Bullock lays on top of Keanu Reeves. One of them says “I’ve heard relationships based on intense experiences never work.” And the other says “We’ll have to base it on Predator then”. Three red laser dots have been added to her forehead.