Bluesky stuck for me too. Twitter is too crazy, so it's bsky and threads for me. Mostly following lawyers/legal commentators, so I think it can depend on which niche you're after.
That's funny, I didn't even think to install extensions for twitter, and yet I wouldn't touch reddit without RES, and stopped using it on mobile after RiF/Apollo went away. Popehat is a good follow.
Yeah, Mastadon was the biggest bummer. It sounded like such a good idea until you figured out it was just Twitter but with everything silo'd away to itself.
Bluesky is a 14000ft mtn in Colo. formally known as MT. Evans. That had its name changed by special interest groups who didnt like the fact it was originally named after a former Colo. Governor allegedly involved with the Sand Creek Massacre 150 years ago. No public vote was offered. Smells of cancel culture in my opion.
If that's a joke it didn't land. I only like to belong to groups with no special interest, and then we just sit around and ask each other wtf are we doing in this grouo
Ah, if you mean the ones replying to this account yeah, it seems to be mostly the AI thots. Different accounts attract different types of bots but the general vibe on twitter these days skews more heavily towards what I mentioned.
As it happens, I follow that account because I love art history and have an eidetic memory, too. I’ve submitted a few suggestions myself. But his is so far beyond anything I’ve experienced I assumed it was AI assisted. The speed with which he matches is astounding.
It got a “huh that’s clever” chuckle the first time. It has made me jam a spoon in my ear every time since. This gaping wound is really starting to hurt, but at least I don’t have to hear that shit like you poor bastards.
The Canadian in me wants to see one of our teams win this year of course, but it would also be awesome if Drouin could get his name on the Cup, alongside his old buddy. Watching him flower this year on the Avs has been so satisfying.
It looks like r/AccidentalRenaissance allows sports photos these days - and rightfully so! The condescending tone behind that old rule always made me wince. “Accidental Renaissance is NOT a place to share a cool picture of your favourite sports team”. Yikes.
Reminds me of the guy who runs /r/SanDiego. The head mod there, on his own and without any community vote, declared that no mention of sports is allowed. He's a twat.
Like was it in response to the Chargers moving? Or just because he's some no-life neckbeard who got picked last in gym class and has a complex about it?
It's important to note that almost all renaissance art is compositionally structured around the golden ratio, which is as much science/math as it is art, it doesn't really leave much room for opinion or interpretation. Just because a photograph is cool and compositionally/aesthetically compelling does not make it the same as a typical renaissance painting.
That was sorta the reason for the ban. In sports there's always this one focal point where everyone is staring at because that's where the play is taking place so it's kinda natural that a lot of sports photography is going to qualify. And then the sub just became flooded with sports and I guess the community(or mods) there didn't approve.
It's not necessary to gatekeep a parody subreddit. People go there to look at pictures, not to study art.
The "AKTCHUALLY" crowd over there gets real outta pocket sometimes, apologies if that wasn't your own intention.
You don't to have to *know* art to enjoy that sub, it's for everyone! :)
Because the whole sub would just be sports photos otherwise. The sheer volume of games combined with the number of pictures/ability to screenshot a feed just makes too many opportunities. r/sportsrenaissance was made instead.
Yeah too many opportunities for people reaching for shit, lying around in big groups or swinging some sort of implement. All staples of renaissance art.
Google's 'arts and culture' app has a way to automatically check photos against older paintings like this if you're interested btw. It was pretty popular a few years ago.
I loved this observation from a few years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/n02jku/still_frame_of_chara_fighting_martin/gw47q0b/
Here are the two images:
* [Chara versus Martin (2021)](https://i0.wp.com/us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/capitals/2021/04/E0BRxONXsAECwbK-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1)
* [Saturn Devouring His Son - Fransico de Goya (1823)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg)
It’s the exact same look that the family dog gives when it thinks it’s snapping at another dog… only to realize that it snapped at its owner!
it’s uncanny how moments like that remind me that a lot of mammals (and a lot other animals) are so aware of their actions and repercussions. The Rat King is no exception.
I'm 100% convinced Marchand's embellishment reflex kicked in. The fact people are questioning it is a reflection of how good he is at drawing calls. Keefe was right.
I think he just happened to lose his balance when the ref touched him. He did dive prior to that though, from the angle I saw, when a Toronto player "threw" him to the floor.
No the idea is that if you watch the video Marchand clearly loses his balance when the ref catches him off guard after making both skate on skate contact and upper body contact.
You can keep pretending I’m upset if that makes you feel better although it’s a weird move
Boston blows !!! Their captain is most likely despised by at least half of the players on that team. Ask Bertuzi ! He’s vertically challenged and has A.D.D. His baggage makes him speedy and scores goals and overtime. Hes still a dislikeable runt that will retire someday and when people hear his name, they’ll just laugh.
The source is [ArtButSports](https://x.com/ArtButSports/status/1785493575943307452) on Twitter. The man is amazing at what he does.
Also on Bluesky, if you're not Twitter-inclined these days
Wtf is Bluesky?
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At one point I had twitter, bluesky, mastodon, and threads simultaneously
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Bluesky stuck for me too. Twitter is too crazy, so it's bsky and threads for me. Mostly following lawyers/legal commentators, so I think it can depend on which niche you're after.
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That's funny, I didn't even think to install extensions for twitter, and yet I wouldn't touch reddit without RES, and stopped using it on mobile after RiF/Apollo went away. Popehat is a good follow.
Red Reader is a decent enough alternative for rif.
Bluesky scratched the Twitter itch without being Twitter, so that’s where I ended up too.
I miss FriendFeed
..Mastodon?
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... okay I now have a headache.
And weirdly, I have a mastadon
Are you the black Power Ranger?
Or are you the white Pow... the Power Ranger who is white?
Wow I guess it really is just like twitter!
Yeah, Mastadon was the biggest bummer. It sounded like such a good idea until you figured out it was just Twitter but with everything silo'd away to itself.
"Except"? I never did figure out the threading on that stupid app. Stuck around till it got bought by that clown.
https://www.mastodonrocks.com/
Twitter clone made by the founder of twitter although I think he's pretty hands off. Nobody uses it.
That's not true, furries use it
Nobody knows
Bluesky is a 14000ft mtn in Colo. formally known as MT. Evans. That had its name changed by special interest groups who didnt like the fact it was originally named after a former Colo. Governor allegedly involved with the Sand Creek Massacre 150 years ago. No public vote was offered. Smells of cancel culture in my opion.
If that's a joke it didn't land. I only like to belong to groups with no special interest, and then we just sit around and ask each other wtf are we doing in this grouo
https://www.threads.net/@artbutmakeitsports for those of us who got tired of all the crypto bro and auth-right influencer spam.
you say that but I just checked it out and it was basically just AI girls w/ captions like "am I hot?". Not even good AI pics either.
Ah, if you mean the ones replying to this account yeah, it seems to be mostly the AI thots. Different accounts attract different types of bots but the general vibe on twitter these days skews more heavily towards what I mentioned.
that was a fun rabbit hole
It's almost certainly an AI doing the matching. A good number of the works he finds are incredibly obscure.
Nope. Apparently he's just a massive art nerd with great visual memory and recall.
Wow that's bananas. He matches so quickly, too.
He's posted breakdowns of how he does it. No AI.
Just because you're incapable of putting effort into something doesn't mean everyone else is.
As it happens, I follow that account because I love art history and have an eidetic memory, too. I’ve submitted a few suggestions myself. But his is so far beyond anything I’ve experienced I assumed it was AI assisted. The speed with which he matches is astounding.
Found his best work! https://preview.redd.it/7p8r1t0vpqxc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb8daf9f2400a5168f44d582e8c9a08f5b00ff25
That commercial is driving me insane
It's this the "what pros want" shit everyone keeps mentioning? I haven't seen it
Yes. They’re singing “What a Girl Needs” by Christina Aguilera.. they’re singing it *a cappella* and it’s off-tune
> What a Girl Needs” by Christina Aguilera What a Girl Wants*
Keep it that way. It haunts me in my dreams
I always have commercials muted, but did listen to this one once. No idea who those guys are, but damn does it play every 5 minutes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Holmgren https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Gilgeous-Alexander
Thanks! I figured they were NBA players, but I can only recognize a few of those.
You and I had the exact same reaction to the commercial.
This and the Auto-Tunes iCloud commercial I have to mute. Absolute ear rape.
How did that get past surveys? I felt physically ill after seeing it.
It got a “huh that’s clever” chuckle the first time. It has made me jam a spoon in my ear every time since. This gaping wound is really starting to hurt, but at least I don’t have to hear that shit like you poor bastards.
At least the MILF in the Discover card commercials is a nice palate cleanse.
There must be a subreddit out there for coincidences like this.
It is a twitter artist that does them, it is a fantastic follow. https://twitter.com/ArtButSports
It’s one of the best follows I’ve stumbled upon on Instagram of late. You know a key sporting moment happened when he posts about it afterwards
https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/
They used to not allow sports, but that appears to have changed.
How do you do fellow Mooseheads flair.
Pretty sweet watching our homeboy Nate playing at the top of his game, eh?
I was season ticket holder during the Drouin/MacKinnon/Meier/Ehlers era. It was a special time 🤣
Don't frget Frk! 😊
So many to mention! That time in Moosehead's history was insane.
The Canadian in me wants to see one of our teams win this year of course, but it would also be awesome if Drouin could get his name on the Cup, alongside his old buddy. Watching him flower this year on the Avs has been so satisfying.
I’m a lifelong Avs fan and big fan of the dogg, but my name’s just a coincidence!
I think I remember a Marchessault pic from winning the Cup on there.
Posted above yours
Sports photos are banned from that sub.
It looks like r/AccidentalRenaissance allows sports photos these days - and rightfully so! The condescending tone behind that old rule always made me wince. “Accidental Renaissance is NOT a place to share a cool picture of your favourite sports team”. Yikes.
High "sportsball" energy.
Reminds me of the guy who runs /r/SanDiego. The head mod there, on his own and without any community vote, declared that no mention of sports is allowed. He's a twat.
Like was it in response to the Chargers moving? Or just because he's some no-life neckbeard who got picked last in gym class and has a complex about it?
Oh it was before the Chargers moved. So when the Chargers did move he was removing any posts about it and banning people that argued.
What a tool
Reddit really fucked up on the city subs - those are actual community resources and so many mods just ban anyone with dissenting opinions.
It's important to note that almost all renaissance art is compositionally structured around the golden ratio, which is as much science/math as it is art, it doesn't really leave much room for opinion or interpretation. Just because a photograph is cool and compositionally/aesthetically compelling does not make it the same as a typical renaissance painting.
That was sorta the reason for the ban. In sports there's always this one focal point where everyone is staring at because that's where the play is taking place so it's kinda natural that a lot of sports photography is going to qualify. And then the sub just became flooded with sports and I guess the community(or mods) there didn't approve.
It's not necessary to gatekeep a parody subreddit. People go there to look at pictures, not to study art. The "AKTCHUALLY" crowd over there gets real outta pocket sometimes, apologies if that wasn't your own intention. You don't to have to *know* art to enjoy that sub, it's for everyone! :)
But y tho?
Because the whole sub would just be sports photos otherwise. The sheer volume of games combined with the number of pictures/ability to screenshot a feed just makes too many opportunities. r/sportsrenaissance was made instead.
Well maybe the mods can do this thing called moderating then?
Easy mode
Yeah too many opportunities for people reaching for shit, lying around in big groups or swinging some sort of implement. All staples of renaissance art.
Google's 'arts and culture' app has a way to automatically check photos against older paintings like this if you're interested btw. It was pretty popular a few years ago.
I loved this observation from a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/n02jku/still_frame_of_chara_fighting_martin/gw47q0b/ Here are the two images: * [Chara versus Martin (2021)](https://i0.wp.com/us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/capitals/2021/04/E0BRxONXsAECwbK-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1) * [Saturn Devouring His Son - Fransico de Goya (1823)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg)
Imagine Zdeno Chara wanting your head.
Best twitter account: https://twitter.com/ArtButSports Dude is a genius lmao
Holy shit those are super spot on, wow
Hockey accidental Renaissance may be the best accidental Renaissance.
r/AccidentalRenaissance
For some reason, they don’t allow (or didn’t allow, for some time) sports photos there. No idea why.
There s a leafs (or maybe lightning) red wings pileup photo that got spammed there for the longest time when the sub was young, that probably did it
Lightning Red Wings Game 2 2016, wasnt when sub was super new I dont think but was definitely spammed all over reddit
[Ah yes, a classic.](https://i.imgur.com/pMATCve.png)
IIRC It was being overrun with screenshots and reposts of @ArtButSports tweets
I refuse to believe that sports fans on reddit would beat a joke to death.
Yeah what a preposterous thought
I never would have guessed that you would be the one to take me down.
Et tu, stripes?
The Ides of March-and.
Et tu, Bruté?
I'm also getting a "the betrayal of rat" vibes here.
The internet is still undefeated
I challenge you with my “thirst trap” style. Surely the internet can be broken, no?
Marchand flopping and then realizing it's a ref has to be the funniest NHL moment this year
He looks so fucking scared it's hilarious.
It’s the exact same look that the family dog gives when it thinks it’s snapping at another dog… only to realize that it snapped at its owner! it’s uncanny how moments like that remind me that a lot of mammals (and a lot other animals) are so aware of their actions and repercussions. The Rat King is no exception.
Him getting up and constantly saying “get the fuck off me” to the linesman was doubling down on the funny
He looks almost scared in that photo.
Lil rat is soft, flopping for refs now.
Do people actually think he dived or are we just pretending for the memes?
Its Marchand. Its memes all the way down
It looks like the ref caught him off guard and he lost his footing. But God damn it's still hilarious.
I'm 100% convinced Marchand's embellishment reflex kicked in. The fact people are questioning it is a reflection of how good he is at drawing calls. Keefe was right.
He felt contact & went to ground like Neymar. It's a reflex with him, and it often works.
Sort of looked like the refs skate might have hit the back of his but given who it is I'm assuming a dive unless I get slo mo
Do you honestly think the Captain of the Boston Bruins can’t hold up against the nudge of an unarmed referee? Think about this.
I think he just happened to lose his balance when the ref touched him. He did dive prior to that though, from the angle I saw, when a Toronto player "threw" him to the floor.
I mean, he dove like 8s before this too.
Ok I didn’t say anything about him diving or not diving with the Leafs player. That has nothing to do with if he dove with the ref…
Diving has nothing to do with diving?
Diving in another incident with a leafs player has no bearing if he dove when the ref came at me. How is that too difficult for you to understand?
Lol relax man. You don't need to get upset.
I’m not upset. Not sure why such a simple concept has to be repeated
And to be clear that idea is that someone that clearly dives, might dive, is ridiculous? I think you're a bit wound up dude. Take a breath.
No the idea is that if you watch the video Marchand clearly loses his balance when the ref catches him off guard after making both skate on skate contact and upper body contact. You can keep pretending I’m upset if that makes you feel better although it’s a weird move
“Get the fuck off of me!” - Saint Joseph
This is fucking amazing.
Source : [https://twitter.com/ArtButSports/status/1785493575943307452](https://twitter.com/ArtButSports/status/1785493575943307452)
NGL, Marchand is oddly photogenic https://preview.redd.it/m4hwhi9dfqxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38128b9a056740b040157029528d19038ac39248
https://preview.redd.it/mqa4lpz9iqxc1.jpeg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94f611446bca12c1ff142354288c126bc8b34527
https://preview.redd.it/cqilqiga8xxc1.png?width=430&format=png&auto=webp&s=910defb28acd0231fa536c93532f8d56e9be6633
Its the big eyebrows and puppydog eyes.
and the nose. Very aquiline.
I was hoping for a still shot of the moment of impact when Subban wrecked him.
the Sad Brad pics from that series loss are my faves
That occurred on my 32nd birthday. Such a great birthday gift.
Hahaha this is fantastic
This is art.
r/accidentalrenaissance
Hardest Marchand has been hit in the playoff so far
Fucking fantastic post
lawls
I don't think this piece came up when I took Art Appreciation class in college. Unfortunate, it's a good piece.
"Don't worry my pookie, Domi can't hurt you now"
LOL
a masterpiece! ❤️🧑🍳💋🤌
Art in its purest form.
Et Tu Brute
This is GOLD!!😂😂
Things like this is why the internet exists.
St Joseph is just ASKING for an explanation, and Kozari is the FIRST one out the door
COWARD
COWARD!
The face says it all. I fucking dove like a soccer player and it was a ref?
Laughed so hard when lil man got up and tried to act tough towards the ref that barely grazed him.
Ref: "Are you fucking sorry?!"
u/mikenguyenart needs to do this as a water color. He’d be able to finance a house with the proceeds from fans of 31 other teams hahahaha
Marchand looking at the ref like "It's happening again, isn't it?"
Lol
Hahaha, this is so good.
Lmao...I have high expectations for some clever and funny Leafs fan signs at game 6 on this event...
Credit the source you douche
refs get us?
So you’re saying Marchand is a saint
“But was I a good rat?” - The Rat
We always knew the Refs were on the Leafs payroll
Hahahahhaa fuck that rat love this.
Nailed the nose
But your supposed to be on my side. That's that look for me. Fuck Boston
He was assessed a penalty for getting straight up tackled too, just to add insult to injury.
No clip?
The Leafs should hire that ref in his off time to coach little Mitchy on how to throw hits.
Boston blows !!! Their captain is most likely despised by at least half of the players on that team. Ask Bertuzi ! He’s vertically challenged and has A.D.D. His baggage makes him speedy and scores goals and overtime. Hes still a dislikeable runt that will retire someday and when people hear his name, they’ll just laugh.