Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI

Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Vupware@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

https://apnews.com/video/trump-blames-radical-left-rhetoric-for-charlie-kirks-assassination-in-white-house-video-statement-bc61fde41d814d96ba882132792cc50e

Trump delivered to us this uncanny video in which he denounces the killing of Kirk and blames the left’s rhetoric as the sole cause of this unfathomable act.

Am I crazy, or is this obviously AI?

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I posted this earlier.

He straight up loses a finger.

Slowed down:

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- OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think this may be just interpolation weirdness. Apparently the video was recorded in 24fps but encodes in 60.
  
  See this analysis, I posted it in another comment: youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok
  
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    just visually track the tip of his index finger. And keep track of how many fingers are supposed to be past it.
    
    His index finger litterally becomes his middle finger.
    
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  - Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, it’s definitely AI.
    
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- TheNumber23doesnotExist@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Have I got a trick for you:
  
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK ARE YOU OK!!?!?!?
    
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  - SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Haha soo reddit Xd
    
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- ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They’re aware that their supporters are too stupid to notice.
  
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- idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh dang, I saw that post earlier and thought it was probably just him repositioning his hands, but it really was my phone not having enough resolution.
  
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- cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I hate that I don’t even know what’s real anymore.
  
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- teegus@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  whut, he just moves them so his index finger is mostly behind the middle one? you can still see it. what am I missing?
  
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Use the time line to scrub the video and put your eyes on the ring finger of the left hand. The pinky dissolves into the hand, and the ring finger “becomes” the pinky.
    
    Now put your eyes on the index finger of the left hand and track it visually. It “becomes” the middle finger, and an entirely new finger appears to take its place.
    
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  - ideonek@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That what I thought at first. But additional finger pops up and he still have 5 even with index finger hidden.
    
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- kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  People need to stop upvoting this persons posts. Not deepfake or AI. So sad we’re already at this populism and technical illiterate stage on Lemmy.
  
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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What happened to your pics?
  
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This was better and someone else had posted them. they show the same thing
    
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- Klear@quokk.au ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  At hostpital, lost fingat!
  
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oh my… y’all need to chill.

Download yt-dlp and run this command, to get CNN’s ‘direct’ 245MB stream instead of AP’s (or YouTube’s) tiny re-encodes:

yt-dlp -f direct https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/us/video/trump-oval-office-statement-white-house-charlie-kirk-death-digvid

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It’s interlaced.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video

The re-encodes are clearly de-interlaced (poorly) which is why motion looks so weird. It’s also choppy and blocky, hallmarks of poor encoding, even in a very high bitrate stream.

Y’all (and apparently the rest of the internet) are obsessing over literally decades-old video encoding/broadcasting issues and oldschool video filters to fix them that have nothing to with AI.

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- Snazz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  New conspiracy: The government planned this decades ago and had the video ready in advance.
  
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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Why would there be interlaced video in 2025? Fuck do they still have a tube tv?
  
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  - brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The video encoding crowd was screaming that that 10 years ago, heh.
    
    …Shrug. I guess people are still getting ‘traditional’ cable broadcasts. Turn on YouTube TV, and you can see they still use those ancient broadcast codecs (even though its all streamed), probably because they have to just comply with the system.
    
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- ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m reminded of how the high-resolution footage of Space-X’s landing [attempts] from a few years ago stoked massive waves of paranoia and conspiracy across the internet because nobody had ever seen such modern footage of a spacecraft in motion and most people who saw it thought it was fake.
  
  People really want to feel like they’ve figured something special out, in a world where media and information is constantly changing and advancing.
  
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  - brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Agreed.
    
    Though I wouldn’t disparage investigation. I’d perhaps rephrase that: “I don’t have much experience with this topic,” as a sentiment, seems to have disappeared. The Trump admin is kind of a perfect embodiment of that.
    
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forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I feel like we should’ve seen this coming; if/when he kicks the bucket, they’re gonna use AI to keep the cult of personality going for as long as they can.

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- garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Can you imagine if he also died today and that’s why they had to use AI
  
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  - Bonus@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Can I ever
    
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- Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Weekends at Uncle Sam’s.
  
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- frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This White House leaks worse than Trump’s asshole. If he died, there’s a better then small chance that staffers would accidentally invite a journalist to their Signal chat about it. It’s just not something they can keep secret.
  
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  - forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I am inclined to agree.
    
    But I bet they’d try to sell the lie anyway.
    
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- corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The movie was named just “Dave” and it stars Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.
  
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  - forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hmm, I know the movie. But I must disagree with the comparison.
    
    The movie “Dave” is definitely worth watching, though!
    
    I also highly recommend “Wag the Dog”, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert de Niro.
    
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kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The real boring dystopia is that keyboard warrior idiots with no video editing experience will create these type of posts and mislead entire communities.

It is not a deepfake, and I believe leaving posts like this up or without correction in the title damage Lemmy’s reputation.

Please consider changing title or take down the post. I explain the edit here.

lemmy.world/comment/19325281

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- Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve left the post up, but edited the title.
  
  Thank you for your contributions!
  
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  - brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The real boring dystopia is obsession people seem to have over something being ‘AI’ or not.
    
    This is a perfect example. We’re looking at deinterlacing and blocking artifacts that have plagued reuploaded broadcasts for decades, and that pixel peepers have complained about that entire time, yet these ancient filters are being called out as ‘AI’. And it has little to do with Trump and the government: this would happen to anything high-profile enough.
    
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penguin202124@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe AI enhanced, but it’s probably just interlacing

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- piecat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Just interlace after the ai generation to prevent detection lol
  
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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What year is this?
  
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  - Mossheart@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The worst one.
    
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BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I see everyone here talking about specific parts of the video and how it’s fake because of various imperfections in the rendering. You are all thinking WAY too hard about this. When was the last time you saw trump speak for that long without some narcissistic rant thrown in off script? For him to accomplish this video he would need a level of reading comprehension that we have never witnessed from him before. THE REAL TRUMP IS ILLITERATE. No fucking way could he have read a teleprompter that quickly.

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Hazmatastic@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You telling me this guy is our first Vtuber president?

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StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Are we being false flagged? I know the right is going to escalate no matter what but it feels like we’re being false flagged. Why did the president tweet about Kirk’s death SO fast. And if this is AI how did they have it ready so quickly?

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- jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I would not put it past Donny Bonespurs to have Kirk assassinated as either a distraction or to use as a pretext for more power grabs.
  
  I’ll admit it’s a little tin foil hatty but considering he views other people as completely disposable, I don’t think it’s that far fetched.
  
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  - Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nah that just doesn't make sense. He doesn't need any pretexts because he's already getting everything he demands and more handed to him on a silver platter at every opportunity, and if he wanted one anyway he'd just make it up and bullshit everyone like his lot always does
    
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  - Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I wa thinking exact same thing this morning. Definitely plausible.
    
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- Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  To your last it only takes seconds, that’s how
  
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- UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Are we being false flagged?
  
  Whether or not that is the case, I bet a lot of the fascists in and around the white house creamed their pants yesterday because of the opportunity this no doubt presents to them.
  
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- anachronist@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I thing the shooter was a groyper who is upset about the Epstein reversal. Sorry SRC people, having trouble seeing a leftist one-shotting the neck from 250 yards away.
  
  But yeah this will be used as a pretext but if not this there would have been other pretexts, Like how he used big balls getting pantsed by a girl to declare marshall law in DC.
  
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  - Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Leftist gun enjoyer reporting in - 250 yards is achievable for most people if you practice, depending on your setup. Even a mid grade rifle’s mechanical accuracy can ‘group’ a 9” circle at that range, throw a zoom optical scope on top and done.
    
    Mid to long range shooting is a trifecta of shooter skill, knowledge of environment conditions, and quality of equipment. The further the distance, the more of each you need. That kind of range and precision was viable with basically every bolt action deer gun in America, and most hunters using them tbh.
    
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- JandroDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  if it’s a false flag it’s to distract from the epstein shit,not to have an excuse for more violence
  
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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is another problem with the “AI” grift. Since there’s no such thing as “AI”, the term is constantly misused to the point of meaninglessness.

Is this video just edited? Or is it edited with “AI”?!?!?! There’s no fucking difference. It’s all just computers doing shit with absolutely zero “intelligence”.

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jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“Vibe Presidenting”

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OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I disagree. I recently saw this analysis:

youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok

It seems pretty thorough, and this guy specializes in exactly this. Some of the weirdness seems to be due to a miss match between the 24fps the video was filmed in and the 60fps it was encoded in.

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tubthumper@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s definitely a weird sped-up “twitch” moment that occurs around 20 seconds in. I didn’t detect it elsewhere after watching most of it (without sound) but at the very least there seems to be some smoothing-type postprocessing going on.

But does he really keep his hands that still for such long periods? Haven’t paid much attention to that aspect of “serious” press releases but that stands out to me, even if it’s a teleprompter job and he’s trying to keep from accordiflailing.

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- archonet@lemy.lol ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  He might’ve stopped some of the more dramatic hand movements to keep attention away from the bruising on his wrists.
  
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3laws@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It is generated, yes, he took a still and the team crafted the script and the prompt later on.

Signs to look for:

Speed the video up: no breathing pattern. Close ups: hands millimetre steady plus it morphs quite heavily Skin: loses wrinkles gains dark spots plus color shifts on the edges where it meets the hair

This is bad, but it will fool millions.

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- untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is just how old people with a dying brain, reading from a teleprompter, with a spray on tan, 3lb of makeup, and unnatural lighting look.
  
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tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I've been thinking of late that his tweets look AI generated. You just enter something like: take today's news from a reputable source, invert all the facts, add lots of hyperbole, and capitalize words for emphasis.

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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It looks like it at a glance but I’m pretty sure that’s just how he is when he tries to read a script…

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4am@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There is software (I think it comes with Adobe stuff) that allows you subtly morph/crossfade instead of jumpcut, so if the speaker pauses and flubs a line you can remove it without an obvious, distracting jump.

I think that’s probably what we’re seeing here.

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- kofe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Except if you look up footage from him at the 9/11 memorial today it looks like he had a fucking stroke. I’ll edit with a link in a sec.
  
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  - aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wow he does look terrible here.
    
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- Hackworth@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, that’s morph cut in Premiere, which they added a decade ago. There’s also generative extend, which is the more recent AI addition.
  
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rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
that’s just what he looks like now.

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degen@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s a lot of uncanny movement for sure. It looks almost like it’s stabilized sometimes.

I’d say it’s either AI or Disney animatronic.

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etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why do you think it’s AI?

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- extremeboredom@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The movements are all wrong. I think they’ve used AI to enhance the video and/or hide jump cuts.
  
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  - teegus@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    He didn’t call the children beautiful, clearly not Trump speaking.
    
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  - etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Could it be similar to the recent Will Smith incident where YouTube was doing AI enchantments?
    
    I think I could see AI editing being the issue. But I have a hard time believing they’d just deep fake an entire segment for this to be played nationally. I don’t doubt that day will come – but would like to think it wouldn’t be for an issue like this.
    
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- Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  His speech is way to coherent.
  
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  - ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “Ol Charlie, like a son to me… like Charlie Tuna, you remember that one, right? Until the radical left lunatics killed him too. “Broke Tuna” they said, wanted an androgynous oyster instead. Oyster gender transitions, its a whole thing”
    
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WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Soooo did he die too?

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ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hahahahaha, wtf is this? Is this real life? They made an AI fuckoff video for their dead Nazi agitator? Couldn’t even be bothered to film it with the Pedo-in-chief live?

Where the fuck is trump, gonna need proof of life after this shit. Cankles finally got him?

Release the Epstein files - Republicans are pedophiles and pedophile protectors.

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SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What a wild time to be alive, man.

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altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So I could also impersonate myself to be way more coherent?

I wonder is I could make my self lase too…I might need a little tickle to get me started…

Oh, no photonics experts on here…I’ll phase my self out…

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jankforlife@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Of course they fucking did lmbo

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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Everything changes shape frame by frame.

The hell is going on?

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