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Jesse Spielman

@heavyimage

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Recovering VFX artist / TD, computer science PhD student, New Yorker living in the UK, friend to animals, bagel fanatic. Not the *other* Jesse Spielman in prison for horrific war crimes.

Trans Rights are Human Rights. Black Lives Matter. Free Palestine.

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#penplotter #generativeart #techethics #antifascism #scifi #unixporn #noai #badmovies

I'm on the lookout for ethical / social justice tech jobs; please let me know if you have any ideas!

Ethical job hunt notes	https://jobsearch.heavyimage.com/about/
Art (no ai used, ever!!)	https://pixelfed.social/heavyimage
Bot dad to	@daveryderbot, @drvolga, @herculoids_of_quasar, @power_extreme

Jesse Spielman 16h ago

LucasArts Places 16h ago

Grim Fandango

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Jesse Spielman 1d ago

Here she appears to be judging me for my choices.

Good Kitty.

Jesse Spielman 1d ago

Shoutout to my dad, doing excellent #bagel reporting in #nyc .

https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/west-35th-street-bagel-war-the-hole-story-boiled-baked-EA5406574

West 35th Street Bagel War: The Hole Story, Boiled & Baked

By Ralph Spielman The Manhattan bagel wars have taken another turn and are cause to ponder how one block of West 35th Street has turned into a freshly boiled an...

www.westsidespirit.com

Jesse Spielman 1d ago

The cat I am house sitting for has a limited grasp of personal space

#cats #laptop

Jesse Spielman 1d ago

If you're feeling a little melancholy today, but with subtle rays of hope and humor, can't recommend this song more highly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVo5mjK4eg

Tom Waits- Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (Studio Version)

All credit goes to the artist.

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Jesse Spielman 2d ago

ProgressivePower 2d ago

Holiday blues? Please Ask for #Help #Holiday

Jesse Spielman 2d ago

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Klas Karlsson 3d ago

@FantasticalEconomics
... Oboy. It was even simpler with Ghostscript:
gs -o result.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERVECTOR input.pdf

All vector graphics (i.e. black boxes) will be removed from the input.pdf file and the rest written to result.pdf.

Jesse Spielman 2d ago

Bill Hunt

4d ago

Hey babe are you alright? You’ve barely touched the cyberpunk dystopia you fantasized about throughout most of the 90s that you’re currently trapped in.

Jesse Spielman 3d ago

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Bellingcat 4d ago

Throughout the year we have monitored raids by immigration services in the U.S. We’ve mapped hundreds of incidents, analysing patterns in the use of violence and recurring trends and tactics used by officers, challenging official narratives. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07/08/masked-armed-and-forceful-finding-patterns-in-los-angeles-immigration-raids/