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Alex L

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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 13h

KAREN GET TAKEOUT

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 18h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

Hook poster, 1991

Back to the Future poster, 1985

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

oh come on it really picks up after the first _one hundred and twenty full pages_

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

this is keeping me going even as i have actual physical difficulties with the game

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

have i read all of the major jonathans

no

i have read a representative sample of each

much like code from the Daves

its fine

you can do better

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

1. it's fine to ignore any piece of literature authored by someone named Jonathan, you are missing nothing

2. Major literary prizes are a form of genre fiction for adults who need someone else to have their opinions for them

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

someone's gotta have said patti lupone at this point

and her ALW Memorial Swimming Pool

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

oh NOOOO

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

@bbolander.bsky.social thread relevant to your interests

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

lol the big ten are gonna do a private equity deal to balance the NCAA revenue-share books

at least one senator's calling attention to it as a threat to the tax-exempt status of educational institutions that happen to do sports

bleacherreport.com/articles/252...

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

hiring four new lines

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

lol i assure u this was vividly embarrassing on campus

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

too hot for big flannel in region

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

oh yes, i have been strictly avoiding hanging wallpaper for a full four years because i KNOW i don't know the possibilities

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 3d

One of my complaints about Severance -- which I like quite a bit -- is how obvious it is that no one involved in it ever worked in a corporate office environment. Hollywood in particular is very bad at depicting the hopelessness of a dead-end job with no prospects

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 3d

there's a years ago tweet that basically said that anyone writing TV or movies by definition managed to land their extremely-hard-to-get dream job and it colors how they think about work and jobs and wish fulfillment in the stuff they write, and i think about it a lot

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

my favorite to date is hearing something peculiar behind a light switch panel, opening it up, and discovering the entire house required rewiring

lately i am grateful for _only_ "this 1970s fuse box's big selling feature was sudden unexpected housefires"

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... We could even spend a bunch of our stupid money making sure those chains of provenance were mathematically attached to the images but also this WOULD be expensive and would NOT fix the fascism

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 4d

me and the tragically hip

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 5d

The lead of Signal is one hundred percent correct here, which we know because people keep getting snaps of US officials using Signal instead of other platforms.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

In particular, we must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 6d

the most hideously accurate thing, i say, living in the correct approximate area to understand the phrase "maryland swamp water"

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 7d

IMPORTANT AND DEEPLY EMBARRASSING CORRECTION: MAY 23rd and 24th!!!!!!!!!!

OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 7d

The 2026 Open Hardware Summit is coming.... to Berlin, Germany! On May 22nd and 23rd!! Still so much news to come here but we wanted to be sure you knew! For now you can enjoy the beautiful logo designed by @[email protected] and check out the site at 2026.oshwa.org

(livestream heard it first🤭)

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 7d

truly when they put on goof troop the orchestral arrangement at the kennedy centre i thought we were done and yet

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 7d

this type of digital proprioception is my favorite kind of game review!

Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 12d

My experience was that Hollow Knight is very “spacey” (you just need to move to the right positions on screen) which makes everything feel frantic and chaotic, while Nine Sols is very “timey” (you just need to parry with the right rhythm) which makes everything feel controlled and precise

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 7d

perhaps the current problem of scrapers wandering around the internet devastating available information sources in an effort to keep the AI bubble afloat are about to meet "meaningful and enforceable regulation," per @oddletters.bsky.social