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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet

people are very mad

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 7h

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 1d

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 1d

to be fair there is very little deep thought put into anything at all nowadays

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

And right now I’m seeing very little deep thought about this stuff. We’re putting more tech and legislative and policy energy into stablecoins and TikTok than we are into how the entire Internet will work over the next 50 years. That should change!

Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 3d

me 10 years ago: oh man I can't risk liking suggestive art on any of my public profiles or people might think I'm uncouth and unrefined!

me now: my entire favorites list is furry orgies and if you have a problem with this you're probably a fascist.

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ΛTLΛS @atlasbun.bsky.social · 3d

Happy indigenous peoples day! :3

Did you know my great great grandmother Norma Smallwood was the first native American woman to win miss America?

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the long chibi digimon: quiet robo stranger @fuckmelikea.dog · 4d

happy otherkin day of visibility

Bulbapedia @bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net · 4d

16 years ago today, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky was first released for the Nintendo DS in North America!

The fifth entry in the series, it is a sister game to Explorers of Time and Darkness.

https://bulbapedia.b...

Box artwork of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 5d

some of my old notes for comedy stories are honestly funny just by themselves:

"A brony is finally able to escape his stereotypical awful life and is transported to Equestria! It's a land of happy ponies and rainbows and possibly lethal amounts of arsenic."

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xXacidnekoXx @xxacidnekoxx.bsky.social · 6d

🦇BAT GLOWSTICKS🦇
🦇BAT GLOWSTICKS🦇

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 6d

I have but nobody's gonna pay me to do it :U

Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 7d

The entire reason Rust is annoying is that it Almost has a real typeclass system, and it Almost has linear types, and it Almost has GADTs, and it Almost has higher-kinded types, but every time someone tries to fix anything a compiler dev is like "actually this makes all builds 10x slower sorry".

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 7d

If we cured aging right now it'd only reduce deaths by ~25%. Even with cells replicating like a teenager, you still accumulate damage. The fat buildup in your arteries doesn't go away. You're still one misfolded protein from getting ALS. Eventually you just die of turbocancer, or get hit by a truck.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 8d

💁‍♀️🍲🏘

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 9d

It's not a real game unless it takes at least 100 GB of storage and crashes your graphics driver twice

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 9d

This means that some older flash animations, if viewed using Ruffle, will have a similar problem as running old games intended for CPUs with a certain clock speed, in that certain scenes will go by way too fast. This is particularly noticeable in Madness 5: Depredation.

Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 9d

A fascinating thing about old flash animations is that some scenes were too complex for any computer to render at full speed at the time. Instead of simplifying the art, some artists simply *sped up the animation* during those segments, effectively lowering the FPS for those specific segments.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 10d

don't give up. we all gotta live to see the sunrise.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 11d

kinda concerned about the amount of Gen Z art that amounts to "we're all gonna die and can't do anything about it so let's just have fun while we can uwu"

That's learned helplessness. It means you no longer think you're capable of making any impact on the world at large.

It means the fascists won.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 11d

"lets go offline!" says someone who has a stable career and healthcare and is part of 99+% of the adult population who identifies with their gender assigned at birth

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Tilkidud @tilkidud.bsky.social · 13d

A serene rotation

Full illustration commission for Volta!

Volta the biosynthetic drake is having a peaceful day fishing inside a colossal O'Neill cylinder space station settlement

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 13d

Act 1 is much more linear then the rest of the game. The beginning of Hollow Knight was similar, but it was a shorter game overall. However, there are actually some significant alternative paths available in Act 1, but casual players will almost certainly miss them, because they are not obvious.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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danny! 🐯 SHOP UPDATE SAT @11AM ET @tigerstooth.bsky.social · Jul 28

what then!!

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panken @panken.bsky.social · 15d

whatever. does this to you

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 16d

RAM usage of empty DX11 window: 10 MB
RAM usage of empty Vulkan window: 50 MB
RAM usage of empty DX12 window: 80 MB
RAM usage of empty winit/wgpu (using Vulkan) window: 100 MB

why is my empty window taking up 10x as much RAM as before?

what the fuck is going on?

what happened to graphics APIs???

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