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Alexander King

@literallyaking.com

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Game Designer, Economy/System Design. Adjunct Professor at NYU Game Center & Parsons DT. Staff Data Analyst for ACT-UAW Local 7902. Spreadsheet aficionado. (He/Him)

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 12h

This is why you need to not just mask, but mask consistently in public.

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HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction.
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Chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and accelerated biological aging are shared hallmarks of HIVI/AIDS and Long COVID/PASC.
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Tissue reservoir persistence drives long-term damage in both HIV and SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 mirrors HIV-1 in its ability to evade immune defenses and cause chronic infection.
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SARS-CoV-2 -associated neurological disorders (SAND) parallel HIV-associated neurological disorders (HAND).
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Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12h

Maybe he would have turned to gold but doesn't get a chance to- he doesn't really have the power for very long. The food-into-gold thing is a real problem, so he has to pray to Dionysus to reverse it basically right away. He's only aurifying stuff for like, an afternoon

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 13h

I appreciate you continuing to recommend this, been thinking of doing so for awhile so it's making me want to do it. Do you have a preference between the two?

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 19h

Haha wow that's pretty impressive tracking that down!

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 3d

I *think* what's going on here is these are speculative RPG jokes/ideas by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma, manga artists (famous for "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga"), who at that time were making a foray into videogames. They'd go on to work on the surreal SNES RPGs Maka Maka and Day of the Idea.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 3d

This has been my go-to, using the whole body of the vehicle to clamp onto the object, then lifting it up to clear the ground. I've been using variants of this for most jobs (or mainly a bigger version with more wheels and pistons etc), it works great, but can't do the soft or multi-piece ones

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 3d

Haha that looks awesome. All those big block pieces look great together, I hadn't thought of using those to make a basket like that. I had been trying to use the panels for stuff like that, but it's a bit annoying to do since they only have the one connector point.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 3d

Ahh nice, I hadn't thought of that approach for the toaster (and other loose object ones). I just went with more of a "hold it really tight and hope the bread doesn't fall out" strategy

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 3d

Probably my biggest tip for new parents would be to make sure all the caregivers have seen Rocky IV, so when you say "If he cries, he cries" in a voice like Ivan Drago, everyone appreciates the joke

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 4d

Can't wait to get an AI signed copy of my AI generated issue of ... wait a minute... bonerme?

Zooming in on the bottom left center of the (clearly AI generated) image of the robot, revealing the ersatz Spiderman comic, BONERME, or possibly, PONERME

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 5d

I had a dream last night where everyone was crowding around this arcade cabinet called HORSE ASSASSIN.
But I couldn't get a look at it, so I'm not sure if it was about assassinating horses, or if you played as a horse who is an assassin.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 5d

I like a bin that has the "a brazier that if you light them all opens a secret door" sort of look

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 7d

Silver (the hedgehog, not the metal) weeps

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 7d

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 8d

I think the median is actually pretty high, but the problem is that what we experience is the weighted average.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 9d

"Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will."
Aleister Crowley - Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 10d

wizard frog is insane

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 10d

Personally, I'd say the 4th one, cuz I like the blue rhomboid eye guy as an author stand-in.

But I don't know anything about the algorithmically stifling genre conventions of youtube thumbnails, so take it with a grain of salt

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

Fantastic piece about the unionization victory of teachers at the Manhattan School of Music. Some really far-ranging takeaways, definitely relevant to other precarious lines of work like games-

brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 13d

Phillipe I think you made a mistake, these are clearly the voices of like half a dozen different guys

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The Cuix (sketch comms open) @thecuix.bsky.social · 14d

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

4 panel comic, une bunny and a witch cat are sitting around the fire, preparing dinner.
Dialogue goes :
"So, you're a Brush bearer, an Artist"
"Are you still painting?"
"I am"
"Hah! No way ! with the world on the verge of collapse and hoe fading day by day, you think art still matters?"
"Now more than ever..."

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 16d

This picture makes me laugh every single time I read my kid's book about visiting the doctor. She looks like a "without downloading new pictures how are you feeling?" meme that's come to life

A little girl, nonplussed, has the circumference of her head measured. She has a reflective look that suggests a lot of events led to this moment, and she is reconsidering all of them.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 17d

That survey uses liberal/conservative as synonymous for democrat/republican, and I think people are increasingly recognizing how that's inaccurate, leftwards and rightwards. But yeah I guess it'll persist until we can get rid of first-past-the-post winner-takes-all elections and get actual parties.