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Mara Johnson

@marajohnson.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️, So Cal born and raised. Sports fan, software developer, sci-fi/fantasy lover, and I'm really tall. My posts will be like my interests: all over the place

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · Oct 18

Bringing this banger over to my profile here

I can finally say the Mia saying. Honestly can't believe I'm finally on hormones!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 8h

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens

Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 11h

I run Wow on linux. I've done m+ and raiding no problem. Curseforge has alinux app as well. My steam games work out of the box as well.

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 12h

This one stung. Down 0-3, come back 3-3, dominate play, go ahead goal called back for offside, then Arsenal hit 2 in a minute to win the game.

FM26 - Manchester United women's 3 vs Arsenal women's 5

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 20h

So on the men's side of Football Manager Bilbao is always a challenge because of the signing restrictions. The women's team with that same restriction is probably going to be massively harder because of the database size

FM26 team selection screen with Athletic Bilbao's women's team

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Two days later I find out you can tell it not to include any of the leagues from a nation. Boys out!

FM26 nation setup screen. You can remove leagues from nations

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 21h

Dear store owner,

I would like 8 crack-sucking leggings. I need to restock for the winter

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Dear store owner,

I was horned up on crack-sucking leggings.

Dale Partridge • @dalepartridge
X.com
Today, my family went on a family trip to Flagstaff. We walked into a quaint sandwich shop, and a young woman approached to take our order.
She was wearing a sports bra and crack-sucking leggings.
It was the kind of outfit our grandmothers would see as lingerie.
Had I not been with my family, I would have said something like, "Ma'am, do you not know how inappropriate your outfit is? Are you not ashamed to be wearing that in public?"
So, when I got home, I wrote the owner.
This won't change until we make it change.
Make sin shameful again. Remember, shame pushes people to see their need for forgiveness—in Christ.

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 22h

All the queer people that didn't leave are about to see their engagement drop to zero

Dan of the FEAR💀 @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

Brace for another wave of x refuges

& What's happening: Elon Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts
and videos every day to decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links.

How this hits reality: This marks the first time a major social platform has handed full control of content discovery to an Al model.
Engagement farms, trend-hacking accounts, and traditional growth tactics may soon lose their edge. The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging, turning social media optimization into a new form of prompt engineering. This shift could reshape influencer strategies, ad targeting, and even political communication in a matter of weeks.
• Key takeaway: X did not just change its algorithm; it replaced it with an Al reader.
Your reach will soon depend on how fluently you can speak Grok.

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Manchester United have won 3 games in a row which means the fan who hadn't cut his hair in over a year is 2 wins away from finally shearing that fro off

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Decided to load up Overwatch 2. There are way more of these pride icons than I remember

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, my Friday gaming sessions is done. FM26 has a pretty interesting game stopper with player transfers. Oh well, I guess I can read or watch a movie, or vibe out on here

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

a close up of a woman 's face smiling and looking up at the sky .

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

This is me at 6'6". Where are my taller girls at?

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

What happened to TikTok?

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 2d

What's it like inside your head?

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Yeahhh. I logged a bug last night where I couldn't see part of the transfer history screen because some of the new data they're showing overlaps with the transfer grid. I don't even know how they slipped past testing and got into the beta

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Its not just the bugs. They redesigned the UI so you have to try and get used to all of the changes while also dealing with the bugs. Navigating around the game just to see data has become a chore.

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

11 hours later its at 29 pages. JFC this new UI needed much more time to iron out the bugs

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

There are 17 pages of "General UI" bugs posted for FM26. Yikes

a woman is crying and says `` ah , fork me '' .

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Gone are the days of a show like Sense8 being cancelled for high production costs at $9 million per episode.

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Like, Interview With The Vampire can't cost an insane amount per episode to film. Lets say its a decent amount at $5 million per episode. You could produce 2 of that shows seasons for the cost of one of these episodes. WHY? Make cheaper, more compelling, shows with better stories

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

There's no way they make this money back. $100 million per episode is lunacy

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Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Its so amazing. It brought back that "Oh I can't wait for the next episode to air" feeling that binge watching took away

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

And it completed just fine. No crashes or anything. I won't know more until I've done a long running sim or actually played one of the games, but it looks like FM26 is good on linux

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

System usage during the game sim looks about the same in linux as on Windows so that's good

MissionCenter reading of my 9800x3D during a year long sim of the NWSL in FM26

Mara Johnson @marajohnson.bsky.social · 3d

FM26 is running on linux, but it didn't copy the manager I created nor any of the settings from Windows. Once I recreate that I'll do a quick test save