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Christopher Owen

@oysta.au

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I wail a lot about computers and the Newcastle Knights. I also now wail about the SF Giants. Sometimes I post about chicken and gaming. You may use software that I’ve written, sorry. Currently helping humans explore space. 🇦🇺 Sydney 🕸️ https://oysta.au/

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · Jun 23

It has been exactly eleven years today since my computer tried to kill me.

Eleven

It turns out that eleven is a very auspicious number.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 29m

As am I

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 5d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 7h

Every time I feel like they run out of ways to admit they are absolute monsters, they find a new one.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

can’t comment on Candace because it’s quite obviously a freak show. It’s like driving on the highway and seeing a farmer having sex with a sheep. You don’t want to look, but you can’t look away either. The problems begin when you try to analyze it. It is what it is.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 1h

Yes we had a laugh at that too

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 6h

Love this web site

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 6h

If the chiko car rolls it, that will be the end of me

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 1d

What a hero. I say this anyway because it just looks better

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1d

Call centre worker here. I record a tally when the customer, before providing their email address, state 'all in lower case'. No Doreen, your email address is case-insensitive. Highest count in a day is 24. We need to educating the UK public.

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 1d

“antifa roundtable event at the White House attended by conservative influencers.”

Imagine trying to parse this even just 10 years ago.

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 1d

And that person’s name? Albert Einstein

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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thomas irvine @ahermitsvino.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 2d

One minute silence for the Yankees

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 3d

4chan, the social network dedicated to 4 year olds

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 3d

lol what

PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 3d

Further evidence our 'government' has literally ZERO clue what it's doing with this shitforbrains policy.

TikTok? : Bad

YouTube? : Bad

SnapChat? : Bad

4chan? : Totes Fine

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 3d

Bird of the year is once again the dirty bird, congratulations

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 3d

So THIS is such a good example of Arendt's banality of evil. This roundtable is all about (ostensibly) discussing their ideas, their ideology, etc. but none of them really care about any of it or think about it deeply, there's nothing really to discuss. It's just contentless noise. It's somnambulant

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 3d

Lara Bingle once quote tweeted a mild dunk I made on Michael Clarke

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 3d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surpasses 5 million copies sold, and has a free content update on the way. gameinformer.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 3d

Begun the soybean wars have

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 3d

Head of Product at X 🫠

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The Australian Game Developer Awards (The AGDAs) @agdas.bsky.social · 4d

The #AGDAs25 Winner For Game of the Year is...

The Drifter by Powerhoof

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 4d

6yo: “I love dessert and I love when it’s free”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

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