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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 40m

"The test play runs smoothly(?)"

Yeesh, this is insulting and lousy.

a man in a suit and tie is asking if he is ron burgundy

Alt: Ron Burgundy asking if he is Ron Burgundy

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 4h

Did I go a bit overboard buying 15 'Persona' wafers and collectible card packs? Yes.

Do I regret it? No.

3 stacks of 'Persona' wafers featuring Makoto and Aigis on a blue background, Yu and Yosuke on a yellow background, and Ren and Akechi on a red background

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

In fairness, asphyxiation has proved highly effective in terminating all these conditions.

Matt the Starting Over Guy @theinfinitedadness.bsky.social · 1d

New wellness grift just dropped

Twitter post from a grifter: CO2 healed or improved all of these, even homosexuality. ® 4
Anxiety? CO2
Alcoholism? C02
Allergy? CO2
Anorexia? CO2
Asthma or shortness of breath? C02
Compulsion? CO2
Constipation? CO2
Concentration difficulties? C02
Cephalagia? co2
Cardiac disturbance? CO2
Depression? CO2

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 16h

Extreme crunch is how bad leadership cosplays at productivity. Nothing they're making can be more important than people getting to live their lives outside of management's sphere of control.

JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 17h

"Buzzword, buzzword, buzzword; appease the shareholders and they're all who matter."

Fuck off, EA.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 20h

"EA and Stability AI partner to empower artists, designers, and developers"

"The partnership will help unlock faster iteration, accelerate workflows, and expand creative possibilities"

www.ea.com/news/ea-part...

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 20h

I was already going to buy 'Marvel Cosmic Invasion' when it comes out on 1st December.

Knowing that Brute Force are making cameos in it only reaffirms my confidence in the game.

Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 21h

Screenshot from the new Marvel Comics game, you gotta be kidding me.

Members of Brute Force stuffed in jars in the back of the new Marvel game.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21h

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs

OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 23h

I consider this a hate crime to cinema itself.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 23h

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 1d

"why are games so expensive"
"why are mass layoffs happening"
"why are games getting cancelled"
"why did that popular studio close"

it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins

Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects

www.bloomberg.com

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 1d

The M.A.S.K. adaptations will continue until morale improves.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

guys cmonnn. it’s time to leave Prince Andrew alone

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Pink Guy is talking to a Blue Guy. Pink Guy says “I think Prince Andrew should be put on trial”

Panel 2: Blue Guy is absolutely distraught and replies “On TRIAL? Hasn’t he suffered ENOUGH?”

Panel 3: Blue Guy grabs Pink Guy by the collar and yells “LOOK at him”. He points to the right.

Panel 4: We see Prince Andrew theatrically moping on a chaise longue.

Blue Guy screams “He’s collapsed theatrically onto a chaise longue!!”

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 2d

I've argued before that stories (through whichever medium) are meant to be experienced and reflected upon, rather than being treated as obstacles to be solved and beaten as fast as possible.

(Much like the difference between savouring a meal and just chugging a blended smoothie of it.)

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 2d

It's a Captain America film with both Sam Wilson and Isaiah Bradley*, but instead of really digging into their histories for good drama and having something meaningful to say about race, it just treads water with two of the Hulk's enemies there.

*No less where Isiah has been set up and imprisoned

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Stabby Stacy King @stacyking.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like a variant on the Vimes Boot Theory of Economics: stealing a $2 candy bar could get you criminally charged, but stealing $23K of event services will get you months of payment requests and eventual dismissal of your debt: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck it we ball 🖊️🦑

mister-astringent
Oct 19
Think I also need a second matching motivational poster to go up next to it. It says exactly the same thing, but the picture is of Saejima beating the shit out of some guy with a motorcycle.

Follow up tumblr post from the same user depicting Majima with a word bubble as though he’s saying the previous comment

a second matching motivational poster to go up next to it. It says exactly the same thing, but the picture is of Saejima beating the shit out of some guy with a motorcycle.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 4d

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 4d

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

ugh

Screenshot of a gregpak.net post from one day ago reading "real talk: within a couple of days they'll start claiming 'No Kings' is anti-Christian"

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 5d

After finishing up 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' with the platinum trophy this weekend, its time for me to enact bloody revenge in 'Ghost of Yōtei'.

a group of people sitting around a table in a room with a samurai standing in the doorway

Alt: Atsu stands of the doorway of a building as people look on. (From 'Ghost of Yōtei')

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favourite moments in 'Yakuza: Like a Dragon'.

Glad to see it being used here.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 5d

Ichiban sign spotted at No Kings protest in Chicago

People don’t exist to server the law
The law exists to serve the people

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 6d

It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 6d

GI Robot has one personality trait, and it is the best personality trait.

(I also enjoyed the brief little snapshots of DC history through him.)

a cartoon character with the number 2 on their hat

Alt: GI Robot is happy (From 'Creature Commandos', episode 4)

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 6d

Fuck the monarchy, and I hope that he drags all of his chums down with him.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

i’m so sick of this cowardly use of language.

Some legal experts have questioned the legality of the approach. The president’s use of overwhelming military force to combat the cartels, along with his authorization of covert action inside Venezuela, possibly to oust President Nicolás Maduro, stretches the bounds of international law, legal scholars said this week.

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Peter T @ptran42.bsky.social · 7d

I visit an artist's Etsy page one time, and I'm now forever inundated with obnoxiously twee Etsy adverts on YouTube.

It's that or the (still) many different online gambling/live sports betting ads that make me genuinely quite angry.