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Turfster

@turfster.bsky.social

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Coder, pun perpetrator Grumpiness elemental Hyperbole abuser Don't put words in my mouth It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context (TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · Oct 18

I guess I'm on here now as well, if only just to stake my claim.
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.

Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".

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Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social · 46m

If you're curious about what's new in the Ambrosia Sky demo for Steam Next Fest, we've done a dev commentary walkthrough of it!

Ambrosia Sky 🪐 | Developer Commentary [Demo]

YouTube video by Soft Rains Games

www.youtube.com

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 34m

Someone should invent tech that lets you reach through a screen to fuss someone's pet

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onion person @junlper.beer · 54m

zack polanski is so good and i genuinely think if the left rallies around this guy and the green party in the UK, they can easily beat back the hysteria of the reform party

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 40m

... of course this is *also* how I just found out my fucking brain blanked that it didn't edit the first part of Masterworks when I decided to make the directors Even More Insufferable.
Thanks, brain.

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 43m

Boopplause

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 44m

I swear to god, what is it with fucking randos on here putting words in my mouth and rolling their eyes at The Imaginary Me In Their Head to... what? Try and feel slightly more superior than someone else for *once* in their pathetic nothingburger lives? Fuck off, go bother someone else.

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 2h

It was, in fact, Not A Good Outcome For Everyone

Internal Tech Emails @techemails.bsky.social · 17h

Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook employee

April 9, 2012

Facebook employee
Wow, awesome news. I like that you’re not killing the independent product. I love instagram.

Mark Zuckerberg
Yeah, I remember your internal post about how Instagram was our threat and not Google+. You were basically right. One thing about startups though is you can often acquire them. I think this is a good outcome for everyone.

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, Longer Movies existed before that point in time, but *most* of them were at least *interesting* enough, and added something to the viewer's life.

These days, they mostly seem to disrespect the viewer's time, and show off the lack of care? competence? on the part of the people that made it

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 2h

I've been saying this for years.
I blame the MCU for convincing directors that people want and *will* sit through their terribly mid, supremely bloated Master Opuses (Opi?)

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h

Increasingly convinced there's no justifiable reason to ever cut a feature film longer than 90 minutes

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 2h

Magic

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 15h

“worry about localization later”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 4h

I'm always willing to suspend my disbelief if a show is entertaining enough, but in the S01E11 episode of the A-Team, they tranqued B.A. and then flew to *Borneo* from LA, in a *DC-3*, and I'm sorry, but that's just a couple of bridges too far for me.

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 4h

Comfy.
Warm.
Loved.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

ChatGPT itself is a lazy nepo baby failson that constantly bullshits you about work it can't understand and blows off, but you somehow can't fire because it got this job as a favor to its parent company, as above so below etc

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 13h

"traditional american views on morality" got the goose that chases you yelling "which americans?"

onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 5h

Truly, a Biffo Designed for Gamers™

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 23h

"Autodesk acquires Blender Foundation"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing dudes try to step to the menswear guy makes me understand better the mentality of the regular Street Punks who keep hassling Kiryu in Act 3 of every Yakuza game when hes got all the abilities unlocked

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Katie, world's scariest Little Lady @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 13h

America's Next Top Mobile Suit Gundam

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No kings @amydentata.bsky.social · 12h

If you keep getting signals that your instinctive response is misinformed and causes problems, one way you can help is by not acting on that instinct. Think of a stranger that adds to a bus argument by yelling, escalating the situation. Sometimes the best thing for you personally to do is not act.

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 22h

Artists must use GIT

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New LMS platform adopted

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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