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Alex Boo!urns

Alex Boo!urns

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Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 13h

i feel like this is also a big part of why driving has gotten so bad. Acknowledging that other people and things exist and adjusting your behavior based on that seems out of reach for a lot of people now.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 1d

I've really enjoyed Sable and Cloudpunk this past year.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 1d

All my gaming has really skewed to very chill, relaxed games lately, and I'm very much enjoying Sable right now. Just coasting over the dunes on my hoverbike and climbing tall rock formations. Hassling beetles for their poop.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 1d

The noon hour and the 1 hour makes it seem like it might even be 2!

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 1d

Picked up some pince-nez readers, making me basically as hot as Dorothy Malone in the Big Sleep.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 4d

None if these people have explained to me why I would pay for them to push their magic button when I could just get my own magic button.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 4d

I don't really buy action figures anymore, but these Mondo X-Men figures really are rad as hell.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 4d

The really insane thing about this is tide times are predictable and easy to look up. What's also easy is downloading an extension to your browser to block AI results.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 4d

One of the swimmers had used ChatGPT to consult the tide times: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was."

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Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 4d

I definitely want to see more Jessica Jones on TV, but I do hope they lighten it up a little. Jessica Jones is witty! She's funny! But the old Netflix series never really captured that IMO.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 4d

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 4d

I re-watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three recently and like half the movie is just a big "the mayor of New York sucks" joke, it's great.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 6d

Growing up in Texas, people will talk to you like this assuming you’re one of them.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 11d

Wait, back up. What is the actual down side to being a zombie?

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah they don't think about our luggage already.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 15d

You could tell this story was bullshit from the start. They’re always accusing the left of crimes that they themselves do, and the left never does, like driving through crowds of protesters.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 15d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 21d

Gonna spend it all on a battleship that’s made entirely of marble and gold-plates.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 23d

I saw him in about 2010, and he was still pretty lively and with it. Glad I got to meet him before the decline. Really is wretched what they’ve done since.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 24d

Kind of intolerant not to, actually

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 25d

This Ninja Turtles Humble Bundle is insane. www.humblebundle.com/books/teenag...

Humble Comics Bundle: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Half-Shell

Leo, Don, Raph, and Mike in one awesome collection with the Humble Comics Bundle: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Half-Shell!

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Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 25d

Young, likely progressive, beneath them on the socio-economic scale, easily accessible, and unlikely to fight back.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 25d

One time someone got mad at me because I said I was enjoying Avengers Academy but wasn't getting too attached because half the characters would be killed off in the following couple years. And then that's exactly what happened.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 26d

I think Lobdell doesn’t quite get Emma Frost though.

Alex Boo!urns @afburns.bsky.social · 26d

Re-reading some of the original Generation X series and Bachalo and the coloring team really did knock it out of the park with this book.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 26d

“There’s no shortage of creativity in Vietnam. What we lack are bridges”: Vietnam’s blossoming board game design scene goes global via first Road to Essen competition:

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A man in a red t-shirt stands on a stage with a woman wearing a long black dress and grey jacket. The man holds a large black and red certificate with a yellow star on, and a small golden trophy. The man is Thinh LeHuu, winner of the inaugural Road to Essen competition for best Vietnamese board game design.

Long green and red cardboard tokens showing stylised cartoon versions of Vietnamese dishes, with their names printed in the centre of the card. A wooden die showing a 5 on top is visible in the top right.

A brown cardboard player board for the board game Au Lac, with red, blue and green wooden cubes and meeples on. The board has spaces which show various resources such as wheat and wood. In front of the board a hand holds up five cards with Vietnamese writing at the top, each showing resources. The front card also has a picture of a boat. Standing behind the player board is the box for the game, beige with Au Lac written in gold and orange, and an image of an old city underneath.

Head and shoulders of a woman with brown hair to her chin, parted in the centre, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a pink sleeveless top with what appears to be a yellow flower design on, and wears pink/red lipstick. Global Everjoy co-founder and CEO Ionah Nguyen.