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he/him 🏳️‍🌈 | twitch partner | former-ish speedrunner | cs prof | generative AI luddite 🎮 biz: [email protected]
idk bro just buy less tasty litter
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The first volume of the RetroAchievements Vanilla Level Design Contest is now available for everyone to play!

This is a collaboration of RetroAchievements users getting together to create Super Mario World levels, all part of one hack!

Check it out here! retroachievements.org/game/32795
~Hack~ RetroAchievements Vanilla Level Design Contest Vol. 1 (SNES/Super Famicom)
There are 119 achievements worth 355 points. ~Hack~ RetroAchievements Vanilla Level Design Contest Vol. 1 for SNES/Super Famicom - explore and compete on this classic game at RetroAchievements.
retroachievements.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Celebrating TEN years of Arcade Pit in a row, on December 7th. We never missed a single week, a 10 year streak. Also tons of bonus shows and goofy one-off projects.

Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it

See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Recording some Bank or Stanks ahead of time for the upcoming holiday week, then continuing Attempt 3 of permadeath Master Quest til wow raid time twitch.tv/skybilz
Skybilz - Twitch
Master Quest Wild Kingdom Challenge (Permadeath) Attempt 3, Session 4 !Wild !last
twitch.tv
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I don't know, I just think art should be an earnest, heartfelt expression of emotion and lived experience, you know? A machine that cannot cringe cannot make art.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Celebrating 6 years of being married to @authorblu.es today. Love you so much.
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Higemaru Makaijima mentioned!
I wanna cruise the 6 islands (2018)
エスポチ

#iwbtg
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Very sympathetic to my friends whose streams benefit from or depend on SAMMI, but the timeline of their dork founder coming back saying "I'm going to save this doomed project... with AI!" only for the entire dev team to quit and everybody dropping it is, separate from everything, extremely funny.
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Same, little guy. Couldn't agree more.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ready for magFAST now, just gotta get more consistent at 96 exit too before AGDQ 2026. That category has some of the nasty stages.
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On behalf of the Pit Crew's fundraiser for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC, we ended up raising $11,317.45 in total. I'm floored by the generosity of this community. I don't know what to say apart from thank you!

@skybilz.bsky.social @tietuesday.bsky.social @sword.zone @smight.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tomorrow (starting 11a eastern), some of the Pit Crew (me, @skybilz.bsky.social, @tietuesday.bsky.social, @sword.zone, @smight.bsky.social) will be doing an Archipelago raising money for our local food banks. Sky and I will be raising money for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC specifically.
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Oh no it's more sanctioned Neighvember Horsin' with Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue!

twitch.tv/thegreatgildersneeze
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I need to make a version of this with the captions changed to "new data structure discovery" and Knuth for my data structures slide deck
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Streaming for the first time in like 500 years.
PRINCESS MAKER Retroachievements, baby!

twitch.tv/prettypinkpansy
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every time I get an email or read a post about how "AI is inevitable" and so you need to do X or Y to get ready for it, I screenshot it. I've saved them all. When the bubble bursts, I'm going to be a menace. I will be unstoppable. I will be taken to prison for the harassment I am going to do.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The reason why almost all politicians are uniquely terrible at their job is because their role in society is to act as an interface between a broken system and people who they hate and refuse to interact with. Most politicians could improve marginally if they got yelled at by normal people more.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Using Charlie Brown and Lucy as a metaphor for the Dems and the GOP respectively, when she pulls the football out of the way, is particularly apt because typically the person who holds the football and the person who kicks the football play for the same team.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Bank or Stank 29 is up! Phantasmal Flames sure is a set. youtube.com/shorts/Pvy_q...
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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i'm really annoyed the internet has reached a point where people by default think every game is bad, especially with older ones. i get this from random chatters no matter how much i am enjoying myself, streamers have their whole personality revolve around trashing every tiny thing, it's exhausting
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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lou bega doesn't know what instruments are
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A week from tomorrow (11/15), I'll be raising money for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC with Pit Crew alongside @authorblu.es . We want to help out our community during a time where not everyone can afford to put food on the table.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM