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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 11h

I was supposed to be helping people not playing grim reaper as fascists dismantle the societal capacity to provide care to 20-30% of the population.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 11h

Too much of my work day is spent sitting helplessly as people cry about all the benefits they are losing and not knowing what they are going to do.

They aren’t yelling at me, but they are yelling, and I want to yell with them. Instead I must bear silent, feckless witness to slow, needless deaths.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, that sounds pretty cool. This internet stranger is excited for both of you.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a prequel called the next to last starfighter and he plays a scientist who writes space war games on his lab computer in the early 60s and he gets pulled into the game world because surprise it is also tron 4.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 23d

we've decided to continue making tron sequels
.....with endless options for renewal
endless options for renewal....endless
options for renewal....ahahahahaha

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a prequel called the next to last starfighter and he plays a scientist who writes space war games on his lab computer in the early 60s and he gets pulled into the game world because surprise it is also tron 4.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 23d

we've decided to continue making tron sequels
.....with endless options for renewal
endless options for renewal....endless
options for renewal....ahahahahaha

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 12h

This is still late 00s. Wasn’t 90s Lara Croft on the cover of lads magazines? Polygon ladies barely looked human then.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 1d

It can be pretty great here. Not perfect, but it is hilarious hopping on and seeing a huge number of notifications and … it is just people being friendly.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 1d

I start my day in a text editor with a prompt that, translated to English, says “Any questions?”

(from a poem about always remaining curious and inquisitive)

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty mad at myself for getting sucked into the "build unreasonable expectations so you feel disappointed by a great ending" internet vortex machine.

I will have to rewatch it later to actually appreciate it.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 2d

This does actually draw a bit of attention. People asking what it is, if it is a phone, a bus driver said “I haven’t seen one of those in a while” referring to what I don’t know.

I really do need to get some wired earbuds to take better advantage of it.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 9d

The last acceptable form of discrimination is app developers refusing to support my ridiculous tiny Sony Walkman Android device.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 2d

Your front row contains:
- one I haven’t seen
- one extremely formative
- my favourite film

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 2d

He publicly stated that his intellect and business success are partially attributable to his superior German DNA, and somehow we are still having to argue his racism?

Truly a farce and a half.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps, but that was a joke about nearly every post having a comment about how obviously AI or otherwise made up it is.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know if joy is the right word, but yes. I also enjoy feeling like I would definitely know what to do in all these ridiculous and possibly real scenarios.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to insert myself into your business, but what precisely are you calling a gateway here and are you 100% this is something you cannot swap out for hardware you control?

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 4d

I was just given a year of HBO Max as a perk for paying for a year of phone service.

Amazing

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 4d

I have nothing to say and don't even want to publicly think or feel about the three people we lost two years ago, but still we gather and mourn.

In a secret location, protected by armed guards, in which phones and bags are not allowed.

I hate this country/world and am tired of quietly enduring.

basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 5d

We never should have abandoned correspondence course gags in general. Today? A 15YO girl loads a gamified how to detective app? Why not? Embrace whimsy, you cowards!

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 12d

I love every frame of this video so much I created a keyboard shortcut to open it in a little pop up frame any time I need a high grade of nostalgia pick-me-up.

(Post a banger that's not in English.)

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 5d

From a vegan perspective, cheese being the one thing keeping someone from being vegan (as is often given as a reason) is demented and mediocre fake cheese is perfectly serviceable as a crutch.

Also, they are improving as the market grows.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 6d

You are really missing out if you like complaining about TV. These are two of the giants in the field.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 6d

But what do I know, I have just spent the last 13 years on antifeminist blocklists that have destroyed my ability to socialise online because you politically illiterate dumbfucks will believe any male tale of woe at the hands of women so long as he identifies as being on the right side of history.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 6d

The problem is, Bluesky would be better place if the “witch-hunts are good, actually” assholes pack up and leave.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 6d

We can’t be more than 60 additional notifications away from convincing her we are normal and the Twin Peaks shows and films are good, actually.

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basBooOooO(hé) @basbleu.bsky.social · 6d

The original show is 80s/90s soap opera kitsch married with the boundless laments of those powerless to combat the evils society gleefully visits upon women.

It sounds awful and miserable. Before you even get to it sounding pretentious.

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