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Codatski
@codatski.bsky.social
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Nerd. Husband. Collector of Hobbies.
[He/Him]

Profile is a photo of a DSLR pin pinned to the lapel of a peacoat. Banner is a photo of a cyclist in a yellow coat riding down a dusty trail covered in fall leaves.
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codatski.bsky.social
Playing this in the car during Christmas driving. Each person only gets one skip to use. Learning a lot about different people's tolerances. Thanks @effinbirds.com!
effinbirds.com Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16d
My gift to you: the worst Christmas playlist, to horrify your friends and relations. Apple Music & Spotify links at shitm.as
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
codatski.bsky.social
I'm curious @profanity.accountant
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
codatski.bsky.social
My go-to indie bookstore orders a lot of their sci-fi and fantasy based on my ordering and Libro listening habits. It is my single most proud achievement and such a singular delight.
alyssaharad.bsky.social Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · Nov 25
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Nov 24
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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daisyowl.com
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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notgodzilla.bsky.social
she's defrosting
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
codatski.bsky.social
It was a couple of months ago, but I had such a good time seeing Tophouse. Grabbed a few shots while there.
A series of instruments are lined up along a stage bathed in red and blue light. The instruments include a violin, a banjo, and several guitars. A bearded man wearing a hat is on the left, singing into a microphone, holding a banjo. Another bearded man with brown hair is on the right, playing a guitar. The stage is lit in blue. A man is in the foreground playing a violin. He has long blonde hair, a beard, and his brow is furrowed in focus. A man in the background is playing a banjo.
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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destinythememe.bsky.social
Yay! :)
August 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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leahmiller.bsky.social
Citizen Sleeper is one of the most efficient narrative games I've ever played. A great experience for readers and players, and an education in narrative economy for writers and narrative designers.
jeremybent.bsky.social Jeremy Bent @jeremybent.bsky.social · Aug 12
If you have not played Citizen Sleeper, it is currently $6 on Steam, a positive STEAL.

If you have played Citizen Sleeper, the sequel is $19 and just as engrossing as the original.

Did I start the sequel last night? Yes.

Am I already four hours in? Yes.

store.steampowered.com/bundle/48671...
Save 45% on Citizen Sleeper: Helion Collection on Steam
store.steampowered.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
codatski.bsky.social
Getting to run an Alien RPG campaign where two of the players have not seen any of the Alien movies is a spectacular treat for me.
July 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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yeetkunedo.bsky.social
re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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loadingreadyrun.com
Are you a Magic player who doesn’t “get” all these #MTGxFinalFantasy cards?
Who are these people?
What’s a Tonberry?

Well @graham.loadingreadyrun.com is here to answer those questions, with a HEFTY video, explaining EVERY new Final Fantasy card.

youtu.be/LuiA-uLu_JI
Every Final Fantasy x MTG Card Explained
YouTube video by LRRMTG
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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literaryfey.bsky.social
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
codatski.bsky.social
No kings
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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wildgorillaman.bsky.social
I…maybe needed to see this right now
Tumblr cap from user @greenishness Follow As part of her social media detox this girl on YouTube made herself do one hour of understimulating tasks every day and she just counted rice for 60 minutes straight because its no different from doomscrolling in terms of wasted time ... @greenishness When I say this changed my life. Every time I'm on my phone l ask myself Is this different from counting rice for one hour ? and if the answer is no I go find something else to do. It works well because it's not about conforming to productivity standards or about moralizing digital hobbies it's just an honest reflection on whether tomorrow I will be glad I spent my time this way and then acting accordingly. The rice paradigm
June 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Do not split
scgriffith.bsky.social yoneda sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · Jun 8
the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
Yet if the movement is leaderless and anarchic, it isn't chaotic. It has guiding principles that allow participants to self- regulate even as the movement constantly reinvents itself. Among those principles is ("do not split"). Protesters use the expression to say that no one in the movement should condemn or obstruct the actions of fellow protesters they disagree with. People who oppose a given action should sit it out, but not try to prevent it. The use of force, in particular, is a divisive issue. Some insist on the necessity of keeping the protests peaceful, so that they will seem morally legitimate and may gain sympathy from the broader public. Others — especially younger protesters or protesters who consider that the lengthy sit-ins of the Umbrella Movement failed — believe that some measure of force has become necessary; otherwise, the government will simply ignore them. The “do not split” idea acts as a bridge between these two factions by promoting mutual respect for diverging views within the protest movement.
June 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
codatski.bsky.social
New job means new opportunities, but also back to being at the bottom. I don't miss being the "new guy".
June 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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monteurhulot.bsky.social
happy birthday to Deirdre Skye, leader of Gaia's Stepdaughters, canonically born today, May 28, 2025.
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ziyan.wtf
For those curious, you can run the Powershell command

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove

to remove this.

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall"

lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" FeatureName : Recall DisplayName : Recall Description : Recall application. RestartRequired : Possible State : DisabledWithPayloadRemoved CustomProperties :
April 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
codatski.bsky.social
Ten of my favorite video games of all time, in no particular order:

*Hades
*Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
*Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
*Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
*Stardew Valley
*Firewatch
*Civilization 3
*SSX Tricky
*Citizen Sleeper
*Disco Elysium
tolariancommunitycollege.com Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · Apr 27
Ten of my favorite video games of all time, in no particular order:
*Super Mario World
*The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past
*Chrono Trigger
*Stardew Valley
*Fallout: New Vegas
*Baldur's Gate 3
*Pokemon Soul Silver
*Hades
*Skyrim
*Master Of Orion 2
April 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
codatski.bsky.social
My lovely wife is playing Oblivion for the first time. (The remaster) It has been endlessly entertaining to me, so this will be a thread of the things overheard while watching her play.

#VideoGames #Oblivion
April 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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bluetrebol.bsky.social
So I made a fan poster for @loadingreadyrun.com 's latest Friday Nights episodi, which I liked very much
Fake poster for LoadingReadyRun's Friday Nights episode "The Deckmaster Game" A beat up deckbox stands in the background, and small minimalist portraits of the lrr actors stand at the bottom as if coming out of little envelopes
March 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
codatski.bsky.social
Having my first interaction with Jelly Babies, and they're great! I am slightly distressed that they chose to personify the figures with names...
The yellow and orange back of a Jelly Babies package showing six figures representing the different flavors. The names used are Brilliant, Boofuls, Bubbles, Bumper, Baby Bonny, and Big Heart.
March 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
codatski.bsky.social
My review of Avowed is that it is as good as you *remember* Skyrim being.
February 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM