Jason Downs
@downsj.com
I manage people and stuff in the cloud. I play video games. I keep a diabetic cat alive. I collect retro computers and game consoles.
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Jason Downs
@downsj.com
· Jan 21
I'm getting lots of spam followers.
Do note that I will report obvious bots. I have the time and inclination to do so.
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Do note that I will report obvious bots. I have the time and inclination to do so.
Advertise your dating/porn/onlyfans/whatever sex site somewhere else.
I watched the first episode of #Pluribus last night. It's fine, I liked it even. But I don't get the hype. It's just creepy-pasta, Twilight Zone style scfi, and very derivative at that. I don't see how they're possibly going to extend this premise out to multiple seasons without... 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I watched the first episode of #Pluribus last night. It's fine, I liked it even. But I don't get the hype. It's just creepy-pasta, Twilight Zone style scfi, and very derivative at that. I don't see how they're possibly going to extend this premise out to multiple seasons without... 1/2
#HouseOfDynamite #Netflix #WarGames
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I convinced my dad to take me to see the movie WarGames. Long before AI was anything more than clever regular expression parsers, we were given an engaging story about trying to teach an AI about the futility of nuclear war. 1/3
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I convinced my dad to take me to see the movie WarGames. Long before AI was anything more than clever regular expression parsers, we were given an engaging story about trying to teach an AI about the futility of nuclear war. 1/3
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#HouseOfDynamite #Netflix #WarGames
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I convinced my dad to take me to see the movie WarGames. Long before AI was anything more than clever regular expression parsers, we were given an engaging story about trying to teach an AI about the futility of nuclear war. 1/3
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I convinced my dad to take me to see the movie WarGames. Long before AI was anything more than clever regular expression parsers, we were given an engaging story about trying to teach an AI about the futility of nuclear war. 1/3
My "girls", a bonded pair of #cats went to the vet today. Ear mites.
It's been a stressful day, and I I've been giving them lots of treats. Just gave one a churu, which she vomited back up. I guess it was a good one, because she gave it another go and prompt ate her own vomit.
#Cats are great.
It's been a stressful day, and I I've been giving them lots of treats. Just gave one a churu, which she vomited back up. I guess it was a good one, because she gave it another go and prompt ate her own vomit.
#Cats are great.
October 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The finale of @jamesgunn.bsky.social's #Peacemaker was weak. Characters inconsistent with their own previous behavior, a tacked on ending which was inconsistent with the episode itself, and 10 minutes of conceited concert footage. I loved the show up to this point. Please do better with the DCU.
October 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The finale of @jamesgunn.bsky.social's #Peacemaker was weak. Characters inconsistent with their own previous behavior, a tacked on ending which was inconsistent with the episode itself, and 10 minutes of conceited concert footage. I loved the show up to this point. Please do better with the DCU.
Hey #Xbox, if you're going to leak a $300m revenue loss on CoD due to GPU, show the actual numbers. Also, not everyone who played CoD via GPU was otherwise going to buy it. Try harder if you want to rationalize this price increase.
October 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hey #Xbox, if you're going to leak a $300m revenue loss on CoD due to GPU, show the actual numbers. Also, not everyone who played CoD via GPU was otherwise going to buy it. Try harder if you want to rationalize this price increase.
Yes, I'm certain that one merger has caused layoffs, cancelled projects, and raised prices all over the gaming industry.
Might it just be that the post-pandemic gaming bubble is bursting?
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#Xbox #Gaming #GamePass
Might it just be that the post-pandemic gaming bubble is bursting?
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#Xbox #Gaming #GamePass
Lina Khan (@linamkhan)
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been followed by significant price hikes and layoffs, harming both gamers and developers.
As we’ve seen across sectors, increasing market consolidation and ...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thanks to redeeming a ton of rewards points I had banked before they pulled the ability to do so and buying up $20 gift cards at my local Bi-Mart, I'm set for the next 3 years.
October 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thanks to redeeming a ton of rewards points I had banked before they pulled the ability to do so and buying up $20 gift cards at my local Bi-Mart, I'm set for the next 3 years.
The quiet bits are no longer quiet.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The quiet bits are no longer quiet.
THIS.
We in video gaming watched it begin. Most did nothing.
We in video gaming watched it begin. Most did nothing.
You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.
It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
THIS.
We in video gaming watched it begin. Most did nothing.
We in video gaming watched it begin. Most did nothing.
Now we've got ICE executing people in the street and blatantly lying about the circumstances.
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Now we've got ICE executing people in the street and blatantly lying about the circumstances.
Before a few days ago, I felt that the taking away of women's bodily autonomy was putting us on course for a Handmaid's Tale future.
Now it seems like the radicalized incels produced by the right-wing itself are pushing us more towards A Clockwork Orange. The incels are just going to get worse.
Now it seems like the radicalized incels produced by the right-wing itself are pushing us more towards A Clockwork Orange. The incels are just going to get worse.
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Before a few days ago, I felt that the taking away of women's bodily autonomy was putting us on course for a Handmaid's Tale future.
Now it seems like the radicalized incels produced by the right-wing itself are pushing us more towards A Clockwork Orange. The incels are just going to get worse.
Now it seems like the radicalized incels produced by the right-wing itself are pushing us more towards A Clockwork Orange. The incels are just going to get worse.
The Federal workforce is still large, even with DOGE. I sincerely hope that there are plenty of Satanists who take these new proselytizing and display rules to heart.
Federal workers can hold prayer circles with members of the public and tell colleagues to rethink their religious beliefs, according to new guidance the Trump administration released on Monday. buff.ly/EWX79CZ
Trump administration reminds federal employees they can proselytize in the office
Supervisors can solicit employees to attend their church, OPM says in new guidance.
www.govexec.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The Federal workforce is still large, even with DOGE. I sincerely hope that there are plenty of Satanists who take these new proselytizing and display rules to heart.
I remember these being 10 cents a box when I was a kid. Felt nostalgic even finding them for a dollar a box at the hardware store. #GenX #Inflation
July 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I remember these being 10 cents a box when I was a kid. Felt nostalgic even finding them for a dollar a box at the hardware store. #GenX #Inflation
I may skip #WWE #SmackDown this afternoon. Not sure I want to sit through what will surely be a huge memorial over a racist, fascist-loving grifting wholly-owned puppet of Peter Thiel.
July 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I may skip #WWE #SmackDown this afternoon. Not sure I want to sit through what will surely be a huge memorial over a racist, fascist-loving grifting wholly-owned puppet of Peter Thiel.
#HulkHogan won't be missed. The world just became a slightly better place without him in it.
July 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#HulkHogan won't be missed. The world just became a slightly better place without him in it.
July 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I find it interesting that mispronouncing place names is almost always an affront to those who live there, and yet we don't seem to mind how even people in our own country wildly mispronounce #Oregon.
July 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I find it interesting that mispronouncing place names is almost always an affront to those who live there, and yet we don't seem to mind how even people in our own country wildly mispronounce #Oregon.
Physical game, purchased in person from a retailer on release day. A quickly dying ritual.
#DonkeyKong #Switch2
#DonkeyKong #Switch2
July 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Physical game, purchased in person from a retailer on release day. A quickly dying ritual.
#DonkeyKong #Switch2
#DonkeyKong #Switch2
#Thrifting find. It was half off.
Radio makes sound, needs dexoit and possibly some grease on the tuner. Tape spindle rotates but obviously has a bad belt.
Holy shit, a 1987 #Walkman. WM-F41.
Radio makes sound, needs dexoit and possibly some grease on the tuner. Tape spindle rotates but obviously has a bad belt.
Holy shit, a 1987 #Walkman. WM-F41.
June 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#Thrifting find. It was half off.
Radio makes sound, needs dexoit and possibly some grease on the tuner. Tape spindle rotates but obviously has a bad belt.
Holy shit, a 1987 #Walkman. WM-F41.
Radio makes sound, needs dexoit and possibly some grease on the tuner. Tape spindle rotates but obviously has a bad belt.
Holy shit, a 1987 #Walkman. WM-F41.
walmart.com had a #Switch2 restock today at 6pm. 45 minutes of a broken queue, then I gave up. Came back a few minutes later, page immediately came up and I got one in my cart. Successfully purchased, and it just got a tracking number.
Guess I'm getting one after all.
Guess I'm getting one after all.
June 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
walmart.com had a #Switch2 restock today at 6pm. 45 minutes of a broken queue, then I gave up. Came back a few minutes later, page immediately came up and I got one in my cart. Successfully purchased, and it just got a tracking number.
Guess I'm getting one after all.
Guess I'm getting one after all.
Death Stranding 2 is one of the greatest video games ever made.
June 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Death Stranding 2 is one of the greatest video games ever made.
"To make her president would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people. She would get us into a World War III guaranteed because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.” --DJT, 10/26/2024
*starts bombing Iran, 6/21/2025*
*starts bombing Iran, 6/21/2025*
June 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"To make her president would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people. She would get us into a World War III guaranteed because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.” --DJT, 10/26/2024
*starts bombing Iran, 6/21/2025*
*starts bombing Iran, 6/21/2025*
Peanut butter & pickle is the best snack sandwich. So much better than the classic PB&J.
June 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Peanut butter & pickle is the best snack sandwich. So much better than the classic PB&J.
