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Oliver Ghingold

@emceebois.bsky.social

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he/him Also on Fedi: @[email protected] Retro gamer, vintage computing enthusiast, games preservation wallflower. PFP art used with permission by https://linktr.ee/SlytonLim

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 6d

Also on Fedi: @[email protected]

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 3m

coming to terms with the fact that the "Tank Man" photo of our time is going to be a shaky TikTok of an out-of-shape ICE goon shooting a furry in the face

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 53m

Buying shares in rental properties as an investment vehicle was something I first learned about in 2007, a fact I do not find even remotely ominous.

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Southern Violet is Not UNhappy @southernviolet.blackskycomra.de · 1h

Time for this again! To the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It.

rahaeli @rahaeli -06 Jul If he'l drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed
rahaeli @rahaeli-06 Jul If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If you're running off your mouth And his buddy lives down south If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed
rahaeli @rahaeli -06 Jul If he's got a stupid haircut, he's a Fed If he's got a stupid haircut, he's a Fed If his haircut's tight and high And goes with a suit and tie If he's got a stupid haircut, he's a Fed
rahaeli @rahaeli-06 Jul If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed if he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed If he wants you to repeat it Where the chat room won't delete it If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed

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The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🍉 @thereeljon.mov · 2h

Cool, on top of age gating DMs for the UK and various US states, now BlueSky has seen fit to just straight up deny access to DMs for Palestinian accounts.

Hey, Jay, Aaron, why the fuck did we come here again if you're just gonna deny features to groups you don't like and to appease fascists?

It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 3h

I’m currently unable to send any direct messages on Bluesky.
My access to chats has been disabled by the platform moderators — without any clear reason or explanation.
I didn’t break any rules. All I’ve done is speak honestly about my life in Gaza and share what my family and I are going through.

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MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca · 7h

“Antifa” considered as a singular organization is the ultimate expression of the conservative tendency to invent a guy and get mad at him.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 8h

This is how you can tell organic demand for AI is real and we’re not in a bubble artificially propped up by the technology being forced into everything in pursuit of speculative investors with FOMO.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 8h

It followed me too. Is it a good egg running a meme account or something? Did I block prematurely?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23h

Watching Piers Morgan drag out the “what is a woman” question with Zack Polanski and using it to try and diminish Polanski and then reminded that Morgan’s allyship to women stretches all the way to calling Mohammed Al Fayed “a bit of a rascal”

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police

Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders

www.theguardian.com

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🌻The Killing of a Sacred Snep🪐 @fm-synth.bsky.social · 14h

hey kid! I'm a computah

Stop all the downloadin!

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

It brings to mind the IDF playing audio of people screaming for help to bait Palestinians into kill zones

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 1d

It's Brian with a word bubble that says

I want more seven out of 10 games with whatever graphics and weird ideas made by cool people that don't use ai and I'm not kidding

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

robot girl gets bottom surgery call that a bitwise operation

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Tron Ares isn't getting enough credit as commentary on contemporary technological frontiers, seeing as it appears to be a case study in context collapse.

Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

Was the second one successful enough to justify the existence of the third one? At least the second one was at least partially born out of genuine emotions about the first movie, its legacy, its paratextual themes, and an authentic artistic vision.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

But how bizarrely can you pitch-shift your voice and elongate your words when you say "I don't want a pickle"?

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Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 1d

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

Link not working. Is there somewhere else to read this, or a specific string I can Google to find it on my own?

Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

If you prize having the original custom chips or want to pair it with a CRT monitor, then you obviously go original. If you want something that you can easily plug into modern displays without any kind of adapter or think being able to run other FPGA cores on it in the future could be valuable, FPGA

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 1d

I don't usually post random Saturday game there but here's one I guess. It's a PAL copy of Super Fantasy Zone that I imported because this just works on a North American Sega Genesis no problem. For some reason, Sega of America passed on publishing this game, as did Sunsoft I guess?

Front box cover of "Super Fantasy Zone" for the Sega Mega Drive (PAL)

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1d

Briefly panicked and checked but, yes, I already had it on my list

reddit.com/r/Megadrive/...

From the Megadrive community on Reddit: List of PAL releases with no English NTSC release

Explore this post and more from the Megadrive community

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 1d

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Steam review that reads “game is good but im some bugs”

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girl who draws 32,768 rf/t @nightshade.technology · 24d

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