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Tech anchoress • Drops uncommon loot • Luxuriously soft • Sometimes I make computers slightly warmer • Not a reliable news source • https://emily.news/where-is-emily/

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call me quantum the way I collapse after literally any interaction
why did they name the island after Gilligan? he feels like the castaway _least_ deserving of this honor!
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
c'est goaté avec la sauce
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
woke up from a three-hour nap, and now it's completely night D:
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
god I feel this in my bones, I cannot stop posting
Every once in a while someone accuses me of posting something they don’t agree with “for the likes” and I assure you it is not for the likes or for any reason other than that I am constitutionally incapable of not posting
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I've been considering committing to cleaning up my language in the new year. I have no idea if I could actually do it. I say so many bad words, it's like a verbal tic.
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
WAIT A SECOND, I AM A GENIUS! I just needed to find a piece of metal of the correct size to stick into the hinge. Then the spring tension holds that chunk of metal firmly in place. I'll have to find something longer term, but for now, a socket (from a socket set) let me find the perfect size.
my monitor was too heavy for my existing arm, so i got a new heavy-duty one. but i missed that it has a **minimum** weight requirement. so i can't untension the spring enough to tilt the monitor down. it's now tilted 20° up into the air, and i can't tilt it down :(
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
my monitor was too heavy for my existing arm, so i got a new heavy-duty one. but i missed that it has a **minimum** weight requirement. so i can't untension the spring enough to tilt the monitor down. it's now tilted 20° up into the air, and i can't tilt it down :(
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
oh heck yeah
Lushfoil Photography Sim VR releases today as free DLC!
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
free display name to a good home: "Agentic Smith"
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
it is my duty to report that PLUR1BUS is finally doing something interesting
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
why would companies do a year in review that just lists for me the things I did the MOST? that's the stuff I'm most likely to remember!
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
It's so drizzly out. The mist, all the air, is aglow with city lights.
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
it has been so drizzly outside i can barely see the river. i'm feeling peaceful 😊
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Today's absurd sci-fi headline that's somehow our reality: Fact-checkers barred from immigrating to the U.S.
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I know so many people now with severe GI issues, autoimmune disorders, MCAS-like things. It's gotten bizarrely common lately. I figure it's a manifestation of Long COVID. Can't believe we just let that happen like it doesn't matter.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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My first bluesky post saved for this!
Flotsam is finally out after years and years and years...
No more questions about if it's done yet needed! 😘
Thanks everyone who helped!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1As...
Flotsam 1.0 Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Pajama Llama Games
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
so surprised at how the Rubik as a UI font is growing on me. I changed GNOME to use it, and it's been bizarrely soothing.

(I find GNOME in general soothing these days. it's so simple, I don't feel like the computer is trying to outsmart me or market to me. I feel like I understand it.)
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.

One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed - NASA
Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight
www.nasa.gov
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I love that thing where you're not falling asleep so you get really anxious about that so you don't fall asleep
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I feel like starting a fight today, so I'd love if people could reply to this with their answer:

Between Ruby and Python, which would you choose for writing a new web application right now?
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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okay actually I wrote a script that looks for the most overlapping portmanteaux possible. I have found things like abjurationalization, elephantasmagoria, disrespectacular, bartenderhearted, blowtorchestra, raviolinist, chinawareness, and...thousands of others.
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Just to have it on record, we had already been working on a 3D Metroidvania where you can use a motorcycle to travel quickly from one biome to another for… 3 or 4 years at this point? haha

(Hopefully we won't take as long as that other 3D Metroidvania with a bike... which I can't wait to play!)
Hello new followers!

I'm Tiani Pixel, 3D/2D artist, game dev and coder

Me and @ironfairy.bsky.social previously made UNSIGHTED, and now we're working on ABYSS X ZERO, a 3D Metroidvania inspired by Mega Man Legends, Zelda Wind Waker and more!

Wishlist to support us! (link 👇)

#gamedev #indiegame
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I thought up a new word: disrespectacular, v., when someone insults you so badly you can't come back from it
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I've said it before, but: Windows is just so unserious
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
oh I bet the hue lights have some kinda christmasy theme
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM