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Chris Adamson

@invalidname.me

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I write, stream, and code stuff. I also raise children and sometimes clean things. Working on docs for 🍏. He/Him/His. Also https://mastodon.social/@invalidname (follow via BridgyFed for BlueSky: @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · Oct 19

Reintro:
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2h

OK, Mr. Canadian, who was the lead singer of the The Tragically Hip?

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 10h

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 14h

Don’t think of the end of the WNBA season as meaning it’s almost time for the NBA to return.

It’s that it’s almost time for the PWHL to return. 🏒

ESPN @espn.com · 14h

LUCK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT 😤

THE LAS VEGAS ACES ARE WNBA CHAMPIONS AGAIN 🏆 🏆 🏆

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 18h

Forget the arch, I want to know how they’re going to set up a drainage system at Trump’s grave that can keep up with all the people who’ll be pissing on it.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20h

You've probably seen the photos of the "Arc de Trump," spotted in the Oval Office.

Now read our story behind the models — and how initial plans for a temporary, triumphal arch have given way to Trump's desire to build a permanent monument.

Scoopy details at @washingtonpost.com:

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19h

TIL epistemology: Turns out that my first-hand experience of attending Stanford for five years and living with that guy for freshman year doesn’t compare with the knowledge of a rando lefty on the socials.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 22h

OK, sure thing, dude. You obviously know more about this than I do. Knock yourself out.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 22h

OK, sure thing, dude. You obviously know more about this than I do. Knock yourself out.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 22h

Stanford isn’t the reason Peter is the way he is. Peter is the reason Peter is the way he is. Trust me on this.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 22h

C’mon though, I‘m talking about what things were like 40 years ago. We didn’t really have Tech Bros in the same way back then — Hewlett and Packard were nice old men who gave the school a lot of money.

Silicon Valley pathology today is different, and much worse.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 22h

I believe his major was Philosophy, and at any rate all Stanford freshmen of that era had to pass a one-year Humanities survey called “Western Culture”, so there’s no way he hasn’t already been thoroughly exposed to better thinking and literature than this.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 22h

The best use of “fey” I've ever heard is in Leonard Maltin's “Of Mice and Magic” in which he quotes a review of the film “Gay Pur-ee”: “There seems to be an attempt here to reach a hitherto unknown audience: the fey four year-old of recherché taste.”

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

TRON is one of only two live-action franchises represented in the F2P game Disney Speedstorm, the other being the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. So Disney's probably making some licensing bank with Gameloft there, from people buying enough coins to unlock Quorra or Rinzler.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Any respectable individualist I know has run away from the term “libertarian” in the last 10 years, and for good reason. The ones who are left are pretty much like this.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

As a principled libertarian, I have no problem with Trump prosecuting his political enemies and filling our streets with his personal army.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

And that’s assuming the ceasefire holds, or is even carried out.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Bandori has what, 45 women at this point? 46 if we count Marina? It’ll be over 50 when they add Ave Mujica.

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Jose Argumedo @arguingmeadows.com · 1d

Their opinion is their opinion, whatever, but they’re re-writing history here. TRON was Disney’s highest-grossing live action film in 5 years, a decent hit that made a lot from merchandise and arcades. Home video was also very successful for TRON, and Legacy didn’t flop, it made $400 million.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very …

newsthump.com

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Not like AI could have localized the rap in HIDIVE’s Ya Boy Kongming. I mean, really.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

Not even a smidgen tempted. It’s like saying “I mean sure, but you’re a LITTLE tempted to start a forest fire, right?”

No, I have in fact never considered that.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter’s to the title:

“John Carpenter’s Home Alone”

Diane M. Johnson @caseyadamsstark.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter’s to the title:

John Carpenter’s Four Weddings and a Funeral

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s Firestarter

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Well, guess it’s time to make a third run through this classic. #ValkyriaChronicles

Limited Run “Ragnite Edition” collectors box set of “Valkyria Chronicles” for Nintendo Switch.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Maybe just that you don’t buy as many physical copies? The games themselves have been on the eShop for a while (although VIII arrived after the others, presumably because of the various problems that have long dogged that title).

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

Yukina limited to befriending one cat per episode.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

It’s so over / we’re so back. playbill.com/article/why-...

Danny Strong Has Spent a Decade Rewriting the Book for Chess. Now It's Finally Coming to Broadway

The Emmy-winning writer wants Chess to be done as much as Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita .

playbill.com

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

Reminds me of someone who said on Monday that any media that wasn’t explicitly anti-authoritarian would eventually be coopted by the regime. I believe milkshakes were also involved. www.thebulwark.com/i/175116198/...

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.