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David @localghost.bsky.social · 5h

It feels like your options these days are a) Inscrutable Faceless AI tooling or b) SPLORTO the easy to use UNIX CLI tool made by a guy who lives off-grid in a cave in Idaho (only available as a binary you have to compile yourself)

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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🎃 Justin BOOber 🎃 @jww.wtf · 1d

Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion in London.

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 1d

Stitting bolt upright in bed several days later my eyes glowing with energy: What idiot called it the ROG Xbox Ally when MICROSOFT TEAMS DECK was right there?

Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 5d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

David @localghost.bsky.social · 1d

Proust-em-ups are my favourite genre

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 6d

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 4d

(I want to have mouse control too preferably)

David @localghost.bsky.social · 4d

People of Bluesky: I'm dipping my toes back into making a roguelike. I'm pretty familiar with Libtcod and the like, and I've done some stuff with the Specs ECS. Unfortunately, that was a few years ago - whats my best current approach for just shipping something simple and tile-based?

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 4d

The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 4d

Can you name the intellectual tradition that Starmer is operating from? Any books; critical analysis; papers that explain it as an intellectual tradition?

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 5d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 8

powerful geomancer

three images of a gorilla seemingly levitating clumps of earth.

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 6d

This literally reads like a voice log from System Shock, if Edward Diego had inexplicably removed Shodan's ethical constraints in order to make porn...

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 6d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine being the cop on the postmodernist French cinephile beat.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 7d

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Aerographos @aerographos.bsky.social · 7d

The "Saint George was Turkish" line as a gotcha response to flagshaggers' bigotry is silly because:
a) it is factually incorrect, obviously,
b) it aligns with Turkey's historical revisionism - not cool
c) there are so many better ways to attack the racism and
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon

The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint

www.theguardian.com

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 7d

Did he also think that Boogie Nights was a film about how great and unproblematic the porn industry is?

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 7d

It's weird that he watched 2.5 hours of communist revolutionaries blowing stuff up and decided that it was a movie about liberalism...

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Sebastian Lague @sebastianlague.bsky.social · 8d

My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!

youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...

Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke

YouTube video by Sebastian Lague

youtu.be

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 8d

In many ways it was regarded as the precursor to the Nintendo Turbo DS

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HÆLÏCK (hr_freud) @ocean37.bsky.social · 10d

IDOLIC DREAMSPORE
(comm for @taeszara.bsky.social)

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 11d

The true genius of Beckett is that he trapped his critics in an endless cycle of repeating the same talking points for generations...

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 13d

I unfortunately got spoiled for this, but from all accounts, Mechs into Plowshares does something quite incredible and unique with its rule set that I don't believe has been done anywhere else.

I don't want to say anything more, but recommend you try.

anomalousentertainment.itch.io/mechs-into-p...

Mechs Into Plowshares by Anomalous Entertainment Co

A solo play, one shot, narrated TTRPG about war, anxiety, paranoia, identity and purpose.

anomalousentertainment.itch.io

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David @localghost.bsky.social · 14d

Dan Brown was classmates with David Foster Wallace and I've always wondered how they ended up with completely different understandings of what "good" writing is meant to look like...

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