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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 8h

"no one wants this shit" is the motto of the decade

mechazoidal.bsky.social @mechazoidal.bsky.social · 16h

Finally booted up Asura The Striker after having it in my Steam queue for way too long, and who knew HARRIER PUNCH could be so satisfying??

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 3d

New Review: SF Shin Seiki Lensman

In the 80s, the family of E.E. "Doc" Smith was seemingly on the verge of a big Hollywood deal for the Lensman series... only for Kodansha to already be producing its own adaptation without permission.

But is the movie any good? And how about its 2(!) English dubs?

SF Shin Seiki Lensman: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Hollywood...

Born on May 2, 1890 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Edward Elmer Smith was studying food chemistry at George Washington University in D.C., where...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

every day i grow more grateful that i never succumbed to the millennial cultural zeitgeist around getting tattoos

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Keith Hamilton Putnam @timetravel.camp · 3d

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2d

no time to explain get in the spaceship from Flight of the Navigator

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

A white poodle leans out an suv with neon light streaks flashing across the surface of the car

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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Kawashima Ami @bitchyami.bsky.social · 7d

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 8d

look! consequences!! people still care about this stuff no matter how much the oligarchs try to tell us its a brave new racist world

The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 9d

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of today after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4ooiPf2

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 9d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 9d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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mechazoidal.bsky.social @mechazoidal.bsky.social · 12d

I am happy Rock Box Seattle has MIO so I can sing my heart out to Men of Destiny, but disappointed they don't have the Tekkaman Blade 2nd OP to completely destroy my vocal cords after the Mariners win.

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Dave, Second Dude Under Heaven @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 12d

congrats mariners fans

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 13d

New day, new article! Here's a fresh piece on Dreamcast delight Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram, "...a riot of metal and lasers conveyed via clean lines and vivid colours":

ko-fi.com/post/Virtual...

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 14d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 14d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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mechazoidal.bsky.social @mechazoidal.bsky.social · 14d

Still amazed the R360 was semi-mass-produced, those truly were the glory years for AM2 and Gameworks Seattle briefly had an R360 in its early years. Ironically the 6-seat Virtua Racing installation outlasted it, probably because they were able to convert them to Indy 500.

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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 14d

This is the story of Sega's R360: The legendary arcade cabinet that spun players around and left arcade floors far too early. Exclusive interviews, developer quotes, and more!
I'd appreciate not only everyone watching, but also sharing this post and the video!
youtu.be/I-LnKFILB5I

Sega R360: Spinning Dreams in the Arcade

YouTube video by One Million Power

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mechazoidal.bsky.social @mechazoidal.bsky.social · 15d

The last time I definitively remember a show doing that was Gurren Lagaan, but there have to be others since then. Yamamoto Yohko TV even did custom eyecatch animation for every single episode.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 18d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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mechazoidal.bsky.social @mechazoidal.bsky.social · 16d

Despite all of that, we never did get a Centurions reference in this season of New Panty & Stocking, huh.

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · Jul 26

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20d

It’s funny because it’s true

Jay D@@jay.bsky.team
You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works

crystal @cim.bsky.social
your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 20d

go away, we already have hatsune miku and she rules, unlike this six piece chicken mcnobody

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 21d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

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Not Part of the Story @exegetic.bsky.social · 23d

"A refrigerator cannot destroy heat, it can only move it away from the sealed world of its interior to the chaos of the outside. One man's thirst will lead him to open the barrier, heedless of the consequnces. The crack of aluminum, the hiss of carbon dioxide. Next time: Chirico Grabs a Diet Coke"

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21d

This is apropos of a thread about what publications lose when they lose older culture writers and only have young ones. All I'll say about that is that learning about cultural history is a lifetime's work, and if you do this for a living, there's no shame in not knowing, only in not trying to learn.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 21d

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

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