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Mike Wasson

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Pittsburgher in London. Tired. Software developer looking for work. he/him

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5h

Christ’s true resurrected form looking suspiciously like just being 20 years older

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 11h

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 8h

Could’ve just been a London ophthalmologist

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 12h

Is it normal to have triumphal archs with no paths through them?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 17h

Was a poorly phrased joke

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

Regime change where

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

And all the tatty tourist places on the high streets only sell one tartan

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Biden seems like the kind of guy who would really like Jimmy Buffett’s chain restaurant but would really not like Henry Kissinger’s

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

I hope you’re right, that it’s time passing and not that there’s a Covid cohort like there was a lead gas cohort.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

I play Mario on my Temple of Free Hanafuda

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Huh, weirdly consistent with a certain kind of bad US conservatism.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

This is a common feeling while programming; my read is that if you look at old stuff and think “who’s the idiot who wrote this,” it means you’re growing; it’s when you start thinking “wow, this is genius, I wish I could write like this” that you need to worry

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Did not expect how much of parenting a toddler would be protecting my crotch.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Is this another thing where weird UK right wing stuff has Living Marxism as the missing link

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Not sure about this new Civilization advisors roster

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 2d

Achieving world peace by taking advantage of Trump being a utility monster

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

I think the Nobel committee should be making explicit offers to Trump for the peace prize and just keep moving the goal posts

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

Walmart is planning to tear down Monroeville Mall, the big mall east of Pittsburgh where they filmed Dawn of the Dead. What a bummer. Lots of memories there.

Walmart files application for grant money to tear down Monroeville Mall

The company recently applied for $7.5 million in state grant funding that would be used to tear down the existing mall structures to make way for redevelopment.

www.cbsnews.com

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

yeah, this is just Euthyphro, inside out and backwards

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

I've been writing an NES emulator, and I've gotten to the point where to increase its fidelity I need to get the video output pipeline to be cycle accurate. Spending this morning trying to grok this diagram. What's befuddling me is how the fine x affects things.

ASCII art of the NES PPU pixel output process; see link.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

Learned here a few days ago that at Stanford he would hang out with a young university student named Ted Danson.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

And, perhaps more pertinently, the first five Led Zeppelin albums, which makes that timeframe not seem much of a stretch.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

There are fundamentally two culinary cultures: fish sauce, and not fish sauce

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 4d

Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable"

Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 6d

For some reason there’s extremely low rates of recidivism among the 9/11 perpetrators.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 6d

Trying to explain to the toddler that two people can like the same thing, and one person can like two things. It’s a many to many relationship. This would be easier if he knew UML.