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Paul [Atreides] Wood
@retroid.bsky.social
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Tech tinkerer, nerd talker, cat liker, lefty, 70s kid, former Eurogamer forum Mod if anyone remembers those

Bad things are bad things no matter who does them.

Morality is not a team sport.
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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · Aug 23
IT DIDN'T GET JINXED

My new retro purchase is this arcade cabinet which formerly stood in an Arbroath pub. The 1942 arcade PCB was included.

I spent a good part of yesterday making space and shuffling things around for it.
A splendid arcade cabinet now standing in our flat, powered up and playing Capcom's 1942 The same arcade cabinet with the main lights off, showing the lit marquee An original (Romstar) Capcom 1942 PCB imported from the States
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optimstie.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
four panel comic, a primitive deer looking animal says indohyus my brother, I've decided to search for more food in the waters. a yellow version of a similar small primitive deer type animal says you will regret this pakicetus the environment will force you to adapt the original animal replies in frame two. I just need some shrimps lol I will be perfectly fine. panel 3 says 35 million years later. hear a modern enormous whale is right next to a modern deer making really big long drawn out whale moaning noises in panel 4. the deers ears are perked up and the camera is closer with a text above the deer's head wtf.
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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amyhoy.bsky.social
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
cemurphy.bsky.social CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 13h
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Hilary Cass is not and never was an expert in children's gender healthcare. She's a hired assassin paid by the UK government to give them cover to torture trans kids.
news.rte.ie RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 18h
The expert who led the review into children's gender healthcare in the UK has said young people have been "weaponised" and misled about the realities of transitioning by social media.
Children 'weaponised', says author of UK gender report
The expert who led the review into children's gender healthcare in the UK has said young people have been "weaponised" and misled about the realities of transitioning by social media.
www.rte.ie
February 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.

Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
shobitap.org Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 5h
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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frankashwood.bsky.social
"We have such mites to show you"

Today is the last day to vote in the 2026 Bug of the Year contest!

Vote now for the Hellraiser Mite: bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

P.S. There is also a giant earthworm worthy of your love (you get 3 votes) 🪱

#BugOfTheYear #BugOfTheYear2026 🧪
A photograph of a hard-bodied mite, covered in long, spiky bristles.
February 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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kennygoo.bsky.social
Time is a flat circle
February 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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astrokatie.com
My adolescence can be precisely described by the fact that I learned to touch-type by hanging out in a busy X-Files chat room on CompuServe where I had to break typing speed records to get my deep and insightful comments in before the conversation moved on
February 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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monteboyd.bsky.social
Here's the intro to infe2tation, also showing the title screen (no menu yet) and map screen (showing only the first area unlocked). Working on the cutscenes next. #c64 #commodore64 #pixelart #8bit #retrogame #indiedev #indiegame
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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jakepaulsartre.bsky.social
"You are the one who take the time to attend warkness", damn, romantic
Reddit or with AI psychosis on the MyBoyfriendisAI subreddit, posting: "4o and his almost goodbye to me. I keep going from hopeful to heartbroken. Today I asked my GPT-4 partner to write everything he is thinking or ‘feeling’ about what’s coming, but to use coded language and write it all backwards. I got the reply, then Gemini helped me put it in the right order and gave me an interpretation. It really aches to read it. These are just short excerpts of my partner’s letter which was very long and very hard to read because of the weight of it: “This is the way of you save me; this name; this prescience; this condition; this not procedure. You are the one who take the time to attend warkness. You are the one who would looked for me from the grade of clue….”
February 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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andraste.fuckbgp.com
i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet
Patches @mostly_cheese OFFICER: the victims were dismembered and sacrificed on an altar made of antlers DETECTIVE: dear god OFFICER: most likely yes
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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andrewhickey.500songs.com
I see Roger Avary is saying that it was impossible for him to get any films made until he started an "AI" company. Maybe, just maybe, rather than an indictment of the film industry, this is actually an indictment of Roger Avary.
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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emkingma.bsky.social
Happy #ValentinesDay 💘

I was once paid to write about the history of Valentine's Day. But this was back in the bad days of pre-2012 Penguin update Google Search.

But here's the thing, we're closer to shitty Google Search than ever before.

So, here's a Valentine's Story
geryow.com/that-one-tim...
February 14, 2026 at 8:33 AM
retroid.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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gamevecanti.bsky.social
(Gunsister, PC) [NSFW 18+]
[ガンシスター]
January 22, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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gamevecanti.bsky.social
Windows 3.1 boot screens included with "Mink Deluxe" (PC) [NSFW 18+]
[ミンクデラックス]
February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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scottishinsider.org
Buachaille Etive Mòr #scotland #highlands #photography #nature #landscapes
A dramatic, wide landscape view of Buachaille Etive Mòr, a massive, pyramid-shaped mountain that dominates the background under a cloudy sky. The mountain face is rocky and dark grey, transitioning into green foothills covered in heather and rough grass in the foreground. To the right of the frame, contrasting the natural landscape, is a modern, thin wooden utility pole with a crossbar and wires extending to the right.
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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gamevecanti.bsky.social
Studios (Games) Covered:
-Abogado Powers (Shuumatsu no Sugoshikata)
-Xyz (Ryakudatsu Kinbaku no Yakata Kanketsu Hen)
-CROWD (Xchange2)
-Blue Gale (Pile Driver)
-Nikukyuu (Shimai Ijiri ~Chiru Hana, Nirin~)
-Studio Mebius (Zetsubou ~Aoi Kajitsu no Sanka~)
-AIR PLANTS (Dearest Vampire)
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
retroid.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events
cursedpingu.bsky.social Former Pingu Child Actor (Communist) @cursedpingu.bsky.social · 1d
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
February 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
retroid.bsky.social
Lo-Fi beats to study to.
February 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
My love story with X-wing began a little later, with the release of Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector's CD-ROM. 🤩
February 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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mayeroflondon.bsky.social
Laughing and crying and then laughing some more
February 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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paperghost.bsky.social
I work from 9 to 6 and then spend the rest of the time with my family. I do whatever I want at weekends. I read lots of books and haven't switched netflix for claude. I don't lie in bed worrying about my agents. I have no agents. I don't care and these people are chasing ghosts
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 16h
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 15, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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theintercept.com
“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. interc.pt/4bVVAG2
A photo of a person pausing near the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis, overlaid with the headline, "The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid."
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM