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Steve Schirra
@schirra.bsky.social
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UX Research @YouTube / HCI / Games / Politics + Law / Books / Birds. Opinions my own. @MIT alum. Previously @twitch, @yahoo, @zynga. Same handle on Twitter.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 2d
Winamp Skin: super mario bros 1 remix by luigihann
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 4d
You’re the Alex Padilla of MIT
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d
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A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.” “We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 7d
It will also protect you from all that nasty fluoride
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 7d
After Dark 1.0: City
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you! I honestly haven’t explored Itch yet but will take a look
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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 8d
lol
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 8d
Can you all indulge a maybe stupid question? What’s the state of ‘Art Games’ these days? Is everything just on Steam now? Was that just a thing from like 15 years ago?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 8d
this is like half of r/ups now
Hi Andrew, You have a new invoice for $63,755.71 Tariff Fee on T Shirt Total Due: $83.27 Government Charges: $59.27 Brokerage Charges: $24.00 How to go about disputing an incorrect tariff charge? Total Due: $82.92 Government Charges: $68.92 UPS Brokerage fees: $14.00 I’ve received 15 different duties and tariff charges for items I didn’t order. Customer Seeking Help The title is the crux of the issue. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve received numerous brown envelopes all charging me for duty and tariff fees associated with items that I never ordered. The seller is somebody I’ve bought from before, but the last time I purchased from them was several months ago and my name is on the sold to slot. The “shipped to” person is someone I don’t know and the address and tracking address are both unrelated to me. I’ve sent emails to an address given to my by the one time I was able to get through the phone number listed on the paper bill. They said the invoices will be removed in 4-6 weeks but now I’ve started receiving late fee bills on top. I’ve tried to call in again once a day, but I either get hung up on or my call drops once the wait lasts over an hour. Any advice? I just don’t want this to go to collections or affect my credit for something I didn’t order or have any relation to besides my name being on something it shouldn’t have.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10d
Oh FFS live out your Black Hawk Down fantasies on a computer.
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Ashley Huebner @ahuebner.bsky.social · 10d
Chicago: “The Border Patrol official said that snipers rappelled down from helicopters on top of the apartment complex, as a precaution from potential violence.”
Trump’s Chicago ICE Crackdown Intensifies With Drones, Helicopters and Trucks
www.nytimes.com
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 10d
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 11d
Today in defaced AI service posters in San Francisco
Outset.ai poster with an AI = Secret Satan sticker
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 11d
Are they also sitting on the same side of the table (both facing you) because that also happened to me last week
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 13d
The bartender at this bar just talked about “third spaces” and for just a brief moment I was transported back like 20 years
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 14d
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.
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Chris Suellentrop @suellentrop.bsky.social · 14d
It’s about ethics in biscuits and gravy
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16d
🤷🏿‍♂️
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15d
Lol.
Alt text: A Twitter exchange. The first tweet is from Stephen Miller (@StephenM) saying, “Why do you think they posted this?” with a retweet of a post from the account Governor Newsom Press (@GovPres...) that says “STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!” That tweet shows 3.8K replies, 2.5K retweets, 20K likes, and 658K views. Governor Newsom Press replies to Stephen Miller with, “because you’re a fascist.” That reply shows 512 replies, 1K retweets, 18K likes, and 110K views.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 15d
good morning
cartoon panel of a print newspaper reading rocky an bullwinkle special edition WORLD IN A DREADFUL STATE
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15d
Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16d
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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?
gizmodo.com
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 16d
Something something leopards eating people’s faces
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16d
“.. This is a rural area, farming, and a big number of people are highly conservative and Republican,” Barrera said. “But there is a contradiction, because if you talk to the farmers, they will tell you they need that labor.”

@politico.com @michaelkruse.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16d
Bathroom vanities are now “national security”.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19d
The whole administration in one quote
Some ICE officials call Sheahan "Fish Cop" behind her back because of her previous stint running the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana. Sheahan knows there are people who think that, without any law-enforcement background, she isn't qualified for a job usually occupied by veteran ICE officials. "I absolutely think Im qualified for the job," she told me. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?"
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Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social · 20d
Earthquake
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