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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10h

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 12h

It’s a Unix system. I know this.

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 1d

It definitely got wrapped around its own axel, story-wise, in the last like 5th of the game. The thing that surprised me most was the size of the disagreement on which ending was preferable. I thought it was kinda painfully obvious but BOY are there a lot of people who disagree with me

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 1d

tired: google fu

wired: prompt injection

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 1d

this is the number one scenario that literally keeps me up at night. there is no defending yourself. no recourse. and no real way to prevent it if they get the wrong address.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 2d

how is it possible that with everything happening to the economy, wingstop appears to have gotten moderately cheaper?

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 2d

Oh no. What a bummer. Earthblade and now this.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 2d

Heart Machine making layoffs and ending development on Hyper Light Breaker

The news comes around nine months after Hyper Light Breaker launched into early access.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 2d

final fantasy tactics just seems like a bunch of 40 year olds posting screenshots that look like this and saying "this shit changed my whole fucking life man you don't get it"

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 2d

had some gen z employees give me shit for being old, so im repeatedly sending them emails with things like "link to additional context for you" that just points to this:

10 Hours of Jingling Keys

YouTube video by MyAbridged

www.youtube.com

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 3d

So I just happen to be reading The First Law trilogy by @joeabercrombie.com and man you the crumbling, corrupt, incompetent kingdom in that book was an absolutely bang on depiction of America in 2025

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 3d

sitting in the window seat and watching the landscape go by is in my top 5 favorite human experiences, and nothing will diminish that idgaf

The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 3d

"can i speak to an Action Economy?"

bart simpson is talking on a phone in front of a phone booth that says phone

ALT: bart simpson is talking on a phone in front of a phone booth that says phone

media.tenor.com

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 3d

so like using 5e to do combat

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 3d

really truly believe that mountaineering guide companies should start advertising to people who played this game. more than peak, baby steps appears to exemplify the "conquistadors of the useless" logic of climbing a thing because you can

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

For @aftermath.site, I wrote about the crucible of beating the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a brutal challenge that the game actively tells you not to do. I am happy that I did it. aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...

Baby Steps' Manbreaker Did Not Break Me - Aftermath

Baby Steps' Manbreaker is an optional yet brutal challenge that is as much a test of your humility as it is your skill.

aftermath.site

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 3d

my uh entire career

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

whenever someone suggests they'd like to try rainier with no self-arrest experience

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 6d

Ok.

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

too on it, some might say

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

"oh also if it happens in the next few years there won't be a functioning federal government to provide assistance"

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

any billionaire who wants to run for president has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

in her airgapping era

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

operating exclusively in gentrified neighborhoods?

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

i think the worst thing about baby steps is the way it's going to mislead a lot of people into thinking they can just do a pistol squat

Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

from another time when platforms Just Worked. I don't remember ever thinking "oh no a new vbulletin update, i wonder what bullshit they've added now?"

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

federal workers are distributed nationally and belong to both parties. once again im struck by the feeling that these guys arent playing the game like they will have to worry about elections

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

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Steve Unwin @stunwin.com · 4d

"good" or "bad" is less important to me than the fact that it fundamentally hinges on industrial-scale IP theft which is only possible because we dont currently have a federal government

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

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