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@hyperreal.bsky.moonshadow.dev
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FOSS geek, privacy advocate, digital archivist, mental illness advocate, gamer, coffee lover.

Website: https://moonshadow.dev
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Sponsored ad shown to me on Facebook.
Screenshot of a sponsored ad on Facebook from a page called Wicked Warlock. The ad is for a (possibly satirical) candle called Wizard's Tower that it claims smells "Like Pipe Smoke In An Arcane Library". It contains a drawing of a gray-bearded wizard with a blue pointy hat and blue robe smoking a pipe among stacks of books in an arcane library.
January 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Back on my BS again 🙃. Running Bazzite now.

I'm using an Arch Linux distrobox as my pet container.
Screenshot of a GNOME desktop on Bazzite. Two terminal windows are shown. The left terminal window shows the output of the fastfetch command on Bazzite. The right terminal window shows the default zsh init output inside an Arch Linux distrobox. The desktop wallpaper has "wintery urban cyberpunk" vibes.
January 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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I gotta laugh at folks who are against "wokeness" in public schools. They don't want their kids exposed to moral thought-policing. What do you think teachers have been doing since the dawn of public education? Now suddenly it's wrong when it's critical race and gender theory? This sounds like an instance of "what I grew up with is normal and right and God-given".
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Well fuck you too, then, you asshole. I'll whoop your ass. I've done the Red Mile like 10 times. I bet you'd get eaten by the first mauler you encounter. Grumpy motherfucker.
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Slowdown
Photo of the band Rush from the 1970s, taken from their Wikipedia entry.
January 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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She looks like a colorful person. #Starfield
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Why do they make towels that end up like this. It's almost impossible to fold them properly and they make the rest of the stack unstable. Are those cross seams really necessary?
Photo of a vibrant red towel with worn out and shrunken cross seams.
January 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Lmao, Boomer looks like fuckin' Caius Cosades.
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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I usually get this or INFJ. Depends on the questions and how answers are weighted.
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Green-colored graffiti on a white concrete wall that says "Against all authority, except my mom."
January 6, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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alt-text from @josh@masto.byrd.ws A cartoon dog from the 'This is Fine' meme, wearing a hat and an 'I Voted' sticker. The dog is smiling despite being surrounded by flames, and a speech bubble above its head says 'they can't do this it's illegal.' A mug is on a table to the right.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Oh yeah, we're bumpin' now, baby.
Screenshot of a qBittorrent instance with VueTorrent WebUI
January 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Me: [distraught] I don't even know what time it is anymore! Rubber duck: Um...look at one of the three clocks available to you? Me: But I'd have to look at them! There ought to be something in my neural apparatus that tells me the exact time. Like natural instinct style. Like how neurological signals are sent throughout the body. Rubber duck: You mean, like, circadian rhythm? Me: No! Well, sorta, but more digital-like. We oughtn't have to outsource that. Rubber duck: Well, you'd have to take that up with your arch-nemesis, the Universe. Me: [dispirited] I know. I was afraid of that. Ah well.
December 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Sparky is the only non-asshole imp in the entire game. He's the domesticated pet of Thaurron from the Anvil Mages Guild hall.
Screenshot from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. It shows Sparky, a pet imp from the Mages guild hall in Anvil.
December 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Thoughts. Thinks. Musings. I'm considering becoming a vegetarian. There's a lot of stuff I would miss though. Like sushi, salmon, and other fish. Ground beef chili. So I don't know. Maybe I could become a part-time vegetarian. It wouldn't actually be terribly different from my usual diet. Maybe vege-pescatarian, if that's a thing. Or I could make it a thing.
December 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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My mom made Brussels sprouts for our party tonight. I like Brussels sprouts, especially the way my mom makes them. I came home from the party, and the lingering "cabbagy" smell from the sprouts was rank. I sprayed Sauvage by Dior into the hallway and my bedroom, and uh, I over-did it. Now my nostrils are assaulted by Sauvage, and I had to open a window and wash my hands like six times.
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Oblivion Remastered is pretty cool. Definitely has a lot of rough edges to smooth out, but so far nothing that makes it unplayable or blocks progress. I really wish they'd have put the effort and resources into remastering Morrowind, though. A remastered Morrowind doesn't even need to be fully voiced -- in fact, I think it would take away a significant part of the Morrowind RPG experience if it was fully voiced. But they could certainly polish and refine the graphics, combat, and other mechanics. Morrowind with the Unreal Engine would be pretty cool. Maybe they already have something in the works for this, who knows. They kind of dropped hints of Oblivion Remastered only a few weeks before it was released.
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Do you have a plain white image that you maximize on your screen so you can easily see smudges on your glasses when you wipe them?

Photosensitivity warning.
A plain white image.
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Poor Baurus didn't survive the battle near the Great Gate outside of Bruma. At least Jauffre survived.

#TES #OblivionRemastered
Screenshot from The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered. Baurus is shown fallen on the battlefield near the Great Gate outside of Bruma.
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I love this because Garrus is my BFF and Tali is my GF in Mass Effect.

Art by: Lei-Ren on Reddit

#MassEffect
Drawing of Mass Effect characters Garrus, male Shepard, and Tali in festive Christmas apparel.
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Odd. All the Knights of Order have brown hair seeping out of their helmets like a chia pet. I don't know if this is a bug or a new Oblivion Remaster feature. #TES #OblivionRemaster
A fallen Knight of Order in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster. The Knight has brown hair coming out of the back of the helmet.
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Brethren are also real pieces of work. Live as troglodytes in the caves beneath Hackdirt, running around shirtless with fucking bugged out eyes and spiked clubs.
Screenshot of a shirtless Brethren with bugged out eyes and a spiked club, from the caves beneath Hackdirt. This photo was taken from UESP Wiki.
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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These Hackdirt folks are a real inhospitable lot. Buncha crazy cultists, them. Out to sacrifice an innocent Argonian merchant to The Brethren in order to bring back those whom they call The Deep Ones.
Screenshot of Vlanhonder Moslin, resident of the hamlet of Hackdirt and proprietor of Moslin's Inn, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster. His dialogue says "Then stop wasting my time!" Screenshot of Etira Moslin, resident of the hamlet of Hackdirt, proprietress of Moslin's Dry Goods, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster. Her dialogue says: "We scrape by, not that we've ever had nought but trouble from outsiders like you. You'd best be moving on, if you know what's good for you."
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The Fighter's Guild has a blacksmith forge. In an enclosed basement. With no kind of ventilation. Talk about carbon monoxide poisoning. #TES #OblivionRemaster
Screenshot from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster. It shows a blacksmith forge in the basement of a Fighter's Guild hall, with no windows or ventilation.
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM