Cass
@mintcatmintcat.bsky.social
She/it / Cascadian, living in Argentina / Aerospace nerd and artist / programmer / chaotic lesbian / furry / leftist / mild trainwreck / ΘΔ / mid-20s
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Cass
@mintcatmintcat.bsky.social
· Nov 3
Fun fact: you can and should read my comics at www.eggbeater.net
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this feels like vintage internet. just discovered a wordpress blog called "Pre-Digital Railfan - Train Watching In The Age of Kodachrome". It is full of incredible slides of vintage trains, shot by PNW native Lindsay Korst (including this shot). it's so good, go check it out pdrailfan1.wordpress.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
this feels like vintage internet. just discovered a wordpress blog called "Pre-Digital Railfan - Train Watching In The Age of Kodachrome". It is full of incredible slides of vintage trains, shot by PNW native Lindsay Korst (including this shot). it's so good, go check it out pdrailfan1.wordpress.com
A lot of times I'll do this thing where I'll completely neglect to share huge chunks of an idea or an argument because I've never had to contend with anyone outside my head needing context for that idea. This happens constantly and makes me insufferable and confusing.
I need to socialize more.
I need to socialize more.
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
A lot of times I'll do this thing where I'll completely neglect to share huge chunks of an idea or an argument because I've never had to contend with anyone outside my head needing context for that idea. This happens constantly and makes me insufferable and confusing.
I need to socialize more.
I need to socialize more.
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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why use AI placeholder when the perfect placeholder already exists
December 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
why use AI placeholder when the perfect placeholder already exists
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I am always saying this
December 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I am always saying this
On a more positive note. I love the little green parakeets that live in this city
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
On a more positive note. I love the little green parakeets that live in this city
I see the opening to asdfmovie4 and I see the ghost of the world that was and the innocence and optimism that pervaded it
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I see the opening to asdfmovie4 and I see the ghost of the world that was and the innocence and optimism that pervaded it
The problem with the Twitter format is that it's good for posting shit like "just ate a sandwich. #winningatlife" but it ends up being used to argue about complicated things that can't be addressed effectively in the given text space, which makes doing so a pain in the ass
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The problem with the Twitter format is that it's good for posting shit like "just ate a sandwich. #winningatlife" but it ends up being used to argue about complicated things that can't be addressed effectively in the given text space, which makes doing so a pain in the ass
People can "America could be good it's aspirational" all they want but you need at a certain point to acknowledge, without qualification, that it is and always has been a white supremacist project born of a postcolonialism that saw the problem as the people cracking the whip
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
People can "America could be good it's aspirational" all they want but you need at a certain point to acknowledge, without qualification, that it is and always has been a white supremacist project born of a postcolonialism that saw the problem as the people cracking the whip
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the corporate class really needs to learn to shut the fuck up
"It’s time to face reality, AI is here to stay" - Kingdom Come: Deliverance head Daniel Vávra says Larian got a "crazy shitstorm" for doing what "absolutely everyone else is doing", and that while he's "no fan of AI generated art" it's going nowhere.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-tim...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-tim...
‘It’s time to face reality, AI is here to stay’: Kingdom Come Deliverance studio head responds to Larian backlash | VGC
Daniel Vávra says AI is a frightening prospect but has its uses, and that “absolutely everyone else” is using it…
www.videogameschronicle.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
the corporate class really needs to learn to shut the fuck up
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great job whipping votes @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you useless sack of shit. without three Dem defectors this doesn't pass, and now every American family with a trans kid gets to sleep worse worrying about this going to the Senate.
Breaking: House Republicans pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize doctors that provide gender-affirming care for trans kids. Her bill imposes jail time penalties up to 10 years. Now, it's headed to the Senate where it is not likely to advance as it would need 7 Democrats to sign on
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
great job whipping votes @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you useless sack of shit. without three Dem defectors this doesn't pass, and now every American family with a trans kid gets to sleep worse worrying about this going to the Senate.
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"This world is infected with political views" says gamer foaming at the mouth over a cute game containing characters that represent over a quarter of the world's population.
If you can, start looking for better ways to support game devs. Valve is a terrible company.
If you can, start looking for better ways to support game devs. Valve is a terrible company.
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"This world is infected with political views" says gamer foaming at the mouth over a cute game containing characters that represent over a quarter of the world's population.
If you can, start looking for better ways to support game devs. Valve is a terrible company.
If you can, start looking for better ways to support game devs. Valve is a terrible company.
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this dovetails into larger discussions about the inherent artistic restraints of AAA and any kind of mass-market media, and if there is something beyond use of AI we need to be interrogating more deeply. long before generative AI people were critiquing AAA for being blandly repetitive and formulaic
if AI is a hardline no for you, as it is for many of us, you gotta start getting into truly independent shit or simply accept the slop. i don't think AI is "inevitable" but i do think the tech-adjacent games industry is currently and in the near future saturated with it
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
this dovetails into larger discussions about the inherent artistic restraints of AAA and any kind of mass-market media, and if there is something beyond use of AI we need to be interrogating more deeply. long before generative AI people were critiquing AAA for being blandly repetitive and formulaic
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My beloved cat Uni
December 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My beloved cat Uni
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We need to stop the flow of fentanyl from Venezuela, which is why I am demanding they give us their oil and land RIGHT NOW, and if they don't do it, we're gonna designate them TERRORISTS
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
We need to stop the flow of fentanyl from Venezuela, which is why I am demanding they give us their oil and land RIGHT NOW, and if they don't do it, we're gonna designate them TERRORISTS
To make my stance absolutely explicitly clear: anyone who thinks that the US has any business invading, embargoing, coercing, or otherwise fucking with the politics and security of any Latin American country, should walk into traffic.
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
To make my stance absolutely explicitly clear: anyone who thinks that the US has any business invading, embargoing, coercing, or otherwise fucking with the politics and security of any Latin American country, should walk into traffic.
What's wild about the Venezuela/Colombia thing is that they think they have a 9/11 to half-assedly blame on them to justify murdering a bunch of people and invading and they don't even have that. They've done literally nothing and basically nothing has actually happened.
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What's wild about the Venezuela/Colombia thing is that they think they have a 9/11 to half-assedly blame on them to justify murdering a bunch of people and invading and they don't even have that. They've done literally nothing and basically nothing has actually happened.
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"I'm hoping this doesn't happen" is not a great position to be in, if I'm being entirely honest. Hard to feel good about it.
Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"
December 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
"I'm hoping this doesn't happen" is not a great position to be in, if I'm being entirely honest. Hard to feel good about it.
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Goebbels’ parents reportedly “devastated” by vitriol displayed by Nuremberg prosecutors
"I think that’s one of the things that broke him was being hated by so many people."
Parents of notorious Border Patrol agent blame public backlash for his overdose death
It’s the first time they’ve spoken out since their son’s controversial arrest of a U.S. citizen and his drunken confrontation with police drew intense scrutiny.
lbpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Goebbels’ parents reportedly “devastated” by vitriol displayed by Nuremberg prosecutors
I really think that more of a distinction needs to be made between doomerism and revolutionary politics. Both see the US government as beyond recovery, but where one is pathetic nihilism, the other is a stance that's actually *very* eager for the possibilities that fact opens up.
December 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I really think that more of a distinction needs to be made between doomerism and revolutionary politics. Both see the US government as beyond recovery, but where one is pathetic nihilism, the other is a stance that's actually *very* eager for the possibilities that fact opens up.
There's something simultaneously pathetic and genuinely tragic about Tumblr's slow but inexorable march towards death. I have a lot of nostalgia for it and attachment to it, and the feature blend allowed a lot of unique communities to flourish within it. But it just feels like a husk now.
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
There's something simultaneously pathetic and genuinely tragic about Tumblr's slow but inexorable march towards death. I have a lot of nostalgia for it and attachment to it, and the feature blend allowed a lot of unique communities to flourish within it. But it just feels like a husk now.
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social media is just a perfectly continuous circle of pancakes vs. waffles and bean soup theory and i actually cannot stand it
December 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
social media is just a perfectly continuous circle of pancakes vs. waffles and bean soup theory and i actually cannot stand it