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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient

@mithras.bsky.social

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If I'm miserable, then everybody's miserable. Co-host: RDA Tech Talk. Producer - Radio Dead Air. I have a brain like a pachinko machine.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · Dec 3

The hammer.

4 lb hammer with an ISO 9000 compliant (probably not) label: "ITjölnir"

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 8h

But I do have jury duty on Thursday.

Starting at 1 PM. So, half day at work, half day at court.

I suspect I'll do better than Puff Daddy.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 20h

No jury duty today, either.

Friday has gotten slightly stronger, but I'm still betting tomorrow.

I won't know until after 4 PM, though.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

No jury duty tomorrow.

The numbers for tomorrow are low enough that I ~might~ go on Friday, but Thursday is still a real possibility.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 13h

Well played.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 17h

He's certainly better than Newsom.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 17h

....Inertia, most likely.

They think it's hard to move/change, no matter how many other people they have seen do it.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 17h

sovereign shitizen, surely.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 18h

Many years ago, I worked the opening of a Toys R Us, where I was dressed in a mascot style lion suit.

I turned a corner and a small child immediately started crying on seeing me. The child's mother assured him, "No, it's ok, there's a person inside there."

The child stopped. "The lion ate him?"

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 19h

It is strange to find yourself cheering on insurance companies, but....

These are strange days.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/i...

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms

OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits.

arstechnica.com

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 19h

🤘🍿🤘

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 20h

No jury duty today, either.

Friday has gotten slightly stronger, but I'm still betting tomorrow.

I won't know until after 4 PM, though.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

No jury duty tomorrow.

The numbers for tomorrow are low enough that I ~might~ go on Friday, but Thursday is still a real possibility.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 1d

If he said it was ketchup and parmesan cheese, I would believe it, "because Scalzi."

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you; this is who I was trying to remember.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 1d

I will bet money that it is a badly done clone of a popular game with broken mechanics and overpowered monitization options.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

...Maybe that's why this happened.

bsky.app/profile/kbsp...

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 3d

I bring grim tiding from the toy aisle.

A toy of a mighty monster truck called “Rock Climber” but it’s a cybertruck with big wheels.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm. Do you suppose it will get Star Citizen'd the other way as well? With Musk selling lots of monitization options for the game that never entirely materialize?

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

The Munchkins card is also great.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

Prediction: Really shitty clone of some popular game.

Second prediction: Not all the mechanics advertised work consistently.

Third prediction: Multiple "fall through the world" glitches.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

Oh darn. And just as my days of not taking them seriously was coming to a middle.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

And the part that I love about this story is that Mel knew in advance and hadn't shared the information.

Because she knew the live reaction would be better.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

I gladly give them away, because at a lot of places if you ask for extra of either, they charge you.

But you don't get a discount if you tell them to hold it.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

Not liking sour cream has occasionally made me popular at restaurants.

They bring out my order and it has a side of sour cream, and I can just pass it off to whoever I'm with, and they're happy.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

There are some days I think I may be the only person on Earth who doesn't like sour cream.

(Or guac.)

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

It's been done, but not in this context.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1y0...

Defective Implant (King Missile Parody)

YouTube video by Zero Production Effort Studio

www.youtube.com

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

It's somehow way funnier when ~you~ have that reaction.

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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of like children.

Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient @mithras.bsky.social · 2d

And if you touch the right items on the three panels, you open a secret passage.

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