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Jabe

@nominalindltd.bsky.social

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I have been dual-classing cyberpunk and druid for about half a century. I like finding places in the middle of nowhere, planning how to get there, and then going there. Not a big fan of people and the various forms of Number Go Up. Food is good.

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 9h

I met some cool people with similar interests and in a few cases even met up IRL and had a lot of fun (local homebrewer club and also a kick-ass sausage cult)

Now, is (gestures vaguely) all this horseshit WORTH IT?!?! Absolutely not!

support your local sausage cult, then delete your accounts

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

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

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, I know that there are armies of directors, C-levels, marketing teams, and other business fuckclowns out there trying (and frequently succeeding) to make dumb tech shit mandatory, but my point is that you may have more choices than you think.

You have to TRY first, though

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 9h

Yet another reminder about tech: you can say NO

you don't have to have the latest and greatest

not every gadget actually improves your life (few do)

paper works GREAT - esp with checklists, doing the little pen mark for "done" feels AWESOME

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 14h

This is extremely cool, nice work!

I don't know much about wasps (and most other things), what is the dark "splotch" on his abdomen? Is that just his coloring?

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 2d

Hold on, a child predator? In the MINISTRY?!?!?!

how could anyone have possibly anticipated etc etc etc

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 3d

it's not quite that I'm afraid my job will be replaced by AI - AI is dumb and doesn't work

What I'm afraid of is that "dumb and doesn't work" IS JUST FINE, now, because dumb and doesn't work probably makes shareholder number go up

that's what I'm afraid of. For EVERYONE

don't use AI, dingbats

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 3d

anyway, tomorrow I get to spend a large part of my day tiptoeing through clownfuck office politics for refusing to break shit because some clown thinks ChatGPT is a sysadmin and I sure don't like that and am also wondering if this career even has a future now

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 3d

I know people have strong feelings about AI and it's getting a lot of pushback

but it may be worth considering that it may be because it fucking sucks and humanity as a whole is far too stupid to use this shit in any ways that are REMOTELY responsible

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 3d

Was talking to a manager about why their request was bad and would break things

they then looked up something on ChatGPT, then turned around and said "why don't you just..." and then completely misquoted the thing ChatGPT said that was ALREADY WRONG to begin with as if I couldn't see their screen

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 3d

Jane says Nazi punks fuck off

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 3d

oh okay I guess it's going to be one of those Blast This Shit At a Very Unreasonable Volume kind of mornings

Soviet Groove & Love Songs... when the USSR Collapsed by FET – L’atelier de Musique Ep015

YouTube video by L'atelier de Musique

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 4d

You (Indiana Jones) Just Called This Guy A Nazi

YouTube video by CharactersWelcome

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 5d

I am not actually much of an anime enthusiast but Robotech had a fundamental impact on my development as a middle schooler

the craziest shit for me as a kid was seeing the "good guys" (humans) get the absolute SHIT kicked out of them. The aliens REALLY beat our ass. Killed millions! Repeatedly!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6d

Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 6d

Capitalism as fuck

ANALYSIS | After losing billions of dollars on Keystone XL and tank cars, Alberta is pursuing another pipeline | CBC News

After months of Premier Danielle Smith vowing to find a company willing to develop a new oil export pipeline, the Alberta government itself is taking the plunge. The move is already drawing both prais...

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 6d

Had a request to onboard an employee with an unconventional name that I suspected was also very likely misspelled

so I googled their name to see if my hunch was correct

Good news: it was!

Bad news: found out from their domestic violence rap sheet

SHOCKING news: they're not a cop

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know if Blippo+ can be considered an actual "video game" but it is one of my favorite things on my Switch right now

The best explanation for Blippo+ I have is "what if you watched TV and early internet from a super-awesome 80's New Wave planet?"

that's it

that's the "game"

I love it

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 7d

Awww, I love that little (big) guy, thank you for making him so happy

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 7d

oh no Suzanne you're supposed to shill EXERCISING equipment, not EXCISING equipment

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters.
He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 7d

whoops, so sorry, didn't mean to post that magnified image of Jimmy Fallon's balls

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 7d

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 7d

It's time Suzanne Somers FINALLY answers for her crimes

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Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 8d

I've worked in tech for a signifcant portion of my life and I wish I'd been a carpenter or a biologist or something that didn't shit all over humanity's very existence quite as directly as providing people have computer and network access

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Jabe @nominalindltd.bsky.social · 8d

Okay wow I had no idea I needed these