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Travis

@slade.rip

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Cats 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛, Metal & Jazz , Minis painting Portland, OR based QA Automation looking for work Formerly: Telltale, Hangar 13, Second Dinner

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Travis @slade.rip · 16d

I'm still looking for my next thing, so if you want a Cool Dude that's Good at Stuff, hit me up

Travis @slade.rip · May 29

Looks like things are getting rocky for my job security so I'm gonna start the hunt for a new thing and I'd love to work with you!
I'm good at QA Automation and testing, and also at devops adjacent things like CI/CD pipelines and docker configurations and would love to work in build eng. Hit me up!

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Travis @slade.rip · 13h

Having 2 cats means sitting like this while the other one screams for your attention from downstairs

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14h

It's an extremely good idea to follow NoClip2. It sends a strong message that there is value and an audience for weird little indie games to media and publishers alike.

dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 14h

We've added 14k YouTube subs to noclip_2 in the past month, pretty much exclusively covering underground and indie games like this. Please come be part of what we're building over there.

/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 15h

House of Necrosis by @warkus.bsky.social wears it's influences on it's sleeve. But it's roguelite loop and mystery dungeon gameplay presents a whole new challenge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Wb...

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 15h

holy hell

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 17h

We desperately need someone with your very specific set of skills, like, RIGHT NOW! OMG!

But ooooooooonly if you're willing to relocate so you can sit in an office and desperately try ignore other people so you can get half as much work done in twice the time 😎

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Travis @slade.rip · 15h

I love these! But uh, when will I be able to buy a graveyard gate/mad king door to use as a conjured doorway skin? That would be really cool! 😁

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 1d

When Frank Sinatra released "New York, New York" Devo had already released two albums

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Travis @slade.rip · 1d

"Big cat acting like housecat" is one of my favorite types of videos.
I bet they'd eat palastic too, if given the chance.

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

SYLVESTER THE CAT: *twisted beyond recognition into a cenobite, now a voyager into the hell realms beyond pain and pleasure* your thuffering will be like thuccotash

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ねことプラモデル @catandplamo.bsky.social · 1d

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Travis @slade.rip · 2d

🎶 It's just another Macho Monday 🎶

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2d

It's Macho Man Monday

Macho Man Randy Savage in his nWo costume, posing dramatically.

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Travis @slade.rip · 2d

Ooh, gladly!

Travis @slade.rip · 3d

Happy to say that I tied for 3rd in my local GW store's Armies on Parade competition yesterday. Never thought I'd get an award for my painting, so I'm pretty jazzed about it!

A Warhammer: The Old World Empire of Man army painted and arranged on a tabletop

Bronze award with a skull over crossed paint brushes and the year 2025 on it, for the games workshop Armies on Parade event

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 3d

This x 100000 = mood

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Circular flowchart. “Too anxious to start on anything” leads into “stressed about not getting anything done,” then back to “too anxious to start on anything”—creating an endless loop.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 3d

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.