Bilwise
@snackcart.bsky.social
Video games | LOTR | Hobbit | Professional sneakologist | Fantasy / Sci Fi | Foodie
He / Him
He / Him
Happy New Year!
*Goes back to shoveling dirt over a suspiciously 2025 shaped hole in his yard*
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*Goes back to shoveling dirt over a suspiciously 2025 shaped hole in his yard*
🪦
January 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Happy New Year!
*Goes back to shoveling dirt over a suspiciously 2025 shaped hole in his yard*
🪦
*Goes back to shoveling dirt over a suspiciously 2025 shaped hole in his yard*
🪦
What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 PM
What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?
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Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
I'm going to name my environment-friendly energy company Isengard!
*Starts flipping through the Two Towers*
Wait ... oh no ... Oh No! ....
*Starts flipping through the Two Towers*
Wait ... oh no ... Oh No! ....
Palantir. Sauron. CyberDyne. Blackrock. Mr Beast Inc. Cerberus. Blackwater. Anduril. Citizen. Citadel. Gilead. Bain Capital. Darktrace. Oracle. Umbra.
December 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I'm going to name my environment-friendly energy company Isengard!
*Starts flipping through the Two Towers*
Wait ... oh no ... Oh No! ....
*Starts flipping through the Two Towers*
Wait ... oh no ... Oh No! ....
It is new years eve
I am in the office.
S L O T H
😐
I am in the office.
S L O T H
😐
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is new years eve
I am in the office.
S L O T H
😐
I am in the office.
S L O T H
😐
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If you live in the United States and use mail-in voting, read this article. Your vote probably depends on it.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
USPS changed postmark rules; why your mail could be late now
What is new at the post office in 2026? Here's what to know about Postal Service changes in postmark process, postage stamps and USPS shipping rates
www.northjersey.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If you live in the United States and use mail-in voting, read this article. Your vote probably depends on it.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
Had a weird dream last night. I was playing D&D with friends and kept rolling a 6 on a 4 sided die. People kept laughing at me and I kept checking the number (it was a 6 with the little line under it).
Lol, not sure what that means.
🙃🎲
Lol, not sure what that means.
🙃🎲
December 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Had a weird dream last night. I was playing D&D with friends and kept rolling a 6 on a 4 sided die. People kept laughing at me and I kept checking the number (it was a 6 with the little line under it).
Lol, not sure what that means.
🙃🎲
Lol, not sure what that means.
🙃🎲
Dr Sure, Sounds Good
Make a Bond film casual.
"Live and Let Live"
"Live and Let Live"
Make a Bond film casual
The Spy Who Liked Me
The Spy Who Liked Me
December 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Dr Sure, Sounds Good
Merry Christmas, all!
☕🍰🌮🍺🥞🍳🥐🍞🧀🥨🍕🌮🌯🥙
☕🍰🌮🍺🥞🍳🥐🍞🧀🥨🍕🌮🌯🥙
December 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Merry Christmas, all!
☕🍰🌮🍺🥞🍳🥐🍞🧀🥨🍕🌮🌯🥙
☕🍰🌮🍺🥞🍳🥐🍞🧀🥨🍕🌮🌯🥙
I got invited to a Christmas thing. It was well intended, however, the introvert in me is screaming.
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I got invited to a Christmas thing. It was well intended, however, the introvert in me is screaming.
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Wrapping Up Expedition 19 Redux: Corvette in No Man’s Sky
#NoMansSky
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#NoMansSky
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Wrapping Up Expedition 19 Redux: Corvette in No Man’s Sky
As I mentioned in the post when this expedition kicked off, I had not planned to run it as part of the whole holiday expedition thing. I had just done three expeditions as part of the holiday run a…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Wrapping Up Expedition 19 Redux: Corvette in No Man’s Sky
#NoMansSky
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#NoMansSky
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This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone.
You deserve love.
You deserve love.
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone.
You deserve love.
You deserve love.
My observation as well. It's ok for small, one-off coding that I can test thoroughly. It's junk for anything else.
I mean this is literally it. The only case I’ve found that’s useful so far is coding, because I can easily (and *rapidly*) test whether it’s working. Anything where I have to manually check every fact and every citation is actually slower than doing it myself.
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My observation as well. It's ok for small, one-off coding that I can test thoroughly. It's junk for anything else.
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In the 21st entry of the Hobbity Yule Calendar, we celebrate the darkest day of the year with a comforting hobbity painting of Yule sausages, painted by Casmantha! 🕯️
hobbitycalendar.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...
#LOTRO #adventcalendar #hobbits
hobbitycalendar.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...
#LOTRO #adventcalendar #hobbits
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
In the 21st entry of the Hobbity Yule Calendar, we celebrate the darkest day of the year with a comforting hobbity painting of Yule sausages, painted by Casmantha! 🕯️
hobbitycalendar.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...
#LOTRO #adventcalendar #hobbits
hobbitycalendar.blogspot.com/2025/12/dece...
#LOTRO #adventcalendar #hobbits
At the dentist. Wheeee.
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🤕
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
At the dentist. Wheeee.
🤕
🤕
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Hey there! As the year ends, some people at least are thinking about business and taxes, so here's my periodic reminder: If you operate a small business with a partner, please consider the problem of what happens if one of you dies.
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hey there! As the year ends, some people at least are thinking about business and taxes, so here's my periodic reminder: If you operate a small business with a partner, please consider the problem of what happens if one of you dies.
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
😔
December 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
😔
I listen to several Internet radio stations at work. One is playing the theme from Diablo 2: Tristram.
*Walks sideways around the office doing barbarian jumps at coworkers until HR tells me to cut it out*
🪓😡🛡️
*Walks sideways around the office doing barbarian jumps at coworkers until HR tells me to cut it out*
🪓😡🛡️
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I listen to several Internet radio stations at work. One is playing the theme from Diablo 2: Tristram.
*Walks sideways around the office doing barbarian jumps at coworkers until HR tells me to cut it out*
🪓😡🛡️
*Walks sideways around the office doing barbarian jumps at coworkers until HR tells me to cut it out*
🪓😡🛡️
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Similar in Surrey
December 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Similar in Surrey
I watched Wake Up Dead Man. I enjoyed it.
December 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I watched Wake Up Dead Man. I enjoyed it.
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Today's December Comfort Watch: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is right now as many years from its debut as it is from the movie serials which inspired it. How has age treated Indy, and what, if anything, does he still have to teach us?
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Thirteen: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the greatest adventure films of all time — if not the greatest adventure film of all time, full stop — but here nearly 45 years after its release, it&#…
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December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Today's December Comfort Watch: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is right now as many years from its debut as it is from the movie serials which inspired it. How has age treated Indy, and what, if anything, does he still have to teach us?
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...
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We anticipate potentially 100,000 Washingtonians facing evacuation orders. The situation is fluid and changing all the time. We expect rivers to hit historic levels as early as 4 a.m. tomorrow, lasting into Friday morning.
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We anticipate potentially 100,000 Washingtonians facing evacuation orders. The situation is fluid and changing all the time. We expect rivers to hit historic levels as early as 4 a.m. tomorrow, lasting into Friday morning.
It is 1991. I am standing in a crappy dorm room drinking beer listening to the Eagles.
It is 2025. I am standing in Texas Live drinking a beer listening to the Eagles.
I am the Dr Manhattan of drinking.
It is 2025. I am standing in Texas Live drinking a beer listening to the Eagles.
I am the Dr Manhattan of drinking.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It is 1991. I am standing in a crappy dorm room drinking beer listening to the Eagles.
It is 2025. I am standing in Texas Live drinking a beer listening to the Eagles.
I am the Dr Manhattan of drinking.
It is 2025. I am standing in Texas Live drinking a beer listening to the Eagles.
I am the Dr Manhattan of drinking.
I'm in a sales meeting today. I prepped for a presentation that I was still nervous about this morning.
It has been cut for time.
*glee*
🍻
It has been cut for time.
*glee*
🍻
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm in a sales meeting today. I prepped for a presentation that I was still nervous about this morning.
It has been cut for time.
*glee*
🍻
It has been cut for time.
*glee*
🍻