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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

chatgpt? whatever. I’m giving myself internet psychosis the old fashioned way: finding an unhinged individual and falling down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out whatever tf they’re doing

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 1d

in one of these two ways there's a non-trivial chance of a person actually finding themselves in the search, and it is not chatgpt. /shrugs

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

respirators are means of liberation; maintaining health by protecting our lungs from airborne irritants, be they allergens, smoke, pathogens.

this modern, multi-use tool is the thing you’re looking for. it shows others, as we go about our days, that things are not normal, that they could be better.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jun 14

normalize respirators in your daily life. when you do, when you see the choice to use a personal air filter as more akin to sunglasses (worn by all, often for fashion regardless of ocular welfare) than, say, a cast (indicative of active health concerns, often not a choice), all around you benefit.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

LIKE AN HOUR AND HALF LEFT BEFORE YOU NEED TO PAY AN ENTIRE 50 CENTS MORE

Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 2d

For one more day, my new book Star Sword Nemesis is 10% off its normal price of $5! On the edge of the solar system, a group of dreamers and believers in human transcendence fight against the tyranny of the Earth Sphere, to protect the Voyager 1 probe that NASA sent into the stars so many years ago.

Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games

mecha betrayal girls love in distant space

loveconquersallgames.itch.io

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

one of my gamedev dreams is make a homage to Vagrant Story. Ivalice is my favourite final fantasy setting...

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

insta-wish listed and demo downloading. many many thanks for this one ^_^

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

huh. i did *not* know that. i saw that years ago they started on something new, then they stopped streaming --or i could never catch them online, my notifications are always off, not sorry--
^_^

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d

Alabaster Dawn is the new game from the developers of Cross Code!

Which, did you know the developers of Cross Code have a new game coming!? Because if not, now you do!

Alabaster Dawn on Steam

Break Nyx’s curse and guide humanity's rebirth in this top-down 2.5D Action RPG from the creators of CrossCode. Battle enemies with stylish combos, wield multiple divine weapons, solve intriguing puzz...

store.steampowered.com

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, i kinda know that. one day i will convince myself that it's ok to just go for it. it even looks like it will be this year 🤷

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

i suffer from kinda reverse peer-pressure re: ds9...

i can't bring myself to watch it, because i have this idea that i will compare it to babylon 5 and like babylon 5 more --pretty sure, actually-- and then i will not know how to face all the cool people that really like ds9.

yeah, it's stupid.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

i suffer from kinda reverse peer-pressure re: ds9...

i can't bring myself to watch it, because i have this idea that i will compare it to babylon 5 and like babylon 5 more --pretty sure, actually-- and then i will not know how to face all the cool people that really like ds9.

yeah, it's stupid.

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 2d

My counterpoint to "if you're bouncing off of it, stop reading it" is that it took me about three or four chapters for Gideon the Ninth to click for me.

But!

That was a book I bought because of all the fan art and memes and so forth bubbling in my timeline. So it's kind of an exception.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

i never push through unless its expected reading for a class or talk or something. but i --usually-- do give more chances at future times. i have books that took a decade to finally click for me, and i love that i gave them the time for it.

yet, some went to the donation pile by the opening page.

soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 2d

My counterpoint to "if you're bouncing off of it, stop reading it" is that it took me about three or four chapters for Gideon the Ninth to click for me.

But!

That was a book I bought because of all the fan art and memes and so forth bubbling in my timeline. So it's kind of an exception.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

i never push through unless its expected reading for a class or talk or something. but i --usually-- do give more chances at future times. i have books that took a decade to finally click for me, and i love that i gave them the time for it.

yet, some went to the donation pile by the opening page.

soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 2d

My counterpoint to "if you're bouncing off of it, stop reading it" is that it took me about three or four chapters for Gideon the Ninth to click for me.

But!

That was a book I bought because of all the fan art and memes and so forth bubbling in my timeline. So it's kind of an exception.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

great timing on sending this. and, yeah. we gotta keep trying.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

if this becomes a Chris thing... well, i'm all up for it :)

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 2d

It's actually totally fine to dislike a book but also acknowledge it is not "utter trash" "overrated" "degenerate" "ruined the concept of fiction for me" or whatever

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

I prefer realism and naturalism to modernism. Sorry not sorry.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

:thinking:

i have a few of those about physics and burned out of a phd...

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 2d

i really miss the yellow pages of the phone book...

but yeah. to me it was home and my grandma phone numbers. still in memory... been out of the country for 15 years, out of my hometown for almost 30 :)

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 2d

Magnetic Journey - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/8dAfW1

A lineup of erupting magnetic activity on the sun's surface creates a trail of flares and coronal loops over 600,000 miles long. This is a portion of an image acquired today, June 26, 2010 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 171, a sensor attuned to extreme ultraviolet radiation.

I rotated the image about 80º clockwise and cropped it as shown, and adjusted the image levels and sharpness to enhance details.

Read more about the SDO mission at sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Image courtesy of SDO (NASA) and the AIA consortium. Edited by J. Major.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 3d

thanks for the reminder.

and the realization that i can make that a monthly thing :)

Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 3d

Quick it's midnight, update your profile photo for the first time in 10+ years!

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 3d

now i'm thinking about life in space... thanks (not ironic)

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 3d

Have a wonderful week.

Be kind to others and yourself.

Make video games accessible.

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 3d

coming across this one today got the thought stuck in my mind that yes, there's **so** much more that accessibility can mean to games. bsky.app/profile/thin...

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 3d

Autistic people can struggle with “praxis,” or "the ability to execute chains of smooth motor movements. As much as someone with autism might want to, it may seem impossible […] to break free from the gap between intention and action."

hussmanautism.org/praxis-and-a... #autism #neurodiversity

Praxis and Autism: Bridging the gap between intention and action - Hussman Institute for Autism

People with autism may know exactly what they want to say, but may be unable to say it. They may know every answer on a quiz, but have only written down a few by the time the teacher collects the pape...

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ferunando @gureito.bsky.social · 3d

studying quantum gravity?

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