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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 58m

I didn’t say it was a *good* solution, but if practicality has to be avoided…

Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

Endow a new university and require all programs introduced to pass a consensus vote of all faculty.
Problem solved, practicality defeated.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

Someone should try to build one of Let’s Game It Out’s theme parks in the real world

Just.
Don’t let people in it.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

i was being silly, but fair

Reposted by Jordan Carlson

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 18h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

we hope

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

(banging desk after each word) make the tech youtubers unbox their software instead of just oversized monitors

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

... is this a new type of SovCit? or just Woo? (emphasis "just" given overlap)

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

there's a reason mine is a realistic and guaranteed money-loser: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

Step 1: buy the rights to the Ogre Battle franchise from Square Enix.
Step 2: ask Yasumi Matsuno how much money he needs for therapy to touch it again.
Step 3: throw money down the dev hole.
Step 4: have an entire video game franchise revived purely to see what the other 5 unmade planned parts were.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 23h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

"the dream of the 90s is alive in... computing?"

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

The real answer on that end is “ask Richard Branson for advice”, seemingly

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

Before you say “but video games are useful”: look up the lifetime sales of this franchise and tell me I’m not being frivolous lol

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

Step 1: buy the rights to the Ogre Battle franchise from Square Enix.
Step 2: ask Yasumi Matsuno how much money he needs for therapy to touch it again.
Step 3: throw money down the dev hole.
Step 4: have an entire video game franchise revived purely to see what the other 5 unmade planned parts were.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 23h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

A lot of my life can probably be explained by the true sentence “I encountered Neopets and the official Warhammer forums in the same week at age 9”

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

1940s Weeb’s idea of Zen

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

“What do you mean 10,000 people can see any thought you choose to share? Sounds fake”

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

Didn’t he also spend almost as much time a couple years back promoting his Totally Not For Piracy retro game console handheld thing?

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 6h

@sharonk.bsky.social didn’t you have confirmation of Vance in several questionable ones a while back?

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

yuzu is excellent

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

Broadly yes. Fruit is expensive though. The twenty thousand youtube videos aren't lying about that part.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, nowadays I live in Japan, so. They're fresher lol.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

The thing was I could usually do guac because it was premade and sealed. But any time I had avocado on a sandwich or something in a restaurant I'd feel like it was crap, so I thought it was the mix of ingredients.

And then one day I finally had fresh avocado and realised: oh, it's just overripe.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

how is that not already a thing in a sci fi comedy?

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

given his titles, y'all are gonna have cake, not hooters, on the bills.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

it might be less brutally depressing if any of them appeared to have reached an "after" rather than descending into a spiral

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