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Good Opinion Haver and that’s just about the only good thing about me

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Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · Jan 8

Decided to do an annual media thread for 2025 (or at least for as long as the idea interests me!)

Not going to assign scores, just cutting down my thoughts on a given game/book/film to one tweet

Also has the side-benefit of gently bullying any ~nameless friends~ known for procrastination~! >;3

a pixel art drawing of a girl with cat ears and a tail

ALT: a pixel art drawing of a girl with cat ears and a tail

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Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · 38m

G’night friends

a man is laying on a bed in a room

ALT: a man is laying on a bed in a room

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 5h

From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

Regimes, on the other hand, have good reasons to ad- mit underperformers to their key coercive unit and to not counteract the self-selection of such officials. From the perspective of leaders, underachievers are beneficial be- cause they must diligently work toward the autocrat's in- terests to retain their career chances. For example, Alexan- dru Drâghici, the former interior minister of Romania, was well aware that his secret police agents "had a fairly low level of training and general knowledge, but that these shortcomings were compensated for by their powerful revolutionary enthusiasm" (Deletant 2005, 304). By con- trast, leaders who assign high-performing officials to serve in the secret police must fear that their subordinates will not execute unpleasant orders. Having lucrative career options, competent officials make unreliable secret police agents, as they are likely to stay passive when the regime
is under attack (Zakharov 2016).

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 3h

We already lost em dashes I am NOT going through that again

ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 8h

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2h

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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🦇 kaphrin @kaphrin.bsky.social · 4h

(announcer voice) MARUZENSKYYYY
#umamusume #ウマ娘

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 5h

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BT @mode7.bsky.social · 2h

The double-whammy of deploying this stuff just as Windows 10 support ends is so brazen.

mcc @dryad.technology · 3h

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on

doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests

Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4h

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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tctc @toastcrust.bsky.social · 2h

the finance people are a joke

Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a fun chart I made in May when the CS skin market hit $4.3 billion. Shows why investors pumped so much $$ into it. It hit $6 billion before it tanked last night.

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Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · 2h

Fucking Dark Souls-ass intro...

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Chie.☆•°. Comms OPEN @chie00chan.bsky.social · 3h

カナリィ | Canari ⚡⚡⚡
Cute poke gyaru streamer 💖
#ポケモンレジェンズZA #PokemonLegendsZA

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Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · 3h

Box dream... trying to work out whether all this has happened and he's actually much older than 35 or if he's imagining probable futures based on his bad experiences...

Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks, game!

Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · 4h

This feels like a shitpost

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Zel @zelkinne.bsky.social · 5h

You guys wanna talk about Emma.....again

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 10h

what happens when capitalism fails the individual

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Lottie @somnisoftcatte.bsky.social · 4h

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Fangs @fangsod.bsky.social · 4h

Witching hour

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RexWolf-BOO! @therexwolff.bsky.social · 6h

Why do the Kirby Air Riders machines make "a sound that's similar to a wail" when destroyed, Sakurai?

comic edit with masahiro sakurai placed on the first scientist

I've made a [MACHINE] that [WAIL]s!

Machine is screaming AAAAAAAAAA
with AAAAs continuing in the background, second scientist asks, Why?

Sakurai pauses,
thinks.

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Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net · 11h

Accessibility confirmed in Kirby Air Riders!
- An actual accessibility menu (that's rare for Nintendo)
- Screen Shake Intensity Presets
- Text Size
- Remap controls (including remapping to one handed)
- HUD size, opacity, outlines
- Color Filters
- FOV

I'm pretty impressed!