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@brokentoys.social

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aka Scott Jennings. how ya doin'. MMO game dev for too long. Wrote that blog you snorted at in 1999. Now a professional old man yelling at cloud. signal: lum.66

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Lum @brokentoys.social · Jun 11

i mean, you're going to have to face it, i have very strong opinions on constitutional republics, proper doctrine for armor deployments and the meta for damage over time builds

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 1h

"why die for danzig?"

Lum @brokentoys.social · 1h

pretty sure even if you opposed thatcher's capitalism, regarding military dictators you don't actually have to hand it to them

Lum @brokentoys.social · 1h

there's definitely much that is worse, which shouldn't prevent one from enjoying the much that is better.

i'm about to go to bed and have my clock radio get random music beamed from my phone while it charges, which was pretty inconcievable in 1995

Lum @brokentoys.social · 4h

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 4h

ILTV livestream

🔴 BREAKING: 48 HOSTAGES TO BE FREED!

YouTube video by ILTV Israel News

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 4h

Live stream of pro-hostage protest in Tel Aviv waiting for the release.

SATVIEW.TV ENG LIVE IN ISRAEL

YouTube video by Bring Them Home Now

www.youtube.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

Do not step to menswear guy. He is very good at this.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 5h

what was she even arrested for, assault with a deadly pepparoni slice?

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 11h

It's really great that we have a mad-king who thinks he's going to hell no matter what he does and is in charge of a humanity-ending nuclear arsenal.

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 11h

If you work in games, games discoursing on a Sunday counts as crunch

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 10h

i'm frequently about the doom and gloom regarding the present day (justified!) and nostalgia for when i was young in the 90s (also very justified!) but if you're a cranky gen-xer like me this is your feel-good link of the day

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

gwern.net

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 17h

i would bet good money that guy tweaking on meth while pointing a rifle out his window is a proud boy/oath keeper goon - he is in civ/hunter gear and in fact some tried to argue he was coming back from playing paintball (that is not a paintball rifle, it's a 'non-lethal' shotgun used in prisons)

Lum @brokentoys.social · 17h

My only quibble with this generally dead-on piece is that Moynihan says using militia/extremist groups as paramilitary enforcers could happen; I would argue it has *ALREADY* happened which is why so many ICE/CBP goons are a) trying to remain anonymous b) demonstrably incompetent c) extremely racist

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 17h

just askin' questions man was off on a government contract

Lum @brokentoys.social · 17h

past performance does not guarantee future results.

see: mussolini

Lum @brokentoys.social · 17h

that crowd is pretty parody-immune

Lum @brokentoys.social · 1d

my cat is old now. she moves slowly and carefully, her eyes no longer amber but hazy as she navigates more on memory than sight.

it is heartbreaking to watch.

she still crawls in my lap and purrs loudly because anyone who tries to tell you animals don’t have feelings is a bastard.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 1d

ghostty is good. wish there was a windows equivalent

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Daniel Johnston Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 3d

Today we released our 8-bit Adventure Pack! Over 1400 graphics, made by humans, including tiles, NPCs, enemies, bosses, items and a hero character. Everything you need to make a Game Boy-style adventure game 100% FREE for commercial use ci.itch.io/8-bit-advent...

#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

710 Tiles - overworld, animated and indoor tilesets

346 frames of NPC sprites with all kinds of different characters represented

The main character - Papantzin - with 107 frames of animation

Other enemies, bosses, items, effects and more to make 1489 assets in total!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?