Clark Valentine
@clarkvalentine.bsky.social
Programmer, analog game designer, progressive politics, no progressivism without LGBTQIA+ rights. Despair is the enemy's most dangerous weapon. I will continue to shamelessly split infinitives. he/him
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I wrote about why I love Ole Bill Shakespeare, the effectiveness of HAMNET, and how Chloe Zhao seems to have found a real sweet spot. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/145423...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I wrote about why I love Ole Bill Shakespeare, the effectiveness of HAMNET, and how Chloe Zhao seems to have found a real sweet spot. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/145423...
I have studied electromechanical control systems at the postgraduate level, I have built robots and taught robotics.
You could not pay me to be in the _same room_ as this goddamn thing when it's powered up. It needs to be anchored to the floor with steel railings enforcing a safety perimeter.
You could not pay me to be in the _same room_ as this goddamn thing when it's powered up. It needs to be anchored to the floor with steel railings enforcing a safety perimeter.
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have studied electromechanical control systems at the postgraduate level, I have built robots and taught robotics.
You could not pay me to be in the _same room_ as this goddamn thing when it's powered up. It needs to be anchored to the floor with steel railings enforcing a safety perimeter.
You could not pay me to be in the _same room_ as this goddamn thing when it's powered up. It needs to be anchored to the floor with steel railings enforcing a safety perimeter.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Oh is it “make new moms feel inadequate“ o’clock again?
To hell with that judgmental bullshit. Moms, you’re doing great.
To hell with that judgmental bullshit. Moms, you’re doing great.
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh is it “make new moms feel inadequate“ o’clock again?
To hell with that judgmental bullshit. Moms, you’re doing great.
To hell with that judgmental bullshit. Moms, you’re doing great.
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Really wonderful news for a change:
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Really wonderful news for a change:
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*random thing with a one percent chance of helping somebody*
Just in case anyone needs a Hopi sensitivity reader, I know a guy who’s amenable.
Just in case anyone needs a Hopi sensitivity reader, I know a guy who’s amenable.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
*random thing with a one percent chance of helping somebody*
Just in case anyone needs a Hopi sensitivity reader, I know a guy who’s amenable.
Just in case anyone needs a Hopi sensitivity reader, I know a guy who’s amenable.
Me: You know the acab folks are right about a lot of stuff
Also me: I do love me some detective/whodunnit mystery fiction
Also me: I do love me some detective/whodunnit mystery fiction
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Me: You know the acab folks are right about a lot of stuff
Also me: I do love me some detective/whodunnit mystery fiction
Also me: I do love me some detective/whodunnit mystery fiction
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
Cultural consultants are useful anytime you’re writing go about a culture you lack familiarity with. Even ones you don’t usually think of.
[glares at the streaming TV show in “you obviously didn’t have a Catholic in your writers room”]
[glares at the streaming TV show in “you obviously didn’t have a Catholic in your writers room”]
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Cultural consultants are useful anytime you’re writing go about a culture you lack familiarity with. Even ones you don’t usually think of.
[glares at the streaming TV show in “you obviously didn’t have a Catholic in your writers room”]
[glares at the streaming TV show in “you obviously didn’t have a Catholic in your writers room”]
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
Someday someone will write a deeply investigative book about this industry 2024-2026 and it's going to be _wild_.
Not only does it all feel fishy as hell but.. literally there isn't the power to run them all. What the hell are we even doing here.
Not only does it all feel fishy as hell but.. literally there isn't the power to run them all. What the hell are we even doing here.
Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
December 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Someday someone will write a deeply investigative book about this industry 2024-2026 and it's going to be _wild_.
Not only does it all feel fishy as hell but.. literally there isn't the power to run them all. What the hell are we even doing here.
Not only does it all feel fishy as hell but.. literally there isn't the power to run them all. What the hell are we even doing here.
SCOTUS (well 6 of them) acts like students who just finished their first philosophy class and think they know everything. They're hanging out, smoking weed, and spinning bizarre thought experiments (No boundaries, man!), knowing that their wild ravings will never concretely impact them.
this gets to the fundamental lawlessness. the difference between law as a game and law as a tool of government.
birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.
birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.
also, let’s say wurman is right. well, we have had nearly 160 years of unlimited birthright citizenship that has been affirmed again and again by generations of Americans. whatever the original intent, that is what the birthright clause *means*.
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
SCOTUS (well 6 of them) acts like students who just finished their first philosophy class and think they know everything. They're hanging out, smoking weed, and spinning bizarre thought experiments (No boundaries, man!), knowing that their wild ravings will never concretely impact them.
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Peanuts really was the OG of modern absurdist humor.
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Peanuts really was the OG of modern absurdist humor.
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This thread is full of video that is "awesome" in both the colloquial *and* the original sense of the word
Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯
USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This thread is full of video that is "awesome" in both the colloquial *and* the original sense of the word
Me: Less judgmental about what things, Governor?
Newsom: Oh you know the things
Newsom: Oh you know the things
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Me: Less judgmental about what things, Governor?
Newsom: Oh you know the things
Newsom: Oh you know the things
I sometimes wonder why I don't play #TTRPGs enough, and then remember that 5/7 of my group are amateur community theater actors who have wildly varying evening rehearsal & performance schedules, the 6th is a member of local government who has evening meetings all the time, and the seventh is me.
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I sometimes wonder why I don't play #TTRPGs enough, and then remember that 5/7 of my group are amateur community theater actors who have wildly varying evening rehearsal & performance schedules, the 6th is a member of local government who has evening meetings all the time, and the seventh is me.
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Me: Do people not understand that Terrible Thing Is Terrible?
Everyone: Yes we understand
Me: But maybe if I should louder and spread awareness somebody will do something to stop it
Everyone: What specifically have you observed in the past to give you hope that this might be the way it works?
Everyone: Yes we understand
Me: But maybe if I should louder and spread awareness somebody will do something to stop it
Everyone: What specifically have you observed in the past to give you hope that this might be the way it works?
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Me: Do people not understand that Terrible Thing Is Terrible?
Everyone: Yes we understand
Me: But maybe if I should louder and spread awareness somebody will do something to stop it
Everyone: What specifically have you observed in the past to give you hope that this might be the way it works?
Everyone: Yes we understand
Me: But maybe if I should louder and spread awareness somebody will do something to stop it
Everyone: What specifically have you observed in the past to give you hope that this might be the way it works?
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
It's funny but also, these folks are their brother's keeper and they're acting like it.
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It's funny but also, these folks are their brother's keeper and they're acting like it.
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
There's a video circulating around of an older man with an Italian accent standing behind a deli counter and reading the riot act to some ICE guys.
It's extremely satisfying, but I'm pretty sure it's AI. I'm really glad I thought to look more closely before I shared.
It's extremely satisfying, but I'm pretty sure it's AI. I'm really glad I thought to look more closely before I shared.
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There's a video circulating around of an older man with an Italian accent standing behind a deli counter and reading the riot act to some ICE guys.
It's extremely satisfying, but I'm pretty sure it's AI. I'm really glad I thought to look more closely before I shared.
It's extremely satisfying, but I'm pretty sure it's AI. I'm really glad I thought to look more closely before I shared.
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(Trying this without any hashtags.)
Hi there! I'm a ttrpg designer looking to sell some games! I set myself a goal of 1000 sales in three months!
So far, I'm at 10! Care to help make that number bigger?
Repost, like, maybe buy!
Lots of options!
Let's see what we can do!
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Hi there! I'm a ttrpg designer looking to sell some games! I set myself a goal of 1000 sales in three months!
So far, I'm at 10! Care to help make that number bigger?
Repost, like, maybe buy!
Lots of options!
Let's see what we can do!
kpetker.itch.io
K. Petker
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December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
(Trying this without any hashtags.)
Hi there! I'm a ttrpg designer looking to sell some games! I set myself a goal of 1000 sales in three months!
So far, I'm at 10! Care to help make that number bigger?
Repost, like, maybe buy!
Lots of options!
Let's see what we can do!
kpetker.itch.io
Hi there! I'm a ttrpg designer looking to sell some games! I set myself a goal of 1000 sales in three months!
So far, I'm at 10! Care to help make that number bigger?
Repost, like, maybe buy!
Lots of options!
Let's see what we can do!
kpetker.itch.io