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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁

@graffias79.bsky.social

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Astronomy, electronic music, analog audio technology, 16-bit computer and classic video game lover. Skeptic secular humanist. Cisgender gay male. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him Black and trans lives matter! 📍Southern Wisconsin

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 2h

I'm honestly not sure what I could possibly say about how utterly stupid this article is. The answer is obviously a hard "no", and quit trying to normalize nazis. It's never going to go well for you.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 12h

I just think it's wild that an operating system that you have to pay for advertises to you.

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like this era really took off somewhere between windows 8 and 10.

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 20h

Massive *gentle* hugs! Hoping for a quick and thorough recovery!

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with you for sure. Those grasshoppers in Metropolis zone suck so hard!

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only 1 food you refuse to eat, 1 movie you’ll never watch again, & 1 song you can’t stand:

Liver 😱🤮

2009 Star Trek movie

How Bizarre by OMC

Joe Driller Killer @shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network · 2d

Introduce yourself using only 1 food you refuse to eat, 1 movie you’ll never watch again, & 1 song you can’t stand:

Cauliflower: that meme about it being a fart flower is 💯

Requiem for a Dream: Brilliant, but just so fucking depressing

"Smooth" by Santana: I have a physical reaction to the riff

Vampire Hunter KB @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only 1 food you refuse to eat, 1 movie you’ll never watch again, & 1 song you can’t stand:

Summer squash: my body violent rejects it whenever i put it in my mouth

Meet the Feebles: wretched dark "comedy"

XXXTENTACION - "SAD!": bland trap made by a dead homophobe

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think you're missing much.

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like gathering them up and sending them to Belken in the mail to dispose of. This right here is the trouble with "smart" things that rely on apps and clouds and shit.

Speal from Belkin about ending Wemo smart plug support on January 31st, 2026.

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 1d

In a desperate attempt to remove very stubborn surface noise from this album I'm playing it wet with a 50% isopropyl alcohol and distilled water solution. So far there is a marked improvement.

Image of my turntable playing a wet record.

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 2d

When the chips were down, did you flatter the powerful or stick up for the marginalized?

Your answer matters more than ever.

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 3d

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 3d

It works great on my old IBM PS/2 model 30 286!

IBM PS/2 model 30 286 showing the Scorched Earth menu screen.

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 3d

I use prescription reading and computer glasses. A good wide-head brand for frames is Van Heusen.

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 3d

I remember watching Small Wonder on WFLD out of Chicago when I was a kid. I'm excited the guys from @gayestepisodeever.bsky.social are covering this show!

www.gayestepisodeever.com/episodes/sma...

Small Wonder Celebrated an 80s Kid Who Was Different — Gayest Episode Ever

Every millennial gay man is also a robot girl in a pinafore.

www.gayestepisodeever.com

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations! 🎉❤️

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Uncommon Ephemera @uncommonephemera.org · 4d

Since this post is blowing up, please consider checking out my work preserving a rare industrial film format that no one is saving, and support me if you can:

uncommonephemera.org

Uncommon Ephemera

Uncommon Ephemera is a media preservation initiative focused on obscure, nearly-lost, and at-risk 20th century American multimedia.

uncommonephemera.org

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 4d

That's okay. We're a third world country now anyway.

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 4d

Um, I don't think that's how you spell Grand Funk. 😅

Late 1970s Maxell UD90 cassette with the following names written on the label: "Cat Stevens" "Steely Dan" "Elton John" and "Grand Fuck".

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 4d

"Tanks for the mouse!"

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 4d

Post you from a different era

This is me in March 2006. I was living in a spare room in my brother and his girlfriend's condo. I was staying there trying to get on my feet in the Chicagoland area. Just a couple months before, I left my podunk hometown for good.

Photo of me wearing headphones while wearing a shirt showing a pair of headphones.

Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 4d

Compared to part 2, this game is pretty rudimentary, but damn do I love the soundtrack!

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 5d

My coloring book proofs arrived today and they look so good! Can’t wait to get the full order and start shipping them out in a few weeks!

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Jamie 🏹🌗 🔭🍂🍁 @graffias79.bsky.social · 5d

Just for clarity, I need Chrome for work stuff. I prefer Firefox.

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