Chris Adamson
@invalidname.me
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I write, stream, and code stuff. I also raise children and sometimes clean things. Working on docs for 🍏. He/Him/His. Also https://mastodon.social/@invalidname (follow via BridgyFed for BlueSky: @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
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invalidname.me
Reintro:
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.
invalidname.me
Young Republicans keeping the local Big & Tall stores in business.
invalidname.me
They really need to release Tron Blu-Rays with a music-only audio option, so you can turn the whole movie into one long music video.
invalidname.me
Interesting. Judy Kuhn just posted on Facebook that the 1988 Broadway version of “Chess” is now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify. It’s never been available in any digital version until now. Presumably prompted by the revival opening in NYC tomorrow. music.apple.com/us/album/che...
Chess (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast on Apple Music
Album · 1988 · 21 Songs
music.apple.com
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zackdavisson.com
Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

Time for Timer!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJiU...
invalidname.me
OK, that’s impressive. I didn’t know that someone had ripped the original afterschool special and put it on YouTube.
invalidname.me
Have you looked into DIY options? I went with the kneehighs and rice option for my last few crossplays and it worked well enough.
invalidname.me
For the young people following this thread: the implosion of “Cerberus” was our generation’s equivalent of “Sinfest”, except that Sim was obsessed only with misogyny, and not the full Skittles rainbow of MAGA crazy like Ishida.
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rincewind.run
the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends
bleary.off-the-records.com
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
invalidname.me
Although I did once do the mirror moment in a fanfic just as a self-indulgent flex.
Prose text:
“doorway, and went out to the hallway. He found her standing at the entry to the bathroom, looking inside.“Look,” she said.The light was already on, and Noah could see something on the mirror. He walked into the bathroom, and saw the word on the mirror, spray-painted black in three-foot tall letters:“TRAITOR”“What does it mean?”, Adrienne asked.Noah looked straight ahead into the mirror, seeing his own reflection cut off by the vandals’ message.“It means this wasn’t random. This is about me.”“But how? Nobody here knows anything about you.”
invalidname.me
For me, mostly pacing? Just to have something to drive towards, something to then come off of, and something that changes the stakes (even if it doesn’t fundamentally change the nature of the conflict) helps the second act not be such a long stretch of how-do-fill-this-all-in?
invalidname.me
Anybody remember the Gundam store at the Metreon in San Francisco? Anyways, looks like it‘s Chicago’s turn. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gtm...
Announcement for “The Gundam Base Chicago”, showing a Gundam and announcing that the store opens Winter 2025 at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago.
invalidname.me
Three Act has served me well. I do try to really spike the midpoint hard so the second act doesn't drag.
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?
invalidname.me
10 exposures seems… miserly? It’s been ages since I had a 35mm camera, but I swear the rolls were usually like 30 something?
invalidname.me
It’s a very 70s reference, but The Tubes’ cover of “Love Will Keep Us Together” does substantial violence to the Captain and Tenille, and Neil Sedaka before them. Every choice makes the song even dumber than it already was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQN...
invalidname.me
Granted, she’s not the only game in town: you can just skip her and go straight to Hugo if that’s what you’re after.
invalidname.me
I’ll probably lose a hundred followers for this, but here goes…

There are aspects of Ayn Rand’s writing that I still think are pretty good, namely the tight integration of plot and theme. It’s heavy-handed, sure, but I think I’d rather have an author hammer their point home than not have a point.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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stevestreza.com
Autocorrect just tried to change "yap" to "talk", and. No. Stop that. Your job is to correct for the imprecision of touch screens, not be a language cop.
invalidname.me
There was a group doing delayed lives of Bandori concerts before Covid. I drove over to Detroit to see Roselia “Vier” and later Roselia & RAS “Rausch & Craziness”.
invalidname.me
There used to be a pizza place in Brooklyn with a whole wall of them, a veritable “Italian-American Hall of Fame”.
Scene from “Do the Right Thing”, with Buggin Out seated at a restaurant table, eating his pizza under the framed photos of the Italian-American Hall of Fame up on the wall above him.
invalidname.me
Is it right to say I don’t know enough to have an opinion on the Gaza cease-fire, or that I know enough not to have an opinion on it?
invalidname.me
Don’t hold your breath. For decades, Stanford has followed the money. They fired my advisor in the 80s because he insulted Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug crusade. They were ready to ban the Band in the mid-2010s because they ran afoul of the Obama-era interpretation of Title IX. Stanford will always cave.
hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'
Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.
stanforddaily.com
invalidname.me
Also, the irony of Xbox planning a new hardware release when their current hardware is reportedly being removed from Costco, Target, Walmart, and Sam’s Club, ahead of the Christmas shopping season.
invalidname.me
I bought a PS5 just for FF7 Rebirth and haven’t seen anything else interesting for it. I bought NHL 25 on sale after they added PWHL. That’s literally the entirety of my PS5 library after almost two years.

Switch, on the other hand…
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elizas.website
you can tell that OpenGL is a better religion than Christianity, because OpenGL has a SuperBible, while Christianity only has a normal bible
the cover of the book “The OpenGL SuperBible”, by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright, Jr., and Nicholas Haemel