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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · 16h

Helldivers 2 feels great though

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 16d

Citadel and storm

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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · 29d

That font is like a litmus test for how middle class a brand is. All the things you posted are on the posh end of the spectrum (except the underground of course)

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · Sep 12

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · Sep 11

That's absolutely beautiful. I'm listening to the album now too and it's some good stuff

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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · Sep 9

Also, honourable mention to every player voice line from killing floor 1 youtu.be/uCDPsA9wrCc?...

Killing Floor Survivor Voices

YouTube video by Se05239

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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sergeant Randall! The guns are gone! youtu.be/H_CQMtIrYnc?...

I do know why I remember it though - there was a checkpoint right before it and I spent hours dying there while playing on veteran difficulty

Call of Duty 2 - Mission #21 - D-Day (American Campaign) (Veteran)

YouTube video by AddictionToGaming

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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · Sep 9

Keeping it together Bree?

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · Sep 5

the strawberry-wanter has logged on

close up shot of a box of strawberries. a small black cat’s ears, eyes, and nose are visible, peering over the back of the box

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The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · Sep 1

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · Jul 4

Here's a mini fireworks show I found in the slow motion details of a marine flare. I set this up to capture smoke patterns, but was delighted to find that what look like sparks to the naked eye are tiny perfect fireballs streaking through the sky when seen in close-up at 42x slower than real-time.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Jun 28

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual

PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

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Nick @nickpowell.bsky.social · Jun 23

Little Ian! youtu.be/jRzZcO_1NDs?...

15 Minutes of Little Alex Horne's 'Banter' | Taskmaster

YouTube video by Taskmaster

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · Jun 16

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · Jun 10

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · May 15

cool new development, the cat has started lying like this. Stupid little loaf. I gasp every time

Norm the cat (an orange and white tubby cat) lying down on the ground face up with his paws tucked on his chest looking adorable

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Eternal Skies @eternalskiestcg.bsky.social · Apr 20

It's a weird world where the shittier a piece of software looks, the more I trust it.

The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work.

Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.

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Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · Aug 23

the "I wake up, there is..." meme

photo of a tabby cat with stubby little legs, standing and looking at the camera, on a white background.

top text: "I wake up"
bottom text: "there is something wronger with Britain"

there are two circular arrows between the text, going around the cat

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☾♄♗€Ϝ €❡❡ ⊙ϜϜ♗☾€☈ @vreni.bsky.social · Apr 13

happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to all who celebrate

Photo of bald rat Neil next to a tiny toy rainbow keyboard with the caption “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006”

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · Apr 9

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · Apr 4

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · Apr 4

One of the superpowers of coming up on late 90s / early 00s forums is an ingrained sense of a barrier between IRL life & The Internet, which is a place, its own distinct hellworld where nothing is real. Makes it easy to not fall for all the fake BS when you inherently view Online as 99% shenanigans

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Apr 4

i think people who have actually posted on forums and image boards in the 2000s (or forums in general earlier) have a qualitative advantage on everyone else

Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Count Maxula 🧛 @mad-max.bsky.social · Apr 2

lol

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cate @buny.bsky.social · Mar 26

this really is what it’s like

Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Mar 21

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)

Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

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