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Ricky Romero
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Hi! I’m a designer (visual, interaction) and developer (web, React, some Swift). He/him.

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Ricky Romero @rickyromero.com · Jan 14
Since people are getting into Pixelfed now, search me up! I'm @[email protected].

Here's a taste of the many photos I just posted over there
Tall, dark silhouettes of towering trees stretch towards an expansive night sky, dotted with countless, twinkling stars. The rich, deep blue of the sky fades into subtle hints of purple, creating a serene and majestic backdrop. The stars, like tiny diamonds scattered across a velvet canvas, evoke a sense of infinite space and quiet wonder, inviting contemplation and awe beneath the comforting presence of the natural world. Perched gracefully on a wooden surface, a parrot with vivid, overlapping feathers in shades of green and yellow preens itself, turning its head to tuck its bright red beak into its plumage. Its head, a striking blue, contrasts sharply with the softer greenery surrounding it, creating a serene and natural scene. The background is a gentle blur of earthy tones and hints of foliage, highlighting the bird's meticulous grooming in a quiet moment of care and attention. Rolling mountains stretch into the distance under a vast, pale lavender sky at dawn. Layers of ridges create a sense of depth, with each range appearing slightly mistier than the one before. The rocky terrain is a mix of earthy browns and greens, with sparse vegetation dotting the slopes. Below, the shadowed valleys weave through the landscape, conveying a serene yet majestic atmosphere. Tiny specks of distant lights hint at small settlements far beyond the rugged wilderness. Two seagulls stand side by side on the moss-covered roof of a small, rustic structure overlooking a vast, calm sea. The roof’s gentle slope is accented by patches of green, contrasting with the dark, wooden building beneath. The horizon is broad and enveloping, with a foreboding sky that transitions from the silvery glow of dawn near the water's edge to a more brooding gray as clouds gather above. Sparse, dry shrubs surround the building, creating a natural frame for this serene coastal scene.
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videogamebeach.bsky.social
1st Case: Traffic Accident (Emergency Call Ambulance, Arcade, SEGA, 1999)
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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rose.systems/animalist

124 animals listed
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🦮🐈🫍🐳🦈🦈🦈𓃬🐯℥🐆🐴🐹🐭🐀𓆏🐸🐸🐢🐊🦎🦖🦕🌈🐺🐒🦧🦓🦒🐨🦘🦭🐧🐦🦜🦜🪲🪳🐜🐛🐛🐛🦋🕷🕷🕷🐰🐻‍❄️🐻🐻🦊𓅃🦅🐦🐦🐦🐷🐮🦬🐤🦃🦆🦢🪿𓅧🐦🦨🦔🦉🦉🦉🐙🐟🐟🐍🐍🐍🐍鯉🦜🦀🦪🦞𓅣🦟🪱🦛🐘🫎
list animals until failure
hot new brain workout
rose.systems
February 13, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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philsalv.bsky.social
Which one of you 29 cowards is gonna buy the rancid Mario Cheez Whiz
An unopened jar of Mario Cheez Whiz. 36 years later, it is brown, not yellow. 16 watchlists. 29 viewed in the last 24 hours.
February 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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costasamaras.com
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
bistline.bsky.social John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 6d
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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xeecee.bsky.social
please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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nebulaeshapes.bsky.social
we should all move to splort. everyone message me on splort. nobody wants to use splort everyone is moving to peeb. find me on peeb. peeb isnt going to last more than a month everyone should chat on fooby instead. find me on fooby. why arent you on fooby yet idiot
February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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7th7th.bgay.cat
can't let today pass without seeing tim rogers' classic football monologue on the tl

( @108minuscontext.bsky.social )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=43a2...
GOD LOVES FOOTBALL!! (A Madden NFL 20 Short Film)
YouTube video by Kotaku
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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mariobrothblog.bsky.social
I FOUND THE MARIO KNIFE!
I have finally negotiated the purchase of the rare officially licensed Super Mario World Knife. Once I receive it, I will test on stream just how dangerous an official Mario item can be. Thank you so much to my supporters for making this possible!
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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jennschiffer.com
“In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs.”
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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bobacupcake.bsky.social
its been a minute since ive posted about it so if anyone wants a game where all you do is pull apart those rubber bouncy balls here you go (works on web) bobacupcake.itch.io/orbs
February 7, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Thought this was a really good discussion about the challenges of tagging gen-AI content.

Every social media platform ought to surface provenance-based metadata if available, and we should have a new media format where this metadata is baked in and can’t be stripped out, accidentally or on purpose.
February 5, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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iammarcpi.bsky.social
cool ad
February 5, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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filmcow.bsky.social
Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future.

www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...
February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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peskyplumber.bsky.social
anyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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shop.zandraillustration.com
how it feels needing to use adobe for industry clients
a screenshot from Steam as part of the review system for games. It shows a red thumbs down and says "Not Recommended" In addition, steam also shows how long someone has played a game as part of the review, and this person has 17,657.9 hours on record (8,492.0 hours at time of review). The joke of the post comes from adobe being one of the most parasitic and crappy companies that exist, but many people are trapped in the cycle of the subscription due to the fact that it is very much an industry standard program set in A LOT of creative professional industries.
February 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Ferbruary #oldknees
A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"
February 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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I almost never use AI image generators, though I keep thinking about this stupid genmoji I made of a “big huge spherical round shoe”
An AI-generated emoji of a brown, thick-soled waterproof boot. But instead of an opening where the foot would go in, it turns into a perfect sphere? With no opening? It defies description. It looks sort of like it might be a really tall boot curling perfectly circularly in on itself, as if a coil. A coiled brown boot. That’s all I got
January 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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write once run also once, no prablem
andmaybegayer on Tumblr: measure once cut also once, no prablem
January 30, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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alextomlinson.com
Some new rubber stamp designs! 🐦✉️
Four birdy rubber stamp designs- Pigeon Post, All-Jay Delivery, Peck & Ship, and For You (Quail chicks!)
January 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.

... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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clipthejester.bsky.social
"
Too Much
Interesting & Funny!
"
A scan of the flyer for the 1992 Comad arcade game, Hell Out (which eventually became Super Duck), featuring a screenshot of the game, illustrations of demons, and the promises that it is a "NEW GAME", that it has "Valuable Experiences of Hell !!?", and that it is "Too Much Interesting & Funny!".
July 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Channel 3 was the most important one on my TV.
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · Jan 8
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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topherflorence.bsky.social
*talking to my friends casually*: Hey y'all wanna hop on The Super Mario Brothers Wonder Nintendo Switch Two Edition Plus Meetup In Bellabel Park Game right quick? Cuz I heard The Super Mario Brothers Wonder Nintendo Switch Two Edition Plus Meetup In Bellabel Park Game might be kinda fun. Also The S
January 22, 2026 at 2:42 PM