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Tom Forsyth

@tomforsyth.bsky.social

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Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room. mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF (twitter.com/tom_forsyth if you're nasty)

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · Feb 17

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If you personally insult me, I will tell you, and mute you for a random duration. If you persist, it's a block.

I tend to follow far too many people. Every now and then I cull a RANDOM selection for my sanity. If I unfollow you, this is why - it's not personal.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 6h

The picture is the answer. He has a type.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 7h

"I wish I had the money to buy an elephant."

"What do you want an elephant for?"

"I don't. I just wish I had the money."

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 7h

Same. Watched 99% of Ian's vids - fascinating stuff. I've been in the army - I've shot all sorts of things. Guns make you feel amazing. But they're like tanks and fighter planes - I love the mechanics of them, but they're insanely dangerous, and nobody should have one - certainly not me!

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 7h

He's not wrong.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 21h

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 8h

Break? Or fix?

Invader Zim grinning as he says "Worse? Or better?"

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 8h

Incidentally, I remain 99% convinced that Tom Lehrer coined that phrase, somewhere around 1957. I kept forgetting to ask him.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 8h

"Lucky Pierre?"

"Robble robble!"

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 9h

I always thought it was "punch the eye of god." But this version makes more sense in the context of elevators I guess.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 9h

Checks and balances my arse.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 9h

We can fix that. New startup business idea - making square coffins. "If I Fits, I Rests". 20% more efficient use of graveyard space, too.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 11h

This is the sort of shit China does to Taiwan every year.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 13h

I have terrible news about some of the Doctor Who scriptwriting process...

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 14h

Reminds me of this banger! (Miike Snow - Genghis Khan)

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 14h

Paging @bencollins.bsky.social ...

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 14h

Next pres is going to have to decide what to do with this excrescence. Tearing it down is fine, but too obvious. I think they should use it for storing top-secret documents - carry on the grand tradition.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 14h

Might need a few days?

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 15h

Aaron is a frikkin machine. I don't know how he does it. Amazing work.

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Eri :03 ΘΔ @mandateofheaven.bsky.social · 17h

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 15h

He should watch the TV on the 18th. Might be some personal messages for him.

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 17h

If you're thinking of getting an updated Covid vaccine and worried about the CDC's latest bullshit, then remember that a lot of states recently said "yeah, ignore that". For example WA's requirement is "are you over 6 years old." Just booked mine, easy-peasy, go get them.

doh.wa.gov/sites/defaul...

doh.wa.gov

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 18h

This whole crazy thing is people doing crimes on Coyote Time, where they believe this reich will last forever, or they believe they'll get a pardon from the senile old man with a history of throwing everybody under the bus.

I just want them to think about consequences, the way normal people do.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 20h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcor...

Amanda Palmer & The Young Punx - "Map of Tasmania" 8ft. Records

YouTube video by BlankTV

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 20h

Honestly you could take that IBM advert either way!