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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 3h

16 player Halo CTF was some of the best gaming of my college years.

Online gaming is great, but it isn't the same as being in the room with the people you're playing with.

KupoBeat @kupobeat.bsky.social · 1d

halo time

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 5h

Ah, the Roman Catholic special. Sin, sin, repent.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 7h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5h

Just drink the chicken juice that comes with the chicken breasts you buy at Safeway like the rest of us

AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 9h

i just saw something called protein water?

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

Voyager has a '7 of 9 has fake memories and it's a stand it for you know and a man's life is so ruined by the false accusations he KILLS HIMSELF (that's...a guilty act, ngl) and 7 of 9 learns it's better to question your memories than go to the cops' episode and ... wooooof.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !

Alt: Tim Curry in Wing Commander ... who gives a shit...you're not playing the game for the game...just rip the video from Archive... sits on a badly green-screened throne that's just a chair and with EVERY ounce of his entire being, says 'SPACE!' because he's never half-assed anything in his life and is even speed running being awesome after a stroke for fun.

media.tenor.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

There are a lot of r**e-heavy episodes for some reason. Every shape shifter is a sex pest. The Cher episode, which should be great, is marred by being 'silly SA.' But echoing everyone else, apart from a few outliers, it isn't too bad and is good autopilot TV. Especially bottle MotW eps.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

Hank Green's favorite VlogBrother is Hank Green, and it's not even close.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Me when a white youtuber calls a James Hong character's accent 'problematic.'

a black and white photo of a man wearing a striped shirt and an apron

Alt: Curly Joe of the Three Stooges beats his chest and squints his eye in pinstriped overalls and a bow tie. Nyuk nyuk ruff! RUFF!

media.tenor.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

If the AMA and the DNC ran the same, your doctor would be telling you that you need to meet the tumor in the middle.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

My Dinner with AI is just Nate Silver yelling at a fork for 90 minutes then punching the waitress because the water was wet.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 1d

ok so as a Brisco County, Jr super fan I need to be clear: John Carpenter wanted Bruce Campbell and the fact that he had to settle for cosplaying a lesser Baldwin doomed Vampires from the start.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Guy Gardener is about to get banned from whatever outdated brick and mortar analogy goes here. Toys R Us I guess.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 1d

the accessories are gonna be lit

a headline from TrekMovie.com

Upcoming Waves Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Include TOS Crew And "Sub Rosa" Beverly Crusher

with a Nacelle image of an Uhura figure and Beverly enveloped by green smoke

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

...
Could have BEEN immortal. Could have been the person who ended homelessness. The person who brought back science. But instead he chose high score and pissed it all away. At the end, desperately trying to trade blood for time.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

If reality was a hack writer (it is), the low hanging fruit arc for "Dr." Mr. Grimes' Ex would be:
Double down on betting on the singularity.
Burn the world for 20 years.
Grief process hits Bargaining.
Full 180. Save the earth, philanthropy, just PLEASE MAKE ME IMMORTAL!

Cont...

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

ELECT BRUNDLEFLY 2028

VOMIT TO EAT

VOMIT TO LEAD

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Seattle's mayoral fuckery follows a very correlated curve to tech sprawl. All of Seattle's weird little enclaves evaporated when three MD salaries in a trench coat became entry pay to a bunch of lower middle class nerds who got their first computer from their parents to shut them up. They nested.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Seattle's dreadful mayor just suggested we make a computer-generated Dr. Martin Luther King, and of any question he could ask it, THIS was the first thing that came to mind:

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

"And you could say, Well, Dr. Martin Luther King, I've always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast? And he comes back and he talks to you. How cool would that be if we have a series of historical figures that we all could agree on, that we respect?"

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

It also sounds like a drink made of elephant testis promoted by whatever washed up "Outlaw Rocker" was just paid 50K to perform for Nadsack PD's Civil Forfeiture Auction and Pig Fuck.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Yeah, I'm not up for chasing the next existential dread machine. If it dies, it dies. I'll go back to just yelling at people on the street.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

The Piano Man curve:

1: "This is a sad song about broken dreams."

100: "This is maybe about a guy playing at a gay bar who doesn't know it."

1000: "This is just an asshole making fun of people for being mediocre while playing piano in a dive for their money. He doesn't even listen to his friend."

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1d

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Identifile: Desktop Dungeon @gearbytegames.bsky.social · 1d

My friend and I spent a year making a Desktop Dungeon Crawler game about deleting viruses!

And it's coming to Steam Next Fest coming Monday!
#gamedev 🎮 #pixelart #indiegame

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Dream journal:

Drunk History + Behind the Bastards = "Ineberated"

Please inbox me your podcast deals.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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