Tim Shrimpton
@daroga.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, and Lutheran Pastor, all with a dash of technology interest, (mostly old) video games, and Cleveland sports. NorCal transplant from Ohio.
Formerly: Twitter (@ daroga28 / @ timshrimp)
Formerly: Twitter (@ daroga28 / @ timshrimp)
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Tim Shrimpton
@daroga.bsky.social
· Mar 1
A 2025 media thread! For me mostly, but you're welcome to come along!
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glad i bought new ram before the shortage
January 19, 2026 at 4:58 AM
glad i bought new ram before the shortage
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January 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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Let's start a campaign to add the tag "Arcade Puzzle" to games like Tetris, Lumines, Puyo Puyo, Petal Crash, etc on Steam. These games get lumped in with great but completely different genres of puzzle games like Portal and sadly sidelined. Steam users have the power to carve out this niche!
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Let's start a campaign to add the tag "Arcade Puzzle" to games like Tetris, Lumines, Puyo Puyo, Petal Crash, etc on Steam. These games get lumped in with great but completely different genres of puzzle games like Portal and sadly sidelined. Steam users have the power to carve out this niche!
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Instead of vacuuming or sweeping, I wrap myself in tape with the sticky side out & roll on the ground.
December 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Instead of vacuuming or sweeping, I wrap myself in tape with the sticky side out & roll on the ground.
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
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Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.
December 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.
Is it even Christmas if you’re not reading Dickens, eating cup noodles, and drinking Mountain Dew Zero?
December 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Is it even Christmas if you’re not reading Dickens, eating cup noodles, and drinking Mountain Dew Zero?
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Actually, Mr. Potato Head was the name of the inventor
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Actually, Mr. Potato Head was the name of the inventor
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In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him
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The President of Argentina is doing the Trump dance at Mar-a-Lago after getting a 40 billion dollar bailout but MAGA is mad at a single mom using SNAP to buy cupcakes for her kids.
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The President of Argentina is doing the Trump dance at Mar-a-Lago after getting a 40 billion dollar bailout but MAGA is mad at a single mom using SNAP to buy cupcakes for her kids.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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Someone at work today literally said we can't ignore ai tech and that all employers say they are using it and that we need to be able to have that skillset.
How does this line up? I feel insane. It's bad at and for everything. How is it so "crucial"?
How does this line up? I feel insane. It's bad at and for everything. How is it so "crucial"?
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Someone at work today literally said we can't ignore ai tech and that all employers say they are using it and that we need to be able to have that skillset.
How does this line up? I feel insane. It's bad at and for everything. How is it so "crucial"?
How does this line up? I feel insane. It's bad at and for everything. How is it so "crucial"?
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Nobody wins an 18-inning game of baseball. An 18-inning game of baseball is only ended
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Nobody wins an 18-inning game of baseball. An 18-inning game of baseball is only ended
Now, I have work I need to go do, but my coffee buddy isn’t really having that… #catsofbluesky
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Now, I have work I need to go do, but my coffee buddy isn’t really having that… #catsofbluesky
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The AI bubble will burst. The techbros will hire people to write think pieces about why thats bad ( because it costs too much to run their stupid ai)
but you. You'll still be an artist :)
but you. You'll still be an artist :)
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The AI bubble will burst. The techbros will hire people to write think pieces about why thats bad ( because it costs too much to run their stupid ai)
but you. You'll still be an artist :)
but you. You'll still be an artist :)
Can’t wait to totally mess up my sleep for no reason this Sunday at 2am.
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Can’t wait to totally mess up my sleep for no reason this Sunday at 2am.
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Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats
So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved
Scanned from 8mm films
#Film #History #Cats
So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved
Scanned from 8mm films
#Film #History #Cats
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
The staff and customers at this Starbucks joining in singing with "Ghostbusters" playing on the coffee shop background music is lifting me up today. :)
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The staff and customers at this Starbucks joining in singing with "Ghostbusters" playing on the coffee shop background music is lifting me up today. :)