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@dominoh.bsky.social
part-time wizard, full time-goblin
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cancel your fucking plans everyone, new Justin Smith game out the gate
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 AM
cancel your fucking plans everyone, new Justin Smith game out the gate
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In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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Adtech is almost everything you do online. They’re using Adtech to track and investigate. Every little thing you do — shopping, browsing, checking health information, connecting on social, ChatGPT — is on Adtech.
New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities”
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.
www.wired.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Adtech is almost everything you do online. They’re using Adtech to track and investigate. Every little thing you do — shopping, browsing, checking health information, connecting on social, ChatGPT — is on Adtech.
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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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Veronika, our queen 👑 🐮
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Veronika, our queen 👑 🐮
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minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like
January 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like
I know something is wrong with me because I turn 30 this year and I still feel guilty when I take a sick day from work.
January 23, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I know something is wrong with me because I turn 30 this year and I still feel guilty when I take a sick day from work.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really understands what audiences want: a giant loser with anxiety, a sword, and decent morals, who is also broke as hell.
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really understands what audiences want: a giant loser with anxiety, a sword, and decent morals, who is also broke as hell.
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Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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Vindication for Gary Larson
This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished. www.wired.com/story/veroni...
‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool
This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished.
www.wired.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Vindication for Gary Larson
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canon isn't real and can't hurt you
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
canon isn't real and can't hurt you
i just slipped and fell down the stairs, bounced my ass down like four stairs. i feel like this is going to fuck up my spine somehow.
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 PM
i just slipped and fell down the stairs, bounced my ass down like four stairs. i feel like this is going to fuck up my spine somehow.
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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I still get told that removing our music from spotify was like “leaving money on the table” and like
lol, lmao
lol, lmao
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
I still get told that removing our music from spotify was like “leaving money on the table” and like
lol, lmao
lol, lmao
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we schmovin'
area visuals are WIP (so much so that I forgot to turn off the sun inside the cave, oops)
game: ABYSS X ZERO 👇
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #axz
area visuals are WIP (so much so that I forgot to turn off the sun inside the cave, oops)
game: ABYSS X ZERO 👇
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #axz
January 15, 2026 at 11:46 PM
we schmovin'
area visuals are WIP (so much so that I forgot to turn off the sun inside the cave, oops)
game: ABYSS X ZERO 👇
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #axz
area visuals are WIP (so much so that I forgot to turn off the sun inside the cave, oops)
game: ABYSS X ZERO 👇
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #axz
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People need to stop asking for permission to hack games... if you ask me for permission I can't say "yup you're 100% legally in the clear to make a homebrew port of my game for [some old console]" but I also absolutely do not care what you do to anything I make and usually think it's cool.
January 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
People need to stop asking for permission to hack games... if you ask me for permission I can't say "yup you're 100% legally in the clear to make a homebrew port of my game for [some old console]" but I also absolutely do not care what you do to anything I make and usually think it's cool.
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Bandcamp has banned AI music.
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? R...
stereogum.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Bandcamp has banned AI music.
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
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ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP:
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
January 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP:
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
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I hate it when I uncover an ancient artifact that grants me extraordinary powers only to discover that I am now a pawn in an eternal cosmic battle between the forces of light and darkness
August 2, 2024 at 1:20 PM
I hate it when I uncover an ancient artifact that grants me extraordinary powers only to discover that I am now a pawn in an eternal cosmic battle between the forces of light and darkness