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flukejones
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Software engineer in NZ.
Rewrote Doom in Rust.
Major contributor to ASUS ROG laptop support in Linux kernel.
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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arstechnica.com
The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice.
Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
arstechnica.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ljones.xyz
Gym-o-clock. HIIT first up, then core, then deadlift circuit.
The consistency of my body fat has changed it’s weird to experience. Like it’s gone from fairly firm!? To a kind of watery or flimsy jelly feel.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ljones.xyz
What in the actual fuck is wrong with the people joining ICE
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
ljones.xyz
I really fucking hate these vehicles.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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eyepatchwolf.bsky.social
“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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awaterevalley.bsky.social
"While the coalition government is trying to force right wing policies down people’s throats, like Act’s school dinners, they’re being spat out and rejected."

Anne Salmond: A Trumpian accent
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/08/a...
Anne Salmond: A Trumpian accent
Dame Anne Salmond sees red flags for New Zealand in this Government's Trump-like tendencies to favour entitled elites over ordinary citizens
newsroom.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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nataliethenerd.com
There's this dumb, very racist narrative that the southern European immigrants post WW2 worked harder and integrated into Australian society, rather than *bad* south Asian and middle eastern immigrants of the current generation. I found this comment on a post about Italian immigrants. #auspol rant
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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nataliethenerd.com
This rant is brought to you by other kids of European immigrants being racist assholes, I know because my cousins are example no. 1.

Immigrants run the world and fuel the world.
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
ljones.xyz
Wow. I’ve been playing this game a while and it’s freaking amazing. And they are still churning out new content!
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
ljones.xyz
Of course it was…
perryodontal.bsky.social Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 8d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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tumekestudio.com
What’s your take on Permadeath? Can it be done in a way that adds depth to the play experience to balance the risk?

Our core designs currently include an opt-out permadeath system with a “successor” mechanic.

Let us know your thoughts.

www.sportskeeda.com/mmo/5-mmorpg...
5 MMORPGs with the permadeath feature
MMORPGs that have the permadeath feature provide a thrilling gaming experience.
www.sportskeeda.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
SDL2 port for DOS (DJGPP and VBE 2.0+)
github.com/libsdl-org/S...
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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jdoliverjensen.bsky.social
"... a genocide ... that no one can see"

Unless they're looking at satelite images where the blood bath is so extensive it can be, & has been, seen & reported from space...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Video Blood visible from space in Sudan shows evidence of Darfur genocide: Analysts
The alleged mass killings took place "in under 72 hours," researchers said.
abcnews.go.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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nextdoorsv.bsky.social
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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enikofox.com
btw conventional games marketing wisdom says block game will never get a lick of press because i'm developing it out in the open and anything that's public knowledge is not news so that means for it to go anywhere it has to have strong word of mouth

so uh, tell your friends? enikofox.com/blockgame
Block Game | Ultima/TES meets Minecraft
Ultima/Elder Scrolls meets Minecraft voxel sandbox game with building and crafting.
enikofox.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
ljones.xyz
Aussie Task Master is absolute rubbish.
October 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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ellaguro.bsky.social
was just reminded of an old great thread on Doomworld: the Doom level progress diagram. it was created to address the age old question about when a map should be considered linear or non-linear www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...
level progress diagrams of all of the maps from The Ultimate Doom - check the thread linked more more details
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ljones.xyz
What do bisky #ADHD folks take for meds? I've been put on vyvanse. Second day of it, can't really describe or identify the effects so far except elevated heart rate and I'm no-longer snacking. It also seems I don't get task anxiety/paralysis anymore? Still working that one out
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
ljones.xyz
“Allow people to go hungry”
Somebody help me language this thing… “allow”. “go hungry”.
Okay. Folks in USA, Durnald is allowing you to starve. Not forcing you to, no, just allowing you to.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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ira.bailey.nz
A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).

Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mcapriglioneart.bsky.social
smelly
four panel cartoon comic of an owner talking to their gray tabby cat. the owner is holding a cut onion. the cat says "give". the second panel, the owner says "this is an onion, it's very smelly". in the third panel, the cat stretches to sniff it. in the last panel, the cat looks like their entire head retreated into its body, making it look very silly.
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
biblically accurate cat
Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes, taken as the cat's head was moving. It appears to have 5+ sets of eyes
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
ljones.xyz
First day on one cap. Not quite 12 hours.
How do I feel? Hard to say.. I've had moments where my internal voice just goes quiet? Is that a thing? I also knocked out a bunch of chore-type work to begin cleanup and organisation of milestones and epics at work too, I didn't get task anxiety doing it.
ljones.xyz flukejones @ljones.xyz · 14d
Yes!!!! Finally. I’ve gone through the process thing and come away with ADHD diagnosis and get medication soon. Fucking hooray.
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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acechromecheetah.bsky.social
Oh wow, I wasn't expecting much from #grokipedia , but holy fuck it's worse, in particular it's GamerGate piece.

grokipedia.com/page/Gamergate

For example, here is the beginning, which highlights the origins of GamerGate on Zoe Quinn:
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM