Optimaximal
@optimaximal.bsky.social
40-something IT & Telecoms Manager by day / Minis, Gunpla, Games and other nonsense by night. He/Him.
Trying to escape all the nonsense from Elmo's Hellscape.
Trying to escape all the nonsense from Elmo's Hellscape.
One of his most iconic roles. RIP
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
One of his most iconic roles. RIP
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Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
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When I heard someone say Epstein trafficked more than a thousand women, it stopped me cold. Then I remembered this and it clicked: it all ties back to white supremacy.
Epstein was obsessed with genetic engineering, eugenics, and “improving” humanity, including his own DNA. It’s documented.
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Epstein was obsessed with genetic engineering, eugenics, and “improving” humanity, including his own DNA. It’s documented.
🧵
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When I heard someone say Epstein trafficked more than a thousand women, it stopped me cold. Then I remembered this and it clicked: it all ties back to white supremacy.
Epstein was obsessed with genetic engineering, eugenics, and “improving” humanity, including his own DNA. It’s documented.
🧵
Epstein was obsessed with genetic engineering, eugenics, and “improving” humanity, including his own DNA. It’s documented.
🧵
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
"I just automatically purchased 1000 tissue boxes as a joke. This purchase cannot be stopped. I am sorry if you cannot eat this month, but, remember to keep feeding your overlord Bezos bank account"
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"I just automatically purchased 1000 tissue boxes as a joke. This purchase cannot be stopped. I am sorry if you cannot eat this month, but, remember to keep feeding your overlord Bezos bank account"
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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For real, check this out. Evil.
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
For real, check this out. Evil.
Dead School Theory
"All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets"
a clown is standing on a set of stairs with a red object on his foot
Alt: A clown with large clown shoes walking up some stairs
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Dead School Theory
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February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...
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without government subsidies how will we ever bully everyone into using our environment wrecking, job destroying, slop spraying teen suicide machines?
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
without government subsidies how will we ever bully everyone into using our environment wrecking, job destroying, slop spraying teen suicide machines?
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Trump falls asleep shortly during a health announcement in the Oval Office.
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump falls asleep shortly during a health announcement in the Oval Office.
Narrator: "it didn't..."
The findings won't be a surprise to anyone who's watched the collapse of Twitter into right-wing extremism, but hopefully this superbly researched and presented piece finally wakes the British government up to how dangerous the situation is.
This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Narrator: "it didn't..."
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Just a reminder that Clair Obscur was caught doing almost exactly the same thing FIRST (launching with some AI 'placeholder' textures that got patched) and yet somehow caught like a tenth of the flak.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
"The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose."
As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.
@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.
@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
I’m Still Not Done Talking About AI Use in The Alters | Qualbert
The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose. We examine the ripple effects of AI use in games, beginning with The Alters.
www.qualbert.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just a reminder that Clair Obscur was caught doing almost exactly the same thing FIRST (launching with some AI 'placeholder' textures that got patched) and yet somehow caught like a tenth of the flak.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
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This is all of us
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is all of us
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Ghamak isn't the guy you want to go to bat for here. He's stolen work from other 3D artists for *years*, they're just too small to challenge him. He's been filing the numbers off GW products and reselling them for profit for years. He's not a lil' charity, he's a full on cottage industry.
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Ghamak isn't the guy you want to go to bat for here. He's stolen work from other 3D artists for *years*, they're just too small to challenge him. He's been filing the numbers off GW products and reselling them for profit for years. He's not a lil' charity, he's a full on cottage industry.
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
Accountants discovering 'monthly recurring revenue' screwed all of us.
we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Accountants discovering 'monthly recurring revenue' screwed all of us.
Been blocked by at least 3 Nintendo-stans for daring to suggest that a Japanese megacorp aren't their friends...
Rare L or just a businessman doing business things, as usual, but now it's anti-consumer the mask has slipped?
October 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Been blocked by at least 3 Nintendo-stans for daring to suggest that a Japanese megacorp aren't their friends...
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Hitler in his bunker. The final minute of his life. His aide walks in with a gift-wrapped present. It's a gun. Hitler smiles, sheds one tear and mouths "thank you".
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hitler in his bunker. The final minute of his life. His aide walks in with a gift-wrapped present. It's a gun. Hitler smiles, sheds one tear and mouths "thank you".
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.