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Paul [Atreides] Wood
@retroid.bsky.social
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Tech tinkerer, nerd talker, cat liker, lefty, 70s kid, former Eurogamer forum Mod if anyone remembers those

Bad things are bad things no matter who does them.

Morality is not a team sport.
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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · Aug 23
IT DIDN'T GET JINXED

My new retro purchase is this arcade cabinet which formerly stood in an Arbroath pub. The 1942 arcade PCB was included.

I spent a good part of yesterday making space and shuffling things around for it.
A splendid arcade cabinet now standing in our flat, powered up and playing Capcom's 1942 The same arcade cabinet with the main lights off, showing the lit marquee An original (Romstar) Capcom 1942 PCB imported from the States
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jules.su
this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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eatmyhalo.bsky.social
“Has he shit himself?”
Rod Stewart standing in front of an orchestra, legs wide apart, with an ‘oof’ expression on his face
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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unburntwitch.com
low polyamory
weeg.bsky.social weego @weeg.bsky.social · Sep 29
hardcore bondage people are so fucking funny look at this shit bro
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
Protein bar (brick of parmesan) [someone holding up a piece of cheese in their car while driving.]
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online
You're "an aggressive bully" for dunking on him but when he dunks on people with 200 followers it's fine
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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cait.bsky.social
I have to say I was hoping for a better argument than "It's okay when I do it." but alright. Have you given any thought to why your interactions with me would lead people to conclude that your behavior is weird and obsessive, even people who don't follow me?
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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poorlycatdraw.bsky.social
be there or be square!

me:
a poorly drawn uni the cat shaped like a square uni is a tuxedo cat with bright yellow eyes, and a white chest that contrasts with its black fur, and he’s looking like a square in the picture
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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reluctantlychad.bsky.social
One of the achievements I unlocked back on Twitter was Will trying to hostile-retweet me for something I said about him (which to be fair was pretty mean) and, even though I was and still am extremely small fish, only one of his fans came at me.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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cait.bsky.social
this man thinks i have far, far more power than i do and it's becoming weird atp
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social • 12h Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday The conundrum here is not that the claims are complicated. It's that a group of people who, on Bluesky, it is socially inconvenient to disagree with are making claims that are straightforwardly false and trivially easy to disprove. So then everyone tries to mount some kind of apologia for them. Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social • 12h Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday "They're half right, if you squint and change a bunch of the claims around or pretend this is all very complicated or pretend words like 'poverty' and 'growth' and 'median' are impenetrably complex concepts." Blah blah blah. No, this argument is not actually complicated. Will Stencil @whstancil.bsky.social Follow (p) Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday All to avoid just admitting what is obvious: people like Cait are wrong, completely unfamiliar with the relevant concepts, and too lazy to look up information that could help inform their thinking on this question. Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Follow (p)) Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday One of the great frustrations I have with this debate is that, when you're in it, it becomes clear that the problem is NOT that the debate is complicated or the numbers are hard. The problem is that the people who are wildly wrong are people who everyone wants to avoid criticizing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jimllmixit.bsky.social
The classic Dril tweet: and another thing: im not mad. please don't put in the newspaper that i got mad.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
A flick-through Newtype USA issue one from Nov 2002, with some Burn Up background sonix 🎶
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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leftistgamermemes.bsky.social
👮‍♂️📷🚔
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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leftistgamermemes.bsky.social
⏳️💰🪼
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":

".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."

@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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lizrummy.bsky.social
oh my god
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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nberlat.bsky.social
holy shit.

I think he's the first...and it's notable that it's him, a very centrist D considered a pragmatist, with a lot of credibility inside and outside the caucus.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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kathartness.bsky.social
Trump pardon helps child sex offender avoid prison despite guilty plea

www.rawstory.com/andrew-taake...
Trump pardon helps child sex offender avoid prison despite guilty plea
A serial criminal avoided prison for child sex offenses thanks to President Donald Trump's pardon for his violent role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.Andrew Taake pleaded guilty in September to soliciting...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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tinylesbianrobot.itch.io
80% of the way to our third goal of $7k!

Once we hit 100%, I'll release the first chapter of Unlimited Combat Dolls for free, maybe even the first two if I'm feeling nice, I think they're better together :3

Live vicariously through some violent lesbians here:
itch.io/b/3364/poiso...
Promo graphic for Toxic Yuri November. A woman stands in a moonlit street, eyes closed, and a gun in her hands, pensively raised. Text reads: 'Danger. Obsession. Deadly lesbians. 24 Novels, novellas, and visual novels'
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
me when the AI bubble bursts
3 panel comic Panel 1: A desperate, panicking Blue Guy screams into his phone: Come Quickly! The AI companies are in trouble! Panel 2: A Pink Guy, also on the phone, replies: Oh Shit! I’m on my way! Panel 3: Pink Guy is relaxing in his living room, having a lovely cup of tea. He has no intention of going to help save the AI sinking slop ship.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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theangelremiel.bsky.social
So everyone's as shocked as I am, right
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).

A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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edzitron.com
Me, two weeks ago
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...
As we speak, big tech is hoarding masses of GPUs, and by extension, masses of depreciating assets that will without fail lead to a massive impairment loss, which will come directly out of their earnings, and when they’ve spent tens or hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs, these impairments will be extremely harsh, and come directly out of earnings. So, on top of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expenditures, big tech is also conjuring a giant anvil above their heads. GPUs start losing value the moment you buy them, and by purchasing hundreds of billions of expensive, ever-rotting assets, big tech guarantees their revenues will take a hit sometime in the future, and likely multiple times as each generation ages. Let me put it in really simple terms, and use a hypothetical example. Ten companies bought $10bn of GPUs each to sell AI services, each requiring billions of dollars of data center infrastructure to go on top of them to make them run. As a result, one of the companies — let’s call them BallWeave — has had to take on an absolute shit ton of debt to buy them. BallWeave eventually runs into solvency issues, and has to start selling off masses of GPUs, massively reducing the market value of these GPUs by 30%. This causes the other 9 companies to have to take an immediate impairment — a $3bn haircut directly off of their balance sheet. There is no spreading it out. This is a problem, in part because $3bn is a lot of money, and in part because that’s more than the revenue being generated from AI. The impairment has an immediate negative effect on their assets, while also directly eating into their income, because this shit is almost certainly being financed. This hypothetical scenario is quite real, and it can hurt you, and will hurt any and all companies buying masses of GPUs. One last thing: Remember how I said that there are many ways to calculate depreciation over the useful lifetime of an object? Well, the depreciation rate is always the difference between the initial value of the item and its salvage value — which means how much a company can expect to make when they dispose of the item, either by reselling it or literally scrapping it for parts. So, for the sake of illustration, if a GPU costs $50,000 and has a useful life of five years, after which it has a nominal salvage value of $10,000, the amount said company could mark down as depreciation over that lifespan is $40,000. This is simply me talking out loud, but I worry that there’s no real way to accurately predict what that salvage value of an enterprise GPU will be. It’s contingent on a bunch of factors — namely, how long these cards last in real-world conditions, where they’re experiencing near-constant utilization, as well the pace and the quality of Nvidia’s future releases. It’s bad, and only compounds the fact that they’ve already created a giant, ugly, unsustainable hole on top of their earnings.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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trekkiebill.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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acvalens.net
so all those weird smutty ai ads are okay but breathing and talking about eating food in a sfw asmr stream is not?

cmon youtube
Sinthya SanguineA [VAllur...•13h g X baby's first youtube bonk youtube decided that saying you're going to *checks notes* EAT FOOD during asmr is far too saucy the timestamp was me saying "it's going to a great cause, the cause of feeding me" god forbid women…...eat food? REVIEW AND TAKE ACTION What we found We think your content didn't follow our sex and nudity policy. Audio content that's sexually explicit isn't allowed on YouTube. We may make limited exceptions for content with educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context. Read policy You can see an example around 00:04:03, although there could be other instances. 16 2211 • 270 Ill 3.5K
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM