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Mike Tarpey
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software engineer. former capital vampire. UConn + UPenn. citizen of Earth. ars longa, vita brevis.
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such a sick election night. virtue isn't dead. we will win. they will lose.
Zidane from Final Fantasy IX's opening cutscene. He's staring intensely over a cliff under a grey sky. Text overlay on the image reads "Virtue. You don't need a reason to help people."
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Hollow Knight: Silksong is already in the top 15 for active players on Steam despite all the store crashes. How high can it go...?
Top 15 Most Played Games from steamdb.info. Hollow Knight: Silksong is already #14 on the list with 89,646 players in-game.
September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Richmond power grid (maybe all of Virginia?) is embarrassing this summer. Third time we’ve had a sustained outage from a short storm. 36k out again in Henrico, plus a bunch more downtown. C’mon Dominion.

Very clear we’re not ready for a climate-changed world.
HENRICO Number of Projects: 135 Customers Out: 36,718 Customers Served: 161,658
July 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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good day to rip a wall open and put some Ethernet in
Closeup of me holding one end of a cat 6a network port in-progress. The blue, green, orange, and brown wires are set, but they still need to be punched down and installed into a wall plate.
May 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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thank you Clive @benstarr.bsky.social 🫡
May 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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that’s fine but I’m still going to all of @benstarr.bsky.social‘s panels with a final fantasy shirt and a dream. “Fly Ambrosia…”
Please Note: This will be a Natural Six signing session only, it's free, and they’re even bringing the posters for you! This does mean that members won’t be doing individual signings of items like game cases, books, or posters from other games or productions they’ve been featured in. Thanks for understanding. me at Ben’s panels
April 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Just finished Careless People. Incredible insight into all the ways elites will raze the earth for profits. About halfway through you can already draw a pretty straight line from Zuck 10 years ago to his recent “mental illness” revisions to the hate speech guidelines.

A must-read. Thanks Sarah.
The cover of Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams. A Facebook-shade blue mousepad has a single shark fin sticking out of the top left corner, as if the mousepad were the ocean. The bottom right corner of the mousepad says “A MEMOIR”.
April 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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got in the Best Buy line for a Switch 2...we shall pray 🙏🏻
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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what a month for the stock market huh
One month chart from my investment account. The line showing daily gains and losses resembles the silhouette of a cat, so I’ve drawn in the rest of the cat with beige fur, red eyes/mouth and pink ears/paw beans.
April 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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April 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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oracle of seasons playthrough is long overdue. zelda time
Title screen of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ORACLE OF SEASONS. PRESS START. COPYRIGHT 2001 NINTENDO. The red stylized title logo is backgrounded by a golden silhouette of a tree, which is itself surrounded by a blue sky with wispy white clouds. Pixels are visible because it’s a Game Boy game scaled to fit on an HDTV.
March 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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went to go find the WSJ Trump tariff article on Apple News and got this juxtaposition…cinema
An Apple News search for “not to raise prices”. The first result is the Wall Street Journal article “Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs.” The second article is from Reuters 17 hours earlier, with the headline “Valero to raise prices as a result of Trump’s 25% tariffs on car imports.”
March 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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they’re here…thanks @fangamer.com 🫡
Official Balatro-branded playing card deck from Fangamer.
March 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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seems like they have moved UConn to the top of the odds list to attract more bettors LOL

people starting to believe again…
NCAA March Madness champion odds. Connecticut +6500, Florida +420, then the other teams listed in increasing odds order.
March 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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bottom half of the west region bracket for March Madness:
6 Missouri vs. 11 Drake, 3 Texas Tech vs. 14 UNCW, 7 Kansas vs. 10 Arkansas, 2 St. John’s vs. 15 Omaha
March 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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top half of the west region bracket for March Madness (go Huskies):
1 Florida vs. 16 Norfolk State, 8 UCONN vs. 9 Oklahoma, 5 Memphis vs. 12 Colorado State, 4 Maryland vs. 13 Grand Canyon
March 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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bottom half of the midwest region bracket for March Madness:
6 Illinois vs. 11 Texas/Xavier, 3 Kentucky vs. 14 Troy, 7 UCLA vs. 10 Utah State, 2 Tennessee vs. 15 Wofford
March 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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top half of the midwest region bracket for March Madness:
1 Houston vs. 16 SIU Edwardsville, 8 Gonzaga vs. 9 Georgia, 5 Clemson vs. 12 McNeese, 4 Purdue vs. 13 High Point
March 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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bottom half of the east region bracket for March Madness:
6 BYU vs. 11 VCU, 3 Wisconsin vs. 14 Montana, 7 Saint Mary’s vs. 10 Vanderbilt, 2 Alabama vs. 15 Robert Morris
March 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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top half of the east region bracket for March Madness:
1 Duke vs. 16 American/Mount Saint Mary’s, 8 Mississippi State vs. 9 Baylor, 5 Oregon vs. 12 Liberty, 4 Arizona vs. 13 Akron
March 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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bottom half of the south region bracket for March Madness:
6 Ole Miss vs. 11 SDSU/UNC, 3 Iowa State vs. 14 Lipscomb, 7 Marquette vs. 10 New Mexico, 2 Michigan State vs. 15 Bryant
March 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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really thought this was gonna be me vs. @flourishordie.bsky.social 🫡 BEAT CREIGHTON
March 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Bitbucket is not just down…it’s “hard down”. 🤨
Update - We are investigating an issue with saturated Bitbucket database that impacts all Bitbucket operations. We will provide more details within the next hour. Jan 21, 2025 - 17:07 UTC
January 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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mentally ill virtue signaling complete. ✌🏻 meta.
Emails confirming that my Facebook and Instagram accounts are scheduled for deletion. Only someone truly mentally ill would virtue signal like this.
January 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Backing up Instagram account and they sent…a Download button that isn’t even a link. No href lol. Incredible stuff from Billion Dollar Company Meta.
Here is the file you requested with the information about your account tarpstone. This link will only work for 4 days after we send it. Because it may contain personal information, be sure to keep the link private and only download the file to your own computer. If you requested your information in an HTML format, you'll be able to navigate your files more easily by opening the index.html file first. The preceding text is followed by a blue Download information button that is not clickable. HTML a tag for the button with no href property.
January 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM