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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 26/09/2026

I went to a tech hangout wearing this t-shirt. Three separate people asked if I used AI to make it. Like.... what the fuck? Do people not remember that you can make things? By yourself? With your own little brain? #fuckai

A white male with a bald head and mostly white beard wearing a black t-shirt with the words "F*ck AI." on the front

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 25/09/2026

print shop + scissors is the optimal way to make retro computing signage

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 13/09/2026

Never thought I'd get to plug a Commodore 64 into a DJ booth and blast SID tunes, but here we are. #vcfmw #commodore

A view from the sound booth at Life Bar Arcade in Schaumburg, IL, featuring a moderately sized crowd and a Commodore 64 Ultimate plugged into the sound system

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026

I made myself a couple of these to hopefully stop any conversations with AI grifters before they start

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026

And people say American innovation is dead.

A flask in the form of a fanny pack and shaped like a hairy beer gut, filled with Fireball whiskey

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

The character selection screen from
Mario Kart SNES, with Mario, Princess Peach, Bowser, a Koopa, Luigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong (Jr.?) and Toad.

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026

Unsurprisingly I have a few :)

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 08/08/2026

If anyone at #dragoncon would like to express their dissatisfaction with certain "inevitable" technologies, I will have badge ribbons available free of charge, in two fetching colorways! #fuckai

A black badge ribbon with "F*ck AI." in copper foil text.

A cream-colored badge ribbon with "F*ck AI." in copper foil text.

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 02/08/2026

By the old gods and the new

First and second editions of The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 31/07/2026

I particularly like the pitch for Untitled Goose Game

An image of a slack message from someone named Stuart with the text "let's make a game about this" and a picture of a white goose

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 27/07/2026

Artist's interpretation here

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 19/07/2026

I have used one of these printers to make a hilariously scaled-up version of a kid's thermal paper camera. They're cheap and someone's reverse engineered them so they're easy to integrate with.

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 03/07/2026

Tariff bills! What a delight. #fucktrump

Four identical envelopes from FedEx, containing tariff bills caused by our frighteningly stupid administration

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/06/2026

At least we didn't make things worse, after tearing the 5110 apart to clean out the goop. #ibm #ibm5110 #vintagecomputer

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 25/06/2026

I was raised on these streets

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 10/06/2026

The first demo image of the new AI-enabled Siri (I'm calling it Sloppy Siri) on Apple's site is so profoundly stupid. The "summary" erases the fact that they're asking a question in the first sentence. Then it pretty much copies the second sentence. WHAT. IS. THIS. GOOD. FOR. #apple #siri #fuckai

A screenshot of the new AI-enabled Siri chatbot, summarizing a text. The content of the text, from someone named Aga, is "Have you heard of Calathea? It's a patterned tropical houseplant..." Above the text is the summary "Aga sent you a message about Calathea. She described it as a patterned tropical houseplant."

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 08/06/2026

It turns out that liquid nitrogen helps you make a near-perfect replica of a Wendy's Frosty in rapid and dramatic fashion.

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 27/05/2026

I made some t-shirts, listing off the last few tech trends that were "inevitable". 8bitheart.printful.me

A black t-shirt with the words "Segway & Blockchain and Crypto and NFTs and Metaverse" crossed out and "GenAI" right below them, not (yet) crossed out

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 24/05/2026

It's so dumb I had to make myself a t-shirt about it.

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 22/05/2026

sometimes you don't have the right thing, but you do have a lot of other things you can use to make a thing.

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 13/05/2026

YOU GOT LIGHTNING?!?! luckyyyyyyy

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 13/05/2026

I always knew it would be a piano, somehow

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 02/05/2026

There was also this, possibly written by Bill The Cat. Ack phbbbttt!

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 02/05/2026

Never know what you're gonna see at @jeriellsworth.bsky.social's place

A drawing of a handheld scanner with anthropomorphized hands and face shouting "no"

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 25/04/2026

I WILL INCREASE THE THING (the thing is anxiety)

A black knob labeled "high voltage control"

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 23/04/2026

Nah, I resisted. I only bought this...

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 23/04/2026

@jeriellsworth.bsky.social your unpleasantly fleshy monitor has competition

A print ad for an Olivetti Divisumma 18 calculator,, featuring a young woman pressing a calculator to her forehead

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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 20/04/2026

Of all the things I saw at InfoAge while attending #vcfeast, I was maybe most excited about this Hammond Novachord synthesizer. A fully polyphonic, tube based subtractive synthesizer from 1939! I do hope they restore it one day - they sound unearthly.