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Alex Ashpool

@alexashpool.bsky.social
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A human online resisting the AI slop economy. Games, hobbies, musings. Consulting, design and marketing. I also have a blog at manastone.ca . Occasional YouTube content at www.youtube.com/@AlexAshpool

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 10h
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 47m
Before you proceed, Please tell us about a time, When you were hopeful.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 14h
I understand, thank you for the update.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 15h
Can you tag this for spoilers please.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20h
Gotta give the people what they want.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20h
You're doing exciting new things in this medium, Mike.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#SpookyMonth64
RuneScape ghost and goblin
The text
"She s
Ghostin you, but she goblin me"
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20h
Hell yeah.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We'll kill these things together.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about this kind of thing recently. manastone.ca/2026/09/26/r...
manastone.ca
“Return to the Past” and the Rejection of Adulthood - Manastone
From fast food, to video games, to culture, some people just want to flee their own adulthood. To reject life and seek childhood won't help.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote recently about basically the same thing. There is a desire in these people to reject adulthood ny returning to a time where they didnt have to deal with reality. It's a fiction, things were just as serious then but we were literally children. Wanting to infantilize themselves is just sad.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What a sweet boy, I am so sorry for your loss. I will give my girls treats for him tonight.
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is currently a glut of Starcraft: Brood War content focusing on Pluto AI, a bot that has reached the top of the ladder and is beating pros. It's basically a bot that plays at 6000 APM and can see invisible units. It's Deep Blue for Starcraft fans. I'm already sick to death of it.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah fuck AI. Everything I do is proudly no AI and I'm curating my connections to other human beings who do things with their real human brains. We're going to have to have human networks and disclaimers on everything at this rate.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
God, it's always worse, isn't it?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh yeah that's like a sex pest thing right?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is this about the AI guy?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah I hear ya.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine all the worthwhile things you could be doing instead of this.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Try not to look so happy about it.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Midsummer Night's Dream was a surprisingly good production, possibly one of the best shows the Stratford Festival put on this season. manastone.ca/2026/10/03/a...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Stratford Festival - Manastone
"Take Pains. Be Perfect." - William Shakespeare Stratford Festival Season continues with an excellent staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can't have the argument anymore.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congratulations! Wishing you the best.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everyone working at Palantir can go to jail.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tonight is Match 4 of the ASL Season 22 Round of 8. It's Leta vs Soulkey. Will we see "Wraith Flaming-Skull" bring out his famous wraiths, or will we see his more-developed Terran play? Soulkey is a monster, and very likely to take the whole season!
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I block anyone who calls me a Protestant, too.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time to get spooky.
A windows style prompt with a skull. It says "Time to Get Spooky!" And the responses are "Yes"and "hell Yes."
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And just like that, we watched more ads than we did gameplay tonight. Zerg vs Zerg is one hell of a game of rock paper scissors.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WHAT?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And we're done two games already, ZvZ is a brutal match up. Who's gonna make it out alive?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Checking out Match 3 of ASL Season 22 Top 8. Soma vs JD. It's Zerg vs Zerg so this could be short.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i can feel the spookiness in the air
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm no coward.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How divorced is he?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Please wear your orange and see how you can get involved. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
cbc.ca
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2026 | CBC News Special
Canada marks its sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (also known as Orange Shirt Day). CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault is hosting special live coverage to honour residentia...
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hell yeah.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DUH DUH, DUH DUH DUH DUH, DUH DUH DUH DUH, DUH DUH DUH DUH,
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brother, does your caretaker know what you're up to?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If we simply throw a touchdown every down, we'd win easily.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my empty plate, I need those spuds...
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This particular opportunity to purchase them will never happen again.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 3 Fundamental States of Food: Sandwich, Salad, and Soup.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent column, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
finally, a good threads post
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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is there any harm in using AI to work on — or entirely create — projects for the Sega Saturn and elsewhere in the retro gaming scene? Yes, PandaMonium says in this opinion column, equating such work to digital asbestos: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming
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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And no, coding/writing/composing for decades the right way does not give you permission to boot up the plagiarism machine now. You know better than that. You're not using it "the right way" because it is a fundamentally immoral product that offers a lazy shortcut.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nothing quite like discovering a new and interesting project and then finding out they are using AI coding. Oh well, in the bin.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good.
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