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Allie the Icon

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An odd, borderline pretentious art film that has taken human form 💁🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Loudly and proudly polyamorous and neurodivergent 💪🏻 🏡 SF Bay 🔗 allietheicon.com/links

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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/08/2026
Today I had the absolutely delightful experience of seeing the look on my kid’s face when they learned that “Indie Games” is not the name of a game studio
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
wired.com
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 23/05/2026
We fight, we mine for rock and stone
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."
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I've been playing games for 40 years, writing about them for 20, and I'm here to say parts of Roblox need to be legislated out of existence
This platform is a disgrace, and regulators need to act.
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Lena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

[an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 26/02/2026
Also, more games should have release parties.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 14/02/2026
ios-countdown.win
ios-countdown.win
Fix the iOS Keyboard
A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/02/2026
The time has finally come for me to spend a couple hours learning how to make my iTerm2 windows and tabs and panels look awesome and easier to find at a glance. Gonna generate some custom terminal backgrounds for each project folder
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/02/2026
Just saw that Claude Code added the ability to explain a command it's asking to run with a risk assessment, which is a really great idea
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 19/01/2026
You're absolutely right,
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 21/12/2025
I just suddenly figured out the Blue Prince / Blueprints pun
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 16/12/2025
lol @steampowered.com's Wrapped-like thing misspelled Chronos, I wonder how many people have noticed
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 29/11/2025
I watched Tank Girl and I am a changed person
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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.org
hacklore.org
Stop Hacklore!
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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/11/2025
It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
crowdsupply.com
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 06/11/2025
If you ever forget the order of the days of the week, simply use this handy mnemonic: So Maybe Tails Wants To Fuck Sonic
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 28/10/2025
Immutable releases announced at GitHub Universe! Once tagged, releases can’t be changed. No more worrying about malicious actors swapping out assets or moving tags. Single-use version tags with signed attestations. This is the supply chain protection open source really needs 🔒 #GitHubUniverse
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 26/10/2025
My 10 year old just landed their first craft on Duna and I couldn't be more proud The lander had a rocket descent system inspired by Curiosity They didn't even use a transfer window calculator, they did it by eye based on looking at diagrams. That's more hardcore than I ever did it
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 23/10/2025
I need someone to tell me if Season 2 of Fionna and Cake is anywhere near as mindblowingly fantastic as the first. Season 1 lives as a top 3 show ever in my mind, and I was actually bummed they announced a season 2 because it's just so *complete* I gotta know S2 is world class before I risk it
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/10/2025
Back in 2002 I implemented an A* pathfinding algorithm in a custom Neverwinter Nights map to allow NPCs to walk between their homes and shops and anything else, along the roads. I was recreating the town of Hommlet from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/10/2025
Still thinking about the guy playing Warhammer at our local gameshop who, when my 4-year-old asked why they were fighting, turned his head to look at them with the enthusiasm of someone who had waited their entire life for someone to ask and said stoically “in the grimdark future there is only war“
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 01/10/2025
Tonight, for the first time, I played Kerbal Space Program multiplayer with my kid. I docked with the station they put in orbit! What a dream come true a decade in the making.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Why is it evil and a risk to credit card payment processors when it’s one adult woman making CNC kink videos but it’s a pop culture phenomenon when Khal Drogo rapes Daenerys after being sold to him by her brother?
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 05/09/2025
The latest @home-assistant.io update brought an amazing improvement to automation editing. By putting the node config in a separate frame, it's so much easier to edit parameters while still keeping view of the overall automation flow. Such a seemingly small change with massive usability impact!
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 27/08/2025
This is your regularly-scheduled reminder to exercise your right to download archives from the services you use and archive them in your backups. Don't let a service shutting down (or legislation backsliding) cause you to lose years of data that belongs to you.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 19/08/2025
Every day I move closer to self-hosting every bit of digital architecture in my life. Today's project: Standing up Syncthing to replace Dropbox/iCloud/Google/One Drive.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 18/08/2025
Oh hell yes, I've been waiting for thisssssss Going to test it by creating a Base to track the 3D printing filament I own and have tried, with notes on performance etc
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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 11/08/2025
‼️ ONLY 48 HOURS left before we show you why Z-Wave isn't dead 🌊 Join us on YouTube, August 13th @ 12:00PM Pacific / 3:00PM Eastern / 20:00 CEST, as we reveal the next device in the Connect series making waves. Click that ~Notify Me~ 🔔 so you don't miss it!
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PRODUCT LAUNCH 🌊 Z-Wave is not dead
Home Assistant
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 11/08/2025
[spends less than the price of a movie ticket on a video game] this better entertain me for the rest of my life or i will be so mad
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 07/08/2025
Taking a break for tokens to refresh is the new taking a break for code to compile
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 04/08/2025
I have come to really love MacOS, but I hate Finder with a fiery passion Tell me how to fix this, is there some third party option that makes it not the worst file management experience on the planet?
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Future Infinitive ☸️ @lizthedeveloper.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Got dirt on the nerd 🫡? Use a throwaway email on protonmail for this, don’t use your work computer, band together, help each other. #tech #bigtech #whistleblowing #faang #maang #devs #ai #resources #soupformyfamily #computerscience #bootcamp #hack #infosec #engineering
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 16/07/2025
The stage is my happiest place in the whole world
Allie, a tall pink-haired women in a long black dress, stands on stage in front of a packed theater of smiling faces. Vibrant multi-colored lights around the theater make the photo feel alive
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 10/07/2025
📸 spider 🕷️🖤
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ryan @dotswap.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🔹🏳️‍⚧️ PERSEVERE 🏳️‍⚧️🔹 i adore and am inspired by my trans friends, peers and mutuals, forever and ever. i will defend you and your rights till the day i die. this piece is in honor of you.
An illustration of my original character, Rasha, sitting deteminedly in the middle of a pack of shadowy, black wolves, with a muted cathedral behind them. he is clothed with but a loincloth, with scratches and bruises across his tan body. two, bright pink and blue colored surgery scars glow from beneath his chest, and his hair is vibrant in the same hues with a glowing crown emitting from it. his expression is determined, frustrated but ready. He carries a pole with a large, long transgender flag.
The wolves around him are rabid, their eyes glowing menacingly, their mouths drooling in hunger.
Above them, a blue and pink sun is arising.

description:
tho i am genderfluid, i dont use the trans label, HOWEVER.... ive never met a trans person that wasn't awesome, and i adore and am inspired by my trans friends, peers and mutuals, forever and ever. i will defend you and your rights till the day i die. this piece is in honor of you.
the character pictured, Rasha, is also trans!!! and though i don't often express anger with him, here, i wanted to show im pissed off, and ready to fight because damnit he's bein tested with everything that's going on...

one could deduce this to be about fending off bigotry, the wolves resembling rabid injustice - and ill definitely take that. 
but, if you know rasha at all, you'll know a wolf/dog is his representative animal, and i often display him as a wolf or with wolves by his side. so, my starting point was actually for this to be about the internalized struggle. rasha himself resembles the colorful desire to be who he truly is, and the wolves are also him, but they are just the learned instincts of fitting in, laying low and conforming. the 'inner trained dogs...' they are programmed to attack what is different in order to protect from harm, because lord knows how painful it can be to be yourself.

but now, he must eradicate those coping mechanisms, as much as they mean to defend. because a better, more vibrant life lies ahead.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
did you consider all the labor practices that went into your hitler-killing gun. was the power source environmentally sustainable. did you say you were killing hitler for the holocaust without taking a correct position on the current state of israel
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
if you were going back in time to murder hitler on here people would find a way to be mad that you didn't genuflect to them enough
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 09/06/2025
An interesting impact of the AI era for me has been a significant increase in how much I prioritize infrastructure-as-code solutions for all sorts of things. Today I wanted to make a specific route to an internal service accessible outside my network. Because my reverse proxy is Traefik [1/2]
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 07/06/2025
So I've recently taken notice that both ChatGPT and Claude have a tendency to tell me variations of "you just [did an amazing thing] that most people never even dream of". This got me thinking about it and the answer is so obvious: clickbait titles [1/2]
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 03/06/2025
I am desperate and seeking help from anyone out there. I am trying to launch ads for my small business, and the Google Ads system has repeatedly flagged 100% of my ads and assets for "circumventing systems" and "malicious website" which are obvious false positives. Today my account was suspended.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 28/05/2025
There has never been a piece of media or art that I have been as unable to describe as The Rehearsal I truly think it will be studied for centuries
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actualham @robinderosa.net · 22/05/2025
But I do appreciate being reminded that this is a double edged sword. Being soothed at all by my own refusal to use paper towels at home plays right into so many of the actual corporate and oligarchical systems that are killing the planet while I recycle my milk jugs.
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actualham @robinderosa.net · 22/05/2025
I saw a video by @lizthedeveloper.bsky.social questioning the ubiquitous take that AI is a climate nightmare. It moved me to research. I found this by @andymasley.bsky.social and appreciated the tone, clarity, detail: Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 23/05/2025
Just released ESPHome 2025.5 includes the latest iteration of our voice assistant that can work fully local. All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing!
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 20/05/2025
Hey remember Google Plus? What a wild time
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 09/05/2025
Let's play a fun game of "which color indicates the selected state?" Clicking anywhere on the control toggles it, so you can't just click on one side to be sure
A screenshot from a website cookie preferences dialogue. The toggle controls are colored in all grey-tones, making it challenging or impossible to determine whether an option is on or off. This is a case where users of assistive technology (which might be you if you're reading this) would have a much easier time with this, as it would simply tell you if it's on or off! Take that, sighted people!
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
this is exactly what i mean when i say “linkedin is a shitposting site where only a handful of the shitposters know that they’re shitposting.”
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