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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whenever I want to weigh in on the latest discourse, I try to remember this.

A screenshot from the film WarGames, reading "A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY."

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to Sen. Schmitt for making me pay any attention to the hearings today. Hahahaha! Good job, dummy!

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just saw myself in the mirror and I look like something that would scare kids in one of the darker Jim Henson films.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We need a plumber, so my wife sent mr three online recommendations. I picked the one that wasn't made with AI. Why would I trust you with my home if you are going to cut corners like that?

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think we have to thank @antlervel.vet for warning us that this was coming.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is exceptionally fucked.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As a card carrying gen-xer, I am so tired of my cohort reacting to being overlooked for so long by being the absolute worst assholes in the world. We were better off being ignored than whatever this is.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I will always have time for Dragon Half art.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It doesn't matter now many times I get taken down in Marathon, as long as I can end on an exfil I will be on cloud nine.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Started up 007 First Light today and I was immediately captivated by it. It's everything I want from a Bond game and the intro sequence into the title sequence is perfection. I was in love before I even got to the much discussed interactive montage. I can't wait to see it to the end.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Politicians are always saying that they are doing terrible things "for the choldren" that kids don't want. This is not one of those times. 😅

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I guess I'm learning how to play The Witcher III again.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

And people need to learn to be normal about people not liking the latest critically beloved new game. It goes both ways. Whatever it is, I haven't played it, so I have no horse in this race. I'm still working through TotK.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm on the block list! Yay!

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Got back into Marathon with the new patch and I'm in love again. Even got to take out an assassin, that big dummy.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You know that thing where you leave a piece over night to work on it the next day with fresh eyes, but when you come back it looks like ass? Yeah, that's me today. 😭

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I've had three good exfils today. I feel like I can do anything! #Marathon

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Art journey time! It has been 16 days since my last drawing. (why does this sound like a confession?) I finally decided to get out of my own way and put pencil to paper. The warmup was a bust, but my second, a reproduction a manga character, was a lot better. Oh, I'm rusty! My hand is so shaky!

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I have to say, Marathon is 100% more fun with the free kits. I only take out a build when my vault gets full and I always lose it before the first exfil goes up.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

No matter what else is going on in Marathon, I will always take the time to honk the horn in Hauler.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Made it through the #Marathon tutorial is one try this time. LOL

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Got in one last exfiltration before the test went down. I'm really looking forward to Marathon's launch date.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Art journey update... I drew again today. It was bad. I will try again tomorrow. 😞

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The art journey continues! I have run aground on my Proko course's next assignment, a master line art study. Since I skipped a lot of the formative experience of drawing favorite characters, I have decided to dig into a long time favorite, Shirow Masamune. His manga work only because OMG.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Two things: 1) You can tell this guy doesn't make his money from the algorithm. Easy to talk when you have no skin in the game. 2) Developing a new way of speech to circumvent their oppressors is the most punk thing to do! It's crazy seeing online people so stoggy and dismayed by a language shift.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Probably Robocop 2. I spent the entire movie in a perpetual state of tension because there is no title card until the very end of the film. This was years before titles running at the end became de rigueur. I was too young for that kind of change.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

AI gets the whole problem backwards. I want technology to let me work less so that I can be more creative, I don't want it to do the creativity so that i can work harder. What a miserable life that would be.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentines Day from the Valentines Spider. And me.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Art journey time. I decided to just draw something and ended up with this. I need to dive into anatomy soon so that I don't embarrass myself. And if I knew I was going to finish this, I wouldn't have drawn at an angle. But! Lines are going about where I want so that's progress!

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

@puzzmo.com Why do you have to call her out like this? 😂

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Art throwback day! I found a school project I made when I was five. (Still coming to grips with the fact that I was in kindergarten in the 70s.) Here we have a brown bear, clearly modeled on a stuffed animal, drawn in brown crayon. This book is the earliest proof that I once enjoyed drawing.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Still too negative from me, so it's art time again. I drew this today after watching too many Akihito Yoshitomi videos. It's probably the favorite thing I've done so far. But even better, I can see several things that I want to improve. That means I have concrete learning goals now. Success!

An ink illustration of a human woman, from head to chest. It is not very good, though I am happy with it.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you want to stop people from using cliched and overused words, I say go for it. Throw out "immersive" too. Reviewers rely on too many crutch words. But saying an emphasizing word is being used inaccurately is some prescriptivist bullshit. Language is mutable. Just ask "literally."

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

18 days since I posted proof that I'm actually trying to learn art? I promise I haven't given up. Here is a thoroughly embarrassing, sausage-fingered rendition of a hand doing that thwipy thing. I really need to work harder so that I can post less embarrassing art.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

While I'm desperately trying to maintain my sanity, let's talk about pencil leads. When I started this return to learning art, I started with a mechanical pencil. Love mechanical pencils, but I was having so much trouble controlling my line weights. Everything was a think, bold line. (1/3)

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The fact that big companies have been all in on AI for game dev, only for AI exuberance to bite them on the ass, is a chef's kiss moment.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Up through episode six of Dispatch and I am destroyed. Eff.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

DHS has been a failed project since its inception. It's only mission has been to instill fear in the population to make it easier to manipulate and control.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I started up Highguard, played through the tutorial, then immediately uninstalled. I thought I might give it a try, but I felt so stressed trying to keep everything straight that I knew that I should never play against people.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Four episodes into Dispatch and I am in love with this game. The choices have been killing me. And I love how they use the game parts to explore the narrative and how the characters interact. I'm trying to pace myself so that I don't bolt the whole thing at once, but it's so difficult!

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It's a curl up under the blanket and hide kind of day.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Just played the first episode of Dispatch and I am stunned. What a great start to the game.

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Marty Runyon @anjinm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Reading Too Many Losing Heroines v5 and Nukumizu is such a fool. These books are so fun.

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