Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 18hAds: the true perpetual motion machine, forever trying to make fetch happen based on no input whatsoever. 052
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This. 100%. If you absolutely need to doom spiral right this second: log off. You’re fully entitled to feel how you feel, but skeeting “We’re so fucked” thrice daily like a Gregorian chant helps nothing and no one, including yourself. And decent odds those strangers you’re arguing with are bots. 1583207
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸T'az Matte: Gourd Lord Season! @tazmatte.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Remember Kids, there's an MSQ relevant cutscene during Stone Vigil too, and if you kill the boss while a sprout is listening to Lahabrea babble you are, in fact, a complete shithead. 10454274
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Silent Hill Shattered Memories was perverted because we sometimes made it the FIRST drawer you tried 381
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Doing some game design sleight of hand where what you're looking for is always in the last drawer you try. 15746
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22hA thing I think about a lot is how directly this stuff is descended from casino customer-tracking apps as they were emerging in the 90s. Addiction By Design covers this in a chapter - casinos harvest data on videoslot players and then measure exactly where their "Frustration point" is on losses. 6869314
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 14/10/2026keep being awesome, we're counterbalancing the PR disasters 091
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢 @ens0.me · 13/10/2026Even if you don't like AI, it's important to understand that not all AI is the same. You should appreciate that the more powerful versions absolutely do threaten people's jobs and we should be figuring out how to prepare for that as a society. 0602
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026VERY funny to imagine Donald ET TU, BRUTE-ing at McDonalds 02308
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes. 529762
🍂 Arashikou 🐸 @arashikou.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I get why cookie disclosure UIs are designed to encourage / trick people to click “Allow All.” What’s interesting to me is how many websites seems optimized to get you to say “No Cookies” if you won’t accept them all. What’s the advantage to the website there vs letting you choose? 100
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 10/10/2026BTW the way I use punctuation in my semi-formal prose is to follow the rules when it aids in clarity, and otherwise focus on how my voice comes through to the reader, even if it means not being strictly correct. I think many skilled writers do it this way 31179
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 10/10/2026this is the most useful gif anyone has ever made btwstatic.klipy.comAnxiety Panic: Square Breathing ExerciseAlt: Anxiety Panic: Square Breathing Exercise 0162
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/10/2026saying that LLMs makes you lazy is mostly incorrect, and ignores one of the actually harmful things about them: it means that as long as you're still capable of talking, you're capable of working. you can overwork yourself in ways that were never remotely possible before 3475166
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 09/10/2026Got some browser cookies 451117120
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026AGATHA: "Pfft. You're a metaphor." 041
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 08/10/2026fuck “super intelligence”. we need silly intelligence 6565
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Flo 🔶 @faz.ms · 08/10/2026It's amazing to see people now just buying cheap hardware off AliExpress and turning it into 10x the value by building better firmware with Opus 5.5. For example, this 60$ synth now has firmware options that add lots of new features or even turn it into a Groovebox. 1119517
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 06/10/2026We've put together a short list of scary games for you, now the nights are getting longer. Some are on sale, some are even free! Enjoy!store.steampowered.comSteam Publisher: Failbetter GamesAs you might expect, we're all quite keen on unsettling games. From eerie and discomfiting up to outright horror, here are a few of our favourites. A few of them are even free! 06732
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026to me this is what a tolerant and open society is 231951242
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 26/10/2025It’s weird that of all the scifi media predicting the future Tim and Eric’s Celery Man sketch got it the closest 1044584
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I want #VRChat to be a place where people are free to create differently from me. Don't want to experience AI-assisted work? Ask for the tools to make that choice. But our personal boundaries don't have to become everyone else's rules. More art in the world, not less. 4737
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸posts inspector @pippy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026musical chairs makes monsters of us all 0323
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢 @ens0.me · 06/10/2026"don't talk to police officers without legal counsel" is one of those things that's true even when you feel like they should be 100% on your side, if not just due to incompetence 510519
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸wire mother @echo.northsky.social · 30/09/2026have at least learned that de-prioritising yourself is not actually the same as prioritising others, as one might assume if, hypothetically, one were to have low self regard and believe that's the way to be cared about 131
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Tom @moll.dev · 05/10/2026the gamer entitlement is fucking insane. they're yelling at a developer who has spent a decade of his time writing Dolphin and PPSSPP for using Claude to build a prototype. the same people who don't pay for their emulator, certainly don't pay for ROMs are entitled to bully developers now? 724120
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Shrimp Fried Lia ☆ @wildstar25.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i keep matching against a g'raha tia in mahjong and he keeps winning!!!! i cant even be mad. lore accurate unfortunately 161
🍂 Arashikou 🐸 @arashikou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For someone who idolized The Frizz, I sure have gotten bad at taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy 020
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've been lately seeing reddit posts where you have people interacting speaking in different languages without even bothering to translate. I guess on the fly translation in browser has just gotten that good? It's kinda neat to imagine the Internet knitted together across languages. 191726
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸jordan silver 🔵 @silverlyne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This AI shit is so groundbreaking it got google to acknowledge fuchsia again 18711
🍂 Arashikou 🐸 @arashikou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This ticks all my boxes for a good Minesweeper client AND it has cool aesthetics AND it’s a twist on the game I've never seen before 0252
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 01/10/2026If you want an informed critique of LLMs just hang out with any engineer who uses AI to code 1124713
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸kit 🇱🇮 in the autumn rain 🍂🌧️ @kitto.nekoweb.org · 17/09/2026Everything allowed is mandatory, unfortunately 181
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026Solar keeps accelerating faster than expected and will solve a lot of our clean energy woes We are having a flurry of new medical breakthroughs that will revolutionize medicine It’s understandable to be scared right now, but a beautiful future is a lot more attainable than it feels 214217
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Truth itself is true. It stands alone. 0414
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 29/09/2026> example.com redesigned holy fuck imagine trying to convince an agent that they're deploying example.comexample.comExample Domain 1543
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority 451298
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Max Overdrive @delablo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Getting real tired of puritanical BS. Starting to unfollow people who keep expressing a desire to police what can happen in fiction. It's fiction. It's not real. Enjoying fiction doesn't automatically mean you want the same thing in real life. Please understand this. 19729
🍂 Arashikou 🐸 @arashikou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can’t believe the Iced Coffee Discourse is how I find out I need to update how I hold a steering wheel 010
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸DemigirlBOObs @demigirlboss.win · 26/09/2026I feel like posts like OOP light up the same region of latent space as the all too common sentiment of "the subsequent generations are doomed morons". Yes, they are different from you! The world is different than it was when you were their age! So meet them where they are, and help them adapt to it! 4464
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸kira ☆ @kira.ws · 25/09/2026shinjuku station doesn't have a map, it has a roguelike seed. you don't navigate it, you speedrun it and hope the daily layout has mercy 0373
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026i'm actually an escapee from the Tandy universe. as bad as microsoft is, it could be worse 5854
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢 @ens0.me · 25/09/2026Donald Trump may wind up the single biggest catalyst for clean energy adoption in human history Completely unintentionally I’ll take what silver linings I can get 1415411
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸DemigirlBOObs @demigirlboss.win · 24/09/2026Do it scared. Do it horny. Do it whimsical. But just do it. Croajiro. 0121
Reposted by 🍂 Arashikou 🐸hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had a lovely conversation with @brennan.computer yesterday about what a non-booster non-anti tech-friendly left could look like, and for me it centers a few things: - media piracy and other anticorporate uses of tech - who we valorize - eg, scihub, anna's archive, pirates and shadow librarians 923432