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Blue Milker

@bluemilker.bsky.social
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Middle-aged New Yorker. He/him.

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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As soon as an aesthetic is easy to generate, it starts reading as cheap rather than fancy. I’ve watched this cycle happen literally dozens of times, as tools became widely available. Apple’s auto-gen photo slideshows looked classy as hell when they were introduced. This is about generative AI.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
... the hell?
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the true danger moment. The moment when your hardware/cable/scrap hoarding is proven valuable. Good luck ever discarding a bit or bob again, dude.
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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the best distillation of this argument I've seen. Agentic LLMs are only dangerous because people are consciously setting them to do dangerous things.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Climbing an enormous flight of stairs in order to have blood drawn by someone who is describing their last improv show in detail.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I get it. You hate cocaine. You think it destroys human capacities and the environment […] those objections are not sufficient. You need to engage with cocaine, understand both its appeal and its limitations, and integrate that awareness into your teaching. (Channeling my inner @gregpak.net)
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nooooo I don’t need more dice…
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
FWIW, Walgreens in NYC is offering appointments for an updated covid vaccine starting sept 21, I believe.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It was in many ways a footnote to his massive legacy, but I will always remember being spellbound by Tim Curry's Darkness in the movie Legend (1985). For tiny me, just discovering a love of fantasy, his portrayal of magnificent, seductive evil was hypnotic. He was utterly iconic.
A closeup shot of Tim Curry as Darkness. Extensive prosthetic makeup makes him look like a devil, with grotesque red facial features and enormous black horns.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ooooh I'm gonna read the hell out of that book!
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If I've never published a game before, but I want to put one out (for free), where would you recommend publishing and sharing it?
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a musician bigger: Counting Ravens
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I mean this in the best possible way: your voice is unrecognizable!
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Eugenics.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jeeeeeesus
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nice!
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It must be so exhausting, being a right-wing pundit and being horrified by concepts like "collecting taxes to provide public benefits".
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they *do* get angry at us for having been right so early!
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I mask because I remember when it became obvious that Covid was an airborne disease, that it regularly caused lasting damage to people who caught it, and that the vaccines had provided only temporary and partial protection. And I kept paying attention, so I noticed that none of that ever changed.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The third option is both obvious and correct: BEC on Everything Bagel!
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is like how we grew up on Looney Tunes, not appreciating the 50-year-old cultural references Bugs was making, but still finding it hilarious.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (the song, not the film) has a nearly magical ability to transport me back to my freshman year of high school, waking up to the Z100 morning show.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Screenshot from Kyle Gordon's music video Planet of the Bass, showing the characters DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica, with the caption "Women are my favorite guy"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026
Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I sense an opportunity for the NYC AMNH!
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“But these are just my glasses! I need them to see!” Yeah. And if they had a gun attached, I wouldn’t be comfortable with you wearing them either.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ask me about how the drive to create prescription pervert glasses is a way to force implicit permission to wear them in places where recording would otherwise be obviously taboo.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
John Williams put his whole foot in that one.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Since, theoretically, they happen in immediate sequence, I tried watching Andor followed by Rogue One followed immediately by A New Hope. The tonal whiplash is intense.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yeah. Skill rolls are theater, combat rolls are bookkeeping.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
(As an example of the type of choice I mean, various D&D games have made a variety of choices about whether and how to display the "dice rolls" associated with every attack.)
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What BG3 succeeded at, I think, is making a game that decidedly "feels" like modern D&D, while also making a wide variety of clever video-game choices to sand away edges and brighten dull spots.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As another designer, I find the UX of D&D-adaptation video games to be a fascinating puzzle: many of the choices that would make the game "feel" better would move it farther from its tabletop origins, so games are stuck having to decide how far to move that dial.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I told a joke about Narcissus. It made me laugh.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Dippy is also an EXCELLENT dinosaur name.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh my gosh, you're right. I'm so embarrassed that I missed it.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Legitimately confused by this ordering. Diplodocus above brontosaur? Both on the list, but no Brachiosaur? How are we selecting our preferred sauropods, here? Is there a notable Diplodocus skeleton on display in the UK?
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
That is a space butthole.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
That right there is a guy! A real dude, if ever I saw one.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hey, no one's going to stop you eating it.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hi friend! You have just met three Common Ravens! The shape of the beaks is the best clue, here. Crow beaks are straight, while raven beaks have a little curve/hook to them. Here's a photo source: www.denali.org/wp-content/u...
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The dream.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hey, so, just for clarity: fuck nazis, and fuck rapists.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
That's the truly galling thing: there are so many people who know how to do these things well. It's eminently achievable. These corrupt idiot assholes are just so dedicated to cronyism and half-assing that they can't do anything well.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In any rational world, just this would be a career-ending scandal. I’m so exhausted.
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Blue Milker @bluemilker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
No joke: I think the experience of going through male puberty without an understanding emotional support system is a source of trauma a lot of guys never wind up dealing with.
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