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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 13h

Such a weird coincidence that every time a product gets new ai features a bunch of new bugs start popping up. Unrelated, but for some reason I can't manually capitalize letters on gboard anymore.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is, perhaps, no greater example of male overconfidence than having the audacity to claim there *must* be 50 ways to leave your lover, then barely being able to list three of them.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The official grieving period for Dolly should last from September to May. We should be mourning 9 to 5.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

With democrats like these, who needs republicans?

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Starting to wonder if it's a pavlovian mistake to listen to podcasts to help fall asleep *and* while driving to work

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The American Airlines IT issues only got us home 19.5 hours late

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And now I'll be getting home 17 hours later than scheduled 🙃

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I uh... kinda forgot I backed this project. Surprise gift from a younger Chris! ⚔️ #ttrpg #DrawSteel

Draw Steel Books One (Heroes) and Two (Villains) on a neutral background

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Doing some cleaning and I found this copy of the Beyblade Battle Soundtrack #beyblade #letitrip #totheextreme #gamechanger #deployanddestroy We are all Metal Masters on this blessed day 🙏

A photograph of the cover of a CD case labeled "Beyblade The Battle Soundtrack"

An image of the CD that goes in the case for "Beyblade the Battle Soundtrack" with a track list and durations:
Let It Rip (2:51)
Let It Rip Remix (1:00)
To The Extreme (2:41)
Game Changer (2:23)
Deploy and Destroy (3:02)

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The best thing about being a #solodev is that I can make big decisions and no one can stop me. The worst thing about being a solo dev is that I can make big decisions and no one can stop me.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 18/10/2024

woohoo I'm the new maintainer for the ME-GIS project: github.com/andrewheiss/... with all sorts of GIS shapefiles for Middle Earth! Make your own Tolkien maps with #rstats and other GIS programs! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/04...

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Since when can packs have more than five cards in them? #pokemon #tcgpocket

A screenshot of Pokemon TCG Pocket showing pack 7 and 8 of a ten pack opening sequence. Pack 7 contains 6 cards instead of the usual 5.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We had three birthdays in four days at my four person office this week, so I baked half of a cake to bring in.

A whole half chocolate cake with vegan orange buttercream frosting on a festive winter plate with the message "Let It Snow" partially visible.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It's been a year since I left my job at Roll20, and while I definitely miss my team, there's so much more about working there that I'm happy to have left behind. Quitting a job with no safety net or backup plan was scary, but there hasn't been a single moment that I've regretted that decision.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Finishing out the night with Return of the King and a surprisingly refreshing cocktail we called the Sting.

Two highball glasses containing a softly glowing blue liquid. We only had one small blacklight to make them glow, so the photo is a combination of two shots, each originally having only one glowing glass. They are on a background of a Lord of the Rings tea towel we received as a gift.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Moving on to The Two Towers with a cocktail we're calling the Gandalf the White (rum fizz with cream of coconut and a toasted coconut garnish).

A photograph of two rocks glasses filled with a very white foamy liquid and toasted coconut flakes on top.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Kicked off our third annual Lord of the Drinks marathon (wherein we watch all of the extended editions, paired with a themed cocktail) with Moria Mules 🍻 #lotr

Two copper mugs being toasted in front of a TV showing a frame from "The Fellowship of the Ring" of Gandalf the Grey riding in a horse drawn cart toward Hobbiton to celebrate the eleventy first birthday of Bilbo Baggins.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

exoGeo is a tool for building new worlds! Upload your map and build out details like cities, landmarks, and the roads that connect them! Write wiki-style articles with the notes tool and link them right from your map! Check out exogeo.net to become a tester! #worldbuilding #ttrpg #fantasy #writing

exogeo.net

exoGeo - Home

The best way to build your world

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Saw these super tiny lil guys yesterday 🐇🐇 A bunch of their siblings hid down under the concrete before I snapped the pic.

Very tiny baby bunnies getting ready to hide

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

After pouring many hours of work into it while unemployed, and trickling several hours of work into it after getting a new job, exoGeo has finally hit a point where I'm comfortable having other people try it out! If you're interested in #worldbuilding, check out exogeo.net! 🪐🌐📜🪶 #solodev #ttrpg

exogeo.net

exoGeo - Home

The best way to build your world

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@caldy.bsky.social Do you think you could win if you used this Sonic's Coolness instead of Duncan's. #metalcitymayhem

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Between wedding planning, starting a new job, and everything else happening in the world, checking the mail today and finding five beautiful new @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social t-shirts was exactly the surprise gift I needed from two-weeks-ago-me.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Lynchian" is a fully realized and instantly comprehensible adjective, as concrete a one-word summation of an artist's aesthetic and worldview as has ever been associated with any artist in any medium. Things will forever be Lynchian, but there was only one David Lynch. #RIP

hollywoodreporter.com

David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The TSA website says you can bring a tape measure in a carry on as long as it's less than 7" long, but I can't figure out if that means when contracted or extended. Do they even make tape measures that short? #travel

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

After a weekend of stuffing envelopes and carefully aligning stickers, wedding invitations are in the mail! 83 days to go! 💌💌💌

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

@sunsetvisitor.studio I'm stuck on this puzzle where you have to leave the library. Any tips?

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

How is every online wedding registry so terrible? You'd think someone would have made something half decent by now.

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I've spent the last few months working on tool I've always wanted to use for building my ttrpg campaign settings, exogeo.net. It's not quite ready for public registration, but I still wanted to show off a couple of the features it has so far. #worldbuilding #dnd #ttrpg #fantasy

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Chris! 🏳️‍⚧️🔭🗺️ @chrisforreal.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A little late, but here's our 2024 Christmas + Hanukkah boardgame haul! We're officially out of shelf space, so these live on the coffee table until we can figure out something better. #boardgames #tabletopgames

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