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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h

“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 17h

Ok if your UI looks like this I'm definitely interested in your game

UI image from Ablashikar with a truly ridiculous amount of stats and buttons and an ASCII viewport in the middle

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

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Non-place - Wikipedia

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OTOH you also get to go "hell yeah kid, you've got it!" a lot when it works

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm incredibly happy he's having a career year even if it's not for the Astros. Love that dude.

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Onion Sports @onionsports.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NBA Reminds Rookies Not To Blow First Paycheck On Big-Ass Snake theonion.com/nba-reminds-...

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

still thinking about "mario's eye view"

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No clue if it's the right one, but I do know Ravens can make that kind of noise youtu.be/ND_eUt3ZR_Y?...

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Interesting Sounds Made by Common Raven

YouTube video by Chuck Schussman

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CELEBRIMBOR: do not heed this contemptible morsel, talion. it claims to be “everything,” but it cannot hide the truth. i could name innumerable things this bagel does not contain. TALION: i swore an oath to break my fast, wraith. i will see it done whether you wish or no

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tctc @toastcrust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

still think this is a fun story

Screenshot of a small thread I posted on Twitter back in May 2024:

people talk about the dorito peasant but imagine being a premodern peasant in East Asia and a bard wanders into your village and tells a part of The Water Margin or Romance of the Three Kingdoms just completely explodes your mind and you're all talking about Guan Yu afterwards

my favorite anecdotes about this, and I'm just paraphrasing a lecture from uni, was a testimony from white missionaries who got kidnapped for ransom by bandits in late Qing China, iirc, and the bandits apparently spent all night talking about their favorite Water Margin stories

just instantly brings to my imagination being some guys living out in the woods robbing people to survive and all your free time is spent arguing about the power levels of the coolest guys from the favorite oral classic stories

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glad I'm not catholic because I'd have to form a splinter group over "algorithms lack the spark of humanity" entering the official doctrine even while agreeing with the central point.

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Kevin Maxon @sonofbadru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's 90 seconds of REVOLUTION FANTASY, which I've been working on discreetly for the last few years. It's built on the bones of Tenderfoot Tactics, in Godot. This is a sandbox combat that I'm using to design skills and progression. Expect me to post a lot more about RF from here on out!

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put the year on the banner with the rest and never speak of this season again.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I'm having a very normal recording day.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Short of something like "forgets to cover home after a wild pitch" they better not boo Blubaugh. Dude showed up this season to save that relief corps.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's cool. It's cool. Woulda just been a 4-batter 1-hit inning if Parades was healthy enough to play third instead of DHing. It's cool.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok baseball heaven, you've already made your point.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a .500 division winner, the Houston Astros do not have the mandate of baseball heaven.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics"

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watch this space (if the prototyping goes well)

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once you decided to pull the ripcord on Blubaugh not going for 2 you should've just gone to Ullola and ride him for as many batters as you can get. Not King. Or at least yank King after 3 batters.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get that the Astros don't have a lot of arms, but giving *Bryan King* this many batters in a best-of-3 playoff game after the season he's had is just begging to lose.

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Sid Menon @beamsplashx.wethoughtaboutgames.com · 01/10/2024

if there's anything i've learned after 15 years in this goddamn city, it's that finding someone who isn't a scumbag or a liar is harder than finding a thimble, a clock, a hula hoop, an hourglass, a picture frame, a duvet cover, a cookie tin, a claw hammer, a basketball, a toothbr

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This should be binding. Christian Walker should have to do the anthem.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your no longer drinking doesn't even show up on the list of reasons. I'd start with "they employ 4 above-average bats, and Correa ain't playing" and go from there.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sign on the wall At the dive bar Saying Knocked out teeth Ain't buried with their owners

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Line @linesonwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something deep inside me told me I should draw Donkey Kong today.

A four panel comic titled "Hours, Bananas, Doors."
Donkey Kong awakens staring at himself in a mirror, then stares down at his hand as he notices a strange watch on his wrist.
Staring at his wrist, the watch turns out to be one of the numbered bracelets from 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors from the Zero Escape series. It's Junpei's bracelet. For some reason.
Peach then asks a confused Donkey Kong, "Donkey Kong? Have you ever heard of the Parallel Banana Theory?"

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Max Scherzer going on short rest to catch Verlander's strikeout total -- and nearly damn well doing it -- is some all time inner circle king petty shit, and I mean that in the most complimentary way imaginable. You gotta tip your cap to a true psycho, and Max Scherzer is an all-time baseball psycho.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know who this is most embarrassing for but yes I do it's the Mariners

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The division somebody had to win

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was optimistic before the Tampa Bay series and I'll let myself believe again when one of the scorelines goes final.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wow, what a coincidence that they bring up the betting odds in the middle of that conversation!

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One side is addicted to public funding for private stadiums, the other will stop at nothing to get his name slapped on a building. A match made in hell.

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damn, I kept hearing people toss out Dead Or Alive or like The Chain, but Pony makes so much damn sense

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Celadon @antek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

They forgot to add Mars Bunsen so I’m forced to fix this unforced error

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Despite just hitting a home run, we have ample evidence that Christian Walker does *not* have me this season.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's early yet, but it looks like Lucas Spence has also got me.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This Astros team does not deserve to win their division, but then again, nobody in the AL West deserves to win more.

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If nobody's got me, statistically, Yordan Alvarez has got me. But if it's not him then, statistically again, Isaac Paredes has got me. (After that it's Jeremy Peña, a gap, Jose Altuve, and then nobody's got me 😬)

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"First time in history a team has pitched back-to-back no-hitters"

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 24/09/2026

I'm not sure how anyone got to the idea of making the one and only Mars Attacks game a theme park management sim about torturing humans from across time and space, but I'm glad it exists. It left early access today!

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Alex Swaim @cidolfas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tricot is putting all the WIPs for their next album up on youtube as they work through them www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fgl...

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tricotX / 260822_samurai_vo【Official Visualizer】

YouTube video by tricot Official Channel

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

overrun by marauding, starving hoards of C people

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