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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I wanted to use Google to find videos, I would definitely be using Google Video and not Google Images, so why the fuck are my Google Images results full of links to videos?

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When you think about it, we've turned entire generations into script kiddies without them even knowing what that is.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm getting to the point where I'm comparing it to recycling and climate change, generally. The impact of individual participation is negligible, the only way to solve the actual problems are to remove power from the people responsible, and, properly managed there could be positive outcomes.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, here's a thought I just had. I wonder whether US courts might consider compiled code to be a form of Digital Rights Management, which would be violated by decompiling. Basically, refining the existing law used to combat DVD copying and applying it to all executable code.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is actually a topic that comes up in the Podquisition releasing tomorrow, but I hadn't yet seen this wrinkle in it. Interesting times are about to get a whole lot more interesting.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me when people who say we should use AI for "everything" start to realize what "everything" means.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, those do degrade over time, but that's also down to the quality of the print. DTG fades, so it's really six of one and half dozen of the other.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You don't really appreciate good communication skills until you hear someone you completely agree with deliver positions you completely agree with in a way that makes you want to defenestrate them.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's infuriating to see that the top "comedy" podcasts are all just a bunch of sad, old fucks performing a ritual that never actually threatens to be funny when we've been doing that for a decade. Where's our Netflix special?

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can you believe he poo-pooed this? He didn't even mention the part about signing his name over the American Southwest so that it would be visible on Google Earth.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just got a marketing email from Netflix trying to get me to resubscribe and noting it's been 297 days since I canceled. This seems very normal, and not at all the sort of thing in a different relationship would wind up used as evidence for a restraining order.

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Let’s Talk About Snacks @letstalksnacks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look, would it be easier to use an AI system to express my long-winded and intricately phrased complaints to the FedEx corporation via phone, which would start again from the beginning at any interruption? Of course it would. But I'm an artist, god damn it.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

But a cursory glance at the now deleted post showed the things that I would feel necessary to have immediate access to on the column/wheel.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm not sure, though I'm also pretty sure you shouldn't be adjusting seat controls while driving at speed. That's one of those things (like mirrors and such) that should be done before moving out of park or, if an emergency, after pulling over.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

To BMW's credit, they do seem aware of this, as the steering wheel and column appear to have all the actually important functions accessible there. Unlike, say, Tesla.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's nice to see fedjacketing being used as a tactic against the right instead of, you know, the left destroying itself.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You *think* it's a detailed presidential history. But, if you look closer, it's actually a magickal ritual intended to give the reader chlamydia. Caro might be a great biographer, but he's kind of a dick when it comes to being a wizard.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No, I'm not ready to be normal about this. Normality is a myth that makes people feel part of a majority in-group, providing justification for all manner of discrimination against anyone for any reason. Also, this is fucking stupid.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is funny until I remember the demographic and its size and ... no, Conrad. No. Breathe. The kids are okay.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's all part of God's plan, you see. This is Thiel's antichrist shit.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This whole Iran war thing, exposing the incompetence of the US military and its funding and morale problems, is making me start to wonder if they're even capable of being deployed to stop a popular uprising within its own borders anymore.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can think of no greater evidence of the Democratic Party establishment being completely out of touch with what US voters actually give a shit about than the fact that Hasan Piker is a recognizable name to my 76 year-old mother.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Got directed to a page where you can delete your Gemini history, and thought I should take a peek as I may have accidentally been using some aspects of it at some point. So, imagine my delight at finding only half a dozen data points, the most recent in 2025.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I do think it's a dumb feature but also, like, not one I feel strongly about. For people interested in cosmetics, there's an argument it could be compelling, but it's otherwise pretty pointless in San Andreas. And it has to be pointless because it's pointless or tedious with a system like that.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have heard people complain about them, but I don't recall said complaint being particularly widespread at time of release.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't know where to begin with this. It's not new to the series, having the impact be meaningful would detract from the experience so it won't be, and a bunch of developers spent a lot of time not eating or exercising to implement it. I know a pair of horse testicles when I see them.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New York Times out here just saying wild shit with no factual basis or evidence.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's hoping the performance of Jolene you hear at karaoke this week is good, because you're going to hear one.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I can't lie, I'd probably let Steve run off into the woods to live as a hermit. He'd be happy there, nobody needs to know.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Now that Dolly has left us, I am officially shifting my policy from "there are no good billionaires" to "there are no good multi-millionaires". So, we're gonna need a much bigger wall.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

QTP with a game released in the year you were born.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As it's becoming easier to transition people from ecosystems like Windows and Google, I bet there's a real market for a service that tracks down associated applications and updates relevant information for them or notifies the user to do so.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is it cheap? Sure. Is it not directed by Don Coscarelli? Yeah, but, I think we have to be honest with ourselves about how great a director Don is (and I enjoy most of his work). Does it attempt to offer some explanation of events only to then shrug as if to say "or maybe not"? YES, THAT'S PHANTASM.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is only meaningful for a very narrow audience, but I truly do not understand the hate Phantasm fans have for Ravager. It's probably the second best film in the franchise, certainly the one attempting to say the most, and I would argue more successful at conveying its themes than the original.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you have admin passwords on your devices, please, I'm begging you, have then recorded somewhere that the people handling your affairs after your death can access them. Do it now.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I continue to wear Chuck Taylors in my late 40s because part of me refuses to accept that I am getting old. The rest of me bought insoles.

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Surprise, I'm now co-founder at a new indie game development studio!

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Podquisition 603: Dominant Symptom Games we played this week include: (0:06:45) Agent 64: Spies Never Die (0:17:40) MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls (0:24:45) Beatdown City Survivors (0:27:20) Final Fantasy XIV (0:31:55) Cultic (0:37:55) Splatoon Raiders jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...

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There can be only one. Games we played this week include:(0:06:45) Agent 64: Spies Never Die(0:17:40) MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls(0:24:45) Beatdown City Survivors(0:27:20) Final Fantasy XIV(0:31:55) ...

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ever get so bored you re-engage with the pro-Zionist text message spammer you mocked a week prior? Just me?

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And you should do it even less than that.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Then maybe you should stop talking so authoritatively on this subject because you clearly have either a limited scope of knowledge or a faulty memory.

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