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Correl Roush

@correlr.bsky.social

133 followers 129 following 199 posts

Computer nerd, videogame nerd, immortal phoenix forever trapped in a tall human shell with poor eyesight and great legs. I run Linux, I use Emacs, I have a soldering iron and I sorta know how to use it! fedi.fenix.lgbt/@correl

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 3h

"Show me the World Wide Web. No Bloody 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0"

Title card for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics" showing the Enterprise flying towards us besides an enormous mechanical structure in space.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The way I jumped when this went on sale last year, and somehow I hadn't seen the finale til it arrived and completely bewildered my wife with it.

Blu-ray case of Charlie the Unicorn: 20th Anniversary Collection (Limited Edition) held in the in the hand of a forty-something lifelong fan of silliness and nonsense.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should've included the full post, it's pure gold

I recently got a new Roush (#1327) on this page:

http://roushpipes.com/ProductsGalleryList.aspx?CategoryID=4&selection=3 [Wayback]

I've smoked it once or twice and it smokes great. However, I find
that I prefer my bent Roush pipes and keep reaching for those instead
of this one. Anyone have a bent Roush in excellent condition that
they might want to trade?

Ed

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Damn, I really missed out on some good trade-in deals in 2007.

Screenshot of a usenet-rewind search for "roush". The first result is a post from 2007 on alt.smokers.pipes for a "Roush for Roush Trade?" claiming "Roush in excellent condition that they might want to trade? Ed"

I am logged in with my name "Correl Roush" visible at the top right of the screenshot.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dracula from Symphony of the night saying "What is a magic card? A miserable little pile of bullshit on a piece of paper."

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What do I need #MagicTheGathering #StarTrek cards for when Skybox already did it better in 1996? I've even got a Triskelion!

An assortment of collectible Skybox Star Trek trading cards from 1996 featuring a variety of characters and locations, including Benjamin Siko, Commander Data, the Bynars, Guinan, Sha Ka Ree, and a Triskelion.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I've gotta admit, Walmart is not the place I expected to find House of Leaves

Me holding the full color edition of the book House of Leaves in front of a Walmart display in the store.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Doing the most patriotic thing I could think of or care to do, playing Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Frame from Metal Gear Solid 2, zoomed in on the Sons of the Patriots flag in the game. It has thirteen alternating red and white stripes with a black and white rattlesnake over them. On the bottom of the flag, in black capital letters, it reads: "Sons of Liberty"

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Having a moment with my buddy over Slack #music #alanismorissette #yououghttaknow #theydontknow

A slack conversation between me and my buddy "J".

Me: Ever just have a sudden craving for a really angry song about David Coulier?
J: oh wow, just looked him up, he has a real punchable face
J: oh wow, he does voices on a lot of things
Me: Dating him must go down like a jagged little pill
J: OMG
Me: There you go
J: he did the voices of Animal on the muppets?
Me: or not
J: he has tongue cancer
Me: You oughtta know this
J: I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM >_<
J: I'm on wikipedia
Me: I'm running out of ways to continue this bit
(J reacts with a laughing emoji)
Me: This is the cross I bear that you gave to me
J: I didn't watch Full House much when I was a kid. I don't remember anything
Me: I'm dying here

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bubble from the Amazing Digital Circus, with a quote box encompassing the quoted post.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I wish all companies that forced their workers to use AI slop machines hoping to squeeze more productivity out of them a very financial ruin

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Rudy Giuliani is dying" in the Donkey Kong type face over clouds, above palm trees.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Oh crap I forgot Tim Russ was in that one. I just spent my evening watching Picard nerve pinch him in his die hard episode.

Tim Russ's character getting nerve pinched in the neck by Captain Picard in the TNG episode Starship Mine

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Ten years apart... I wonder what changed?

Short-haired clean-shaven Correl in a black suit and tie with black-framed glasses sitting in a very large chair, looking every bit a midly attractive thin gentleman (or butch flat-chested woman?)

Boob, I mean breast, I mean Correl standing in a black dress unzipped to show impressive cleavage with long hair and thin rose-gold framed glasses, a necklace hanging provocatively low. Did I mention big titties?

An electronics workbench is visible in the background.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I know I'm hot, but I didn't realize I was look away from this show hot

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Estrogen is powerful

Me, pre-transition circa 2015. Just a thin "guy" sitting in a car with a blank expression, very short mussed hair, and angular facial features.

Me now, also sitting in a car, smiling. My hair is now shoulder-length, and my facial features are much softer. Also, yes, you can tell I now have nice sized breasts.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It kinda still blows my mind that I just fill out shirts like this now

My chest in a grey Celeste tshirt, the image screen-printed on it distorted by the size and shape of my breasts.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I bought myself something fun while looking for clothes to show off my new assets, and *goddamn*.

D-cup boobs in a black faux-leather halter top with corset-style lacing in the front. Also pictured: my soft belly.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I love the smell of vindication in the morning: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Two paragraphs of text from the linked article, the latter half of which is highlighted:

In the study, published in July, the think tank Model Evaluation & Threat Research randomly assigned a group of experienced software developers to perform coding tasks with or without AI tools. It was the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world. Because coding is one of the skills that existing models have largely mastered, just about everyone involved expected AI to generate huge productivity gains. In a pre-experiment survey of experts, the mean prediction was that AI would speed developers’ work by nearly 40 percent. Afterward, the study participants estimated that AI had made them 20 percent faster.

But when the METR team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. The researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome,” Nate Rush, one of the authors of the study, told me. “We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Oh hey, I found the Pride section at Target

Photo of two display boxes of Tiki torches against the back wall inside a Target store

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I've been really appreciating how thorough this book from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social is in dismantling the bullshit and exposing the reality of shitty "AI" nonsense.

Photo of a book in hand titled "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want"

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Currently treating myself to FFVI on my old SNES with my new HD scaler setup. 10/10, would submerge a castle again.

Photo of a television showing Kefka jumping angrily in an empty desert shouting "Son of a submariner! They'll pay for this..." with a beautiful CRT filter applied.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Wrapping up my evening on #TDOV on the summit of Celeste mountain

Madeline, a character in a warm jacket with long, flowing pink hair, sits atopt a snow-covered peak, looking out over the clouds and sunrise below with the stars glittering above.

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill proclaiming with gusto, "Very good!"

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Correl Roush @correlr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Lieutenant Worf sitting comfortably on a sofa daintily holding a teacup.

"Good tea. Nice communist.'

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