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Jim Van Verth

@cthulhim.bsky.social
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Woodworker, musician, co-author of Essential Math for Games, host of The Vintage Gamer, occasional gad about town. Formerly: GPU Engineer for the Skia 2D graphics library; game developer for Red Storm Entertainment and Insomniac Games. He/him.

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026
📹: Animals Asia
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Small strategy tip for the Red Sox: Don't let the Yankees load the bases.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
License plate of the week: XMEN171, and the car was a Nissan Rogue. Laughed out loud when I figured it out. #xmen #marvel
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Screw him! www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...
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Alex Ovechkin says he supports Russia but is 'not pro-war'
Alex Ovechkin is drawing criticism after appearing in a TV ad for Vladimir Putin's political party, but the NHL's career goal-scoring leader says he only "supports what's happening in Russia" and hopes the war with Ukraine will end soon.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 16 94🏅 100🎯 99🎯 91🏆 95🏅 Final score: 950
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 14 99🎯 90👑 99🎯 82🌟 97🔥 Final score: 924
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is very cool.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 13 100🎯 97🔥 97🔥 80🌞 96🏅 Final score: 919
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 13/09/2026
Getty makes a ton of money out of selling public domain footage. Which is crazy. But that’s Getty. The footage is usually available free elsewhere but it’s hard to find. Great video that helps you understand where and how to find it. youtu.be/2dzqQItDmdg?...
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I Killed A Business Model
YouTube video by Elroddd
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 12 84😁 98🎯 98🎯 86🎓 69🙂 Final score: 843
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Radiobread
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 11 93🏆 91🏆 96🔥 99🎯 77👏 Final score: 904
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 10 95🏅 91🏆 100🎯 80🌟 81🌟 Final score: 869
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texans, don’t sit this one out. PLEASE VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTION! 📌 Register by: Oct. 5 🗳️ Early Voting: Oct. 19–30 🇺🇸 Election Day: Nov. 3 ⏰ Polls: 7 AM–7 PM Make a plan. Check your registration. Show up and cast your ballot. Official info: votetexas.gov #TexasVotes #Vote2026PLEASE
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 9 98🔥 100🎯 86🎓 98🔥 92🏆 Final score: 940
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The great JOE MORELLO performing a drum solo on “Take Five” — alongside Paul Desmond on saxophone, Dave Brubeck on piano and Eugene Wright on bass — live in Belgium in 1964.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 8 100🎯 87🎓 99🎯 95🏅 89👑 Final score: 937
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 6 98🎯 99🎯 100🎯 100🎯 89👑 Final score: 964
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This might be hard to believe for ppl who don't work in food, but multiple outbreaks/recalls per week is routine. That's the normal background radiation of the food business. Because the US food system feeds 330 million people. It's massive. The outbreaks just rarely ever made the news before now.
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Megan @meganreally.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Please tell your Texan friends to check their registration status
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
An old-timey baseball player sliding into base in a great dust-cloud. The background is a high-magnification multicore CPU.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just remembered when I tried to start a movement for Cyclops to have a moustache, clearly ten years ahead of trends
A headshot sketch of Cyclops from the X-Men, in costume. He has a moustache.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 22/08/2026
A platonic ideal
Scott summers. Cyclops of the xmen. Wearing an x bow tie and a bolero jacket for some reason) while also sporting a moustache. Blackwing pencil on bristol.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.maptap.gg August 22 97🔥 87🎉 88🎉 98🎯 78🌞 Final score: 888
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.maptap.gg August 21 95🏅 97🔥 99🎯 89🎉 69🙂 Final score: 864
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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✨💜 king 💜✨ @king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How about this: Instead of hyping up the piece of shit TERF queen and her exceedingly mid books, we point kids in the direction of K.A. Applegate and her fantastic, terrifying Animorphs series?
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besmartcolorado.bsky.social @besmartcolorado.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Most people don’t know this, but important since we’ve collectively decided to have measles outbreaks again: Uncertain Status: Anyone vaccinated before 1968 who does not know the exact type of vaccine received should get at least one modern dose of the live MMR vaccine. I got mine last year.
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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is how it’s done.
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Canadian director refused to work on new Harry Potter show, writing 'say no to funding transphobia' | CBC News
Canadian director Ally Pankiw revealed Thursday in an Instagram post that she turned down work on an upcoming Harry Potter television series, saying, “It simply is this easy to say no to funding trans...
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Starting a new project.
Two powered tools sitting on a workbench. The one on the left is a strobe tuner. The one on the right is a small portable oscillating sander. On top of the sander is a long piece of wood, with some sort of template glued to it.
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Mur Lafferty @mightymur.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Oh heck! All of this is true!
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Look, classical music is timeless and all that, but I really only want to hear The Nutcracker in Nov/Dec.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’m pleased that our dog has recovered from her snake bite, while simultaneously annoyed by all the mosquitoes buzzing around because the rain. It’s been a month for scalars and vectors.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 28/07/2026
Hey folks. If you've got a WordPress site, you need to check what version you're on. There's a critical vulnerability for versions 6.9.0 to 7.0.1. Update immediately. Like put your phone down now & do it. Not tomorrow. Complete compromise & remote code execution are possible w a simple script
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Technical Advisory: wp2shell — Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and Full Site Takeover in WordPress Core
Threat actors are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in WordPress Core. The vulnerabilities carry a combined CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.
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Moxie Meow @moxiemeow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Shout this louder. She should be RADIOACTIVE. She's the most prominent and dangerous transphobe on the planet. bsky.app/profile/dana...
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.' Did they all have perfect albums? Anyway...
Cover of Radiohead's OK Computer.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Yes!
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Someone forgot to add the drop shadow.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Nice to see finesse beat the goons. #worldcup
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Let’s do that again.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Finally.
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Jim Van Verth @cthulhim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don’t understand this frckin’ sport. Guys getting deliberately pulled down, knocked down from behind and still no flag.
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