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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You know this would be one of *those* Star Trek episodes. The first governor of the moon colony is a kid sleeping in a Cincinnati parking lot.

Sisko and Bashir enjoying the ambiance of a dystopian Sanctuary District.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🤔 Like Kirby. 🤔 (I am very intelligent.)

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Reacher thunderclap is my new CSI: Miami “Yeeeeahhhhh!”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s disturbing how accurate this is. When I moved to America as a kid I had a British accent. I spent about 6 months in Seattle and then moved down to Palo Alto (between San Francisco and Los Angeles). By the end of a year I didn’t have a British accent anymore. It nailed me.

Map of U.S. with hotspots near Seattle and San Francisco.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You know how people are convinced their phones are listening to them and presenting content based on what it heard? I was just served this video on TikTok. This is an incredibly obscure video game THAT I WORKED ON. I was talking about it for the first time in forever YESTERDAY.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here’s South Korea overlayed over the eastern seaboard. “All the protesters should march on Washington, like country X did.” It isn’t realistic at all.

Map of United States with South Korea overlayed. From top to bottom South Korea is about the distance from New York to DC.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

He’s going to come back to the UK and get kicked out of Reform next.

A tweet from Milo from July 14 2025. It is so offensive to me that I don’t want to type it out and have the words in any way associated with my name or account.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Of all the recent passings, this is the one that gets me choked up? I’m a weird guy. ‘Til all are one! 😔

Optimus Prime turns grey as he passes away. From the 1986 movie.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Why am I Mrs. Sparkle?”

Homer Simpson is in shock as he looks at a Japanese detergent package with his face on it.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very expensive viral marketing campaign. 😅

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m going to dedicate a room in my house to a gallery of Chinese Spider-Man posters.

Chinese poster for Across the Spider-Verse. It’s a reimagining of the Monkey King being attacked by the Heavenly Celestial Court.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Full disclosure: when Uhura, Spock and Kirk sat down at a table together for the first time in Strange New Worlds I started crying.

Uhura, Spock and Kirk sit at a table in the Enterprise bar.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Democratic leadership watching Mamdani succinctly and eloquently state facts.

Tim Robinson saying “I don’t know if you’re allowed to do that.”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The next panel: “Fortunately, I, Lex Luthor, the super-straight scientific genius, am immune to Superman’s rays. Now to sashay back to my laboratory…”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I read them for the articles. The articles:

Promotional photo of “Ladies of The Odyssey” movie

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Me, pregaming shots before The Hague Rave:

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So I did my first Develop: Brighton, and I'm realizing I took zero pictures of the sites around Brighton, or any of the people I met, but I have hundreds of pictures of powerpoint presentations. 🤦‍♂️ Ah well. Getting down to Brighton is easy from Horsham, so I can do the touristy stuff another day.

A photo of a presentation slide that says Develop: Brighton and someone behind a lectern rambling.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

McConnell proof of life and now this? Sutter Cane is a fucking hack.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There’s a chance that Lindsey Graham was actually Widdecombe in drag. They might have been pulling a Hannah Montana in order to make life worse for people in two countries.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is hilarious. Now I’m picturing Sky Shadow sitting there like this:

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Fable 5 spinning up 100 subagents to figure out if Kirk is telling the truth…

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve been working on an app, but got deep into the weeds about trying to simulate sunbeams and shadows in XR. I think we underestimate the importance of occlusion, lighting and shadows in mixed reality Meta Quest apps.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“DON’T GET BATMAN! GET GARGOYLE’S QUEST!! BATMAN ISN’T BAD, BUT GARGOYLE’S QUEST IS A METROIDVANIA BEFORE WE KNEW WHAT TO CALL THEM!!!”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Cheese & Onion of Christ.”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Boats, but space? It could work, I guess…

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

*Googling* “she/they drumline UK rates”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

File photo of the historian:

It’s Grimace celebrating his cursed 50th anniversary shake.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You’re telling me Nvidia has a plan to put its chips into *personal computers*?! I can’t fucking imagine what that would be like.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

How far are you? 🕵️‍♂️

Me when I got to the twist in Sugar on AppleTV:

Picture of Abed from Community saying “Saw that coming.”

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I think Joe Pera is fine with it.

Joe Pera stares over a fence at a nature view we can’t see.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Why I was confused when you said “rolled his shed out.”:

A small wooden shed with smaller wheels at the corners. Like a skip made of wood, with a few windows.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Me opening bluesky and glancing at the trending topics...

Grandpa Simpson strides into Maison Derrière before noticing Bart.

Trending topics includes Starmer, Farage, Epstein, and Scottish Independence.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Watching High Potential and they just had the clumsiest Microsoft Copilot intergortion. Eeeesh. Worse than the car commercials inside an episode of Bones.

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Calvin Rien @drktbl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Last three games I’ve been playing are: Librarian, a game where you clean up a library; Leaf it Alone, a game where you clean up a yard; and Power Wash Simulator, a game where you clean up a town. My apartment is a pig sty. 🤔

Librarian game. I massive pile of books you need to organize.

Leaf it alone game. A pile of leaves with a rake in the player’s hand

Power wash simulator. A skatepark completely covered in grime with the player holding a power washer.

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