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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one on Janeway's side regarding Tuvix.

Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I might say "A New Hope" if we also include all the spin offs and sequels and include rants on YouTube as critical writing.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The glass is too far from the edge.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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I wish I could block a particular podcast advertisement as easily as I block something on social media or tell YouTube to never recommend a channel.

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Hey Google, this is just called "not falling asleep yet" and you don't need to track it as part of my sleep.

A sleep tracker app readout. The score is 8@, the duration is 7h 26m. But there's a 34 minute block of awake at the start of the graph tracking sleep states.

The rule I'm increasingly radicalized towards is "It's not Batman without Robin." Kind of an adaptation of the Tim Drake principle, but for adaptations.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'd like to see what Lanterns looks like with more of the 2026 timeline sprinkled in the whole time so I care more about it and its mystery.

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Everybody needs to stop stealing my Longhorns' look. Bad enough they actually played Tennessee yesterday.

Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What if your internet is out? Or the power? You need those analog backups.

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I choose to believe that was a cube that has been reformed by continual cat nuzzles.

Sometimes you blow forty minutes making a long list of Star Wars names. George Lucas used to keep a notebook full of names to pull from when he was writing.

Some Reaction channels react to Clue like "Can we solve this mystery before the end of the movie?" Guaranteed you can't. I'd love to show them one of the theatrical versions with only one ending, then offer to show it to them again to see if they pick up on the clues, but it's one of the other ones.

Marx and Smith were largely in agreement. Mostly about the failure modes, but Marx actually had prescriptive solutions instead of just warnings about where it goes wrong. That's why Marx gets all the fans. If Smith had solutions like stronger labor protections and Brandeisian laws he might've also.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the pull quote for me. The C-Suite needs to cut, but those cuts make it even less possible to meet their performance demands. I think we've artificially hit that point that has been prophesied for decades: games are finally too expensive to make. At least in the AAA corporate-led space.

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."

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As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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Superweapons and the Deaths of Empires: Thermostatic Resistance or a Greater Law of the Galaxy

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Bane of the Sith: The Rule of Two was Poorly Conceived and Rarely Followed

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Fear and the Loss of Faith: The practice and methods of dueling with a dark side adherent.

In the Senate, it would be Vance and a majority of the remaining 2/3 of the Senate. In the House, it would probably be the Clerk or the Dean, although those are entirely ceremonial and not really binding, but will further enflame any "rigged" allegations.

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Exactly. "Write what you know" is an imperative to know more things and do research, not to try to bring into the world ANOTHER story about being a twenty-something listless man child.

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They'll use a large Democratic win as evidence that there's some kind of fraud, just as they took late counted votes as some kind of fraud. And whether or not that allows some kind of vaguely legal method to refuse to seat the new legislature, it definitely will be used to erode faith in elections.

More likely if it's a huge blowout, they'll use that as an excuse to claim tampering and fraud and try to jam up the new legislature being sworn in.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would play the crap out of a Green Arrow game, especially if it had the Arrow family and Black Canary, etc.

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This guy? Really? He was a total puppet of the MCP!

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

According to my smart watch and attending app, I'm at best a B sleeper, and usually a C+ or B- sleeper. Despite practicing all my life, I can't crack an A in the activity. I was never good at PE either.

Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"It's not any dumber than acid wash."

Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Maybe because saying "Nine Nineteen" is kind of like "nananananananana Batman!"

Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love seeing the Maka-Eekai L4000, but I think it makes so much more sense at half the scale. I'm pretty sure that would make the cockpit regular sized and those side gun turrets about right for standard docking ports. I propose a Maka-Eekai L2000 Light Freighter.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not beating the "actively trying to lose the midterms" accusations.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's functionally indistinguishable from all the white supremacist nativist dreck we get from the right-wing these days about the supposed dangers of "importing the third world" etc.

Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Might as well cut out the N and I and make it "Sister."

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can tell it's a bad brain morning since I almost spooned kosher salt into my coffee.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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"'Sex Cauldron?' I thought they closed that place down."

And Robert Vaughn coming back to Corman since Teenage Caveman (something I only know about because of MST3K).

And music by James Horner? And VFX by James Cameron?!?

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Star Trek Away Team. It's basically X-Com, but your team is being killed by weird science things and you don't just phaser, but you need to tactically diplomacy or strategically science your way through the map.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm always surprised by how big this ship actually is.