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Alice

@e6e6fa.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ she/her I make bleeps and bloops as Life Patterns. I'm also, sometimes regrettably, an eng manager at a tech company. The internet was a big mistake. Fuck AI. lifepatterns.bandcamp.com

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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Growing older is a lot about realizing the two main things you're going to learn about are ignorance and mortality.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
HR gathered a bunch of feedback about AI writing and wrote a policy document by pointing AI at the pile of feedback and saying "turn this into a policy pls" and it's the slop you would expect and I am so tired of this bullshit.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Monk, give me strength this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9QQ...
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Straight, No Chaser (Live [Tokyo])
YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hyperventilating.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Being on a shitty to non-existent internet connection for nearly two weeks has given me a massive appreciation to the concept of having files on your computer.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not caring about shit is the best. Absolutely care about shit, but try to care for the shit that really matters, ideally shit you can do shit about. If your only exposure to shit is the internet maybe that shit ain't for you.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Beloveds, you can just choose to not!
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Listened to American Idiot for the first time in years, is there a more effective time capsule back to thag point in time? Maybe Battlestar Galactica. Also this is kinda like what Jeff Rosenstock does nowadays but he does it better? What a ridiculous, sometimes breathtaking collection of songs.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lunistice has got me so completely, it even has me going after S ranks in a way no Sonic game ever did. Some combination of the aesthetics, absolutely perfect controls, music and being just the right size of game. Totally in love with it.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Manifesting that the ultimate outcome of "AI art on food menus" is worldwide adoption of displaying plastic replicas of dishes in restaurant windows.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just called something A/A instead of 10/10, send help.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fucked up my algorithm so badly I finally cancelled YouTube Premium, so, uh, I win I guess.
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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Spreading gAI created misinformation is bad even when it's stuff you might like. Check your goddamn sources and if you share some gAI shit by accident - delete the post.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Increasingly convinced there's an exact polygon count threshold beyond which my enjoyment of a game starts to go down.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
THE END OF OAK STREET out there proving you can make a great Spielberg homage dinosaur genre flick in 2026, makes one wonder how the Jurassic World franchise has been so completely fumbling it for 10+ years.
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Blumen @blumen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Brian Eno’s Music for Airports >>>>>
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I wonder if there's an entire generation of art that'll be tainted by the simple fact that it existed in a time where AI usage was rampant. Like was this movie shit because of AI? Did that author use AI or was that just really their style?
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"It's AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", screams Yves Guillemot as he falls into the bottomless pit. If he had a point to make, only the unnameable horrors that call home that place will hear it. They might consider his point before they tear into his flesh.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The swish Commodore Amiga of 1990: the then-just launched Amiga 3000. The high-end creative and professional choice with a 68030 processor, chip and fast RAM, a scan-doubler for VGA monitors, and 68881 FPU. 📖: Joystick Magazine, June 1990.
A photo snapped from a scan of the issue on Internet Archive (Bultro) with an Amiga 3000 computer surrounded by video and music equipment such as a synth keyboard, video camera, laserdisc, tripod mounted VCR camera, and Digi and Deluxe Paint 3.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Assassination of Social Media Platforms by the Coward Social Media Platforms
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
mfw a month and change into HRT and noticing my mental health has been just getting better and better
Snippet from Sonic The Comic's 100th issue, showing a little happy cat(?) or some other such critter with a big old smile on their faces, speech bubble going "Coo! I'll miss being miserable!"
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
There needs to be a word for the sense of dread, anger and pain that comes out of having to spend time considering a coworker's AI slop document or spreadsheet. The day can't come soon enough when you can just say "yeah come back to me when you've got something real".
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They really came up with a word that means "a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward", and then not make that word read the same backward or forward.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Should start measuring my life by the amount of times a day I have to do something that makes me want to crawl back in bed instead but I'm afraid of what I might find out.
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Maxwell Yezpitelok @mrmxy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"If you don't use AI you'll get left behind" Brother I've sent emails from a Super Nintendo, I fucking love getting left behind
Photo of a CRT monitor next to a Super Famicom console with an XBAND modem inserted. The monitor's screen shows the XBAND's email composing screen. The message being composed has the subject line "I'm writing from a snes :00" and is addressed at a user named "フフフ".Screenshot of the email composing screen from the previous photo.Screenshot of the bsnes-plus Super Nintendo emulator open on Ubuntu. The game loaded is identified as "X-Band Modem BIOS (J)" and the emulator window shows the XBAND email inbox screen. There are two emails: one from user "mrmxy" with the subject line "i'm writing from a snes :0" and one from "System" with the subject line "Welcome!!" Behind the emulator window is a terminal window showing the emulator's log (indicating emulated modem activity) and a file explorer window with some Super Nintendo ROMs and save files.The bsnes-plus emulator's window now shows the content of the email, which reads (beside a profile image of an ape with sunglasses):

mrmxy 
住所 Earth, Solar System
送信日 2023.6.17
タイトル im writing from a snes :00
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hormonal as all hell, tits hurt, can't sleep because of recurring nightmares... Quake and Hiroshi Yoshimura's Static (such an underrated gem) are pretty much single-handedly keeping me going.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Rewatched the Sopranos pilot and all I can think about now is making the best goddamn meatballs of my entire life.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Normalize signing off of sites when you're done with them for the day, as a little ritual to return to better things. We lost so much when the internet stopped being something you connected into and just because the thing that's on forever.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This, this, a thousand times this. Even if the money amount by itself isn't life changing by itself, it adds up if enough people do it and also the notion that someone is willing to pay money for your art will lift you up in the darkest days.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Woke up from a nap absolutely convinced I have to check out PS1 Asterix games despite no proof of them existing or being any good, just this feeling that they'll be something worth getting stuck into
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nobody ever talks about the treats to national security.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wow, what a monumental piece of shit.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
INDIANA: The adventure's of Indy's dad's dog but make it Homeward Bound style and Harrison Ford voices the dog.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I don't understand wanting to further abstract computers behind an AI chatbot when smartphones have already proven that the further you move away from the fundamentals of computer interfaces, the worse things get overall. Let me use direct inputs and browse files or get fucked.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Watching The Oddissey later today, wonder if I can ask them to turn the volume down just enough to let me take a little nap at some point.
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Design Room @designroom.site · 11/06/2026
We've got a big one today. Almost 20 years after Maxis released Spore, we talked to eight people -- including Will Wright -- about the studio's big experiment.
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Spore: An oral history
A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Kid wants to try Burger King and has been hyping it up to such a degree that I kind of worry what going there is going to teach him about expectations and disappointment.
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Bree 🍄🦇🌿 @breebird33.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
honestly kudos to anyone who can maintain any motivation to create anything atm
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
HOLLOW KNIGHT (Team Cherry, 2017)
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Maddy @saladplainzone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
YOU RRREPUGNANT RRROBOPHOBES
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Bandcamp Fridays in 2026 are like a transmission for an alternate reality where everything is a little bit better, a little bit more colorful. Always assume the next one is the last one and make it count.
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am suddenly overcome with the need to get madly into Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri again.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 06/08/2026
when i told my 5-year-old son and his friends this news they were literally bouncing off the walls, screaming in excitement. his smartest friend stood up and shouted "we're finally getting contact points with our favorite Nintendo characters in a variety of approaches all over the wooorld!"
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
These bastards need to be sued out of existence. Laws need to be enacted to make sure no one else tried to get away with this shit without being met with the same fate.
techcrunch.com
If you use Google, you're training its AI. Here's how to opt out. | TechCrunch
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” t...
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Alice @e6e6fa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Some days are just about bearing down the crippling anxiety of a meeting you're not to keen on attending, then spending the rest of the day decompressing from that anxiety and wondering why the hell it was ever there while still knowing it'll be back soon.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Saw a review of Widow’s Bay that called it “grown-up” and that’s surely the one thing it gleefully isn’t? It’s got the trust in its audience of a great kids’ show, untroubled by notions of external sense. It’s Gravity Falls Nights, is all it is, and us grown ups need that sort of inner child care.
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Widows Bay Show
ALT: Widows Bay Show
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