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I barely left home for about 7 years. I WFHed at my tech jobs, played video games, poasted on Twitter, and hung out with my wife (then gf) at home. Didn't do much else. This was *extremely* bad for my mental health.

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"I have an immunocompromised husband who could still easily be killed by COVID" is a great reason to mostly stay at home, and I truly mean that! But you shouldn't be trying to argue that never leaving the house isn't a mental health hazard, come on now.

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Blocked for standing by the well-researched phenomenon that never leaving the house tends to make you more depressed and paranoid :| I meant what I said in the first paragraph too

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 1h

There used to be a whole television network — this strange thing that predated streaming services — dedicated to just video games

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We need to revive 4o for one last job

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely one of the most prescient works of fiction ever. So much of it doesn't even feel like a parody anymore, it's just the way things are.

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Dear Leader was supposed to make it rain gold from the sky and detrans all the transgenders and deport the illegals but only the bad ones. Not cause crisis after crisis and catastrophe after catastrophe while humiliating the country in every way his deranged senile Roomba brain whims.

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good way to put it

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Fun fact: the original versions of Myst were just HyperCard stacks

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HyperCard was such a cool app for its time

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Trump promised cheap groceries and car juice, and now both are more expensive than ever, and all but the biggest sycophants and idiots are definitely noticing.

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Cozysters 🫶🎢 - Coming Soon! @cozysters.com · 2h

Apparently, some of my very conservative family members are planning on sitting out the 2026 election. I'm talking people who voted R for decades unfailingly. I know this is anecdotal, but the severe collapse in support for MAGA polls are showing seems real.

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Excited to announce we are adding support for Android tablets and Chromebooks to v1! This is in addition to iPadOS, macOS, and Windows! (Android phones, along with iPhones, will be added in the next major release. They will need their own versions of the game's menus optimized for small screens.)

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I get that you do not care that I have gotten violent threats as a trans woman for not being a revolutionary communist who rejects new technology.

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"I'm marginalized" should not be a get-out-of-consequences-free card for abusive behavior, but it's the strategy that crew employs constantly whenever they get any degree of pushback.

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A lot of these trans people who've been blocked/banned have viciously harassed me in the past despite being a trans woman myself because they decided me being a tech worker makes me evil. It's a crew of abusive harassers who happen to be disproportionately trans.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 2h

I'm trans. I've never even gotten a temporary ban on here. None of the staff have me blocked. All of this despite the fact I was one of the earliest users and am highly active on here. I know a bunch of other trans people in the same boat.

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“what is the information diet of politicians” is an increasingly urgent question

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I love Mamdani, he's a fantastic politician, but the whole "cooperative local and state government" thing is doing a lot of heavy lifting. NY and particularly NYC is very progressive politically. The electorate in a lot of places would reject a Mamdani-like politician.

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Do what you have to do to keep your loved ones safe. I'm glad you're handling it okay. That said, your anecdotal experiences do not change the fact that this erodes a lot of people's mental health and connection to reality.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6h

This is Vanceophobic, horse

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If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this

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I hope you can! I'd hope with the global popularity of Bluey as an IP that this would be easier to find than a lot of stuff.

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Bought this deck in the Cleveland airport from a vending machine a couple of weeks ago. $8 well spent

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This is a fantastic, albeit depressing, article

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Strategic Conquest, an early 4X game that was the first one I ever played (even before Civ 1!) on my family's Mac Classic recompiled as a native Apple Silicon binary!

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This is a fair and understandable take, but it's very likely to be a deeply unpopular one. That's the big shortcoming of these sorts of policy polls: most people lack the contextual knowledge and critical thinking skills to understand downstream impacts of policy proposals.

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This sort of rigid, absolutist deontology is one of the worst ethics systems possible. It does not serve making the world a better place. It's largely about people having an ego about never having to make an imperfect choice.

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Do people still use Android tablets? I do wanna get Cozysters on phones down the road once I can make versions of the menus and such that work better on small screens, but it would be fairly easy for me to release an Android tablet version (The iPad version will be one of the first available)

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Still can't bring more than the quart bag of liquids, though 🙃

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The only nice thing I have to say about our approach to airport security is that it is good that we have finally, after 25 years, realized that taking out laptops, taking off shoes, and preventing non-fliers from going to the gate don't solve shit and just make things way worse for people.

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Of course, their backscatter machines will never miss that a trans woman is pre-op and give you a suuuuper invasive patdown when it does. They catch gocks but not glocks

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The big thing that meaningfully helped with security post-9/11 was reinforcing cockpit doors. In the case of the Flydubai flight, we are lucky the stabbed pilot managed to unlock the door.

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