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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Book of patterns (gorgeous) illustrations by Lela Dowling

faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought deploying the discord bridge was also really surprisingly easy. But element is NOT a 1:1 Discord replacement and the way chats and rooms are structured is still frustrating to me, it's a weird in-between of pure comm apps like WhatsApp and Slack-likes that I doubt will gain mass adoption

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

First time I tried it around 2020 I gave up in a half-configured state, but this year I managed to set up ESS with surprisingly little friction other than the heavy reliance on kubernetes of which I had to learn the basics (didn't really want to run out it of a container). It even has its own sso.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(But yeah, sometimes it IS about the message!)

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can describe all of these, then, and be confident that someone who has truly engaged with art will get it; I won't spend a minute trying to convince someone who has not. It's not about the message, it is about how it gets you, reader, viewer, listener, player, there.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probing my headcanon of the ranger's journey in Quake, because a map author has decided to use a blue keycard rather than a rune outside of a futuristic base. As I blast through the fiends and knights, why a keycard? Could this be a meaningful discontinuity?

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feeling my blood pressure spike as vocal racism and implicit classism are preventing me, ME, the supposedly all-powerful player, from progressing in Morrowind's Mages guild ranks. I feel powerless. Do I take it in? Do I give up and leave? Do I fight? Is anyone going to help me?…

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sharing the infinity of the very instant Bobbin Threadbare accepts the weight of fate as he, and what's left of LOOM's weavers guild, tear up the fabric of the universe to stop the advance of fundamental chaos, as interpretations about the meaning of invitability and existence rush in…

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can describe moments such as idling my hovercar between two buildings in the neon rain of Cloudpunk, contemplating the busy cityscape after particularly thoughtful bit of narration, pondering the meaning of tech-optimism and where we are with cyberpunk as a genre…

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For every art form, there are very, very few works where pointing at "the message" is an useful way to justify their value. Meaning only really shows itself plain to people willing to engage with the devices specific to the form.

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Or even crowdsource the effort! I'd be happy to contribute.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You could always temporarily reupload their screens with attribution, and then set up a plan to go through the entire collection one title at a time and replace the screenshots at your own pace.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Based on their ToU "You may use up to 20 MobyGames screenshots in an article or project, commercial or non-commercial, as long as you provide credit." I would *personally* avoid rehosting them long-term, as I don't want to argue what is or is not an individual article/project. Maybe ask them?

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Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Petit dessin en marge : les mots oubliés par le copiste sont tirés par un homme, qui les file à un autre, caché entre deux lignes pour les insérer à leur juste place... Plus classe qu'un astérisque ! Walters Ms. W.102, f. 39v, vers 1300

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

that being said apologies for only engaging with the structure and the presentation as a first reaction. a bit of geeking out because I loved it so much but in a way I'm reproducing the pattern shown so well in the piece of how the ways of the internet are invisibilizing the "trans" in trans stories

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ergodic twist that turns greatness into something truly memorable. That was fantastic @blackle.bsky.social, full of believeable interactions and amazing touches (concrete's sig, yolo's annoying rashness, the avatars, admin interventions, all of it really...) i need MORE hypertext fiction in my life

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a similar opinion about Deftones. I absolutely love where they are today but the rawness of Adrenaline is a high I've been chasing since the nineties.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've just resigned from my job as a safety engineer. You have no idea how certain the entire industry is that safety engineering is leading to humanity being wiped within the next 8 years, this is *far too much* for me to handle. Now #OpenToWork in safety engineering!

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Plutôt qu'évoquer génocide et faits établis, elle aurait pu parler de Protocole des Sages de Sion, Aurore Bergé aurait volé à son secours en disant que ce n'est pas raciste.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Le problème des gens qui partent du principe que les IA gén. sont socialement essentielles et se jettent à corps perdu dans le comment sans aborder le pourquoi c'est que même un lexique de lutte des classes ne parviendra jamais à maquiller leur soumission à une logique dépassée de croissance et d'€.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I believe this to be the internationally agreed illustration for the verb yeet

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This last article drop on vacuum birefringence sounds like a potential new great way to look at stars! If this was a confirmed observation, could this phenomenon, along with better polarization measurements of the surroundings of e.g. magnetars, help us probe some previously unreachable physics?

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

computer graphics (1983) archive.org/details/TODA...

a 3d rendered skeleton on a chequered scape, a see through cactus to the left. the skeleton is wearing a cowboy hat and is resting one leg on a disembodied eyeball. hills in the background.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

After reading the paper more in detail I'm not sure where I picked the especially proto- aspect of it. This is just mind-blowing news to me, but I understand wanting to stay factual and leaving the elaboration to others. Brilliant paper, I'm chuffed

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That was awesome. Q. from a non-astronomer: is it correct to say that this object behaves like a proto-quasi-star? The link to LRDs is even established but "quasi-star" isn't mentioned once in the body (references do). Personal preference of the authors?

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Brilliant method, thanks for sharing the talk! Can't wait to see the demoscene start to use it 😀

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Cade Mosley @cade76.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If there were one classic story that best predicted our present moment in history, in spirit anyway, today's the day to remember it. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

They decided to make the absolute most out of OCR-A

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

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DRL NOFO Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in Europe - United States Department of State

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in EuropeBureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Department of StateOpportunity number: ...

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm genuinely going out in the nature more because of this.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'll be mad if there ain't at least a yellow armor on that roof deck

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If I learn the collective sum of every thing ever written, filmed, painted, sung, danced, mimed or scratched into a tablet about garlic, can I then say that I have experienced the incredible aroma of the early stages of sauteing garlic?

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you're not radically opposed to AI it seems natural to pick coding as the component most susceptible to low impact dev quality of life improvements. Considering how many coders don't gaf about their toolchains or SW architecture, I think that tracks. Me, I'd sooner automate project management.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Can't wait for the day we're forced to install binaries built by "The AI" to keep using computing devices

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Playing Exo Rally Championship has been inspiring for how I would do an open world. Racing has a lot of clichés but allows for fast and methodical traversal. Been thinking of a game where you're a racer but never get a racing quest in the story. Instead it's geophysical surveys and transport/rescue

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Purely aesthetic comment: this brings back fond memories of early 3D games with flat shaded polygons on basic primitives, those screens are triggering nostalgia for Mercenary 2 & 3 on the Amiga especially. Interesting games…

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Happy to see positive experience from a dev, from a reader's pov it's also one of the best forms of news feed, better than visiting each platform/social. I also like the idea of blogging on a game delivery platform that provides a RSS feed (e.g. Steam or itch.io) but RSS is less passive & more niche

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That was a nice read. Without at least a vague knowledge of the training corpus, a solid understanding of the scope of each decomposable step of the problem you are prompting, or some awareness of the common modes of hallucination, any use of a LLM kinda sounds dangerous to mental health to me.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I wonder if in the west, big, universal principles tend to take more cultural mind space. E.g. is AI there being pushed as a paradigm and world changing event as much as it is here? The cultural zeitgeist allows me to systems-think myself into being an "AI-hater" but this feels very western.

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Why not both? I have worked extensively with Chinese colleagues, while they definitely had a more generally positive outlook, the core of their attitude was driven by "let's find a way to make it work now with whatever's available to us today, no point overcomplicating it thinking about tomorrow"

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faelnor @faelnor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I wouldd 100% read fanfic about Banach & Tarski

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

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