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Even if the most important election on your ballot is between two pieces of dung, vote. There's far too many very, very important state measures and propositions in so many places trying to do things like voter suppression and deconstruction of vital regulations.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Drakodan @drakodan.bsky.social · 5h

lol ok sometimes the YouTube algorithm is alright.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 11h

Gen 1 OU sample teams on Showdown are aplenty. Just don't be a dingus who tries to use Charizard or Machamp in OU or think you're above using Tauros/Snorlax lol they are all but required I enjoy its simplicity but by god it is not for the impatient

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 11h

I have never committed murder, but I have had a match where Tauros scored 3 consecutive crits and I feel like that's almost as bad

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 11h

Gen 1 is a bullshit meta buried under a sick as fuck meta buried under a dogshit meta Let's have a meta with Pokemon's sickest mechanics ever (Hyper Beam and Counter) and also Sleep and Freeze are legal 1HKOs and half the meta crits you 20% of the time

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 12h

The one thread I saw on the subject was of a guy who was also saying "more data centers!" And immediately that set off all sorts of red flags lol

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 13h

Apron Uni! It suits him so well :3

A black-and-white cat wearing a black-and-white apron sits on the floor

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 15h

Also NO on 39. Buncha bullshit that one is.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 15h

The epitome of turning dicking around into a gag, I still want to know who the hell signed off on this and how they got the idea lol

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Bocchi The Rock Bocchi

Alt: Bocchi The Rock Bocchi in blender

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 15h

LRP three years later and I still find myself laughing hysterically at dumb Bocchi bullshit like the time the animators decided to turn her into a blender model and throw her into a stack of boxes for like no good reason other than because it was funny and accentuated the line

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 16h

One of the wisest things you can do is recognize your own capacity for stupidity. Even the most educated and accomplished people on earth are capable of confounding foolishness, often stemming from a false belief that they're a genius about everything. Everyone can make a simple, dumb mistake.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 17h

LRP Even if AI wasn't as terrible as it was in terms of ethics, pollution, waste, and sooo many other things that it is Fact is that GenAI makes it very easy to lie and deceive, and is oft used to do so. And it is not a good feeling to be lied to. Loss of trust in anything is damaging to society.

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Auntie Lotus 🌼💜 @lotusenta.gay · 06/10/2026

This is honestly one of the things that genAI has done to us that not enough people talk about. The amount of distrust people have now *because we have to* in order to avoid genAI is actually hurting humanity as a whole, and it is going to take *decades* to repair.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 22h

So Charles Barkley is in Space Jam as a cameo but a big push behind he connection to Slam Jam mashups is because of Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden which features the song in the soundtrack set to some chiptune. And then all the covers just kinda followed.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 23h

An annoyance I find with the piracy discussion is that people seem to think all piracy is equal, and like...it kinda isn't? An out of print 8 bit game is not the same as something that dropped yesterday on a storefront. Pirating an old ass movie is different from one still in theaters.

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Jakebe, the Hobbit Hare @jakebe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YES on 40 NO on 41 NO on 42 for all CA friends out there

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𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It has been memed to death but it just keeps happening so I think it should continue to be memed: If your script contains "lol I'm probably butchering those names" then you absolutely are and in this age it takes NOTHING to learn how something is supposed to sound.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's long for Mud, so I've been told

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think what amuses me more than anything here is this guy talking like vaccines began in 1990, when the MMR vaccine (the most often cited one) alone began use in 1971 in the US.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can add obnoxious meat-eaters to the antithesis of vegans as well. I'm not a vegan but my sister was one for many years, was never obnoxious about it but a lot of people who eat meat just fuckin love to be annoying and mocking about it even though there are objectively good reasons to not eat meat.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's why I think as well most snobby behavior comes around luxury, because entertainment can be a luxury while food is required. And luxury in food means like wine, beer, whisky, and to an extent coffee snobs (anyone who says coffee is "required" bought into Big Coffee's lie)

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it's because everyone has at least a few things that are considered "standard" that they nonetheless don't like. Like I don't like eggs and I think I get more people who are sympathetic than anything because it's such a staple food, they think "man I'm glad I'm not like that".

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even a lot of the most staunchly anti-AI people I know still fuckin quote the AI summary or even check AI overviews. We know it's a bad way to look at information! If you aren't disabling it entirely at least look at what it's sourcing, or go find an actual source. As close to every time as you can.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That sites as big as EG don't do this as a matter of due diligence simply as insurance against defamation/libel lawsuits is perhaps ultimately telling of the current state of western games media, but there has been such a widespread dereliction of responsibility on this one, it's eye-rolling. 😮‍💨

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Polly @pollyhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm convinced that behind 50-70% of hate watching/playing/reading anything is someone who actually enjoys a thing, but has to do it "ironically" in order to justify it to others/themselves.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Uni fits perfectly :3

A black-and-white cat sitting perfectly in a narrow space

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's some good ones here and there for sure. I quite like "out of pocket" and "aura". Need something to make up for garbage like "larping" and "ahh"

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jiikae out here performing a psyop to get his audience thinking he can drop a weak post just so he can drop an absolute bombshell when our guards are down I see your game man

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swift @swiftsrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

how do you introduce yourself to people when you're a speedrunner. "hi i play the same game over and over again until i get a little bit upset." cmon man

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Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

people keep getting this wrong. a softlock is if a game is technically continuing to function, but it is in a state where it is impossible to progress (e.g. idaho). if it's entered a state where core functions don't work anymore and you can't reset out (e.g. florida) that's a hardlock.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jokes aside, best of luck! You typically have a pretty strong submission set so they should be taking a good look at this pool

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Games committee if they don't take P4G:

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a lot of versions of the song even by Guthrie himself, but a key early one goes: "There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me A sign was painted, said: "Private Property" But on the back side it didn’t say nothing. This land was made for you and me." Man was saying "Fuck NIMBYs"

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's such an American standard that it often gets taught alongside the National Anthem and patriotic songs like God Bless America. You actually read the full lyrics of the song, the parts that *don't* get taught in school, and you find it's a song about shit like income inequality.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Been doing a project looking over Rolling Stones's various "Top 500 songs of all time" lists, and as boomercore as they are it can be fun to look at and go over. It also reminds me that boy howdy we really did not get the full story on Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" in American schools.

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GK @ghostkumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be clear: if you find a meaningful difference between "hates AI, never used it" and "hates AI, but dicked around awhile ago with some chatbots/image generators for a bit" enough to get upset, I feel there are some misplaced priorities at play there.

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authorblues @authorblu.es · 05/10/2026

If you can afford to spend $100m to buy legislation, you have proven why you should be taxed. If there was an ounce of justice in the world, he would be taxed twice as much punitively.

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