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Hollyphant Pants

@hollyphantpants.bsky.social
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Software developer, nerd, gamer.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's weird that if you set an AI agent to searching for 3D models to train on and it got them by hacking the Disney servers, and then used them to train models, it would all be perfectly legal. I don't know why corporations are not worried about this.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Currently reading “Ready Player One” with no background except a lot of people hate it for some reason. Impression of first few chapters: This is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Guess for twist: the mad billionaire uploaded himself to the matrix.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The experience of being on Reddit right now.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This should not be allowed, the constant text messages bring the Democratic Party into disrepute, and I'm not surprised that older folks with memory issues just keep donating, forgetting that they already gave.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.
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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”
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Steven Pumpkin Spice 🦇🎃 @silent0siris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.
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The thing about Denethor is that he not only succumbed to despair, he wanted to ensure that Faramir succumbed with him. Similarly, a lot of people now are not only succumbing to despair, they're actively proselytizing despair, trying to convince others to join them in their hopelessness. Despair is apparently lonely and they want company in their self-immolation.
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btw denethor succumbed to despair bc he was doomscrolling on the palantir. Sauron tweaked his algorithm so he only saw bad news, and he fell into the trap of thinking the world couldn't be saved.
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 09/07/2026
WADJET EYE IS 20 YEARS OLD!! Which means it’s time to celebrate with another group photo. It’s frankly ridiculous that the universe has allowed me to continue doing this for so long. I’m grateful for it every day. Thank you all.
20 games and 20 years worth of Wadjet Eye characters, all bunched up for a group photo.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Floating Universal Basic Income as the tech oligarchs eye the destruction of what remains of gainful employment is just a weaponized mirage. The political class isn't going to pass this. Neoliberals are relentlessly destroying even the meager social programs that remain. Stop it with this nonsense.
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joemag @joemag.games · 01/07/2026
It was Schumer & Jeffries who believed that the best strategy to beat Trump was to do nothing and hope that he would step on enough rakes to make the midterms a cakewalk. Well, Trump stepped on the rakes, but the do-nothing left a big opening on the left flank of people demanding they do-something!
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I made an alt account for testing some stuff for work. I followed no-one and posted only test posts. It's very interesting how many obvious bots immediately followed me: all with the standard "I hate Trump blah blah" posts.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For anyone going to the ICE protest in Berwyn PA today at 4.30pm, please check the weather before setting out. If there is heavy rain or thunder we will cancel.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
The described cocktail in a coupe glass.  It's very algae lookin
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
ICE Protest in Berwyn PA on June 22nd 2026 https://www.teslatakedowndevonpa.org/westlakes
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 16/06/2026
I don't think the average "gamer" really understands just how dire it is yet. Like, games are still coming out and things still feel 'normal' if all you do is browse Steam, but the industry is very much hemorrhaging amazing people at an unsustainable rate and you *will* feel it in time.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
2 important things about today's column 1st, we need to talk about how insane it is that Elon Musk abused his X platform to whip up violent race riots in Belfast, and yet 3 days later becomes the world's 1st trillionaire. How is this real? 2nd, also important... www.inquirer.com/opinion/elon...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 04/06/2026
The Video Game Soda Machine Project just got its first update in nearly five years. That's how much I'm enjoying Perfect Tides.
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Perfect Tides
I'm currently streaming Perfect Tides, a coming-of-age point-and-click adventure from Meredith Gran, on Twitch, and I stumbled across this bodega soda machine.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Saw Backrooms yesterday and I have never seen so many teenagers in one room in my life! Found out the director is only 20. A breath of fresh air in our age-dominated world and a great movie.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Crazy how everyone in the UK is sweltering while here in Philly the Memorial day long weekend was cold and rainy. I did not move here for this!
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15/05/2026
I'm just irritated that this new dystopic right-wing prophecy about birth rates totally contradicts the previous utopian right-wing prophecy about computers making labor obsolete, which has an unclear relationship to the one about moving to Mars. Just give me consistency
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Like, what do you think will happen if Dems change their platform on racial prefs? Fox holds a party to proclaim the new greatness of Dems? Musk tweaks the algorithm to not bury Dems? Of course not. They'll deploy the trolls to broadcast that Dems abandoned minorities. There's no upside.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Some places are just the opposite of haunted. Every time I go up to my office in the attic I just get a sense of complete tranquility and calm. Right now, it's raining lightly, a little pitter-patter on the roof, and the light outside is silver-gold.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/05/2026
Democrats could promise every single resentful white working class guy in the country his very own rainbow unicorn & it wouldn't matter because those guys *never hear what Dems say*. They get their information about Dems entirely second had, via sources committed to making them hate Dems.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Big turnout for protest against ICE moving into an office in Berwyn PA (Philly suburbs) - more info here www.teslatakedowndevonpa.org/westlakes
A crowd of people stand at the edge of a Pennsylvania road holding signs protesting against ICE.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If your novel features an American protagonist, he probably doesn't say "sticking plaster" when he means "bandage" even if he is a seemingly ageless vampire born in colonial-ish America and your editor absolutely ought to have caught that, but I guess this is just where we are now in terms of QC.
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
If you happen to live near Philadelphia, come protest a sneaky new ICE law office that they stealth opened in a business park on the Main line. Monday May 4th, 4.30pm. Details: www.teslatakedowndevonpa.org/westlakes
ICE cold welcome protest, Westlakes, Berwyn, Monday May 4th 4.30pm-6pm. Park at trail parking and stand on Swedesford road grassy verge.
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This happened with a lot of different minority groups and it’s a result of everyone being trapped in their own information silos on the internet and not looking at what Trump is saying to other minority groups.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If I were trying to sell AI to the public I would be saying “it’s a useful way to write code faster and automate some tedious tasks that couldn’t be automated well before” and instead they’re running with “get on board or get left behind” and “we WILL eliminate your job.”
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"The idea that a woman can be as powerful as a man is something that our society can't deal with. But l am as powerful as a man, and it drives them crazy. " - AOC
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
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a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face
Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face
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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I've been doing some research into locations in Prague using Google Maps, and either the guy who was tasked to take the photos got the camera position wrong, or there's a small hairy ghost haunting large swathes of the city.
An image from Google Maps. It shows a Prague street. in the centre is what looks like a floating ball of hair.An image from Google Maps. It shows a Prague park. in the centre is what looks like a floating ball of hair. A woman is walking by on the right, oblivious.An image from Google Maps. It shows a branching path in a Prague park. in the centre is what looks like a floating ball of hair.An image from Google Maps. It shows a Prague street. in the centre is what looks like a floating ball of hair.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Folks, the oracle is telling me if I attack Iran “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again".
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/03/2026
I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it
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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 15/03/2026
I'm home and I've written a bit on my blog about post-GDC feelings: meredithgran.com/gdc-thoughts...
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GDC Thoughts and Prayers - Meredith Gran
I’m home! Let’s see if I can zero in on the stuff I really wanna say. I was up for an award I was sure I wouldn’t win. I did not write an acceptance
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We went from t-shirt weather to winter coat weather in 2 days. American weather is bizarre.
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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published 1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series 1997 - BBC remake 2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added 2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap 2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 02/03/2026
The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI aftermath.site/gameshub-click...
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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Just had a very unpleasant person claiming to be a socialist curse at me in the most vile manner because I said liberals were not in favor of the war on Iran. I think there are a lot of right-wing people here pretending to be on the left to try and get us fighting each other.
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Landon Noss @landon.wtf · 25/02/2026
still just really upset about this variety.com/2026/gaming/... unreasonably upset. uncouth ass industry
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One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals
One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off over the past two years, according to GDC.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████
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green496.bsky.social @green496.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If there is one silver lining in modern politics, it’s that all the terrible ideas and evil policy are migrating to one side of the spectrum, and so the other side is negatively polarized into good policy.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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