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@jamessocol.com

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forever trying to escape my own light cone. he/him

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 19/07/2026

Huge props to my buddy Joe for calling this 30 minutes before it happened

Screenshot of an iMessage conversation with timestamps.
Gray: “Spain has also completed more than twice the passes of Argentina” 5:38pm
Gray: “No matter who wins this could end in a fist fight” 5:38pm
Blue: “Given they must have held at last twice as much possession this make sense…” 5:38pm

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 08/01/2026

Cops readying tac gear. They just walked up 6th St towards the park

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 08/01/2026

Shit ton of ambulances parked outside the hospital with lights on. Cops getting out tac gear and assault rifles

NYPD officer at the back of car 5065 holding an assault rifle. Finger off the trigger.

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 19/09/2024

I’ll take under 50k, considering how iffy I was to do a new social network at the beginning (and now)

BlueSky’s 10-million use celebration image, declaring I was user 46,112

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 22/03/2024

i don't blame accuweather at all for this, but this is the same shit as boeing: we've set up a society where SAFETY has to be profitable to be worth it and that is just untenable

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 16/03/2024

drop a ship that's not from star wars or star trek

still of the Fhloston Paradise (Fifth Element) in orbit

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 06/03/2024

i don't know if it qualifies as "breaking news" if someone who was completely irrelevant drops out of a "race" please, NYT, please stop covering this like it's 1996

Screenshot of an email subject. Sender: The New York Times. Subject: Breaking News: Nikki Haley is expected to drop out of the presidential race

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 24/02/2024

Show me a game that came out when you were twelve years old. I turned 12 in 1997, this is too hard to choose. All the N64 launch titles (+ GoldenEye, Turok, Star Fox, etc), FF VII, GTA, Fallout, Quake II, UO, Symphony of the Night, Diablo, Age of Empires, Oddworld, Riven... so let's go with

The American box art for Harvest Moon for SNES, featuring a bunch of cartoon farm animals bursting out from inside a badly 3d-rendered horseshoe in front of what seems to be a stock photo of a barn.

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 21/10/2023

What’s a random quote from The Simpsons that pops into your head all the time?

A screenshot of Ralph Wiggum saying “me fail English? That’s unpossible “

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 28/08/2023

I’ve gotten back into painting minis as a kind of meditative practice. These are some (mostly) WIP buddies

A photo of minis in a line. A goblin with sword and shield in the foreground; then a bugbear with a mace; then a troll scowling and reaching foreword; and finally a hill giant raising a huge club. Some other minis and paints are in the background

A photo of four elemental minis. From left: earth, wind, fire, water.

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 13/06/2023

this is true and the broader economics of "extract all value for shareholders asap" are bad, but also let's check where the calls might be coming from