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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 23/09/2026

We have a guest staying with us from out of state for a week and they juuuuuust tested positive for COVID 🙃

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 22/09/2026

Feeds! Feeds! Feeds! If you're having a bad time on Bluesky it's because you don't use feeds of things you like! Here's a mini painting/model building feed I made that's just people doing cool stuff: bsky.app/profile/did:... Use the top-right pin button and it appears next to Following/Discover!

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 20/09/2026

Accidentally broke my own access to my work email for the past week and had no idea until just now, which really tells you how much I pay attention to work email

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Apex Legends' is teasing a 'Street Fighter' collab.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 14/09/2026

One really cool, underutilized thing about Bluesky is feeds. You can add new feeds that give topics you want to see! For example, this is a feed of just Disney Parks-related content (posts, images, and videos): bsky.app/profile/did:... You can "pin" it and scroll through it like Discover/Following

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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

and re: where things are at, this from @jyn.dev is a really important overview of the dire situation we’re currently facing jyn.dev/a-year-to-fi...

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we have a year to fix security everywhere

consumer-grade hardware can run an LLM that hacks the planet. we can stop it, but we don't have much time.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 06/09/2026

"If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." I am not an AI booster. I want to uninvent it, or at least not pour our world's resources into it. But I still periodically see what LLMs are capable of. Last year - all slop. I was justified in my hate

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 06/09/2026

I am determined to prove that you can be largely anti-AI but also not be an asshole. The attitudes of some people on this site will NOT win over any minds or win you over any favours. If you insult someone, you are doing it to a real person. And it sucks!

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/09/2026

“Sorry to ruin everyone’s fun” I don’t think you are sorry. I think the animating emotion right there is “oh boy I am gonna pop off with this one”

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Love & Hisses @mizrobyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the CUTEST THING EVER (sorry it's so short.) Calliope was being loud, so I asked her about using her indoor voice. She gave me a silent meow, and it was so cute that I had to abruptly end the video and go pick her up and kiss her 1,000 times.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also I see a lot of "those bastards!" and "this is why we should UNIONIZE!" and hey, woah, I agree with the unionization 100% just in general, but this probably ain't that. "Furloughed and we'll bring you back if we can" is code for "that's a startup that only BARELY had enough cash to make a game"

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 31/08/2026

Saw Coyote vs. ACME today; very cute movie, a LITTLE uneven but highly recommend watching it. Lots of subtle sight/audio gags. I 100% see why Ellison wanted it gone, though, from a message/thematic standpoint it has Stuff To Say About America similar to the undercurrents of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 29/08/2026

Important Olive Garden Pasta Pass update

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 13/08/2026

Amusingly this is the same font that Olive Garden uses on their menu

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 10/08/2026

In college I lived near a Cici's Pizza. They had an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for $5, and if you did the survey on the receipt you got a free drink. People make fun of Cici's but their manager started to recognize me and make the delicious pizza I ever had when he saw my car. I miss it every day

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 07/08/2026

A wider shot of the photos from the #tiki bar itself

A picture from the countertop of a tiki bar. There is a golden snake tiki mug, a Jungle Cruise cookie jar, a golden snail, and assorted other items nearby. In the background are the items hanging on the wall from the quoted post.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 05/08/2026

Got a new photo for the #Tiki bar

A picture of 2 cats in a picture frame. There is a white and black cat (Moo) and a black and white cat (Togepi). They are together in the frame.
Above is a sign from the Adventurer's Club (Kungaloosh!) and another from the Jungle Cruise.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

what the hell??? youtube just removed the original rick roll youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

rick astley's never gonna give you up showing the video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines.

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fuck should have picked this image

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 19/07/2026

📍 Montezooma's Revenge Museum · Buena Park, California, US 🌙 75°F ★★★★★ MonteZOOMa cycling, seems to just be employee previews and not a soft opening beaconbits.app/beacon/kf7kejzn4dpqc… #BeaconBits

An empty queue set up behind walls for MonteZOOMa, with employees guarding the entrance

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 19/07/2026

📍 KBF Footwasy Ghost Town Reflection Lake Area Other · Buena Park, California, US 🌙 77°F ★★★★★ I didn't know they had a cute night market going on! w/ @whatthevelle.bsky.social beaconbits.app/beacon/kf7kejzn4dpqc… #BeaconBits

Hanging paper lanterns between different booths. A sign says Knott's Sumer Nights Market

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 19/07/2026

📍 Miner's Outfitting Dept. Shop · Buena Park, California, US ☀️ 81°F ★ Is that AI slop for sale at Knott's? Ew beaconbits.app/beacon/kf7kejzn4dpqc… #BeaconBits

A photo of a shirt for sale at Knott's Berry Farm. It is for the Calico Mine Ride. The train looks strange, one of the cars has shingles on its roof. The real train doesn't have a roof...

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 18/07/2026

The Odyssey needed more magic in it IMO; the only magical part was also horrifying

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...

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Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths

I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 07/07/2026

To folks looking for #GameJobs today: Apex Legends is hiring. A few roles right now, more to open up over the summer. You'll have to live in LA (Chatsworth, in "the valley") / Vancouver / Madison, Wisconsin. It's in office 3 days/week. Shares appreciated. www.respawn.com/careers-list...

A cut off screenshot of the Legends in Apex Legends, from the hiring page

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 04/07/2026

gonna play this one at our wedding

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 02/07/2026

"If our studio shuts down, our assets, code, and everything required to extend the game... will become open source by default... Most importantly, we will be releasing all the legal paperwork and processes that make this possible publicly so the model can be replicated easily" 👀

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Patrick @wallyboag.dissky.com · 29/06/2026

If WDI put the new pirate animatronic on the lift at the end of the ride and left the cavern scene intact it would have been universally praised by fans as enriching the show instead of detracting from it. It would be a great call back to the earlier scene and would make more sense.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 28/06/2026

Horrifying: * Spent "somewhere around $10-15k" vibecoding Git in Rust * "be warned that there is a high probability currently that it will do the wrong thing and may even corrupt stuff" * They changed the license from GPL to MIT(!) Literally all the worst ways of using LLMs in programming, just WHY

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21/06/2026

Flashback to when I was a Jungle Cruise skip who tried a new burrito from the Roach Coach during lunch. I had such bad gas the rest of my shift and tried so hard to hide it. One guest (unfortunately seated next to me) heckled me about it for the whole trip, loud enough for the entire bote to hear

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 17/06/2026

Unreal 5.8 is (probably) the final UE5 version! Actors/Blueprints deprecated! I expected Blueprints to become a frontend for Verse (like how the Material Editor is basically a frontend for HLSL). But I guess not. Seems the "replacement" to BP for non-technical folks is... "use an LLM", which, uhh...

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 16/06/2026

Why is it that Halloween movies are never released during Halloween?

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Come at me bro. I’m in Hell.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 08/06/2026

Because the western ones laid off all their devs starting ~2023, and those games would be the games coming out this year

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Seal inspecting a diver: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 07/06/2026

My @repebble.com Time 2 is here! I couldn't afford an OG Pebble back in the day. Super excited to finally have one! Thanks to @ericmigi.com for bringing it back! (Side note: anyone know of a case? 99% of the time I love blue, but my wedding colors are green and gold and I'd love my watch to match)

A picture of the Pebble Time 2 on my wrist. It is blue with a blue watchface

A second picture of the Pebble Time 2 on my wrist, with a better view of the display

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 06/06/2026

If we're going to do this, it should at least be Ranked-Choice. Not that the parties pushing for this change would ever agree to RCV

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