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Joel Dinolt

@jdinolt.bsky.social
259 followers 420 following 409 posts

Husband, dog dad, technical director at Bethesda Game Studios/Microsoft, he/him Opinions expressed are my own.

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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am at this weird Nirvana tribute band show and it is really freaky how many of their songs are about sexual abuse.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Years ago, I was walking home late one night, and a drunk guy was harassing me - trying to get me to go home with him, pushy sex comments, etc. After a few mins, his mate turned to him and said, firmly but not aggressively, "MATE. leave her alone, yeah?" And he did. I think about him all the time.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just learned there’s a new Godflesh album sorry babe dinner gonna be late.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Showing my age going on YouTube posting a short of me wearing flannel and an orange beanie screaming “Leave! Bernie! Alone!”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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✨🥀Persephone🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I wish yall would start beating people up again. This isn’t even an option cuz you’re so gun toting trigger happy. Innocent people get killed cuz you’re actually too scared to fight. Every time you have a problem with someone doesn’t mean they have to DIE. You could beat them up again and again.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if you can't laugh at yourself, even the worst of yourself, you're simply not going to make it in this big cruel world
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In my day, the sex cult that was endangering humanity & the world was quite different. Ron & Nancy Reagan, Caspar Weinberger, Bill Bennett, James G. Watt, Ed Meese, Al Haig, Liz Dole, Jim Baker, Bill Casey, Jeane Kirkpatrick...never enough lube or leather in DC or northern Virginia in those days
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As many as it takes to maintain high profile media exposure.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ezra Klein remains a great case study in why "professional opinion columnist" shouldn't be a career.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Will repeat: if you’re that worried about what your robot is gonna do turn off your goddamn robot.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This goes double for the whole “outside safety auditor” thing. But now somehow Yudkowsky is certainly in for a cut.
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is the year 2028. JD Vance is polling 73 points behind AOC and her running mate, an AI of Karl Marx’s Collected Works. Gasoline costs 95 RMB a litre in New San Francisco. President Trump is live-streaming a bathroom remodel.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NGL I almost fell into the Rationalist thing in 2012ish but two things stopped me: 1. Learning their source text was Harry Potter fanfic. 2. The supposed “NRX takedown” done by SSC was so milquetoast it may as well have been an endorsement. Which kinda gave the game away.
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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 16/09/2026
If we held people personally and criminally liable for the "autonomous" actions of the AI systems they create and deploy, I bet the risky behavior would evaporate overnight.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16/09/2026
Honestly usenet has nothing compared to today.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was at the 2016 Grammy’s and I warned my friend who brought us that if Ed Sheeran won for best song I was gonna bum rush the stage from the back row where we were sitting and punch Ed in the face. He had to pull me off the seats in front of us. Glad to be ahead of my time.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So it's basically just the "Effective Altruism" scammers with a new grift
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I thought I smelled something… The underlying premise of this is “I’m special, one of the specialist people who ever lived, and deserve credit as such because I’m saving the world, no not from climate change, disease, war, poverty, anything like that—I’m too special. Assume my speculation is fact.”
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Also, lesson from the front lines of Gamergate: since they don't really give a shit about women's sports, changing women's sports won't appease them, it'll just embolden them toward more cruelty "lol no fuck off" is the correct response Then CHANGE THE FRAMING
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think it’s a dick move to tell the bassist to turn down. If anything it should be louder.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A parallel lives story about a young woman who goes on some bad dates and a slightly older man works at the aquarium.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You can just say "No, shut up." You can. It really is that simple. He can't make you.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Elon can’t be fooled about how computers work because he programmed some in C in the 1990’s and this is absolutely something that would happen to a database app programmed in C in the 1990’s running on hardware from the 1990’s.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Good QA has nothing to do with academic background” says the high school dropout who’s first industry job was QA and is now the TD for TES6.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Third try at trying to find a clever way to say “Bill Maher is a pretentious dumbass.” Too drunk. Bill Maher is a pretentious dumbass.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tell me you never had to work a food service job without….
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Not sure if this translates well to the social media landscape but what has worked for (and on) me in IRL spaces is the strategy ThoughtSlime suggests: “Hey, you’re being a real asshole right now. Maybe knock it of?”
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 08/08/2026
He prosecutes political enemies, high and low. He prosecutes random people on a whim. He is looting the public coffers. His administration posts lightly edited original-Nazi propaganda. He is purging the military of women, trans people, and people of color. He is revoking bodily autonomy.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What if…people just stopped doing what he demands?
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is “Spies Like Us” right?
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I tjink I have inadvertently based my management style on Al Giardello’s.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If the Odyssey was all that good, Iron Maiden would have written a ten minute song based on it.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Remember when we all laughed at her chained to the doors of Twitter HQ while she screamed “I’ll pee my pants if I have to!”. Good times.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The point of an anti stalking order is for the police to know whose door to knock on first after they find your body.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes TikTok wellness influencers
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Look guys I love China, China is so cool. I heard what you were all saying: 3000 year old civilisation. So show me Taiwan on this map
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Uhg. No. I will readily bear the brunt for “Runaway Train” by Soul Asylum and the fact the Goo Goo Dolls had a career but my capacity for guilt has limits. I won’t claim Sublime or 311 either.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Personally think the dude’s extreme posting and incitements to violence can largely be explained by the fact that he quite rightly views a functioning social democracy as an existential threat to his way of life.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Weird how no one talks about replacing professional sports with AI.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Proven beyond a shadow of a doubt: those nudify programs work all too well on the Odyssey. One must beware of gifs baring Greeks.
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Captain Su boo ru Baja blas @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Conor lamb was better in the long run He should run again
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I think the ”leopard eating faces” framing has always been kinda wrong. I think a better one is “Man who voted to be kicked in the balls expresses surprise it hurts.”
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Much like Friedman’s economics output this is based on assuming the model is correct and the real world, as represented by empirical evidence, is wrong.
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Joel Dinolt @jdinolt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Monorail Simpsons Dot Gif
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