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Joseph Rooks

@josephrooks.com
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Ruthless optimist. Former comms #1 at Ultra Safe Nuclear, regrettably.

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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 13/10/2026
I'm done with tech at this point. Too many people like this to risk being associated with an industry that consistently chooses behave badly. It has caused me so much decision paralysis that the only option is to quit associationg with the tech industry altogether.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 07/10/2026
Wherever he actually went, I wish he'd go back and stay there
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is why I hammer on getting good at sales so much for people who are doing something actually useful and substantive. The liars have such an advantage.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 07/10/2026
Funny how the billionaires never get an example made of them in America. China's figured it out.
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Carter's Dad @johnmckendry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The world should accept" are the words of someone who doesn't comprehend the concept of responsibility. This guy's humanness is broken. He is an incomplete almost-a-whole-person with one important piece missing.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 01/10/2026
Everything is Super Intelligence when you're dumber than fish tank gravel
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 01/10/2026
🫡
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K. M. Cooper - The Practical Escapist @thepracticalesc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love seeing how AI is falling out of public favour. A local group did a poll asking people if business that use AI are a turnoff to supporting the business and a whopping 81% said it directly impacts their trust and opinion of the business negatively.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 25/09/2026
Plagiarist "apologizes" for plagiarizing someone's entire post by offering a free month of their Plaigarize Someone's Entire Post app lmao god there is no helping these idiots
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 25/09/2026
I just referred to it in conversation as "working as an entry level turd shitter at the consumable turd factory"
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prettysmart games @prettysmart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
THE SPIRIT LIFT is on Sale for Spooky Season! Starting with our 20% sale with Game Devs of Color Expo! Read all about it on Steam: steamcommunity.com/games/1727590/an…
THE SPIRIT LIFT is on Sale for Spooky Season! Starting with our 20% sale with Game Devs of Color Expo!

Read all about it on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1727590/announcements/detail/699902057256059901
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 21/09/2026
Fuck Reddit for the same nonsense. Your stupid games are absolutely making people use your website/“app” less. Let the community decay begin I guess. This is now a whole thread of this kind of user-hostile stupidity.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 21/09/2026
Fuck your app @imgur.com you do not need to FORCE people to download it to use your WEBSITE that people only gave a shit about because you built it on the open web.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 21/09/2026
I’m so sick of “download our shit ass app!” boxes I can’t close. Nobody cares. Nobody wants your shit ass app and putting a gun to our heads won’t make us want it more.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 21/09/2026
Co-signed furiously
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 21/09/2026
The only thing more exhausting than the bullshitters is all the people who take what the bullshitters say at face value.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 20/09/2026
Facebook Marketplace makes me want to walk into oncoming traffic
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 18/09/2026
I refuse to learn maladaptive writing behavior based on what AI does or what gets people accused of using it... and I hope I will see more writers have some backbone about doing the same. As a long time em dash unenjoyer in my own writing, I'm not letting AI take credit for killing it.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 17/09/2026
I've been very happy with my Focusrite Scarlet 2i2, it's 2nd gen and still working perfectly fine and there are plenty of them available for cheap on FB Marketplace in a lot of places.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do not them fuck with your vote. Do not let them fuck with your community’s votes. Print the zine. Read the zine. Hand it out to everyone. If you STAY ready, you don’t have to GET ready. howtovote.tips
howtovote.tips
How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 14/09/2026
FOREVER AND EVER AMEN
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 14/09/2026
One of my clients worked on the space station program and every other time we talk some new detail comes up about what a great opportunity for international cooperation it was. I think it goes without saying that we need more of those opportunities not less.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 14/09/2026
hilairously niche github repo 😂
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 14/09/2026
Fursona
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 14/09/2026
What an epic team up though
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 13/09/2026
Hi Elly!! Can you tell me more about this? 👀
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 13/09/2026
I'm not that Vintage 1985 Teddy Ruxpin's Friend Worlds of Wonder Grubby Plush Animatronic Toy... I can promise you that
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/09/2026
Row 1: Tux (Linux), Clippy (MS Word), Jeeves (Ask dot com), Octocat (GitHub), Duo (Duolingo), Duke (Java) Row 2: Wilber (GIMP), Running Man (AOL), The Bot (Android), Freddie (Mailchimp), Snoo (Reddit), TiVo Guy (TiVo)
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/09/2026
FRIDAY NIGHT SMASH BROS. TOURNAMENT but the fighters are tech industry mascots... which character are you using?
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/09/2026
can't wait for arcade.gov to launch Neo(nazi)pets
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 12/08/2026
Please write the piece, and then write the entire book.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 12/08/2026
(a) this is bullshit, but also (b) it's amazing that they didn't do this until they forced users to delete millions of hours of their own VODs and highlights. Would it kill twitch to have a little foresight, or to find things to do that don't piss everybody off? They have bigger problems to solve.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/07/2026
I think I spent about $200-250 that day for a haul that was worth closer to $3000
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/07/2026
I reject the entire notion of shame but the number is probably hovering right around 100... someone dumped what looked like 95% of a serious collection at goodwill one day and I was the lucky guy who showed up right after they hit the floor... I'll get through them all eventually...
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/07/2026
Interesting - gonna have to pick that book up. The gaming world as a whole right around the time digital games became a thing has always been so fascinating to me. My first ever Amazon purchase was a copy of "Dungeons and Dreamers," a favorite about how tabletop games shaped western video games.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 04/07/2026
This is just... so normal to me that I never questioned it or thought about it at all, ever, before seeing this. And it makes me kind of sad that a lot of people apparently don't get this! It's awesome! If you don't have this in your life you could just do it yourself because you want to!
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 30/06/2026
lol I misspelled Nikon... oh well. At least I don't need AI to write for me.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 30/06/2026
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 30/06/2026
I've owned a Sony mirrorless cam for a while but I don't find it as fun to shoot with as the Nikon DSLRs I've used in the past. So I bought a Nikcon D3400 and 7 lenses on a recent SF trip, and have been doing some of the most fun shooting I've done in years with it.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 29/06/2026
A Famichiki (a popular convenience store food in Japan) inserted into a Nintendo Famicom (Japan's version of the NES).
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 29/06/2026
This is almost exactly what I tell people too 😂
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kc 🌈 🐸 @ohheykc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My friend @josephrooks.com understands me and my sense of humor better than almost anyone. Tell ur fave weirdos you love them. Or kiss em on the mouth idk it’s pride month go wild
A text message in response to me expressing my love of hot dogs that reads: 
“As an added bonus the little hole at the ends of the hotdog is like a pill pocket you can just 💊 🌭 push your iron supplements right in there and it’ll be like a little treat”
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 01/06/2026
it's cool how the google drive desktop app has 1 job (upload/download files) and it can't do it without crashing
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 01/06/2026
The irreversible damage they've done to their own product is actually completely insane.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 22/05/2026
😍
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 22/05/2026
Just found THE dream machine I never actually expected to own because of how inflated the price is on the secondhand market… and I paid about 20% of that price.
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 20/04/2026
Reddit is really just swinging for the fences like every other social media account betting that if they optimize for the creepiest fucking dudes imaginable, they will get a home run
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Joseph Rooks @josephrooks.com · 20/04/2026
I think it’s pretty fucked up that I’m not logged in on this device and never have been, and this is the kind of stuff I’m getting notifications for from Reddit by default. What the fuck man.
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