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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 09/10/2026

Got the newest @brandonsanderson.com book today, and the mailman left a lil note with it

A photo of new Brandon Sanderson book "Fires of December" with me holding a note in front of it that says:

"I'm happy to deliver one of Sando's works! Enjoy :)

- your mailman"

Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 24/09/2026

What a time to get an idea for how to solve an issue with the lighting model I've been trying to develop for my game, right after Control Resonant drops

A variation of a classic meme depicting two red buttons and a person sweating trying to decide between them. The buttons, in this case, are labeled "Do gamedev" and "Play Control Resonant"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 17/09/2026

Got these awesome stickers from @sleepimali.bsky.social today! They're a birthday gift for the teen - she's gonna love them (especially the Snail Crossing one) They're adorable af and I highly recommend getting some if you like cute stickers 😃

Photo of four art stickers and a business card for SleepiMali

The stickers are:
- A "snail crossing" sign with a cute snail picture on it, styled like a standard yellow and black US "pedestrian crossing" road sign
- a tiny bunny sleeping on (avocado?) toast using a fried egg as a blanket, with some small tomatoes clustered artfully around it
- a purple and black cat-like supernatural being with magical sparkles around it - this sticker is like a hologram and has an amazing shine to it
- an adorable turnip with a happy face using its roots as legs

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 10/09/2026

She knows how to be cozy and still stare at me 😃

Photo of Lolly, a brown pittie. She's up on the couch, covered in a blanket, head resting on a pillow, cozily staring at the picture taker (me)

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 10/09/2026

Yeah this was my most ridiculous bridge. I'm sure it's nothing by the standard of a lot of Valheimheads out there but it was a real pain to build it across this water - and high enough so storm waves didn't destroy it 😅

Screenshot from Valheim showing a large bridge over water, viewed from the coast, that is large enough that it vanishes into the distance

Screenshot from Valheim taken from on the bridge, looking straight along it, once again showing how it is long enough to almost reduce to a single point before it reaches the fog

Screenshot from Valheim taken from on the bridge, also straight down the length of it to a vanishing point, but this image is taken at night to show off the myriad torches lighting the length of it

Screenshot from Valheim taken from underneath the large bridge, showing off how tall it is (maybe three humans tall) as well as how the support walkway was built onto the right side of the pillars, just above the water surface

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 25/08/2026

I've visited or been through more places than I'd expected, honestly

A map of United States named "where I've been"
Washington and Indiana are labeled as "Lived there"
Most of the others are either "Visited" or "Passed through" with a few in the north east and central south being "Never been"

Apologies for not listing them all

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 21/08/2026

Surely there's a better name you could have used

Screenshot of a Bank of America ad from Instagram that says "introducing bofa rewards" which really leads directly into "bofa deez nuts"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 31/07/2026

I saw this random picture of a gourd and had to do this I don't know why

Photo of a green gourd sitting on dirt, with a long curved tip, edited to have the face of a slime from the Dragon Warrior games on it

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 31/07/2026

Yep, every time I see something like this I immediately hear the No One Knows What They're Doing jingle (from @mikeyface.bsky.social's Movies with Mikey) in my mind

Screenshot from Movies With Mikey of the phrase "No one knows what they're doing" in large block letters, with a little dancing anthropomorphic film reel next to it

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 24/07/2026

I assume it was named because all of those creators liked Pillsbury crescent rolls

A tube of pillsbury crescent roll dough, which you need to pop open and unroll to get at the actual dough inside

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 01/07/2026

ordering barbecue for tonight, gonna get me some rub for my bef bisket

Screenshot of an item in the menu from a local restaurant that has mistyped "brisket rub" as "bisket rub"

it costs $10.99

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 30/06/2026

Read the room, Mountain Dew

Photo of a row of Mountain Dew bottles in a convenience store. The bottles are all labeled "American Dew"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 21/06/2026

Put a good bit of work into the pond recently and it's nice to just chill by it at night again instead of having to do more

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 20/05/2026

The diagrams I've been drawing trying to track multiple reversals/redundancies in the data for this FFT code have once again convinced my wife that my brain has been taken over by aliens

Photo of a hand-drawn data flow diagram with multiple columns of numbers with various colored backgrounds denoting different flavors of data, with a series of lines connecting the columns (also with different colors) to denote how they connect to compute phase by phase

Sorry there won't be a better description of what the hell is going on here than that

A similar diagram, this time with letters and some symbols (because I ran out of letters) in columns between some of them where I was trying to figure out the actual instructions needed

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 06/05/2026

lol The key's in the syllables *proceeds to get them wildly wrong* honestly the only way to make this funnier is if your response had been:

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 28/04/2026

"Shakira, when the hips lied"

Still from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Darmok", showing the alien that Picard needed to communicate with that spoke only in memes, with the relevant example being "Shaka, when the walls fell"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 07/04/2026

Here's my Lolly, caught in a rare snugglemood

Photo of my dog Lolly, a dark-haired Pittie, resting her head on my arm on the couch

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 27/03/2026

FINE I'll leave my skin on when I sleep

Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail by "Bob & Brad" partially titled "Shoulder pain? NEVER sleep in These 3 Positions. Do this Instead..."

The image says "NEVER SLEEP LIKE THIS" and is a picture of a (model) skeleton lying on its side, with a blue pillow underneath its head, facing the camera

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 23/03/2026

Me, every time I get a captcha that says "let's confirm you are human":

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 13/03/2026

Finally did the Color Thing that's going around. It's interesting, but the actual numerical result depends just as much on your display tech as it does on your eyes. But it's neat to be able to tell how little color variation is needed before I can pick it out 😲 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

Screenshot from the results of the linked site that says "your ΔEOKJND 0.00092. Okay, either you're a mantis shrimp in a trenchcoat or your display has a secret wide-gamut mode nobody told me about. Suspiciously impressive."

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 11/03/2026

This area is only 1/10th as mysterious as some of the other, more famous areas

A photo taken from a car of a temporary sign on the side of a road in front of a construction site that says "Area 5.1"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 06/03/2026

Choosing 9 was hard Just off the list but almost made it: - Thief II - Illusion of Gaia - Super Metroid my9games.com

A 3 by 3 grid of covers of video games. From top left to bottom right, in rows:

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Outer Wilds
Journey
Mirror's Edge
Secret of Mana
A Link to the Past
Antichamber
Alan Wake
Unreal Tournament

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 23/02/2026

I have been reading this paper. If the fact that it's literally typewritten doesn't give it away, this is not a recent paper.

Screenshot of a snippet of a pdf that is clearly written with an actual typewriter, that says:

"The above development may be mathematically convincing, but it does not convey immediately what the corresponding computer program would look like;"

Then continues with a passage I have highlighted: "most of us think more easily in Fortran"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 20/02/2026

This broken cookie is calling me out

A Lemon-Up Girl Scout cookie that came out of the box broken so instead of saying "I am bold" it just says "am old"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 31/01/2026

Got a compiler warning: fftLength': 'const' variable is not used and, uh

Screenshot of a snippet of code, with the variable `fftLength` highlighted with shitty paint-drawn arrows pointing at every obvious use, including on the line immediately after the value is declared (where the warning is)

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 15/01/2026

post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Screenshot from "Sid Meier's Covert Action" showing a person in an office setting saying "Max, I've been going over the info we've got so far ..."

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 03/01/2026

Finished reading "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by @qntm.org and it was exactly my jam! I like how it starts almost as a series of short stories in the world that slowly connect, and then pushes the concept *way* farther than expected If you like SCP-like stories, you'll probably love this 😄

Photo of the US hardcover release of "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 13/12/2025

While I'm replacing the monitor mount I had with a new wider one, it's time to fix the fire hazard that is the wiring behind my screens 😬

Photo of my desk showing just an absolute nightmare of cabling - many cables going into a 3-monitor 4-computer KVM, plus a power strip and many other already-disconnected plugs.

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 09/12/2025

I wish I could play this game again fresh

The title screen from Outer Wilds, with a little planet in the bottom right with lil alien people sitting around a campfire

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 03/12/2025

I watch a ton of programming videos on youtube, and a lot of them start with this sponsor logo ...is this why so many of the devs I know are trans?

A screenshot from a youtube coding video featuring the sponsor at the beginning, which is just a large "HRT" inside of an orange capsule

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 29/11/2025

Got our tree set up! This year I finally have a lighting setup I'm happy with, thanks to the Vintaglo LED lights which finally do the obvious thing of "use white LEDs and color them with glass so they don't have that eye-searing blue color"

Photo of our Christmas tree, which is covered in small multicolored lights, plus more ornaments than are strictly necessary, and topped with a lit star.

The tree is next to a fireplace made of (faux) stone, with (faux) candles inside of it. It has a mantle with four stockings hanging from it.

Close-up of the tree showing the glow of the light plus a random selection of ornaments

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 26/11/2025

pretty sure she's a Bethesda NPC

Screenshot of one of the NPCs from Bethesda's game Starfield, showing a woman with weird lighting that looks more like the photo of Iwona B Horyn than it probably should

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 16/11/2025

After getting another Internal Compiler Error in MSVC, this popped into my head

Version of the "Epic Handshake" meme, where two extremely muscular arms are handshaking in a super cool way.

One arm is labeled "Programmers" and one is labeled "Decent Americans" and they are both shaking with the text "Fuck ICE"

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 12/11/2025

I dunno, everyone, I don't think the aurora looks that cool in person

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 10/11/2025

We have so many mushrooms in the front yard for some reason

Photo taken at night showing a bunch of mushrooms in mulch, backlit by the porch light

Close-up of one cluster of the mushrooms. It has a color gradient from a burnt orange in the center to more of a pale peach at the edge, and looks sort of like if someone took a cheese curl and extruded the inside of the curl inward and then down to the ground

Sorry that's a weird description but that's how I see it lol

Another shot (this time during the day) of just so many of these mushrooms

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 04/11/2025

Hows my ADHD doing today? Well I forgot my meds but I did remember to open the blinds ...most of them

Photo of my window with two of three blinds open

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 03/11/2025

In this economy, even the inter-dimensional tourist mannequins need jobs

Screenshot from Pacific Drive showing an anomaly known as a Tourist (with the appearance of a relatively featureless mannequin) standing in the road, arm raised, next to a Road Work sign, behind some orange traffic cones and in front of a large concrete pipe which is blocking the road.

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 01/11/2025

"Honey, did you park the car?" "Yep, did a totally normal parking job just like you asked" "...what" #PacificDrive

Screenshot from pacific drive showing a wrecked, rusted car perched on top of some oil drums in the middle of a road. There are orange traffic cones under the car, around the drums

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Josh Jersild @joshjers.drilian.com · 28/10/2025

Started up Pacific Drive to play the new expansion that @ironwood.bsky.social just released, but I have completely forgotten how to play lol So, time to start again 😁

Screenshot from Pacific Drive, showing the station wagon on a road with trees in the distance. The car is dark blue and covered in glow-in-the-dark star stickers

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