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Harold Kimball

@kimballharoldf.bsky.social
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Bethesda/Microsoft Alum. Doing union stuff in Austin.

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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 1h
A Venn diagram that says manually writing sql and playing professional football on the sides, and things that give you cte brain in the center
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 1h
You know, don't threaten me with a good time. I love writing SQL. And frankly, computers write terrible sql.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 2h
Its never been like this. I was born and raised in Texas and have been here as long as you, almost everyone outside of the big cities has continually used slurs to describe immigrants or anyone non-white since I was a child.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Did he watch that poor dude get mauled yesterday at the zoo in the UK and decided he wanted to watch more?
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026
Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how every average joe liberal in the south feels. More southern dems running for office need to have this kind of all gas no brakes, preacher on the pulpit attacks. Because they're true and every southern lib eats this up.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These people have lost the plot. A piece of silicon has no soul, cannot feel pain.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Its crazy how hard the republicans are hitting phones. Non stop texts from them trying to demonize talarico and get me to vote R. Also, Angie Paxton telling me to vote for her cheating husband is rich.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Take with a grain of salt, but it seems like well educated republicans are at the end of their rope with trump's GOP and most of them hate paxton's guts cause hes a crook. That's what im getting at least living here. I suspect Cornyn would be an even race against talarico, maybe +2 points.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honestly I would kill for an EV Focus RS.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I honestly, wouldn't buy most American products anymore in the car market. The majority of their lines suck outside their best truck and "sports car". You know what I want out of a cheap EV, and who makes it? Slate. www.slate.auto/en
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Slate Auto | The Customizable EV That Works for You
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I still will not watch this movie again to this day.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now Nightdive needs to release SQLDOOM: Remastered for the switch 2.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have to see their internals.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alot of low income folks use the roku TV's and get constantly marinated in AI ads, obviously fake medicare ads, absurdly republican ads. I've never seen a democratic candidate on those TV's at all.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Biggest change I've seen is that city councils are actually afraid of people protesting. Liberty Hill, a historically red area voted to kill flock cameras. The biggest thing I've seen are the deluge of Republican ads on Roku TV channels here (e.g. live TV over Roku, or their regular junk programs)
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God I hate that billboard. The "Demon Rats" billboard south of austin in Buda or out past Kyle was insane for a while.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I cannot shake the feeling that even with all of the Talarico yard signs in historically red areas (in my part of centex) we're in for some more fuckery. I am genuinely excited to see the numbers this high because this means we might have a meaningful change in govt for the 1st time in 30 yrs
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Play FFXI on a private server first. Then go to the free trial. FFXI is not everyone's taste and doing the "official" launcher is a bad bet these days. Windower or Ashita is required to make it actual like proper modern software. If you don't like the old school style, then go 14.
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 01/10/2026
hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tbh, they really want their AI to be Data from TNG and they want to work with their computers like the bit in The Voyage Home.
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Star Trek Scotty: Hello, computer!
Alt: Star Trek Scotty: Hello, computer scene from Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Definitely not a mimic.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh and streaming performance is worse on dual mode than solo mode. what a joke.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NMS and HL:A basically worked as advertised other than sound being optional after about 5 minutes. Everything else VR that I tried? absolutely not. So I guess only pick it up if you are playing steam games on VR or standalone for now. Depending on steam's reply, I will likely refund.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't navigate desktop windows unless they are docked with steam controllers. So I can't pause the VR stream open up the virtual screens fix a setting and resume. All of this are gripes that VD solves easily. Did anyone at steam actually try anything not in their ecosystem?
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Set to same settings as Q3 and Virtual Desktop. Played MW5. 10-20% worse visual fidelity at same reported resolution. Colors are washed out and overly saturated. Foveated streaming makes edges overly blurred comparatively. Causes weird bowl effect while moving head, as if looking at curved screen
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok, honest review of the steam frame. 1/5 stars right now. Immediate issues: Will not respect refresh rate at all no matter the settings. Cannot play any game for more than 10 minutes because the audio cuts requiring a restart. Headset dongle required an hour of config to work, is not 100%
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have been voting against these assholes since Kinky Friedman was on the ballot. If the average joe here in texas had 10% more imagination on second order effects the state would have been competitive for a long time.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This game makes stellar screenshots.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After my initial gripe at control resonant for opening up the way it did it is now my favorite game released this year.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Half Life Alyx is nuts on PCVR. Great fidelity and the motion controls just feel right.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
san.com/cc/mls-fan-g...
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MLS fan gets booted from St. Louis stadium for wearing MAGA hat: Video
A soccer fan posted a video of him being kicked out of an MLS game in St. Louis for wearing a MAGA hat on July 26.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Under the MLS fan code of conduct, which applies at Q2, fans can't display signs, symbols or images for commercial purposes or for electioneering, campaigning or advocating for or against any candidate, political party, legislative issue, or government action.
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Major League Soccer struggles with free speech as fans protest Trump's immigration policies
Recent protests at MLS matches and the ensuing bans for some fans have put the league in a delicate position, balancing tolerance and enforcement.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why does everything have to be a souls like? I just wanted to play control resonant and have a normal time of things and its just why does every fucking game now have to have a souls boss at the very start. The boss does nothing. It's completely thrown me out of the FTUE and made me feel awful.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an engineer doesn't even understand the basics of transistors they certainly are not going to be able to get the lights to turn on. I'll give Huang that no single person understands a modern chip 100%, but given time they could break it out to their component parts no problem.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wait wait wait, the GTA 6 special edition is basically a kit for doing coke like you would in the 80's and no game?
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ALL GAS NO BRAKES! Texas friends, make sure to check your reg with the SOS and if needed go to your county elections office and register in person! Although I don't know why anyone on bluesky reading this wouldn't be registered...
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All Gas No Brakes Baby! Enthusiastic Fan
ALT: All Gas No Brakes Baby! Enthusiastic Fan
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IBM PS/2 on DOS. Great big loud piece of junk that was for running commander keen, shareware doom and old msdos word!
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone needs idris elba dropping a set at a house party.
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IDRIS DJs a House Party | Black House Radio
YouTube video by Black House Radio
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you need the litmus test for the vibecession, this is it. It's the open corruption. The fact that a 12 pack of coke went from $4 to $12 in less than 10 years is absurd. The average non grifting American is watching this happen while they have their wages evaporated. Thats the vibes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
like, the kind of corruption that not even john roberts could pretend isn’t real
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
other than call of duty and wow i genuinely think the smart move is to assume that any other xbox game thats more than a year away is never coming out. ‘mass layoffs and activision taking over halo’ just doesn’t describe how disastrous and destructive microsoft’s actions have been
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
this whole xbox thing feels like a true emperors no clothes moment. there is so obviously no plan, anything announced yesterday is overruled tomorrow, that even reporting the facts feels laughably insufficient.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
what the fuck do you mean "could"??? www.realitytea.com/2026/09/21/e...
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Elon Musk Could Face New Scrutiny if Democrats Take House
Journalist Maggie Haberman said Democrats have privately discussed subpoenaing Elon Musk over his DOGE work.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really feels like Microsoft wants to dump Xbox. I can't think of more ways to disrespect their own workforce. Oh they made fallout games at different times, lets make them a mega-studio. Give me a break.
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone at Xbox - and everyone no longer at Xbox - all deserve better than whatever this is.
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