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Emilia

@lazerwalker.com
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Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (+ organizer of Roguelike Celebration and !!con), currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Probably doing qigong right now. lazerwalker.com she/her

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19h
Riley Gaines? More like Riley Loses
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19h
POTS / gut dysbiosis achievement unlocked: straight-up sipping (lactofermented) pickle juice from a glass
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 21h
Today is all about the fun waiting game of "labcorp usually turns around this test in 1 day, why haven't I gotten results yet"
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026
What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 23h
So, uh, here’s how things are going on X, The Everything App with using MechaHitler for machine translation
A screenshot of a tweet by @justalexoki. The text reads “which mein kampf translation is your favorite”. There is a “show translation button”The same tweet as the previous photo. Instead of “show translation”, there is text indicating “translated from German by Grok”. The translation reads “My favorite English translation of *Mein Kampf* is the 1939 Reynal & Hitchcock edition by William Murfin and others-it's got a raw, unfiltered edge that captures Hitler's unhinged style without softening the blow. The newer ones, like the 2021 Manheim revision, are more scholarly but feel a bit sanitized. What's yours?”
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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm speaking at Roguelike Celebration this year! Come see me talk about the only three games that matter: Blackjack, Skull, and Can't Stop
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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026
If you ask me what the hit piece over the lesbian bar and masking really proves is that we're all credulous dupes who keep buying in to the right's purposeful dilution of what woke even means and they'll just keep doing this cuz we keep falling for it
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 28/09/2026
I’m ready for us to exit the transitory time of year when DST sucks shit because it’s still dark when I wake up
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 28/09/2026
The Instagram algorithm has started serving me content about Daoist gay sex and I’m here for it
A screenshot of an IG reel. A Chinese woman with very colorful full face makeup, a title card “how does Taoism see LGBTQ? The answer may surprise you” and a caption reading “Intimacy is not a gender relationship! but an energy relationship” with Chinese subtitles below it
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 27/09/2026
I intellectually understand that while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. That we are not our minds and bodies (even as we are our minds and bodies). I've even occasionally experienced deeper understanding of these. But fuck is it hard to tap into when your body is acutely torturing you.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/09/2026
Man, I’ve known the last six months that steroid tapers are hell, but no one prepared me for “oh yeah, once you get to the halfway mark it gets WAY worse”
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/09/2026
Give me the confidence of the marketer who proudly decided to slap a sticker on this box of 70 items that reads “value pack: 40% more compared to 50 count”
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 25/09/2026
Okay but this actually rocks, sunglasses that are also bluetooth headphones are actually a delight, and the current Pervert Glasses are honestly better at that than the Bose Frames were (RIP). I still wouldn't trust a Meta-made device with a microphone, but I'm glad these exist.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 25/09/2026
My job was affected by this week’s Microsoft/Xbox layoffs. Given I’m on disability leave, this hilariously affects nothing about my day-to-day life, but it sucks to know that if I ever get well enough to work again, I’ll be facing a job hunt instead of being able to ease into my old job part-time.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 23/09/2026
A stressful thing happened to me that would ruin anyone’s week (or month, or year), but of course for me the result is my body hard-crashing and confining me to bed. I miss having a normal stress response.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 23/09/2026
The drama over the mask-required bar in MA obviously makes me sad to see people who should know better not give a shit about the ongoing pandemic, but I’m logistically curious about a masks-required space whose business model is selling things that go in your open mouth.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026
need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 22/09/2026
It is a Tuesday, and corporations are making my life stressful
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/08/2026
An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.
thedailytism.com
AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late
An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.  Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…
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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wait til you people are 48 not 38. Then you'll see. You'll see.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 18/09/2026
Hey, a reminder that even though it's been two weeks and things have quieted down, @1password.bsky.social is still giving $300k to a fascist shithead and you should cancel your account and loudly let them know. (Ditto for DigitalOcean, except it's even more money)
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 17/09/2026
The silver lining to everyone talking about EA/rationalism/AI safety nonsense is that seeing normal people be forced to learn about Aella is extremely funny
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 15/09/2026
I’m not fully sold on this article yet, but it’s interesting given “clenching” is a key metaphor I also reach for as an overarching theory of “emotional and physical tension and trauma are all very similar, and undoing what they create is a key goal of most contemplative practice” howtounclench.com
howtounclench.com
How to Unclench
A field guide to the strange, trainable skill of unclenching.
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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it’s so fucking funny and good. be an untitled goose in a post-scarcity utopia, wheeling around being grumpy, irritated and pleasingly obsolete
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 13/09/2026
This body is a machine that turns delicate double-walled glassware into a floor full of glass shards
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 12/09/2026
wow, Android dev really is for the transes
A screenshot of a button reading "Start AGP Upgrade Assistant"
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
thelettersfromleo.com
Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 10/09/2026
guy who confuses the words "biopic" and "biofilm"
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 09/09/2026
Extremely good day for extremely sicko JP game announcements
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 09/09/2026
oh HELL yeah, the original Mystery Dungeon game that precedes Shiren
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Otter receives head scritches.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 08/09/2026
I have opinions about OoT that aren’t interesting enough to post, but I’m mostly struck by how un-Nintendo this feels. This is supposed to either be a weird left-field experiment that doesn’t quite work, or completely half-ass the port, polished UEslop feels like a different company.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
it turns out "the future is unevenly distributed" is a kinder way of saying "the future is stochastic" in the stochastic terrorism sense
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 07/09/2026
Excited to see y'all in our freshly painted MUD space with preview event speakers @martinpi.bsky.social, @matronboy.bsky.social, and Greg L. who made this lovely little ad as part of a coding demo for his talk! September 13, 2026, 2PM PDT | 21:00 UTC www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Dr. Rebecca Gibson @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Okay, so: always keep your medication's packaging, and if you have epi pens GO TO THE WEBSITE AND CHECK, DO IT NOW. www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
fda.gov
American Regent, Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Three Lots of Epinephrine Injection, USP 30 mg/ 30 mL (1 mg/mL) Due to the Presence of Particulate Matter and Lack of Assurance of Sterility
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 3, 2026 – New Albany, OH, American Regent, Inc. is conducting a nationwide voluntary recall of three lots of Epinephrine Injection, USP 30 mg/ 30 mL (1 mg/mL) multi d...
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 07/09/2026
Having sex in early December in an attempt to have you/your partner go into labor on Labor Day, for the bit
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 05/09/2026
Well, today's the first day in like a week I only feel like a normal level of crap instead of a worse level of crap, so tomorrow I get to decrease my med dosage and intentionally feel like crap again. Fun that this is just my life for the next ~2 months.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 05/09/2026
Thoughts were invented by Big Nervous System to sell more worry
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 05/09/2026
I’ve never particularly paid attention to Kelly Clarkson, but I’ve become obsessed with how wild this cover is and that she’s doing it live in the original key. Like, holy shit, humans aren’t supposed to be able to belt an A5 like this. youtu.be/py_P2TI-gNg?...
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'Golden' from Kpop Demon Hunters | Kelly Clarkson Kellyoke Cover
YouTube video by The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/09/2026
As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated model but, like, the fluid dynamics of a language slurry.
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b lyin @hexcavator.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it may be misguided to accuse every individual who denies the ongoing COVID pandemic of eugenic fascism, but that doesn't mean the pandemic *isn't* ongoing or that the *systems* enforcing its minimization *aren't* eugenic & fascist
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 03/09/2026
referring to doing my injection as "performing the blood ritual"
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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
YOU - Hold on. Have I ever eaten a burger out of the trash? ENDURANCE - You have. The body remembers.
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