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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 4h
it linked to RAID: Shadow Legends lmfao
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to Lego One Piece"
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
in ye olden days, you would have to smell something good yourself and float over to it like a cartoon character to figure out what it was
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i hate it when the middle guy uses both arm rests
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new app idea: SHAZAM for smells
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i saved this from twitter like a year or two ago. it still brings me so much joy
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
wow, seems like everyone who knew jacob geller personally and worked with him is shocked and hurt by this. however, i, a guy who once heard him talk about mario galaxy, know the real facts
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the x-files doom II: the hunt for the truth, planned total conversion of doom II, web art (1998) web.archive.org/web/19981203...
a burning green torch with a pyramid of skulls at the bottom of its stand on either side, in the middle a stretched image of mulder and scully, overlaid over a doom II title font. above in green: the x-files. below in green: the hunt for the truth. mulder and scully are standing in mist and on a swirling circle that the mist is coming up from.
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Colin @moxbagel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I sometimes worry if modern people have the fortitude to weather the kind of societal change that is necessary to create an equitable world but also if they take away the Snoopy screensaver from the AppleTV I just don't know what I'll do.
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i just wanted to check in and see if anyone else was aware that Pete Davidson is currently promoting an AI produced Bitcoin movie with Gal Gadot and Casey Affleck, directed by Doug Liman
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i was gonna say "gave it to snake" but holy shit this is a massacre
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i'd crash arsenal gear into liberty hall for him 😍
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this has given me a lot to think about
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
LMFAOOO
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i saved this from twitter like a year or two ago. it still brings me so much joy
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why the hell did someone save this
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
most left wing people aren't left wing. they just hate neoliberalism. and some are just conservatives who want to smoke weed
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it is so telling that people are getting harassed for wanting the bare minimum consequence for this guy and he is just DEAD SILENT. absolutely got no time to tell people to stop. can't mention it on youtube either!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this sucks. you want "restorative justice" as opposed to punishment, but what has he restored? what has he done? what does a youtuber losing his career for admitting to be a rapist have to do with carceral abolition when he has never and will never see prison time, or even actual consequences?
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
generally, publicly admitting to a felony you never did time for is called "getting away with it," but apparently getting fired over it is "supporting the carceral model of justice"
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this conversation around rehabilitation is such an obvious smokescreen. “leftists don’t believe in rehabilitation!” just say what you want to say. when can we go back to pretending this didn’t happen. everybody knows that’s what you really mean
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
apparently nobody except the victim can judge what Geller’s done but all of us, individually, can decide if he’s actually grown past it. the hypocrisy is astounding. just to feel morally justified in watching a rapist talk about indie games over silent hill 2 guitar riffs
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i’ve seen people saying things like: “he made videos under his real name and face! he wasn’t trying to hide it!” the ENTIRE issue right now is that men don’t have to hide anything. they get away with it by default. this was public knowledge for six years and hardly anyone knew.
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/com... does this read to you as someone who is cut up about what he did? no seriously, does this describe someone who thinks about the severity of what he did everyday? to be doing this a few months after assaulting someone?
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From the Tinder community on Reddit: I'm in town for a funeral
Explore this post and more from the Tinder community
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the conversation has already moved on to if Geller has rehabilitated. in December of the same year of his assault, 2016, he was posting on HIS PUBLIC REDDIT ACCOUNT, that not only was he using tinder to talk to women, he was posting screenshots of his convos to the tinder subreddit.
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sid @sidvicious.ca · 02/10/2026
i bring you love
a drawing of mr Burns as the alien in the Simpsons episode but in sids style
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
i’ve been cracking up at this all week lmao
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
selling books. patreon backing. writing for polygon. wow, you jumped on that grenade for the rest of us man! i'm glad he told his wife but none of the people he worked with. very progressive! the gall of this guy to somehow spin this as a force for progressive change is really getting to me
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it's interesting his "continued drive to make myself and the world better" came in the form of, you know, a public facing career. that's the only way to change the world after all. any leftist would tell you REAL societal progress is in online culture writing.
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there is a conversation there worth having about how we treat people who have offended but to skip right to it is so telling
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
before geller has responded, multiple people have begun discussing if he has “rehabilitated,” “how long should people wait before being forgiven?” no offence, but if you’ve said something like this you are disgusting. it is awfully fucking convenient your solution involves still watching his videos
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i was not the biggest fan of geller’s videos but i at least thought he was one of the good guys, you know? he raised money for gaza, his videos generally were on a progressive slant. in some ways, i looked to him for what a video essay should be morally. if true, this is genuinely devastating
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we should hollow those out and put screens that play this on loop
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
list of ways gamers prefer to get information, ordered by preference: - streams - clips - videos of people reading news reporting someone else did - video essays - social media posts - newsletters - carrier pigeon - semaphore flags - smoke signals - shadows on a cave wall ‎ ‎ ‎ - reading books
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Aviator Animator @aviatoranimator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Secured rent, filled up on fuel, and was greeted with this bank account flash bang. Rough month, I can take more pixel commissions, other commissions I am still trucking along on. If you just feel like throwin me a bone, hit up my kofi 🙏 likes and shares are appreciated 🫡 ko-fi.com/aviatoranima...
Bank account amount of $0.67. Oof.
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hello, we remastered this classic PS2 game you like. it looks worse, plays worse and has tons of new bugs. the original file size was 2.4gb and could fit on a dvd. it is now 240gb and won’t fit on your ssd.
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Tony Zaret @tonyzaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After seeing endless posts on the importance of “third spaces” I finally found one near me - annndddd it was filled with media illiterate normies who didn’t laugh at my Deltarune references. So yeah, I'll stay ‘terminally online’ - at least until this city has more fandom-friendly pickleball courts
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Discount Whiskey @discountwhiskey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dr. Eggman holding a coffee and talking on the phone in a coffee shop while Sonic looks
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the final scene of this movie is a couple seconds of sean williams scott, david duchovny and orlando jones hocking head and shoulders shampoo. EVOLUTION did get one detail correct about it: if you use head and shoulders shampoo, it will kill you
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fesh pince ebooks @feshpincebot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LOOK, you BIG EARED FREERF, YOU TAKE YOUR HORNY LITTLE ASS, AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY! AND YOU FIND GEOFFREY!
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bro they got james somerton in pikmin
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it just gets better!
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think it is safe to say nixon is my favourite president to see in entertainment. first of all, he sounds funny. second of all, he looks funny
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
THAT'S MY DAWG
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit Kojima met Batou
Kojima with Asha Sharma and Batou from Ghost in the Shell
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LMAO
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the problem with playing dreamcast games is: - they’re all awesome - you will never find anything that plays like them again sorry buddy. you loved rent a hero and want more of it? TOO BAD. it’s the only thing in existence like it
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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
these are good?? they look extremely painful lol
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