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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The demo for Shroom and Gloom was captivating. I've played it like 5 times now. One playthrough I got a combination of cards that multiplied my damage into the thousands and I completely smashed the final boss. Seriously check this one out. store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/... #shroomandgloom

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Shroom and Gloom on Steam

Gather and grow cards in Shroom & Gloom, a moody first-person, roguelike double-deckbuilder bursting with fungal foes and mountains of mega-combos!

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Coven of the Chicken Foot tops my list for anticipated games right now. It looks SO GOOD. youtu.be/mRNAbGYwvgg #covenofthechickenfoot

Coven of the Chicken Foot - Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by Wildflower Interactive

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If an LLM is trained on GPL code, then any code it generates should be required to use a GPL license. This is the purpose of copyleft.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I saw an old man wearing a striped shirt that said, "Yesterday". ❤️❤️❤️

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Meta ending Messenger.com is some fuckass bullshit. They want you to either use Messenger through Facebook.com (so they can trap you into an addiction cycle) or through the app (so they can steal all of your data).

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

*lady hears dog barking* A girl and her dog are out in the storm "My mom ran away. My dad is drunk again in town. Let us stay with you" Little girl and her dog fucking die during the night. jfc what is wrong with you *checks artist* Dolly Parton?! youtu.be/LzPDxVJDzaU

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

Me and Little Andy

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

1-hour of Cory Doctorow spitting hot fire. Ending anti-circumvention laws in the face of U.S. trade war is a fantastic idea. Let the farmers fix their damn tractors! youtu.be/39jsstmmUUs

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)

YouTube video by corydoctorow

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ugh. I have filters setup for words like "football" and "NFL", but I can't just block the word "bears".

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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

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Spencer KR @spencerkr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

So much of what we as creatives want to do is mired in draconian copyright laws, but AI gets it all for free. Okay.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Sunshine? Nature?! FRESH AIR?! 😵

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I held a tiny little bird today. It was just sitting there on the ground, in the walkway. I think maybe it hit the window and was dazed. I pet it—it's alive—but it didn't move. I scooped it up and it perched on my open hand. I stood with it for a moment.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Grocery shopping tonight and I was *assaulted* by this cover of Fast Car. Why must everything be homogenized and pasturized? I hate when they take something good, drench it in corn syrup, and cram it in a box.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Much love for Hermeto Pascoal. You are an inspiration and you will be dearly missed. youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM

Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)

YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 22/08/2025

LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)

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Kay F. Atkinson - Perfect Killer Bodies out Nov. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 08/08/2025

I love how an increasing number of rubes are entrusting their entire lives to a piece of software that wouldn't even be able to pass the dementia clock test

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics. How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

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How big tech is force-feeding us AI

Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Inevitable bad advice on every "which laptop should I buy?" thread: "Get a gaming laptop! My MSI has 2 minutes of battery life and a keyboard that feels like a pack of gum, but it's so much cheaper!"

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Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz · 03/07/2025

With the brutal layoffs it isn't even the "AI taking our jobs" part, just the promise of AI taking jobs that's providing cover for CEOs to undertake the highest level of short term cost reduction stock boost that would otherwise trouble even the most myopic investors.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It's called lubriCAN not lubriCAN'T.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I always thought I just didn’t like golf and what I’m coming to realize is that actually I truly hate golf

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Why are all the toys I liked now marketed specifically for autistic kids? Why? Whatever could be the reason? www.thetherapystore.com.au/speks-spectrum

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SPEKS - Spectrum

SPEKS - Spectrum - SPEKS

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#Saxophone players get away with murder. Constantly doing things you'd never let any singer do. Scooping up into every note. Bending pitch, hunting for a note, and never hitting it. Obnoxious runs full of squeeks and squaks. And the climax of a sax solo? A banshee shriek... every time.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Proud of Australia is today! Tremendous rejection of the conservative coalition.

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

PSA: Planet America is a show by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about American current events. It's a better, more direct resource than most American news sources. And with an outsider perspective, it's a fairly neutral and disspationate view. Watch it on YouTube. youtu.be/gnIzu65Ri5k

Trump's tariffs are causing chaos, but is he bluffing? | Planet America

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

Johnny @kybernissen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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Life hack: Whenever anyone in a meeting mention's AI, just say: "Oh, you mean a statistical model". Them: "No, I mean artificial intelligence.". You: "Yes, as I said a statistical model". Meeting ends, chaos reigns, consultants are called, someone orders pizza.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Solid list of tech companies to boycott. Encompasses orgs with unethical ownership, deep privacy and data mining concerns, monopolistic behaviour, and fundamental counter-incentives (deriving most revenue from advertising means the advertisers are your customers and users are the product you sell)

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

To all of my US friends that protested today: Thank you for your service.

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kudos to #Nintendo, not once in the #Switch2 direct or any of the press materials did Nintendo mention #AI. It's just a product with features that people might legitimately be interested in. #Nvidia has confirmed a host of ML features are in the console, but Nintendo gracefully sidestepped AI buzz.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

#Switch2 big unanswered question: do Joycon 2 have analog triggers? Gamecube had my favourite analog triggers, and great use-cases for them (loved Rogue Squadron 3 and Mario Sunshine). Gamecube games are coming to Nintendo Online on Switch 2. Perfect time to bring back analog triggers!

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This UI anti-pattern will always bother me, and I'm sad they brought this one over from Twitter. When I press the icon under a post that shows 15 comments, I expect to read 15 comments, not draft a reply. Why would you want users to reply before reading the comments?! #bsky #ui

The comment-counter badge shown at the bottom of bsky posts.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Broad, vague bit of thinking: across the board people seem to be assuming tech is further along than it is, and confusing it with science. Tech has all this marketing making it look shiny and futuristic and people trust it because without significant science in their lives, how can they not

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

AI fear is a marketing ploy to make AI seem more capable than it is. They want moron business executives to buy AI products, and moron investors to invest in AI companies.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My Tuesdays are stacked, but today was an especially big day: - made breakfast, clean litter box, did laundry, showered - school (Robotics and Discrete Maths) - eat lunch on the drive to work - work (drum lessons), had to lock up - got petrol - big grocery shop - maths quiz ready to collapse

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Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don't care who's in it. I don't care if it is critically acclaimed. I don't care if it won awards. I don't care if friends like it. There ain't no way in hell I'm watching a show called "Slow Horses".

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

How to make custom #USB-C power delivery adapters to power your music gear. It's not always easy to find the right power cable for your gear, so sometimes it's more convenient to #DIY. I keep supplies on hand to make these as-needed. youtube.com/shorts/PFQoj...

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Power Your Gear with USB-C Power Delivery Decoy Adapter

YouTube video by make_nothing

Kyle Kirkpatrick @makenothing.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

True of most Zelda games. The story elements are simply loose connective tissue between mechanics. And atmospheric elements. There is no depth to the storytelling. And there is no significant continuity throughout the franchise. And that's fine! The games are good *because* they put gameplay first.