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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

the internet peaked here

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

The people gathering signatures to put it on the ballot were just flat out lying to people about the contents. It's not likely to pass, it's just really frustrating to have to deal with it again.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah there's so much activity, but a lot of it just feels so hollow.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ok yeah, that's fair. I was also in big tech for awhile, but I think my brain is just trying to make me forget about that time.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

That's what always confused me about tech bros. Like what do you mean, you don't actually like coding?

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hilkojj @hilkojj.nl · 09/10/2026

📢 Wheelie is excited to tell you the game is OUT NOW in Early Access! Pave Paradise and put up the Car Parks of your dreams TODAY. store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/... 🙏 Thanks everyone for the support!

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm always torn when I see this, since they often lump in Massachusetts as "unamerican" - like on the one hand I think "good, America sucks!" But like, I live two towns over from where the war started, fuck them for deciding who counts as American or not.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Using AI is almost certainly harmful to us cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and socially. We should not use it. We should not normalize it.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks! Happy to be here 🩵🩷🤍

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

ICYMI: I came out as trans via Iron Village release notes, just for the bit. That *may* have been too subtle, lol

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still in the middle of Project OY work before announcing, but figured I'd drop an update to take care of a spelling error in the credits of Iron Village 🏳️‍⚧️: lunarchippy.games/2026/10/06/d... (Still have to update Itch & Google Play) #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

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Diary #74 – 1.3.05 Release Notes – Lunar Chippy Games

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Diary #74 – 1.3.05 Release Notes – Lunar Chippy Games

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

That is quite the gap between North America and Europe at the start of the chart - is that a holdover from the aftermath of WWII, or was that the case beforehand too?

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 02/10/2026

Please stop hedging about programming every time you critique AI. I am sick of hearing non-programmers say things like, "I know that programmers are all using this now, but..." No, stop. We are not all using it. You make the non-users feel like the world has gone mad every time you say this.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

(I'll note that I once made the terrible mistake of sharing a number 2 on r/gamedev, not realizing that the entitled assholes actually live there. Definitely best saved for friendlier social media.)

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's definitely tough, but I generally divide them into two camps: actual reasonable feedback, and entitled assholes. Number 1 you can either act on, or recognize that you took the game in a different direction, and it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea. Number 2 you can share and have a laugh.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

What an awful excuse too, like pissing in your backyard is *sooo* much better

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/09/2026

remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've had this issue a bunch of times, but I've just written a serializer to convert them to strings and back, just putting in a "," between the two values. I generally go with json saves just for ease of debugging, since save files can be at the root of so many problems.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Without mixing computer science with humanities and arts, video games could not exist.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ooof, I wish I could say he was the only American who talks like that, but...

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not typically a sentence I associate with good news!

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe it's just because the one I grew up with was closest to the early modern version (Episcopal Church), but the middle English was surprisingly easy to read

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lol, I wasn't even thinking about that, exactly! If it were real I'd expect them to shut up and just sabotage it from the inside. Like, getting a fat paycheck to supposedly save the world? Sounds great!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reader, I was in fact not prepared

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lol, those salaries are enough that they can just quit, and they'll be set for at least a few years.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Same! And it's not like those AI jobs don't pay super well, they should have enough money that it's not even a big risk!

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, I've got a Greenworks 60v electric snowblower, and while it does struggle with the worst of the snow, I don't have to deal with gas, so it's a win in my book.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

A planning board member did actually (politely) call them out for that though, which was nice

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lol, that even happened in Littleton a year or two ago, a couple were "raising concerns" about proposed MBTA communities zoning by the train station. They lived in a new suburban subdivision next to the train station.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

I used to drive a Ford Fiesta, when they actually did bring to the States for a bit. Of course it didn't last 😢 (Then they killed it abroad too 🙃)

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

At least up in Massachusetts, it's about what I remember paying when I lived in California last decade? Like, gas isn't cheap anymore, but I don't think it's mutiny level just yet.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks for actually writing this out! When I first switched to Godot, I started with GDScript, but ended up going back to C# because of these sorts of issues. I just never had the words, so when anyone asked, I would say that GDScript wasn't strongly-typed enough, but couldn't explain *why*.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lol, that's obscene. The town I grew up in had ~3k people, but that was considered too small for its own police department so it just had a part-time state police assignment. I can't imagine trying to make your own actual police department with a fraction of that.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The number one best case for “Republicans were always like this” is that the two absolutely craziest pro-Trump pro-fash justices are two of the three legacy picks.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

That implies putting Doug Ford in charge of the UK, that's so cursed.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

OK, turns out this time I'm the dumbass that didn't read the article. This looks like pretty standard QA work where the identifying info is stripped out - I'd argue that it might be insufficient given the sorts of private info getting fed in, but it's not as egregious as my first reaction was.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

to find out myself.) So in some cases, that assumption/trust was actually warranted. Just based on who these AI people are, the smart call is never trusting any of them, but I'm still counting these privacy violations on their long list of crimes.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

2. At Google pre-LLMs (and similar tech companies maybe?), actually seeing any unfiltered user data was designed to be incredibly difficult if not impossible, and it was audited enough that if you made it through those checks you'd be punished. (At least, that's the impression I got - I never tried

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can understand the assumption from two perspectives: 1. If you don't know a lot about how the internet works, it might just not occur to you that the specific text would be logged and viewed later.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

Has nobody selling things noticed that "Made in the USA" can actually be a downside?

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ooof, yeah I'm pretty sure that's common internationally as well, but it's shit.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the basis of my immigration policy. If you’re willing to do something comparable to what Fivel had to do to get to America, congrats: here’s your citizenship and vote Tammany

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