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pablo @morepablo.com · 01/10/2026

I'm left to conclude he just picked a foreign-sounding word to make his concept seem deeper and more like Fine Craft, which Japanese is very prone to e.g. the joke of this tweet

Tweet from 2022. Quoted tweet says "I know people are making jokes but this is a serious situation. In Japanese culture, Prime Ministers, even former ones, are considered important figures and assassinating them is a serious cultural..." before getting cut off. The quoter (@no00EBlle) adds: "Murder is actually really frowned in Japan. It goes against the traditional concept of 生きる, which means "to live""

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pablo @morepablo.com · 18/09/2026

lmao my Burning Man camp's gift/"art" to the rest of the event is to do whole animal roasts. so we do an 8 hour, 50lb pig, a 6-hour 35lb lamb, and be 3 15lb salmon; each makes ~200-300 little tacos each is already a Project, but BM constraints make it that much harder

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pablo @morepablo.com · 17/09/2026

much easier to buy pre-made hog water

A picture of a frozen pig, half in ice, in a giant cooler

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pablo @morepablo.com · 12/08/2026

I'd say "Total Recall Tom Hanks"

Prosthetic Arnold Schwarzenegger with bulging eyes and inflamed face from the movie "Total Recall"

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pablo @morepablo.com · 07/08/2026

An example I came across 30 minutes ago. Zoom in on that food.

AI generated sandwich board for an Indian restaurant advertising "The Feast," a little plate with three dishes: rice with peas, a cauliflower curry, and what looks like a Tikka Masala. The colors are generally correct but the cauliflowers are double-ended, the rice has a strange texture, and the Tikka meat looks like gifelte fish

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pablo @morepablo.com · 30/07/2026

Realized I know enough 日本語 to caption this: 牛の道具

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pablo @morepablo.com · 16/07/2026

some of these were pretty hard! had fun making it though people who've followed this account have seen variations of this a lot though lol. and I really never know what to put for that first entry grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

A 4x5 grid of game boxes with captions, with the title About Me: Video Games. The entries are:

Favorite Game: Super Mario World
Best Story: Deus Ex
Favorite Art Style: Cuphead
Biggest Personal Impact: Celeste
Best Combat: Starcraft II
Overhated: Um Jammer Lammy
Underrated: Final Fantasy IX
Overrated: Bastion
Needs a Remake: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Criminally Overlooked: Cryptmaster
Favorite Protagonist: Disco Elysium
Favorite Antagonist: Outer Wilds
Best Soundtrack: Jet Set Radio Future
Best Multiplayer: Dota 2
Not usually my thing, but: F-Zero GX
Turn My Brain Off: The Messenger
Best with friends: Power Stone 2
Best Retro Game: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Mega Man 4
Game Everyone Should Play: Dance Dance Revolution

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pablo @morepablo.com · 05/07/2026

Cleavage is legit magical and my favorite passage on it was by @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social in "The Sympathizer"

"All this time, I kept my gaze fixed on hers, an enormously difficult task given the gravitational pull exerted by her cleavage. While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them. The Chinese may have invented the gunpowder and the noodle, but the West had invented cleavage, with profound if underappreciated implications. A man gazing on semi-exposed breasts was not only engaging in simple lasciviousness, he was also meditating, even if unawares, on the visual embodiment of the word "to cleave," which meant both to cut apart and put together. A woman's cleavage perfectly illustrated this double and contradictory meaning, the breasts two separate entities with one identity. The double meaning was also present in how cleavage separated a woman from a man and yet draw him to her with the irresistible force of sliding down a slippery slope."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 18/06/2026

this was fun These aren't my all-time faves, just a large aread under the curve of "left an impression on me" vs "I think many people haven't heard of or tried" some of these are pretty popular in indie circles, some less so. lmao @ Marvel Midnight Suns having fewer reviews than, like, Dredge

a 3x3 grid showing the cover art of 9 games:

Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands
Cryptmaster
Dredge
Marvel Midnight Suns
Mouthwashing
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Pizza Tower
Volgarr the Viking
Infernax

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pablo @morepablo.com · 13/05/2026

he's a perfectly sweet guy who's also got this happening

silhouette of Swan Boy thinking of the sexy Green M&M with huge pubes, taken from the Philly Trip arc when he's introducing Rona and Cassie

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pablo @morepablo.com · 06/05/2026

my bestie spent ~10 years of his career at Google and had a way better time and he said the default Google engineer is a quokka (complimentary). just happy to talk and think through the things that excite them, like cache invalidation policies

an adorable, smiling quokka with their hands folded in front of them

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pablo @morepablo.com · 04/05/2026

"Naming a video game you've completed more than six times is trickier." Much easier than other media lol, I play comfort games all the time Turns out 2018 was a very important year for me lol

Poster for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Cover art for Hollow Knight, featuring the Knight holding his needle while Void tendrils surround him.

Box art for Celeste, where she's reaching for a winged strawberry while the supporting cast is watching in various poses.

Box art for the Messenger, where the Ninja and Quarble are dynamically coming towards the camera

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pablo @morepablo.com · 23/04/2026

my take is we made the porn and video games too good + life too comfortable so people act and vote in ways to avoid minor, necessary, routine discomforts which also happen to destroy society like we're effectively the humans in WALL-E; world as entertainment, people are NPCs, gimme that dopamine

a bunch of baby-like humans in comfortable chairs with open mouths, unable to care for themselves

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pablo @morepablo.com · 20/04/2026

Two reactions: - this is the kind of energy that led to ClickHole, which IMO produced some of Previous Onion's most genius work - the risk this gets Cow Clicker-ed (look it up) and grows a sincere audience is non-zero and hilarious

Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.

The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America.

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pablo @morepablo.com · 20/04/2026

Dem strategy needs more Reagan from this Onion bit

An old newspaper-style coverage of the 1980 presidential election, where Jimmy Carter is quoted as saying "Let's Talk Better Mileage," and Reagan is quoted as "Kill The Bastards." It's satirical, from The Onion

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pablo @morepablo.com · 02/04/2026

not seen this one in replies yet

tweet by Jackson (@tree_bro) from June 11, 2011:

*Cracks Diet Pepsi* Ahh... Refreshing Diet Peppi *Slowly Sips, Then Gulps, The Diet Pappo** Ahh, Diet Parpo. Thank's To The Papor-Colla Corp.

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pablo @morepablo.com · 02/04/2026

the economy on this can't be beat

tweet by fanfiction_txt:

"Obama chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?""

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pablo @morepablo.com · 25/03/2026

I've seen this sentiment a lot and largely agree with it, it's also the basis of "The Python Paradox" I think AI in the present day is an interesting case though, because it has two major differences (small🧵)

Screenshot from another social media site, the text reading:

"If gen AI is so awesome, why are companies mandating it? Shouldn't its value just become obvious?

I am reminded of something Tim Bray wrote about blockchain years ago:

" I’m an old guy: I’ve seen wave after wave of landscape-shifting technology sweep through the IT space: Personal computers, Unix, C, the Internet and Web, Java, REST, mobile, public cloud. And without exception, I observed that they were initially loaded in the back door by geeks, without asking permission, because they got shit done and helped people with their jobs.

That’s not happening with blockchain. Not in the slightest. Which is why I don’t believe in it.""

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pablo @morepablo.com · 24/03/2026

I think of this comic from time to time, because it hits something real. Games are still such a source of joy but sometimes it's not reachable Hearing Ian talk about Adventure Games is like occupational therapy for a wounded inner child

"Pervis" comic by Zach Stafford. Four panels. First panel, Pervis is holding a video game and exclaiming "I finally have time to play a video game!". In the second panel he says "I just need to wake up my inner child!" In the third panel, he is seen imagining himself walking towards an occupied bed, saying "Wake up, lil' Pervis! Time to play some video games!" In the fourth panel, he rips off the covers and you see the inner child is a skeleton, long dead.

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pablo @morepablo.com · 08/03/2026

WAIT MUSK'S RIGHT-HAND MAN OWNED MR. YOGA TO FUCK lol guys I grew up in DC and we moved to Dupont in my last 2 years of HS. Sister and I went there as a treat sometimes. He probably served us FUCK it's all circular simulation theory is real and these guys always find a way to get worse!!!

Article text, about Musk's collaborator on many projects (last name Davis). Here they focus on The Boring Company, but he orchestrated the layoffs at Twitter and other things: "His hyperloop collaborators, however, remember Davis as “some guy with the yogurt shop” and “a total weirdo.” A longtime District resident, he was the proud owner of Mr. Yogato, a quirky frozen-yogurt establishment in Dupont Circle; Thomas Foolery, a now-shuttered board-game bar that specialized in Smirnoff Ice; and several parking lots in Navy Yard, where he was known to hold walking meetings while placing tickets on the windshields of delinquent vehicles."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 02/03/2026

rotting and on the brink of death, shitting his pants in meetings, he's now taking his act global

The Onion headline from 2018: "Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole"

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pablo @morepablo.com · 22/02/2026

And I was at the World Fair in Osaka last year, and the Guatemala pavilion had a little display with the coffee regions. Wait a minute…

Guatemala map with various little labels for Atitlán, Cobán, San Marcos… there's a solid line separating out Belize, but it's got text in it.

Zoomed in text on Belize: "pending territorial, insular, and maritime dispute to be resolved."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 05/02/2026

I hope to God all the replies just spam this at him

Joyce Carrol Oates tweet where she roasts the shit out of Elon Musk: "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 24/11/2025

I studied a bit of Econ and it was fun, but during my lifetime in practice it's just been this shit over and over again

Bugs bunny meme where he's superimposed with an American flag that says "my profits," and underneath he's superimposed with a Communist flag that says "our losses."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 18/11/2025

Think of how many fewer data centers we'd have to build if we could just teach programmers to use a snippet library instead of "write test cases for this function" via LLM it's faster, too!

Mariya Delano
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
I've been testing a theory: many people who are high on #Al and #LLMs are just new to automation and don't realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero Al involved.
So far it's been working!
Whenever I've been asked to make an Al flow or find a way to implement Al in our work with a client, l've returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 Al.
Things like "when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y"
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on Al have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

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pablo @morepablo.com · 16/11/2025

Thinking of him (and yelling "TROBBIOOOOOO")

Silksong character Trobbio, one of the best bosses in a game full of great bosses

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pablo @morepablo.com · 13/11/2025

reminds me of the old favorite

Tweet by @Merman_Melville, dated Jan 24 2019, that reads: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day.

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pablo @morepablo.com · 20/10/2025

We did it, boys. Silksong under 4 hours

Steam Deck with a Complete screen for Silksong, showing the game completed in 3 hours and 44 minutes

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pablo @morepablo.com · 10/10/2025

Despite the political gains of the cultural right, we move forward we now have a female version of the "many Chris's" chart

Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine, Parks & Recs MAGA Chris (I forgot his last name), and Chris Evans

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pablo @morepablo.com · 22/09/2025

well, we did it, boys. basic ending did a lot of fucking around; think I was at 22hrs? still have a lot left to do and you better believe I'm chasing it all down. but at least I got this first one out of the way

A Steam Deck on a bed, showing a screen of the credits of Hollow Knight: Silksong

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pablo @morepablo.com · 12/09/2025

security cam image; if you know anything, report to the FBI

"The Deserter" character from Disco Elysium

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pablo @morepablo.com · 17/08/2025

lmao treeform.github.io/devcompas/

screenshot of "Developer Compass" result, and the "You" dot is dead in the middle of all the dimensions. Just looks like I hit bullseye.

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pablo @morepablo.com · 16/08/2025

like, there's "having conservative views" but still being a functional and sociable person, which I think OP is referring to. that's also why this meme rings true but most figureheads who complain about how they were treated in their college years are just bad at being normal, socialized people IMO

old famous meme, captioned "every third hetero couple." a sweet-looking woman has a hand up and asks "did you check out that Salon article I sent everyone?" and she's next to a meathead-looking guy with a t-shirt that says "THE MOST RACIST MAN ALIVE"

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pablo @morepablo.com · 16/08/2025

When I talk to EA people who learned their Econ from Reddit/LessWrong

dril post: "oh, youve read a few academic papers on the matter? i have read over 100000 posts."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 15/08/2025

this was funny and thanks for posting it, but here's a version with more JPG if you need it going forward

Same version of the image that's been replied to, but with even more JPG compression artifacts. The original was, in this author's opinion, nearly unrecognisable.

Original meme, from the movie Clue: Colonel Mustard saying "are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?" Wadsworth: "You don't need any help from me, sir." Mustard: "that's right!"

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pablo @morepablo.com · 18/07/2025

I'm still mad as hell about Signalgate

Hans Coleman, Simpsons character, whose schtick frequently involved being behind in things

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pablo @morepablo.com · 02/07/2025

sometimes being Latino means being so rad that people think your allure is the work of insidious magic 😚👌

Inner tweet is a photo of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wedding, where the poster says "Most unequal exchange of value in human history." Outer tweet quotes it and adds "Unpopular opinion- probably witchcraft."

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pablo @morepablo.com · 23/06/2025

When I work out that's a soap opera on the TV and it has the laziest set I've ever seen? Just perfectly coiffed people having Dramatic Dialogue in front of a wall of artificial bush. Are they in a hedge maze?

TV showing a hot guy standing in front of an artificial hedge

More people standing around some tables, behind them: just walls of hedge

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