Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today is the 64th anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, so it’s time for the story of the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington—because Goya’s portrait of him had been nicked from the National Gallery the previous summer, just 19 days after it went on display 219769
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My wife is back at the hospital for the second time in two weeks. It should be fine, this was planned, she's tough as nails, the surgery is simple. But they are holding her overnight and I hate that. Every time I think of her in a hospital bed it makes me think about the bad times and I want to cry. 011
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I remember getting that off the rack and wondering why the main story's art was so much worse than the backup. 010
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I hate it when a song with a terrible message is super-catchy. In this case, Hank Williams Jr.'s "If the South Woulda Won." 000
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786382555
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Parapraxis of the Day: "the Considerate States of America" 001
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I am used to off-kilter depictions of gangs and toughs in my pop culture, but this men's adventure novel has a New Wave gang in it and I just can't. Like legit some scuzzy Human League fans running wild. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I feel like this could be a more Andrew Tate-ish version of Taskmaster. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Had a dental cleaning and a haircut today. My head will never feel this fresh again. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In retrospect putting a baby on the X-Men was probably just asking for trouble. 150
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I remember going to Dollar Dog nights at PNC Park when I was younger... The hard part was not eating a dozen hot dogs, it was dealing with the terrible regret afterward. 120
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026MY CONSCIOUS: I have a very early appointment tomorrow, so let's go to bed early and set a bunch of extra alarms. MY SUBCONSCIOUS: Better idea, why don't we just not sleep at all. 000
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026oh right; almost forgot I wrote this thing about racism and cosmic horror in wells and lovecraft: unwinnable.com/2021/03/17/e...unwinnable.comEugenics from Morlock to Shoggoth: The Origins of Cosmic Racism - UnwinnableWhat horror lies in the heart of men? 1279
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just saw a job listing for a "semi-senior" developer, whatever the hell that is. Can't wait for the day when director is an entry-level position. 001
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hey Reddit, enshittifying the mobile experience is not going to get me to install your dumb app. Just ask Instagram how that went for them. If your app offers no advantages over the web site, I am not using the app. Ever. 000
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" Whitetunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 425174213860
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons 6313100
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026...do the people who pick pop songs for commercials just not listen to the lyrics anymore? 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I love going to art museums with my dad. He goes in very skeptical and curmudgeonly, but the more he learns the more he starts to like it. I saw him go from dismissive of Frieda Kahlo to absolutely enraptured by her work. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Once I was given a Ford Aspire by a rental company. The only thing I could say about it was that it aspired to be a real car one day. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hey Google. No one wants the tab controls broken out of the address bar on mobile. Find somewhere else to put the Gemini button. Preferably the trash. 020
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I am pretty sure if this was possible, Nestle would do it 030
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If bacon SPAM has bacon in it, and Korean BBQ SAM has Korean BBQ in it... 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Okay, maybe the dungeon bits get in the way of the horniness simulator. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This all leads me to believe that the real problem with DAVE THE DIVER is that the developers couldn't make up their mind about what kind of game it was. You wind up with two different games bumping into each other but never quite resolving their differences or playing off them in a meaningful way. 011
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026In HADES, you grow reagents to brew potions which then unlock more options for dungeon runs / sexy fun time. This takes almost no effort, and while it also ceases to be meaningful after a while that doesn't come until pretty late in the game. 101
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Both DAVE and HADES have farming systems. In DAVE you grow veggies which allows you to make different dishes and earn more money. This is labor-intensive; crops take several days to grow and require a lot of manual labor. This is also pointless; the reward is money which is never a big issue. 101
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Compare that to say, HADES II, which also gives you a ton of stuff to do and unlock, but all of that feeds back into the two main systems, i.e., fighting through a dungeon and getting horny for ancient Greeks. 211
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026There are few systems that feed back into the A plot, and a whole bunch of other systems (photography, card collecting, ecological research) that don't have a connection to either plot. In the end, what you wind up is a game where there's a lot of stuff to do but most of that stuff is pointless. 101
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The problem is most of the game systems feed back into the B plot, i.e., the sushi restaurant. There's even a vocal group of players who think the mer-people stuff is an annoying distraction from that. 101
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026(SPOILERS) One game is running a successful sushi restaurant. The other game is helping a bunch of hapless mer-people solve all their problems. The mer-people stuff is the A plot. Completing those quests gets you all the major achievements and rolls the end credits. 101
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Been thinking more about DAVE THE DIVER and I think the real problem with the game is that it doesn't know what game it is. There are two games running in parallel. 101
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026So yeah, it's great that paint-order is a thing now. But that still doesn't mean it's ready for wide deployment. 010
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hell, until I upgraded last year my personal desktop was SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD and still worked fine for 90% of what I needed to do. I only upgraded because they stopped releasing versions of Firefox that would run on the chipset! 110
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It's the privilege of being on or near the edge, I suppose, but do try to remember the folks who can't upgrade on a regular schedule for whatever reason. I'm not saying you should bend over backwards and still support IE, but maybe try to remember there are five year old smartphones out there. 100
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It always slightly disappoints me to hear developers who I otherwise respect imply that a feature that shipped in the last year with no safe fallback is safe to use. Especially with reports showing that users are holding on to devices longer and longer. 110
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I have said it before, I have said it again, I will shout it to the heavens until I am hoarse: literally no one cares that you put something in a box and printed a shipping label. It doesn't count as "shipped" until it's actually left your warehouse. I am starting to think we need a law about this. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Oh. Hey, look, it's another podcast featuring me! Because like the late great Myron Cope, I have a face made for radio and a voice made for print. 010
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteChris Sims @theisb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We is risen indeed. 3428
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In the last week ZipRecruiter has suggested I should apply for jobs as a dance instructor, architect, and Ukranian translator. For my own sanity I have decided to stop thinking "this service is terrible" and start thinking "this service is just recognizing my limitless potential." 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Benjamin Stevenson has officially run out of ideas. @lukeoneil47.bsky.social 010
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026White House press briefings used to serve a purpose but these days they are purely political theater. A serious news organization would not bother with them. 000
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteChocolate Snobs @chocolatesnobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026In this episode we ask the hard-hitting question: is one of Britain's premier craft chocolatiers secretly working for SPECTRE? sites.libsyn.com/626020/3-wil...sites.libsyn.comChocolate Snobs: #3: Willie's Cacao San Agustin GoldThe Chocolate Snobs ask: Is Willie Harcourt-Cooze a James Bond villain? Because his biography sure makes him sound like one. That hasn't stopped us from sampling the 032
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Decided to lose some weight this year so I am doing the Taylor Farms lettuce cleanse 010
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteThe Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope @order-of-the-jackalope.com · 03/08/2026Hey! It's been a few months, but we're back! In the 1940s, while trying to rebut Freud, psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovsky decided the reason ancient history didn't make any sense was simple: it was all the fault of the planet Venus. order-of-the-jackalope.com/no-heretic-h... 121
Reposted by Dave "The Knave" WhiteChocolate Snobs @chocolatesnobs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Last week we reviewed the least amount of chocolate you can have and legally be called chocolate. This week it's the other end of the spectrum. sites.libsyn.com/626020/2-ven...sites.libsyn.comChocolate Snobs: #2: Venchi 100% Dark BlendFor their second outing, the Chocolate Snobs try to tackle something a bit darker (and maybe too dark): The . 022
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Very specifically this Jughead digest. I don't know if it made a lasting impression, other than confusing me whenever Jughead was not the main character in other Archies. And maybe starting a lifelong fascination with. Cosmo the Merry Martian. 000
Dave "The Knave" White @mrdestructicity.bsky.social · 01/08/2026My "Curtains for Zoosha" moment is reading job listings outside of my field. Must have 5+ years hands-experience with DONK and FRUZ. Familiarity with GLOOMP stack preferred. SHART clearance required. 110
