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Nabil

@nadreck.me
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Ex-game industry, ex-dbx, currently technical writer turned tools developer. Sucker for learning random things. My handle is also my blog.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bangkok on red alert - All 50 districts of Thailand's capital Bangkok were declared a flood disaster area on Saturday after more than 300 millimetres of rain in less than 48 hours caused widespread flooding. TT: @countrycrazy75 www.thenews.pk/print/143969...
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brianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 26/09/2026
do NOT tenderly kiss your interviewer on the forehead at the start of the interview!!! it is customary to wait until the end
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dietrich @burrito.space · 26/09/2026
send hugvibes to thousands of folks with flooded homes today in Bangkok took all day and wading through flood waters but i managed to get out and to the airport... where thousands are getting off planes to find a 6hr taxi wait, or take a train to a flooded station, so are just camping here.
photo of Lat Phrao canal, completely running over and flooding the surrounding neighborhoods
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
someone cursed on a monkey's paw "i wish gamdev was like the rest of the software industry" and here we are the rest of the industry has caught up
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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
If you’re thinking of someone you haven’t talked with in a while, reach out to let them know, even if it’s just sending a text to say hello. Don’t put it off.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 21/09/2026
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Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme
ALT: Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’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.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 18/09/2026
So… basically the original format but with modern writing sensibilities.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
San Franciscans are always like "omg I loooove to travel," like okay Rick Steves let's see you get on BART and travel to Oakland more than once a YEAR.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 16/09/2026
Nice! Also all caught up - started in ARR, looking forward to Evercold, will be curious to see how the revamped UI and play mechanics work in practice.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 16/09/2026
What point in the story are you?
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 16/09/2026
Wrote a new post: nadreck.me/2026/09/stil...
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Still Alive
Still alive, still kicking. Sorry for the radio silence, gomen. So, what happened in the two months? I’ve been feeling tired/fatigued lately, and not in a “oh, you’re just out of …
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
David Lynch.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 16/09/2026
I grew up in (and also currently live in) Vermont: Can confirm.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 11/09/2026
Next you’re going to be expecting yon as well.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 10/09/2026
David Tennant is going to be so disappointed.
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Beth @chacha1847.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Funny you should say that *whips open meme holster*
A Scooby Doo cartoon with two frames. First frame: Fred reaching to pull off the bad guy's hood. Bad guy is captioned "something I used to love sucks now" and Fred is captioned "let's see who's behind this" Second frame: the hood is removed and the bad guy is labeled "private equity"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026
Every single part of the entire current digital media landscape was envisioned as part of what was called “blogs” at the start. Tweets, Instagram, reels, sharing your morning run with someone, knowing whether your crush had looked at your story, control over sharing to a community — all of it.
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Robin Ward @eviltrout.com · 10/09/2026
Back in the day, when you pressed a button on a remote control it changed channels instantly. Now, you gotta navigate a labyrinth of menus where each button press takes a second. It's a horrible user experience and everyone... just puts up with it?
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Clifton B @cliftonb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Is there enough work for UX writers?" There will always be enough work. There just aren't enough jobs.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 03/09/2026
If most of what you have are passwords, export as csv, import the CSV and you're done. It gets trickier if you have a lot of non-password stuff (secure notes, identities, etc).
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 03/09/2026
Rule mixing was the woooorst.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 03/09/2026
Feel better soon!
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 24/08/2026
3am (realistically 2:30 to just before 4) feels like the shoulder to me. 4am feels like when the inner dialogue goes from “I should be in bed” to “I missed sleeping.”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/08/2026
Reminder: 1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about 2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything 3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere 4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am once again asking folks who post images of wall to wall tiny text to include alt text. I am not squinting my old eyes to try and make out whatever you're sharing. Most image programs allow you to copy and paste from the image. Be the thoughtful and kind you want to see in the world 💜
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 12/08/2026
Sorry you’re having to deal with that.
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Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
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clairikine @clairikine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🗳️🇺🇸 US folks abroad, it's that time of year again! Make sure you request your absentee ballot to vote in the midterms on Nov 3 www.votefromabroad.org
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Maddie Chthonia @maddiequestions.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
reminder: the g in gif is pronounced like the g in garage
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i just like to repeat every now and then that we shouldn't be releasing election results until we have election results giving out partial vote tallies in whatever order they get counted is misinformation at best and it leads to a certain number of people stress-inducing a bad case of pundit brain
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/07/2026
the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf
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Ky @ky.fyi · 23/07/2026
docs have been updated and astro-lilypond v0.8 is now available :) next up is improving alt text...
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Astro LilyPond
Render LilyPond markup to music notation with Astro.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 21/07/2026
It's not untrue, but this feels like such a dystopian way to describe books: "curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21/07/2026
“four days behind the thing people are mad about” might be the ideal bluesky experience for these times
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 15/07/2026
It was already a problem in the 80s. You end up having to look both further back. Also, going back to when the term was coined, it was never about being entirely free, but it was generally low cost and predicated on being able to continue to exist past the duration of a transaction.
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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/07/2026
Bowling Alone pins the start of the collapse in 1965. the era of third spaces in america is literally exiting living memory. no wonder people think it's mythological.
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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 13/07/2026
NEW YORKERS!! This is a great opportunity for anyone already in, or looking to get into public service. Working with a mayor who cares (and who can get things done) is really a once-in-a-career opportunity, and this is a mayor who wants to get things done.
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NYC PIT Crew
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 06/07/2026
Once again, Double Fine Productions will be an independent studio.

We're thankful to Xbox for seven great years together, and for working with us to reach an outcome which preserves our history and culture, and returns ownership of our games to us.

To everyone who reached out to us these past few weeks: Thank you for all your kind words, we've been deeply touched by your messages. We will share more soon on what comes next.

Your continued support is greatly appreciated,

Tim & Double Fine
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In 28 years I have never seen the execs of a games company make a decision that made things anything but worse.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/07/2026
We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A 5-4 Supreme Court just barely stopped a president from erasing the 14th Amendment by decree. We were one vote away from a very different country, and from upending countless lives in the process.
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 30/06/2026
Excellent, congratulations!
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Nabil @nadreck.me · 28/06/2026
Basically any comedy that didn’t rely on cringe-based humor or punching down does just fine, imho.
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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 28/06/2026
2026 be like "time for a little retail therapy!" *buys basic food and groceries to live*
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