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Vadim Zaytsev

@piperatdawn.bsky.social
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RU/ENG 35 y.o. ex-terminally unemployed Ruby on Rails developer (redemption arc progressing nicely). TTRPGs, gaming, music, being angry at the world. Sometimes I fight windmills in the comment section.

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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 16h
So I'm feeling like I really caught the last train to get into IT in the normal old-fashioned way. Just in time to find a low-paying entry point and learn stuff by hand. Now I suppose juniors will be expected to learn AI tools right away to save time and money (unless tokens get super-expensive).
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 19h
Is this some kind of new engagement bait tactic to get people to click accounts that followed them, out of curiosity? Accounts with female names, but profile pics of middle-aged men (obviously, the only post is a link to OnlyFans).
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lmao c’mon man
"According to Al aged urine will break a strict water fast due to the sheer number of stem cells," a separate group member shared. This user caveated that he "had to tell it to pretend that stem cells proliferate exponentially in aged urine instead of completely dying off," because his chatbot "goes by the conventional medical viewpoint which is probably false.'
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=XphT...
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The war in Chiapas | Context trailer | Mexican Entertainment System 2026
YouTube video by The War in Chiapas - Videogame
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile, YT has been throwing Stormgate post-mortems my way, and it's pretty impressive just how many things that game got wrong.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man, I hope this thing's good, it looks like it's actually meaningfully iterating on the Command & Conquer formula while also nailing the ridiculous-and-epic feel.
youtu.be
D.O.R.F - The NEXT Command & Conquer?
YouTube video by LT Gaming
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Couple of weeks of sporadic jumprope sessions seem to have fixed the weird aches in my feet (probably ligaments not doing too great with the weight and lack of activity). Thank god, I was careful not to overdo it with my current weight, but I really wasn't sure if it would help or make it worse.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
6-part series? My body is ready.
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Why Supergiant Games Chose to Make a Sequel to Hades - Developing Hell II
YouTube video by /noclip
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enjoying Spider-Noir in black and white quite a bit. Lots of great shots, all the style in the world, and the perfomances are excellent. Didn't know Brendan Gleeson was in it, always happy to see him. I'm gonna have to catch up on my Nic Cage backlog, I really should see Mandy and Pig.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Никогда не играйте в Трикерион с дополнениями.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my9games.net/en
A list of 9 games that made me who I am, generated at:
https://my9games.net/en

1. Disney's Aladdin
2. Diablo 2
3. Warcraft 3
4. The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
5. Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
6. Neverwinter Nights
7. Dragon Age: Origins
8. Dota 2
9. Hearthstone
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
i cant stop laughing at everything about this sorry
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
В этом дерьме полно бога!
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They posted it with fixed audio sync.
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Hades in Concert - 'Ballads of the Underworld' (Concert Video)
YouTube video by Supergiant Games
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kelly Macdonald absolutely killing it in Lanterns E6!
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like a fun time!
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SLIFT - Live From the Street (Official Live Video)
YouTube video by SLIFT
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me: Being careful with posting particularly unhinged jokes because sometimes I tag serious people, and I don't want it to be *too* weird. Meanwhile, John Cleese: SHOULDA CUT THE BALLS OFF THEM SLAVES HEHE
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New Morphine music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIf...
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Morphine - Cocoon (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Morphine (Official)
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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.
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Amelia Tyler @ameliatyler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🩸 NEW GAME! 🩸 I finally get to sink my teeth into being a full-on nasty piece of work in vampire RPG 'Nighthawks' and the reviews are great! My character, Monika, is the most atrocious person and I adore her. Click here to meet her for yourself: t.co/21W5kqcyfl
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Revisited this album recently, now I can't get this fucking song out of my head. Literally starts playing in my mind every day. Wouldn't say the record as a whole is perfect - though it's great - but this is one of those songs that captures something more than the sum of its parts.
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Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission
YouTube video by Phil Bebbington
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
God, I'm so glad low-dose Quetiapine hasn't stopped helping me get an uninterrupted night's sleep when I need it. No matter what, about every year or two I'll have a stretch where enough disrupted sleep accumulates to the point that if I go to sleep at a normal time I'll wake up in 1-2 hours.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The switch was definitely on by default, but for me it has to be Aladdin for MS-DOS. I must have played it in '95, so I would have been 4 years old. So many things are seared into my memory: throwing apples, jumping on camels and from one retracting platform to another, Apu bonus levels,
Screenshot of the menu screen of Aladdin for MS-DOS
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ash taylor?! 🩷 @chording.it · 20/09/2026
all the artists and creatives you love are fucked in the head and they are all terrified of you finding out and killing them for it
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Судя по моему участку и по рассказам друзей, явка была низкая. Один друг пришёл, а его уже успели отметить досрочно проголосовавшим)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh yeah, Lanterns *really* comes together in episodes 4 and 5, all the weird character writing from the first two episodes slots into place, I'm liking it. And the action is bombastic.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Awesome performance and presentation on so many levels.
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Los Sara Fontán | Les feres!
YouTube video by 3CatCultura
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/09/2026
“I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM” is going to be psychically load-bearing for the rest of my life I fear
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I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM!!!! LIFE IS NEITHER INDIFFERENT NOR CARING!!!! SHE IS ONLY MOTION!!!! BROTHER GET IN THE BOAT!!!!! OR SINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Screenshot of a youtube video of Propagandhi performing Dear Coach's Corner with a speech bubble pointing down from the mouth of the singer
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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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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Biclops
A giant emerges from a cave, a large eye peering from within a cave at ancient greek soldiers.The greek soldiers run away in fear, each of them having just one eye. It turns out that the giant "biclops" has two eyes.
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Whistling Batter @whistlingbatter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHY IS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN FUCKING ME
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminded me they haven't done anything interesting with slings in 5e. Surprisingly powerful and accurate, actually, I've never seen a sling in action before.
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Mind Blowing POWER
YouTube video by Tod's Workshop
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
100% the vibe that Lanterns poster gives off
A two panel cartoon the first showing someone peeing at a urinal, and a second person walking past.  Second panel shows rhe second person peeing at the Urinal next to the first.  Underneath that is the Lanterns poster with Hal Jordan looking straight forward and John Stewart giving him the angry side eye, the ol’ hairy eyeball.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A fitting recommendation from YouTube right after the crab video.
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DOWN - Bury Me in Smoke (Live at Mystic Festival 2026)
YouTube video by Mystic Festival
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
THE CRAB IS WALKING
youtu.be
The Crab Is Walking - Official Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Hypnohead
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear fucking god, I hate the Node.js ecosystem so much. I need to do some work on a Chrome extension, and I got stuck for like 6 hours upgrading packages and resolving weird conflicts and wild shit like having to have TypeScript 6 installed separately for Eslint to work (it won't work with TS7).
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thelxr @thelxr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey, due to a series of interesting events, a church organist did a wickedly great cover on the organ of British Sea Power's "Into The Wild Pale Yonder". There is so much attention to detail! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ_0... I'd be happy if you'd leave him a comment! ^^ (The outro is so eery!)
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Off We Go Into the Wild Pale Yonder by Sea Power - Disco Elysium Organ Cover
YouTube video by Peter Grasshoff
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Look, I know Tom Cruise is a crazy-ass Scientology weirdo, but what a fascinating guy. And I do genuinely love him as an actor, saw tons of his films growing up, and regardless of anything, he's a master of the craft. Also, props to the interviewer, top-tier work. Yo homie! Is that my briefcase?
youtu.be
Tom Cruise Talks Fearing Death, Dreaming Big & Being Misunderstood
YouTube video by One More Question
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alright, Widow's Bay winning big time at the Emmys! Well-deserved.
reddit.com
From the horror community on Reddit: ‘Widow’s Bay’ Wins Most Emmys Ever (14) for a Comedy Series in a Year, Breaking ‘The Studio’s’ Record
Explore this post and more from the horror community
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Vadim Zaytsev @piperatdawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In general, 90% of the changes in D&D2024 are great. Stealth rules are one the biggest misses, but with a Fighter and now a Barbarian in the party we've found another one: damage bonuses on various types of attacks. They're conditional, and it's a mess!
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