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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Proper family recipe #2: meatloaf. The core: my grandmother's (or earlier), from memory The taught version: my mother's, from memory The cast iron: my grand or great grandmothers (need to check) The bougie bellas: I shop at 2026 groceries. Why not? (Yes, transfemmes do in fact cook.)

Meatloaf prep. Pyrex bowl with ground beef, sautee'd onion & batch 1 of mushrooms sitting on counter next to 6" iron skillet with mushrooms batch 2 in progress.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are only two genders. ... No, wait, there are only two reasons I open Photoshop. Right. That was it.

Photoshop new document dialog:
Width: 1px
Height: 1px
Resolution: 72ppi
Color Mode: RGB 8-bit

Photoshop new document dialog:
Width: 65536px
Height: 65536px
Resolution: 72ppi
Color Mode: Grayscale 8-bit

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I see you and raise you a USB-UART l cable I reference-tagged "Nobody has _proven_ that I killed an RFID antenna board, but I was there when it died..." Because, y'know, why throw out a perfectly good UART cable just because it MIGHT have a really sus controller?

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Will be so nice when I get a job again and can shift this from a 4-hour-a-day like-it-or-not keep-sane-and-skilled-during-jobsearch project to a throw-my-whole-self-in-for-a-whole-Saturday project. Will be even nicer when I have all the player-facing worldbuild features in, not just the base mapgen.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey ever read a thing (like, say, dresdencodak.com/2024/04/29/d... ) and cackle so hard that you need to shove your face in your mattress for like a full minute until the lack of oxygen finally gets you to calm down a little but then read 2 pages further and need to stop because breathing is good?

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whew. Crisis averted. (and yeah, next iteration 5 mins later names the character in the confirm prompt JUST IN CASE, totally not because someone accidentally deleted her main and had to restore from database backup because the indexing order can be arbitrary...)

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Note to self: this character EXPLICITLY EXISTS to test the character deletion flow. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES adopt it as a real OC in your writers' OC world MUD.

Windows Command Prompt:
Who will lead your party?
.c1 Shirra Greyston
.+ (Add New)
(No response: Repeat list)
> .+
What is their name? (Max length 25 columns; leave empty to back out.)
> Boaty McBoatface
Provide a description to be used in lieu of their name; e.g. "a big, furry
kitten".
(Max length 2 rows when formatted to 25-column width; leave empty to back out.)
> A boat with a face like a boat
Provide a longer decription for when someone "look"s at them. Keep in mind
attire and equipment are created independently.
(Max length 10 rows when formatted to 40-column width. DO NOT ENTER LINE BREAKS
DIRECTLY. Three consecutive spaces will be formatted to a line-break. Leave
empty to back out.)
> This hideous abomination serves as a stark reminder never to let the internet engage in unmoderated activity with real-world repercussion. It is not long for this world.

.c## Boaty McBoatface

.c## A boat with a face like a
boat

This hideous abomination serves as a
stark reminder never to let the internet
engage in unmoderated activity with
real-world repercussion.
It is not long for this world.

Is this correct? (Y/n)
>

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not me writing FFXIV fanfic and deciding to try ~xibruq~ ~cochinita~ pork-loin pibil in a slow cooker. Definitely wants a fattier cut, but the loin was (a) the only non-preprocessed cut at the grocery, and (b) on 2-for-1. Still quite soft & flavorful, and now I know how to do better.

Cold slow-cooker full of unknown contents covered by a very large leaf.

Clearly cooked slow-cooker; a single leaf covering all contents is dark and on the verge of falling apart.

Slow cooker, covering leaf disintegrated away to reveal falling-apart chunk pork in yellow-orange juice, dotted with red seeds.

Plated (bowled) shredded pork loin pibil with quick-pickle red onion (side-ramekin) and a stack of warmed buttered tortillas (side plate)

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok THIS is a hecking THROWBACK.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ordinary people might start designing a MUD with the data structures and menu paradigms. I've roughed all that out, but since the world concept involves a full worldmap in which all the instances get _placed_, wellll...

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

By my own cubby overstuff schema, the SFami as a nice clean box would probably go under the cube/wii (same cubby). The saturn would go under the genesis.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Autocorrect, that is a Very different concept. I will forgive you given the broader context, but I chose the word I did in that _particular_ case.

Tightly-framed text: "transformative" with autocorrect red underline, suggesting "trans formative" as an alternative.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I would say it's a fairly good sign that I myself cannot stop looking at the new PsychSoftware website. Relaunch ETA: ... end of week?

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

this being the internet, I have to assume this is a lore continuation

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yeah. This one. The best thing I can say for it is they innovated 3D-over-FMV. Art was aging like milk by release, pacing was godawful, and the plot in their heads was so far beyond what they explain ingame that they needed a whole raft of spinoffs to plug the gaps. But marketing solves all, I guess

Emo kid and flower girl fighting a literal doghouse.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

hm. I've had that in my tag list for yonks and it seems fine. Wonder if it's an interaction with country or some other content moderation e.g. "for kids" flagging (because trans issues are obvs sexually explicit everybody knows that)

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Post your favorite Disney Princess. Wrong answers only.

Paprika. From Paprika. (Satoshi Kon 2006)

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dammit nobody tells you when you start HRT that shit you cooked on years ago that punched through the higher emotional barrier pre-E would just flat lay you the heck out post-E. (and this is just the short-edit contest version; OG is 6:30) www.psychsoftware.org/portfolio/mu...

Single track cover art: flat black square field, -AUTOGRAPH- [I am the me in you] in teal-edged gold beneath teal hand-brushscript vertical "M i k u" forming a rough silhouette of Hatsune Miku

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thank you, internet, for this being the first meme I see on my first day of not-work.

"My ass is reduced for quick sale $2"
Tall ceramic coffee mug on store shelf, white, painted to look half-full of red-brown liquid. Text on mug reads (3 lines top to bottom) "MY ASS IS" with a presumable final word below the liquid line obscured by a "REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE $2" tag.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Best Bond villain, wrong answers only.

Kerr Avon; Blake's 7, BBC 1978 as played by Paul Darrow [image from Blake's 7 public fan wiki]

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today I learned about the Unerwrite's Knot. ... Ok The More Closely I Read This Card The More I Regret Reading This Card Closely.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remember, if you can't believe in yourself, then believe in the unkillable death machine who believes in you. ... erm... I mean... SKY DRAGON STORY BETA LABEL HAS BEEN CEREMONIOUSLY TORN OFF! \o/ Hard-reload your browsers for new polish, builds, and callouts - www.psychsoftware.org/SDS

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Tell me you're shoveling AI in full awareness that consumers hate it without telling me you're aware consumers hate it.

Microsoft Paint settings pane to include a watermark when content is AI generated/edited. Setting defaults to "Never."

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Flavorful Atmosphere In a northern suburb of Chicago. U.S.A. #smoke

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I was feeling pretty fed up with this until my cousin (with a young child) posted the same meter reading 805 in her area, with incidental reports over 900. Can we stop consuming so many ancient burned trees that all the trees we have left burn for 3-5 months a year?

EPA AirNow Air Quality Index meter from 0 to implied 400, with "Hazardous" beginning at 300, pegged to its limit with a text readout of 701.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Samus is catching up to grandma fast!" When I heard this slip by from host at @gamesdonequick.com SGDQ in the last hour of the Wind Waker rando bidwar, I knew I needed to quick-comm it from someone and @chumpie.bsky.social delivered.

Grandma (plausibly of Grandma, No!) in the pilot seat of Samus Aran's ship circa Super Metroid, flying near-field off image bottom-left pursued by speedbooster-Samus on foot bottom-right along with a dachora

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The relief is real. Atropos is healthy. (and as a bonus, I've managed to track down my TIM2 save data from the January streams on Prometheus! No luck on clear XPostFacto settings that might help the G4 tho... might just need to yolo the throttle back to 8+ next time I have the case properly off)

MacOS 8.6 desktop running "Mac Test Pro for G3-Main Window" showing "Status: All selected tests passed." (having selected comprehensive hardware info, and (offscreen) comprehensive software review and RAM/VRAM test.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The good news: I found an official RAM test that accepts the behemoth as a valid system. The bad news: if it finds anything wrong, I am so hecked.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

So... the thing about trying to shame trans folks for staying in communities while transitioning, and shame communities for being queer-friendly, is transitioning is usually the post powerful act of joy a person has ever taken. And strong communities resonate with their members' joy.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Jellybean still hopes you are being kind to yourself today.

princess jellybean cowboyknuckles staring through the carry-handle punch-out of a sideways cardboard box ("FRAGILE HANDLE WITH CARE" / "THIS WAY UP ->" )

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

it is, in fact, officially, "oh I'm wearing a sports bra aren't I? ... and it's gross now, isn't it?" weather.

femme in sleeveless green top soaked save for a sportsbra-shaped patch across the sportsbra area

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Something something Atropos' Ribbon. That floppy still works or I'd have just remounted the BlueSCSI up there. 3rd panel technically removable, but with the age of this plastic, it would disintegrate on removal, so not a now fix. At least she's back together AND I have good HDMI->SVid capture!

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

How Various Sites React to a 20 Year Old Browser.

Vintage PowerPC OSX FireFox default landing page otdated-browser detection barfing a stack of minimally formatted black-on-white text and purple boxes. "Find your way back to a better internet" header and various proposed download options since it can't autodetect what to update PowerPC-era OSX to. (there is no PowerPC OSX update)

Vintage PowerPC OSX Firefox window: macintoshrepository.org. Friendly banner in the top third of the window: smiling mac classic, caption "Wow! You're actually browsing this website using an old mac! Macintosh Repository salutes you! SSL has been deactivated for you.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This sure is a form I just filled out...

Web registration form header:
Purchase? | Paid On | Payment Type | Due Amount | Year/Sex | Plate/Color | Type | Make/Breed | Model/Name | Color/Rabies Tag | Changes?

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

How damaged was Prometheus' original primary boot drive? Let's just say it was 9:38 when I took this shot, and yes, it is progressing and is aware of when I interact with the app vs the can't-click-the-desktop-right-now. At least the backup boot R-66Y image ('untitled') is now readable (if a mess).

Alsoft DiskWarrior progress bar constructing an optimized replacement HFS+ directory for drive 'Prometheus'. System time on the menu bar reads 9:02, the last time DiskWarrior was not co-opting the whole system.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I have EARNED my dang curry tonight.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE. I will play it for you.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Mistakes have been made. Horrible, unavoidable, 2004-era mistakes.

OSX 10.3.5 installer pane: "Processing Internet Explorer"

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

all PCI cards out, using integrated Apple display connector, booting off a CD image stack on the BlueSCSI rather than trusting the mechanical CD-RW for 30 mins straight, and clocking XPostFacto allll the way up to Throttle 8 and... we MAY just be in there.

MacOSX 10.3.5 circa ~2003 installation in progress on a PowerMac 8500 circa 1995 (in pieces under Apple Studio DIsplay 19(?)" CRT), as God intended even if Steve Jobs did not.

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

oh, right, 3 years this week (specifically 6/9 due to a pharmacy delay... thanks Universe; at least I'll remember it forever). I'm happier than I look, was just trying to get a daylight pic while walking on the way to the train before the rain hit and/or I forgot

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Sean @psychsoftware.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Pride fashion tip that I always get compliments on so it must not be as obvious as I thought: Goody Kids (formerly Goody Girls - good on them) rainbow hair tie pack. Kinda lousy durability, but you get a lot of them and they're compact enough to stack however you want

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