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fondly remembering the time someone tweeted a photo of an opened bag of sun chips in a bathroom stall with the caption “someone forgot their poopin snacks”

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0 is actually a Kakegurui prequel

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would any of my friends want to play a narcissistic puff piece of a video game that lays bare all of my private dreams and ambitions? This would be like listening to someone talk about a dream they had

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

left my earphones at home this morning so I guess I’m stuck quietly humming to myself all day

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

god damn, I felt this one in my soul

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fun fact: if you force it, “splunk indexer” fits that rhythm

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

damn, no love for Womanizer, which is my favorite song to use for any word with the same syllabic stress

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

happy kanelbullensdag to those who celebrate

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/tef.... god damn it

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hear if you go into a darkened room and say “Slavoj Žižek” three times and then sniff really hard, that does the trick

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

do you have some psychological experiment you want to try on reply guys or are you just summoning them for fun

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/10/2026

I do think we need a better critical culture around AI just solely because a lot of people are being forced to use it at work and don’t understand how it works. But also, I don’t think people who don’t give a shit need to hear about it from people who love it and think it’s their friend.

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the Alan Wake DLC for Control was also one of the best-integrated pieces of DLC I have seen, and made me glad I hadn’t played AW1 first, because “wait, is this … Alan Wake??” was a slow reveal

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I still gotta go back and play Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OG Control taught me to like shooters, so maybe Control Resonant will teach me to like Souls games

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes! Same, honestly, on all points. I’ve been having such a good time with it

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@kourge.net no spoilers or anything (from either of us) but did you get Control Resonant, and if so how are you liking it?

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is going to sound like a bit, but: apparently the food stall outside the Emeryville Home Depot has legitimately good breakfast burritos

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I need someone to make a breakfast burrito as good as the ones I can make. Which shouldn’t be that hard, by all rights

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

survival of the fittest

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the “succeed in the liberal arts without trying” bit is what cracked me up — the Key of Solomon has a bunch of demons who seemed like a liberals arts tutor

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I mean, the name for them in Latin is a combo of camel and leopard, I think

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I like the idea that it’s a giraffe

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I guess it’s just one of those great mysteries, like “what animal was the Egyptian god Set supposed to have the head of”

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

maybe it was just a thing that Homer said and his friends were like “lol classic homer”

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Maybe he just found the hue of the sea less worthy of comment than the depth and darkness of color!

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ahhhh, that one’s on me for assuming someone had a good point

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I *think* this is consistent with Jaynes’ claim, which is that the intervention of the gods is what we experience as the conscious mind, so it’s like “Achilles is late for work and angry about that but Athene counseled him not to shout at the barista because it wouldn’t be nice”

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think Snow Crash may have been heavily influenced by it

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At least that’s what I remember from the book. Also a bit about how some of the appearances of the gods were consistent with auditory hallucinations

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

but Jaynes’ claim (at least) with regards to the Iliad wasn’t that people lacked emotion, it was that there wasn’t the sense of feeling one way and acting another. I guess almost a lack of cognitive dissonance?

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think this is probably the claim from Julian Jaynes’ “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, which I cannot attest to the plausibility of, but which is a book that had An Impact on me

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So that account, the one that people are mostly paying attention to without knowing it's run by an AI accelerationist, had to delete the blog post because it actually hit a legally actionable threshold of making shit up about others? 🫠 Please be critical reading things, Bluesky.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.

A chat request from a late friend
I recognize the pain of thinking if I could only talk to them one more time. It is among the more familiar human laments. But that's just the thing it is a human problem to be endured not a technological problem to be sold. Our capacity for loss – in fact the necessity of losing and having lost – is what makes us who we are. Individually and collectively. There is no workaround. There will be no workaround. And every step toward preventing that or perverting that is an affront to our humanity. Why not just taxidermy nana and prop her up at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner table? At least there's something real and tangible about that. Undeniable in its sacrilege. You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love that this is how I learn more about the Gnostic Demiurge

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what is a same sex bathroom dawg

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

… implies the existence of a Massachusetts lesbian bar controversy with technical debt, etc etc

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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2023

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only seen three of these but they were good enough that I’ve got six more that I should watch.

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh so THIS is what the “bookmark” button is for

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Probably correct. I was operating under the assumption that one would only hire a war criminal if there were no other option, but I forgot about, you know, [gestures broadly to governments]

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Joshu @rhwlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Clearly, adding the label “unpopulated” so as not to be disturbed.

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