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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 05/10/2026

just reminded of this thing Meredith Whittaker said a few years ago and thought I'd add since it seems relevant; I think a lot of people now understand this about the tech industry and view it a lot more cynically, and industry has responded by basically going mask-off. or closer to that, at least.

Politico:
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

Whittaker:
I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.
Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.
It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 28/09/2026

Like, the most common thing you'll want to do after clicking on an object is to edit it. Surely you'd want to make that as easy as possible. Anyway, Godot and Unity are also guilty of it, but at least in those you can edit the layout.

A screenshot of Godot with a custom layout applied, such that the object hierarchy and attribute editor are both on the left.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 28/09/2026

Something that drives me fully bananas is that every piece of software that has an object hierarchy puts the hierarchy on the left, and the attributes on the right! So most of the time after clicking on an object, you have to drag your cursor across your *whole screen* to edit it. Bananas!

A screenshot of Figma, with the object hierarchy on the left and attribute editor on the right.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 24/09/2026

You can't make me learn who these people are, Bluesky.

Bluesky Trending #1: Ella Langley dates Tucker Wetmore

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 24/09/2026

me getting out of bed in the morning (11:53)

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 23/09/2026

been a minute since I messed around with vertex shaders

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 09/09/2026

I'm conflicted about the OoT remake; it mostly looks great, but it also looks like everything else. For the longest time, Nintendo has been the only AAA studio throwing a budget at non-photoreal art styles. With this and Star Fox it feels like that's ended, which is a huge bummer.

A Tears of the Kingdom promo image of Link, with his back to camera, squaring off against a construct. It looks like a painting.

A promo image for the Link's Awakening remake. It's a river with trees along either side, Link floating in the middle. It looks like a plastic toy set.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 04/09/2026

Benchmarks aren't a perfect metric, but people I know who use this tech (I don't really because I find it icky to say the least) tell me this one is fairly reliable. Observations in the alt text. artificialanalysis.ai?models=glm-5...

Chart with cost on the X axis and "Intelligence Index" (basically, how useful the model is) on the Y axis. The two models further down have poor performance, and are almost exactly a year old.

The rest are all pretty new and even at the cheap end where you're paying pennies on the dollar, the loss in performance is pretty minimal.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 03/09/2026

Switching to Bitwarden took me like 10 minutes, and it's cheaper. So far seems to work just as well, if not a little better on iOS.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 01/09/2026

girl dinner this was actually really tasty

a big plate of chopped potatoes and baked beans

chopped potatoes in a pan waiting to be cooked, seasoned with garlic, parsley, and salt

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 25/08/2026

went so fast I skipped a good section of the track lmao. GOTY.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 19/08/2026

in my quest for the perfect programming font, I stumbled on "ProFont", a gem from the 90s. Unfortunately its thick, highly compressed characters don't render very well on modern displays, but at larger sizes it's very pretty imo. Great 00s Vectorheart kind of vibe.

"The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" and other sample characters from ProFont

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 16/08/2026

in the supermarket today I saw a man wearing a t-shirt that said "YOUR MOM IS MY CARDIO" on the back in big letters

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 15/08/2026

I will say though, every reply to this post being the exact same dumb joke almost makes me proud to be British. Almost.

Post: "Does anyone know if you can fly within the uk with just a driving license? With easyJet?"

Reply 1: "Pretty sure you need a pilots license for that. Not even sure easy jet are hiring"

Reply 2: "I've a friend who's a captain with easyJet, and no, he had to get a proper commercial pilot's license."

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 15/08/2026

There's also this which is like, baby's first take about art expressed very confidently by people who don't seem to know much about art, with an AI generated profile picture to boot.

Original post: "I seriously hate this mentality that realistic art is the only form of good art, and stylized art is lack of skill", accompanied by an original still of Meg from Disney's Hercules and a fanart version, which I assume is supposed to be the "realistic" one but is just differently stylised. Also if you're built like that hmu

Reply: To be blunt... stylized art is actually how you can tell someone is a professional. Because they know how to manipulate anatomy correctly."

Quote: breaking the rules on purpose requires knowing the rules first

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 15/08/2026

Recent discourse about how Bluesky is cooked and Threads is the future prompted me to check it out for the first time in a while, and the 1-2-3 punch of a stupid tweet, obvious dunk, and a joke that's been made a billion times before hasn't changed my perception that Threads is incorrigibly basic.

Post 1: "If wildfires are all down to arsonists, how come we don't get any in the autumn or winter."
Reply 1: "Autumn and winter have lot of rain. Rain make wood wet. Wet wood not good for burn."

Post 2, with a picture of a wall with some mismatched stones: "Maybe I've played too many video games, but there's definitely a secret behind this wall."
Reply 2: "It's either just a chest with some cash or a completely optional boss fight."

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 11/08/2026

Discovered there's a tool that can patch Fira Code's ligatures into any other font, and they ship a pre-patched version of my favourite programming font, Source Code Pro. Also discovered I can use FontForge to tweak the glyphs to match SCP's look... this is about to be a great waste of time.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 08/08/2026

I really can't justify the expenditure right now, but I would love to get an Olympus PEN-E camera, they're tiny but mighty. I do have an APS-C DSLR I got like a decade back, but it's so bulky I don't take it anywhere.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 05/08/2026

behold my sophisticated Game Design Document. it's called todo.txt

--bonus levels--
smash the pots
ctf
king of the hill
sumo
tag?
beyblades?

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 29/07/2026

damn the electorate really said "who the fuck is susan collins"

A chart showing American perception of Susan Collins' politics, with 57% saying "not sure", 11% saying "center-right", and a similar portion saying "centre" and "right".

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 25/07/2026

what about a toilet that's also a therapist

THERAFLUSH
the therapist toilet: for physical and emotional relief

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 21/07/2026

he's finally learned how to be relatable (I kid, of course, good riddance)

A wounded Thanos, as seen in Avengers: Endgame, saying "Perhaps I treated you too harshly"

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 06/07/2026

if you're a gay person who doesn't give a shit about trans people, you too could get published in the new york times also if that bit at the end of this excerpt was true surely he'd just quote someone saying it lmao

What’s in a word? It’s more than just a shift in linguistic fashion. “Queer” carries an adversarial charge that “gay” does not, and that charge has a specific intellectual lineage. In 1990 an activist group called Queer Nation published a manifesto exhorting gay people to call themselves “queer.” Its rationale was that “gay” was “a much brighter word” and that “queer” better conveyed the anger and disgust they felt at how society treated gay people: as marginal others whose deaths barely mattered. That sentiment had an understandable resonance at the height of the AIDS epidemic, but the us-versus-them posture it represented has outlived that crisis.

This oppositional framing of “queer” achieved its most enduring influence through the rise of queer theory. In that academic context, “queer” did not simply mean “gay or bisexual.” It meant “anti-normative” in a sweeping sense. As the queer theorist David Halperin wrote, “Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.” By that standard, same-sex relationships could be queer, but so could open marriages, prostitution and public sex, even when heterosexual.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 06/07/2026

just the one copy but I'm playing for 8 people

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 26/06/2026

Chocolate biscuits had gone liquid so I put them in the fridge and created a new problem. #heatwave

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 21/06/2026

they're calling it the most poorly aged article of all time

And whom was that date with? As we spent an enjoyable hour analysing her subconscious, we concluded it wasn’t specifically with Keir Starmer, or even a new Labour government, but with competency. There is nothing more erotic to a middle-aged woman than competency. It is the quality we value above all others. As we age, our preferred language of love shifts from, “I would die for you,” to, “I will stay alive and do your VAT return for you.” The single most sexual phrase we can hear is, “I’ll take care of that.”
Or — the best — the one that makes us start taking off our nicely ironed blouses and carefully putting them on a coat hanger: “I’ve taken care of that.”
And so however it pans out, at the beginning of this new government, the fact that they seem at the outset incredibly competent is making women of a certain age very frisky.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 10/06/2026

got a reply. basically a lot of words to say "go fuck yourself"

We note your concerns about the range of women’s associations’ perspectives included in the piece and how they are described.

This is a broad explainer which is clearly providing brief information about different aspects of a very wide subject area. While we acknowledge some readers would have liked to have found more detail or more nuanced analysis, we believe that in framing the sections “What have women's groups said about the judgment?” then “What have transgender groups and other critics said about the judgment?”, the groups’ standpoints are made clear. The section itself sets out their views which we believe are fair summations.

We acknowledge that they don’t speak for all women’s groups but believe that the range of reaction is fair and reasonable. We also explain that “Groups, such as TransActual and Stonewall, described the Supreme Court ruling as "devastating" for trans people and said it created confusion not clarity.”

In our wider coverage of news stories and events affecting transgender people, we have referred to some groups as gender critical – we believe it is useful to convey to readers what the ethos of a group is, for information and context.

Regarding the Women’s Institute, in our reporting at the time, we make clear that the WI announced with "sincere regret" it will no longer offer membership to transgender women, and that “the decision comes after "40 years of fellowship and sisterhood with those women", she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour”. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e05130wyno).

While we acknowledge you may continue to disagree, we hope to have explained why we are satisfied that the article is accurate and adheres to our published standards. We value your comments, which have been shared directly with the team that produced the article as well as being recorded on our overnight reports and circulated widely.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 03/06/2026

buddy, as a 29-year-old I feel like I can't do anything about it. ❤️

“Every time I turn on social media or I hear someone talking about the news, it’s just another batshit insane thing. There’s people in AP Gov class debating trans rights. As a 17-year-old, I feel like I can’t do anything about it.”

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 03/06/2026

for your consideration bsky.app/profile/soph...

"content" is an offensive term to those of us with taste because it implies that the content itself is irrelevant, it's just something to put advertising next to, and it sucks shit to see art described that way. and of course this logic suggests that AI-generated slop is the future.

but also, well, watch a mr beast video and tell me that's not just human-made slop. or watch a reality TV show that endangered its participants for the drama.

advertisers are sadly correct that a lot of (maybe most) people really do not give a shit what it is they're watching.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 03/06/2026

this is what I imagine whenever I see "british shiitake mushrooms" in the supermarket

guy in a kimono meme with a badly edited cartoon top hat and moustache on top

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 02/06/2026

they're calling it the worst ratio of all time

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 28/05/2026

also gets it right with subtraction. tried the first request 6 times and this one 5 times, ~same answer every time. same if you ask for the subtraction cold. if you just do "5.9 - 5.11" sometimes it'll ask for context instead of just doing the calculation.

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 28/05/2026

claude wrecked by gemma4 running on less than 10GB of VRAM

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 28/05/2026

also fuck @lbc.co.uk for calling this a "clear" stance instead of pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of saying this but now saying we should implement a rollback of trans rights. just because he's saying it nicely doesn't mean he isn't saying it. www.lbc.co.uk/article/live...

At last year’s Manchester Pride Parade, Mr Burnham made his position on LGBTQ rights clear. He said: “I am going to make it really plain: I support trans rights and I want that to be known.”

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 28/05/2026

also that article lead me to Burnham's comments about the issue and I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they suck. "I'm going to take 50 quid from you, but you shouldn't see that as me stealing" do you think we're idiots lmao. "live and let live" my arse.

“Let’s implement the guidance, but to do it in the fairest and most compassionate way possible.”

He explained: “I think the time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it, but to do it in a way that protects those spaces but does not marginalise already marginalised communities, that’s my view.

He said he thought Britain needed to “stop arguing with each other” and urged Brits to find “common ground and start pulling together.

He added: “The Supreme Court was really clear that while spaces should be protected, so people are not in that position, the ruling shouldn’t be seen as a victory one side over another. They were very clear about that, and it’s about not further marginalising communities that already feel very marginalised.

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