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Spike Grobstein

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Just a run of the mill bastard. Nothing to see here. He/him. blog.spike.cx/where

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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 02/10/2026
People are so obsessed with the end result that they don't value the journey to get there. All of the fun and joy of creativity is the act of building the thing, learning and improving your skills.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 23/09/2026
I wish uber had an option to request cars where drivers don't configure the EV for one pedal driving. This is a recipe for motion sickness.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 17/09/2026
here's my hot take: the unified search/url bar in browsers was a mistake. several times a day, I accidentally 'search' rather than go to a URL because the bar decides to clear the URL autocomplete right before I press return. or it treats a hostname I type as a search term. or vice versa!
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 09/09/2026
I've wanted a foldable iPhone since before foldable phones were a thing. I think I came up with the want in like 2014. Excited that it's out but curious about the crease. We'll see.
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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I used to be really excited about technology. I don't think it's me that's changed.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 28/08/2026
Cmon neovim maintainers. Be better. Fuck, man. Really? So disappointing. github.com/neovim/neovi...
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DHH · Issue #501 · neovim/neovim.github.io
The DHH quote on your website has fallen out of fashion and is "giving Nazi bar vibes." It doesn't take much effort for you to discover that he hates brown people and would love to see Europe, espe...
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 20/08/2026
when i reply to your email it will either be within ten minutes or within six years
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Brian Lynch @brianmichaellynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Donkey Kong's arch enemy should be Monkey Kong who is a donkey
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Grimace in sunglasses looking cool as the other side of the pillow is poised at the open door of what looks like a corvette-like kit car. Xe(Grimace is non binary) has a full purple shake that rests on the roof of the sports car. There is a purple gel over the image. A low mist clings to the ground. Is this a dream? Or has this mythical badass been conjured? The song “I need a hero” is most likely blazing on xir am/fm radio.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 01/07/2026
I miss Swatch Internet Time. It was such a cool concept. I had a little widget in my menubar on my mac and we used it in some of the old Hotline servers to sync up. It was great. Now is as good a time as any to bring it back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_...
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Swatch Internet Time - Wikipedia
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 23/06/2026
Bobert's Law number 31: "You're never smarter than you are on the last day of your old job. You're never dumber as on the first day of your new job."
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Quake is for everyone.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 22/06/2026
@streetsajed.bsky.social
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Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happy 30th anniversary to id Software's three-dimensional nightmare shooter Quake
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Trending Quake
Alt: a zombie shimmies in Quake
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Bayler-Lugosi @bustronaut.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I feel like if Liquid Television were available on a streamer it would become a major cult classic/revisit favorite immediately.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 12/06/2026
Of course I bought a bunch of ubiquiti cameras and my cloud gateway doesn't support Protect so I can't use them with this hardware.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 10/06/2026
Look what I just got.
Screenshot of a Venmo payment for the Facebook consumer privacy user profile litigation. $7.31
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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/06/2026
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you're single in San Francisco and you make $117,700 or less, I have some bad news: you technically qualify as low income!
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 27/05/2026
PSA: you should have some method to allow strangers to contact you online if they google you. I found someone's wallet this morning and they didn't allow strangers to contact them on instagram and linkedin requires that you pay $40 to send messages to people you're not connected to.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 17/05/2026
Presented without comment.
Photo of some street art saying "life is weird" with a cat in a Batman style costume. And "be nicer to yourself" on the side.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 05/05/2026
@streetsajed.bsky.social
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 05/04/2026
@electriccrowbar.8n1.sh every single time I see something you repost, I think "oh man. I'm gonna post this on the discord. Rob would get a kick out of it" and then I see that it was you who reskeeted. Every time.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 28/03/2026
Just downgraded my Netflix plan to the base ad-free plan. It's not worth paying like $28/mo for only slightly better quality. It's almost not worth $20/mo for the low-effort content they have.
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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"Put a P on it" is an item aesthetic that you see throughout the Super Mario games, but it actually began in a prerelease version of the original Super Mario Bros. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/who-put...
thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com
Who Put the ‘P’ in the Fire Flower? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
An early build of Super Mario Bros. features a certain letter that would reappear on items in later games.
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Allison @stanley2chainz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I get logged out and I log in again
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 22/03/2026
We, as a society, need to use "homunculus" more, as an insult.
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DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 22/03/2026
My surfers? Butthole
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 28/02/2026
Danzig Lamb of God Queens of the stone age Mr bungle Kyuss Mindless self indulgence Mastodon Weird Al Primus New kids on the block
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 30/01/2026
My last week in music.
Melvins - Houdini
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (Expanded Edition) [2004 Remaster]
uponbrokenapologies - Silence and Sorrow
Vesper the Aerial - Devote Eternal
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Ufomammut - Snailking
Cough - Still They Pray
E-Town Concrete - The Second Coming
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
Poison the Well - The Opposite Of December... a season of separation
Black Sheep Wall - I'm Going to Kill Myself
Ufomammut - Hidden
Ufomammut - 8
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Ava Max - Heaven & Hell
Buzzov•en - At A Loss.....
Kylesa - KYLESA (2022 Remaster)
Lamhet - Throe
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis
Mirar - Mare
The Body - Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated
Ufomammut - Godlike Snake
Vildhjarta - måsstaden (forte)
AUDITORY ANGUISH - AFA
Ava Max - Don't Click Play
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 26/01/2026
My last week in music (a final test?)
uponbrokenapologies - Silence and Sorrow
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (Expanded Edition) [2004 Remaster]
Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
XIAO - CONTROL
Mirar - Ascension
Melvins - Houdini
Converge - Axe to Fall
Boundaries - Death Is Little More
E-Town Concrete - The Second Coming
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
Ov Sulfur - Endless
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Poison the Well - The Opposite Of December... a season of separation
Lagrimas - A Life of Destruction
Violet Cold - kOsmik
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Converge - Bloodmoon: I
Down - NOLA
Eye of the Enemy - The Vengeance Paradox
PEELINGFLESH - PF Radio 2
Space Laces - Vaultage 004
TOTAL CEREAL - TOTAL CEREAL
80hd - Orc Party
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 26/01/2026
My last week in music (another test post)
uponbrokenapologies - Silence and Sorrow
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (Expanded Edition) [2004 Remaster]
Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
XIAO - CONTROL
Mirar - Ascension
Melvins - Houdini
Converge - Axe to Fall
Boundaries - Death Is Little More
E-Town Concrete - The Second Coming
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
Ov Sulfur - Endless
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Poison the Well - The Opposite Of December... a season of separation
Lagrimas - A Life of Destruction
Violet Cold - kOsmik
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Converge - Bloodmoon: I
Down - NOLA
Eye of the Enemy - The Vengeance Paradox
PEELINGFLESH - PF Radio 2
Space Laces - Vaultage 004
TOTAL CEREAL - TOTAL CEREAL
80hd - Orc Party
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 26/01/2026
My last week in music
uponbrokenapologies - Silence and Sorrow
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (Expanded Edition) [2004 Remaster]
Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
XIAO - CONTROL
Mirar - Ascension
Melvins - Houdini
Converge - Axe to Fall
Boundaries - Death Is Little More
E-Town Concrete - The Second Coming
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
Ov Sulfur - Endless
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Poison the Well - The Opposite Of December... a season of separation
Lagrimas - A Life of Destruction
Violet Cold - kOsmik
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Converge - Bloodmoon: I
Down - NOLA
Eye of the Enemy - The Vengeance Paradox
PEELINGFLESH - PF Radio 2
Space Laces - Vaultage 004
TOTAL CEREAL - TOTAL CEREAL
80hd - Orc Party
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 25/01/2026
My last week in music
uponbrokenapologies - Silence and Sorrow
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (Expanded Edition) [2004 Remaster]
Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
XIAO - CONTROL
Mirar - Ascension
Melvins - Houdini
Converge - Axe to Fall
Boundaries - Death Is Little More
E-Town Concrete - The Second Coming
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
Ov Sulfur - Endless
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Poison the Well - The Opposite Of December... a season of separation
Lagrimas - A Life of Destruction
Violet Cold - kOsmik
Darkest Hour - So Sedated, So Secure (Bonus Version)
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Converge - Bloodmoon: I
Eye of the Enemy - The Vengeance Paradox
PEELINGFLESH - PF Radio 2
Space Laces - Vaultage 004
TOTAL CEREAL - TOTAL CEREAL
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 18/01/2026
The passion of the Christ, if you know what I mean. 😏
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 03/01/2026
Today calls for some good ol' escapism.
A tv with Zelda the wind waker title screen and a GameCube
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 01/01/2026
12 months of listening.
A mosaic of 25 albums that I listened to throughout the year. Lots of In Flames, black dahlia murder, aphex twin and nine inch nails. Also the residents and butthole surfers.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 27/11/2025
Got a new tattoo while in Iceland because I have no self control.
Fresh tattoo of a cat skull with a thorny branch on the inside of my bicep
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 07/11/2025
A bowl with 4 eggs cracked in it that looks like a face
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 20/10/2025
My pickup from the Portland retro gaming expo this weekend. I'm filling in the gaps in my handheld collection.
Photo of some retro gaming items on a table. Final fantasy cartridge for NES, a wonder swan + one piece game and gun pey, a gameboy micro, missile command for Atari, a turbo express game console, Ys game cartridge for master system and wolfenstein 3d for 3DO
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 20/10/2025
Got ys for master system and it works on the analogue mega sg!
Ys for sega master system playing on an analogue mega sg
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 19/10/2025
One of my favorite games of all time. It combined everything I liked about prince of Persia with just amazingly weird character design and minimalist story, all the while pushing the limits of what the ps2 could do, technically. So good.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 01/10/2025
I tried to make fingerling potatoes on the grill. Found a recipe online that said to do the foil pouch thing. Oil, salt, pepper, garlic, stick on grill for 20 minutes. 40 minutes later and they're barely cooked but nice and crispy on the bottom. Total failure. Had to throw them out.
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
gay hank hill: yep gay dale: yep gay bill: yep gay boomhauer: dang ol penis, man
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 18/09/2025
😩
Photo of Tomas Lindbergh - singer for At the Gates - 1972-2025
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 17/09/2025
In other news, I kinda wish smart phones would bring back the scroll wheel. It doesn't need to be a physical wheel; it can be a trackpad like thing. I just find that scrolling results in me inadvertently selecting text or clicking links too often.
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Spike Grobstein @spike.cx · 17/09/2025
I wish I had a better feed for getting rust articles to read than what's here on Bluesky. Seeing rust conversations is giving me brain rot. Its all toxic interactions and/or really bad takes.
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 16/09/2025
HACK THE PLAAAAANEEEEETTTTT!! 👾
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Can a Christian tell me which thing Charlie Kirk said that demonstrates to you that he was a good Christian?
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