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ScaryCatalyst 🎃

@straycatalyst.bsky.social
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Game dev of a sort. Currently a Sr. Tech Writer for [REDACTED], working on internal developer docs. Worked QA, technical design, and lead roles previously. Slightly burnt out. Note: Personal account, comments are mine alone.

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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 5h
Been meaning to read Soseki Natsume’s book, I am a Cat, and I picked up the manga edition after seeing @zackdavisson.com as the translator - how cool!
The manga edition of I am a Cat, written by Soseki Natsume, illustrated by Chiroru Kobato, and translated by Zack Davisson

The titular short-haired cat sits on the cover, staring directly at the reader
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 6h
Banned Books week means that Powell’s is highlighting books like @trungles.com The Magic Fish Supporting underrepresented groups muffled by book bans is key, if you have the means to do so
The teen graphic novels shelf with a staff pick sign highlighting The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 7h
Enjoying some time at Powell’s Books today, bliss
Staff pick of the book Laika, which talks and shows behind the scenes info about the stop motion studio. A Coraline figure and new Wildwood(?) figure grace the cover
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you @theonion.com for gracing the 99% of Seattle! I supped on popcorn chicken and the tasty 0.01% cocktail I got a million Onionbux!
A million dollar Onion bill stacked on a Sickos keychain and special edition The Onion Inequality edition paper
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At the Seattle The Onion party for the 99% at Linda’s - we are scrabbling for Onion bucks! @bwalker81.bsky.social
My spouse in a glass case of emotion where the bills fly around and you grab and stuff them into a bucket?
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let's see if embedding a webm works...
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was also thinking of an Archer Pam situation
Pam from the Archer animated series with an epipen embedded in her neck due to artificial crab allergies
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Downton Abbey x Lego fans are getting a delightful collab ideas.lego.com/blog/ee9af03...
A desk with the completed Downton Abbey LEGO set with matching minifigs of the cast
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With Kotick in the news, from www.justice.gov/epstein
A search in the official Epstein files on the .gov site for Kotick and several pages listed that name Bobby Kotick
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wow, I had to look this up and it's real And they added a Hamburgler weevil too (from: www.al.com/news/2025/11...)
A 4 armed, 2 legged Hamburgler painted statue that is part boll weevil and part Hamburgler. It has a long nose(?) like a weevil's probe(?)
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fuckin badass art
Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer painting: a helmeted figure sits astride a large warhorse, and he(?) holds an ax in his right hand, and a shield with a stylized bird in his left. We can barely the lights of his eyes glaring out from the darkness of his horned helmet. Vultures appear to circle in the distance
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am not a fan of this huge spike in Covid in wastewater showing up in early Sept!
Image of a Covid 19 chart from https://www.wastewaterscan.org/ from Mar 2026 to early Sept 2026 - there is a big uptick in cases from July and until almost current day September.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Unrepentant beast must be using some forbidden jutsu to keep me pinned in place like this
Gray cat Hugo looking at camera while laying on my chest/tummy while I sit on the couch in my hoodie and atheleisure clothes
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ahaha it's like hugging your cat against its wishes (from news.denfaminicogamer.jp/kikakuthetow... )
Cloud being clutched to Sephiroth's bosom in the latest FFVII demo at TGS
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So Square Enix has an elaborate booth at TGS (visible on this page: www.jp.square-enix.com/tgs26/en/ ) that you can do some photo ops at, and I'm dying at this "get impaled by Sephiroth" area:
A stage set with a suspended-in-air figure of Sephiroth downthrusting his sword into whoever poses down below.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes, this AI can think. You can see its thoughts as it spins.
The Fisher Price See N Say toy with a series of animals around the spinner. It plays the animal sound that it points to after spinning.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sailor Venus hugging Sailor Moon
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Samwise Gamgee telling Frodo Baggins: "There's some good in this world, Mister Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Retvrn to Ravenous (handmade with Paint.net as god intended)
Panel from the Doom comic, but Doomguy is semi-replaced with Samus Aran's helmet and glowy hand saying the same things: "YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!"
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hell yeah my blood is helping others now!
Message from Bloodworks Northwest that tells me that my pint of red blood cells helped someone at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Another clip
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lunch time for me and my crow friends; tossed some peanuts on the roof and one worked on their snack on a skylight
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just finished reading @uketsu.bsky.social 's book, Strange Pictures, translated by @jimrion.com - wow, that was a fantastic weaving together of stories and I really enjoyed how it all linked together. Incredibly clever and I really enjoyed seeing how the "puzzles" resolved.
The paperback version of Uketsu’s novel, Strange Pictures. It has some of the drawn images from the story that include a woman standing with her hair blowing in the breeze, a tree with a bird in the hollow of the trunk, drawings of a tall apartment building that show a child and woman standing nearby.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wow they got my ass: mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
The heat map of the United States with the "Most Like You" focused on the Pacific Northwest and Washington State.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Made possible by gifcities: gifcities.org/search?q=art...
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
lol omg solved the food crisis and lactose intolerance
From the article: 6. Ig notable mentions

The chemistry prize went to an international team that found cockroach milk contains three times as much energy as cows’ milk, while the olfaction prize went to scientists who discovered babies smell wonderful to their parents, but teenagers do not. Other researchers landed prizes for turning mosquito proboscises into 3D printing nozzles, clarifying the aerodynamics of nose blowing, and burying underpants to monitor soil quality.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I like my timeline lots
Two posts: top is art by @leovincible.bsky.social of a creature with many arm-leg-finger-appendages emerging from a doorway, its eyes and mouth wide open, bottom post is from Endless Screaming going "AAAAAAAHHHHH"
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is rad
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Off model image of Tidus' face from FFX as he laughs
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Checking the Texas WARN site, Bethesda/Zenimax is listed for layoffs soon: www.twc.texas.gov/data-reports...
Zenimax Media layoff notices in Texas WARN Excel sheet, 22 in Austin, 136 in Richardson
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
American Chopper 5 panel meme with no text of the two guys yelling at each other and a chair is thrown
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I was thinking about this one! I remember @manlybadasshero.bsky.social trying Holstin out and I was wondering what happened - looks like they're aiming for 2027? The camera changes are really cool
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Saturn just expressing his cute aggression upon seeing his son
Goya’s painting of the god Saturn devouring his son. His eyes are sharp as he opens his mouth to bite down
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I Support Women's Wrongs: The Anime www.crunchyroll.com/series/GT003...
The main character, Elizabeth, from the anime "A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even" holding her divine artifact, a grimoire
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Friday night reading: Half is More @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social @fujimiyoico.bsky.social
Manga “Half is More” with a glass of wine
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Flo the insurance lady from the progressive ads making an unhappy face
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is also Azurik erasure
The titular hero, Azurik, with goggles and spiky hair, striking a hero pose in a crouch with his blade-weapon-thing held behind him.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Handy that the same dataviz folks did datacenter.fyi Darker colors indicate more data center planning and operation on this US/Canada map
Color-coded Data Center Facility map, with 2,531 total facilities: 1,600 operational, and then 931 planned. Darker colors indicate more data center progress.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nice that someone is collecting and putting some visualization to the WARN notices, but geebus California is getting hammered www.warntracker.com
A heat map of the US states showing a "Map of Layoffs for 2026" - California is the darkest color with 47,000+ layoffs this year
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sometimes you have a good poo day (Credit @ohmonahshop.bsky.social )
A t-shirt worn by a guy showing a thumbs-up that has a little guy laying down with sparkles around him/her that says: "I took a good poop today."
By ohmonah.shop.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Got “stubborn” yay undertale.jadenthejaded.uk
Soul trait extraction result: perseverance
With high score 73%

Despite the odds being stacked against me, I still moved forward.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Joseph Ducruex painting of man pointing at the viewer with a wry smile
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Most relaxed boy, flopped dramatically
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is cool, with the latest Bluesky update, you can see if you were added via a Starter Pack, and which one it was
A screenshot of the BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game following me via starter pack named Seattle Tacoma Game Devs.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Typical afternoon with the boys, they got a random Churu treat tube and are chill after
A pair of cats, one gray, the other black, laying on two separate warming mats on the carpeted floor of a room
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interesting, so Adobe saw something that marked the files as CSAM and reported it
The case, investigated by the Contra Costa Sheriff and District Attorney, started with a tip from Adobe after some of Benton’s files alerted a software program designed to detect harmful material. An Adobe employee reviewed the files, then alerted police, who seized Benton’s electronic devices with a warrant, according to court records.
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Got my ballot in and tracked, easy-peasy
The “Where is my ballot?” widget from the King County elections site. It shows that my ballot has progressed to “counted” with a congratulations message
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Grats folks! #1 top seller on Steam at the moment
Steam chart screenshot showing that Big Walk is the top selling game right now
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Watch Duty app has been a huge help if you can afford to donate there too, you can see the impact here: app.watchduty.org
Screenshot from the Watch Duty app focused on the Spokane area around the Autumn Lane Fire. There are several large fires near Spokane: Autumn Lane fire, Old Trails fire, and Fairview fire
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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Got my ballot in the official ballot box, awoooo
A winning "I voted" sticker design in Michigan in 2024: Features a werewolf tearing off a blue shirt, howling to the sky, in brown pants in front of an American flag and the words "I Voted" at the top.
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