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he/him I make silly things.

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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's the middle of the night and I woke up with a good idea. now I can't sleep and tomorrow I won't be able to function
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing
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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3
A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Maybe tomorrow will be better.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Infinitely more disturbing than any science fiction story about a rogue AI are the real grown adults who believe ChatGPT can think and has a sense of self.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
gopher://tilde.pink:70/1/~bencollver/recipes/
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I found a very dried out onion in the back of the pantry. I tossed it outside, but Larissa was out there reading. Now she thinks dried onions are falling from the sky.
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✨💜 king 💜✨ @king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How about this: Instead of hyping up the piece of shit TERF queen and her exceedingly mid books, we point kids in the direction of K.A. Applegate and her fantastic, terrifying Animorphs series?
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🜏 Machine Saint 🜏 @shoehead.itch.io · 18/08/2026
HOI MY ART IS IN THIS GAME AND IT'S OUT NOW TODAY RIGHT NOW RRIGHT THE FUCK NOW ON STEAM IN EARLY ACCESS
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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I made a 3D printed belt out of TPU for IBM Selectric typewriters. I'm trying a split design that can be glued together, but if that doesn't work I also made a normal belt.
IBM Selectric split belt and clamping toolIBM Selectric split belt and clamping tool, clamped
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 06/08/2026
I used the power of the One Ring. I recognize that it's evil, and I expect a lot of people to be mad at me for using it. Sorry! However, I plan to continue using it. Here's why: (1/62)
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
sucks outside
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Super Stable Games @superstablegames.com · 16/07/2026
Made a new gameplay trailer, basically an updated version with just pony gameplay. Because I know that's what you are all about. Does anyone really think of those poor students that need to have the colors back in their lives? or only of THE APPLE store.steampowered.com/app/4670040/...
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026
The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?
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Lier X Agerate's Strongest Soldier @pixelscum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
there's a way easier solution to this than banning mostly ai code, or banning ai code contributions it's banning the people who do them permanently once you verify that they're submitting code made through ai you just blacklist them permanently
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Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 01/07/2026
It's July and it's #decker fantasy camp month! itch.io/jam/decker-f...
itch.io
Decker Fantasy Camp 2026
A game jam from 2026-07-01 to 2026-08-01 hosted by Internet Janitor. Summer is upon us. The weather is hot, but pixels are cooler than ever. Pack your bags with swim trunks, mosquito repellent, animat...
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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
lmao
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My kid is officially cooler than I am now.
Some retro computers
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It spins a little faster now. www.youtube.com/live/0zMQvzD...
youtube.com
Sand stream three - sand faster
YouTube video by Tom Rintjema
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Dieting Hippo @dhippo.net · 21/06/2026
for anyone in need of stuff that hasn't been touched by digital asbestos or stuff that's actively fighting against it, check out codeberg.org/ethical-foss... for some alternatives. and also to see who's accepted the theft machines into their codebases.
codeberg.org
open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New sand stream www.youtube.com/live/mlbSGDs...
youtube.com
Sand stream 2
YouTube video by Tom Rintjema
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I setup a thing. www.youtube.com/live/fTgq4bf...
youtube.com
Motorized Lego Sand Sculpture Live Stream
YouTube video by Tom Rintjema
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I setup a thing. www.youtube.com/live/fTgq4bf...
youtube.com
Motorized Lego Sand Sculpture Live Stream
YouTube video by Tom Rintjema
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Deogie @deogie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
bonus panel here! tinyview.com/deogie/2026/...
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
sharpen those guillotines, folks
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Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 10/06/2026
It's very much not a replacement (since by its nature various restrictions are imposed on images and audio) but #Decker is at least free from any gen AI nonsense, and the included dialogizer and puppeteer modules are pretty handy for making visual novels
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
cool paper arguing LLMs can be implemented as a shitload of goats in Age of Empires II... thus it'd be silly to assume / project human-like consciousness onto it
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Birds
A male and female cardinal lock beaks.
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I posted something about the joy of doing creative work, how the time spent is often of real value, and an AI bro said "You're just saying that to make a point." No, my friend, I've lived my entire adult life that way and I am older than VCRs.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
take me down to the dentistry city where my teeth are cleaned and my mouth feels gritty
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
trans pops
blue pink white icy pops
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...
404media.co
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 12/05/2026
2 days is plenty of time to make something for the hybrid #decker zine jam itch.io/jam/hybrid-d...
itch.io
Hybrid Decker Zine Jam
A game jam from 2026-03-31 to 2026-05-14 hosted by Millie Squilly. We all love making zines in Decker (or at least I do, I've made like 35 of them ). And we all love the physical DIY nature of print z...
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Booklegger @booklegger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We call these things hallucinations at our peril. The LLM isn't really hallucinating, it simply doesn't know anything. It's always trying to say what it calculates the next thing that should be said is. But that metric for "should be said" has no relationship to reality, only to what HAS been said
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
it's funny because I'm always like "Actually this shit sucks so fucking bad" and all the vibecode bros are like you should try using it, and like... I try all the time man, I'm better than you at trying, they're just awful and you're not good enough to know.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I have made another style of bobbin for spinning wheels.
3D printed bobbin parts.3D printed bobbin assembled.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Did some amplifier surgery to fix a burned out power bulb.
A lit LED attached to a vintage amplifier.A Yamaha CA-800 with fresh LED power light installed.
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Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com · 10/04/2026
Incredible walking machine engineered by some players in the Mars First Logistics discord: youtu.be/omMKOforeK4?...
youtu.be
The Rover
YouTube video by Ficsit Rooster
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I made a 3D printable modular bobbin for spinning wheels.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
My Grandmother isn't coming to family dinner because she doesn't want to miss chocolate bingo. Sounds like a good time tbh
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
You know what would be really funny to happen today?
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
when the first dunc movie came out I made this: atomr.itch.io/sand
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Sand by TomR
The mighty sandworm protects the dunes.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I made some yarn guides that clip onto bags.
Yarn guides in action.CAD model of a yarn guide.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The tragic and beautiful story of WigglyPaint. beyondloom.com/blog/onwiggl...
beyondloom.com
Internally, WigglyPaint maintains three image buffers and edits them simultaneously, with different types of randomization applied for different drawing tools; many tools apply a random position offset between stroke segments or randomly select different brush shapes and sizes:
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Another photo taken with my box camera.
A pile of snow on the edge of a parking lot.
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TomR @tomrx.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
youtu.be/CC7dmomiVuo
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AI is DEATH to creativity... and maybe humans.
YouTube video by The Crafsman Steady Craftin
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