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Jake

@twentysides.bsky.social
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Board gamer, father, leftist, indoorsman. He/him/any.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
She walked into my office, the body of a goddess and the temper of a longshoreman. I knew dames like this, all too well. A smart man would've jumped out the window. But I never did too good in school. I guess that's why I became a private eye. She cut right to the chase. "Boss wants a Qwak! movie."
Art depicting the 1974 console and later Atari duck hunting game Qwak!,
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Sinners is incredible. I've been thinking about it almost non-stop since seeing it yesterday. It's one of the best movies I've seen in years, possibly THE best.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
RIP Polygon. Delenda est Valnet.
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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Sounds like a new wave of folks are giving Bsky a try. Welcome! For #BoardGame fans I have two "Starter Packs" to help you find accounts... you can do a fast "follow all" or just scroll the pack and select accounts. Official Board Game Publisher Accounts: go.bsky.app/DSNtxDE
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 19/01/2025
Marvel Snap's devs are based in California, and I can't begin to imagine what it's like to be developing a game that's banned in your own country because Democrats are incompetent.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Now that TikTok is gone I'll finally have time to try that Marvel Snap game I keep hearing about. *three minutes later* 😑
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Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
Every day, a new piece of Vanciana emerges that suggests that 'couchfucker' is too gentle an epithet.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
It's actually hard to make a joke about RFK Jr having a brain worm that's as funny as the simple fact that he literally had a brain worm.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 06/05/2024
feeling unsafe | patreon.com/lubchansky
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Every time I give my infant a bath I comb her hair back and pretend she's a Sopranos character: Jimmy "The Baby" Fantino. "Hey Tony, pull up a booster seat. Gino, a round of milk for my pal Tony! Of course it's on me, I'm not being raised by wolves."
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
The virgin junta vs. the
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
real doozy of a nytdiff just dropped
tweet from @nyt_diff: Pro-Palestinian student [begin red highlight and struck out text] activists, many of whom are Jewish, [end red highlight and struck out text] activists [highlighted in green] say their movement is anti-Zionist but not antisemitic. It is not a distinction that everyone buys.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
How it feels being partway into 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Charlie on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia gesturing toward a conspiracy board of documents with string connecting different sections. He has a manic, intense look in his eyes and a cigarette in his hand.
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
my god the number of people who are like, "lets not jump to conclusions about the mass graves of hospital patients and children who show signs of being bound and tortured that were found after the IDF withdrew from occupying these hospitals, those people might have died from normal reasons or Hamas"
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Killing the double decker was a crime against humanity. Easily the best menu item for a cuisine meant to be eaten in cars.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Me: I'm going to save this for making wargame terrain! Me but rational: You haven't made wargame terrain in over a year. Me: But still!
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
Jesus this is nightmarish. My cousin was killed by police in a similar situation where he ran to them when they arrived to "help". Ever since they have dodged accountability at every step.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2024
Bonus Discworld QOTD - rerunning this one from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Visibility
“‘Do you think there’s something a bit… odd about Littlebottom?’

‘Seems like a perfectly ordinary female to me,’ said Angua. 

‘Female? He told you he was female?’

‘She,’ Angua corrected. ‘This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.’”
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
"Yes that's today isn't it! I hope you're wearing your finest blue and pink, and that you find and crack a lot of eggs!"
Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock, when he had to respond to two calls at the same time.
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
🏳️‍⚧️ cis people, Trans Day of Visibility is a day you get to see us at our most joyous, beaming, beautiful selves. very proud and very loud. but what if you couldn't see us, because we didn't make it through? i want every cis person who sees this to donate to Trans Lifeline today: translifeline.org
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Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Easter is God’s bring your kid to work day.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Really heartwarming to see all the guys, gals, and non-binary pals posting on Trans Day of Visibility. You all kick ass.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Happy birthday Jesus!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2024
one thing you get a front row seat to, as a parent, and also just as a human being: becoming a person is really hard being a person is really hard I wish we all extended each other a bit more grace on that front
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 29/03/2024
AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
I am begging folks to learn what neoliberalism means. It is a resurgence of economic liberalism, a.k.a. free market capitalism. It is not the co-opting of liberal imagery for unrelated purposes.
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The Devouring Mother @ragnell.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
An AI datacenter devours enough water and electricity for a whole city of people each day. A human artist only takes up as much electricity and water as any single human. This is why, even if we settle copyrights and such, AI will always be immoral. Just pay a human.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Still image of David Cross playing a NASA scientist on Mr. Show saying "America can, should, must, and will blow up the Moon."
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
people talk about weird economic indicators like lipstick sales and cardboard boxes but what i wanna know is whether military enlistment goes through the roof
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Me and the regular group who like my posts.
The white wizard Saruman making a menacing expression and a few Uruk-Hai following behind him.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
We're missing out on wacky names for medical conditions. Boo to technical names like SARS or vitamin D deficiency. I would rather find out I have the Glumps or Dutchman's Regret.
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
AI is destroying everything. Look what it's doing to Google Docs' spellcheck. Besides the image here, it wants me to change "grains slip through the waist of the hourglass" to "gains slip through,"
Screenshot of a spellcheck that wants to suggest the gramatically nonsensical "What did he did."
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
I finally played 6 Siege: The Board Game, and it was so tense and engaging that I forgot to take photos. It's exactly the tactical board game I've wanted since playing X-COM (note the hyphen) and Rainbow Six 1 through 3. This may be the first time I've regretted backing for only the base game.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Yes and: Shorthand and stereotypes are really effective at communicating the concept. Is there an orc that looks menacing? You're probably fighting monsters. Is there an orc that looks friendly? Maybe something cozy that deconstructs assumptions in fantasy. But both rely on orc shorthand.
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 23/03/2024
half this place is shitposting in a last desperate attempt to stave off the encircling madness and the other half is doing it while opening juice boxes for their kids
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Great news! Miniature Market is independent again! boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Reskeet with your "literally me" characters
Ben from Parks and Rec, feeling my best self when teaching a gameMoss from the IT Crowd, trying to figure out the specific new process to resolve an emergency at workThe guy on the right from the skeleton song sketch in I Think You Should Leave, thinking I'm riffing when I'm completely botching the situation for everyoneBonus two-fer: Tina from Bob's Burgers not properly handling a simple task and Bob not understanding why his child is not handling a simple task
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
I understand why the East Coast gets all of that and we get Seattle-to-Portland, but goddamn I would love some of that Seattle-to-Portland.
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Okay, as requested, here is a checklist of things i recommend trying as you transition. my list will be from an enby & trans femme perspective, but i will try to also include some suggestions i have heard from trans masc friends. other trans folx please chime in!! 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍⚧️ 1/x
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
The tweet on the left and an example of it in practice on the right.
@screaminbutcalm
Me sewing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.@spurtmagoo - 5hr
Drank a bunch of NyQuil and coffee just to see who will win

@spurtmagoo - 2h
This may come as a surprise to all of you but I don't feel very well
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 19/03/2024
New short story about a hacker haunting an early online game www.otherstrangeness.com/2024/03/19/t...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/03/2024
Absolutely scathing and well worth the read.
Sam Altman desperately needs you to believe that generative AI will be essential, inevitable and intractable, because if you don't, you'll suddenly realize that trillions of dollars of market capitalization and revenue are being blown on something remarkably mediocre. If you focus on the present — what OpenAI's technology can do today, and will likely do for some time — you see in terrifying clarity that generative AI isn't a society-altering technology, but another form of efficiency-driving cloud computing software that benefits a relatively small niche of people.

If you stop saying things like "AI could do" or "AI will do," you have to start asking what AI can do, and the answer is...not that much, and not much more in the future. Sora is not going to generate movies. It's going to continue making horrifying human-adjacent creatures that walk like the AT-ATs from Star Wars, and cartoons that look remarkably like copyrighted material from YouTube.
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Jake @twentysides.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
This couldn't be more suspicious if the bolts on his car door were loose.
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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 18/03/2024
This is, incidentally, why I hate that we're calling LLMs "AI". They don't know anything. They can't judge anything. They can't remember anything. There's nothing intelligent about what they're doing.
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Matt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 17/03/2024
My toddler when his mom leaves his line of sight for 15 seconds
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