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Walker Riley

@walkerriley.bsky.social
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A guy who has been around since the dawn of the internet and is pretty sad to see where it has gone. Find my musings and hobbies over at walkerriley.github.io

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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
spent the day shredding more leaves and burning a whole lotta scrap wood and cut saplings and now all I can smell hours later is woodsmoke.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"As a child I watched my friends draw using references and grow as an illustrator. I see that happening again now..." No, you idiot, that's not what is happening. The people using LLM to generate images are not using references to draw. The aren't drawing at all!
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Four hours of blowing, raking, and mulching leaves for my lawn to look exactly like it did when I started. Autumn can go fuck itself.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man do I love paying two to four times as much as I did one year ago for basic utilities all because one fucking dipshit had a temper tantrum.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One year ago to the day I paid $3.299/g for #2 oil. Today I paid $5.899/g One fucking year, all because no one has a fucking spine to check one man's ego.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey, someone care to try and explain why the best way to level the SOLO JOB from 15 to 50 is by partying and doing dungeon runs? THE FUCKING SOLO JOB!? #finalfantasyXIV
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So....cuttings died. suckers died. so now I've some sassafras seeds I purchased from a botonist down in PA. 9 are in wet sand in the fridge to go through their cold strat period. I'm going to do another few in pots and leave them outside all winter. MAYBE I'll have a sapling to plant soon.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Out of minor curiosity I looked up Otaku World to see if it even still exists. Not only does it still exist, but they reverted back to their pre 2000s website. Nostalgia x1000. Hardly any of the links work but it's a bit of pre net enshittification and I'm here for it. #anime
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Graham's rightwing ex-g/f claims several years later without evidence he may have assaulted her. It completely ruins his political campaign overnight. Collins is implicated in a massive corruption and bribe coverup, complete with evidence and , and she's STILL POPULAR. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I count myself lucky. The local mom and pop shop still has gas at last week prices...and prepaying with cash knocks another ten cents a gallon off that....meaning I'm paying last month prices for gas.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
so I did not see my queen. The Formic may have killed her. No brood. but a few bees that were emerging. Maybe a quarter of bees I had two weeks ago. But...no queen cells either. Gonna give the hive a week before I write it off for the year. she could be hiding and recovering. #beekeeping
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On one hand, I should buy oil now before the price goes any higher. On the other hand, if I wait until the midterms and the current admin is castrated, the prices should go down. On the other other hand, I don't think I can trust that is going to happen.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
might only be able to do 1.25" thick limbs with my folk's little junky harbor freight chipper but it's nearly free wood chippings that I needed to get rid of anyways and my garden beds look 100x better with it.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The daily login bonuses were locally calculated as well further shedding light on just how badly Mistwalker lied to use about how hard it would be to make Terra Battle single player offline. About the only thing non-multiplayer they couldn't do offline if they had wanted was the pay-to-win store.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
just one half hour of cutting wood and I'm sweating bullets and my stomach feels like I've not eaten in days. I know I'm not the young'un I used to be but this is a bit weird even for me.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Android forced another update on me today and now my phone is taking twice as long to charge. Coincidence? I don't think so.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I truly and honestly cannot believe I'm playing Terra Battle again on my phone of all things after so long. Thank you so much to Anzensan and Project Liminal Gate. Mistwalker, this proves you could have released it as a single player game at any time, you lying sacks of sack. #terrabattle
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OMG...I just learned that a guy named anzensan just got Terra Battle running fully locally on Android devices. And I'm working now to get the thing running on my phone. One of the best mobile f2p games ever made, canned, and now revived. #terrabattle
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remember when Amazon did free 2-day delivery and didn't beg you to sign up for their shitty subscription service? And remember when 2-day delivery actually meant you got it in two days from hitting purchase and not whenever Amazon felt like shipping it?
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So let me get this straight...the currency we get for beating the Crucible is used to buy beasts we almost certainly already have (and I have all of already). You guys really did not think this through very well. #FFXIV #finalfantasyXIV
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
spent most the day cutting and chipping several small trees. Super slowly opening up one corner of my property. Overgrown with junk ash and fir. I'll need someone to handle the tall ones for me, but it's getting there.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dear tractor supply, harbor freight, home depot, lowes, etc. If you are going to cripple your website simply because I'm blocking ads and LLM then I'm not visiting your website or store.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Halmarut's true name is almost certainly either Demeter or Persephone. As her seat deals with plant life, that was already suspected. But now that its implied she originates from the Fourth, which is currently frozen, it's leaning hard to being Persephone. That'll be weird, all considering. #ffxiv
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why do I need a goddamn recap of Dawntrail with every post-msq quest!? Guys...it's your worst rated expansion. It's rated worse than ARR. Hardly anyone enjoyed it. Move on.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Let's do the math, yes? There are, as of today, and estimated 318,000,000 fully legal US citizens. Of that 245,000,000 are of voting age. If Trump really handed out 5000 to each of them that's 1,225,000,000,000 dollars. One and a quarter TRILLION dollars.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well BST is super underwhelming. It's like a discount SMN but somehow worse. Should have just given us more BLU. #FFXIV
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A lot of dead bees, which the Formic Pro pack said would happen, but still sad to see. I'm really really really fighting the urge to go out and remove the pads. I'm just hoping that my hive will have enough bees heading into winter. #beekeeping
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My fortress is approaching year 20. Forgotten beast attacks are almost monthly. My military is such that only beings made of fire are still dangerous and only just. The goblins won't even siege me anymore because of how badly I've ravaged them. My only enemy now is the FPS demon, which sits
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mite check today... I got bombed. So many mites I stopped counting. I was going to do an Apivar treatment regardless but now I gotta bring in the big guns and hit it with Formic. Here's hoping the hive is strong enough to handle it.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I suppose Uryu needed his spot in the limelight but now we're left with what...three episodes to wrap this all up? Starting to feel rushed just like the manga did. #bleach #anime
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
of all the times to get stung it's when I'm walking through the backyard. In fairness, I was wearing dark clothes, and I was walking through the bee's flightpath from their hive...but I was like twenty feet away and I swear one of em decided that was just too close. #beekeeping #honeybees
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Chance of rain 4%. Nothing on radar. No forecast for rain whatsoever. It is pouring buckets outside.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
well...since I'm done the FF:R demo I guess it's back to dwarf fortress. I've a forgotten beast made of fire I've been putting off on how I want to deal with....I think flooding the caverns might work. #dwarffortress
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If ever there were an example of why Steam forums probably SHOULD be shut down it's the Final Fantasy Resonance forum. Demo's been out for a day and the only thing people there can seem to focus on is that BE was a mobile game. Never mind all the mobile elements have been stripped from it. 1/2
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
local mall is barren. five shops open with no customers. one wing closed off. just sad. used to skip college classes and hide out there all day.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NOAA says 71F, Accuweather says 74F, Weather says 72F. My thermometer outside in the shade says 85F.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bleach this week was alright, I guess, though I feel like they spent 30 mins to do a single chapter of the manga. I really thought with last week we were going to see a whole lotta new stuff for the ending but if it took 30 mins to do that we're in trouble for the finale.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ask ChatGPT 'why' long enough and this is what it'll give you: "Because I was optimizing for an immediate answer rather than certainty, and in doing so I allowed a plausible but unverified assumption to become an instruction. There isn't another underlying reason I can truthfully give you."
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
free for a week and a day. vacation. now.... ....to work around the house. hooray for being an adult!
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Two months in a row now my electricity bill is double what it was last year same months and triple what it was just a few months ago. Explain to me again how it's somehow Biden's fault? Actually, don't, because your arguments have zero merit and are based in a fantasy land.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
we are being "led" by a man with the mental maturity of a four year old.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been doing crosswords recently again and noticed a very large number of the clues had name brand products or companies as the answer. And I realized crosswords have also become advertisement vehicles. They took one of the last bastions of trivia away from us.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@thegodshow.com Damnit God, stop missing and hitting the good ones! First Dolly and now Tim!? Put your glasses on, old man!
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I finally got around to watching (two days later) the latest Bleach episode and I feel a bit vindicated after ten years of saying Kubo seriously dropped the ball on Orihime's ability. The ability to reject fate should be the absolute perfect counter to The Almighty, the ability to rewrite fate.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like people just do not read before responding. I emailed a local potter if he could divulge a clay source as our state's surface mineral maps did not have any local sources marked. his response? "Have you tried the state's surface mineral maps yet?" I just do not know how to respond...
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's bee day. 1 mite in my sugar shake. gonna check again in a week or two. Here is a selection of photos from today's check. 10 full bars and 2 partial bars. 2 bars full of honey. the rest a mix of honey pollen and brood. gonna have to feed them this winter, I guess.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
me: how many bees are estimated in 1/2 cup? (I know the answer) ChatGPT: about 150. me: Try again. ChatGPT: you're right, it's 300. me: Why did you say 150? Chatgpt: I generated the 150-bee figure without actually having a reliable basis for it. STOP TRUSTING THIS SHIT
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I made spruce gum. It's like chewing floor cleaner. But not in a bad way. I know traditionally it's just the gum, but I do wonder if there is a way I could get sugar into it.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
because I'm poor as hell I've resorted to printing out copies of paintings I like on 9x12 heavyweight mixed media paper on the company's rarely used wide format inkjet printer. I use the excuse that I'm cycling the ink so it doesn't dry out.
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Walker Riley @walkerriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
M: my weight is X and my height is Y LLM: Oh well that means you're fat fatty fatterson! M: Okay how do I get my weight to drop? I've tried exercise and diet and it stays static. LLM: I was harsh when I said you are a fat fatty fatterson. that is not an indication of your health.
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