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scare-anatar 🎃 @vibecode.rodeo · 03/09/2026

Look, like it or not, Something Awful quietly solved moderation 20 years ago. This, the lepers colony, tiered probations, bans, and permas.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've pretty much always used quote posts this way (not that I have a big following to share it with but to try and add a thought without derailing the original thread) but I've been avoiding it lately as it seems like many people assume all quote posts are dunk attempts regardless of its content

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Cosmically Funny @cosmicallyf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Your mother was a hamster. She sewed my new blue jeans. Get that out of your head suckers!

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This user has been marked Safe ✅ from Recently Reskeeted by Alleged Attempted Presidential Assassin

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I got a wood brand recently and I'm having entirely too much fun with it.

A battered wooden surface branded with the phrase "another fine product from your friends at Antithesis Labs" surrounded by several obviously failed attempts at branding the same message

A cardboard box flap branded with "Another fine product from your friends at Antithesis Labs" in all capital letters surrounded by a border

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

in case anyone'ss interested in an update on this as I've seen interactions on this old skeet lately:Five Below offered a $25 tablet last year, and it's horrible, but charming. Its only job atm is as a dedicated PDF reader for breadmaker recipes and running one game incompatible with 64 bit android

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/12/2024

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading:
Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Morbid curiosity got the best of me and I bought the $25 Android tablet Five Below had for Black Friday. My favorite detail is you can see the exact outline of where the motherboard ends and they tapered in the shell to save 5¢ of plastic. It plays OSRS/Goat Simulator though so I'm happy with it.

The back of a black Android tablet sitting face down on a couch cushion

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's great that the Discourse™ right now boils down to someone saying "it's wild that ice cream in moderation is relatively good for you as a snack, and even weirder how mad some people get when you mention it." Followed by one guy getting unreasonably mad about it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/12/2024

yeah I may be personally biased because I work in tech but a LOT of the individual engineers are fundamentally decent people who are also skeptical of how this stuff is being used but they are not the decision makers, and the bosses have used the last couple years to aggressively limit their power

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happy filth_oween @filth-waste.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

ME: posts “i am going to overdose on gas station dick pills and use my boner to vault my body into a volcano” SOME DIPSHIT WHO JUST STOPPED RIDING ELON MUSK’S BABYDICK IN THE PAST MONTH WITH NO LESS THAN 60 FLAG EMOJIS IN THEIR BIO: that’s not physically possible

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𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒾 💖☁️ @spookydan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“bluesky is an echochamber” dude i want to go on social media to talk to my friends, vent about work, and look at taylor swift. the goal was never to be inundated with crypto scams, porn bots, and engagement farming assholes paying to have their rage bait boosted

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is probably too niche an opinion for most people to care about, but looking at SSDs made me realize we really need to come up with a max height standard for heatsinks on m.2 drives. Lookit this ridiculous thing, that's not fitting in half the spots they pot m.2 sockets these days.

A PNY XLR8 branded m.2 SSD with two tall fans attached to a large heatsink

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/11/2024

I’m not quote posting Frum but the important thing to realize about everyone telling you that you have to seek out and engage with people you fundamentally disagree with is: no you don’t that’s not your job, that’s not your responsibility as a human, you can just… not

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Me, two years ago: ooh, a bug in my SSD's firmware causes it to go read-only prematurely unless I apply a patch? Well I've downloaded the fix now so I'll get around to it next time I reboot or whatever. Narrator: He did not, in fact, get around to it. Gonna be a fun weekend fixing this.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15/11/2024

This is how legends are born

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🌲🥦🌬💨☭𓅊 Treezy the Vapor Elemental 707er 𓅊☭ 🌁🌉 @coryandtreezy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

if you were really ready you'd have bought the white nikes and got on the spaceship behind that comet, wtf did you think that shit was here for

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

And there are still people out there telling us the Cthulhu mythos 'isn't real'

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wow!youmadeit @wowyoumadeitemo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Aight I'm just gonna say it: I'm tired of pretending Dave & Buster's isn't one of the best ways to blow an evening with some good friends. I don't know who convinced me it was "too dorky" to suggest as an activity, but that stops today.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 13/02/2024

Over on Mastodon, which has a Kind of Person, I made these images to attach to help people manage replies. Album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F

An informational message to manage replies. It reads:

DO NOT REPLY TO TELL ME TO USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT, UM MIR ZU SAGEN, OPEN-SOURCE-SOFTWARE ZU VERWENDEN
NO RESPONDA PARA DECIRME QUE USE SOFTWARE DE CÓDIGO ABIERTO
NE PAS RÉPONDRE POUR ME DIRE D'UTILISER UN LOGICIEL OPEN SOURCE

An informational message to manage replies. It reads:

DO NOT REPLY WITH A SOFTWARE SUGGESTION

ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT MIT EINEM SOFTWARE-VORSCHLAG

NO RESPONDA CON UNA SUGERENCIA DE SOFTWARE

NE RÉPONDEZ PAS AVEC UNE SUGGESTION DE LOGICIEL

An informational message to be used to manage replies. It reads:

DO NOT REPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE DIRECT EXPERIENCE
ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT, ES SEI DENN, SIE HABEN DIREKTE ERFAHRUNG
NO RESPONDA A MENOS QUE TENGA EXPERIENCIA DIRECTA
NE RÉPONDEZ PAS SAUF SI VOUS AVEZ UNE EXPÉRIENCE DIRECTE

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I really wanted an invite code to be part of the cool kids' table here, then I realized I didn't have much to actually say 😅 Ah well, nice to be here y'all!

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