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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu Go Boating

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I used one of these until 2018

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you take the argument to its logical endpoint it also suggests that we shouldn't even have a legal system. Too expensive! Way cheaper to just have mob rule

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a bad/wrong argument for a lot of reasons, but I think the simplest refutation of the claim that capital punishment is better for taxpayers than life imprisonment is that we should be fine with paying more money to not do that. In fact lots of things are worth paying for because they are Just

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Like there are a ton of Mister projects coming out that are basically just running emulation wrappers that AIs have compiled??? Like doesn't that completely miss the point of why Mister was exciting in the first place???

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm a lapsed retro gamer/collector, and while I've kind of skipped out of the last several years it does look like the entire scene is plagued with AI vibe-coded trash now, and that breaks my heart. I simply can't trust any new translation, port, or mod that comes out of the scene

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am finding the "critics everywhere agrees: this is shit from a butt" turn that the marketing took post-release kind of endearing???

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think Digger is a movie I would like to see

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reading Emily Wilson's introduction to the newest Aeneid translation and it is getting me pumped as heck to teach it again

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The guiding principle is white supremacy and the rationale/talking point will always just morph into whatever is most convenient for the moment

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The AI trash art is the perfect final kick of loathing

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sitting on literally hundreds of unread books so if the bottom really does fall out of the entertainment industry and/or it's obliterated by AI grey goo I'm grateful I'll be able to retreat into those in the worst case scenario

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fucking hell. Private Equity style businesses should be illegal. It's insane how their hyperanti-consumer practices run counter to the "hey we need people to consume consume consume" methodologies of Capitalism in exchange for extraction of all value from a body that doesn't know it's dead yet.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I said something like this entirely and earnestly on the basis that I just didn't enjoy his content and personality all that much but I will take it down to be more mindful of knock-on effects like these.

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kroger mailed me monthly coupons that clocked my grocery habits at 100%. Time to go off grid

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DIGGER being such a MORTDECAI-sized bomb that it threatens the sale to Paramount would be a very funny result to all this

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can tell Control Resonant wasn't made in America by the way there are billboards all across Manhattan promoting awareness about climate change, unionization, and suing your employer for wrongful termination.

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It has always been a roll of the dice if the random person you're talking to on the internet is a fully literate adult but the odds on that roll have gotten exponentially worse. precision and nuance in language is lost on an increasing percentage of the net population. folks really are vibe reading

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Control also wasn't great mechanically but it hit the gas on how sick the premise and aesthetics were basically immediately

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've spent most of my time with Control Resonant so far reminiscing on how much Control 1 absolutely rocks. It seems to be taking its time really getting into gear but I have faith in that Remedy has never let me down

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you have trashy AI art in your fliers, outside your establishment, in your menus, etc. etc. I'm bombing your reviews on principle even if I've never been there

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

normalize bullying and shunning businesses that use AI slop in any capacity

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Esp. since we have a ban *and* game changer list now. Like they're already doing a ton of "we have gaea's cradle at home" cards and I think you could get away with printing a really good one and just banning the original

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've never played a dual land and never proxied one, and have also never felt like my mana base has suffered without them.

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't think there's much downside to doing functional or near functional reprints into commandsr of basically anything on the reserve list that sees frequent play. There are a lot of reasons to play Wheel of Fortune but almost no reason to pay $300 for one

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm still furious over MS Word switching from Calibri to Aptos. Total downgrade, awful

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I do not think there is any amount of skill you can bring to a Homelands draft to improve your experience

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Drafting Homelands feels legitimately impossible to me, sealed marginally less so, based on vibes. I think with Sealed at least everyone could just bash whatever two colors have the best representation together and hope for the best. Draft might mean everyone has 5 color slopheaps

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Amusing local politics moment: news out this week is a smear on Dan Osborn, independent who has a chance of getting the GOP out of the Senate, involving secret recordings of him saying things about Trump voters meant to hurt him, but every single comments section I've seen has been just "based lol"

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I picked this up on clearance for maybe $2 way back in like 1997, when a local rental shop was liquidating their Saturn stock. I've been fascinated with it ever since. Thank you for writing this!

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My brain fried uncle from 15 years ago is now in charge of all public health in the US

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thought I'd try the Runza rewards app. It sent me four push notifications within 30 minutes on installation. Fastest delete I've ever done

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The bananas thing is that Nolis does have another location which appears to be doing just fine????

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

IMO the defensiveness and lashing out was worse than using the AI.

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fairly anodyne long essays some time ago about struggling that were clearly AI-generated, people commented that the choice to use AI undermined the authenticity of the message, they they attacked the commenters for being upset. Their social media has also just been photos with AI captions for months

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A struggling local restaurant that started posting AI-generated cries for help about it and then started lashing out at customers who found this frustrating and unappealing is now on the brink of shutting for good, and while I feel bad for them I also feel like they chose to devalue themselves??

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My very boring belief is that they perfected the pizza with pepperoni

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Angel Studios presents Adolf: The Untold Story

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Magic the Gathering lore-postin'

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J. Tiberius Vnuk @zoph.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Imagine if your siblings were named Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cotton-tail and you got stuck with the name Peter. What a bunch of bullshit

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