Tweets from 2021/02
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RT @exaltiora: 6145.
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@tambourine goood luck!! got my fingers crossed for you!
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RT @innesmck: "I hope you really enjoy video games too. They're invented to be really cool. I haven't invented any games yet, I'm just a pl…
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RT @SarahJamieLewis: The thing you are supposed to be decentralizing is power.
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@Tambalaya honestly the best thing I can offer you is the videogame Her Story
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First Last Snow by Max Gladstone Book 4! This is a prequel, where we get to see two characters we've previously seen as somewhat cryptic badasses being still very badass but also more emotionally vulnerable. It's about... probably the closest analogue is the Arab Spring?
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Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone Book 5 (the numbering within the titles is the chronological order, which is kind of impressive pre-planning). This is the fairly direct sequel to the 1st. All the same cast in new configurations. I liked the idea of the underwater vampires.
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@leonard_ritter They wouldn't even need to first party it, just.... pay very large sums of money for exclusives
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@alexhern @leighalexander imo a even bigger strategic error than not spending enough money on first party dev was basically not spending any money on exclusives or to get studios to port to Stadia. In a world where you can earn back development costs just from an Apple Arcade or Epic deal...
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@alexhern @leighalexander you don't even need to make it yourself or take on any of the game dev risk! you just need to spend some money!
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@alexhern @leighalexander oh, really? my impression (on the indie games side) was that it wasn't really worth talking to them, they weren't interested in even paying porting costs. at which point everyone rightly concluded Stadia was not a bet they wanted to take with their own money.
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RT @emollick: Dating apps disrupt inequality? That is basically what happened in the UK in 1861-63, when the Season, where the gentry had p…
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CBDQ notice: the database corruption thing happened again :( and again I don't seem to be able to recover it. rolling back to an older backup - apologies again for any bot updates that are lost, and any double replies.
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@smokesignalsz last Sunday (the 24th). sorry!
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@smokesignalsz but also: thank you for tweeting at me about the 500 error
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@smokesignalsz ah, I'm so sorry!
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@yoondust I really hope not! Should have it fixed properly soon, but its still unclear to me what the underlying problem is. Will likely be some more downtime as I try to fix it, but hopefully can avoid any more data loss/double-tweeting.
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RT @otakucalendarjp: Neko Oikawa, lyricist of A Cruel Angel's Thesis (Evngelion's OP), "I hadn't watch Eva and wrote it in 2 hours. I don't…
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CBDQ: doing various maintenance bits - upgrading the server, recreating the DB - will be offline intermittently for the next hour or so.
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@lgsorceress @HorseDisc yep, makes sense - shouldn't be any data loss, but also annoying to try to make things work when the server keeps going down.
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updating my server & it's funny that it's asking what keyboard is attached to the machine. it's like... there's no keyboard. there's not even a machine. you're just a ghost running on an abstraction, asking me to lie to you.
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Amazon took $61m from its workers, they got caught and the punishment was... they had to pay the money they stole & promise not to do it again? @LaurenKGurley/1356647924327985156
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anyway i said "en-US"
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@samuelthomson yeah, it's a Linode VPS. best bet these days I reckon is Digital Ocean? but you gotta do all the server-admin stuff
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@tambourine fingers crossed for you!!! 🤞🤞🤞
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RT @sarahjeong: tl;dr Intermediary liability and content moderation is currently a battleground for the global rise of fascism and authori…
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RT @freezydorito: everything about flash makes me upset but especially the fact that we (web developers) got tricked into thinking killing…
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RT @presstube: It’s been a whiles crocodiles 🐊 Hi!
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@antony_de_fault @nachimir this is correct, imo
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potatoes @Rainmaker1973/1356573445375602689
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RT @NYT_first_said: femboy
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@SongbyToad oh! you're the ones who bought it! me and a friend were looking at it, and getting tempted (and also doing some rough estimation on exactly how much money and work it needed...). so glad it's in good hands, and I look forward to visiting some day!
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@LinnBotanics @SongbyToad see, worrying you'll not do the place justice is how I know its in good hands
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RT @artistsavrasov: Sundown over a marsh, 1871 #alekseysavrasov #realism
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RT @calmingsphere:
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@kchironis just as many cases of people using the creativity, the magic, the unique and delicate and inexpressible artistry necessary to make games as an excuse for really awful production processes as people saying "yeah, it's just software, isn't it? how hard can it be?"
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RT @amargoing: wtf
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RT @aitorehm: Back in 2018, when I was working as a foreign correspondent in Lisbon, I got a call from my editor back in Madrid asking me t…
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new favourite website: juktm.net/
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@toddwords it leaves you in such suspense! there are four allegations... but only three are addressed!
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the backstory is wild, too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass
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RT @f_a_r_t_s: "fascism is imperialism applied at home" looking more and more like the right take
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@grapefrukt randomly place them, then relax the positions
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@grapefrukt ah, yeah, as @zarawesome said: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_algorithm some details will vary depending on whether you care about them getting very close to the polygon edges or want to relax away from the walls as well
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@zarawesome @grapefrukt haha. I just remembered "relaxation" then was like... wait. this isn't helpful.
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@joonturbo @grapefrukt he asked for a clever algorithm, not a dumb-but-effective hack!
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@designCaitlin me too! what made it even sweeter is that it had been overpaid. the joy of getting an unexpected two thousand quid (of your own money)
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CBDQ notice: the database problem hit again! i hate this. taken the service temporarily offline & have captured a backup - shouldn't be any data loss. will work on solving the problem properly & getting it online this evening.
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(why is this InnoDB table full!? the table's ibd file is hitting 4.1G, but it's running on ext3, so that shouldn't be a problem. ibfile is set to autoextend... it's a mystery)
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RT @MissMyu_: Vouch. I've never seen internal studio documentations as clear and well maintained as fan wikis.
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@fforw that might be the answer! but it seems like a bad idea in the middle of an outage, without space to properly test the migration
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RT @NotBrunoAgain: If you're unfamiliar, reddit's moderation system works on a seniority system; you can demod anyone who was modded after…
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@yoondust I don't believe so! but I still need to figure out how to fix it, so I can't be certain. 😬
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okay!! mysteries continue, i am still not 100% it's finally fixed. but it's up again and seems to be running fine for now.
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RT @haikus_by_KN: Vocational degrees are risky. Take it from someone who trained to become a concert pianist.
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RT @matthew_d_green: I was trying to be really low-key on this one, so let me make it really blunt. There is every reason to believe the NS…
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okay: Handforth Parish Council adaptation, each season Jackie Weaver is sent in as a fixer to a different council to restore democratic processes.
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@KommanderKlobb I don't know why you'd do a Handforth TTRPG when you have a perfect format for a Zoom Larp.
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@KommanderKlobb I guess so! I don't know a better term for it. Ah, but it's a great idea tho! I guess the big thing is establishing a shared history to argue over?
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my phone updated itself overnight and now the status bar is taller and the icons within are positioned uncomfortably close to the (rounded) corners of the screen.
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I hate that only good way to develop software is to have giant corporations continually changing things without letting you know about the changes in advance, allowing you to say no or giving you any way to give them feedback.
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but on the bright side, at some point this fixed itself. or at least, now it only turns on repeat, not shuffle. the sense of powerlessness remains. @v21/1320350794768670720?s=19
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RT @EmilyYoon: BACK IN THE DAY, if you made a New Folder on a Korean computer, the folder was automatically named after a bird ("new" in Ko…
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RT @bangqiaoyan2018: yesterday🌟
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RT @elizejackson: @SFdirewolf @jaivirdi @Nike What I realized the other day is that if ‘design for one’ is the design strategy, then ‘expan…
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@SzMarsupial I'm seeing double! Four cats!
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@floofstrid @GalaxyKate ahh! thank you ☺️
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@floofstrid @GalaxyKate @techdifbot hah, yeah, some people hit the limit early on so I bumped it up. lots of fun with pregenerating the Tracery source...
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@NoraReed haha! I love that. so glad my fuck up could lead to something fun and new.
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RT @anna__firth: This is what the “wrong” side of cel looks like
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RT @celestial_hours:
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@3liza when me and a friend would curate a videogames festival we would regularly have this exchange: -this one? it's got good writing! -does it have good writing, or is it good for games? -no, you're right, it's just good for games
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the thing about this fatigue is that I still have the instincts & the ability to move through the world in the ways I did before. but afterwards I'm like... oof. I definitely should have walked up that staircase a bit slower.
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I don't really care too much about Marvel films, but this is a good thread on previz & the blending of acting/animation @timoni/1357992388577218561
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coming from games, hearing about the traditional film production process scares the shit out of me. that you do all of this stuff, write, shoot, edit, but you can't see the film until the very end of the process? but what if its bad & you didn't notice?
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so yeah, the idea that you can get a shitty version of the film upfront & mess around with it before doing the expensive bits... I don't see why you wouldn't (if you can afford a previz studio).
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some interesting wrinkles in the linked video about the relationships between directors and previz studios, tho- fine for Marvel, but if you wanted to do something new with pacing or how action scenes are presented, feels like the director would need to be very hands on early on.
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the other thing this works nicely with is the LED wall tech used on The Mandalorian. feels like this technique is gonna be everywhere in a decade's time. fxguide.com/fxfeatured/art-of-led-wall-virtual-production-part-one-lessons-from-the-mandalorian/
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being able to see your CG background in real time as you're shooting, and make adjustments to it on the fly... again, game dev background, but it seems so obviously superior to shipping off footage to CG studios to crunch over, only seeing the end result months later.
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idk the exact workflow here, but I assume you start with previz, polish up the background elements til they're at quality, then shoot using the LED wall, and then add back in whatever foreground CG you need using the previz as reference.
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the more generalisable lesson is that real time feedback is super powerful and tools that give you it have a huge advantage over those that don't. close down that feedback loop! the more iteration cycles, the better the thing!
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real time rendering forever!!!
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@ohhoe I haven't seen the show & am not very tempted to! but this technique just makes sense. they used a smaller version of it for Gravity to get good lighting on faces, and it was exciting then, but now it seems to be properly versatile.
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@ohhoe and cheap enough to let you do constant CG backgrounds on a TV show budget!
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@dvsch I mean, ideally this stuff lets you mess around more because you can do it cheaply. You can take more risks because they're cheaper risks. But there is also the over-polishing trap, where you iterate too much & lose the life of it.
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@dvsch there's a push & pull between these two techniques here - previz lets you mess with camera angles & FX early on, but then those choices are more locked down later. but the LED wall stuff opens it back up & allows that stuff to change while shooting.
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@dvsch yeah - but for this stuff, the last iteration is the final render from the post fx studio. remember a doc on Fury Road effects, talking about using CG to replace lips in order to change the delivery of a line of dialogue. everything still up for play until the end.
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@dvsch yes, this is my general feeling about CG for films.
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@hoskingc makes sense! and hopefully this stuff can help with that, like if the director can see a shonky composite in real time they can say "no, taller than that" or whatever. or even robotic arms to move around a tennis ball for them to look at.
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RT @deniseyu21: i saw a tweet a while back (will link it if i find it again) that the single most useful skill of any senior++ IC or engine…
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@GebanTuterkoj so lovely to hear! glad you're enjoying!
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RT @superSGHP: tl/dr: facial recognition was nothing till the military poured money in; didn’t work until people used so much data they cou…
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RT @pangmeli: this was the first tweet I saw today and I have to say the stressfulness of ivy, the eeriness of cauliflory (flowering on the…
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RT @Lee__Drake: In Antarctica, there’s a single-celled foram that’s big enough for you to see and even pick up. And it is possibly the most…
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translation: Talking about how retro games look today, and how they looked before. @drgnmstr_alex/1304011929393000449
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@HollandGameDev @moreelen some stuff that has... let's say, not aged well... about gender in there. but it was the best book i found when starting out, and i still really like the lenses framing.
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@moreelen yay, a game design vocabulary, such a good introductory text.
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@rachelcoldicutt my phone's camera app came with a (subtle) beautifying filter switched on by default, which I found slightly horrifying. also it had a feature (not on my default) which would show its guess as to the age & gender of any faces it detected.
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I wish all the machines in this house that beep played a little tune instead
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@dinosaurrparty Have you seen Time Trap? it's about a cave where time is weird, it is low budget but has a great dumb concept it totally commits to.
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RT @turtlekiosk: i like this idea that you have to film yourself doing a little dance to keep a teenager engaged while teaching them about…
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RT @profdanhicks: A few excerpts from the press release explaining the radical new policy of the government of the Netherlands on returning…
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RT @PeterMolydeux: Imagine a game where you play as a QA tester working on the game that you are playing. You report bugs that get fixed, h…
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going to play some Roblox with @everestpipkin on Twitch! last time we found a secret underground railway museum. dunno what we'll find this time. but come hang out & find out! twitch.tv/evereverest
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RT @everestpipkin: time for another sunday morning Roblox From The Depths with @v21 as we explore some deep cut worlds :) in 5 mins at http…
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RT @riferrei: Developers commenting their code
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hypertext is
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"If it's any consolation to you, these chits cost us more than dice" @mkirschenbaum/1358508682326269967
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why is everybody playing Magic: The Gathering again these days?
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@thairyn yes yes okay, alright, I see your point
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RT @yannseznec: I am officially looking for my next work adventure, starting in August! Hire me to make sounds, instruments, software, hard…
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@celinejade I don't have a kitchenaid, but if I did I am pretty sure I would go with classic red.
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RT @jasondeheras: Melee combat design is the art of creating rules that determine when/how a player or enemy are allowed to hit each other.…
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RT @ftrain: It really does seem like the tech industry thinks the solution to context switching is to make it easier and faster to switch b…
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RT @northumbriana: Several correspondents have been in touch to tell me that the glazing is made from Ford Transit windscreens. 👏🏻
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RT @joshmillard: If you want a short summary/explanation of the last few weeks of math and programming and art around this whole fogleworm…
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RT @benjinsmith: random noise fed through block-based GPU texture decoders left: BC3 right: BC2
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RT @ianmaclarty:
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RT @PulpLibrarian: The Open University has some advice for social media users...
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RT @merrittk: You only feel bad because of systems, which are much bigger than you, so just do whatever to take care of yourself, it’s fine
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i got careless while browsing twitter and accidentally learned what NFT stands for
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"Please Note: As other law firms are available the Chancel Repair Liability Snakes and Ladders Infographic is for illustration purposes only and does not constitute legal advice for which you must consult your Conveyancer."
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@SilverSober warmest congratulations to you and the team
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@mjmcmaster is that Sonic following after?
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@mjmcmaster I'm waiting with bated breath!
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@SzMarsupial what a winter wonderland!
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@chipzel I love the little pause before she says "rate" where she's trying to find a less jargon-y way of saying "frequency"
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RT @gmannbooks: When you have to make a twitter bot for uni, but are also right in the middle of a Pride and Prejudice reread🥕🥔🫑
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RT @TheKaranMenon: India’s Farmers Protest Explained. #FarmersProtest
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I got the song "Fox in the Snow" by Belle and Sebastian stuck in my head because it's snowing and I can see a fox playing outside.
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RT @_ojack_:
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@spacetreasured that does look great!
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RT @KOOPMode: Forever captivated by how well our modular animation system works!! Transitions and all 😎
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@LorenzoPilia making sure you see the Scooter reference in this article ign.com/articles/disco-elysium-the-final-cut-voice-acting-console-release?sf137896921=1
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@LorenzoPilia yeah, I would not be first in line to try to manage the production for that. three directors working on it!
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people find their own uses for tools vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed
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@dinosaurrparty I loved Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! last year, it is about three teen girls making anime & it has the most inspirational depiction of a producer I have seen in any form of media.
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@dinosaurrparty feel free to share any feelings you have while watching it with me
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RT @nwilliams030: Instagram has officially declared war on tiktok it seems seeking to de-promote tiktoks reposted to the app by way of de…
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@chrisamaphone basically!!
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this post reads different than it did when it was first posted @3liza/892920859416870912
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@tha_rami University was £12,000 in fees (£3k per year, 4 year degree). Plus loans for loving costs. Has since went up to £9k per year.
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@KofTheTriffids @wekesperos what a gorgeous tea set!
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RT @NathanJRobinson: One of the most serious threats to free speech is the silencing of criticism of the government of Israel. I have now…
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@ohhoe I think it comes from an initial setup where places were trying to hide they were delivery only. But now... yes, delivery only, makes sense.
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It's Jerica's birthday! (I'll be making an appearance once I have eaten this burrito) @jericawebber/1359577978360000514
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RT @burstofbeaden: 7:36am "whats these cool rocks" 7:58am "man, Bulgaria talks a big Megalith game but Ireland seems to have this thing lo…
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RT @RaxKingIsDead: the food isn’t too expensive, the food is actually way too cheap, you just haven’t been paid enough your entire professi…
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@katbamkapow I have been so angry, and I can think of a lot of things that deserve that anger, but mainly I'm just angry. Not at anything, just angry.
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RT @Remember_Sarah: the worst thing about completing The Dreaded Task is that it's never that bad and you realize you are just full of dread
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@JamesWallis endless details for the devil to hide in... but bioplastics exist, are injection mouldable, and are used in toys. fairly arbitrary link, but it gives some context greendotbioplastics.com/injection-molders-made-bioplastics-work/
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@JamesWallis (this is only partially a joke, this video shows someone making PET plastic from food starches and cucumber pickle juice. and then making a knife out of it)
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@mcclure111 just so you know, this tweet led to me ordering a Kastle
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@haikus_by_KN yeah! or, some of it. I think you'd like it? nicely cynical about the art world.
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@ammonite @dinosaurrparty (can confirm)
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RT @jwaaaap: now that it's 2021, I can safely spoil that Disc Room will always be Set In The Future. It used to be set in 2089, but just so…
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@tambourine there are actually four brothers!
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@tambourine (but one is a kid)
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@tambourine anyway, mainly you can tell them apart by context, and for the rest of it you just have to remember that sideburns is the grumpy oldest one.
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@tambourine hah, yes. basically : the author planned ahead when starting the series.
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RT @darkentriesrecs: Trans pioneer synth composer Wendy Carlos - who put machine-made music on the map - in her Greenwich Village studio, 1…
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RT @twoscooters: Chess variants I made up because I can’t sleep: a thread. HOPPY CHESS: knights now move like pawns. Pawns now move like k…
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@naomialderman (fwiw, i think long threads are totally part of the form. there's something interesting about the format, where each tweet should ideally stand alone but also sits in the extended context of the thread...)
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@HarryJosieGiles this is definitely a struggle I have with "v". but also I didn't pick it to be difficult. I barely picked it! it's just a friendlier abbreviation for a thing people already knew me by.
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gamasutra is changing names! what great news. its a thing you get oblivious to after a few years until you say it to someone new and then you're like "what a gross name for a business publication, wow games are fucked up" @krisgraft/1360243508720918530
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but, y'know, that's games: still a bit fucked up, but there's folks laboriously trying to fix it and making progress
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RT @xuhulk: 2) "My grandpa went to pay respects at an old classmate's home this morning. He returned verklempt because there were no chrysa…
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RT @lorenschmidt: the way pianos work there is a miniature person inside the piano, seated at a smaller piano. when you press a key, the p…
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@joethephish love to work in Unity
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I liked this piece about how fucking awful school is lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n04/lorna-finlayson/diary
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is a sofa a chair?
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@innesmck the seat is a part of the chair
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RT @awkwardfoxes: I tried to translate a bag of chinese rice crackers using google translate and these are some of the ingredients it gave…
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up to the minute hot take: the film Tank Girl (1995) is really disappointingly bad.
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@oopsohno thanks for clearing that up for me
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@mcclure111 @CryZe107 i always end up looking up the package on crates.io, then copying the version number from there crates.io/crates/luajit agreed it would be nice if "cargo add" was a thing/if cargo-edit was part of cargo and not a 3rd party add on
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: This is a brilliant paper, expressing the needed shift in data ethics from “rational to relational”. And I ❤️ this: “E…
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free speech for some @christopherhope/1360721681774505990
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but not for others @christopherhope/1360722119978549248?s=19
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reposting from a previous round of this kind of bullshit @v21/1309887044945162240?s=19
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RT @anna_h_h: it's time for theatres/arts orgs to speak up, even if it has to be anonymously, about the censorship that's been ramping up o…
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spelunking some deep cut roblox worlds again! come hang out! twitch.tv/evereverest (this is a tiny little world we found last time. it has a greenhouse)
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enjoyed this incredibly dryly presented speculative fiction story about a mysterious text file suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
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RT @calmingsphere:
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RT @chunliyonce: the set up the shot
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RT @jamesglynn: my mental health during this panini
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the catharsis of seeing this irritating experience called out! @ShitUserStory/1361291678531870725
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RT @RavenKwok: Integrated a few variations and did this quick mash-up. Transition still needs tuning tho.
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this tweet & the replies to it are a good explanation of where all the trans people are suddenly coming from @brokeazzbitch/1360598402673868803
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RT @lewis_goodall: As a result of the interest, many graduates work for years while their stock of debt goes *up* So let’s take a graduate…
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@vivschwarz @notquitereal i keep giggling at his many misfortunes
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@jazzmickle @everestpipkin don't forget the grey carpet tiles!
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RT @milkshapes: that’s crazy i just got it for free lol
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@maltron3D thinking about Spacewar
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just finished rewatching it, and the one thing I don't get is how they can make another series without just diluting this one
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@catacalypto the bit where her early videogame was too hard because she played it over and over in development is good tho
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@BanditoJuan yeah, they announced a season 2
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Python is getting Rust-like pattern matching! I'm so glad it's spreading, I miss it when I can't use it. github.com/gvanrossum/patma/blob/master/README.md#tutorial
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it turns out that one of the reasons that programming is hard to learn is that some of the basic constructs, like "for loops" and "switch statements", are hard to understand and reason about and should've been deprecated a long time ago
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a particular feeling to being six months into still mysterious fatigue problems & seeing people you know getting covid and struggling with fatigue in the aftermath. like. i know, it really does suck, and i wish i could give you an encouraging story about recovery.
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Duff's Device was a neat trick, but also not something you should aim to support if you're designing a new language.
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RT @Deer_ebooks: really really tiny deer
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dithering... with CSS maya.land/monologues/2021/02/15/css-dither.html
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@GhostTownGoldie is the partition smaller for some reason?
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@GhostTownGoldie @grapefrukt I agree!
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@glassbottommeg @joethephish when the startup i was working for was wound up, i took home the chair that we originally scavenged from the office of a different startup that was in the process of being wound up
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@glassbottommeg @joethephish wonder where they got it from...
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RT @netgal_emi: great to be recognized
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RT @jonty: Last night Strava recorded us abruptly deviating from our usual route and running straight through some tower blocks. This is f…
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@jonty I did not know about this! it's really cool
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@jonty also, love to discover this feature via hearing about a place it doesn't work
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@jonty yeah, to be fair, I am making geolocated games, it is more directly relevant to me but also just cool that they can solve it that way!
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Beasts of Balance is back! It's such a pleasure to see a project live on past your involvement. They made dinosaurs! kickstarter.com/projects/moderngames/beasts-of-balance-rebirth?ref=project_tweet
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like, years ago, I made a spreadsheet and calculated how much work it'd be to keep adding new beasts as expansions. and we didn't fuck up! we laid good enough foundations that other people could keep building on them.
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also I am still very pleased with the UX choices about representing points as "star energy" that come from the scanned piece in the sky & imbue the Beasts with power. a lot of work with @streamofstars to get there, but it all holds together.
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@NotBrunoAgain @jdragsky I generally cba with thinking about numbers when playing tabletop, but I think it's a good bit when a GM rolls some dice behind a screen and then makes a face (or carefully doesn't make a face). Especially good because they could be lying!
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shoulda seen Casablanca instead @robpalkwriter/1361640883741986817
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@AlanZucconi @legobutts I have one at home and at work!
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@everestpipkin sending warm feelings towards you & Dragon
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at long last, someone is working on automating the most difficult computer science problem : what to name your variables @GuillaumeLample/1361663915072118784
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remembering my old twitter bio: "i always liked broken games the best, anyway" @spacetreasured/1361781722703142921
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RT @ApartmentOld: The first card has been delivered!!! The current Tenant is paying $1,500. That’s too much. More info about the cards tom…
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@lazerwalker I would expect it wraps whatever the current Unity request API, which from memory does all the actual networking stuff async.
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@lazerwalker so, yeah, I'd be fine with it being on the main thread
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@lazerwalker (assuming it's pretty lightweight in terms of the work it's doing, ie this isn't fetching some data and then immediately doing some heavy lifting building audio sample data from it. but that feels like a safe assumption)
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@cr3 As I posted this I did wonder... "have i just cursed myself to a terrible nickname forever?" guess I'll find out!
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RT @MollyOstertag: I recently read the unpublished epilogue to Lord of the Rings, a chapter framed as a conversation between Sam Gamgee and…
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@come_home_dad what a dream this is! damn!
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@jericawebber @haikus_by_KN think my grandmother also called her partner this, when they were early in their relationship. She said "boyfriend" feels weird when he's in his 80s (and "partner" was presumably too committed at that point)
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RT @jaytholen: i downloaded a massive archive of old Newgrounds Flash stuff. a good ~90% of the animations are parodies or directly riff on…
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RT @TabitaSurge: Gavin Williamson and I were born in the 70s. We grew up with ‘video nasties’ banned, ‘Relax’ banned from Radio 1, Sinn Fe…
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@profaniti @ianmaclarty haha, yes. running over there, pressing W a bit & walking back
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@moreelen last year I made a Minecraft server & we had an evening of partying in there. or a friend did the same in Roblox.
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want to read absolutely the most horrifying story about a terrible UI? bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-can-t-have-its-900-million-back
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@sludgetown the finance stuff boils down to: if you accidentally send someone money, legally they have to send it back. but if you owe them some money, and then you accidentally send them exactly that much money, they don't have to send it back.
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@sludgetown oh, yeah, i didn't follow all of those details but also they did not seem esp interesting.
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damn, what a piece! @V_and_A_Bot/1362185075379630080
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@KommanderKlobb Bridget Riley, innit
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did not know Bridget Riley dipped her toes into typography
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@KommanderKlobb guess because it's a 3rd party bot & a good chunk of the stuff in the V&A collection doesn't have a named maker
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@mcclure111 i have now. i like it!
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@tambourine finished a rewatch a few days ago, it's so good
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RT @unormal: Ultra-prepping, or "building a strong social fabric"
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Good thread about designing combos. I'd add: in my experience the best tool for understanding game rhythm isn't a diagram like this but making weird mouth noises. it's a rhythm and can be understood like any other rhythm! @jasondeheras/1362294058081611777
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see also: the videogame Ape Out, which makes this mapping explicit by generating jazz drumming from your actions youtu.be/dH6hCAK24Ok and also David Kanaga with his "mickey-mousing" videogame scores
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but really, the best thing is stupid mouth noises
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sending this video back in time a year to... I dunno? give them a laugh? @ukhomeoffice/1362107043847503872
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@dinosaurrparty I started reading it and immediately hit a really smart bit about the nature of creative briefs. And then it got buried in a pile of other books. Thanks for the nudge to go back to it.
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@martinpi Investigating the charity that preserves stately homes for talking about how some of the stately homes were built with money from slavery.
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spaaaaace
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thread of incredible modern quilts @annetropy/1362213539864317952
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love that the livestream looks exactly like a videogame
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"stay tuned, we might get some pictures"
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"we even know where it landed" "NASA works, we can do this kind of thing, our country can do this kind of thing"
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ahhh, I was wondering what engine the visualizer was built in. it's all webapps! @mrdoob/1362508150507790343?s=19
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@expectproblems they did a competition for school kids to name it, so I'm sure the supply of funny names is there as soon as they want them
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I also heard this & also found it very sweet @rahaeli/1362507738497089546?s=19
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@ka_bradley i did not believe this until i looked at the tumblr post & now i feel sick to my stomach
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@ElizSimins about a year ago, i decided to postpone my birthday party to the end of March rather than the start :/
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RT @vectorpark: Ecological issues aside, I’m baffled that folks want to cram digital art into the same old paradigm of individual ownership…
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RT @UPHD_IWGB: Today after many months’ delay, the Supreme Court has finally handed down its decision: Uber drivers are workers. This deci…
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@tburrellsaward can't put social pressure on the people who don't even pretend to care about art, can put social pressure on people within the same community
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@tburrellsaward yep, I agree with that. which is why you're seeing artists putting pressure on other artists
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@tburrellsaward although, tbh, I think the platforms will still carry on the same no matter the calibre of artists working with them. the logic is about collection & investment, and it doesn't matter too much exactly what is being collected and invested in
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@haikus_by_KN sorry to say that this is already very much a thing
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RT @ByYourLogic: this is one of my favorite ape spins
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I haven't watched any of the trailers, or sought out any articles or interviews, but... why does Cruella need a backstory? she's rich, into fashion, doesn't care for dogs. that's an existing type of person.
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yes yes yes, capturing and skinning the animals personally takes it a bit far... but we have an existing public figure who beat a fox to death with a baseball bat while wearing a silk kimono, and no-one thinks we need an origin story for that
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also seeing reports that she's an anarchist? that doesn't make any sense, she's clearly a Tory, come on
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@acgodliman oh, good, that's totally reasonable, the anarchy A does look kewl in a scrawl-it-on-your-school-planner kind of way.
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@obandsoller she wasn't either! she just wanted a cool jacket
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@erbridge I think that requires too much thought... expensive clothes, common sense, really cultivating a sense of disdain
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RT @samanbb: Game developers: with enough if statements and while loops I can do literally anything. Web developers: I will use graph theo…
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there are crocuses and daffodils out and it's giving me a lot of hope
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@haikus_by_KN I had similar sentiments after going for a walk this morning @v21/1363107915721228288?s=19
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@tigershungry oh, very good! sad you don't get to watch them shoot up in person
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exploring some strange Roblox worlds again with @everestpipkin. come hang out: twitch.tv/evereverest this picture from last week's stream, where I figured out how to get on top of this Costco's roof. probably not visiting a Costco today, but never say never
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(in a minute or two)
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we're live!
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pleased to say we once again went to hell
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@everestpipkin oh, yeah, good shout, bet there's some really nice hells
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Keir Starmer is guided by the opinion polls, and the polls currently have the Tories in the lead, so it makes sense that he's going to back the Tories. @robpowellnews/1363412677691920394
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update: my phone status bar fixed itself, and the shuffle issue unfixed itself. sense of powerlessness remains
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just saw the first episode of yuri on ice and i would say "why didn't anyone tell me about this?" but i am aware everyone was screaming very loudly about it for about a year, it's entirely my fault i'm only catching up now
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most of it was really very good & then there was the last 60 seconds and i screamed
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and THEN we watched the first episode of Eizouken, which i already have a lot of feelings about. anime... it's good?
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@moritz_kn no. but it's notable that there's many important categories of software that are only successfully developed this way.
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@draculavoice it's not about transness, it's about "inclusion". you build your scifi world, you create some characters, you pick one or two to be trans by dropping a few significant lines about their past, you carry on with the story.
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@draculavoice (which is normally about baddies doing bad things, but transness is usually fine) @v21/1345672289816350720?s=19
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RT @gutefabrik: In today's #craft post from @hannahnicklin we have a ✨2 day dialogue workshop✨. Want to improve your character-driven dialo…
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RT @WYR_bot: Would you rather do or not do?
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@TheNazzaro they crypto miners don't care about artists getting mad at them on twitter, but (some of) the people doing NFTs do
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RT @museum_detox: - Social media policies have been weaponised as pseudo-NDAs against staff. - Projects around anti-racism have been eith…
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@eligoldstone there's two of them! a rover and a little drone
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people find their own uses for tools @hvcco/1364104368228859906?s=19
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RT @our_MoH: The vast majority of the deaths we recorded were not on the streets, they were when people were in emergency or temporary acco…
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@sokpopco Sok-stories for mobile! I'm very excited to hear about this!
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RT @SkySportsPL: Automated software or 'bots', which track the fantasy football teams of Premier League players and staff, are at the centr…
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Fond memories of having to go through all the admin to get signed up as a PAYE-d employee in order to get a £100 honorarium for a workshop. @haikus_by_KN/1364202346255900678
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@GalaxyKate funnily enough, @betterthemask once wrote a game about dream espionage megjayanth.com/samsara
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@russss woww
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@suitcasetrains sorry to hear that, hope it passes soon
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admiring my own attitude, earlier today, naming a file "export_final_v1"
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RT @jomc: I almost miss the years when startups all sounded like social experiments conducted by aliens. imagine wanting to participate in…
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just uploading "export_final_v3", and I think this one is the last one
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RT @probablyfidget: 😬📤🙈
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folks, you'll never guess what just happened...
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@yaxuprime ah, yes, apply in June, start work in July, makes sense
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@radiodario that's when I come over to your house and hand you the video file in an envelope
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RT @russss: New space bot! @mrn_status tweets the communications between Mars orbiters and landers, as well as data transfers from orbiter…
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RT @sanguinesquares: you know how the plague is spreading because people are being forced to go into work and are too poor to quarantine wh…
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@tanyaxshort it's more defensible than a valley, but ultimately it's your choice
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@infovore thought you'd appreciate learning that i was just reading some old forum posts of yours after googling the term "vcv rack change ringing"
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@freezydorito @deniseyu21 if you visit jwz.org with a HN referrer then it shows you a picture of a testicle in an eggcup
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when talking about HTTP, a case could be made that "referer" is now the correct spelling
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@gennyble how could you change the heading? easier just to change the language
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The Expert System's Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky in the sequel the protagonist has more of a sense of what's going on, so instead we get to spend our time thinking about some properly alien aliens
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The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky nice experience of slowly putting together a sense of how the world works from a very different perspective to the protagonist
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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg I approached this kind of grudgingly, because I knew it was an Important Trans Book. But when I actually got into it, it fucked me up in a good way. People caring for people, and bad at expressing themselves, and trying hard to improve.
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@mcclure111 btw, thanks for the Expert System recommendation!
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@katbamkapow I cried so much!
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@gennyble Sure! I have too many books already, but I might still get tempted.
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@katbamkapow Totally, I'd love that.
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@katbamkapow Kinda funny to think of it side by side with Detransition, Baby, which I read last month (but please don't take this as pressure to read an extra book) (although it is good)
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RT @nowplaythese: We've had a makeover! Now Play This 2021 is coming together and so we've given our website an overhaul to reflect this ye…
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threads are good when they are a point and then a series of other points that make that more complicated. threads are bad when they're a series of tweets thar are trying to reach a single point. they're worst when they're prose chopped up into tweet lengths and strung together
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I woke up from a dream about being on a reality tv show about trying to wriggle and climb your way into the lowest basement of a house with this thought in my head.
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ok, back to sleep
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I had just passed through a room filled with overstuffed green furniture, mounds of clumped wax castings, and fine glass carvings, which I had to shift to squeeze my way out of the door & exit.
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I think the film Frank (2014) is the only film I have seen which is about how much contempt the screenwriter has for themselves when they were younger. also the songs are good.
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@tinysubversions that's fair! and honestly there's a kind of meta thing in that Jon Ronson wrote a film about feeling so much less talented than Chris Sievey and the way he fucked things up by not being able to come to terms with that, and made it about himself, not Chris Sievey.
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RT @danhett: HEY. our new game Closed Hands launches on 5th March (one week to go, eek). if you're a press/youtube type who's into bold int…
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a lot of thoughtful takes on why NFTs are bad out there but honestly this sums it up @milkshapes/1361210453746085888?s=19
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like, why do you want to own art? it's nice to have a nice picture on your wall & it's a good thing to give artists money for something you enjoy. but NFTs don't do any of that. they don't even work as a way to store the files, you have to do that on someone else's server.
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@SaphireLattice @boring_cactus they give you a token you could sell to someone else in the future.... on the blockchain!
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@tigershungry @patrickashe @KommanderKlobb I see you're really exploring all angles in terms of earplugs
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@JShellinsky @BioProtean not quite, it's "Dare Mighty Things" and the GPS coords of JPL headquarters encoded as ASCII theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/23/dare-mighty-things-hidden-message-found-on-nasa-mars-rover-parachute
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@JShellinsky @BioProtean but also they wanted a pattern where the degree of twist was legible in the video footage
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RT @GeneticJen: You may mistakenly believe that trans people, for example, are a new thing since you didn't see as many before. But back th…
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@fireh9lly lots of people burn out of being activists - but it's not so much that their beliefs change, as much as what they do changes. tho beliefs will often follow.
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@fireh9lly remembering someone posting that the way you deprogram someone from a cult is you just give them something else to get invested in instead of the cult.
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RT @wongmjane: Twitter announces “Super Follow”, like Patreon but on Twitter https://t.co/aY9g1ozoJz
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@lifewinning @adacable saaaaaaame
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@lifewinning @adacable I even started researching components to build one myself, but learned enough to know that it'd be difficult to pull off.
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@amyhoy Phoebe Waller-Bridge definitely knows how to write a scene where a genuinely unexpected thing happens.
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RT @buildsghost: Gen Z is out there doing film editing in real time
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RT @felixsalmon: Genuine question: Was there *literally anything* on Quibi as well constructed as this kid’s zero-budget TikTok https://t.c…
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@robmyers @furtherfield I'm pretty sure I can make videogames and still think the blockchain is a awful waste of electricity.
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@tigershungry I keep thinking about it too... I did some research into small epaper screens, trying to figure out how feasible it would be to make one myself. Not especially easy... but it seems to be a collective fever dream, feels like someone will eventually.
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@craigbmcmahon @CryptoSketches it's nice that the data is actually stored in the blockchain... but the project is dead & none of the sketches look good? and fundamentally, it's still oriented around price speculation. so.
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RT @lukebuckmaster: The earliest surviving film ever shot in Australia is of a cigar-smoking rollerskating man with a big hand print on his…
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@craigbmcmahon @CryptoSketches I mean, that's the problem with cryptoart right there...
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RT @evolutionises: I should be sleeping but I'm still thinking about the tweet that said Mars is the planet with the highest percentage of…
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@0x11eaea @gillianmsmith this continues to be one of the hardest parts of programming
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@gillianmsmith @0x11eaea Understandable! The biggest reason I don't want to use Python is because I can't be fucked dealing with pyenv.
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@nielsen_holly If it was up to me!
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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood while reading Part 1 I said that it felt like a vaccine for Online, or maybe some sensitising exposure that triggers allergies. but then Part 2 transcends all that and reminds you of all the love & generosity underneath it all.
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RT @FroyoTam: Demonstration on how the Toshiba T5100 renders type, double-weight monitor font vs single-weight Code Page 437 font https://t…
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@alphachar half a year of grappling with mysterious fatigue has really given depth to the banal "hope you're well"
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@alphachar (glad you're feeling better)
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RT @Nothke: Have you tried plugging it in? 🔌⚡️ #screenshotsaturday #podvarak
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@boring_cactus It makes a ton of sense if you have anxiety about thinking about a todo list and also your anxiety is soothed by doing a lot of drawing of lines & sticking stickers down and so on.
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@boring_cactus Or if you stop using any productivity system after a month or two, and so need to continually reinvent how you write tasks down to keep your attention on them.
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@alphachar thank you <3 and thank you for the yoga sessions - they have really helped, and were one of the first things I did to build up capacity & get my body used to doing things again.
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@ragzouken you just don't know
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RT @inform_dreams: The Stairwell is above the Kitchen. "Halfway up and halfway down." The airing cupboard is a container in the Stairwell.…
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@jesslynnrose i commuted through london when i was still going into the office, didn't get a camera & wasn't tempted to BUT i did have light on my helmet people mistook for one & honestly it might've ramped up the aggressiveness towards me?
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@jesslynnrose (camera on helmet started because i was cycling along dark canals & it was helpful to be able to point it under bridges with my head to check no-one was coming the other way)
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@pemamonaghan I loved your little essay about the wood pigeon in New Rules. My recent joy has been throwing peanuts in shells to the magpies. Them taking it & hiding it & sometimes the squirrels try to find them and get chased off.
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@TheNazzaro I also get these emails. Probably you put your email address in when registering your domain? anyway, it's spam, can ignore them.
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RT @hxneyvoiced: tumblr is mostly hell but you actually could not pay me to delete the app
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RT @polclarissou: @patrickashe games and theater are both about arranging little cardboard cutouts into the illusion of a "scene" they are…
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RT @leighalexander: I have a new story in Slate's Future Tense Fiction section about a painting that may or may not be real. It's also abou…
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RT @IanARegan: @Thrillist I processed all the frames during the night-side flyby: (NASA/JOHNS HOPKINS APL/NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY/GUILLER…
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RT @jonathanfly: Signs of progress in how much better recent generations depth map compared to even just a week ago - the lighting and geom…
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@GalaxyKate I think of it as an immutable, distributed database, but yes
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@GalaxyKate yeah, exactly
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"We know videogames are art because like every other art industry they rely on selling their employees a dream of unalienated life to make up for a lack of basic work protections." myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/644360345699467264/crafty-craft/amp?__twitter_impression=true
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Tiktok keeps showing me cat videos because every time I see one I show it to Pixie
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@adrielxyz @_gaeel_ oh wow. congratulations to both of you!!!
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RT @TheWhitePube: this week’s text is an art thought! called: what do critics do? it's a lil bit existential crisis, but i also chatted to…
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RT @sigfig: the sumerian myth for the invention of writing is great, a king is trying to get a messenger to relay a long poetic insult, the…
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@ibogost presumably for doing genderswapped Goodnight Mister Tom for World Book Day
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product idea: a big tub of gummy bears where 1 in 20 of the gummy bears is a vitamin gummy. if you eat on average 20 gummy bears a day, then you will receive the correct nutritional benefit.
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for people who like eating vitamin gummies, but wish they could eat more
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i guess you'd want them in a range - every other bear is vitamins, up to every hundredth bear is vitamins, depending on how many gummy sweets you eat in a day.
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RT @TheTrashbang: programmers be like "nobody should have to solve the same problem twice" and then invent new kinds of problem
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RT @ljin18: .@eugenewei wisdom on how TikTok's design is conducive to "network effects of creativity" eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle https://t.co…
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RT @IKantKoan: Luke Crane does not appear to be learning from his mistakes so I’m not keeping them to myself anymore. https://t.co/CqmWVy…
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RT @ThePatanoiac: trying to get to the bottom of a complex problem
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@vivschwarz fwiw, i think they're fine