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@nicktatorship.bsky.social

Word Nerd, Solo GameDev, Sometimes Writer, and Randos Personis. Not to be perceived as an entity.

created July 13, 2023

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Profile picture Gabino Iglesias (@gabino.bsky.social) reposted

What a week. Definitely making a couple pitchers of Beef Fizz tomorrow.

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Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

Surprised there's no variation on the latter words- No KCoke Devil Rangers? KSoda Ghost Busters?

11/9/2025, 10:14:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

A local boardgame group's RUOK event name, presented without comment

R U OK? 2 Play
11/9/2025, 9:30:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Asher Wolf (@asherwolf.bsky.social) reposted

whoah

11/9/2025, 10:44:14 AM | 69 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The DILETTANTE (@demwar.bsky.social) reposted

We are well on the way to losing our sovereignty to a lawless regressive fascist state. #auspol Sign the petition to Parliament here www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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11/9/2025, 9:29:57 AM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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"but if they hit you they're in the wrong!" Cool I'll let them know from my grave

11/9/2025, 5:20:59 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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i am not nearly online enough to understand this

11/9/2025, 4:50:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

I guess

Write around the Murray
11/9/2025, 3:59:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if i had a time machine, i would go back in time and debate hitler

11/9/2025, 2:06:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this pretty af

11/9/2025, 1:51:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kate conger (@kateconger.com) reposted

Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine

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Profile picture Freedom Writers Collaborative (@fwcollaborative.bsky.social) reposted

10/9/2025, 10:53:12 PM | 26 18 | View on Bluesky | view

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Once again, have no heroes is the best philosophy

10/9/2025, 10:47:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

For every sicko celebrating what happened, imagine if that was your president. Your VP. Your secretary of health. Grow up.

10/9/2025, 10:41:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social) reply parent

thankfully it's not like that anymore.

any idea A I Cool !!!
10/9/2025, 10:39:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

There was a Nintendo Direct. Wonder if there was any Luigi-related news

10/9/2025, 10:32:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) (@adactivity.bsky.social) reposted

I think about this stock image a lot and how it presaged modern llms

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Profile picture Josh Scherr (@joshscherr.bsky.social) reposted

PSA:

a screenshot of the Bluesky settings screen for turning off autoplay for videos and GIFs, just in case there are any videos or GIFs you don't want to see today, tomorrow, or whenever. Settings -> Content & Media -> Autoplay videos and GIFs = OFF
10/9/2025, 7:58:14 PM | 51 35 | View on Bluesky | view

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a still from twin peaks the return with the mitchum brothers
10/9/2025, 10:18:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Hance (@jameshance.com) reposted

“But then something happened that the ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith, Director of sales, American Light & Fixture.” ✨🎨

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Profile picture The Author, Séamas O'Reilly (@seamas.bsky.social) reposted

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

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It's more like the second still wants to kill you, but say they feel bad about it and their hands are tied

10/9/2025, 7:57:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

Other than it, what's something you're looking forward to?

10/9/2025, 3:56:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

Like, i'm not great on American history (sorry I don't live there, never been), but uhh, I kind of remember something about a guy, like a famous one, with a similar sounding name. Is that anything? Was there like, y'know, a thing with that?

9/9/2025, 9:52:24 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I miss when they were going to go live in space. Best of luck with it all.

9/9/2025, 9:47:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

Ugh. I hate it here.

A dot in some lines (pale blue dot/ earth)
9/9/2025, 9:43:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape (@breakify.bsky.social) reposted

While this is a real issue, the way that it's framed really feels like propaganda to get the few of us who take public health seriously to stop masking.

8/9/2025, 5:12:06 PM | 23 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably, depending on who runs them. How else will they proportion votes according to finances?

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Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

I think the most resounding argument for this world being a simulation is how fucking stupid it is, like someone's shitty self-insert fanfic first draft. It's incredibly derivative dog shit.

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Profile picture Kelly Davis (@kdavis206.bsky.social) reposted

The Luddites (shout out to Nottingham) were lace weavers who were going to be replaced by mechanical weaving machines so they smashed up the machines to keep their jobs. We should all be more like the Luddites. Smash the servers, kill off AI, keep jobs for people.

9/9/2025, 9:02:02 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Half the people will be AI??

9/9/2025, 9:12:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zé Burnay (@zeburnay.bsky.social) reposted

I'm choosing to laugh

9/9/2025, 9:04:02 PM | 38 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

Why not 50,000. A million episodes a day. 34 years of podcast generated an hour.

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Profile picture The DILETTANTE (@demwar.bsky.social) reposted

Good Morning Fellow Australians. Let’s distance ourselves from deranged Donny. Sign the petition here www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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Profile picture SE Asian Games for Good (@seagamesforgood.bsky.social) reposted

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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Profile picture jen 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) reposted

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8/9/2025, 1:16:33 AM | 1121 327 | View on Bluesky | view

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Feeling specifically blessed by the God of horsies

8/9/2025, 7:02:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saw some horsies while walking home and one approached me

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Profile picture Danielle Binks (@daniellebinks.bsky.social) reposted

Meanjin’s ‘financial’ shutdown doesn’t add up Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the ‘purely financial decision’ to close Meanjin has raised eyebrows. www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

8/9/2025, 6:22:22 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social) reply parent

I've heard that is the case

8/9/2025, 5:45:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The busybody neighbour tried to apologise to the recluse neighbour at one point with a gift basket. They returned it. A few years ago I used to talk to the latter more, but have maybe exchanged one surface conversation in the last 2 years

8/9/2025, 5:44:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We had a microcosm of this sort of play out on our street a year or two ago - two neighbours got shitty at each other (one a busy body, one a recluse), and because we tried to be friendly to all, well, that's not allowed. Still better than what Sydney was like, but it's such a waste of attention.

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Everyone deserves a better class of antagonist. I could barely sustain a fart with the spite generated by this low effort hazing, and it's really kind of sad.

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And by no consequence I mean like, it's tepid enemy bullshit. Not like a proper shun, but they will notice you, and stop walking, and pretend to do something on their phone.

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this is what happens when your dev music is the ding dong song.

8/9/2025, 5:34:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

It is way too easy to make enemies of no consequence in mid-sized towns. Also if people talk shit about someone, never call them on it, because neither they or the someone will ever have your back. God it's like fucking high school all over again.

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I understand this is the case for 99.99999% but they really are my most favourite person in the world, even if my insecure arse can't fathom being anything but an annoying weirdo to everybody that ever breathed.

8/9/2025, 4:42:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's no contradiction. Perceive me on my terms

8/9/2025, 4:31:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SE Asian Games for Good (@seagamesforgood.bsky.social) reposted

We are just 4 days in, and the Games for Palestine charity has raised +$50k USD and is a 1/4 of the way to our goal. Incredibly thankful to everyone for all the support, generosity and kindness. Let’s continue demonstrating the power of games to making a difference for those in need.

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Life is ̶S̶t̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ Open to the highest bidder

8/9/2025, 4:19:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Producers making their own TV/movie version that ditches all the lore and fucks it up, realizing their mistake afterwards

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Did the grink make this?

8/9/2025, 4:13:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't know the context. Fucking hell

8/9/2025, 4:09:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

I am not okay with this. That's both my feelings and the show they fucking cancelled that has the same fucking vibe and should have kept going

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Also we changed everything about the story because it also sucked rancid dog shit, and you fucking losers need to get over it and get some culture

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I did mine Friday (I had the day off) specifically to avoid it on the weekend

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Profile picture The DILETTANTE (@demwar.bsky.social) reposted

Friends, let’s do this: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... @apnews.com @australia.theguardian.com @chaos0s.bsky.social @janecaro.bsky.social @euanritchie.bsky.social @jessielilley.bsky.social @davidshoebridge.bsky.social @zoedaniel.bsky.social @davidewart.bsky.social @peterfitz1.bsky.social

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Profile picture Dennis Detwiller (@drgonzo123.bsky.social) reposted

“So the President, who hardly even knew Epstein, was an FBI informant in the Epstein Files, which were about…a hoax?”

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Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

We're gonna seal their bunkers like a pharoah's tomb, right?

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That "One Move Away" looks great. I had a similar game on my top ten anticipated for this year (that still hasn't come out)

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If that happened today people would shit bricks

7/9/2025, 10:53:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pavel (@spavel.bsky.social) reposted

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review. A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says
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Anyone can make one game, it takes a real talent to not make a few dozen games

7/9/2025, 3:34:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kenney (@kenney.nl) reposted

Super early look at Kenney Creator, my new modeling software for indies. It'll feature many blocks and tools to create any sort of model - aiming for a Q1 2026 release! ✨

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Profile picture Balderdash (@balderdash.bsky.social) reposted

Outstanding news that should be shared.

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I thought mixing roots was the whole point

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Profile picture Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) reposted

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

 Sam Altman @sama i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now 12:21 AM · Sep 4, 2025 · 1.5M Views
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Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

the list should be treated like Arya's. To do.

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.

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Profile picture Martijn Boersma (@martijnboersma.bsky.social) reposted

UTS has KPMG on retainer for $180,000 per week for work it was meant to complete in the original $4.8 million contract. KPMG gets $180,000 a week. The same amount gets you a lecturer and tutors for an entire year! Incompetence of UTS 'leadership' and utter governance failure. #auspol #highered

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I heard one school had a case of Romans. Not good

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MUP obviously short for muppet

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This cloud is impressive

An impressive cloud
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Profile picture Xavier Horatio Xinicit 🎉 (@xinicit.bsky.social) reposted

The worst part about aging is realizing how hot you used to be back when you thought you were ugly

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Profile picture Guardian Australia (@australia.theguardian.com) reposted

Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first

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Giant teapot then?

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Non-corporeal existence

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This planet is as much yours, as it is mine, as it is anybody else's. But because we belong to it, not because we own it. Idiot species, one of the all-time worst

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A long time ago some someones took it all. What a disaster that's turned out to be.

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Are we gonna abolish money? Of course not. Property ownership? Not in anyone's lifetime. What a lousy planet we've been born into.

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Profile picture mea tulpa (@nicktatorship.bsky.social)

Abstinence reasoning does show the best solution to things is not doing a thing. Buses are better than cars for traffic, but even better is not needing people to get on the road at all. UBI is great, if we have to have money at all. Of course if we have to do the things, safeguards are critical.

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That's an uncomfortable amount of woomba

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A cozy game where it's not cozy and actually lots of rules you have to follow or everyone hates you and tells the cops

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Write for people that aren't reading.

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Profile picture Bess Hamilton (@besshamilton.bsky.social) reposted

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet? Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so... Boss: What's the point of Copilot then? Me: Exactly.

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"So that's it, huh? We were some kind of lost?"

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Suzi q-anon

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Imagine if you got jumanji'd but with monopoly. Imagine. Imagine. Could never be, monopoly had free parking.

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nerves. wish me luck. no deets rn

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agree, and feel this way about UK's "at" the weekend.

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Profile picture Blue Ocean Games (@blueoceangames.bsky.social) reposted

🪧 You posted your game trailer on social media. Now what? Enter the second Rising Tide Challenge, that's what! Turn your #TrailerTuesday post into a shot at up to $300,000 in funding. Put your trailer in front of thousands of verified Steam users and prove your game's potential.

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melania constantly refreshing the tl

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