DreyfussLugado

DreyfussLugado

@mikesperry.com

just some dude in Central California who does internet tech support

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#NoKings At Windows On The Bay Park in Monterey, CA. This was right after our Congressman Jimmy Panetta spoke. The crowd was the biggest I've seen at one of these rallies. They just keep getting bigger!

It's a good thing that I don't believe in any sort of deity. Because if I did, I'd be having a very difficult time reconciling the supposed "omniscient, omnipotent, kind and loving god" with how the world is right now. Demonstrably evil people live to a ripe old age, while good, kind people die /1

young, leaving the world a sadder place for their absence. I know there's some scientific correlation with "being in power" and "living longer" (for example, orchestra conductors statistically live longer than orchestra members) ... something about being in control does something to the body that /2

makes it live longer... probably something to do with reduction in stress when you feel in control of things. Which I guess is a very roundabout way of stating that old aphorism about changing what you are able to change, and accepting what you cannot change, and knowing the difference between them.

Welp. It's been nice knowing y'all.

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? We may be in trouble?? Maybe not. (Last specific one was the Zero Mostel episode, also.)

I love the patterns of new behavior on Bsky. A few weeks ago, it was the Brazilians flooding in, and my timelines were filled with Portuguese posts despite my language settings. Now my timelines are filled with photos and artwork from all the latest Birdsite refugees. Welcome, creative people!

We've got more than enough stuff going on to feel anxious and/or depressed about. How's about we knock off the whole "That movie/game/TV show you liked is now X number of years old" bullshit. I know I'm old and so is the stuff I liked years ago. I don't need reminding.

So why is it that even though I have my account Language settings to display only posts written in English, I'm still seeing all these Portuguese posts? I know Brazil just joined Bluesky in massive numbers, maybe that's overwhelming the algorithm or whatever. But it's a bit annoying.

Is there a way to block any post that contains a screenshot or link to Twitter? Because none of the one's I've seen have brought any joy into my life. I came here to get away from the firehose of sewage that is Twitter.

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I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

Magnavox Odyssey. 1972. I can still feel the sharp corners of the controller box. It didn't have cartridges with the games on them, it had 6 cards that slid into the front slot, with contacts that would close different sets of circuits to make the console play different games.

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The video was just various permutations of a white square on a black background. You'd tape plastic "scenes" to the TV screen... I remember one was a Haunted House, and you had to avoid appearing in the same window as the "ghost". There was "Table Tennis", which inspired Atari's famous Pong game.

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