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Van Willy

@brynomite

I live in Seattle and I’m bad at social media.

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This is the plotline for The OC season 20 or whatever. That you Ryan Atwood or doing the lords' work.

13.03.2026 11:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some of Garth Brooks' music didn't age too well.

13.03.2026 08:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jess Haskins, Matt Carney, and Arden Ripley pose together smiling in front of an Independent Games Festival backdrop

Jess Haskins, Matt Carney, and Arden Ripley pose together smiling in front of an Independent Games Festival backdrop

2026: the year of the game editor? Three editors of IGF winners (me, Titanium Court; @deptofmeteors.bsky.social, Perfect Tides: Station to Station; @arden.rip, Horses) enjoying the afterparty. Really lovely to see editors included and celebrated onstage with their teams!

13.03.2026 03:31 👍 89 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
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GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

12.03.2026 17:38 👍 2565 🔁 754 💬 11 📌 17
My huge yoshi plush wearing flight safety equipment with graham crackers and jack daniels

My huge yoshi plush wearing flight safety equipment with graham crackers and jack daniels

Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look a what they did to him 😭😭

11.03.2026 12:58 👍 4105 🔁 1318 💬 45 📌 40
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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

12.03.2026 15:11 👍 17759 🔁 7045 💬 608 📌 566
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"Awful f*cking idiot": Tensions erupt in Congress over Republicans' anti-Muslim posts "We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational," said GOP Rep. Randy Fine.

www.axios.com/2026/03/13/m...

13.03.2026 06:51 👍 196 🔁 52 💬 13 📌 2
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To say Game Player's was a confusing magazine to sort would be an understatement.
https://youtu.be/Thw5X1AQ4ac

09.03.2026 19:01 👍 215 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 5
Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

12.03.2026 18:05 👍 10032 🔁 1453 💬 218 📌 120

"oh look at me, I'm Ben McKenzie, I was in the OC and then I got a degree in economics and crypto is a scam but no one was doing anything about it so I made a documentary also I’m married to Morena Baccarin" man good for you

10.03.2026 22:39 👍 635 🔁 114 💬 9 📌 1
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

12.03.2026 21:08 👍 4648 🔁 1811 💬 78 📌 182

the cilantro tastes like soap gene should also make soap taste like cilantro. so people with the gene don't have to feel bad about not being able to eat cilantro because they can eat soap

13.03.2026 01:54 👍 817 🔁 158 💬 11 📌 7

My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“

I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.

13.03.2026 02:32 👍 3121 🔁 410 💬 24 📌 22

Update: The US has now also invented dying in a mass shooting because the ambulance en route to save you was blocked in by a robot car

12.03.2026 18:07 👍 175 🔁 64 💬 8 📌 5

Huh!

12.03.2026 00:47 👍 1358 🔁 1049 💬 6 📌 21

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

12.03.2026 01:21 👍 11645 🔁 3082 💬 367 📌 91

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

10.03.2026 15:40 👍 11595 🔁 4758 💬 3 📌 0
youtube asking me if was not was walk the dinosaur "feels emotionally manipulative"

youtube asking me if was not was walk the dinosaur "feels emotionally manipulative"

LMAO, what?!? this is not a joke, youtube legitimately just asked me if the music video for Was (not was)-walk the dinosaur feels "emotionally manipulative"

10.03.2026 08:48 👍 886 🔁 230 💬 47 📌 25
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’
- Shigeru Miyamoto

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

10.03.2026 21:02 👍 8484 🔁 1769 💬 57 📌 49
star trek themed doctors office that looks very like much the TNG/VOY era consoles. there is also a cardboard cutout of seven of nine!

star trek themed doctors office that looks very like much the TNG/VOY era consoles. there is also a cardboard cutout of seven of nine!

one of the waiting chairs that looks like the bridge of the enterprise-D’s navigation console except that the chair is black.

one of the waiting chairs that looks like the bridge of the enterprise-D’s navigation console except that the chair is black.

im at the eye doctors. there is a doctor here who has a whole ass star trek themed setup

09.03.2026 21:30 👍 932 🔁 175 💬 44 📌 40

it is

not my favorite thing to wake up and see what new horrors people i did not elect are using my tax dollars to do

09.03.2026 07:43 👍 116 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

09.03.2026 04:04 👍 3660 🔁 907 💬 24 📌 26

I can't believe that this went thirteen minutes with no engagement. This is what I come to Bluesky for. Thank you.

09.03.2026 07:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How is there not a dating site for cheese lovers called

Kraft Singles

09.03.2026 07:05 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apoca...

A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week.

Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."
www.rawstory.com/iran-war/

09.03.2026 04:35 👍 1010 🔁 591 💬 133 📌 135

I had my one and only Buzzball in San Francisco when I was there around seven years ago. We didn't have them in Seattle at the time. It was delicious.

09.03.2026 05:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

09.03.2026 00:46 👍 8499 🔁 3134 💬 141 📌 119

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

09.03.2026 01:26 👍 2461 🔁 693 💬 13 📌 41
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#internationalwomensday

08.03.2026 14:26 👍 1817 🔁 757 💬 2 📌 1
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