DarthYoshiBoy

DarthYoshiBoy

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(He/Him) Player of video games, lover of books, Dungeons and Dragons nerd, Techy guy, father, and husband. Also: https://mastodon.social/@DarthYoshiBoy

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GJ Games Done Quick (www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick) on reaching a cumulative $50 million dollars raised for charity. Here's hoping that it's only the start of billions raised for the excellent @msf.bsky.social and others!

GamesDoneQuick - Twitchwww.twitch.tv Summer Games Done Quick 2024 - Benefitting Doctors Without Borders - Sekiro

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C'mon, baby bears. Now is not the time to stand down.

So presidential pardons are a core constitutional power, and apparently pre-emptive pardons are A-OK. Does this new ruling mean that a president could issue a pardon for anyone who murders... say, Supreme Court Justices and/or congress members? ...and that wouldn't be a crime? @kenwhite.bsky.social

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With less of a check on presidential criminality than many of us had been counting on, it becomes all the more important not to elect a brazen criminal to the presidency.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

Let me say it now. If we lose our democracy in November, it's not going to be because "The Dems" put up Biden, it's going to be because people thought that doing nothing was better than choosing to align against evil when it meant accepting anything less than their notion of a "good" candidate.

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People who treat July 4th as nothing more than an excuse to get drunk, overeat, and blow shit up, and not as a celebration of America's independence from a King, have never been more right.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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If you make any kind of art and call yourself a "content creator" I will go angry mom on your ass so fast. "Content" is corporate pabulum. You make art. Call yourself an artist, hold your head up high, and don't help bean-counters and empty suits to degrade you. They'll do that on their own.

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Those drugs that Trumpworld is insisting that Biden will take before the debate to suddenly reverse the cognitive decline they insist afflicts him? Such drugs don't exist. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | No, Biden won’t be on performance-enhancing drugs for the debatewww.washingtonpost.com Experts on the subject note that there is no drug that will temporarily mask cognitive decline.

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It's never to late to start reading every Discworld book.

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Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

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The new Zelda game reads to me like someone said "what if the Cane of Somaria did Dragon Quest Builders," and I'm into it

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“oh that games old, it’s graphics are bad, i don’t wanna play it” what’s it like being a coward? spiritually weak, your bloodline will not survive the winter

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Now that there’s a flood of new folks popping into BlueSky, welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay and wish you many great experiences building a fellowship with your mutuals! Now let us please put to rest the idea that we “needed” to stay on Twitter/X for reasons beyond business or social media work.

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Hey @aftermath.site Something is missing here… do it! Start the trend.

I'm constantly trying to convince friends that this is a cool site worthy of some allocation of time, but the coolest posts that I'd love to share with them are always from profiles that require a log-in. What is the point of sharing something? Does everyone not understand skyview.social is a thing?

Skyviewskyview.social Share BlueSky posts and threads externally

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My husband is reading a really interesting book about activist burn out, and basically every chapter that looks at specific historical activists shows that being unable to acknowledge even minor victories leads to burn out and depression.

I think some people are afraid of good news because they think it inevitably leads to complacency. like any hint of good must mean there is no need for Better. but…endless bad news doesn’t lead to Better either. it leads to exhaustion.

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34 COUNTS???!

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Kingdom Hearts finally lands on Steam next month, meaning another huge win for deservedly not giving Epic any of my goddamn money

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More support for the theory that OpenAI is equal parts “never have an original idea” + “steal other people’s work because you’re constitutionally incapable of imagining anything on your own”—with a hefty dollop of “fetishize women and refuse to take no for an answer.”

NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn obtained this statement from Scarlett Johansson regarding OpenAI's ChatGPT voice that sounds like her role from the 2013 movie "Her"

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I think it would be perfectly ethical to destroy all the ai servers with hammers

Today at eldest daughter's school, a literal dumpster fire. WHEEEEEE!!!

Good. Paying for the API to that toilet is the last thing anyone ought to be doing.

Soon Your Nintendo Switch Won't Connect To Twitter Any Morekotaku.com Oddly enough, they don't seem to want to pay $42,000 a month for access to the API

Rep. Kera Birkeland: “Public backlash from this legislation was completely expected, but at the end of the day, we do what is best for Utah, despite outcries from a loud and vocal minority.” With 86% of Utahns against this legislation, it seems like the vocal minority has maybe got this backwards.

When John Dougall ran for Utah auditor, he didn’t set out to “become a bathroom monitor” — and he didn’t ask the Utah Legislature to make him responsible for enforcing a transgender bathroom ban signed into law in January, he said in a statement Tuesday.

Utah auditor blasts ‘invasive and overly aggressive Legislature’ for making him trans ‘bathroom monitor’www.sltrib.com When John Dougall ran for Utah auditor, he didn’t set out to “become a bathroom monitor” — and he didn’t ask the Utah Legislature to make him responsible for enforcing a transgender bathroom ban signe...

I can't think of anything more "Utah" than destroying a gorgeous historic concert hall to make way for an NHL team and accompanying "Entertainment District." 🤦‍♂️

The reaction to the idea of demolishing Abravanel Hall to make room for a new "entertainment district" has been sharp — with an online petition drawing thousands of signatures, and a preservation group putting the Utah Symphony's home on a list of Utah's "most endangered" historic sites.

If Abravanel Hall goes, fans say, music and childhood memories could go with itwww.sltrib.com The reaction to the possibility of Abravanel Hall being demolished to make room for a new "entertainment district" has been sharp — with an online petition drawing thousands of signatures, and a prese...

Sign the Petitionchng.it With the recent announcement of a National Hockey League team coming to Utah, and the Utah State Legislature authorizing Salt Lake City to increase sales tax to help finance a home for the team, the f...

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This is a fantastic deep dive on the various JP and EN terms that have been used for the "summons" in FF! I learned stuff despite already being relatively familiar on the subject. Can't wait to see the continuation!

Aeons, Eikons, and Espers: The Localization History Behind Final Fantasy’s Iconic Beasts (Part One)annacairistiona.wordpress.com Introduction Summons have become a mainstay of the Final Fantasy series ever since their first appearance in Final Fantasy III. These iconic beasts, often inspired by gods and demons from real-world m...

Thanks @nobodysholm.bsky.social It would be a shame if people made realistic & unique fake submissions, from multiple internet connections if they have 'em, entering from the auditor․utah․gov page so their traffic looks organic, all ultimately making filtering of those reports difficult. Damn shame.

So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room. Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_co...

Hotline Complaint Formut-sao-special-prod.web.app

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Chihuly con Carnie

The thing which a solid half of the driving public hasn't grokked yet is that by protecting other people, you are in fact protecting yourself. Driving is the most remarkably dangerous yet cooperative thing we do - and so, efforts to help one another be safe are always a good idea.