Jason Skiles

Jason Skiles

@jasonskiles.bsky.social

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Dad, hobbit, software engineer. Used to make video games. Kind of quiet and private. Following me won't be all that rewarding.

Team Orca.

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The last couple visitors to our house have announced their arrival by texting me and waiting at the front door, where there's a working doorbell in plain view. Is this a thing now? Is ringing the doorbell now considered a rude and obsolete practice, like placing voice calls?

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BREAKING: in a devastating blow to both-sides-ism, the judge and jury in the Hunter Biden trial remain unthreatened

Does anyone know why I can buy kindle editions of every Culture novel except Excession? Is there a weird situation with the rights on that one?

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If you sneeze and hiccup at the same time, your body takes a screenshot

They do not. And the reason I know they don't is that they're fighting hard to delay every criminal proceeding as much as they're able.

That's twelve incredibly brave people whose names I hope we never learn.

I suppose this means we're due for another round of "freedom fries"?

"If I wanted to be around people I'd haunt a Denny's." Love it.

'flout' is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

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Oh, so you're mad about a bad thing? Well what if I told you that other bad things also exist. What would you say then smart guy

Jim Comey catching strays today. Doesn't this make him look like an even bigger schmuck than we already thought?

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Blackthorne: Tell him his excuses fool no one, and that anyone with eyes to see understands that he clearly intended Jack Torrance as a self-insert, and Kubrick's portrayal of him as a volatile abuser from the start touched a nerve. Mariko: The Anjin is upset about The Shining.

I imagine that women with multiple children over the age of 15 who are married to the authors of reviews about Haberman's 2022 book about DT are all relieved that one of their number was excused from the jury. Thanks to NYT, it would have been a bumpy year for all of them.

This is driving me nuts. The haptics on BlueSky on my pixel 8 have suddenly gone all mushy. When I like a post, it feels like I accidentally crushed a mosquito. I hate hate hate this and I can't figure out what happened.

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Jimmy Two Hands

1860s people reading this diss track like “daaaaaaamn”

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New Law Requires SNAP Recipients To Balance Food On Nose Until Receiving Command To Eat Itwww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—As part of an effort to ensure the benefits were only allocated to those in “true need,” a new federal law went into effect Thursday requiring all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

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For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards. Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

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New from me: Here's the second part of my three-part series looking at how Coleman Hughes, Bari Weiss's Free Press, and a propagandistic documentary attempt to retroactively exonerate Derek Chauvin.

The retconning of George Floyd, part two: the autopsyopen.substack.com Breaking down the lies, deception, and misdirection Derek Chauvin's defenders use to claim that the forensic evidence vindicates him

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oh wow you went through a whole desert and your horse doesn't even have a name.. hey quick question, where do you think horse names come from

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Gonna be fun watching the folks from Twitter that have gotten used to rage farming learning the Bluesky culture of “Fuck off, I’m just gonna block you and remove this problem for both of us.”

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So, as we prepare for Bluesky's own version of The Endless September, a few suggestions: 1. Welcome new folks and be awesome to them; 2. Instill in them the gospel of "Don't Engage, Just Block" when it comes to trolls and bots; 3. Remember "DE;JB" yourself and keep your own timeline groovy.

Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood.

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So, a couple months back we wrote about how Appin, an Indian company, had forced Reuters to remove an article that presented evidence of Appin's connections to "hack for hire" operations. Appin demanded we remove it. We will not do so. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/01/s...

Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporterswww.techdirt.com Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports (of which there have been many) that the organization that started as a sort of cybersecurity training school, but morp…

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It’s only fascism if it’s exactly like 1930s Europe, otherwise it’s just sparkling far right, hyper-nationalist populism that deploys antisemitic & racist propaganda in defense of a nostalgic concept of the traditional patriarchal family supposedly besieged by culturally-foreign & degenerate others.

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You sleep beneath the ocean floor, You dream of eldritch times before When once you ruled the fervid Pleistocene. Your visage blinds the mortal eye, You live and yet eternal lie, In aeons even death may die Jolene

The water/magnets thing was weeks ago and I didn't hear about it until yesterday from Fred Clark. WTH, BlueSky? Where was all the mockery? Did I miss it?

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People like to ask me “who’ll win in 2024,” and it’s pretty simple: Biden will announce a new COVID lockdown and activate his illegal immigrant shock troops to suppress the MAGA vote in November, then resign so the electoral college can appoint Michelle Obama.

I had a long travel day today and a re-read of Redshirts got me through it. It's as good as I remember, and just tons of fun. Thanks @scalzi.com for writing it.

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When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.

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Every disease used to be called either peptic disoiritpkhsylihalssus or the Chunks

I've been out of games for ten years and the news that E3 is gone for good still feels like the sun coming out from behind a cloud.