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John Harris

@rodneylives

Trying very hard not to be doomist about Bluesky's investors. Metafilter member (JHarris), roguelike person, oldweb enthusiast, Loadstar for C64 preserver. Mastodon: @rodneylives@mefi.social Blog: setsideb.com Switch: SW-4103-7970-5038 BLM! Trans rights!

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"I Need A Union Contract To Feel Safe" - Mega Man 11 Voice Actor Not Returning For Dual Override "It's been an honor voicing Mega Man in Mega Man 11"

"I Need A Union Contract To Feel Safe" - Mega Man 11 Voice Actor Not Returning For Dual Override.

11.03.2026 10:15 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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Gene Shalit is closing in on his 100th birthday on March 25th

11.03.2026 09:57 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I can lean on my actual experience to yell at everyone that this won't work! You can't identify emerging customer needs by aggregating data from the past! We tried this already with personas and again with big data! This is like the stupid business version of the problem of induction.

11.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 266 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 1
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Keine EntschΓ€digung: Flugzeug in Linz gepfΓ€ndet Eine nicht geleistete EntschΓ€digungszahlung der irischen Billigfluggesellschaft Ryanair an eine Frau hat auf dem Linzer Flughafen nun eine kuriose Konsequenz nach sich gezogen. Ein Exekutor brachte in...

So because #Ryanair in 2024 treated a passenger to a 13-hour delay and €890 in costs for a new flight, and then simply ghosted her, an Austrian court today impounded one of its airplanes at Linz airport. ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...

10.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 736 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 68

aaaaaah that's awesome, I've always wanted to play around with making music but I've forgotten any theory I've learned

11.03.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And really I understand, that's professional piece of equipment for doing Real Work.

11.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just, the drum machine in the video. I saw one of those, or one much like it, in a Youtube video a couple of weeks ago, so ha ha, I looked up the price of one online and YIPES I will never ever be able to afford one of those.

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

That doesn't look like a machine that should cost thousands of dollars.

11.03.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's so distressing that the news is currently full of chickens coming home to roost - DOJ lawyers, DOGE idiots, dumb wars, Epstein files, etc. It's all happening exactly as predicted.

The problem is it takes a year. And in the meantime, morons who can't see past dinnertime just kept doing it.

11.03.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The article doesn't answer the question stated here, it just speculates.

10.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a "Grape Juice Cocktail," which sounds like it sucks but isn't particularly rare, I mean it's going to be juice from _more than one grape_, but by "cocktail" it means with a lot of water and, according to the laber, high-fructose corn syrup.

10.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, my complete and total guess was right. Well at least they're not on the same poster or something.

As if being a young turtle under the streets of New York wasn't hard enough.

10.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Raph's even got a backpack with candy bars and chips, if all of these are from the same place it's a definite mismatch.

These are from that Magic expansion, aren't they?

10.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this all from the same property? More than the teeth and eyes, it looks like the art style doesn't match.

10.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Since we're talking about @repmoskowitz.bsky.social polling numbers being in the trash, let's check out some of his past moves

10.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Argh... the nearby grocery store closed and is turning into an Aldi. In the meantime I have two nearly Dollar stores, a Family and a General. I got some grape juice at the Family, Welch's in particular, that turned out to be obviously watered down! It's terrible!

10.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The best time to stop using Grammarly was years ago. The second best time is right now

10.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

10.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 13387 πŸ” 3065 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 236

With wired internet and keyboard it still happens, although the mouse is still bluetooth. Problem can happen when plugged in, but now happens consistently when on battery.

10.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I have some further info on the spontaneous freeze/reboot laptop issue. I had thought it had been the wireless card, but now I'm coming to suspect maybe a power issue?

10.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

10.03.2026 03:56 πŸ‘ 16904 πŸ” 3883 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 157
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Federal agents lied about why they shot a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. Their story quickly fell apart. The attack marked the only time that federal authorities admitted wrongdoing during Operation Metro Surge.

Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down, denouncing the incident as an act of β€œattempted murder” on law enforcement. Her agency published mugshots of all three men arrested in connection with the alleged assault, casting them as β€œviolent criminals.”

None of it was true.

09.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 4408 πŸ” 2238 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 72

Just entered "Paypal" on a phone's swipe keyboard, the phone corrected the capitalization to "PayPal," and by jove I changed it BACK, ugh.

10.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alerting everyone, The most recent Mystery Dungeon game, Shiren 6 (Serpentcoil island) is half-off on Steam right now, $20!

09.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The last three books about the Choctaw language & culture that I've bought have *ALL* turned out to be just AI-generated junk🀬

It's genuinely infuriating to see this careless nonsense happening, as it dilutes the actual language and culture and makes it harder for me to learn about my own humanity

02.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 384 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

He should go back to giving away cars to people who win at Plinko.

09.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's impossible to overstate how much the presence of cops escalates a situation in which someone is confused and scared. most of these people didn't pick up a weapon until police entered their home and threatened them. often family members tried to shield them. they were usually dead in under 2 min

09.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7

09.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 1849 πŸ” 967 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 108

The fact that my childhood Wii remotes from almost 20 years ago still work perfectly fine, but a less-than-a-decade old Nintendo switch Joycon is dead

08.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1351 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 4

Best game of Caves of Qud yet going. (All my plays have been Classic Mode so far.) I just wandered up to Golgotha. I've been there before but not with the quest to go there.

09.03.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0