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@graehall.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:48 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Designer: Yes, if you turn the page over you can see all the words are printed on that side

@chbarts.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:50 AM

Rock musician: Here I am, at a job again. Here I am, earning a wage, Here I am, a new job again, To read more, Turn the page!

@lindaksienkiewicz.comOct 12, 2026, 2:06 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

Looking out for squirrel aka tree rats

Cowboy the corgi
@joemenn.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:57 PMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

Aantibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов@antibot4navalny.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:54 PM

CREDITS: Most of these points were earlier posted on Reddit by someone else: www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

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@jenphelan.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:50 PMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

I’m grateful for this little girl this Thanksgiving. In spring we didn’t think she’d make it to fall but thanks to some drug intervention, she celebrated with some leftover turkey today. We had dinner at a friends yesterday and she sent us home with a slice for the puppers 🩷

A Corgi sits and looks out at her yard on a rainy dayA Corgi sits and looks out at her yard on a rainy day
@chbarts.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:45 AM

The developers at id Software had no idea what they were giving the world when they made it possible to reuse the DOOM engine just by making a few WAD files. There was a whole scene around making DOOM assets to turn the game into something at least cosmetically different.

@vghistory.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 10:13 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

designer of the month: hanan samara, excerpt, computer & video games, magazine (1985) dn760102.eu.archive.org/0/items/Comp...

text:
designer of the month
name: hanan samara
born: bagdad, 1955
games: special delivery, jinn jenie and spectrum boulder dash conversion female games programmers are thinner on the ground than female games players. apart from carol shaw at activision, the only active female programmer we've discovered is hanan samara, the brains behind such games as special delivery and the recently released jinn jenie for the cbm 64.
hanan's background is in maths and operations research but now she runs her own software company called dalali software.
(profile pic on the right, dark curly hair, turtle neck top).
@vghistory.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:02 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

the x-files doom II: the hunt for the truth, planned total conversion of doom II, web art (1998) web.archive.org/web/19981203...

a burning green torch with a pyramid of skulls at the bottom of its stand on either side, in the middle a stretched image of mulder and scully, overlaid over a doom II title font. above in green: the x-files. below in green: the hunt for the truth. mulder and scully are standing in mist and on a swirling circle that the mist is coming up from.
@sharonk.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:33 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social


Overall, if the CIA or whatever other malign force wanted to commit a psyop to undercut the left, I doubt they could do anything more damaging than connecting all of us to social media and convincing us that it is an important front of political struggle and maybe even a way to gain cultural hegemony on the cheap. But the CIA did not do that. Russian bots did not do that. We did it to ourselves, and most of us continue to do so. If everyone on the progressive left simultaneously and permanently quit Twitter-style social media, that would be better. Whatever we would be losing would be more than offset by no longer allowing social media to teach us to be more rude, more arrogant, more stupid each and every day. We might even stand a chance! At the very least, our collective blood pressure would be lowered, our anxiety and irritability decreased, our one finite irretrievable life less thoroughly wasted on stupid arguments about stupid topics carried out in the stupidest possible way.
@actualnames.bsky.socialSep 4, 2026, 1:03 PMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

John Henry Couch Kunt England, Cornwall, Parish Registers, 1538-2010

@actualnames.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 6:24 PMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

Jesus Gayasso California, Birth Index, 1905-1995

@hwhall.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:19 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

those posts always read like this to me

PROTIP: To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies.
@donmoyn.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:19 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

"It used to be that an unpopular movie was released, and then maybe a decade later it was celebrated as a cult classic. That is happening with "Digger" during its initial release cycle and frankly I don't care for it."

Picture of old man (Andy Rooney) on 60 Minutes
@francisgasparini.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:17 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

I recognize that the environment and the bad statements of some D candidates rightfully have trans people and their allies mad. But how can you imagine legislators have unchecked power, if they did everyone posting here would be dead

@surcomplicated.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:08 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

US Senators famously have totally unchecked power.

@yeospaceman.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:06 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

laughable omission of any mention of tannerite

@felineceramics.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:09 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

Ah, tannerite. The substance whose use will turn a GED having redneck into a Kelly Johnson grade engineer, and an even bigger dumbass, at the same time.

@mattpolicastro.comOct 12, 2026, 12:17 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

The distinct lack of tannerite and hijinks is a non-starter, truly

@rickywlmsbong.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:09 AMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

also just offended by this thread on behalf of my rednecky friends, who would come up with much more effective and much funnier plans if they were so inclined, get out with this mess

@rickywlmsbong.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:52 PMReposted by @chbarts.bsky.social

okay, first of all no self-respecting redneck would do this. have y’all seen ammo prices in the last decade?

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