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jasperjames.bsky.social
Jasper James
@jasperjames.bsky.social
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British. I lock people in rooms for a living, drink neat beers not for a living, write short fiction for a net loss

generative A.I. is theft

(he/him)
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jasperjames.bsky.social
Fin.
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
Now reading:
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
jasperjames.bsky.social
Fin.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
now reading
Joyland by Stephen King
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
Finally Fin.
jasperjames.bsky.social Jasper James @jasperjames.bsky.social · Mar 20
Now Reading;
A book by Stephen King titled 11.22.63. The cover shows a picture of JFK and his wife riding in the car shortly before his shooting. A tag line reads "The day that changed the world What if you could change it back?"
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
Just beat Strange Antiquities with ending VII. Great game, fantastic puzzle formula; I especially loved the parts using the maps. Tricky but never unfair, i only really struggled when I'd done something stupid (tip: don't get too confident until an item identification has been confirmed)
badvikinggames.bsky.social Bad Viking Games (Rob & John). Strange Antiquities OUT NOW! @badvikinggames.bsky.social · Sep 17
We’re better at making games than social media. Can you help us out and share this far and wide? 🙏

Strange Antiquities is OUT NOW! 🛎️📚🐈

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #cozy
September 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”

Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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badvikinggames.bsky.social
We’re better at making games than social media. Can you help us out and share this far and wide? 🙏

Strange Antiquities is OUT NOW! 🛎️📚🐈

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #cozy
September 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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badvikinggames.bsky.social
Strange Horticulture is 60% off on Steam right now! 🌱

With just 5 days to go before Strange Antiquities, this weekend is the perfect time to step into Undermere and learn what it takes to manage an occult shop.

store.steampowered.com/app/1574580/...
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
jasperjames.bsky.social
i played this demo through twice and loved it. I can tell the full release is going tohave some fun secrets
badvikinggames.bsky.social Bad Viking Games (Rob & John). Strange Antiquities OUT NOW! @badvikinggames.bsky.social · Aug 7
The date is set!

Strange Antiquities opens its doors on September 17th 2025 - on PC and Nintendo Switch!

#indiegame #indiedev #indie
September 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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izzypetersart.bsky.social
Periodic reminder that personality and intelligence metrics like IQ, myers-briggs/MBTI, etc are not only entirely devoid of scientific merit, but are deeply, inextricably rooted in eugenecist ideology. Stoppit.
September 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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louistonehill.bsky.social
Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...
Screenshot of the Advocate article headline showing an image of bluesky's logo and JKR, with the title "Outcry grows after multiple trans uers were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire" Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3: "If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time." Text post part 2/3: "The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now." Text post part 3/3: "How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. " Response by drtanner: "Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal. It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "
September 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
jasperjames.bsky.social
A shot from I Think You Should Leave. A character is wearing a disguise, specifically a very fake looking rubber mask and hands, and a white hair wig.
September 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
the offerings from this year's Beer Fest. Unfortunately they were out of the 2025 design glasses, so i had to use a 2024.
a glass of a light brown beer and an open book. The relevent entry reads Marvelous Maple Mild 3.7% a glass of amber beer book reads Super Smash Bros 4.8% Golden beer Reads Cask Helles 4.9% Inky black beer page reads Mexicake (as in Mexico + Cake) 10%
September 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
please be true
August 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
jasperjames.bsky.social
I wish on J.K. Rowling everything she wishes on trans people
August 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.
August 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
August 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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cait.bsky.social
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
August 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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bittersnurr.bsky.social
This DOES NOT turn the AI off, only hides it, you need to do method 2 here:

www.askvg.com/how-to-disab...
August 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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veilsedgegames.bsky.social
Are there any AP channels that are taking series pitches rn? I think I have a good Fallen London RPG pitch
August 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
jasperjames.bsky.social
last night's offering was 0%:
Days 0.0% beer
July 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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guntoucher.bsky.social
CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Jul 16
Nvidia's CEO described AI as essential infrastructure in today’s world, comparable to electricity in its importance.
July 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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motthepaladin.bsky.social
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day, I bring you fantasy books containing nonbinary major characters of all flavors. 🌈 📚 💙
Nonbinary Fantasy When the Angels left the Old Country, Phoenix Extravagant, The Tea Dragon Festival, Tell Me How It Ends Nonbinary Fantasy Godly Heathens, A Psalm for the Wild Built, Dragonfall, Painted Flock
July 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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veilsedgegames.bsky.social
The Returned and De-Powered Masks playbooks are on Itch! The Returned is about dying and coming back, like Jason Todd and Magik. The De-Powered is about losing your powers and still fighting, like Storm and Dani Moonstar

veilsedgegames.itch.io/returned-pla...
veilsedgegames.itch.io/de-powered-p...
ID: The Returned icon, featuring a young woman in goth makeup and a dark red and blue superhero suit. Text: The Returned Everyone on a team has a role to play. You were the one who died. Your team buried you, mourned you, and were inspired by your memory. But now you're back. And things have changed. ID: The De-Powered icon, featuring a young woman in a street-clothes-like superhero outfit, with shorts, a shirt with a heart logo, a jacket, and a domino mask. Text: The De-Powered You used to have powers, but they were taken away from you. Now you're expected to go back to being a normal civilian. Well, screw that. You don't need powers to be a hero, you just have to try a little harder.
July 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM