Dana Fried
@leftoblique.bsky.social
High-level code wizard
Gym rat
Mom
Musician
TTRPG designer
Retired roller derby athlete, now coach
Gamer™
I contain multitudes.
🐘 @tess@mastodon.social
🛼 Royal City Roller Derby
Gym rat
Mom
Musician
TTRPG designer
Retired roller derby athlete, now coach
Gamer™
I contain multitudes.
🐘 @tess@mastodon.social
🛼 Royal City Roller Derby
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they're 4k AI upscaling you in the qrts bro. yeah you're really smooth and HD now and all your intricate details are kind of blurred. You're at 60fps and have interpolated in-between frames dude.
February 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
they're 4k AI upscaling you in the qrts bro. yeah you're really smooth and HD now and all your intricate details are kind of blurred. You're at 60fps and have interpolated in-between frames dude.
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February 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Sometimes all you need is a well-roasted sweet potato with a little butter and salt on it.
February 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Sometimes all you need is a well-roasted sweet potato with a little butter and salt on it.
So far, the show seems to suggest that there is no escape for a Bridgerton, only doom.
We are all praying for Eloise.
We are all praying for Eloise.
January 31, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Watching the newest season of #Bridgerton and two things were evident in, like, the first five minutes of the season:
1. They're just straight-up doing Cinderella, aren't they?
2. The Bridgertons clearly have a family curse, and a powerful one at that.
1. They're just straight-up doing Cinderella, aren't they?
2. The Bridgertons clearly have a family curse, and a powerful one at that.
January 31, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Watching the newest season of #Bridgerton and two things were evident in, like, the first five minutes of the season:
1. They're just straight-up doing Cinderella, aren't they?
2. The Bridgertons clearly have a family curse, and a powerful one at that.
1. They're just straight-up doing Cinderella, aren't they?
2. The Bridgertons clearly have a family curse, and a powerful one at that.
Healed a party of near-min-ilvl characters through the current endgame dungeon in #FFXIV yesterday and... wow. One of my players stood in the bad, died, I picked them up, healed them to like 80%, put up a bubble, and *the next raidwide* instantly killed them again.
That one was on me, but damn.
That one was on me, but damn.
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Healed a party of near-min-ilvl characters through the current endgame dungeon in #FFXIV yesterday and... wow. One of my players stood in the bad, died, I picked them up, healed them to like 80%, put up a bubble, and *the next raidwide* instantly killed them again.
That one was on me, but damn.
That one was on me, but damn.
If you haven't played Iconoclasts, you've been missing out.
This is in my perennial top ten games of all time.
This is in my perennial top ten games of all time.
Happy 🔧 ICONOCLASTS 🔧 anniversary!
Sat a long time on physical goods, and could use help for coming projects. I decided to try a few auctions for support! Hope this is a good avenue for those of you asking for this.
I have always been grateful for your support! 💛
www.ebay.com/usr/konjakon...
Sat a long time on physical goods, and could use help for coming projects. I decided to try a few auctions for support! Hope this is a good avenue for those of you asking for this.
I have always been grateful for your support! 💛
www.ebay.com/usr/konjakon...
January 29, 2026 at 9:51 PM
If you haven't played Iconoclasts, you've been missing out.
This is in my perennial top ten games of all time.
This is in my perennial top ten games of all time.
Code Vein 2 looks cool; does anyone have a mod to give the women normal boobs?
January 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Code Vein 2 looks cool; does anyone have a mod to give the women normal boobs?
This seems like a fairly relevant parable for our current moment
(From the Principia Discordia; 1963)
(From the Principia Discordia; 1963)
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
This seems like a fairly relevant parable for our current moment
(From the Principia Discordia; 1963)
(From the Principia Discordia; 1963)
Me trying to protect my mental health here on Bluesky
January 28, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Me trying to protect my mental health here on Bluesky
Democratic Party candidates should be held to the same standard as my church holds its ministers.
If you've never been arrested at a civil rights protest, you at least have to make a convincing argument why not.
If you've never been arrested at a civil rights protest, you at least have to make a convincing argument why not.
January 24, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Democratic Party candidates should be held to the same standard as my church holds its ministers.
If you've never been arrested at a civil rights protest, you at least have to make a convincing argument why not.
If you've never been arrested at a civil rights protest, you at least have to make a convincing argument why not.
Sometimes I daydream about retiring and opening a coffee shop with my wife called "Les Beans"
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Sometimes I daydream about retiring and opening a coffee shop with my wife called "Les Beans"
Looks like we'll be getting near-record lows* around the end of this week. Oh joy.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Looks like we'll be getting near-record lows* around the end of this week. Oh joy.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
Here's the original study:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
An interesting detail: some of the systems appear to have safeguards in place that prevent the user from accessing the "stored" data, despite every indication that it is actually there. This suggests intentional action by the systems' creators.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
An interesting detail: some of the systems appear to have safeguards in place that prevent the user from accessing the "stored" data, despite every indication that it is actually there. This suggests intentional action by the systems' creators.
January 17, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Here's the original study:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
An interesting detail: some of the systems appear to have safeguards in place that prevent the user from accessing the "stored" data, despite every indication that it is actually there. This suggests intentional action by the systems' creators.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
An interesting detail: some of the systems appear to have safeguards in place that prevent the user from accessing the "stored" data, despite every indication that it is actually there. This suggests intentional action by the systems' creators.
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LA has been sneakily building a damn good subway system piece by piece while nobody was looking. It's the best way to get around half the city already.
January 15, 2026 at 3:52 AM
LA has been sneakily building a damn good subway system piece by piece while nobody was looking. It's the best way to get around half the city already.
I saw this in isolation and was like...
Warframe?
(yup, it was warframe)
Warframe?
(yup, it was warframe)
Truly love how the expansion that was *both* devoted to answering the most convoluted and gnarly lore questions *and* updating a bunch of systems that were really feeling their age did it thru the mediums of boy bands and dating sims.
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
I saw this in isolation and was like...
Warframe?
(yup, it was warframe)
Warframe?
(yup, it was warframe)
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The ION train in K-W is an absolute treasure
friends, on this most tram of Tuesdays, let me take you on a little journey into a tale of two new tram systems here in Ontario, just 80km apart as the crow flies but a world apart in operations: the Kitchener-Waterloo ION tram, and the brand new Toronto Line 6 Finch West tram
January 7, 2026 at 3:31 AM
The ION train in K-W is an absolute treasure
This is just a good general principle when you're put in a position like this.
If the only choice you're offered in a situation is to take what you're given or leave, the only way for you to exert any power over the situation is to leave.
If the only choice you're offered in a situation is to take what you're given or leave, the only way for you to exert any power over the situation is to leave.
The only option is what you see here, to walk.
You don't have a relationship where your role matters beyond the ability to take or leave what they offer so your only power is in leaving and finding a situation where that isn't the case.
You don't have a relationship where your role matters beyond the ability to take or leave what they offer so your only power is in leaving and finding a situation where that isn't the case.
January 7, 2026 at 4:22 AM
This is just a good general principle when you're put in a position like this.
If the only choice you're offered in a situation is to take what you're given or leave, the only way for you to exert any power over the situation is to leave.
If the only choice you're offered in a situation is to take what you're given or leave, the only way for you to exert any power over the situation is to leave.
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There is no better way to kill a relationship than to problem solve for someone else without their participation.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
There is no better way to kill a relationship than to problem solve for someone else without their participation.
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So I have no dog in the Ottawa PWHL stadium dust up, but I think they lost their team and the reason are going to lose them is worth talking about:
The complaints from the team are all about being excluded from planning. The mayor says we expanded seating from the original plan.
I winced.
The complaints from the team are all about being excluded from planning. The mayor says we expanded seating from the original plan.
I winced.
January 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM
So I have no dog in the Ottawa PWHL stadium dust up, but I think they lost their team and the reason are going to lose them is worth talking about:
The complaints from the team are all about being excluded from planning. The mayor says we expanded seating from the original plan.
I winced.
The complaints from the team are all about being excluded from planning. The mayor says we expanded seating from the original plan.
I winced.
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hey siri play everything burns
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
hey siri play everything burns
I posted something about bsky needing follower-only and no-discover-feed posts to prevent dogpiling and then realized that we have the former already, and it's evidently not helping enough to keep people from being run off the platform.
January 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I posted something about bsky needing follower-only and no-discover-feed posts to prevent dogpiling and then realized that we have the former already, and it's evidently not helping enough to keep people from being run off the platform.
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Evidence is mounting that even the most vulgar YIMBYism is broadly correct in its diagnoses and policy recommendations
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Evidence is mounting that even the most vulgar YIMBYism is broadly correct in its diagnoses and policy recommendations