Luca Pavone
@lpavone.bsky.social
Writer and Scribbler of Stuff
Chicken Flavoured Doom Mapper
Enjoyer of the Weird and Wonderful
Chicken Flavoured Doom Mapper
Enjoyer of the Weird and Wonderful
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Luca Pavone
@lpavone.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Headless Chicken's 🐔 11th Release Candidate (don't ask what happened to 10) is now up on the DOOM + DOOM II KEX Engine Port!
Currently in the process of getting the IDGames archive version updated too.
Currently in the process of getting the IDGames archive version updated too.
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For most of human history, literacy was reserved for a select few persons within a given community. It is only during the last couple of decades that the idea emerged that this changed somehow
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For most of human history, literacy was reserved for a select few persons within a given community. It is only during the last couple of decades that the idea emerged that this changed somehow
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I miss when this place felt like we could share thoughts and knowledge.
I started using social media not that long ago because I wanted to connect with people, learn from them maybe?, and share knowledge with others where I could.
The place now thrives on discourse. It suffocates conversation.
I started using social media not that long ago because I wanted to connect with people, learn from them maybe?, and share knowledge with others where I could.
The place now thrives on discourse. It suffocates conversation.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I miss when this place felt like we could share thoughts and knowledge.
I started using social media not that long ago because I wanted to connect with people, learn from them maybe?, and share knowledge with others where I could.
The place now thrives on discourse. It suffocates conversation.
I started using social media not that long ago because I wanted to connect with people, learn from them maybe?, and share knowledge with others where I could.
The place now thrives on discourse. It suffocates conversation.
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Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.
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How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
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You are worth fighting for
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You are worth fighting for
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You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You guys wanna see a dead body?
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
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Here ya go. I have a Firefox extension that sometimes works. Thanks for sharing.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Here ya go. I have a Firefox extension that sometimes works. Thanks for sharing.
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it's deeply insane to me that both the UK and US are implementing brutal austerity while -also- doing the most insufferable nanny state bullshit ever.
Bread and Circuses? Eh, we don't need either of those things.
Bread and Circuses? Eh, we don't need either of those things.
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
it's deeply insane to me that both the UK and US are implementing brutal austerity while -also- doing the most insufferable nanny state bullshit ever.
Bread and Circuses? Eh, we don't need either of those things.
Bread and Circuses? Eh, we don't need either of those things.
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
www.huffpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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From 2019...
"As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world."
"As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world."
Post-privatisation, are Victoria’s prisons actually better?
Three privately managed prisons house nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population, but research indicates they're falling short of expectations in key areas.
lens.monash.edu
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
From 2019...
"As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world."
"As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world."
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imagine an archaelogist finding this in 1000 years
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
imagine an archaelogist finding this in 1000 years
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It's all kinda meaningless anyway but then in our political debate meaningless nonsense is kinda the core reality.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It's all kinda meaningless anyway but then in our political debate meaningless nonsense is kinda the core reality.
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It is time that the game buying public accepted that all game development studios are headed up by a lazy man who can’t be arsed to go get his morning coffee. It is the new normal. The question is not “am I comfortable buying games by a sleepy man?”, the question is “am I, the consumer, wrong?”
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It is time that the game buying public accepted that all game development studios are headed up by a lazy man who can’t be arsed to go get his morning coffee. It is the new normal. The question is not “am I comfortable buying games by a sleepy man?”, the question is “am I, the consumer, wrong?”
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big gothic castle in quake from last year. didn't make it for any other reason than I was using it to make new textures and enjoying myself.
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
big gothic castle in quake from last year. didn't make it for any other reason than I was using it to make new textures and enjoying myself.
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The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
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With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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absolute perfuct timing
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
absolute perfuct timing
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i'm gonna lose my mind
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
i'm gonna lose my mind
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the stupid idea of tech as “oh wow the world will be saved with shiny consumer objects” turned into “the premise of technology means the weirdest most hateful people will order your world without social sanction or permission, via scams, govt murder contracts” in like a decade and a half tops huh?
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
the stupid idea of tech as “oh wow the world will be saved with shiny consumer objects” turned into “the premise of technology means the weirdest most hateful people will order your world without social sanction or permission, via scams, govt murder contracts” in like a decade and a half tops huh?
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The amount of hateful, dangerous, inhuman, weird, stupid, embarrassing and hard to look at and listen to billionaires who have say over the running of society keeps increasing and they don’t have the decency to keep quiet at home about it, want to be celebrities and loved
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The amount of hateful, dangerous, inhuman, weird, stupid, embarrassing and hard to look at and listen to billionaires who have say over the running of society keeps increasing and they don’t have the decency to keep quiet at home about it, want to be celebrities and loved
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They’re not even promising to reverse climate change or cure cancer, teach children etc etc anymore it’s just threat of punishment, destroying any just society, destroying art and labor by owning it by law and ideology. When tasked to talk like a futurist they describe dystopia as progress
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
They’re not even promising to reverse climate change or cure cancer, teach children etc etc anymore it’s just threat of punishment, destroying any just society, destroying art and labor by owning it by law and ideology. When tasked to talk like a futurist they describe dystopia as progress
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I have had this in my head for a solid day now and can finally go to sleep
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I have had this in my head for a solid day now and can finally go to sleep