Mr. Magnifico
@mrmagnifico.bsky.social
Father of daughters, husband of wives (well, one), son of mothers (same); just generally member of a species that's half female
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Mr. Magnifico
@mrmagnifico.bsky.social
· Oct 12
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a leopard eating a human face, forever.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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"Peter! Susan! Edmund! Lucy! Where have you children been?"
"Narnia?"
"What's Narnia?"
"Narnia business."
"Narnia?"
"What's Narnia?"
"Narnia business."
September 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Peter! Susan! Edmund! Lucy! Where have you children been?"
"Narnia?"
"What's Narnia?"
"Narnia business."
"Narnia?"
"What's Narnia?"
"Narnia business."
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A spider just crawled onto my whiteboard to-do list so now I have to spider.
August 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A spider just crawled onto my whiteboard to-do list so now I have to spider.
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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BREAKING: In a newly-signed executive order, Trump imposes 100% tariffs on Japan "unless and until The Pokémon Company removes the pokémon DEIno from all products across all platforms."
May 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
BREAKING: In a newly-signed executive order, Trump imposes 100% tariffs on Japan "unless and until The Pokémon Company removes the pokémon DEIno from all products across all platforms."
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
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The educational version of Word Realms we made 11 years ago was no longer available anywhere, so we made it available somewhere:
horrible.farm/index.php?id...
horrible.farm/index.php?id...
Horrible Farm - MasterSwords
horrible.farm
April 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The educational version of Word Realms we made 11 years ago was no longer available anywhere, so we made it available somewhere:
horrible.farm/index.php?id...
horrible.farm/index.php?id...
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I just published my entry in the 2025 7-Day Roguelike Challenge. It's called Catacombo and I think it's pretty cool.
zapjackson.itch.io/catacombo
zapjackson.itch.io/catacombo
Catacombo by ZapJackson
Delve dungeons by combining cards
zapjackson.itch.io
March 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I just published my entry in the 2025 7-Day Roguelike Challenge. It's called Catacombo and I think it's pretty cool.
zapjackson.itch.io/catacombo
zapjackson.itch.io/catacombo
I keep thinking about this passage from Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" lately.
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I keep thinking about this passage from Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" lately.
I am not convinced the Times' grant of anonymity is going to do much good here:
November 1, 2024 at 10:45 PM
I am not convinced the Times' grant of anonymity is going to do much good here:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a leopard eating a human face, forever.
October 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a leopard eating a human face, forever.
Woke up from a dream that somehow involved Spaghettator, the carnivorous pasta Pokémon.
March 24, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Woke up from a dream that somehow involved Spaghettator, the carnivorous pasta Pokémon.
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Say what you will about Ea-Nasir, but he sure as hell would never violate 18 U.S.C. § 1519 by failing to preserve any "any record, document, or tangible object" potentially subject to federal investigation.
His business records outlived his entire goddamn civilization.
His business records outlived his entire goddamn civilization.
March 11, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Say what you will about Ea-Nasir, but he sure as hell would never violate 18 U.S.C. § 1519 by failing to preserve any "any record, document, or tangible object" potentially subject to federal investigation.
His business records outlived his entire goddamn civilization.
His business records outlived his entire goddamn civilization.
I am not interested in rounding up to the nearest dollar so CVS can get a tax write-off for contributing to charity, but I would pay $20 extra to have somebody punch the CEO in the face.
March 6, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I am not interested in rounding up to the nearest dollar so CVS can get a tax write-off for contributing to charity, but I would pay $20 extra to have somebody punch the CEO in the face.
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Under 'medical history', we were hoping for something more specific to you personally. You wrote "Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928".
February 7, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Under 'medical history', we were hoping for something more specific to you personally. You wrote "Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928".
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We were talking about adding more things to our homemade charades deck, and my daughter said she didn’t want any more things from video games, “like wizards and goblins and raccoons.”
January 25, 2024 at 3:10 AM
We were talking about adding more things to our homemade charades deck, and my daughter said she didn’t want any more things from video games, “like wizards and goblins and raccoons.”
Palworld is to Pokémon as Meet the Feebles is to the Muppets
January 22, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Palworld is to Pokémon as Meet the Feebles is to the Muppets
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Here is a chart I made several years ago. Video game systems by the numbers:
January 10, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Here is a chart I made several years ago. Video game systems by the numbers:
Breath of the Wild is more realistic than many people realize
January 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Breath of the Wild is more realistic than many people realize
What does “concierge” mean?
Well, it comes from the French word “concierge,” which means concierge.
Well, it comes from the French word “concierge,” which means concierge.
January 13, 2024 at 12:36 AM
What does “concierge” mean?
Well, it comes from the French word “concierge,” which means concierge.
Well, it comes from the French word “concierge,” which means concierge.
Boat upgrade tiers from a free-to-play mobile game
The one on the end costs 100 real-life dollars' worth of gems
The one on the end costs 100 real-life dollars' worth of gems
December 27, 2023 at 10:06 PM
Boat upgrade tiers from a free-to-play mobile game
The one on the end costs 100 real-life dollars' worth of gems
The one on the end costs 100 real-life dollars' worth of gems