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Ben Wright - Queex
@queex.bsky.social
I write stuff. Been doing bioinformatics since they called it statistical genetics. He/him or they/them. https://patreon.com/Queex
https://queex.bandcamp.com
Avatar & banner: @felflowne
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These beauties came in this week and I love them.

You can visit wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove... to get your delicious paper or snazzy electron copies. @dergullen.bsky.social's half absolutely slaps, a tense story with sustained commitment to an inspired idea.
It's fascinating how the forcing of GenAI into everything and the justified backlash against it has completely killed the "I forced a bot to watch/read..." style of joke.
February 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Stay Duned
February 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Our product can show you what's outside the window that's right next to you, perform a Google search slower than you can yourself, and misinform your surgeon mid-procedure, causing a catastrophic failure that will injure you for life. The entire economy is propped up on it
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I'm in real danger of becoming a RETVRN guy but for low bit-depth, low-res gaming when I see things like this.
i'm making a #QBasic game using mode 13h, 320x200 8bpp. i'm using VGA line doubling to make it 320x100 then horizontally doubling each pixel for 160x100

i use a palette with 3 bits red/green and 2 blue, and "subpixel dither" in between colors. here's a thread of images showing what that's like

1/5
February 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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The by-line of Doctor Moreau
February 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Absolutely fascinating that private comments Wes Streeting made that actually paint him in a somewhat better light are being "leaked" now, at a time when Starmer seems about to be toppled, and Streeting desperately needs to improve his image to stand a chance of taking the crown.
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Joke's on them - we don't want most of the features they keep adding anyway.
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Fork Ice February continues with Feng Shui 2, today only!

You know you want a gang of masked government agents in combat cosplay as witless mooks working for some evil villain. Perhaps a screechy eunuch sorcerer kidnapping humans for evil experiments in the Netherworld?
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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this would be many of you when faced with a HELLRAISER-esque scenario
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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the pronoun labeler was deleted, but @ripperoni.com built a new one @pronounpicker.ripperoni.com

it doesn’t have all the same pronouns yet, but still ripp saved the day by launching this overnight, so make sure to thank him!
February 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Labour people on here complain that nobody knows about all the good things they're doing, blaming the media, but a big part of it is that they, themselves, are standing on the streets with a big megaphone saying how much they hate migrants and foreigners.
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
February 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Australian ambulances be like "yea naur yea naur yea naur yea naur"
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The by-line of Doctor Moreau
February 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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kash patel’s general demeanor reminds me of an animal raised for meat
February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
It's Bandcamp Friday, which means there's never been a better time to get some sick tracker tunes all up in your business.

queex.bandcamp.com

Sorry about the face.
Queex
Queex. UK.
queex.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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IT'S FRIDAY! ROLL THE CLIP! #frierenfriday
February 6, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I've written before about the crappy UX of work's webmail interface (powered by Office365), where each morning I re-open the tab, am prompted to enter my 2FA, only to be greeted by a "We're signing you out" page and have to log in again.

They've made it worse.

Now each prompt opens in a new tab.
February 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
bore: it's like saw with an estuary
caw: it's like saw with corvids
paw: it's like saw but with puppygirls
February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
February 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
It's #BookQW! Essendra's adventuring party is attacked by stealth.

www.patreon.com/posts/weapon...
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM