Miranda Osthoff
@tinyconstruct.bsky.social
MPLS computer witch
Indie TTRPG goblin
Books, dog person
Tired 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Indie TTRPG goblin
Books, dog person
Tired 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Happy New Year everyone! I used Cuno Punching Divination techniques to judge how 2026 is going to go.
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Happy New Year everyone! I used Cuno Punching Divination techniques to judge how 2026 is going to go.
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Hey guess what, you can help!
We're collecting funds to support our neighborhood elementary school families with basic needs (food, winter gear, etc.).
Donate, repost, share the link with friends/neighbors, etc. Thank you! ❤️
paypal.me/lyndalepto
We're collecting funds to support our neighborhood elementary school families with basic needs (food, winter gear, etc.).
Donate, repost, share the link with friends/neighbors, etc. Thank you! ❤️
paypal.me/lyndalepto
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hey guess what, you can help!
We're collecting funds to support our neighborhood elementary school families with basic needs (food, winter gear, etc.).
Donate, repost, share the link with friends/neighbors, etc. Thank you! ❤️
paypal.me/lyndalepto
We're collecting funds to support our neighborhood elementary school families with basic needs (food, winter gear, etc.).
Donate, repost, share the link with friends/neighbors, etc. Thank you! ❤️
paypal.me/lyndalepto
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This is such a strong $25 bundle. 20% off of three games that were already (imo) priced 20% lower than you'd expect to pay for work this good.
still figuring out if insurance will cover it, but in the meantime it'd mean the world if you'd consider:
1. picking up my latest game "The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal Back": jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib
2. or a 20% bundle of all my other games: itch.io/s/176257/jum...
1. picking up my latest game "The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal Back": jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib
2. or a 20% bundle of all my other games: itch.io/s/176257/jum...
Jumpgate Games Winter Sale 2025 by Jess Levine | Jumpgate Games
A bundle by Jess Levine | Jumpgate Games, $25.00 for 4 games
itch.io
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is such a strong $25 bundle. 20% off of three games that were already (imo) priced 20% lower than you'd expect to pay for work this good.
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2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
The Case For Hope: Transgender Rights Going Into 2026
This last year has been one of the hardest years for transgender people in memory. Somehow, though, I'm feeling hope going into 2026.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks.
My case for hope for 2026.
My case for hope for 2026.
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Please add to the discourse around the decline of white men in literature the number of careers made possible by wives.
Maybe white men aren’t uniquely talented! Maybe the patriarchy just made sure women were kept out of the running!
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/behi...
Maybe white men aren’t uniquely talented! Maybe the patriarchy just made sure women were kept out of the running!
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/behi...
Behind Many a Great Male Writer Is a Woman Holding a Pen | The Saturday Evening Post
The success of many iconic male writers was due in part to women whose contributions are rarely known and acknowledged.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Please add to the discourse around the decline of white men in literature the number of careers made possible by wives.
Maybe white men aren’t uniquely talented! Maybe the patriarchy just made sure women were kept out of the running!
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/behi...
Maybe white men aren’t uniquely talented! Maybe the patriarchy just made sure women were kept out of the running!
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/behi...
Hey when it’s not factual reporting, how does the Washington Post feel about AI? Oh.
December 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey when it’s not factual reporting, how does the Washington Post feel about AI? Oh.
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i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
“‘Vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative will harm you more’ starts to sound a lot like ‘vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative will harm me too.’…
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel."
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“‘Vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative will harm you more’ starts to sound a lot like ‘vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative will harm me too.’…
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Living with Windows has always been a calculus of how useful it is professionally vs. the amount of unbearable shit you gotta disable with a script and I think we reached a tipping point where it’s majority unbearable shit.
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Living with Windows has always been a calculus of how useful it is professionally vs. the amount of unbearable shit you gotta disable with a script and I think we reached a tipping point where it’s majority unbearable shit.
I know people who cleared snow from in front of their bins, had the plows go through their alley overnight, which re-covered said bins, and then they were threatened with a $150 fine first thing in the morning since they’re a duplex ($30/bin).
Can we not? Come on.
Can we not? Come on.
December 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I know people who cleared snow from in front of their bins, had the plows go through their alley overnight, which re-covered said bins, and then they were threatened with a $150 fine first thing in the morning since they’re a duplex ($30/bin).
Can we not? Come on.
Can we not? Come on.
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just found out you can disable the new progressive loading context menu in File Explorer on Windows 11 and oh my god it just changed my life almost as much as discovering the program Everything.
finally, the return of a context menu that doesn't change what you're clicking on as you go to click!!!
finally, the return of a context menu that doesn't change what you're clicking on as you go to click!!!
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
just found out you can disable the new progressive loading context menu in File Explorer on Windows 11 and oh my god it just changed my life almost as much as discovering the program Everything.
finally, the return of a context menu that doesn't change what you're clicking on as you go to click!!!
finally, the return of a context menu that doesn't change what you're clicking on as you go to click!!!
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Surprise!
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
December 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Surprise!
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
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If you ask a studio about their use of Gen AI and they're like "It's not at the heart of our games. Here at CorpoSlop, we know our underpaid artists are the soul. This tech is the inevitable future but we only have a little evil as a treat. Please let me live" I'm out. I wanna see "Wtf hell no dude"
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If you ask a studio about their use of Gen AI and they're like "It's not at the heart of our games. Here at CorpoSlop, we know our underpaid artists are the soul. This tech is the inevitable future but we only have a little evil as a treat. Please let me live" I'm out. I wanna see "Wtf hell no dude"
Holy fuck companies/the US are so bad that the PC fan testing guy got radicalized, let’s go
youtu.be/5lYsO4k7OIY?...
youtu.be/5lYsO4k7OIY?...
We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Holy fuck companies/the US are so bad that the PC fan testing guy got radicalized, let’s go
youtu.be/5lYsO4k7OIY?...
youtu.be/5lYsO4k7OIY?...
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
Honestly no excuse. From a general legal standpoint, as a descriptor of *either* party's stated values (I say being very cynical of both), if you think the constitution *or* the alleged founding principals of the country are real--which again, I don't particularly! Others should agree moreso!
anyone saying that an attempt at impeachment & removal would be ineffective needs to be shouted down.
support for removal needs to be built. It can be built by campaigning.
defeatism only helps trump, and we cannot wait another year.
support for removal needs to be built. It can be built by campaigning.
defeatism only helps trump, and we cannot wait another year.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Honestly no excuse. From a general legal standpoint, as a descriptor of *either* party's stated values (I say being very cynical of both), if you think the constitution *or* the alleged founding principals of the country are real--which again, I don't particularly! Others should agree moreso!
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Let’s keep helping our neighbors! Whether you are informing people and businesses of their rights or shopping on Central Avenue or in Cedar Riverside, you are helping.
Thanks for stepping up and making Minnesota proud.
Thanks for stepping up and making Minnesota proud.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Let’s keep helping our neighbors! Whether you are informing people and businesses of their rights or shopping on Central Avenue or in Cedar Riverside, you are helping.
Thanks for stepping up and making Minnesota proud.
Thanks for stepping up and making Minnesota proud.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full: