Turfster
@turfster.bsky.social
Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Bitter, bites
Wait, no, shit, "bits and bytes"
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Bitter, bites
Wait, no, shit, "bits and bytes"
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
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Turfster
@turfster.bsky.social
· Oct 18
I guess I'm on here now as well, if only just to stake my claim.
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.
Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.
Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
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-Here's a $10 hammer
-Can we make the hammer cost $20,000?
-No, people won't buy it
-Can the hammer have ads?
-No, people won't use it
-Subscription hammers?
-Hammers rarely need to be replaced
-*sigh* look I need $200 billion dollars this funding round, help me out
-Can we make the hammer cost $20,000?
-No, people won't buy it
-Can the hammer have ads?
-No, people won't use it
-Subscription hammers?
-Hammers rarely need to be replaced
-*sigh* look I need $200 billion dollars this funding round, help me out
February 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
-Here's a $10 hammer
-Can we make the hammer cost $20,000?
-No, people won't buy it
-Can the hammer have ads?
-No, people won't use it
-Subscription hammers?
-Hammers rarely need to be replaced
-*sigh* look I need $200 billion dollars this funding round, help me out
-Can we make the hammer cost $20,000?
-No, people won't buy it
-Can the hammer have ads?
-No, people won't use it
-Subscription hammers?
-Hammers rarely need to be replaced
-*sigh* look I need $200 billion dollars this funding round, help me out
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I was so incredibly tired of all those sound generators that can only create retro sounds... so I created my own!
It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨
It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨
January 24, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I was so incredibly tired of all those sound generators that can only create retro sounds... so I created my own!
It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨
It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨
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metal textures solid
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
metal textures solid
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For developers - May 1st is the latest date I will consider submissions of games to be included in the showcase, with May 15th the final date for trailer submission.
There is no wiggle room on the trailer submission date, due to needing to produce ASL, BSL, and Audio Described showcase versions.
There is no wiggle room on the trailer submission date, due to needing to produce ASL, BSL, and Audio Described showcase versions.
January 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
For developers - May 1st is the latest date I will consider submissions of games to be included in the showcase, with May 15th the final date for trailer submission.
There is no wiggle room on the trailer submission date, due to needing to produce ASL, BSL, and Audio Described showcase versions.
There is no wiggle room on the trailer submission date, due to needing to produce ASL, BSL, and Audio Described showcase versions.
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Access-Ability Summer Showcase Returning for 2026
Text: access-ability.uk/2026/01/30/a...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRld...
Text: access-ability.uk/2026/01/30/a...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRld...
Access-Ability Summer Showcase Returning for 2026
YouTube video by LauraKBuzz
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Access-Ability Summer Showcase Returning for 2026
Text: access-ability.uk/2026/01/30/a...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRld...
Text: access-ability.uk/2026/01/30/a...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRld...
We finally found it!
Now we must destroy it.
Now we must destroy it.
Transmission #4271 from GPS III-SV05 (UNCLASSIFIED)
1. Mountain of Sewage
2. Cosmic Source of Hallelujah Covers
3. Liminal Webkinz Exhibit
1. Mountain of Sewage
2. Cosmic Source of Hallelujah Covers
3. Liminal Webkinz Exhibit
February 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
We finally found it!
Now we must destroy it.
Now we must destroy it.
Also: if you think the Lying Larceny Machine is getting "good at programming", you must *really* fucking suck.
Sorry, but it's true.
Sorry, but it's true.
it is so deeply pathetic to see some folks talk about how it’s impossible to ignore how good LLMs are getting with programming and that they have no choice but to use it to stay competitive. competitive with who? software fucking sucks now, who’s beating you by using the discounted autocomplete?
February 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Also: if you think the Lying Larceny Machine is getting "good at programming", you must *really* fucking suck.
Sorry, but it's true.
Sorry, but it's true.
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The UK, where they’ll take away the meds you need to be functional, deny the care you need to feel like life is worth living, remove whatever you need to bring your disabilities from insurmountable to manageable…
… and then portray you as lazy if you don’t have a job.
… and then portray you as lazy if you don’t have a job.
February 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The UK, where they’ll take away the meds you need to be functional, deny the care you need to feel like life is worth living, remove whatever you need to bring your disabilities from insurmountable to manageable…
… and then portray you as lazy if you don’t have a job.
… and then portray you as lazy if you don’t have a job.
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they are going to have to invent a term for the unique new form of government the USA is inventing. it's like kakistocracy, but you have to also be a giant baby.
February 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
they are going to have to invent a term for the unique new form of government the USA is inventing. it's like kakistocracy, but you have to also be a giant baby.
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Aerial_knight's DropShot OUT NOW!!!! WE DID IT!!!!! 🥳💪🎊🎉🎉🎉
February 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Aerial_knight's DropShot OUT NOW!!!! WE DID IT!!!!! 🥳💪🎊🎉🎉🎉
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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new game idea
its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job
February 17, 2026 at 7:27 AM
new game idea
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I was at the local Yodobashi Camera here in Japan last weeked and decided to take a look at the RAM and SSD prices and—mind you, NOBODY should shop for PC builds there even in better times—my main takeaway is just, "Wow, what a way to kill dead the nascent PC gaming scene here among kids."
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I was at the local Yodobashi Camera here in Japan last weeked and decided to take a look at the RAM and SSD prices and—mind you, NOBODY should shop for PC builds there even in better times—my main takeaway is just, "Wow, what a way to kill dead the nascent PC gaming scene here among kids."
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went to micro center for the first time last week as they finally opened one here and snapped this photo to remind myself that this was not the fry’s electronics of my youth
February 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
went to micro center for the first time last week as they finally opened one here and snapped this photo to remind myself that this was not the fry’s electronics of my youth
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It occurs to me I never showed y’all the apron my friend made me for xmas.
The wrinkles are my fault, it spent the last week balled up in my car after I helped cook over at their place.
The wrinkles are my fault, it spent the last week balled up in my car after I helped cook over at their place.
February 17, 2026 at 3:47 AM
It occurs to me I never showed y’all the apron my friend made me for xmas.
The wrinkles are my fault, it spent the last week balled up in my car after I helped cook over at their place.
The wrinkles are my fault, it spent the last week balled up in my car after I helped cook over at their place.
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Congratulations, Babak Tafreshi, for being named National Geographic Explorer at Large! 👏
news.nationalgeographic.org/national-geo...
Babak is author of many amazing pics of our observatories 🧵👇
Image 1: Sunset over the VLT
🔭 #flashback
news.nationalgeographic.org/national-geo...
Babak is author of many amazing pics of our observatories 🧵👇
Image 1: Sunset over the VLT
🔭 #flashback
February 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Congratulations, Babak Tafreshi, for being named National Geographic Explorer at Large! 👏
news.nationalgeographic.org/national-geo...
Babak is author of many amazing pics of our observatories 🧵👇
Image 1: Sunset over the VLT
🔭 #flashback
news.nationalgeographic.org/national-geo...
Babak is author of many amazing pics of our observatories 🧵👇
Image 1: Sunset over the VLT
🔭 #flashback
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infuriating how good the vholume demo is, man. i've been running this same 30 second loop for a week. they don't even gotta make a rest of the game.
February 17, 2026 at 6:50 AM
infuriating how good the vholume demo is, man. i've been running this same 30 second loop for a week. they don't even gotta make a rest of the game.
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Microsoft's apparently AI-slop git intro would like to inform you that the more Tim's you have on your team, the more you can program featue backwards in time, but with less Tim you can actually continvoucly morg back into develop.
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Microsoft's apparently AI-slop git intro would like to inform you that the more Tim's you have on your team, the more you can program featue backwards in time, but with less Tim you can actually continvoucly morg back into develop.
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Some pretty detailed Noticing Things here
"It was a vehicle for crushing the left..."
Sky reports on the Labour right organisation 'Labour Together' smearing 2 journalists
This org has a history of lying, breaking electoral law & smearing people. The only difference now is that they've picked on people who matter
Sky reports on the Labour right organisation 'Labour Together' smearing 2 journalists
This org has a history of lying, breaking electoral law & smearing people. The only difference now is that they've picked on people who matter
February 17, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Some pretty detailed Noticing Things here
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"Correct natural trajectory" in a context of handwringing about birthrates and troop numbers says a lot. The two genders are army and make baby, don't get any ideas
February 17, 2026 at 8:17 AM
"Correct natural trajectory" in a context of handwringing about birthrates and troop numbers says a lot. The two genders are army and make baby, don't get any ideas
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the thing about “trans women are women” is that if you truly believe that — and you should — then you will become horrified beyond measure at what we as a society are willing to put young girls through, just because they are trans
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
December 31, 2024 at 10:00 AM
the thing about “trans women are women” is that if you truly believe that — and you should — then you will become horrified beyond measure at what we as a society are willing to put young girls through, just because they are trans
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
it’s not just a statement of fact; it’s a recognition of brutality
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The UK is not run by the fucking "adults in the room" it's operated by a regime of abusers and sadists and cranks who prioritise ideology and cruelty and a harshly punitive, conformist worldview over the literal functioning of their rotten, inbred, class-obsessed nonce-worshipping society.
February 17, 2026 at 8:12 AM
The UK is not run by the fucking "adults in the room" it's operated by a regime of abusers and sadists and cranks who prioritise ideology and cruelty and a harshly punitive, conformist worldview over the literal functioning of their rotten, inbred, class-obsessed nonce-worshipping society.
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when the mass effect board game first came out, there was a rather large contingent of people who lamented that it was only 50 dollars in a small box. they (understandably) wanted a massive sprawling adventure with tons of plastic and cards.
some reviewers who then played the game went on to say-
some reviewers who then played the game went on to say-
Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:
"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"
It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.
loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"
It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.
loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work
The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.
loadbearingtomato.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 AM
when the mass effect board game first came out, there was a rather large contingent of people who lamented that it was only 50 dollars in a small box. they (understandably) wanted a massive sprawling adventure with tons of plastic and cards.
some reviewers who then played the game went on to say-
some reviewers who then played the game went on to say-
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I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.