VTMiner (Franke Lechonke)
@vtminer.bsky.social
Big Virginia Tech Hokies Fan, Fuck Nazis, I liek vidya gaems (mostly FFXIV posting), dad of three demon cats and a needy dog. He/Him.
The retweeter formerly known as @TheVTMiner
The retweeter formerly known as @TheVTMiner
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oh hell yeah
Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.
His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential. https://wapo.st/4iPToS0
His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential. https://wapo.st/4iPToS0
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
oh hell yeah
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Oh nooooo hurry up and do it
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Oh nooooo hurry up and do it
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"I did receive sloppy toppy from that man."
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"I did receive sloppy toppy from that man."
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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FF12 really had the audacity to look at Han Solo and Chewbacca and go "What if we made the first guy a metrosexual and the second guy into a beautiful woman with rabbit ears and armored lingerie?" and nobody before or since has ever had a more amazing idea.
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
FF12 really had the audacity to look at Han Solo and Chewbacca and go "What if we made the first guy a metrosexual and the second guy into a beautiful woman with rabbit ears and armored lingerie?" and nobody before or since has ever had a more amazing idea.
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taking the Florida job:
- gotta pack all your stuff up
- have to learn your new preferred grocery store
- might have to meet Ron Desantis
turning down Florida:
- get to go to Jerry’s awesome 4th of July party again
- don’t have to repaint walls for sales staging
- already got my snacks here
- gotta pack all your stuff up
- have to learn your new preferred grocery store
- might have to meet Ron Desantis
turning down Florida:
- get to go to Jerry’s awesome 4th of July party again
- don’t have to repaint walls for sales staging
- already got my snacks here
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
taking the Florida job:
- gotta pack all your stuff up
- have to learn your new preferred grocery store
- might have to meet Ron Desantis
turning down Florida:
- get to go to Jerry’s awesome 4th of July party again
- don’t have to repaint walls for sales staging
- already got my snacks here
- gotta pack all your stuff up
- have to learn your new preferred grocery store
- might have to meet Ron Desantis
turning down Florida:
- get to go to Jerry’s awesome 4th of July party again
- don’t have to repaint walls for sales staging
- already got my snacks here
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I continue to get mixed signals from hot superhero ladies and fail to rizz any of them www.twitch.tv/jocat
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I continue to get mixed signals from hot superhero ladies and fail to rizz any of them www.twitch.tv/jocat
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i don’t have any strong feelings about the eurogamer arc raiders thing other than “there’s no one correct way to review a video game and anyone who claims otherwise is full of shit”
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
i don’t have any strong feelings about the eurogamer arc raiders thing other than “there’s no one correct way to review a video game and anyone who claims otherwise is full of shit”
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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"Gay people should just create their own stuff" Webfishing dev got doxxed because their game was too gay, you guys literally don't let us have anything
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"Gay people should just create their own stuff" Webfishing dev got doxxed because their game was too gay, you guys literally don't let us have anything
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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I could not be a senator bc my first instinct on seeing shit like tonight would be to turn CSPAN into WWE Sunday Smackdown.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I could not be a senator bc my first instinct on seeing shit like tonight would be to turn CSPAN into WWE Sunday Smackdown.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.