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Alex Akers
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🥣 Software Engineer, Shortcuts at Apple
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It's fine
"(Merged) a2 merged 73 commits into [main] from"
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Arakido implicas la ekziston de ne-ida sed kvazaŭ-gepatra, pli granda “araka” nukso, ĉu ne? Kio, se vi pripensas ĝin, havas sencon, se vi povas fari el ili buteron.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Is this something?
“TO SERVE MAN / for THE TWILIGHT ZONE” in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s political campaign signs
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Oldest selfie on your phone

9/25/2013 with a fresh haircut
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Took a picture of the Apple Park rainbow and then superimposed a Game Boy Camera photo of the same scene #gameboycamera #gbcam #gbcphotography
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Nordstrom 🤝 Server farms
The Rack
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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JFK ✈️ SFO
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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@thisismissem.social I'm interested in ATProto as a storage mechanism for a project I'm working on, but I don't know if it makes sense for what I'm building. Is that something I could talk to you about?
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Bugonia was a fantastic movie, 5 stars. I even got a T-shirt and they buzzed my hair in the theater room (a first for me)
Alex is seated in a barber chair on a small stage inside a movie theater while a hairstylist trims his hair. Another person stands nearby next to a table covered with hairdressing tools. Behind them, a large cinema screen displays a promotional image for the film Bugonia starring Emma Stone, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. The scene is lit by the projection, and red theater seats are visible in the foreground.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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It was so worth it. We got the goods @mta.info
Sign for “MTA Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop” Getting closer to the front of the line Alex holding an iconic, orange seat next to his sister Emily holding a MetroCard sign
October 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🌟 Thank you to @revenuecat.com for hosting the iOSoho Meetup today!
🔥 Also, thank you to Diego Bustamante and
@mergesort.me for their great talks!
🎥 Recordings will be ready soon, and the November meetup announcement is on the way — stay tuned!
#iOSoho
#NYCMeetup
October 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Up next is @mergesort.me at @iosoho.bsky.social!
Joe is introducing himself into the mic in front of a large television
October 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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If you think about it, the Death Star was also a kind of Empire State Building
Photo of the Empire State Building, the actual one
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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@metagamemike.bsky.social Do you have advice for people who are looking to get into GB Studio? I think I remember you saying you used that for the game
October 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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it's dangerous to go alone, take this
Photo of a tiny pikachu figurine sitting on the tip of a finger
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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My love language is seeing my messages go from Delivered to Read
October 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Bluesky can have a bathroom selfie, as a treat
Alex is taking a selfie in front of a bathroom mirror, wearing a black T-shirt with the fluorescent green outline of a Game Boy, jeans, and a denim blue hat with a panda on it.
October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Sure but is Jeff a good card or a bad card? Like can you build a commander deck around Jeff?
leyawn.bsky.social leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Oct 14
mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Remember that time
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I wanna design some kind of panda game but I'm not sure how to do it? I have some experience with PICO-8 so maybe that would be simpler, but something like GB Studio or GB Basic (tonywang.itch.io/gbbasic) could be neat.
October 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Test from my own PDS (I think?)
October 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Some of the pictures I took using my new selfie stick!

#gameboycamera #gameboycameraclub #gameboycameraphotography #gbcphotography
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I built a remote-controllable Game Boy Camera selfie stick / tripod. The game controller transmits over Bluetooth to a Pico 2W that's tucked away in the holder and sends commands to the game over the link port.
Me holding my GBC selfie stick on a rooftop. A close-up of the GBC selfie stick in my hand. The selfie stick also has a small tripod feature, shown here on a table on the roof. A close-up of the 8BitDo zero 2 in teal that I'm using to control the game.
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Has anyone migrated to their own PDS and regretted it? Any things I should be thinking about, or things you wish you knew, before starting?
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM