BlueRonin
@blueronin.bsky.social
Mostly harmless. Tsundoku practitioner. Too many interests and not enough time. Information provided is generally 100% accurate and equally useless.
Top boardgames I played in 2025.
January 4, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Top boardgames I played in 2025.
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Look, the keyboard people need to just accept that I never want to turn off numlock. I don't even know what the buttons do when it is off. No one does.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Look, the keyboard people need to just accept that I never want to turn off numlock. I don't even know what the buttons do when it is off. No one does.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.
Cute story about AI until you remember that a good chunk of our economy is being redirected towards promoting AI and integrating it into everything we do.
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Cute story about AI until you remember that a good chunk of our economy is being redirected towards promoting AI and integrating it into everything we do.
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one of my favorite examples of the ways that social consensuses can coalesce around convenient lies-- with no malicious actor behind them!-- is that every recipe lies about how long onions take the cook.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
one of my favorite examples of the ways that social consensuses can coalesce around convenient lies-- with no malicious actor behind them!-- is that every recipe lies about how long onions take the cook.
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:
2nd solo play of Cross Bronx Expressway by @gmtgames.bsky.social. Turns out that city planning is hard. Made it to the end this time without triggering any of the loss conditions. Played the 1970' & 80's with the Community faction winning. Really need to play this as a primarily cooperative game.
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
2nd solo play of Cross Bronx Expressway by @gmtgames.bsky.social. Turns out that city planning is hard. Made it to the end this time without triggering any of the loss conditions. Played the 1970' & 80's with the Community faction winning. Really need to play this as a primarily cooperative game.
Been looking forward to Cross Bronx Expressway since it was first announced. Played the 1940 start and lost due to disenfranchisement. To me it's more abstract than other COIN/ICS games. Fun and interesting but it's difficult and it's going to take more playtime for me to connect cause & effect.
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Been looking forward to Cross Bronx Expressway since it was first announced. Played the 1940 start and lost due to disenfranchisement. To me it's more abstract than other COIN/ICS games. Fun and interesting but it's difficult and it's going to take more playtime for me to connect cause & effect.
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If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning.
#BannedBooksWeek
#BannedBooksWeek
October 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning.
#BannedBooksWeek
#BannedBooksWeek
Some of the boardgames I've played this year. It gets into single-digit plays and thus alphabetical order, so I obviously need to make more time for games.
September 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the boardgames I've played this year. It gets into single-digit plays and thus alphabetical order, so I obviously need to make more time for games.
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Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.
Computer:
"normal" is not a valid value for the "appearance" property.
Sometimes my software development tools reveal true wisdom.
"normal" is not a valid value for the "appearance" property.
Sometimes my software development tools reveal true wisdom.
August 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Computer:
"normal" is not a valid value for the "appearance" property.
Sometimes my software development tools reveal true wisdom.
"normal" is not a valid value for the "appearance" property.
Sometimes my software development tools reveal true wisdom.
Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you
Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down.
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I joined Steam in 2005 so even my account history is missing about the first 5 years of purchases.
Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down.
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I joined Steam in 2005 so even my account history is missing about the first 5 years of purchases.
August 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you
Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down.
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I joined Steam in 2005 so even my account history is missing about the first 5 years of purchases.
Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down.
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I joined Steam in 2005 so even my account history is missing about the first 5 years of purchases.
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Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who didn't really surprise anyone—Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Elon Musk (pre-fallout)—but the more troubling trend has been watching younger entrepreneurs and VCs listen to their podcasts, read their posts and books, and slowly nod along to the idea that democracy is holding back innovation.
www.techdirt.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
No particular order except Eternal Sunshine at #1. I would also add:
Sinners
Arrival
The Wind Rises
Sinners
Arrival
The Wind Rises
June 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
No particular order except Eternal Sunshine at #1. I would also add:
Sinners
Arrival
The Wind Rises
Sinners
Arrival
The Wind Rises
Movie you've watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek)
June 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Movie you've watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek)
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Greed can be very costly.
Some would put themselves at a disadvantage to make sure you have nothing
Some would put themselves at a disadvantage to make sure you have nothing
May 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Greed can be very costly.
Some would put themselves at a disadvantage to make sure you have nothing
Some would put themselves at a disadvantage to make sure you have nothing
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
I know I-4 in Florida is slow, but we just got passed by a butterfly.
March 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I know I-4 in Florida is slow, but we just got passed by a butterfly.
Yeah, in retrospect we were a bit naive.
The followup: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/intern...
February 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yeah, in retrospect we were a bit naive.
Really looking forward to this.
I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple’s new sci-fi series “Murderbot” to make global debut May 16, 2025
Today, Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at “Murderbot,” created by Chris and Paul Weitz and starring Alexander Skarsgård
www.apple.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Really looking forward to this.
My first game of GCACW. Stonewall Jackson's Way II, Across the Potomac. Played solo. Union got to Kearneysville first but then got pushed out and two really bad combat rolls left them ineffective. Marginal Confederate victory.
February 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My first game of GCACW. Stonewall Jackson's Way II, Across the Potomac. Played solo. Union got to Kearneysville first but then got pushed out and two really bad combat rolls left them ineffective. Marginal Confederate victory.
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As some of you may know, our friend @rodgerbmacgowan.bsky.social lost his home and studio in the LA fires. There is a GoFundMe set up to help Rodger and his family recover from this apocalyptic loss. Check it out at gofund.me/a8737aff and reshare widely.
Donate to Support Rodger, Mae and Steven post-Palisades Fire, organized by Steven MacGowan
On January 10, 2025, the Palisades Fire swept through our neighborh… Steven MacGowan needs your support for Support Rodger, Mae and Steven post-Palisades Fire
gofund.me
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As some of you may know, our friend @rodgerbmacgowan.bsky.social lost his home and studio in the LA fires. There is a GoFundMe set up to help Rodger and his family recover from this apocalyptic loss. Check it out at gofund.me/a8737aff and reshare widely.
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
January 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.