CaptainLaserBeam
@captainlaserbeam.bsky.social
DC and such - urban gardening, modding games, whathaveyou
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December 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Patch 3.5.1 of Sim Settlements 2 is now available!
And we're launching our new Starter Collections to get new players up and running with everything they need to play SS2 in just a couple clicks!
youtu.be/Ricnb08rTr0
And we're launching our new Starter Collections to get new players up and running with everything they need to play SS2 in just a couple clicks!
youtu.be/Ricnb08rTr0
Sim Settlements 2 Patch 3.5.1: Last Patch... of 2025
YouTube video by kinggath
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Patch 3.5.1 of Sim Settlements 2 is now available!
And we're launching our new Starter Collections to get new players up and running with everything they need to play SS2 in just a couple clicks!
youtu.be/Ricnb08rTr0
And we're launching our new Starter Collections to get new players up and running with everything they need to play SS2 in just a couple clicks!
youtu.be/Ricnb08rTr0
”Festive” Holiday update to my Fallout 4 mod - a Festivus plot! Grab it and Sim Settlements 2 from @kinggath.bsky.social (since I also contributed a little bit to its most recent update) to get in the mood for @fallout.bethesdastudios.com season 2! www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mod...
Jampads 2 - a Sim Settlements 2 Add-on
Inject your settlements with a touch of the Old World and a dash of the Wild, Wild Wasteland.
www.nexusmods.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
”Festive” Holiday update to my Fallout 4 mod - a Festivus plot! Grab it and Sim Settlements 2 from @kinggath.bsky.social (since I also contributed a little bit to its most recent update) to get in the mood for @fallout.bethesdastudios.com season 2! www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mod...
Man is actually getting cooler with age. Rare thing
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Man is actually getting cooler with age. Rare thing
This Fallout 4 mod from OscarN1N7 looks like an absolute stunner. Picking up on a tiny thread of the main story with Kellogg and Nick Valentine briefly sharing the same consciousness, an epic story and whole new world spaces follow. youtu.be/mRmykj2cqVs?...
Fallout 4: Mind Games - Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by OscarN1N7
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This Fallout 4 mod from OscarN1N7 looks like an absolute stunner. Picking up on a tiny thread of the main story with Kellogg and Nick Valentine briefly sharing the same consciousness, an epic story and whole new world spaces follow. youtu.be/mRmykj2cqVs?...
New update for my Sim Settlements 2 addon for Fallout 4. 7 new building plans, and lots of fixes and adjustments. If you haven’t done a Sim Settlements 2 playthrough of Fallout 4, now is a great time to try it out! www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mod...
Jampads 2 - a Sim Settlements 2 Add-on
Inject your settlements with a touch of the Old World and a dash of the Wild, Wild Wasteland.
www.nexusmods.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New update for my Sim Settlements 2 addon for Fallout 4. 7 new building plans, and lots of fixes and adjustments. If you haven’t done a Sim Settlements 2 playthrough of Fallout 4, now is a great time to try it out! www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mod...
Expendable Pattinson without end. Amen. boxd.it/blx27r
A ★★★★ review of Mickey 17 (2025)
Nothing like a Bong Joon Ho movie to drive home how super advanced technology is capable of delivering exploitation like you’ve never imagined! There’s a lot going on in this movie, but the central co...
boxd.it
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Expendable Pattinson without end. Amen. boxd.it/blx27r
Watching Mickey 17 and having the commercial breaks all be Indeed ads about the hellscape that is job searching really brings home how dystopian things have gotten
October 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Watching Mickey 17 and having the commercial breaks all be Indeed ads about the hellscape that is job searching really brings home how dystopian things have gotten
Aronia berry jam day! 3 pounds of berries - 2.5 quarts of jam, all from one plant in my backyard. the deities of urban gardening (and a very determined bumblebee who pollinated every flower) smiled upon me.
September 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Aronia berry jam day! 3 pounds of berries - 2.5 quarts of jam, all from one plant in my backyard. the deities of urban gardening (and a very determined bumblebee who pollinated every flower) smiled upon me.
At first I thought Morrow was just a corporate stooge villain but gradually he has become maybe my favorite character in Alien: Earth and maybe one of my favorites in the whole Alien franchise.
September 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
At first I thought Morrow was just a corporate stooge villain but gradually he has become maybe my favorite character in Alien: Earth and maybe one of my favorites in the whole Alien franchise.
New Dev diary for Concord Stories - a massive DLC-sized mod coming for Fallout 4 that I had the privilege of doing a little work on. It’s really coming together, which is cool to see. Lots of great Voice Actors and heavy hitters in the modding community are involved! youtu.be/GtjJv8mhieY?...
September 25 Dev Diary - Concord Stories & Merry Modding Days
YouTube video by greenFoxel
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
New Dev diary for Concord Stories - a massive DLC-sized mod coming for Fallout 4 that I had the privilege of doing a little work on. It’s really coming together, which is cool to see. Lots of great Voice Actors and heavy hitters in the modding community are involved! youtu.be/GtjJv8mhieY?...
An absurd, bloody trot through medieval tapestries and late stage capitalism. boxd.it/b4oMTF
A ★★★½ review of Death of a Unicorn (2025)
It’s tropey and predictable as hell, but this is still a fun, silly, and absolutely preposterous horror-comedy with a great cast who truly embraces the absurdity of this premise. This creature feature...
boxd.it
September 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
An absurd, bloody trot through medieval tapestries and late stage capitalism. boxd.it/b4oMTF
90 percent of a lethal dose of cringe and secondhand embarrassment. boxd.it/b4nMi3
A ★★★½ review of Friendship (2024)
I’ll start off by saying that if you do not like cringe comedy, this movie will play more like a horror movie to you. Parts of it may anyway. Fans of I Think You Should Leave and Detroiters will defin...
boxd.it
September 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
90 percent of a lethal dose of cringe and secondhand embarrassment. boxd.it/b4nMi3
Taxation without representation.
A 🧵: It was a wild day for D.C. in Congress yesterday, where a House committee advanced 14 bills targeting the city – everything from banning traffic cameras to giving Trump the power to appoint the city's attorney general. I've got a detailed write-up in @51st.news: 51st.news/house-republ...
Cosplaying as D.C. Council, House Republicans advance dozen-plus bills targeting city they don’t represent
The party of limited government is treading heavily on D.C.
51st.news
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Taxation without representation.
@mcuban.bsky.social said Trump critics should find a way to compliment Trump and claiming his policies are progressive as a way of turning his supporters against him. Would an example of this be “we applaud President Trump nationalization of key industries and plan to dramatically expand this.”
*HASSETT: POSSIBLE THAT GOVT TAKES MORE EQUITY STAKE FROM FIRMS
August 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
@mcuban.bsky.social said Trump critics should find a way to compliment Trump and claiming his policies are progressive as a way of turning his supporters against him. Would an example of this be “we applaud President Trump nationalization of key industries and plan to dramatically expand this.”
A solemn but rousing guitar cover of a very silly song. open.spotify.com/track/3FdbUS...
What Is Love
Maromaro · What Is Love · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A solemn but rousing guitar cover of a very silly song. open.spotify.com/track/3FdbUS...
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In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
Trump takes over MPD and deploys the National Guard
City leaders have called the move a "manufactured intrusion on local authority."
51st.news
August 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
Because I’m a softie and @mikeflanaganfilm.com is undefeated. boxd.it/aFRfj3
A ★★★★★ review of The Life of Chuck (2024)
It’s not too often that a movie feels surprising, sad, moving, and uplifting all at once but here we are. I’ll admit I know nothing about the source material, but I’ll watch anything Mike Flanagan dec...
boxd.it
August 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Because I’m a softie and @mikeflanaganfilm.com is undefeated. boxd.it/aFRfj3
I’m going to always be partial to the F4, but this adaptation actually got them a lot better than others by not reinventing them and just telling a good classic F4 story. Something I actually think studios were sorta too scared to do before boxd.it/aFR5Dd
A ★★★★ review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
I think, if anything, this adaptation of the First Family - a set of characters I’ve loved since I was a kid - doesn’t really need much adapting? Seriously, I think why this F4 adaptation feels like i...
boxd.it
August 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’m going to always be partial to the F4, but this adaptation actually got them a lot better than others by not reinventing them and just telling a good classic F4 story. Something I actually think studios were sorta too scared to do before boxd.it/aFR5Dd
Because I am an unabashed @jamesgunn.bsky.social fanboy, and I don’t even really like Superman but he helped me figure out why I should reconsider that. boxd.it/aFLVT1
A ★★★★★ review of Superman (2025)
What about this movie was woke again? Saving people? Not killing people? Not letting billionaires destroy the planet with unchecked super-science? I kid. Not really. I’ll start by saying I’m not even ...
boxd.it
August 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Because I am an unabashed @jamesgunn.bsky.social fanboy, and I don’t even really like Superman but he helped me figure out why I should reconsider that. boxd.it/aFLVT1
Now more than ever we need good independent journalism here in DC. If you can, show @51st.news some love.
Three days remain to hit the goal in our campaign to hire @maustermuhle.bsky.social full-time.
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
Time to Grow The 51st
Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
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August 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Now more than ever we need good independent journalism here in DC. If you can, show @51st.news some love.
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Today I'm thinking about how I needed government clearance to get 100 mL of DI water from a NIST lab for my Masters,
Which led to my identity being compromised in the 2015 OPM hack,
Which led to free identity theft protection,
Which led to that identity theft protection people getting hacked.
Which led to my identity being compromised in the 2015 OPM hack,
Which led to free identity theft protection,
Which led to that identity theft protection people getting hacked.
a man says " everything is connected " while standing next to another man
ALT: a man says " everything is connected " while standing next to another man
media.tenor.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today I'm thinking about how I needed government clearance to get 100 mL of DI water from a NIST lab for my Masters,
Which led to my identity being compromised in the 2015 OPM hack,
Which led to free identity theft protection,
Which led to that identity theft protection people getting hacked.
Which led to my identity being compromised in the 2015 OPM hack,
Which led to free identity theft protection,
Which led to that identity theft protection people getting hacked.
The Sydney Sweeney thing is really something to me because I have not seen one social media post about actual outrage toward the ad, just outrage about the outrage and commentary on the outrage about the outrage. It’s all so fake.
August 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Sydney Sweeney thing is really something to me because I have not seen one social media post about actual outrage toward the ad, just outrage about the outrage and commentary on the outrage about the outrage. It’s all so fake.
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Really looking forward to the next BLS release:
a woman in a pink kimono with the letter l on her chest
ALT: a woman in a pink kimono with the letter l on her chest
media.tenor.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Really looking forward to the next BLS release:
Was debating with a friend whether Devo’s Whip It is classic rock. I informed him that the 80s is definitely classic rock, he disagreed. As we are both children of the 80s, that was too much for him. I pointed out that the song was released in 1980 on the dot, making it a 45 year old song.
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Was debating with a friend whether Devo’s Whip It is classic rock. I informed him that the 80s is definitely classic rock, he disagreed. As we are both children of the 80s, that was too much for him. I pointed out that the song was released in 1980 on the dot, making it a 45 year old song.