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Catie Jones
@catiefrikinjones.bsky.social
Animator, Game Designer, Virtual stuff

catiejones.com
linkedin.com/in/catiejones
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Dysentery causes oregon failure
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Are you fucking kidding me they’re bringing the Virtual Boy back
September 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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They actually got Seal to mocap for this....
July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Interview with Harvard's 2025 valedictorian, a Chinese national, while two American men fight over nothing in the background
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The most fun part of Oculus Link is when you spend your entire evening getting it to work and only manage to do so after deleting references to Khronos out of your windows registry.

Fun fun fun fun fun why does anyone do VR development.
May 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Why is my timeline suddenly full of people attacking an all-women space crew based solely on their appearance in a staged photo?

There’s a former Nasa rocket scientist and a civil rights activist in that group, but no, yeah, let’s all do some comedy Monday misogyny because there’s also a singer.
April 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Adobe is backing the GOP attack on click-to-cancel.

Last year the FTC ruled that any subscription you sign up for with a click must be cancel-able with a click.

Now Republican politicians want to roll back this rule, and Adobe is supporting their push.
April 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Actor Val Kilmer has died at the age of 65.
April 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Come home soldier
It’s finally time to rest
March 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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It says a lot about the current state of the animation industry that major studios are once again measuring all their animated projects by the impossible standard of “can we make a billion dollars off this?” when all the films that did lost the Oscar to a $3mil Latvian indie
March 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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After much discussion and debate, the so-called Pink House, a much-beloved Newbury landmark, will be torn down as planned in the coming weeks, officials confirmed. trib.al/kgZYkAb
March 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The theater kid to game developer pipeline is a thing that should be studied.
March 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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“It was like someone coming off the street, and handing you a Ferrari.”

Medieval Madness, the most valuable modern pinball game, has an exploding castle, voice work by then-unknown Tina Fey and perfect game flow.

How did it end up on free play in Alameda?

www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Is this the greatest pinball machine of all time? Here’s where to play
Medieval Madness has castles, trolls and voice work by Tina Fey. Here's where to play the epic pinball game in the Bay Area.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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As others have said, the greatest transfer of wealth in US history will not be from the Boomers to their children but from them to the US healthcare system. The US is designed to make people insolvent and to keep them poor once they're there.
Your reminder that fame is not wealth and America is broken.

Mainstream people know him as the cabbie from SCROOGED, but he’s a prolific musician and entertainer who has been at the heart of music since the late ‘70s.

variety.com/2025/music/n...
David Johansen, New York Dolls Co-Founder, Suffering From Stage 4 Cancer, Seeks Donations for Health Care
David Johansen, the sole surviving founder of the New York Dolls and a solo artist, is suffering from stage four cancer and seeks financial aid.
variety.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Why is it so hard to find good software engineers?

There's really no mystery. It's because you didn't train any.
February 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”
December 22, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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BREAKING: Stagehands at Portland’s State Theatre and Thompson’s Point have voted to form a union with IATSE Local 114 in Maine

The workers say unionizing is their best shot at collectively negotiating decent salaries and benefits.
December 23, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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Motion-capture workers at the company behind NBA 2K have unionized with @iatse.bsky.social.

This is the first successful union push at a motion capture studio in the video game industry.

The new union includes stage technicians, engineers, animators, and recording and audio specialists.
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM