Cousday (he/him)
@cousday.bsky.social
Jack of all trades, master of whatever topic we are currently discussing [social technology, manufacturing, game design, travel, you name it]
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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GOOD LUCK PRESS is coming to a PHILLY CONVENTION CENTER NEAR YOU (FOR PAX U)
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
GOOD LUCK PRESS is coming to a PHILLY CONVENTION CENTER NEAR YOU (FOR PAX U)
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For real, check this out. Evil.
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
For real, check this out. Evil.
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Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
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One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
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i just appreciate any map that acknowledges oklahoma’s whole deal
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
i just appreciate any map that acknowledges oklahoma’s whole deal
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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🧵 THE OCCUPATION OF DC 🤨
👉 A Local's Perspective 👀
The WaPo has an article detailing the location of Federal forces across the city. While much of this is ridiculous & performative, here's three places I noted with interest, as a DC resident ⤵️
(Gift Link: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...)
👉 A Local's Perspective 👀
The WaPo has an article detailing the location of Federal forces across the city. While much of this is ridiculous & performative, here's three places I noted with interest, as a DC resident ⤵️
(Gift Link: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...)
August 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🧵 THE OCCUPATION OF DC 🤨
👉 A Local's Perspective 👀
The WaPo has an article detailing the location of Federal forces across the city. While much of this is ridiculous & performative, here's three places I noted with interest, as a DC resident ⤵️
(Gift Link: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...)
👉 A Local's Perspective 👀
The WaPo has an article detailing the location of Federal forces across the city. While much of this is ridiculous & performative, here's three places I noted with interest, as a DC resident ⤵️
(Gift Link: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...)
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Dead Ghost Productions' Replay? The greatest piece of actual play ever conceived? That Replay?
Have you heard our ENnie nominated DIE RPG show, "Replay?"
Get it anywhere you listen to podcasts! redcircle.com/shows/9a1e12...
Get it anywhere you listen to podcasts! redcircle.com/shows/9a1e12...
July 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Dead Ghost Productions' Replay? The greatest piece of actual play ever conceived? That Replay?
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i found this whole thread interesting, if you’ve been following the DTRPG/rebel scum situation i’d encourage you to give it a read
I personally think that freedom of speech does not actually exist as a concept. Or at least, freedom of speech cannot actually exist except in a completely equitable and egalitarian society.
So long as power differentials exist, the more powerful has the ability to silence the less.
So long as power differentials exist, the more powerful has the ability to silence the less.
July 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
i found this whole thread interesting, if you’ve been following the DTRPG/rebel scum situation i’d encourage you to give it a read
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🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
June 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
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The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
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Save the date for Unprepared Casters’s 4th annual charity stream to raise money for @translifeline.org
June 14th, 10am-10pm CDT on twitch.tv/unpreparedcasters
Details, cast announcements, and donation rewards coming soon, please get hype in the meantime!!!
June 14th, 10am-10pm CDT on twitch.tv/unpreparedcasters
Details, cast announcements, and donation rewards coming soon, please get hype in the meantime!!!
May 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Save the date for Unprepared Casters’s 4th annual charity stream to raise money for @translifeline.org
June 14th, 10am-10pm CDT on twitch.tv/unpreparedcasters
Details, cast announcements, and donation rewards coming soon, please get hype in the meantime!!!
June 14th, 10am-10pm CDT on twitch.tv/unpreparedcasters
Details, cast announcements, and donation rewards coming soon, please get hype in the meantime!!!
I have 3 types of ttrpg characters:
- thinks they're the best and can handle anything
- nervous and awkward except for special interest
- confident but pushes others into the limelight
- thinks they're the best and can handle anything
- nervous and awkward except for special interest
- confident but pushes others into the limelight
I have 3 types of TTRPG characters:
- gay, hot, and dumb
- gay, hot, and mean
- gay, broken, and kind (and also hot)
- gay, hot, and dumb
- gay, hot, and mean
- gay, broken, and kind (and also hot)
I have 3 types of TTRPG characters:
• Thinly veiled personification of walking grief
• Lesbian suffocating under the weight of corporate anxiety
• Bored brat prince
• Thinly veiled personification of walking grief
• Lesbian suffocating under the weight of corporate anxiety
• Bored brat prince
May 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I have 3 types of ttrpg characters:
- thinks they're the best and can handle anything
- nervous and awkward except for special interest
- confident but pushes others into the limelight
- thinks they're the best and can handle anything
- nervous and awkward except for special interest
- confident but pushes others into the limelight
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A Japanese speedrunner beat The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at the Switch 2 Experience in Tokyo
They finished the game in just 15 minutes (the demo is restricted to 20 minutes)
(Source: 最強ゼルダGamesいかぼうず YouTube)
They finished the game in just 15 minutes (the demo is restricted to 20 minutes)
(Source: 最強ゼルダGamesいかぼうず YouTube)
April 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A Japanese speedrunner beat The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at the Switch 2 Experience in Tokyo
They finished the game in just 15 minutes (the demo is restricted to 20 minutes)
(Source: 最強ゼルダGamesいかぼうず YouTube)
They finished the game in just 15 minutes (the demo is restricted to 20 minutes)
(Source: 最強ゼルダGamesいかぼうず YouTube)
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Don pointed out that Francis walked in the door absolutely knowing they were going to try that shit the second he died, and spent his entire tenure stacking the deck to reduce the mathematical possibility of that by filling the College of Cardinals with as many progressive voices as he could find
April 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Don pointed out that Francis walked in the door absolutely knowing they were going to try that shit the second he died, and spent his entire tenure stacking the deck to reduce the mathematical possibility of that by filling the College of Cardinals with as many progressive voices as he could find
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"The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together."
Marx didn't hate capitalism, he thought it was a step toward something else where people had more control and more benefit.
Marx didn't hate capitalism, he thought it was a step toward something else where people had more control and more benefit.
April 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together."
Marx didn't hate capitalism, he thought it was a step toward something else where people had more control and more benefit.
Marx didn't hate capitalism, he thought it was a step toward something else where people had more control and more benefit.
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Palette and Touchstones were an exploration in Positive Reinforcement Safety Tools for me and my games!
Since Space Goblins! I've been tooling around w/ calibrating my table to focus on what we Want to see explicitly so unwanted X-able surprises aren't in the foreground of set up
Since Space Goblins! I've been tooling around w/ calibrating my table to focus on what we Want to see explicitly so unwanted X-able surprises aren't in the foreground of set up
Touchstones in A Land Once Magic are one of my favorite tools @vidityavoleti.bsky.social has created. Each is an element pulled from something NOT traditionally considered fantasy that will then inform the shape of your world.
So tell me, what would your touchstone be?
So tell me, what would your touchstone be?
March 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Palette and Touchstones were an exploration in Positive Reinforcement Safety Tools for me and my games!
Since Space Goblins! I've been tooling around w/ calibrating my table to focus on what we Want to see explicitly so unwanted X-able surprises aren't in the foreground of set up
Since Space Goblins! I've been tooling around w/ calibrating my table to focus on what we Want to see explicitly so unwanted X-able surprises aren't in the foreground of set up
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"Yeah the deep sea anglerfish has no reason to be happy but it has no frikkin' idea What else to be"
#Nerdfighteria
#Nerdfighteria
February 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"Yeah the deep sea anglerfish has no reason to be happy but it has no frikkin' idea What else to be"
#Nerdfighteria
#Nerdfighteria
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"We've got too many people here. They're up against the barricade. We're losing the barricade"-- phllly pd scanner rn and also les mis, victor hugo, 1862
February 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"We've got too many people here. They're up against the barricade. We're losing the barricade"-- phllly pd scanner rn and also les mis, victor hugo, 1862
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Trump signed an executive order that tries to write trans people out of existence today.
It's mostly symbolic.
It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will.
It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research.
A 🧵
It's mostly symbolic.
It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will.
It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research.
A 🧵
January 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Trump signed an executive order that tries to write trans people out of existence today.
It's mostly symbolic.
It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will.
It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research.
A 🧵
It's mostly symbolic.
It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will.
It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research.
A 🧵
The overlap of tiktok absence responses and textbook addiction withdrawl... and the tiktok moves following classic intermittent reinforcement... maybe we need to have a talk about how to set up systems to not emotionally abuse all of us
January 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The overlap of tiktok absence responses and textbook addiction withdrawl... and the tiktok moves following classic intermittent reinforcement... maybe we need to have a talk about how to set up systems to not emotionally abuse all of us
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
January 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
Got perfect reverse rainbow on the chappel roan connections, I feel like this should tell me something about myself
December 30, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Got perfect reverse rainbow on the chappel roan connections, I feel like this should tell me something about myself