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Mask-wearer. Immigrant. Colony of feral cats in a trenchcoat. Queer. Mx & they/she. Used to do game stuff. Anti-genAI. Toitū Te Tiriti!
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Want to play as cyberpunk cats in TheSprawl RPG and TheVeil RPG? 😼💀🤖 Or play as dinosaurs who are princesses in #DinosaurPrincesses? 🦖👑💖 Maybe even cat cat catting cats catcatcat #CATSnCATS? 😹😻😹
Check out my itchio page to find my games! catpurrsand.itch.io
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I don't want to play AI generated slop games.

Go have your AI play it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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That's what really gets me about these conversations, people who treat no as a challenge to be overcome, who try to wear people down, telling us it's inevitable, get used to it. There's an arrogance to the genAI proponent that I find truly detestable, it reminds me of those NFT bros stealing art...
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I can understand asking for nuance in these discussions, but deliberately muddying the water by bringing up automation tools that people understand are not generative AI and asking for a middle ground is disingenuous. The nuanced position is that people are roundly rejecting the tech, respect that.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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we need less live action adaptations, why are we even doing this, have we learned nothing
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Kind of bonkers to see the Acropolis from my hotel room. And it's not like this is a "fancy hotel because you can see the Acropolis" place. We're in the "let's spend the day avoiding the riot police" student neighbourhood.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:

- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%

Laser-focused on the cost of living
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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WTF.

"Nothing in ACC's proposals actually looks at rehabilitation,"
- ACC advocate Warren Forster

"It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme', and that's the antithesis of the statutory purpose. It's the antithesis of why we have ACC in NZ."
#nzpol
ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate
"It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate
www.rnz.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#NZpol My impression too 😔
In addition to the incredibly apt comparison to Robotdebt I reposted earlier, I'd like to mention the perverse incentives here about getting folks off ACC. Not removing their need for ACC, but rather removing the provision of ACC to them. There's quite a difference.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate
"It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate
www.rnz.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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mamdani is a no go, but marjorie taylor greene the transphobic, racist, homophobic antisemite bigot - they have room for her, they got room for nazi tattoo guy. no room for you though.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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The worst people in the literal world are selling at the peak of the bubble, and the clowns who thought this was the future will have blown near a trillion dollars on it and will make that back by laying off a couple hundred thousand employees.

Both the worst people and the clowns will be fine.
Billionaire Peter Thiel’s latest 13F didn’t show off a mere trim, but a full-blown exit from AI bellwether Nvidia (NVDA).
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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“Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack…”

www.reuters.com/world/americ...
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A US aircraft carrier strike group with more than 5,000 service members has joined the eight US warships, nuclear submarine, and F-35 aircraft positioned in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Proud. 🏆 Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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i'll never get tired of this poem
August 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A good story is as long as it needs to be. We don’t need to expand every detail, uncover every facet, some things can be left as mystery. A battle can be a sentence, a romance can be a look, a tragedy a word.

Brevity is as useful a technique as verbosity.
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Sometimes you just need a basket full of baby otters to make your day complete. Oh, look what I found! You can thank me later...
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Ambrosia Sky is now VERY POSITIVE on Steam!

If you like:
- imsims
- space yuri
- accidentally setting an entire asteroid colony on fire while trying to cleanse a ferocious alien fungal infestation

Then Ambrosia Sky might be for you!

store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
Save 15% on Ambrosia Sky: Act One on Steam
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, exp...
store.steampowered.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This is such a great game! I played it when it first came out, and I still often think about it! ❤️
Man, i have not seen enough people raving about Tchia. I don't know how far through i am but it's beautiful and I'm so attached to this story. I've seen it described as a love letter to Kanaky and they're right
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Steam players!

Become part of the crab gang by scuttling over to Steam and save 75% on Tchia! 🦀
September 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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11-26-2015 after everyone had come inside for the first time
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM