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drumrollplease.bsky.social
An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.
April 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mmaarrow.bsky.social
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
wint @dril issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" 4:02 AM • 2/15/17 • Twitter for Android
April 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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aggrocrabgames.bsky.social
The demands continue for new features.

But today we listened! Another NEW feature has been added to Another Crab's Treasure...

‼️Let Kril Say FUCK💥
April 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
maybe my favorite sentence since the return of ONN
March 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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foldablehuman.bsky.social
We need a higher quality of powerscaling matchup:

Superman and Lois are on a double date with Vegeta and Bulma. After Bulma laughs a little hard at one of Clark’s jokes what does a jealous Vegeta do to prove he’s stronger/cooler/better?
March 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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kumail.bsky.social
I am no hero.
March 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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gamechangershow.bsky.social
🎉 GAME CHANGER SEASON 7🎉

📅 Premieres April 7th on @dropout.tv

🎶 Some things never change...
March 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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hard-drive.net
JFK Files Reveal Lee Harvey Oswald Played Violent Video Games
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JFK Files Reveal Lee Harvey Oswald Played Violent Video Games
WASHINGTON — The recent declassification of all records relating to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has revealed that the event was motivated entirely by Lee…
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March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
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The James Bond chord! 🔫
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March 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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localthunk.com
I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

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The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk
It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...
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March 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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northerniion.bsky.social
extremely important PSA
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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icklenellierose.bsky.social
There are some bloody ingenious and useful uses of AI (or at least what is now being called/marketed as AI). I just wish energy and effort wasn’t being wasted on unhinged AI generated “art”, and a million pop ups asking if I want AI to write my scripts or “polish” my emails -_-
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM