Self-made Skeleton
@machinesbleedtoo.bsky.social
💼 cybersec consultant (in OT, not IT) 🪐 Sci-fantasy worldbuilder 📝 writer 💀 horror artist 🎓 cybersec & neurosci + cybersec GRC grad 🪲 friend to bugs
ℹ️ He/Him, agender
🗺️ Melbourne, Australia
🔪 AI hater
🤦🏻 Painfully typical ENTJ-A, sorry in advance
ℹ️ He/Him, agender
🗺️ Melbourne, Australia
🔪 AI hater
🤦🏻 Painfully typical ENTJ-A, sorry in advance
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You are not as empathetic as you think you are — probably
One of the most ubiquitous words in social justice circles is ‘empathy’. Sometimes it is a plea, other times a demand. Often times defined…
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I wrote a thing about empathy, and how we all kind of suck at it in different ways
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#writing #psychology
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#writing #psychology
another day, another tech-pilled dickhead trying to solve a social problem as though it were an engineering one
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
another day, another tech-pilled dickhead trying to solve a social problem as though it were an engineering one
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perfect example of how tech leaders focus so intensely on social transcendence through tech that they completely miss the sociology 101 pratfall they're cruising towards (prematurely preparing a response to hypothetical conflict in anticipation of another person's reaction is a famously bad strat)
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
perfect example of how tech leaders focus so intensely on social transcendence through tech that they completely miss the sociology 101 pratfall they're cruising towards (prematurely preparing a response to hypothetical conflict in anticipation of another person's reaction is a famously bad strat)
i moved from art into a compsci degree bc i liked technical aspects of my business running more fun (i used a lot of scripts and SQL for business management)
changed major from gamedev to cybersecurity bc i experienced the pit of snakes that is the local gamedev scene, it traumatised me horribly 🫠
changed major from gamedev to cybersecurity bc i experienced the pit of snakes that is the local gamedev scene, it traumatised me horribly 🫠
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
i moved from art into a compsci degree bc i liked technical aspects of my business running more fun (i used a lot of scripts and SQL for business management)
changed major from gamedev to cybersecurity bc i experienced the pit of snakes that is the local gamedev scene, it traumatised me horribly 🫠
changed major from gamedev to cybersecurity bc i experienced the pit of snakes that is the local gamedev scene, it traumatised me horribly 🫠
@reckless.bsky.social where's the best place to send my linux coverage suggestions? i was gonna email the vergecast address but given it's a more general thing not just for the podcast idk if that's appropriate
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
@reckless.bsky.social where's the best place to send my linux coverage suggestions? i was gonna email the vergecast address but given it's a more general thing not just for the podcast idk if that's appropriate
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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Damn, the Gregory Crewdson didn’t upload the first time:
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Damn, the Gregory Crewdson didn’t upload the first time:
so it turns out using a kobo as an rss reader *and* being able to read DRM'd books is a royal pain in the ass so i'm gonna make this a thread on how i managed to pull it off because it sure was an adventure
@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz i pretty much only got a kobo when i learned i can use it as an rss reader like god intended
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
so it turns out using a kobo as an rss reader *and* being able to read DRM'd books is a royal pain in the ass so i'm gonna make this a thread on how i managed to pull it off because it sure was an adventure
slowly getting through uploading my art *in order* to my instagram. when that's done i can just start doing the same on all the other platforms i use. i don't really have a comprehensive online collection of my art anymore, except maybe on tumblr. but it's not a good platform to send people to
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
slowly getting through uploading my art *in order* to my instagram. when that's done i can just start doing the same on all the other platforms i use. i don't really have a comprehensive online collection of my art anymore, except maybe on tumblr. but it's not a good platform to send people to
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not cool dude, read the room
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
not cool dude, read the room
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with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.
come over.
come over.
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.
come over.
come over.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
more people need to do alt text like this. bless
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
more people need to do alt text like this. bless
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Okay, I'll do a more serious one.
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Okay, I'll do a more serious one.
@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz i pretty much only got a kobo when i learned i can use it as an rss reader like god intended
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz i pretty much only got a kobo when i learned i can use it as an rss reader like god intended
excited to read rss feeds on my kobo!! and books, i GUESS
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
excited to read rss feeds on my kobo!! and books, i GUESS
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So if the goal is photo realistic, why not use, well, photos? Why burn 2 acres of the Amazon to produce something that you claim will be indistinguishable from a photo?
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
So if the goal is photo realistic, why not use, well, photos? Why burn 2 acres of the Amazon to produce something that you claim will be indistinguishable from a photo?
how about netflix but on an e-ink screen. thatyll be ten trillion dollars. thanks
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
how about netflix but on an e-ink screen. thatyll be ten trillion dollars. thanks
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"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
starting to think the N in northland stands for knife
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
starting to think the N in northland stands for knife
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
nuked my IG and im starting over bc all the art posted was out of the order in which it was made and that intensely annoys me for some reason
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
nuked my IG and im starting over bc all the art posted was out of the order in which it was made and that intensely annoys me for some reason
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this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
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source: www.reddit.com/r/regularcar...
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
source: www.reddit.com/r/regularcar...