ritchie
@ritchie.bsky.social
Recovering academic.
I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)
I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)
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I apparently completely missed the discourse du jour. Huh. I must've made a different narrative choice earlier in Act 2 so I bypassed it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I apparently completely missed the discourse du jour. Huh. I must've made a different narrative choice earlier in Act 2 so I bypassed it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I got addicted to nicotine last year via vaping (I have now quit) and it is craaaaaazy how much nicotine vaping puts into your system. I ran the math and soon after starting I was getting the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day.
genuine advice from a bitch who has helped like a Bunch of people reduce or fully quit nicotine
swapping from cigs to vapes full on almost never works for reducing your nicotine intake in my experience. every time ive seen it attempted the intake either stays static or increases actually
swapping from cigs to vapes full on almost never works for reducing your nicotine intake in my experience. every time ive seen it attempted the intake either stays static or increases actually
humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I got addicted to nicotine last year via vaping (I have now quit) and it is craaaaaazy how much nicotine vaping puts into your system. I ran the math and soon after starting I was getting the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day.
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I had to set the graphics of FEAR Extraction Point to the absolute minimum to bypass a loading bug and it's honestly a vibe
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I had to set the graphics of FEAR Extraction Point to the absolute minimum to bypass a loading bug and it's honestly a vibe
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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oh boy the next 20 years in the west are going to be a rollercoaster. love 2 gyre. falconmaxxing
Party realignment in our times
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
oh boy the next 20 years in the west are going to be a rollercoaster. love 2 gyre. falconmaxxing
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
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2025 seems like the kind of year that gets followed by 2026
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
2025 seems like the kind of year that gets followed by 2026
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shout out to men on the subway with ereaders. you may not get the attention men with physical books get for some reason but i appreciate that you're signaling to the world "moving apartments is a lot easier for me"
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
shout out to men on the subway with ereaders. you may not get the attention men with physical books get for some reason but i appreciate that you're signaling to the world "moving apartments is a lot easier for me"
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*A movie made before 1978 contains a scene set at night*
Wow, this just looks great! It's like at some point filmmakers forgot how to light night scenes so they actually look like night? THIS is what it should look like!
*In the movie made before 1978, lightning flashes*
Wow that looked like shit
Wow, this just looks great! It's like at some point filmmakers forgot how to light night scenes so they actually look like night? THIS is what it should look like!
*In the movie made before 1978, lightning flashes*
Wow that looked like shit
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
*A movie made before 1978 contains a scene set at night*
Wow, this just looks great! It's like at some point filmmakers forgot how to light night scenes so they actually look like night? THIS is what it should look like!
*In the movie made before 1978, lightning flashes*
Wow that looked like shit
Wow, this just looks great! It's like at some point filmmakers forgot how to light night scenes so they actually look like night? THIS is what it should look like!
*In the movie made before 1978, lightning flashes*
Wow that looked like shit
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The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
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the whole internet loves book guy, a guy who loves books
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
the whole internet loves book guy, a guy who loves books
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ha! I was just listening to an old interview with Douglas Adams about Hitchhiker's and he says explicitly his style is directly influenced by Winnie the Pooh. I've been saying this for years, ever since i read to my kids as an adult and thought, wait a minute, I've seen this before
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ha! I was just listening to an old interview with Douglas Adams about Hitchhiker's and he says explicitly his style is directly influenced by Winnie the Pooh. I've been saying this for years, ever since i read to my kids as an adult and thought, wait a minute, I've seen this before
this is literally some sports manga shit (there's a different soccer league in the northern region and they play in the snow and this gives them special ice tactics that make them difficult to face)
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
this is literally some sports manga shit (there's a different soccer league in the northern region and they play in the snow and this gives them special ice tactics that make them difficult to face)
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one thing i do remember is that the republican party, before it went MAGA, was too weak to keep MAGA from taking it over. remember trump steamrolling all of those guys and now he tells them what to do and the worst elements of his base are in charge. democrats seem that weak now too. no control
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
one thing i do remember is that the republican party, before it went MAGA, was too weak to keep MAGA from taking it over. remember trump steamrolling all of those guys and now he tells them what to do and the worst elements of his base are in charge. democrats seem that weak now too. no control
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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i think the best way to describe the current mood is "people are starting to hate these guys about 30% as much as they hate you" - and i think we can get those numbers up
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
i think the best way to describe the current mood is "people are starting to hate these guys about 30% as much as they hate you" - and i think we can get those numbers up
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theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
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chat, this seems extremely bad.
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
chat, this seems extremely bad.
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depressing thought, but Trump’s long-term impact on English phraseology is going to compete with Shakespeare’s
Had the exact same thought. They’re not sending their best
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
depressing thought, but Trump’s long-term impact on English phraseology is going to compete with Shakespeare’s
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saw this movie poster and all i could think of was swiss cheese mono
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
saw this movie poster and all i could think of was swiss cheese mono
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do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?