The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus
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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus
@thechrispaduan.bsky.social
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Photographer, gamer, software engineer, deeply disappointed optimist. Tell the ones you love that you love them. Some day they'll be gone (or you will).

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I lol’d for reals.
Quote from article where consultant who built AI systems discusses advising corporations on how they can reabsorb workers whose jobs have been eliminated by the AI projects they also consulted on: “and I built those systems that can help, you know, redistribute those jobs. Part of Harris's job, he explained, was to provide companies with a plan to reabsorb employees whose jobs had been automated. I asked Harris whether the companies have adopted those plans. "I wouldn't say I've seen it, but I've created programs that would have helped do that. Did the companies listen to what I advised? Well, that's another thing."
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Sweet Scott loafing up on my stomach.
An ebony black cat with pale green eyes looks to the right as it sits on a red object, which is my tummy.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Did they sneak HPL’s Elder Things into The Outer Worlds 2?
“Plants” with a barrel shaped body and a starfish like appendage. No sign of anything like wings, though.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Five years with this sexy beast. Absolute unit.
Xbox Series X game console sitting on a wooden floor.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Peter Griffin from Family Guy holding a tv remote and sitting in an easy chair. Text reads: Ah sweet Man made horrors Beyond my comprehension
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Quote tweeted with alt text.
Screen capture of Igor Bobic thread on Twitter: First tweet: Roberts and Barrett seem skeptical of Trump's case vs on tariffs at SCOTUS arguments "Who pays the tariffs? If a tariff is imposed on automobiles, who pays them?" Roberts asks Trump lawyer Second tweet (circles in yellow highlighter in image): Gorsuch suggests Trump's arguments on tariffs could lead the president to ignoring Congress on literally everything
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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dril on Twitter: And another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that I got mad.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Early celebration of Thanksgiving.
A plate with mashed potatoes and gravy, turkey breast stuffed with stuffing and covered in an apple cranberry glaze, accompanied with cranberry sauce.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Digging a little deeper. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Copilot response to "Why doesn't copilot know a parent class has a method available to the child class" Response text is as follows: Why doesn't copilot know a parent class has a method available to the child class The reason Copilot may not recognize a parent class's method available to the child class is due to the way inheritance works in programming. Inheritance allows child classes to inherit methods from parent classes, but this does not happen automatically. Instead, the child class must explicitly inherit the method from the parent class. If the parent class does not have the method defined, Copilot cannot access it through the child class. This limitation is a fundamental aspect of object-oriented programming and is not a fault in Copilot's functionality.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Saw this going around as a dunk on the libs for being vaccinated I guess. Joke’s on him, I’ve had 5-6 covid vaccinations at this point.

Redacted account because I don’t like giving oxygen to jackasses.
Picture of white dude from Get Out captioned “id get a third dose if I could” instead of “I would vote for Obama a third time if I could.”
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Yay! My special edition of In the Mouth of Madness arrived today! I know what I’m watching tonight. It has a books of essays, a dual sided poster, and the movie itself. Very nice work @arrowvideo.bsky.social !
A box with a picture of giant tentacles rising behind an onion domed church that reads John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. Below it are (left-right) A paperback book with a cover showing text with a hole torn in the middle with a man in with red eyes sitting in darkness with knees folded to his chest with eyes staring at him. A Blu-ray with a cover similar to the box above except giant eyes show behind the church and a field of tentacles and angry townsfolk are in the foreground. A folded up poster with a red tentacle on a black field. Poster of the book from the movie. Top text reads: Sutter Cane. Bottom text reads: In the Mouth of Madness. A frightened man who resembles Sam Neill looks to his left while garish monsters lurk behind him. Movie poster in red and black. The foreground shows a book with flipping pages, with a three towered onion domed church behind it. Behind the church are a large number of writhing tentacles and eyes staring out of the darkness.
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The premium edition of The Outer Worlds 2 comes with the Premium Moonman SMG which has the smiling moonman face on the barrel and if you line up the iron sights it makes the moonman head with his little top hat as the far sight. 😆
Screenshot of a video game weapon. The magazine appears to be a stylized moon face with a top hat. The near sight shows a smaller version of the same moon face. Screenshot of a video game weapon looking down the sights. The near side of the sights is a smiling moonman face and the far sight is a tiny top, which when lined up sits atop the moonman face.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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More from Carriage Way Cemetery.
A huge skull with blue and aquamarine light coming out of it sits atop a brick fence post with a sign that reads Carriage Way Cemetery est 2007. A grey baby doll is impaled on a wrought iron fence. Orange light glows in the background. An enormous distorted skull rats on a pillar recorded with skeletal hands that joins two sector wrought iron fence. Two gigantic skeletons stand behind a fake stone fountain. One skeleton is bathed in purple light, the other in blue light.
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Headed over to PDX to look at spooky Halloween stuff. First stop, Carriage Way Cemetery.
Conifer needle laden ground with a number of tombstones sticking out of the ground. There are a number of skeletal remains scattered about and a skeleton sits atop a large tombstone that reads Carriage Way Cemetery. A wooden rail fence adorned with many bones and skulls. Two skeletons sit next to a large sign with QR codes. A third skeleton can be seen next to some caution tape in the background. A low hedge with some kind of topiary in front of it sits before three headstones. More gravestones and skeletons are visible in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Pacific Drive shadow drop onto Game Pass? Nice!

Can we get Returnal, @playstation.com ? I’ll double dip for it, even! 😃😃😃
Xbox Game pass screenshot. Under the text “Recently added - Game Pass” Is the logo for the game Pacific Drive
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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You guys! Surprise birthday present!
A copy of The Outer Worlds 2 for Xbox.
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Someone chose violence today.
Shopping cart corral at a grocery store. Most carts are placed in the normal way, nose end in first. The cart on the front right is somehow placed perpendicularly to the other carts.
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Having a “Frog Prince” at Gustav’s German restaurant, which they have unfortunately called Frosch König”. Tsk, tsk.
A martini glass on a wooden surface. The glass is filled with a pale green liquid and a mint leaf and caramelized lime.
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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A man looks at another man dressed in an X Wing fighter costume holding a sign that reads “No Emperors” that shows Trump as emperor Palpatine.
October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Thinking of @jesawyer.bsky.social and the rest of the New Vegas team today at the march in Portland.
Photo of marchers in a protest. A blonde woman carries a sign that reads: No Gods No Masters -and- No Kings
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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We did it fam! We survived the march through War Torn Portland!

Having lunch now.
A couple in inflatable Axolotl costumes (one blue, one pink) march holding hands. A woman marching next to them is holding a sign that reads “We are the heroes we’ve been waiting for.” Red cloaked women dressed like handmaids march together, one holding an American flag. A man dressed in a white robe and a white beard that looks like God holds a sign that reads “Let my people go or I will smite thy borders with frogs. Exodus 8 v1-2” People dressed in colonial era garb waving American flags stand in the street. An inflatable Squidward stands to the side.”
October 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Playing Keeper which is somehow the weirdest @doublefine.com game I’ve played. Had to call in Noelle to come watch for a while because of the beautiful plant(?) lights in a watery cave system. Lovely game.
An ambulatory lighthouse with three visible legs shines its light down on a rock in a field of grass. An odd, green, dodo like bird sits atop the lighthouse’s peak. The grassy field has some kind of weird, roughly spherical red creatures that look sort of like crabs. On the top right of the field is a wizened tree with four twisted branches. There appears to be a mountain or some rocky rise in the background.
October 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Diptych of a reporter looking at a sheet of paper and then looking ahead, utterly baffled.
October 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Any Brits out there who have some thoughts on this sign?
A circular metal sign that reads House of Ponce.
October 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I’ve spent the day waiting for the electrical inspection on my new heat pump/ furnace to happen. Yesterday I took a post rain walk and Mt Hood was out and looking good.
A snow capped mountain is visible on the horizon. In the immediate foreground a creek winds through grassy shores. A leafless tree in the mid-ground is reflected in the waters of the steam. The overall scene is bathed in the salmon colored light of dusk.
October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM