Tom
@tomsghost.bsky.social
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“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”
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This is so, so embarrassing from the prime minister! I hate it so much. I also am curious where Labor thinks under 16s are encountering this video.
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is so, so embarrassing from the prime minister! I hate it so much. I also am curious where Labor thinks under 16s are encountering this video.
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being".
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being".
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.
Pet the dog. Enjoy being
This is drilled into my brain. I got into it with someone on reddit that was complaining that Apex is bad because they don't release cosmetics so you don't have anything to work towards.
WHO CARES! Play something you actually just find fun instead!
WHO CARES! Play something you actually just find fun instead!
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is drilled into my brain. I got into it with someone on reddit that was complaining that Apex is bad because they don't release cosmetics so you don't have anything to work towards.
WHO CARES! Play something you actually just find fun instead!
WHO CARES! Play something you actually just find fun instead!
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Okay I had no idea that bluesky had started autolabelling certain posts as rude and completely hiding them from me.
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Okay I had no idea that bluesky had started autolabelling certain posts as rude and completely hiding them from me.
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I thought people were overreacting to the rude label but mine was set to hide and not warn and I didn't even know it. Go check your moderation settings and make sure that they're what you want.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I thought people were overreacting to the rude label but mine was set to hide and not warn and I didn't even know it. Go check your moderation settings and make sure that they're what you want.
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happy Q-UP day everybody!!! get on this one. it’s a love letter to randomness, a brilliant satire of esports, and a well-deserved sendup of tech visionaries. and yet! at the same time: it also runs so deep beyond its RNG, works great as an actual esport, and may even be a little bit visionary. 10/10
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November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
happy Q-UP day everybody!!! get on this one. it’s a love letter to randomness, a brilliant satire of esports, and a well-deserved sendup of tech visionaries. and yet! at the same time: it also runs so deep beyond its RNG, works great as an actual esport, and may even be a little bit visionary. 10/10
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Kids are priced out of toys, they are priced out of video games, all they get are games like Roblox and Fortnite designed from the ground up to exploit them.
it's another case of kids being written out of the equation because adults are a bigger and more stable form of income, who cares that the people buying kirby air riders for 100 dollars now could get the original for 15, that's unrelated to MONEY NOW
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Kids are priced out of toys, they are priced out of video games, all they get are games like Roblox and Fortnite designed from the ground up to exploit them.
I keep watching each new VHS, even though they keep getting worse, because occasionally there will be just one good segment.
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I keep watching each new VHS, even though they keep getting worse, because occasionally there will be just one good segment.
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今日は
あの日から私の心の片隅に残り続けるゲーム
「天地創造」の30周年たんじょうびです。
ていうかえ？天地も30周年？
ロマ３も30周年なんだが
この年ちょっと濃密すぎませんかね？
あの日から私の心の片隅に残り続けるゲーム
「天地創造」の30周年たんじょうびです。
ていうかえ？天地も30周年？
ロマ３も30周年なんだが
この年ちょっと濃密すぎませんかね？
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
今日は
あの日から私の心の片隅に残り続けるゲーム
「天地創造」の30周年たんじょうびです。
ていうかえ？天地も30周年？
ロマ３も30周年なんだが
この年ちょっと濃密すぎませんかね？
あの日から私の心の片隅に残り続けるゲーム
「天地創造」の30周年たんじょうびです。
ていうかえ？天地も30周年？
ロマ３も30周年なんだが
この年ちょっと濃密すぎませんかね？
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I first encountered Neural Nets at university in 2002. The lecturer had a quite successful project using NNs to detect Parkinson tremors vs conscious input for motorised wheelchairs.
No manufacturers were interested in it, and as far as I'm aware it never went anywhere further.
No manufacturers were interested in it, and as far as I'm aware it never went anywhere further.
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I first encountered Neural Nets at university in 2002. The lecturer had a quite successful project using NNs to detect Parkinson tremors vs conscious input for motorised wheelchairs.
No manufacturers were interested in it, and as far as I'm aware it never went anywhere further.
No manufacturers were interested in it, and as far as I'm aware it never went anywhere further.
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if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process
A blog post in which I talk about different ways of playing games with your friends asynchronously online when you can't put aside a solid block of time. Replies to this post will appear on the blog
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
Ghost Town
How to Play Games With Your Friends When You’re an Adult With No Free Time
blog.friendlyghosts.gay
August 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A blog post in which I talk about different ways of playing games with your friends asynchronously online when you can't put aside a solid block of time. Replies to this post will appear on the blog
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
The original cut of Super Eyepatch Wolf's Fear and Hunger video which addressed the sexual content of the game before he had to take it to keep it on youtube.
actual lost media: the youtube video connor o'malley uploaded of an old man singing she's always a woman but with the lyrics changed to "She's always An Ex Wife to Me"
August 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The original cut of Super Eyepatch Wolf's Fear and Hunger video which addressed the sexual content of the game before he had to take it to keep it on youtube.
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Overwhelmed? Scared to make a website? Feel the pressure to do it NOW but also do it RIGHT? Don't panic. I've made a super simple guide on domains, hosting, and even how to make a simple website landing page.
marquisdeclaude.com/buildasite/
marquisdeclaude.com/buildasite/
July 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Overwhelmed? Scared to make a website? Feel the pressure to do it NOW but also do it RIGHT? Don't panic. I've made a super simple guide on domains, hosting, and even how to make a simple website landing page.
marquisdeclaude.com/buildasite/
marquisdeclaude.com/buildasite/
When you're playing a turned based RPG usually you have the following options:
- Attack
- Skill
- Item
- Run
Fear and Hunger 2 is one of the few games that make me seriously access which one of them might be the right move in any given fight.
- Attack
- Skill
- Item
- Run
Fear and Hunger 2 is one of the few games that make me seriously access which one of them might be the right move in any given fight.
May 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
When you're playing a turned based RPG usually you have the following options:
- Attack
- Skill
- Item
- Run
Fear and Hunger 2 is one of the few games that make me seriously access which one of them might be the right move in any given fight.
- Attack
- Skill
- Item
- Run
Fear and Hunger 2 is one of the few games that make me seriously access which one of them might be the right move in any given fight.
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If you want to reply to the latest @jonbois.bsky.social post, just add it here and Venmo me $200 and then I’ll text it to him
May 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
If you want to reply to the latest @jonbois.bsky.social post, just add it here and Venmo me $200 and then I’ll text it to him
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there's a small subset of people here who are driven mad whenever they aren't allowed to quote or reply to something. they think everything they see on their phone is their property and they just short-circuit. they'll bust through the floorboards to yell at you. it's really something to see
May 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
there's a small subset of people here who are driven mad whenever they aren't allowed to quote or reply to something. they think everything they see on their phone is their property and they just short-circuit. they'll bust through the floorboards to yell at you. it's really something to see
Until this year, this is the only edition on LotR I'd seen.
May 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Until this year, this is the only edition on LotR I'd seen.
It's time (I bought this years ago and never installed)
April 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It's time (I bought this years ago and never installed)
I wrote about my experiences trying out film photography after never doing anything like that before.
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
If you reply to this post with a comment, it'll show up on the blog!
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
If you reply to this post with a comment, it'll show up on the blog!
April 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I wrote about my experiences trying out film photography after never doing anything like that before.
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
If you reply to this post with a comment, it'll show up on the blog!
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
If you reply to this post with a comment, it'll show up on the blog!
I wrote about the experience I had running Eat the Reich 5 times over the long weekend and some advice for other people who want to try to run the game.
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
April 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I wrote about the experience I had running Eat the Reich 5 times over the long weekend and some advice for other people who want to try to run the game.
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
blog.friendlyghosts.gay/posts/2025-0...
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A wish for the severing of one's own head.
April 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A wish for the severing of one's own head.