My advice for having a nice bluesky experience: - follow *and boost* anybody who posts weird/interesting stuff. If your paths diverge you can mute them - interact with people in good faith and you'll often be met with the same (and gain followers) - post the kinds of things you want to see more of!

Mark, are you saying you want three ghosts to visit you tonight?

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment

I know season 1 TNG is basically Gene Roddenberry rehashing a number of TOS episodes but The Naked Now is one of the most fun episodes in all of the series. Star Trek is the most human when it lets the hero facade slip, just a little.

Does anyone in my bsky vicinity have experience with game design? I’m working on a game design document and I’d love to either pick your brain, or maybe we can work on this concept of mine together.

For most working-class folks lucky enough to own a home, that's the largest asset we'll ever own. We pay taxes on its growing value every year, even if we don't sell it. The uber-rich should be taxed on the value of all their wealth, every year, even when they don't sell it.

Watching “Duck Amuck” with the kiddo, the cartoonist being obnoxious by screwing with Daffy the entire time & with Daffy desperately trying to get them pick a theme, color him properly, or draw a backdrop well reminds me of using AI agents and how much they suck. They HAVE to be fucking with me.

@staticwarpbubble.bsky.social REMEMBER ME.

I hadn’t watched Star Trek III in years. I didn’t remember Shatner’s performance after the shock of David’s death being so visceral. Nor the enablement of the self-destruct. My respect for the TOS crews acting has elevated a notch.

I want a Trek show where it’s nothing but Hornblower in space vis a vis Star Trek II. We haven’t truly had that since Undiscovered Country.

useless useless useless useless wastes of time money and skin

@dennisetaylor.bsky.social I am working on my first video game and I was wondering, what do I need to do to utilize the Bob books in the concepts and final design or perhaps some of the concepts in the books (replicants, replicative drift, divergent personalities, von Neumann probes, etc)?

@belgianboolean.bsky.social Do you do commissions? I’m working on a game concept and would your art style to be part of it. This is self-funded but I’d love to commission at least a moodboard-like concept piece to cover areas of concepts.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

The Ministry of Ungentlemantly Warfare is the better version of Inglorious Bastards. I will die on this hill.

@figma.com @miggi.me @skuwamoto.bsky.social any eta on the expanded collections and slot feature, I’m in the midst of a system refactoring and am chomping at the bit.

The agreement between the Walt Disney Company and OpenAl for Disney to license its content to Sora, a short-form generative Al video platform, raises several major concerns that not only affect animation workers but consumers and families around the world. Please read.

This is some seriously impressive work.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

I just love watching someone play Portal for the first time. I can’t wait until they get to Portal 2.

What the ever-loving fuck? Is nothing sacred anymore? What kind of sociopath do you need to be to do this kind of shit?

@annaecook.com a perfect example of what you spoke about

@thomasthecat.bsky.social I know we’ve had the Alcubierre drive but this…

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

I <3 gravitational lensing.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

#showerthoughts #stargateatlantis The fact that The Wraith are clothed, have hair that is styled, and tattoos implies a servant/artist class that does all that for them.

I’d spend more time with my kiddo and contracting as a UX specialist would seem less daunting. I also could invest time in learning woodworking.

You know all those folks who are “falling in love” with AI “girlfriends”? They are all Geordie LaForge when he create holodeck Leah Brahms but not nearly as innocent.

Deleted scene from TNG "Masks" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkn...

Needs a nice braising sauce and bottle of Chianti.

So shines some happy news in a weary world(s). KREE!

Claude AI is the shittiest junior developer I have ever worked with. It has the memory of a fruit fly across chats and the chats have an unknown arbitrary limit and you can’t start a new chat without having to rewrite the prompt and when you do, despite having an entire project…

@aaron.bsky.team you guys really need to apply your rules equitably to be taken seriously otherwise you’re just a coward, as is the rest of the executive team.

Fucking hell.

Trek Theory/unpopular opinion— The Enterprise-D is still inside Nagilum’s “null space”.

Zeiram! Inspired by the Iria series. Always loved the design from Keita Amemiya :) #digitalart

If Democrats are culpable, fuck ‘em. Should evidence exist, arrest them all and let them face a jury of their peers. It’s the American way.

Someone at work just called the new Steam Machine a “GabeCube” and I can’t stop laughing. steampowered.com/hardware

Unpopular Trekkie Opinion: rewatching Discovery—the writing and acting are worse than you remember. It’s an impossible show to do a rewatch without hating yourself.

Haters tell me "but that's not the technology's fault, you can also use it to enhance your own writing rather than outsource everything to the machine" And this is a great lesson in User Experience Design: you CAN but you WON'T, because of how the software is designed. Let's talk about friction.