ElegantMechanic
@elegantmechanic.bsky.social
He/Him #GodotEngine GameDev, Boardgame Designer, & Writer.
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If this is quoting a real conversation, at some point "wife" is surely going to ask "is this actually you speaking to me?"
October 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
If this is quoting a real conversation, at some point "wife" is surely going to ask "is this actually you speaking to me?"
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October 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Sometimes you check the headlines and there's so much horror. Normally I boost the odd story but I've seen 4 so far that have me sitting here saying "Fucking hell" and my instinct is not to pass that on to other people.
Not that I have a huge following but still, I try to boost stuff. Not today.
Not that I have a huge following but still, I try to boost stuff. Not today.
October 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Sometimes you check the headlines and there's so much horror. Normally I boost the odd story but I've seen 4 so far that have me sitting here saying "Fucking hell" and my instinct is not to pass that on to other people.
Not that I have a huge following but still, I try to boost stuff. Not today.
Not that I have a huge following but still, I try to boost stuff. Not today.
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Please don't go watch this
This is the result of using AI to do your entire video
AI picks the games
AI writes the script
AI generates a fake version of quest 64 for the attention image
And yet this person has ten of thousands of subscribers and views
Stop letting these people exist and thrive
This is the result of using AI to do your entire video
AI picks the games
AI writes the script
AI generates a fake version of quest 64 for the attention image
And yet this person has ten of thousands of subscribers and views
Stop letting these people exist and thrive
October 6, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Please don't go watch this
This is the result of using AI to do your entire video
AI picks the games
AI writes the script
AI generates a fake version of quest 64 for the attention image
And yet this person has ten of thousands of subscribers and views
Stop letting these people exist and thrive
This is the result of using AI to do your entire video
AI picks the games
AI writes the script
AI generates a fake version of quest 64 for the attention image
And yet this person has ten of thousands of subscribers and views
Stop letting these people exist and thrive
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it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor.
Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys.
It grossed $17m
Here's a bit of David's acting:
Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys.
It grossed $17m
Here's a bit of David's acting:
October 6, 2026 at 5:47 PM
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
Trump: "I take an aspirin a day. I don't know if it works but psychologically I need it. It thins the hell out of your blood I guess ... They want me to go down to the 80. I take the 386. I don't know what the hell it is. It's a monster. They said, 'Sir, you don't need that!'"
October 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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'Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president' ... 'Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious” '
Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president | TechCrunch
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
techcrunch.com
October 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
'Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president' ... 'Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious” '
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Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week:
-A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses
-A ban on ICE agents working for the state government
-A ban on websites selling your data
-A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights
-A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
-A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses
-A ban on ICE agents working for the state government
-A ban on websites selling your data
-A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights
-A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
October 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week:
-A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses
-A ban on ICE agents working for the state government
-A ban on websites selling your data
-A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights
-A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
-A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses
-A ban on ICE agents working for the state government
-A ban on websites selling your data
-A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights
-A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
So it's still (to varying degrees of nuance) legal in 32 states.
A minor cannot enter into a legally binding contract so how can it be legal anywhere.
A minor cannot enter into a legally binding contract so how can it be legal anywhere.
California outlaws child marriage, joining 17 other US states
Advocacy group that pushed for the legislation says 9,000 children are married in California every year
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
So it's still (to varying degrees of nuance) legal in 32 states.
A minor cannot enter into a legally binding contract so how can it be legal anywhere.
A minor cannot enter into a legally binding contract so how can it be legal anywhere.
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Just a reminder for anyone that cares, Argonaut keeps partnering with ModRetro, run by war profiteer and general creep Palmer Luckey
Thread about why they suck below
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Thread about why they suck below
bsky.app/profile/mous...
The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit.
But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.
But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.
October 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Just a reminder for anyone that cares, Argonaut keeps partnering with ModRetro, run by war profiteer and general creep Palmer Luckey
Thread about why they suck below
bsky.app/profile/mous...
Thread about why they suck below
bsky.app/profile/mous...
Oooh, biiiiiiiiiiig stretch.
October 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Oooh, biiiiiiiiiiig stretch.
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When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
July 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
Not so super intelligence on display.
‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error
Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AI
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Not so super intelligence on display.
'He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses”'
'Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research. '
'Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research. '
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after usin...
www.404media.co
September 30, 2026 at 7:58 PM
'He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses”'
'Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research. '
'Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research. '
After abandoning my attempt to make an app for a board game in Godot, I have been trying and failing to transfer the motivation to another project.
I realise today I am kind of sick of staring at the old ones so either need a new one or maybe to radically change the appearance of an old one.
I realise today I am kind of sick of staring at the old ones so either need a new one or maybe to radically change the appearance of an old one.
September 29, 2026 at 1:33 PM
After abandoning my attempt to make an app for a board game in Godot, I have been trying and failing to transfer the motivation to another project.
I realise today I am kind of sick of staring at the old ones so either need a new one or maybe to radically change the appearance of an old one.
I realise today I am kind of sick of staring at the old ones so either need a new one or maybe to radically change the appearance of an old one.
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meanwhile on some other timeline
September 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
meanwhile on some other timeline
From "No we won't be issuing refunds if you aren't cool with that" to "Looks like we did misread the room" and refunds in the space of 3 days.
Use your voice and push back against the slop machine, it works.
Use your voice and push back against the slop machine, it works.
Years-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers
Somehow, World of Game Design returned.
www.rascal.news
September 29, 2026 at 11:28 AM
From "No we won't be issuing refunds if you aren't cool with that" to "Looks like we did misread the room" and refunds in the space of 3 days.
Use your voice and push back against the slop machine, it works.
Use your voice and push back against the slop machine, it works.
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We actually don't hate this administration enough
The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.
September 28, 2026 at 10:02 PM
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Sorry are you completely out of your fucking mind
September 28, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Sorry are you completely out of your fucking mind
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please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
September 28, 2026 at 12:35 PM
please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE’s parent agency, told the GAO it would develop a plan to guide its detention expansion by 31 August 2027, but that may be too late to prevent more waste, the report said."
So we'll do this for a couple of years THEN come up with a plan? Jaysus.
So we'll do this for a couple of years THEN come up with a plan? Jaysus.
ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report
GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:43 PM
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE’s parent agency, told the GAO it would develop a plan to guide its detention expansion by 31 August 2027, but that may be too late to prevent more waste, the report said."
So we'll do this for a couple of years THEN come up with a plan? Jaysus.
So we'll do this for a couple of years THEN come up with a plan? Jaysus.
The call literally came from inside the house.
JD Vance Planted the Story That Sparked White House Media Ban
The White House says a media ban is needed to protect national security. But one of the stories it cited as a threat came straight from the vice president.
newrepublic.com
September 24, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The call literally came from inside the house.