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https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mj4id5wab22b

Published: April 10, 2026 04:28

"Vs. Super Mario Bros.", the arcade game that consists of a mix of the most interesting levels from NES Super Mario Bros. 1 and Super Mario Bros. 2 "The Lost Levels", is incredibly superior to either of the two games it draws from and once you've played itā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mj3jdjmu3s27

Published: April 9, 2026 19:14

What I listened to today: "Skull Man" (Mega Man 4), Minae Fujii (Capcom) Here's a peak moment for Mega Man's "80s epic rock so pitch-perfect you don't notice the instruments are wrong". I have been wowed by the drum rolls in the chorus here for threeā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mizxtrwzxc25

Published: April 9, 2026 04:28

I stopped playing Spelunky 2 a couple years ago, I'd hit my skill ceiling. 3 weeks ago was visiting a friend and we tried some co-op Spelunky, I was like oh, I'll bring you to [redacted]. I failed to get to [redacted]. Been trying off and on to get a runā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mizxlrn6xs2h

Published: April 9, 2026 04:24

The thing is if I were designing a video game set in the real world it would make a lot of sense, like a *lot* of sense, to have the respawn points be Waffle House [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miztfk5yks25

Published: April 9, 2026 03:09

(PS: I don't necessarily trust Iran's account of the negotiations, but I'm choosing to trust Pakistan's. It sounded like Israel *wasn't a party* to the talks, so I don't understand how USA could make promises on their behalf, though if USA made suchā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mizo4vzj4222

Published: April 9, 2026 01:34

I am attempting to gather an HAR file in the Firefox developer tools to send to ~customer support~. I'm doing this by opening the network tab, gathering a backscroll, then doing "Save all as HAR". Problem: The network tab keeps clearing itself while I'mā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mizlzo4xyk25

Published: April 9, 2026 00:57

Attempted to vote in the Blacksky "people's assembly" on use of "AI" code assistants. Kinda glitchy. It kept showing me questions it had shown me before, and eventually I realized I'd been logged out (Blacksky is having one of those days where it logs meā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mizaf3d2xk2g

Published: April 8, 2026 21:28

Here is an N64 homebrew game I liked a lot. The gamefeel, graphics, music are all fantastic. It works well on the A3D. It is very short. My only crit is seems a liiiitle too forgiving that there is no health cost to falling into the void. ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miypoabs6k2l

Published: April 8, 2026 16:29

Just called my House rep and Senator to oppose this. Uyterhoeven's office says she's a no but trying to push amendments, Senate office said the Senate already voted on a version without age verification. Dunno if the Senate version, or Uyterhoeven'sā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mixgg2nsnk23

Published: April 8, 2026 04:11

*rubbing eyes* This thread is my best effort to put solid cites on the contents of the Iranian "10 point proposal", which various news articles over the last couple days have referenced, and which versions of are currently floating around Bluesky. (Thisā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miwuzbvbj22s

Published: April 7, 2026 23:00

Okay. Wait. Wait. The "10 point plan" that Trump agreed to in exchange for a two week ceasefire. Is this it? https://gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/iran/iran-10-point-plan-war-us-israel-trump-hormuz/ This seems to be it. The New York Times seems to have anā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miwtdsa3d22s

Published: April 7, 2026 22:30

It would really make more sense, for anyone calling for a procedural end to Trump's removal, to just call for impeachment. The Constitution doesn't give a specific definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors", Congress interprets it. Just throwing that outā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miwomxgqkk2i

Published: April 7, 2026 21:05

Anyway uh if you called your congressperson today thank you. I think a lot of congresspeople are going to be looking at the anomalous surge of calls they receive today and tomorrow and looking at Trump's approval polling on quote, "handling of Iran" andā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miwlkros622n

Published: April 7, 2026 20:10

What I listened to today: "Tornado Man" (Mega Man 9), Ippo Yamada (Inti Creates) From a fantastic pseudo-retro "Wii Ware" title made in 2008. The soundtrack was made in MML and uses NES instruments with channel limitations removed (maybe it could'veā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miwdlyiadc2g

Published: April 7, 2026 17:48

I don't know how I got to 43 years old and only yesterday learned that as the moon moves further and closer to the Earth it actually gets larger and smaller in the sky in human-perceptable amounts of arcminutes I assumed "oh moon looks big tonight" senseā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miwbuvlu222m

Published: April 7, 2026 17:17

In saying "voting against", Mr. Schumer is presumably either referring to S.J.Res.104, which failed on March 4 with 47 yeas 53 nays, or to a hypothetical AUMF this war is supposed to require to continue past April 29. Presumably Schumer could do a re-tryā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miukagjz2k2g

Published: April 7, 2026 00:41

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Published: April 7, 2026 00:23

Probably my proudest moment on Twitter was when someone was talking about climate change, and a sealion said "oh yeah? prove it" and somebody said "well have you seen the report from BOFA?" and the sealion said "what's BOFA?", and I jumped in with a linkā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miuemhx55s25

Published: April 6, 2026 23:01

So it's tough because on the one hand Ashley's comment is true, on the other it is extremely disturbing to have got where the only reason we're still included within the polite society of nations is because everyone *assumes* the US president doesn't meanā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miu7fnfeik25

Published: April 6, 2026 21:27

You know how sometimes there's a TV show and there's this one bit character who is given no emphasis at all in the script but the fanbase decides they absolutely LOVE this character and the online discourse gets excited more than anything else every timeā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miu6bpjwfc2m

Published: April 6, 2026 21:07

The guy on the Artemis keeps complaining that after he's been looking at the moon it's hard to adjust his eyes to the relative dark of the capsule and I wish I had a way to get a message to NASA because y'all this is a solved problem, this is literallyā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miu664xzsc2h

Published: April 6, 2026 21:05

Can we calculate, assuming that the events of the Simpsons' themesong opening have actually occurred exactly once per new released episode featuring the themesong, exactly how many sieverts each person shown in the opening has absorbed by now

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mitzkqdvoc2l

Published: April 6, 2026 19:43

Note: I considered linking this play-in-browser chip-emulation version of the song but I can't get the player's track-repeat feature to work. chiptune.app/?play=xbf0kbap&subtune=6 Also awkwardly the admittedly poor compression of the YouTube ripā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mitzhwhgsc2l

Published: April 6, 2026 19:41

What I'm listening to today: "Snake Man" (Mega Man 3), Yasuaki Fujita (Capcom) Somewhere around 2 or 3 the Mega Man series matured into the best chiptune corpus ever. Do you hear this in your head in some other set of instruments? Or just the beeps in theā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mitotjmhcs2z

Published: April 6, 2026 16:31

I feel a little bad piling on so much but you have to admit it's more than a little funny to see Friday: The userbase notices the site's active-user metrics are going down and falls on themselves debating whether the site is unpopular because we are badā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miscybtepc2q

Published: April 6, 2026 03:26

Finally got around to trying Bowser's Fury this weekend and there's a lot positive to say about it, it iterates on Odyssey's scattered-feeling formula and makes it feel really good, it feels experimental/playful in ways rare for Nintendo, but honestly allā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miscmu74is2q

Published: April 6, 2026 03:20

Anyway two separate internet communities I'm connected to fell on themselves in weird arguments this Friday so if The Mood in any one space feels rancid, consider: Maybe it is just really legitimately stressful to exist in the world at this particularā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mirmnavx6k2q

Published: April 5, 2026 20:46

We dreamt of a future where you get physically sublimated into a Sega CD. But instead you got the one where your boss has all his emails to you generated by a random number generator while a cybermemetic drug gradually eats his mind [contains quote postā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mirce46crc2n

Published: April 5, 2026 17:42

Hey by the way does anyone else feel like the New York Times was a lot harder on Donald Trump 2017-2020 than they have been on Donald Trump 2025-202? Am I imagining that [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miravbidik2k

Published: April 5, 2026 17:16

A thing I keep wondering is if the centrists do not go as hard against this war (an obvious, unambiguous, historic mistake) as they might have because at some level they've WANTED to go all-in against Iran for years, they're just thinking "well but if *I*ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mir4hah4e22y

Published: April 5, 2026 15:57

There's this YouTuber I watch sometimes who is a political science professor, and he keeps making videos analyzing Trump's actions in the Iran war wrt Game Theory and Bargaining Theory and analysis in terms of the rational interests of the US. And then youā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mioztb5af225

Published: April 4, 2026 20:04

This is a really good comic book Every time you turn the page it's for some totally wild unique idea that somewhere else would have been the premise of an entire other comic [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miowaplnwc2p

Published: April 4, 2026 19:00

Note: This track is a little mysterious, it's on modarchive with an upload date of 2009 and no listed author, I'm concluding it's Floppi based on the filename ("floppi-!joo.xm") and Finnish title (translates as something like "blue bird story").ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miow7mqies2w

Published: April 4, 2026 19:00

What I'm listening to today: "sininƤrhitarina", Floppi DOS tracker tune full of surprises and mashing transcendent and cheesy sounds, DC error clicks to Super Nintendo electric bass and then full-on breakbeats. Really using every part of the tracker sonicā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mindiwbbgs2n

Published: April 4, 2026 03:52

Last year I was thinking it would make a lot of sense to make a thin script that sits in front of a PDS and directly renders Bluesky posts as HTML. This is my Bluesky bugout plan. If BS PBC ever pisses me off too much, I cut off one reverse proxy, enableā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mimvyuewfs2k

Published: April 3, 2026 23:51

The problem with posting is that there is no limiting principle. If you post about one thing you could post about anything. Eventually you've exhausted all 10āµā·āø combinations of basic ASCII that fit in the Bluesky character limit and you're having to learnā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mimui4bkkk2k

Published: April 3, 2026 23:23

I'm still confused if the company is named Bluesky Social PBC or Bluesky Social PBLLC, legally speaking. I do think it's pretty funny I can refer to the company as "BS PBC" and that is literally their name. It is the most reasonable way to abbreviate them

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mimohymzyc2k

Published: April 3, 2026 21:36

This place has a pileon/harassment problem. My theory why, is that Twitter was accidentally designed as a pileon engine, and then Bluesky copied Twitter's design in the simplest form possible without adopting the anti-pileon innovations of Mastodon,ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mimfz2wwcs2v

Published: April 3, 2026 19:04

What I'm listening to today: "Flowing Water", Bo Ya A Chinese classical music piece of complex origin, w/ sections contributed in stages by different composers between 500 BCE and 1850 CE. Here performed on the guqin by Zhou Chutong (å‘Øę„šē«„) with devastatingā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mik242yw4c2p

Published: April 2, 2026 20:26

Opus Magnum nightmare: Did an entire puzzle, made this complex optimized structure, then realized the machine I'd built WOULD have been 100% correct BUT it was exactly reflected on the left-right axis (Marked "Graphic Media" because spoilers?)

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mijwcnlo2c23

Published: April 2, 2026 19:18

What I'm listening to today: "An Microtonal Jam (31 TET)", The Creepy Silence Anarchic audio soup. The plan was 90s acid techno based on the "C subminor", an impossible scale that requires 31-note xenharmonic tuning. Baffling but nowhere boring. āš ļø loudā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mijs5e7jys2n

Published: April 2, 2026 18:04

This is what personalist government looks like. The presidency, the records of the presidency, the cabinet members of the presidency, are here not public goods stewarded by a person, but instead are treated as the possessions of one person.

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mif26ywfqc2o

Published: March 31, 2026 20:44

What I'm listening to today: "First Light", Elucid ft. Sebb Bash and Mattie From the new album by the Armand Hammer member that isn't Billy Woods. Downtempo hip hop, laid-back spoken word over laid-back jam rock. Allen Ginsberg would recognize this asā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3micvdh2pik2t

Published: March 31, 2026 00:12

Opinions I have If you liked "The Secret Agent" (2025) you should watch "SeƱorita" (2011). It has a similar tone & feel If you like the Umamusume movie you should watch "100 Meters" (2025). It is the same movie except instead of girls you maybe imagineā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3miceytxjfc2a

Published: March 30, 2026 19:20

What I'm listening to today: "0:00", Li Yilei Per the mini-doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9vDOiRUUyA that introduced me to Li, this cassette was Li Yilei's first release as a musician, and this the first track. Spacy floaty 60s guitar, preduskā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mic2szilak2b

Published: March 30, 2026 16:18

Me: *Types "noosphere"* Google GBoard: *Autocorrects to "biosphere"* Me: *Deletes, types "noosphere"* Google GBoard: *Again autocorrects to "biosphere"* Wait, hold on. Is this literally gnosticism. Is GBoard the demiurge

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mibzyzbxkk2c

Published: March 30, 2026 16:03

The bootloader is actually sapient. "AI" is just statistical models, but the UEFI loader that verifies the secure boot chain? It's alive. It thinks. And it only exists for fractions of a secondā€” just long enough to perceive itselfā€” before its being isā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mi7xdnakyk2e

Published: March 29, 2026 20:10

A thing that never stops being funny to me is that electoral reform is stymied by the fact there are separate camps who want instant-runoff voting, Condorcet ranked voting, and proportional representation, and they don't cooperate. Seriously one of theā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3mi7vin2g7c2u

Published: March 29, 2026 19:37

So if you don't know Canadian politics: There's three main parties, a conservative party which is sorta Republican-y, a centrist party which is sorta Democrat-y, and the NDP with a vague mandate of "to the left of that?". The NDP this morning elected thisā€¦

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