mburnamfink.bsky.social
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here to post pictures of my dog, complain about the nonsense of tech jobs, talk about RPGs, and contribute to the Art of Shitposting
This might not be popular, but I used Claude Code to write an RPG adventure and learned a lot, including that LLMs can be useful and fun. www.burrowedbooks.com/posts/quarry...
Building an Adventure With Claude: The Quarry That Woke Up — Burrowed Books
A full worked session with my rpg-dev skill — from a one-line brief to a runnable module — with the real prompts, the real replies, and my thoughts along the way.
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I finally caught up to my email newsletter backlog since June 21
I live in this cursed valley and this take is 1000% correct. People are going to be walking around the Doge's Palace until Venice sinks into the sea. In 100 years the Winchester Mystery House will still get more visitors than Zuck's Compound/the Apple Donut/anything else tech has built around here
Eli Omen@eliomen.bsky.social · 7d agoSilicon Valley is incredibly disappointing. Futurist tech billionaires should be itching to dramatically alter it to make it even a little bit interesting. It's embarrassing.
I know it's painful, but Bluesky has to move beyond being a liberal bubble. If this place cannot also support anarchists, communists, and general freaks, there's no way it'll radicalize those godawful Blue MAGA types into poasting good.
The Verge@theverge.com · 7d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Five, maybe six stars to Blades '68 by @olddog.games published by @evilhat.bsky.social I promise that no matter how hyped you are for this game, you are not hyped enough. #blades68 www.burrowedbooks.com/rpg/blades-6...
Blades '68 — Burrowed Books
A review of Blades '68 by Tim Denee.
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5 stars to @wellerstein.bsky.social fantastic book on Truman and the atomic bomb. I'm really glad it finally arrived on the top of my queue, in partnership with the Hiroshima accounts from my short story book group. www.burrowedbooks.com/book/the-mos...
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age — Burrowed Books
A review of The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age by Alex Wellerstein.
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TNG S7 Masks is top tier Brent Spiner playing absolute freaks
mburnamfink.bsky.social@mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere are two kinds of good Star Trek: TNG episodes 1. Picard gives a grand speech about morality and the values that guide humanity among the stars 2. Brent Spiner gets to play an absolute little freak
Five stars to His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine Ego, lust, and hydrogen gas collide in a explosion that killed 48 and ended an era www.burrowedbooks.com/book/his-maj...
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine — Burrowed Books
A review of His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne.
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Whoever is driving the Audi ahead of me with the vanity plate HISLOSS is a strong contender for Most Divorced Woman
Describe your Bluesky account with a single image
Pandy Fackler@thatbrenna.bsky.social · 2w agoDescribe your Bluesky account with a single image
Great movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or go broke trying
Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency@bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 3w agoMy promise to all of you: if I ever sell my soul so much that I have billions and billions of dollars, the world will at least get absolutely *heart-wrenchingly* beautiful adaptations of each of the Earthsea books out of it
This Machine Kills Billionaires by @trnapper.bsky.social goes HARD! Yeah, even harder than the title suggests www.burrowedbooks.com/book/this-ma...
This Machine Kills Billionaires — Burrowed Books
A review of This Machine Kills Billionaires by T.R. Napper.
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If you've seen Zardoz, you already know it's a wild ride; it you haven't seen Zardoz, strap in: it's time to talk about the highs and lows of John Boorman's film, featuring false gods and failed utopias, and Sean Connery in thigh-high boots
Zardoz: …What the F*ck Did I Just Watch? - Reactor
John Boorman brings us guns, sex, giant stone heads, and Sean Connery in a wedding dress.
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"Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" "Aspen 20, I show you at 1842 knots" "Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to 1900 on the money." "Roger that Aspen. Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."
Can I find 45 minutes a day to stretch and meditate, or will I continue my path of slow decay?
The Life We Are Given: A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul — Burrowed Books
A review of The Life We Are Given: A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul by George Leonard, Michael Murphy.
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I think if all of these losers just fixed a sink instead of making their problems our problems, we'd be in a lot better place
I didn't much agree with Lindsey Graham on much, but I'll always admire his commitment to checking on how Mitch McConnell is doing up close. My love and concern goes out to the surviving members of the Senate Depraved Sex Caucus
How could this face bite the hand that literally feeds him?
MODERN READERS, FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON: A protagonist should be emotionally developed and serve as a good role model to impressionable youth GRIFFIN BATT, PROTAGONIST OF “PRETTYBOY FOREVER”: I am going to drink a gallon of piss, suck dick til I pass out, and kill a dozen men in a blood fugue
At one point Google Photos asked if this exact image in the meme was me and I have rarely felt so flattered as to be compared to International Sex Symbol Jason Alexander These days I look a lot more like the George on the right. And no, I'm not getting any strange. I post on Bluesky.
Lindsay Fickas@lindsayfickas.bsky.social · last mo.I gotta be honest. This ruined my life a little
Leaf me alone! (It's a lie, this dog will get all up in your business)
I can now share my favorite SMBC deep cut www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-1...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2006-12-14
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2006-12-14
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Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last mo.Some lovely internet person made SMBC searchable: smbc-search.com
