shr

I love vintage computers and I dabble in #retrogames and #indiegames. Favorites include Super #Metroid, #HollowKnight, and #KOTOR.

Amateur self-taught programmer.

I suffer from occasional bouts of #shitposting.

They/them (still figuring out my gender).

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

#leftist #atheist #agnostic #humanist #skeptic #progressive #mac #apple #programming #blm #lgbtq #trans #scifi #philosophy #musician #design #shitposter

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2026-05-15 23:32:19 UTC

I'm watching the mini series 'Apple Cider Vinegar'. It centers around two phony wellness influencers, one who faked having cancer for attention, and the other who claims to cure cancer with fruit and coffee enemas and other junk quackery.
This character is hardest skeptic of these con-artists. He keeps wearing this shirt with 'JTB', some company he works for.
It just hit me that has to be a hidden reference to 'Justified True Belief' from the field of epistemology. #tv #philosophy
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2026-04-05 14:17:46 UTC

Michael Burns articulates so well how tech bros regard truth:
"...we're seeing a new ontology emerge, one that's wholly driven by the logic of finance....a financial ontology in which that which is real...is only that which can be conceived as a tradable financial asset. This leads to an equally financial form of epistemology...in which only that which can be financially quantified can be truly known." #philosophy #tech
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h_IgrRIvZOc

2026-03-31 19:24:43 UTC

If the microwave oven didn't get invented until now, it would be branded as "vibe cooking", and microwave bros would be predicting that Michelin star chefs would be out on the street in five years. #fuckAI #ai #tech

2026-03-29 19:22:35 UTC

I'm listening to the Dune audiobook. It's kinda odd. Some chapters have an ensemble cast of voice actors, while other chapters have just one voice actor doing the all voices.
Also, my gf is reading along, and in one chapter they skipped two pages for some reason. 🤷🏻
#dune #audiobooks #books #scifi

2026-03-20 15:32:44 UTC

Can't wait to see Project Hail Mary tonight. I have two hours left on the audiobook. Trying to finish it in time.
#ProjectHailMary #movies #scifi #books #audiobooks

2026-03-01 18:10:51 UTC

Sonic over here just casually poking at the biggest hornet nest in the field of philosophy and science. #philosophy #science #freeWill #determinism
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2026-02-24 16:52:37 UTC

If the problematic origins and past connotations of a certain word have been forgotten by virtually everyone today who uses that word, it's not clear to me that we should we still necessarily censure the current use of that word? If the word today isn't used like it was in the past, hasn't the word in a sense been reformed? And is reminding people of its origins just undoing the evolution of that that word? #philosophy #language #ethics

2026-02-19 17:18:50 UTC

It perplexes me that there are so many people who seem unperturbed by basic existential and metaphysical questions. It makes me feel like maybe it's my brain that's "faulty" in some sense: it's short circuiting when I can't find a satisfying answer to why anything should exist or how it is I'm conscious. Maybe my brain isn't delivering a feeling of intellectual satisfaction when it's supposed to? Do people who are interested in philosophy have malfunctioning brains in some sense? #philosophy

2026-02-09 00:39:12 UTC

I'm at my first Super Bowl party. Much rather be watching a Geoguessr tournament. Meh.

2026-02-08 17:48:26 UTC

Alex O'Connor's set design ripped off Dropout's Smartypants.
Smartypants is way better btw. They have diverse guests and they don't platform fascist, racists, or TERFs (eg Peterson, Dawkins, etc). #dropout #DropoutTV #smartypants #philosophy
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2026-01-22 17:06:28 UTC

Can you evaluate a person contextually? Like, thinking this person is/was awful in this context, but in some other context(s) they were ok or even good? Or does their bad actions/beliefs in one context irredemably taint their actions/beliefs in other contexts?
E.g., the 16th century composer Carlo Gesualdo wrote some interesting music, but he also straight up murdered his wife and her lover. Can you still enjoy his music after knowing that? Is it wrong to still enjoy his music? #philosophy

2025-09-18 15:15:15 UTC

Can't believe Apple is still supporting my 2019 iPad Mini. #iOS26 #iPad #iPadOS26 #apple
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2025-06-06 18:45:27 UTC

Both DoorDash and UberEats are now including AI generated menu item descriptions. Probably something to be aware of if you have food allergies. 😐 #AI #UberEats #DoorDash #fuckAI
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2024-12-22 22:55:54 UTC

Duke Nukem is a mood. #gameboy #gba #dukenukem #retrogaming #gaming #nintendo
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2024-12-20 19:42:51 UTC

I got the original trilogy. Found these at a 2nd & Charles last month. #gameboy #nintendo #retrogaming #starwars
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2024-12-20 16:50:06 UTC

Another thing I got back from my parents: this Nintendo branded wooden rolltop box thingy.
I assume it's for housing NES or SNES cartridges? I only ever used it for knickknacks.
It has slots carved into the sides. Don't know what they're for.
I picked this up from a garage sale when I was like 12. #retrogaming #nintendo
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2024-12-20 02:09:09 UTC

I got my old Xbox back from my parents' place. It had been sitting in a box for nearly 20 years. Still works!
Now I just need to get a controller and some games. #xbox #retrogaming
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2024-11-21 16:24:19 UTC

Saw this on Discord. I don't know who made it but I love it. #startrek #ds9 #trans
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2024-11-09 06:44:52 UTC

"Smile" has some good jump scares.
#horror #horrormovies #movies

2024-11-02 22:00:58 UTC

Blue Ribbon BBQ in Arlington, MA is probably the best BBQ you can get in the #Boston area.
#food #bbq

2024-10-29 16:22:03 UTC

You may think ancient computers were white or beige, but computer archeologists now think PCs of the distant past were originally painted with vibrant colors and ornamentation. Here are a couple restorations. #retrocomputing #retro
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2024-10-19 19:37:09 UTC

Saw Stuart Gordon's Dolls (1986) last night. Loved it. Stop motion effects were amazing and creepy af. Also had some really funny moments. #movies #horror #horrormovies
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092906/

2024-09-11 02:43:30 UTC

That moment when Harris nearly referred to Trump as "this motherfucker" but paused and said "this...former president" instead. 😂
#debate2024

2024-09-07 04:50:55 UTC

Watched 'The Wicker Man' tonight. Found myself low key siding with the islanders. They have a nice walkable 15 minute community, good schools, no priests, and no police. What more could you ask for? #horror #movies

2024-09-04 04:45:24 UTC

I would love to see an in-universe true-crime documentary on the events of Breaking Bad, complete with low budget reenactments and anonymized witness interviews. #breakingbad #tv

2024-08-24 21:38:39 UTC

Why aren't YouTube previews loading on Mastodon anymore? #youtube #mastodon

2024-08-18 16:30:08 UTC

Saw a NeXT cube and some sort of Commodore at the #MIT Flea. #retrocomputing #retro
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