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Cyborg K9

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Videogames, #mahjong, app-dev., TV, progressivism, electoral-reform; secular humanist, cyborg dog. He/him. Developer of Kemono Mahjong & Mahjong Helper.


Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Didn't sleep much at all, but have to get up for a tennis lesson early this morning. I've got a ladder match later this afternoon, too. Ugh. 8)

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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I really wish people listened to those of us who have spent years studying and writing about the far right and the coup they have been planning for decades. Because now they are just straight up telling you their plans because they are so emboldened by the fascist captured courts.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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The Nerdskull's avatar The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social
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Despite my obvious contempt for Biden, I still think everyone should vote for him in November. I’m fucking begging everyone to vote. Christian nationalist government is a very real physical threat to basically every LGBTQ person except for maybe the Peter Thiels of the world.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Maybe I'm not cut out for competitive tennis. I enjoy the game, but when it comes to a match, I invariably blow my chances. :/

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.

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Elad Nehorai's avatar Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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I lost, which kinda sucks. But it was close. 8-8, 9-11 in the tiebreaker. So... Yay?

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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On my way to another tennis ladder match. Hoping I do okay. Won the last one at least.

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Kemono Mahjong's avatar Kemono Mahjong @kemonomahjong.bsky.social
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Alright, v1.30.01 should be rolling out to Android shortly. Adds the HW acceleration toggle to Settings, which should let those experiencing crashes at least play the game. #indiegame #mahjong #appDev

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Best of luck. I fear Canada is on a similar track. Broken electoral systems, right-wing media, and a large number of voters not using critical thinking. :(

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Kemono Mahjong's avatar Kemono Mahjong @kemonomahjong.bsky.social
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(Obviously I'd like to fix it without disabling hardware acceleration, but this is something to at least make the game functional in the meantime while I try to find a workaround to the underlying issue...)

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Kemono Mahjong's avatar Kemono Mahjong @kemonomahjong.bsky.social
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Implemented a "Hardware Acceleration" toggle to the Settings dialog on the Android version of the app. v1.30 should be available to testers soon, then to all. Pixel 8 users *should* be able to disable HW acceleration and play the game successfully. Better than crashes, anyway.

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Darren M. A. Calvert's avatar Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social
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Some older beaver art for the Canada Day long weekend 🦫🇨🇦

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The Nerdskull's avatar The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court has probably killed a lot of people last week. They won’t be dying for a few years yet, but I hope everyone is ready for The Jungle to become reality again. They just said the FDA can’t enforce food safety regulations s.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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I've been fighting with this most of the day. I can't find a workaround. It's definitely a bug with Google's System Webview on Pixel 8 devices, but users of my app are going to blame me. :/ Going to *try* to implement a toggle to switch hardware acceleration on and off as the next best option.

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Kemono Mahjong's avatar Kemono Mahjong @kemonomahjong.bsky.social
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Found I can test the app on a real Pixel 8 without having to buy one outright, but for a modest monthly fee using BrowserStack. Yay? So I ran it on a Pixel 8 and indeed ran into the crashing issues. Boo. Trying to get to the bottom of it. No luck yet. Will keep fighting. :P

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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There is no point in the debate tonight. Either you support a fascist, anti-science felon, or you don't.
I'm not sure what a debate is supposed to do other than legitimize Trump, despite everything wrong with him and the GOP. :/

#uspoli #Debates2024

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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It is known that every “inspiring” story of a disadvantaged person raising money to address a social safety net failure is an appalling indictment of society but I think we should also include every glowing profile of teenage family-wealth-backed entrepreneurs who could model for the white boy emoji

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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John Moore, virologist/immunologist from Cornell Weill Med in NYC and I take the NYTimes to task for two opinion pieces on #COVID earlier this month. Both pieces are examples of "science opinion", where non-experts weigh in on topics beyond their ken. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Plushie would be nice. I'm angling for cyborg/full robot. :P Stupid organics.

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Maya Media's avatar Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social
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Proof that the Democrats feel their enemies are not the Republicans, but the left. We tell too much truth. And it’s also proof that Democrats don’t care that they’re committing genocide, only that someone might hold them accountable.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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It wasn't a good idea to try a tennis ladder match in this heat. :/ Won the first two games, then fell apart. Oh well. Didn't want to push myself any more than I had to.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Won my first match on the #tennis ladder this season. Finally. 8)
Stupid hot though. I think really I just lasted longer in it than my opponent.

I'll take the win, though. 8)

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Corey Rayburn Yung's avatar Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social
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The Boys perfectly illustrates the difficulty of using irony in modern America. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to create a show that repeatedly satirizes Trumpism, only to have some Trumpists end up idolizing the morally despicable characters that were designed to mock them.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie's avatar Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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It’s outrageous that, when it comes to regulating guns, the Supreme Court says, “If it was legal it would have been done by now,” but when it comes to regulating abortion, a lack of past regulation is no barrier to a legislative free-for-all in my uterus

lithub.com/historical-f...

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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“it took me four years to realize they have been making fun of me the entire time”

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Jonesing for food from Japanese chains that don't exist here. :P

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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First #tennis lesson in weeks this morning (due to the Japan trip)... went well, I'm not too rusty at least.

I'm at the bottom of the in-town ladder league due to my absence... got my first match since getting back, on Monday. Hoping to finally win one. :P

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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This new build sounds like it works(!)... but it does also require Pixel 8 series users to uninstall updates to the Android System Webview control. But after that, things seem to behave? Trying to get some more testers to verify...

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Owen Goss's avatar Owen Goss @owengoss.com
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I post most of my pottery work on instagram, but this one has a lot of overlap with my games. I made some cups with hand-painted versions of some of the animals I drew for our game Disco Zoo. I'm really happy with how they turned out. 🙂

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Tried making a new build with the Android SDK 34 (Android 14)... and updating Cordova to Android-13.00 for the project too. If this doesn't work I'm not sure what else to try... :P

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Early indications are it doesn't solve the issue. Grr. :/ Guess I've got to try some other things... would be much easier if I had a Pixel 8 myself...

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Yes, got back early Sunday morning. Work has been rough, dealing with jet-lag. 8) The trip was wonderful. I'm hoping I get the chance to go back one day.

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Reworked how some animations work in my game in hopes that it'll fix crashing issues on some Android devices. Waiting for Google to approve it so I can send it to testers. Really hope it solves things. :P #appdev #mahjong

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Cyborg K9's avatar Cyborg K9 @cyborgk9.bsky.social
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Billionaires shouldn't exist. The right-wing is incompatible with a healthy planet and society. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. :/

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