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Joe Rybicki

@joerybicki.com.bsky.social

He/him. Writer, video game consultant, virtual tourist. Former Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Other credits: higround.net/#bylines

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An Indian restaurant opened right next to a Subway in the strip mall in our town. They had to move.

The Indian restaurant moved because the Subway smell was too strong.

10.08.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, yes and no. Probably more accurate to say this is the Stephen King font from basically every book of his in the β€˜80s that Stranger Things (afaik intentionally) used.

10.08.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We do not speak of the New Jefst – New Jefset War of 18BG

08.08.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Design Room (@designroom.bsky.social) A new website dedicated to video game oral histories coming soon from mattleone.bsky.social. Logo by asawallander.se.

For the evening crowd: I’m launching a new oral histories site called designroom.bsky.social. Won’t be much there for another month or so, but follow now to get in early!

08.08.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

"There's a dude with very messed up ideas about gender on X, the everything app." just doesn't seem newsworthy to me.

07.08.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I have two prerelease PS2 controllers that I have absolutely no use for and will also never get rid of.

Can’t wait to hear what they’re doing.

07.08.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This news about RedOctane reminds me of the first time the public at large learned about Guitar Hero.

I wish I could remember which talented and attractive writer was responsible for this exclusive reveal.

07.08.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Onomatopoeia. Mellifluence. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

06.08.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there no way to adjust text size? Not finding it in settings…

06.08.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only Rhea that comes to mind is Rhea Perlman from Cheers and I’m almost positive she was a β€œREE-uh”

(I’m in northeast Ohio if that helps with data points)

06.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a β€œdefend your culture” slogan.

06.08.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7715    πŸ” 3165    πŸ’¬ 472    πŸ“Œ 470

Oh hell yes. Congrats!

06.08.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

!!!

06.08.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jack Black in Airborne. (β€˜90s rollerblading movie, look it up) The whole movie is better than it has a right to be but the best example is JB’s utter believability. It wasn’t until long after I got into Tenacious D that I made the connection that THIS guy was THAT guy and it kinda blew my mind.

05.08.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’—

04.08.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To quote @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, they are the smartest little birthday boys in the whole Applebee's

04.08.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A black Labrador retriever wears a yellow bandanna and stares blankly at the camera. Her mouth is open slightly, in order to let her tongue hang out just enough to betray her status as the dumbest dog who ever lived. Why yes, she would enjoy a boop, thank you very much.

A black Labrador retriever wears a yellow bandanna and stares blankly at the camera. Her mouth is open slightly, in order to let her tongue hang out just enough to betray her status as the dumbest dog who ever lived. Why yes, she would enjoy a boop, thank you very much.

I see what you’re doing and it’s giving me such a good morning chuckle.

Here’s our dog, not a Murph, though now that I think about it she totally looks like she should be.

She would appreciate a boop if you would be so kind

04.08.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw shucks, thanks Jenn

03.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Until I had a kid I never realized how often I’d find it useful to quote Peter McNichols: β€œVy em I dzipping vit goo?”

03.08.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are an enemy of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting you are a villain. There’s nothing good about you.

03.08.2025 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 431    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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How a Cult-Favorite Sci-Fi Writer Helped Create Pringles Gene Wolfe worked as an engineer at Procter & Gamble in the 1960s, at the height of β€œfood science.” Here’s how the legendary sci-fi writer had a hand in bringing 1968’s most technologically advanced p...

(No really)

02.08.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IMO you look more like his most famous creation

02.08.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We share an origin story.

Mine also included Stephen King’s Night Shift; my parents and older sibs really should have given some thought to which shelf those were stored on

02.08.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Recent faves include A House With Good Bones and What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, and if you haven’t read Amityville Horror or Turn of the Screw, both are classics for a reason.

02.08.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I adore haunted house stories and I shit you not this is easily one of the best I can remember reading. Approachable, human, oddly believable, and tense af. Strongly recommend.

02.08.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sorry WHAT?? NEW FISHBONE??

01.08.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Virgin product made from nonrenewable resource?

Like…that’s worse, right? They do see how that’s worse?

01.08.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

31.07.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2597    πŸ” 1006    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 159

LEELO DALLAS MULTIPASS

31.07.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One that is almost certainly now no longer functional.

31.07.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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