Freddie
Australian software engineer living in California with 5 small dogs and a screamy cat. I read books or write code for fun. Yes, I'm a real hit at parties.
I make WoWthing I guess? https://freddie.wowthing.org
- Ah health insurance. New owners don't offer Anthem, only worse plans via Cigna. Fine, set that up. First interaction with them? We're declining authorization for this med you've been on for years and will send you a letter about it. ... cost without insurance: $490/mo 😓
- Looking for a job is bleak 😞
- Reposted by FreddieI feel like I'm spamming y'all but I know that's how these things get more eyes. My Jenga girl has put me through it this year but she remains bright eyed and happy 💜 Donations and shares are deeply appreciated, love you all #gfm #mutualaid #vetbills #helpsky #anythinghelps gofund.me/096c689cd
- Reposted by FreddieIt's Bailey's birthday!! I can't believe this little gremlin is FIVE already 😭
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- I met a nice dog today, he appreciated scritches
- I think I worked out why I’m feeling like shit this evening. Good job, morning me
- Reposted by Freddieok calm down
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- Reposted by FreddieSeptember is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.
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- You know you're a giant fucking nerd when after a week of working as a programmer you relax by playing a video game about being a programmer
- Refactoring something that has grown into an absolute shitshow, whee. So far nothing works and I've gone from 138 fatal errors to 133. Big progress. Might go take a nap.
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- I dunno how I feel about getting coffee from here…
- Reposted by Freddieso close! that is a field
- Seven hundred different kinds of loss of control effect is not "difficulty", it's just REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING 😡
- Reposted by Freddiewow players spoiler tag their shit challenge: impossible
- Reposted by FreddieThe old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude
- Reposted by Freddieif you are not compassionate then what is the point
- Reposted by FreddieI have gone ahead and written up a more organized piece about why I think recommending decades-old genre "classics" to young people new to the space is not, shall we say, a great thing to do whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/11/p...
- Reposted by FreddieI've said this before and it is still true: Out of all the horrible things a middle-aged cis straight white writer of SF/F might be known for these days, "criminal burritos" is almost certainly the best-case scenario
- Why are my people being eaten 😢
- Reposted by Freddiecorporations on july 1st:
- Reposted by FreddieThe most concise analysis I’ve seen so far.
- Reposted by Freddie"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
- Ah yes my favourite start to the morning - are these random "gonna tag everyone in the company" spam or someone who can't perform basic tasks by themselves? Ooh maybe it's _both_ today!
- Trip report: - 3 messages from QAperson asking for clarification on some testing steps. I tried to explain better and added more notes to my "how to write good for QA" file - 3 messages from the person who can't perform basic tasks by themselves. Leaving them on read - 2 at-here spams
- Reposted by FreddieActually I'm gonna quote post this. Go buy this game. It's one of the best platformers I've ever played, with a massive load of charm, fun character designs, pretty levels, great music, just the right challenge (and difficulty sliders!) and impeccable AroAce representation. 10/10
- Reposted by Freddieis charlie guillemot, son of ubisoft ceo yves guillemot and now co-ceo of ubisoft and tencent's new subsidiary, the very definition of a nepo baby? yeah, sure, probably. don’t worry about it, though!
- Reposted by Freddiei genuinely believe that GDQ pushing conservatives and nazis out of its events and doubling down upon support for human rights after they started whining about it like a buncha children who had their toys taken away was one of the best things that GDQ's ever done
- Reposted by FreddieBut then the world would have been deprived of the opening to Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue, and that would have been an unfathomable tragedy for all of literature
- First of all, go fuck yourself
- Reposted by Freddiethe world is scary rn so always remember mental is hocus, health not pocus
- Reposted by Freddieyou are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.
- Reposted by FreddieApparently it’s weird when you don’t want to spend your whole day arguing with randoms.
- Reposted by Freddieover here doing '99 mummy fanart in the darkest times of 2025
- Reposted by FreddieOMG I totally sympathize with this I have no skills at building houses so I strapped tool belts on a dozen raccoons and my project is just torn to pieces now help the raccoons have hammers this was a mistake
- Reposted by FreddieEspecially after this week???
- Reposted by FreddieSomeone REAL CLOSE is popping REAL LOUD fireworks, and they should rethink their life decisions
- Reposted by FreddieWe know what you're thinking: gee, I sure wish it were easier to find some great thinky games in the Steam #SummerSale! Well, we've made this cool thing for you all 😊 thinkygames.com/stea...
- Reposted by FreddieJust remembered I had this in my folder
- Finished Chants of Sennaar last night, great game! Enjoyed most of the puzzles, only a few situations were obscure enough that I gave up and looked up wtf I was meant to be doing.
- Waiting for the AC guy to show up and tell me what particular expensive part of the cursed thing is fucked THIS time. In 5 years: - dead capacitor - low coolant - drawing too much power on startup and tripping something - melting the hardware in the cutoff box and almost setting fire to the house 🤷♂️
- Capacitor again, whee. It was replaced in 2021 😓
- Reposted by FreddiePreorder for my purses are now available!! They will ship Feb 2026
- Pretty sure I'm going to be stuck paying shit off forever between pets and cars and our fucking AC unit 😞
- Reposted by FreddieVamooooooooo
- Reposted by FreddiePedro Pascal defended calling out JK Rowling as a "heinous loser" and said that "bullies make me fucking sick" and that he wants to "protect the people I love." variety.com/2025/tv/news...
- Have you been personally victimized by thinking Somebody That I Used To Know was starting and it ended up being goddamn Anxiety instead? Join my class action!
- Reposted by FreddieYes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
- @roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
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- Reposted by Freddiei'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them
- Reposted by FreddieI'll never understand "F*ck you, I got mine". What's the point of achieving glorious heights if you can't share that experience with others? It's just an empty existence. No point to it. "I got mine, now let's get you yours" will always be the more fulfilling option.
- Reposted by Freddieok its offical if i see you playing any harry potter games im fucking blocking you
- Any Hexcells wizards out there? Ran into this as a generated level in Hexcells Infinite and I have absolutely no idea what a next move might be 😞 Doesn't seem to be enough info!
- Reposted by Freddiei am not sure developers realize I would literally rather have a stick figure with the words of what they're supposed to be scrawled across them, then AI generated content Legit a square that says "PLACEHOLDER FOR NOW SORRY PRETEND THERES A COOL SHOPKEEPER HERE" is 100x better than any AI "art"
- Reposted by FreddieAnother app declined, another reminder that if you need an Unreal systems designer with nearly two decades of design, QA, and leadership experience, I need a creative outlet and a paycheck. Hire me!
- Reposted by FreddieMurderbot is good. That’s the post.
- Phew re:Eurovision
- Reposted by FreddieHow many more times must I post that I think LLMs are ruining higher ed and other criticisms (automation, environmental, technofascism) before people stop telling me ‘I need to learn to use it,’ ‘it’s just a tool,’ ‘it’s here to stay,’ among other assorted asinine ripostes
- Ah yes, pay day, the day when the bank account has more than $50 in it for a few hours. Woo!
- Reposted by FreddieDiscord - I am not "missing out" on your overlay. I turned it off on purpose. Stop popping shit up at me, I pay you money every month already.
- Reposted by Freddiehellllllllllllll yeah
- Reposted by FreddieI hate that months later, this is still relevant enough for me to reshare it because THIS BITCH IS STILL GETTING ATTENTION SHE DOESN'T DESERVE.
- Cool. The AC stopped working yesterday, organized with the usual company to come out and take a look. Tech: weird, it’s getting 120V but not 240V, maybe a fuse? <opens disconnect box> Tech: … that is not a good smell to smell At least it didn’t set fire to the house I guess?
- Reposted by FreddieThis dog is so photogenic what the hell
- Peak BfA right here
- I'd really like to meet the PM at Discord in charge of deciding to TURN THE FUCKING OVERLAY BACK ON ALL THE TIME. Just to talk.
- 2 minutes before 1:1 with my manager he reschedules it 😅 At least he let me know this time, usually I find out by noticing the meeting has teleported to some other location on my calendar
