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Christian Sparks @hippowombat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey there friends! Unfortunately, I was among those impacted by layoffs at Heart Machine last week. If you or someone you know is looking for an experienced Unreal Engine Technical Artist, I'm available for full time, part time, or contract opportunities.

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Juan Vaca @juancow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am part of this round of layoffs and am seeking new opportunities. If your team needs a narrative director / storyteller, please reach out.

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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Daley @daleywow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

GOOD LORD LMAO hire me

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Playing around with HDR grading and YouTube videos - interested in what folk think of this format! Want to try and get more into the habit of doing YT videos, so easing myself in a bit with this one. Feels a bit cringe and clickbaity, but maybe a chill watch? 🫣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJz2...

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What is HDR For? | Vienna in 8K HDR

YouTube video by 9of9

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Got to snap some very cool film photos at Voidspace live last weekend with @bintymadger.bsky.social! Had an absolute blast with some of these installations, many thanks to @voidspacezine.bsky.social for the fabulous show!

Backrooms-style photo of Overbrewed being played by some stressed out baristas behind frosted glass.

Close-up photo of a small installation art piece that has a tiny CRT screen connected to a small camera and a printer, showing the photographer taking a picture.

Moody photo of Neorcana being played on a CRT display next to a table lamp, the PC screen filled with red message boxes.

Golden glow in this close-up shot of Sent(i)ence being played with cards and chips laid out across the desk, surrounded by books and hosted by a disinterested-looking croupier/data-entry-clerk(?).

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Still my absolute fav 💖🥰

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Wondering what to do in a British bank holiday? Take the time to apply! OPPORTUNITY - Lead Narrative Designer - EA - Battlefield - Hybrid - UK Absolutely affiliated (a chance to work together!). Shares very welcome! jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

They should make a Tenet graphic novel adaptation where everyone going backwards in time turns into a manga character.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Sitting on the duck of the bay, And it goes quack cause of how much I weigh

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Holy shit, Davinci Resolve is adding a photo mode! This is legitimately the #1 feature I would have asked for and I never thought BlackMagick would actually do it?!

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Is there a term for the opposite of Redundant Acronym Syndrome (e.g. PIN number etc.) to describe where the word feels redundant but actually isn't? Any time I talk about Unreal's Material Parameter Collections and have to say 'MPC Parameter' it feels wrong in a RAS way, but is technically correct.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

why did obama leave a baseball on the oval office desk

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Repeat Blunderer @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Streeting has a full review into diagnosis of ADHD and Autism that shows there is no overdiagnosis. But he’s commissioned another in the hope of getting a result that lets him strip people of healthcare. Please consider signing this petition against it: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Stop mental health, ADHD & autism services review. Adopt report recommendations

Scrap the review into rising demand for Mental Health, ADHD & Autism services. Instead fund & implement the recommendations of the 'Time to Deliver' (Autism Act Committee) & ADHD Taskforce Part 2 repo...

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So this is good, right? 🤔 What's My JND? 0.0032 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Your delta e ok JND 0.0032
Okay this is genuinely impressive. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.

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Azura Rose @hellcatazura.rip · 03/03/2026

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too. Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Every time that a game has ambitions to be the next Doom, WoW, Apex, etc. I'm always reminded of Douglas Adams talking about how he wanted to be a member of Monty Python when he was younger. Cleese, specifically, and didn't really understand that the role was already taken until he was much older.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Love the classification as a "space western".

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Oh my god it wasn't even close 💚

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

TIL Orient Express makes yachts and lets you book voyages on them like cruises. This is going to get real weird real fast if they start doing cruises down the Nile and someone gets murdered.

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Bodega, Inc. @bodegainc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I accidentally installed both Avowed and Unavowed on my computer and now both games are gone.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

TFW you've finished TR-49, have a hankering for more database puzzlers, just in time for the DOJ to release a real banger.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I often think about how @christinelove.bsky.social's Hate Plus depicted the Mugunghwa's frustrating and dumb slide into patriarchal authoritarianism and man is the real world so much stupider than that

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Sing us a song, you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight I play the piano, it's in the name Why would you think that I sing?

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Having a hell of a good time with Seance of Blake Manor 😊 We should be so lucky as to have both Blue Prince and Blake Manor come out within the same year.

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I've just found out which Babylonian god people prayed to to get up early in the morning - Ninurta! 'To do business at the quay where traffic rushes swiftly by, You, O unrivalled king of the world, rouse at daybreak him who else would not rise.' From www.ebl.lmu.de/corpus/L/3/1...

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electronic Babylonian Library

The electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) Project brings together ancient Near Eastern specialists and data scientists to revolutionize the way in which the literature of Iraq in the first millennium BC...

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Too Far Left Off The Visible Spectrum

Infrared false colour photo showing a photo of cotton-candy-pink trees, blue skies and one featureless white flag.

Infrared false colour photo showing blue skies and one featureless white flag.

Infrared false colour photo showing a photo of cotton-candy-pink trees, blue skies and one featureless white flag atop a lamp post.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Strange Horticulture was the cosiest puzzle game that was enormously fun, and Strange Antiquities is the perfect follow-up. Getting close to the end now and thoroughly enjoying it.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Every time there's a cabinet reshuffle, I just really want someone to make a deck builder game based on parliamentary politics where you can literally reshuffle your deck and draw a new cabinet as a mechanic.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is very good.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

the reason I’ve been so vocal about the water use of AI thing is that the most commonly cited stuff saying it’s bad doesn’t add up & I think it’s important to be accurate about the negative impacts of this tech. if 1/3 of your cited issues are wrong, an informed listener may doubt the remaining 2.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

One of the scenes that made me stop watching Star Trek Discovery was in S01E02 where the protagonist, confined to the brig, enters an ethical debate with the ship's computer and convinces it to let her go. Little did I know only a few years later it would become the most realistic part of the show 😔

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank god for the ability to pixel peep other people's photos to satisfy my FOMO. Not that I could afford it but... yeah, this camera looks pretty, yet it bleeds like any other.

Crop on a tree in a photo from the Verge Hasselblad X2D ii review, showing completely unremarkable, blurry leaves.

Crop on a power line in a photo from the Verge Hasselblad X2D ii review, blurry due to camera shake.

Crop on some vegetation in a photo from the Verge Hasselblad X2D ii review, showing blurry and garishly overexposed leaves in sunlight.

Crop on some boats in a photo from the Verge Hasselblad X2D ii review, showing completely unremarkable, blurry pixels.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

As someone who was introduced to Steve Yedlin's Display Prep demo at a formative time in his career, today's been a very fun day in film emulation.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

As someone who was introduced to Steve Yedlin's Display Prep demo at a formative time in his career, today's been a very fun day in film emulation.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Immortality Design Works Deluxe Edition box is a beast, I was not prepared for this level of cool. I didn't even realise these were signed, my apologies to your wrist @mrsambarlow.bsky.social!

The Immortality Design Works Deluxe Edition box sitting on my desk, featuring signed "Polaroids" of Manon Gage and Ty Molbak, as well as a card signed by Sam Barlow.

Photo of the box set from the side, showing off the thickness of the book and the three film scripts + miscellanea it comes with

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

So cool to see some of our Sea of Thieves stylisation work still finding new life! Awesomely cool implementation 😊

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

glitter beard

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I never before realized how badly I wanted an anime adaptation of Dune Not the book The David Lynch movie

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Speed running to see how many of these 'age verification' services that the UK now has to put up with, will happily verify my Cyberpunk 2077 character. (Spoiler alert: all of them. Absolute clownshow).

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Kroox - Home of Bonktober @lekroox.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies. So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

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Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

For folks in the UK, please take a look at signing petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... which aims to repeal the Online Safety Act, which is coming into force and restricting large swathes of internet access and pushing online services to curtail their operations in the UK internet.

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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

If you see this, post a vampire.

Screenshot close up of Smiling Jack from Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Many thanks to @daggersmctimbers.bsky.social for taking good care of the camera for the group photo! 😀 It came out stellar!

Group photo from Sea of Thieves fest of some of the Sea of Thieves developers and a couple of folks from the community.

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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Had such a lovely time at my first ever #SoTFest - such a delight to be able to make it finally, and get to meet so many amazing and talented folks!

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