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Joe Sondow

@joesondow.bsky.social
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😷 Covid-Cautious 👨‍💻 Video Game Dev 🀄 Board Games 🎲 TTRPGs 🐈 Cats 💸 #UBI 🦠 #CovidIsAirborne 📵 No AI 🕺 He/Him 📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/JoeSondow 🤖 My bots: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rdhxknv734…

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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Playing the Handshakes: Hands On demo with @ambierona.bsky.social twitch.tv/joesondow
Puzzle game with a maze and two smiling cartoon people with long arms and giant hands trying to reach each other
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Samwise Masks @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have no idea who/where I plucked this from, but on this chilly autumnal Jersey morning:
A parody of an Animorphs book cover featuring Seinfeld’s George Costanza being gradually transfored into a bowl of soup.

The book’s title is “Soup Mode” with the flavore text “Shh. I’m shifting into…”
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Two Masks COVID-Informed People Wear: One for the airborne virus — one for the frustration of watching people repeatedly get sick while public health messaging continues to fail them. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by the user tern (@1goodtern).
The text of the post reads: "I wear two masks: a visible one to reduce my exposure to airborne pathogens, and an invisible one to hide the scream behind my eyes every time I encounter yet another person with long-term health problems caused by covid infection."
The post is dated 3:55 PM · Sep 20, 2026 and shows a metric of 11.2K Views.
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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know that sharing this is probably not going to change the mind of anyone who isn't already masking and taking #Covid seriously, but I have to do my due diligence and at least try! Years from now, people will be like "Nobody told us! 😫" about this, too. Some of us are trying, dawg!! #maskup 😷
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What am I supposed to do with this overwhelming rage and grief and fear I feel after Mamdani and Jon Stewart disclosed that the majority of the people I know and care for in NYC were breathing in toxic air for months...years?

How we were encouraged to go downtown and have dinner, see a movie, go shopping all whilst Pataki and Giuliani and Bush knew we were breathing and touching asbestos?! They did not care as long as the economy was ok!

I've never felt more betrayed by my fucking government.

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I really hate to pile on here, but they are doing the same thing with Covid. The air is not safe, Covid causes damage to your immune system, brain, heart, etc, even when you have a mild infection. And they've been telling everyone for years that's it's all fine and good and we should live like Covid isn't still circulating and causing immense harm. They don't care as long as the economy is okay.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/09/2026
The only acceptable AI music. The only acceptable AI art #StarTrekDay
Android Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation is playing a violin Android Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation is holding a paintbrush over a painting.
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Playing some more Schrodinger's Cat Burglar with @ambierona.bsky.social on stream twitch.tv/JoeSondow twitch.tv/ambierona
Video game of cat in sci fi room
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Streaming some Schroedinger's Cat Burglar with @ambierona.bsky.social twitch.tv/JoeSondow
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
5 infectious disease stories NOT to miss this week: ⬆️ COVID wave 🧬 Long COVID: new immune clues 🐄 Live H5N1 in lab bovine serum ⚠️ 2 measles-associated deaths in PA 💉 New COVID shots What do these signals tell us? 👀 📰 Dr. Ruth Report 8/30/26 buff.ly/p17FHl8 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth 😷 🧪
Dr. Ruth Report dated 8/30/26, with the headline “5 Key Updates This Week.” Five numbered panels summarize: 1) COVID wave increases, illustrated with a rising COVID activity chart; 2) new COVID shots approved, illustrated by a vaccine vial and shield; 3) HHV-6 antibodies linked to Long COVID, showing higher IgA associated with more Long COVID and symptoms, while higher IgG is associated with less Long COVID and fewer symptoms; 4) live H5N1 virus found in fetal bovine serum, illustrated by a serum vial and virus; and 5) two measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania, illustrated with a Pennsylvania map and virus. A blue footer says “Stay Informed” and “Read It Now: drruth.substack.com.” The design uses a navy, gold, white, and bright accent-color palette with clean medical illustrations and ample white space.
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/08/2026
My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 15/08/2026
I'm not being very productive, which could be due to sleep or thyroid. But what I can do is dick around on social media. So let's share again the starter packs I made of game devs who refuse to use gen AI in any capacity. Here you go: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Streaming some more puzzle solving with @ambierona.bsky.social tonight. I like the puzzles in this game so far. The dialogue is surprisingly flirtatious at every stage. twitch.tv/JoeSondow

Menu screen of Puzzle Spy International video game, showing woman holding envelope. Various suspicious characters in the background.
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Attempting to resurrect my twitter game bots on mastodon (because Bluesky doesn’t do polls)
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I once saw Douglas Adams live on stage for a book tour. His final rant at the end of the event was that www was the worst abbreviation because it takes so much longer to say "double you double you double you" than to say "world wide web."
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 03/08/2026
Oh my god can people stop referring in the past tense to Covid already. Its still fucking there
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just 🔸2 days🔸 left to snag this TTRPG bundle and help designer Rae Nedjadi pay down the expenses incurred by a long hospital stay. Over $285 worth of games for just 25 bucks, and 98% of your donation goes directly to Rae. Act now, the bundle vanishes on Aug 1st! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026
All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Playing some Schrodinger's Cat Burglar with Ambie twitch.tv/JoeSondow
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Shawneee @shawneee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I made a Covid concious Discord for working-class people (leftists outspoken against Western capitalist & imperial values). Society enabling fascism & eugenics is isolating for many of us, in particular people with already existing disabilities & health issues. discord.gg/ZNj8E2wqBY
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Join the Covid&Life Discord Server!
Check out the Covid&Life community on Discord - hang out with 554 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The double digit rates of hospital acquired infections reported in study after study all over the world is deeply disappointing & infuriating.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New: US cyclosporiasis outbreak now exceeds 12000 across 41 states w/6-week lag in case reporting, US CDC website replaces fact page with false vaccine autism claims, Covid surges in US and 6+ countries, 35% of Covid in Canada hospitals caught *in hospitals* and more: www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...
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Pandemic Roundup: July 23, 2026 | Threat Model
This newsletter is an inclusive, curated selection of new findings and fresh perspectives on Covid-19, dedicated to finding the highest qual
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 22/07/2026
What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."
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farukofaruko @farukofaruko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Looking for a fourth player for @paizo.com's Mechageddon on @startplaying.bsky.social! Pilot your mech and battle the colossi threatening to destroy a civilization! Beginners welcome!! System: Starfinder 1E Time: Sunday 2 PM CDT Length: 3 hours/week Price: $25 per session #Starfinder #LFP #TTRPG
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Join Colossus Crisis! - A Mecha vs. Kaiju Adventure LGBTQIA+🏳️‍🌈 - Discord / Foundry VTT - Starfinder | StartPlaying Games
The world of Daimalko, once green and lush, has been devastated by giant monsters known as colossi for hundreds of years. As a recruit of the New Valor Defense Force's 13th squadron of elite mech pilo...
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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
EVERYBODY STAY CALM! we have realtime area lights in godot, I REPEAT, AREA LIGHTS IN GODOT, this is not a drill 🚨 🗣️
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Playing some more Puzzle Spy International and maybe Schrodinger's Cat Burglar with Ambie twitch.tv/JoeSondow twitch.tv/ambierona
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farukofaruko @farukofaruko.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Godzilla stands next to a skyscraper in a 2D game with a person in a dialogue box below saying, "Go ahead and destroy AI data centers Godzilla. Make the people happy"
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Streaming some co-op puzzle games with @ambierona.bsky.social tonight Schrodinger's Cat Burglar Puzzle Spy International twitch.tv/JoeSondow twitch.tv/ambierona
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Had to take a break but I'm back to Puzzle Monday streaming with Ambie. We're starting the demo of We Were Here Tomorrow. twitch.tv/JoeSondow
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Czepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Happy Free VTT Day! Claim FREE Alchemy modules, including games like Blades in the Dark and City of Mist, campaign settings like Heckna!, adventures, map packs, music, and more! Grab all the goodies at... app.alchemyrpg.com/marketplace
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's not too late to call your reps to vote NO on KOSA, and if you like being able to sign on to the internet without entering your driver's license or passport number, it's crucial that you do! I left a message over the weekend and called again for good measure today. I hope you do the same!
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 28/11/2025
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it? Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
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Lola Germs @lolagerms.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If you would like to help me embarrass the WHO into doing their jobs, please tune in to to the premiere of my feature-length clean air science history extravaganza this Sunday June 21st at 2pm NYC time, to find out what's gone so wrong with public health. youtu.be/yuXVu595DBI?...
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The Scientific Mistake That Public Health Refuses to Admit
YouTube video by Lola Germs
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Lola Germs @lolagerms.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We would all be better off if infrastructure was updated to provide cleaner indoor air in public places, using technology that is already well understood and known to be safe-- it's just not happening.
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The Power of Pride Bundle 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @powerofpridebundle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The #PowerofPride2026 bundle has hit $20K combined in our first week! Thank you to everyone who's checked it out so far for supporting all the queer creators in the bundle 🤗🏳️‍🌈 Pick up the bundle for yourself here! $60 edition: itch.io/b/3682/the-p... $10 PWYC edition: itch.io/b/3684/the-p...
 Heart-shaped tracker filled up to the goal of 20K!
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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BakaTy - GOBTV: Where Cheeselords Bigfind Happy Pridetimes! @bakatyler.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/05/2026
I like that instead of the usual retort to the "batman should fund social programs" argument of "He does", this thread goes the extra mile to note "He does and it's not enough 'cause of the 12 evil gods, 3 draculas, and the infinite horrors of mankind that are set out to undermine all that is good"
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I don't know
Drawing of a puppy, a pink bunny, and a blue cat with the caption; "Be who you are. But like, who am I?"
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Jonathan @jmcrookston.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
First rule of Virus Club is we don't talk about airborne transmission of viruses.
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Streaming some co-op games with Ambie tonight twitch.tv/JoeSondow twitch.tv/ambierona
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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com
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Star Trek Title Card Generator
Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The AI bubble as an interpretive dance
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15/05/2026
UBI is a human right. It became one the moment public land became private property. If you only get something in compensation for that loss if your income is low, your right is infringed. If you only get certain approved services, your right is still infringed. A right is UNIVERSAL + UNCONDITIONAL
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The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
There is an argument frequently made against the concept of unconditional basic income (UBI) that essentially goes like this: "Life requires work. You can't just expect to live without work, and it's ...
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today's newsletter is a full brief on the hantavirus situation but it comes with exclusive soothing content (see below). Sign up for inbox delivery and more bellyrubs here: www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue
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Loki @lord-loki-asgard.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are live now with more The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom! www.twitch.tv/lord_loki_as...
The logo for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom video game.  The title is in stylized white text with the Master Sword passing downwards through the Z. Behind the title is a green ouroboros with a unique design.
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Cee • Artsy Black DrPH Student • MPH, MCHES 💖 @theprojectc7.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s Final Fantasy Time! We’ll be playing some FFXIV tonight to make some progress Post-Endwalker as we inch toward Dawntrail! Feel free to lurk and hang out (and if you can’t come, no worries, there will be a VOD). twitch.tv/c7andr7__
A title card for Cee’s Final Fantasy Series!
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evolcigam | Bailee 🗡️ @evolcigam.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
BRUH. I'm turning my camera on for the first time in months omg ALSO, we're playing Adorable Adventures! 🐖 🪄 twitch.tv/evolcigam
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🎮 Let's Play Adorable Adventures - I've reached peak form! 🐷 | Lurkers always appreciated 💖 | !discord !throne !palestine
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Yoda with text May the second be with you
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