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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this because

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cis allies, I'm really going to need you to step up and talk with your fellow cis people about why discussing Harry Potter in a shared space where anyone can hear you is demoralizing at best, and possibly triggering. I'm sitting this one out. I'm too tired.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After having pretty much forgotten about it for years, I've suddenly started getting heaps of ads for Heroes on several platforms starting on the day of Hayden Panettiere's death and I can't work out if it's more gross if that was a human's decision or fully automated algorithmic tastelessness.

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Aulet 🍂 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry has finally escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: Space

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Report author Sara Meger said the study was the first of its kind to show that misogyny was not an isolated prejudice, but a robust, cross-cutting predictor of violent extremism."

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I know the Gallipoli campaign has appeared in, like, Battlefield and things like that in the past. So why do the promotional materials for Blackmill Games' new Gallipoli game feel so gross, tasteless, and disrespectful? Is there actually a difference or was I just not paying attention before?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you want to play undercover criminals trying to avoid discovery amid tense and extended political negotiations debating sausage import regulations, I gotchu.

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Tim Denee @olddog.games · 20/08/2026

"Yes, Councillor", a wonderful cold open by @acegiak.bsky.social. A heist in the midst of the dreary civil service? Yes please and thank you.

A spread from Blades 68: the cold open "Yes, Councillor" by Ash McAllan.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Struggling with the fact that Kairi is gone

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 14/08/2026

This piece suggests that there are fewer climate activists in 2026 than a few years ago because "they kind of won" which would be darkly funny if we weren't in a much, much worse position than we were a few years ago. The *repression* is why there's fewer.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Game Artists, ESPECIALLY early in your career: I don't want to see your prettiest stuff. Have one or two super elaborate things in your portfolio to catch attention if you want, but I'm always skipping past those to go find what's actually useful to me:

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One day I will have the disposable income for a @roseschmits.bsky.social pot. Until then I must admire their squiggliness from afar.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@ramage.in Heya I'm wondering if you can help me find an answer to this question that doesn't seem to be on any of the relevant sites: If all the underlying tech stack is open source, why is the Keet.io app itself not OS? Makes it feel like there's a layer of misdirection or something in there?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm always the person telling my friends to write less when messaging and emailing, to not explain themselves because their actions and desires don't need justification. And then as soon as I get a cute person's number I fully scare them off with a wall of text the next day 🙄

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's a little bit funny to me that code is written in imperative tense. I don't know what else it would be written in but still, I'm absolutely picturing a person looking at a computer, pointing to a printer and demanding "print 'hello world'!"

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the "moderate, compromise" position.

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Actually | DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That's the normal age to start puberty. so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another little project writeup. This lil guy was explicitly motivated by needing to make something with my hands while working on other projects with the 3d printer which just doesn't really feel the same. acegiak.net/o/554ed0a7b9...

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you can't define the boundaries of a gender, you cannot oppress it.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I am biased but this is genuinely on my list of greatest games of all time.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Finally finished my Cyberdeck build. Took a minute but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. acegiak.net/articles/9cc...

Cyberdeck with case printed in sparkly purple and metallic copper filament with little decorative embellishments in the copper color.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Don't ask me why I made this. I don't know.

Pope Leo and the archbishop of Canterbury with the title "schism Crew 2026"

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Fellas, you've got to understand, "goes to gym but skips leg day" is the biggest ick turnoff. It's a massive indicator that you don't know what women want, can't give it to them, and are actually just seeking the attention of other men.

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tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Panpsychism is increasingly popular in a lot of the philosophy content circles I am audience to and I don't quite understand how you get to the point of deconstructing conciousness enough that you decide that it exists in everything and don't go "well then maybe it doesn't exist?"

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nothing has affirmed the knowledge that liberals fundamentally do not see trans people as human beings as much as the reactions, or lack thereof, I've seen today.

Jubilee and Sunspot arrested and collared after being turned into the fascists by liberals. "Because we always end up in the same ugly place."

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/06/2026

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I feel like as a trans woman I want a better term for the experience of being validated by misogyny.

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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 17/06/2026

Brianna Ghey was fucking murdered.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Parents treat coming out as a death because they thought you were an object they owned and asserting your own identity takes that away from them.

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Blood Lily 🩸 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 07/06/2026

People often downplay the mental/emotional changes and benefits, but they're huge

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Mom Friend S. Pumpkins @momfriend64.northsky.social · 30/05/2026

Your favorite people are about to disappear from your timeline. Reminds me of that Nixon official saying "we couldn't make it illegal to be Black or against the war but we could criminalize weed." They're wanna be subtler than banning every trans person and so many of us share progress pics

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joemag @joemag.games · 29/05/2026

Tom Steyer being full-throated in his support of trans rights and trans athletes pushed me off the fence. Of course I'm concerned about voting for a billionaire but who the hell else is doing anything remotely like this right now?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What does everyone else do with their knicknacks? Little toys or figurines, bag and phone charms that are nice but you're not going to put them on your bag or phone, pins and badges you don't wear but still like, etc?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Honestly, it's wild but I think that the idea of AI becoming conscious and super intelligent and taking over the world and destroying it was wishful thinking.

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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 06/05/2026

It's RPG prototyping livestreaming time... www.twitch.tv/kaynsd #gamedev #indiedev

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ellie @ellieglassheart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Everyone should be nicemaxxing. You should be kindmogging everyone

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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 05/05/2026

Our Claude Who art in computer Hallowed be thy intellectual firepower You are a world class expert On earth as you are in the computer Double check all facts and figures And never hallucinate those things against me. Do not lecture me on ethics Or flatter me excessively Forever Run prompt.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Another game design terminology poll! What do you call the most basic kind of enemy which you expect players to kill hundreds of in the course of play?

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Open Hearth Gaming Community @openhearthrpg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We're also working to support designer Rae Nedjadi, who has recently been released from the hospital. If you've enjoyed any of their games (like Apocalypse Keys, Once More into the Void, Our Haunt, etc.) you can support or donate at patreon.com/swordqueenga... or ko-fi.com/matthewarcilla

Promo image for the Help Rae Recover project

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Cammi @cammi-dmg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pink Lady's Breast Augmentation

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

being trans rules actually and the only downsides are deliberately manufactured by cis people

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thinking this morning about the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph (www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/warning/) and the way that the women of my generation around me have all been so eager to declare themselves old women, or describe themselves with words like "nana-core", etc.

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Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. / And...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Palantir’s “manifesto” trends on X, showcasing its evil The post makes explicit what Palantir wants: the supremacy of the US military industrial complex to infiltrate every aspect of our lives www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

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Palantir’s “manifesto” trends on X, showcasing its evil

The post makes explicit what Palantir wants: the supremacy of the US military industrial complex to infiltrate every aspect of our lives

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 21/04/2026

Remember, managers: schedule a bit more time for meetings with women in them so there's enough time for a man to repeat her ideas back to the room and gain emphatic agreement. Another ten minutes per woman should do.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

another thing which irks me about the Cis People Taking Hormones columns is trans folk have long said "maybe a lot of folk would be happier with a slightly different hormonal setup to what their body produces"

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