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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 3h

this is an AMAZING blog - it touches on a lot of stuff I've marinated on myself about the game. highlight of my week to read!

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 5h

a lot of survivors I know personally are just kinda avoiding too much time on social media, I know I am. I can only microdose this stuff so often without getting extremely brain foggy from PTSD shit

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 8h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

IMEU
POLICY PROJECT
The following Senators voted YES on a resolution that would require the State Department to investigate and report on Israel's rampant human rights abuses against Palestinians in the illegally-occupied West Bank, as well as Israel's killing of 9 US citizens since 2022:
• Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)

• Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
• Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

• Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
• Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)

• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)

• Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

• Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)

• Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
• Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)

• Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
• Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

• Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

• Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
• Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

• Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)

• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

• Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ)
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

• Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
• Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

• Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 12h

The entire Dummy album by Portishead

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Jacob is still here still queer 🏳️‍⚧️ @casualjacob.bsky.social · 17h

Hey gang, I'm live with some #Overwatch for as long as my sciatic nerve allows me to sit here. :) twitch.tv/casual_jacob_

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Casual_Jacob_ - Live on Twitch

Doctrine waiting room | Streaming overwatch.

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John-Charles Holmes @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 29/09/2026

girls night out 🥊🪑

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026

I love the frustratingly realistic sewing in Dressmaker: aftermath.site/dressmaker-sew...

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re: LRT What an apt metaphor for the continuous work of showing up for the people you want to be an ally towards and how you have to constantly be quietly doing the work to defend against systemic anything

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

this is such a cute meme idea, I had to make my own version #overwatch

Two image meme from Overwatch, top image is Kiriko making the photo frame gesture with her hands from the Yaosobi collaboration dance, which frames her eyes and she's looking at the camera. Bottom image is showing her hands framed around the camera but looking at her subject, Juno, waving at her.

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So you can buy a 1 cup moka pot. It's so tiny.

Bialetti moka pot, which is a silver metal coffee contraption with a black handle sitting on a black metal stove top burner

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2009. you have no idea what it was like to be internet games famous in the before times

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 27/09/2026

the three little words every woman wants to hear

title card from 'Point Blank' reading

Filmed in PANAVISION®

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Text chat is the lowest stakes when it comes to speaking to others because it is asynchronous but also fairly fast moving and making people stumble to read actually demands more attention rather than less so it comes off extremely performative

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I want to ban people who use tiny text in Markup on Discord because it makes it hard to read and low contrast. Public chat doesn't need *sotto voce* that everyone has to struggle to read because you have social anxiety or talk like a fictional protagonist in a social environment

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/09/2026

i want to burn every data centre to the ground

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today!!!!

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One time there was a subskeet about dudes on here being creepy, and then two dudes in the comments were like "Creeps in Bluesky? Oh no!" and basically saying they were too scared of women to be sexist, and then the OP was like, "This post is literally about you two in particular." Completely ethered

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i love that every journalism job right now is "train the evil robot vizier for $500 an hour" or "write thousands of words in the hope that valnet's goblins will throw you a few nickels" that's really great

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Virginia Paine @milkybootscomix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New comic I’ll have tomorrow at @milkcomicfest.bsky.social !

A photo of my hand holding my new comic. It’s called I have always been fat and it’s yellow!

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🌱 MK/RET @retquits.art · 12/03/2025

caldarus sketch 📜 #art ✧ #fieldsofmistria ✧ #fomspoilers

Fanart of Caldarus, from Fields of Mistria, portrayed in his spring outfit.

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't play Control Resonant until I get a new computer, I guess

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songbird @noctsilk.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

phoenix kiss

an illustration by Spindle of a phoenix girl with fiery skin colour (orange and red) and black hair, with massive fiery wings on her back, kissing Asimov, a half elf with short white hair

Note: tis also pre-otti

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 25/09/2026

zoe and i had so much fun answering readers' questions LIVE and IN PERSON and ON VIDEO!!! check it out

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't believe Blizzard launched the World of Warcraft: Forever beta without a proper filter for the new dual name system, but at least it's punishing people for abusing it. www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...

pcgamer.com

World of Warcraft: Forever dev has 'no sympathy' for players kicked from the beta for offensive names: 'If you're genuinely confused, remember that it's our database, we can see every character you've...

Blizzard devs are having to manually go through a list to flag the names that aren't allowed.

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven't played Control Resonant yet because last night is the first time this week I got more than five hours of sleep

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Nimi Nightmare 💭 @niminightmare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nimi + new Dressmaker game = trouble. You know I have to try it out!! www.youtube.com/live/5MktG00...

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【Dressmaker】 Who let Nimi have a new dress up game?

YouTube video by Nimi Nightmare

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 24/09/2026

it's ME writing about WOLVERINE!!!!! for @mothership.blog which you should already be subscribed to anyway, but if you're not yet, this is a good time to join us. this game is so fucking strange and i am obsessed with it even though it's not fun to play. allow me to explain why............

mothership.blog

The Wolverine game may not be good but thank goodness it's weird

It's not fun to play and yet I had a great time

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cabin in September Mike Gough 2023

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

happy bi visibility day, especially if you are like me and in your 40s and had to work all day so you're just tired and forgot what day it was

Smoking Ben Affleck meme overlaid with a pink to blue gradient that mimics the bisexual pride flag. He is standing smoking on a doorstep, with his eyes closed, looking long-suffering. he has a sweater on and jeans.

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golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

happy bi visibility day, especially if you are like me and in your 40s and had to work all day so you're just tired and forgot what day it was

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An edited screencap of a recent World of Warcraft: Forever YouTube video about increased weather effects. Yellow capitalized Dark Souls text reads RAIN RESTORED in the middle. Below it is a scene with a character kneeling in the wooden doorway of a building watching a rainstorm coat the town.

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026

'Man banned from Oz Comic-Con after biting incident' is not an AI-related headline I thought I'd be reading this week: aftermath.site/ai-art-man-bit...

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

real Mat Heads will recognise this is actually a sequel to me chatting about final fantasy 9 with rina sawayama youtube.com/shorts/ffSp6...

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Robert Pattinson didn't realize FF7 Remake was a trilogy #primetime

YouTube video by IGN

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

medical bills are so cute. im not paying that but i think you are just darling for asking ❤️

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