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Alejandro Arque @darkvegetamad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did a podcast! Max Pears on The Level Design Lobby invited me to have a chat with him about my years making games, Directive 8020, Switchback VR, Life is Strange, game direction, design, building teams and many other things! Thanks Max for having me! #GameDev #GameDirector #GameDesign #VideoGames

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Press Start: The Alejandro Arque Story

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026

I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is heartbreaking 😢 If you know of any roles, Alejandro is a wonderful game director and a great human.

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of the great things about living in London is the many events I get to go to! Yesterday I saw Sunyi Dean, Eliza Chan and Claire North, and got my books signed 🤘

Authors Eliza Chan, Sunyi Dean and Claire North at Waterstones Trafalgar Square in London

The Broken Binding edition of book The Girl With a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean, signed and dedicated

Goldsboro edition of the book Harbour of Hungry Ghosts by Eliza Chan, signed and dedicated

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/08/2026

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Good. Right now this only applies to social media, but it's only a matter of time before it applies to products as well. That would mean that any game studio planning to sell in the EU - i.e all of them - would need to disclose their Gen AI use or risk some hefty fines. Bring it on.

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In an effort to prevent my Bluesky account from being just me complaining about AI, I thought I’d end the month talking about the things that made me happy. First up: my fave read this month was The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. If you’re into Greek retellings, this is an excellent one.

Photo of the anniversary edition of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Still the best speech in the LOTR trilogy. And feels extremely relevant to the times we live in. A lot of days do feel this hopeless.

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m glad we can all go to sleep feeling happy.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The absolute gut punch of seeing mentors and heroes fall for the ai grift. Seeing their avatars flip to ugly generated art, their posts start to read like they were generated… lashing out at people who’ve clearly privately tried to walk them back to reality. We’re losing a lot of 50+ nerds to this

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

# youtube_nusic: ~l.5h runtine # 113,879 hours of youtube_rusic 12,287 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics 16,843 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics_for genius_hg: -1.3h runting 17,615 hours of genius_hq 41, 544 hours of genius_hq lyrics 17,387 hours of genius ha_lyrics_ foreign freesound: -B.2h runting 410 hours of freesound # insip: -B.2h runtine 19,514 hours of insip # jamendo: ~B.1h runtine 3,726 hours of janendo * ponds_music: ~1.1h runtine # 62,117 hours of ponds_music # deezer: -8. 5h runtine 12,287 hours of deezer 10,175 hours of deezer_lyrics 6,699 hours of deezer_lyrics_foreign * ytn_tagged: ~2h runtine # 152,162 hours of ytn_ tagged # musescore: -B.1h runtine 183 hours of nusescore_lyrics

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Paresh Dave @peard33.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

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Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets

The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Same, Very Hungry Caterpillar, same

Cover of book titled “Why Is It Hot?”, part of The Very Hungry Caterpillar series. It is indeed Very Hot in London right now

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

sorry we can't afford to pay workers to make videogames, we threw all our money into a hole . no one likes or wants to use the hole and the hole also makes video games more expensive. the hole also drinks all our water

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Night 2 of the Metallica concert in London. What a dream come true to watch them live!

Photo of night 2 of Metallica’s concert in London Stadium in July, showing the crowd and the event poster on screen

Members of Metallica playing on stage in London Stadium, surrounded by fans

Crowd shot of the Metallica concert in London, showing the stage surrounded by red fog and screens showing the band

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

How cool is Metallica’s illustration for their London show?

Shot of Metallica’s concert in London Stadium, showing an illustrated poster on big screens. The poster features a skeleton in a hooded cape surrounded by rats, with Tower Bridge in the background

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If you’re in London and in need of refuge from the heat, the Tate Modern has a/c and some cool art.

View of the Turbine Hall inside the Tate Modern

Installation named gadzi by artist Nora Chipaumire. Uses various materials to depict stones from her native country, Zimbabwe

Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, depicting a thinly stretched human shape

Room installation by artist Richard Long, using a circle of stones and a black and white wall

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/05/2026

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

Cartoon Separate But Equal from the Guardian.
Link to access provided alt text:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/22/ella-baron-on-the-ehrcs-transgender-guidance-cartoon

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

oh no, i don't use the ai for <thing that i am paid to do> it's terrible at that. it's great for <thing you are paid to do> though.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Happy Directive 8020 launch day! I’m so happy to have played a small part in bringing this game to life. Congrats to the team! 🤘👩‍🚀

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Happy 25 de Abril for my fellow Portuguese people and everyone that loves freedom and democracy! ✊🌹

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

What an insanely cool collaboration.

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sam @samthielman.com · 20/04/2026

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

It's the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue-
"Homer, I don't want you to do that."
"Then I won't do it."Then the next day, when I get up, the script's been written.
It's lousy, but it's a script. The hard part is done. It's like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I've taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

what being alive currently feels like

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy steps in bear trap and screams

Panel 2: Purple Guy gets punched in the penis by a boxing glove

Panel 3: Purple Guy gets set on fire

Panel 4: Purple Guy lying on the ground, almost dead. Blue guy sticks head into shot and says: Heads up, things are about to get bad

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Des Gayle @kiddesimo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Introducing the “AI-BOROS”: the few companies at the ‘top’ of the economy handing each other billions of (debt-ridden) dollars for a product that both doesn’t exist AND doesn’t make any money. and we ALL get to go broke when it inevitably implodes ha ha i love it here!!! youtu.be/ifyaI4TOsDM?...

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The Entire Tech Industry is Screwed

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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Jesstergen 👩🏻‍🚀 ✨ @rougerogue.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My top games of 2025: 👑 Blue Prince ✨ Hades II ☄️ Ball x Pit 🔮 Absolum 🎨 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Absolutely brilliant year for games. Wish I had played more, but feeling very happy about how much I got to, all things considered.

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I usually like to do an end of year reflection, but it’s hard for me to describe this beautiful, terrifying year. Motherhood really does change everything (for the better! But it’s also very scary).

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Last book for 2025: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. Perfect little fairytale to end the year on.

Cover of the book The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Can’t wait for the next Nebula awarded titles: Sand Mountain; Do Robots Think of Electronic Goats; Killerdroid; 1985.

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 18/12/2025

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Sick season with a one year old truly is relentless. 🫠

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Arrived in Bergen today to speak at Konsoll, this city is so incredibly beautiful!

Overview of the city of Bergen, Norway from above

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I wanted to start using Bluesky again, but because I’m in the UK, it’s asking me for age verification in order for me to use DMs and see mature content. It’s not accepting my card and I don’t feel like having my face scanned by some random company. 🥲 Anyone else had to do this?

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Sofia Romualdo @auralis.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Hello Bluesky folks! For my first post, here is a photo of my cats Freya and Ragnar hanging out under my desk while I work.

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