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psych ward prom king inventor of the game shoe github.com/belimoth belimoth.itch.io chicago 1991

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 8h
im tired of hearing about rogue ai, wake me when there is druid ai
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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 15h
another day in the layoff industry
My bad Canva edit of a tweet about feeding game studios to shareholders
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droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
infinite personalized music is solved
a photograph of a keyboard and also a microphone
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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 20h
"mount everest has the most deaths of all 8000+ meter mountains" factoid is actually just statistical error. mount everest averages 0 deaths a year. Dying Georg, who lives on everest & dies over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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zach @belimoth.com · 10h
it has some appeal but the point stands
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 14h
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 15h
i reflected on my failings as an engineering leader integrating AI into my team (before i quit it entirely); the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team brettcodes.com/beware/
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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team
An extensive list chronicling the risks associated with software development teams leaning hard into AI-generated code and related tooling.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Daniel Aagentah @aagentah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
for the past 6-months I’ve been developing an off-world SCIFI game that runs entirely in JavaScript. no engine, no editor, 100% WebGL with full multiplayer capability. the game pulls from many of my inspirations and includes A-LIFE simulation theory as a fully open-world non-linear concept.
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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who says "fat-pixel indie games aren't authentic because real retro games never looked like that" never owned a GBA or a DS, and is without the light of heaven.
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Ms. Washywishes @washy.works · 29/09/2026
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026
AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR THEE: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR ME: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
an approximate graph of a poll saying that ~80% of americans  think "america would be better off if more americans worked in manufacturing" whereas ~25% believe "i would be better off if i worked in a factory." the republicans polled were slightly higher in both before somebody gets mad at me for not making this about that
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jesperish @jesperish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.
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Pokémon Fangame News @pokefangamenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Emerald Rotate is out NOW! ↩️ Vanilla Pokémon Emerald but rotated 90º to the right. ⏬️ Check it out ⏬️ www.hackdex.app/hack/emerald...
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
IDK if it works for yinz, but when I was experimenting with anime outlines, I used an SDF for the inner line-work (generated from hand-draw inks with hacky c-program I wrote), whose threshold is modulated by depth.
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Pedalboard Games @pedalboard.games · 28/09/2026
Introducing: The WHEELJAM Collection 20 games from WHEELJAM 2025 and 2026, bundled on Steam for your convenience, and updated with new content, bugfixes, and more. Releasing October 14 on Steam for FREE, and with ZERO use of generative AI for ANYTHING.
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Mayor Wren @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026
As the CEO of OpenChainsaw, I'm here to deliver an update about our project to drop 100 billion running chainsaws on residential communities throughout the United States. Our project has chopped down many trees, a huge boon to our economy. However, we need to slow down and focus on safety.
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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 02/10/2025
all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd
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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 22/08/2025
Did I ever post this collage I made of Death from "The Seventh Seal" standing in front of a huge modular synthesizer
Yes, I am quite a skillful player.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hulk refers to his shadow as his only friendHulk turns and keeps monologuing about his shadow being the only thing he can count on in this life until it moves on its own and punches him in the back of the head with both fists
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there's a really nice little AI-booster-free community sprouting up at humancrafted.dev/forum to talk about the joys of coding by hand & how to navigate this current moment come help make this ad-free discussion-centric hangout zone a wonderful place!
humancrafted.dev
Humancrafted
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青木順二|Junji Aoki --Commissions Open @junji-aoki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks for art share! I create paintings with distinctive textures, often using fantasy and mythology as motifs. I specialize in gorgeous images that make extensive use of gold, marble, jewels, and lace. Feel free to DM me. my portrait:https://sites.google.com/view/junji-aoki-illustrator/top
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tara @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Age is just a number” (friend who just unlocked his spin attack at 43 years old)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'You think my webpage is amusing.'
[Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure]'No, I don't. I'm really interested in the robots.'
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
online gambling must be carefully fostered and expanded until all sports are annihilated
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dragula is actually the number one song in America
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The crux of the matter is that this bourgeoisie is more afraid of the people than of reaction. The crux of the matter is that this rightward swing has not been accidental, but has been caused by the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 27/09/2026
see, the reason it's worth learning how the world of geopolitics works, whether or not you like it, is because you find out a significant feature of the global political economy is that water in the US gets wasted on mass producing alfalfa that will then be sent to saudi arabia to feed livestock
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
piracy is culture-building. file sharing is pro social. it is good to send your friends links and files and zips and pdfs and stuff. some of the tightest knit most incredible fighting game communities are built around pirated games and downloaded roms and this is not an accident its a feature
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 15/09/2026
[a satirical Chicago CTA transit map showing a giant red circular train line extending high into the sky, deep into the earth's mantle, and through Lake Michigan.]

"CTA Unveils New Circle Line Design: New line takes advantage of newly discovered third dimension.

Stations along the route include the Jane Byrne Interchange, Sears Tower Skydeck, Bean Access via Structural Firepole, Wreck of the Silver Spray, Future Stadium of Upper Mantle Bears, Hole, and Lowest Known Wacker Drive.

Additional diagram notes indicate that the train is shown to scale, Navy Pier is intentionally ignored, the color red was chosen for the line to confuse tourists, and highlights the Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Sedementary Divide."
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leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io · 27/09/2026
Having fun finding @itch.io games that just work on little linux handhelds This is the .love version of dominaxis-games.itch.io/labyrinth-of... on a TrimUI Brick Pro
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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DREGS! is now live - support the anthology on KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some clarity fixes to this daily from last year (it was so dark)
Dogs and ghosts
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Hawkun @hawkun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shoot the dynamite.
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zach @belimoth.com · 26/09/2026
"we can't scaremonger about china directly anymore so we're pretending to be scared of the product category where they've most recently won a race"
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zach @belimoth.com · 24/09/2026
i choose death
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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every six months a supposedly "world-shatteringly rare" lobster is found and we are supposed to act like our lives are forever changed. Well I'm putting my foot down.
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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos
"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The word I use for this is "apotropaic fantasy" -- you experience a fear about something you can't control (my kid gets kidnapped, a mass shooter starts shooting) and the create a fantasy about how you would heroically respond in that situation in order to alleviate the fear.
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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of analyses are placing the blame for Dem consultants advocating transphobia on e.g. cowardice, but the better explanation is "modern transphobia is a quintessential elite panic, and these consultants, being elites, have fully bought into it"
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Naturally, the only thing that people who dread the facts can do is to keep on uttering phrases.
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voidshaper @voidshaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol I forgot Henry Rollins was in this www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQXO...
youtube.com
BLOW IT ALL UP!!!!!!!
YouTube video by KōnsoRedGrave
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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