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David Mason @davidmasoncomposer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hi! I'm the music composer and sound designer for DREDGE and I am officially looking for new work !! If you've got a cool game that needs audio of any kind. Please reach out. My DM's are open. Here's a few of the cool games I've done the music and sound design for! 🔊🎵 #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We will see, in fewer than 18 years, that 1) there's a predictable demographic tilt to 'who benefits' (ie not the ethnic groups that typically have less access to tech/economy), and 2) there's a grift here that we're not seeing right now.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/10/2026

The idea that ambiguity in communication is what causes men to rape is another one of those fictions we indulge in as a society to obfuscate how sexual assault is more or less a game to men, how groups of men encourage and enable each other and how it forms the basis of their social standing.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mature Minded Gamers provided me with a key to Graveyard Keeper 2 and asked me to make a review video. They seem pretty happy with the result (and I don't hate it). www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJq0...

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Graveyard Keeper 2 Review: The Good, The Bad & The Jank

YouTube video by Mature Minded Gamers

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I must have watched that movie 10+ times as a kid...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean... You have a certain vibe. :P

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have no idea. That's not how we prepped for the competition, at all. (and it's not how that particular competition was scored) The Ethics Bowl is (was?) a US-based intramural thing, that UBC was also invited to attend.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did debate via a philosophy thing in uni (the Ethics Bowl). I went to the uni's debate club (Uni of British Columbia) to see if there were anything to pick up, and it was just gish gallop after gish gallop there because you just got scored on how many unrefuted points you made. It was grotesque.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Legacy of Slavery - My family and Bristol

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks, that was interesting. :)

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That's a great shot! What's the statue in the foreground? It's new to me.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Americans stop talking about the UK like it's a desert without food options, Challenge Level: Impossible

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My bad, I have no idea why my brain went straight to DnD when you didn't bring it up...

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey @polygon.com: I wasn't following you before, but I'm blocking you now. Absolute fucking losers whinging because an awesome actor is doing a VO isn't "a controversy". The American definition of "controversy" (ie two contextless groups disagreeing about something) is bullshit: stop using it.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/09/2026

The most perfect, and easiest, crime

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 13/02/2024

Also

Screenshot of 2 tweets by Chris Marks:
Steven Pinker's books are like "people say that life is unjust and intolerable under neoliberal capitalism. But in fact, mean global consumption of fruit-by-the-foot is up 300x when compared to our 19th century counterparts"

But fruit by the foot didn't exist in the 1800s?

Steven Pinker: Not as we currently think of it, no. But if you consider fruit that had dropped from trees and was literally by people's feet, the picture starts to become much clearer

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's wild. Something like 70% of philosophy profs self-describe as hard determinists/materialists. (I am not a prof, to be clear) "all of these people with philosophy PhDs are ignorant bigots" is definitely a position someone can take. An informed position? An educated one? Probably not.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

We have gotten three mandatory Birth of a Nations per year every year since 9/11 what the hell are you taking about

The poster for Daily Wire Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a film in which Jonathan Majors portrays a thinly veiled surrogate to Ben Shapiro, who of course fantasizes about being a large Black marine. He is a speaker at a colleges & has to kill Muslims

The poster for Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante in which Uwe Boll plays a white American immigrant in Europe that is enacting vigilante justice on immigrants for being brown

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In my particular case: yup, I'm a physicalist (or, as we say in philosophy, a materialist). Is that some sort of gotcha in AIbro world?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Hey all, Im looking for any academics who may be able to help someone from Gaza get enrolled in a European University. Please let me know if you can help or if you know of anyone who could help.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can jump right into the playtest if you want. It's... not great. The action economy is absolutely shit. I'm hopeful that that's something they move to the top of the list of things to deal with.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

thehandbasket.co

Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If US politics have taught us one thing (and they've taught us many): citizenship tests are absolute bullshit. Frankly: anyone who wants to be Irish is Irish, imo. The end. Please don't be a gobshite, but given the amount of Irish people who already are? /shrug

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I couldn't answer a single one of those, and I grew up with a nephew (I think, it was 30 years ago) of Pat. (The downside of not giving a shit about sports is also not giving a shit about GAA)

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A lot of people seem to take it as a fact that the private sector has secret efficiency magic the public sector doesn't have. It doesn't. It pays workers less and charges more for the same service. That's like 99% of private sector "efficiency." And everyone's worse off, except shareholders.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm fine with citizenship via descent. And also for people born in the country. And, fuck it, if the parents were thinking about travelling to Ireland at some point, maybe, in the future. Perhaps? Sure, kid is a citizen. (fuck all borders/nations)

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It might be the alcohol talking, but this is so fucking good........

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As someone with a degree in philosophy, who spent a whole bunch of time focusing on ethics: the effective altruists and "rationalists" are completely full of shit. Utterly. Without exception. Yes, including Singer.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I usually don't say stuff like this but I'm having a lot of feelings about the noise around Macklemore/Sheeran, most stemming from decades of watching the American people & govt not giving a shit for Palestine or the Palestinian people. I wish y'all had gotten this exercised before Oct 8, 2023.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

- we're part of the (WASP) club, no really, please don't kick us out, stfuMacklemore... And are terrified that if the money is fucked with, we'll have to face reality. (anyone claiming that I think that this subsection is of a particular size is making unsupported claims) 2/2

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran represents the worst of Irish people. Those of us who want to pretend that: - Irish history began with the economic recovery of the 1990s; - generations of struggle and genocide leave no lasting marks; - we're plastic fucking Paddies, all smiles and no depth; 1/2

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.

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Brian Lynchehaun @blynchehaun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I tried 10 different ones on the same piece once, and the variance was the same as yours: all over the fucking place.

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