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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't know if I would call it successful (yet), but I now spend 1-2 days training as an apprentice in musical instrument repair...

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@borut.bsky.social As someone who consumes an unhealthy amount of urban planning youtube I *love* the concept of Neighborhoods. Let me know if you have art needs, would love to help out.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Autodesk licensing app just had a random connection error and it *forced me to save and quit* Maya mid operation. I cannot express the degree to which I detest silicon valley 2020s corporate bullsh*t. You could not make a more effective ad for Blender.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/03/2026

Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI. Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech! On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill. We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives! Rsvp link in thread!

CA
12/8 HEARING
The Al Copyright Transparency Act
URGENT! BE THERE !!
SHOW UP to support Artists & Creators NOW !!!
12/8/2025 - 10:00 AM
Stanford University - Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA 93405
Entrance faces Nathan Abbott Way
Parking: Parking Structure 6 (Cash/ Credit)
We want the sea of human creativity that is CA to be in the room!
Help us get a head count ...
RSVP:
https://bit.ly/44IRMsX

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"While trying to understand why the American middle class feels poorer each year despite healthy GDP growth and low unemployment, I came across a sentence buried in a research paper: “The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the minimum food diet cost in 1963, adjusted for inflation.""

yesigiveafig.com

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

...and the biggest US government tech contractor is named Palantir >.<

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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

they buy themselves treats because they know without drastic structural changes, those will be the only treats they get the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay

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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Watch as we flip Chess on its head by simply adding magic and dungeons and stuff. youtu.be/GYOfCM_LkyE #BelowTheCrown #indiegame #videogames #chess #Roguelike #DungeonCrawler

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Below The Crown: Gameplay Trailer 1

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I did a lot of work on this:

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Oh hi, I worked on this game. Hoping one day we get the funding to finish it.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

YO YOU GUYS REMEMBER SANDSTORM

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Total deregulation of a/i where states cannot enact any guardrails of their own. That's what's in this bill. This is some real, truly awful shit for the future of all of us and everything we post online. U.S. House Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 5calls.org to get a script and quick dial to your rep.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🎉 Skin Deep is RELEASED! 🎉 👉 Steam store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... 👉 Epic Games Store store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/skin... This game was made with a crew of wonderful folks: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... We hope you enjoy Skin Deep! ✨

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring. You can get a print of this here - www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... and you can support my little creative excursions here - patreon.com/gorangligovic

The Fellowship of the Ring in (a fantasy version of) Bronze Age getups.

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sorry I haven't been posting as much lately -- burning the midnight oil getting new pitch demos ready for #GDC next week -- drop me a line if you want to meet up and talk about NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY! #indiegamedev

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Headlocked Comics @headlockedcomic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The media since 2015.

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Coming out of games journalist retirement for exactly five seconds and having enough time to do a better job than that New York Times article

A scooby doo two panel meme of a villain being unmasked, asking "let's see what's making videogames unsustainable". The first panel has the mask captioned as "state of the art graphics" and the second panel had the unmasked villain captioned "ceo salaries"

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Not sure about that minority, I'm not seeing a lot of people arguing for the defence in this thread...

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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Nobody at Turbo Button could figure out how to make an AI-generated greeting card. But we heard studios like us are expected to use AI for everything now, so we commissioned some of our favorite artists to hand draw what they think those cards might have looked like. Here's what they came up with.

A collection of five hand-drawn greeting cards, each representing an artist's interpretation of AI-generated art.

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Allison J. James / NILDIGO LIST WISH @allis.ink · 03/12/2024

You can currently buy all of me and @danjohnston.uk 's fonts for $19. I have made nearly a thousand fonts. Daniel has made around 200. That's a PRICE

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Amazing, thank you! Just to confirm, as per the license, each font can be used in up to 5 separate commercial products?

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Let me save you from asking a Native this: Yes, some Natives celebrate Thanksgiving. Which is cool. It was our holiday first. Also, some Natives don’t. Which is also cool. But what isn’t cool, is only thinking of Natives once a year.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Was going to mention Hellblade. Dave the Diver also a AAA studio attempting an "indie" title. Maybe Manor Lords? Or Tiny Glade? Both high fidelity and polish from small teams.

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Collision Stress-Testing starting to pay-off. #ScreenshotSaturday WISHLIST NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY: store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/...

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Songs of Silence better be getting some art noms when it comes to the festival season, just saying.

A collage of art-nouveau stylized fantasy characters - sightless men in armor casting spells, a woman with a radiant bird-of-prey, all over a chilling background image of an immense, chaotic orb of dark energy dominating a natural landscape.

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voyager212 / Mac Rebisz @macspace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Scout ship scouting some alien city ruins.

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Justin Herschel | Commissions closed @daydreamer94.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Here is a tutorial on how I make my globe drawings

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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Wow, this is the coolest physical copy of Duskers I've seen 😎 www.reddit.com/r/Duskers/co...

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Ah, too bad! He is one of the nicest people you could ever meet, I'm sure he'd talk about it if he was able to.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Flexing the old pixel art chops for a minute. A little skyline I did this week for a game jam amongst friends.

A moody pixelated city at night, meant to evoke early 20th century New York or Chicago, cast in sepia tones. A suspension bridge spans in the middleground.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

The fact that *I'm* getting new followers I think really says something. Glad to see more migration here, it's really refreshing to be on a pre-enshittified platform again. Maybe I'll make an effort to post more...

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Not yet! Hopefully will remember to sneak my phone out at some point during the next show.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

I joined a Balkan brass band and they really like having me, even though I haven't really played anything since college?? My second show with them is today and I'm hyped.

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

I didn't know story board artists were paid in millions...

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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Please call it Rhythm Doggo ❤️

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