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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E

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Apocalypse is here

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession: FINNEAS Lukas Graham Beoga Aaron Rowe

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

North Carolina teachers spend an average of $1,632 of their own money on school supplies, per Fortune.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 07/08/2026

This isn't about games but same for games. Please don't let anyone tell you you're doing creative things "wrong", including myself. You're not here to make my things, or their things, you're here to make your things. Feedback is just another perspective - believe in yourself.

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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When I say that you have to be leery of who critiques your art, your life will depend on it. The wrong person giving you critique will have you fighting with your own creativity, leaving you mentally unwell. Especially if you don't have enough people around you encouraging your art

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

People across the country, including multiple Senators, are urging the CFTC to crack down on Kalshi and Polymarket wildfire betting, saying that having markets gambling on wildfires could incentivize arson.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

while i was buying a mountain dew, a man with no teeth said “a mountain dew man! i drink it every day!” and it was like being visited by the ghost of christmas future

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And if you understand why subaltern-class reactionary nationalism can seem momentarily progressive given historical exigencies of oppression and dislocation... congratulations, you understand why early Zionism had a lot of left-wing support.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

often think about how the most insidious thing about 2010's identity/trauma discourse for me is the conclusion it so often ended up in "you could never even hope to comprehend my experiences or struggle if you come from a different identity group, the best thing you can do is bear witness"

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/07/2026

This is horrifying and so important. Israel's continued massacres, child murder, genocide, forced starvation, concentration camps, targeted and structured destruction of life, and ethnic cleansing continues. It's easy to not see the full scale of this unparalleled evil. archivegenocide.com

Israel Exposed — War Crimes Archive
64,515 videos · 17,904 photos

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

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This Upcoming Stealth Game Wants To Show You A Beautiful Palestine

“We wanted to talk about Palestine, which is a land full of people

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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is the reach for such post, a systematic way to hide our stories. This is one of a million story that happen everyday.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

On Monday the Trump admin will launch the tariff refund system for the $166 billion in tariffs they illegally collected. And all of that money will go to companies. 56,497 importers are set to get refunds so far, with no requirement they pass that money along to customers.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If we want to win elections, we're going to need to be a big tent party. The Guy Who Wants To Stab You has to be in the tent. If you can't form a coalition with The Guy Who Wants To Stab You, you're probably not serious about winning. And if we don't win, somebody is probably going to stab you.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 22/03/2026

you kinda have to have brain worms in the first place to accept any notion that people who aren’t bothered enough to do anything about an open pedophile ring involving the president and keep trying to legalize child marriage in various states suddenly care about protecting children

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 23/12/2025

“They only use genAI for internal use” “It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2025

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted about how the agency is taking action to “ensure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water.” At the same time, the agency terminated over $15 million in grants for “forever chemicals” research. (Published July)

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Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in fundin...

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

crazy that i grew up having people tell me "you'll get more conservative as you get older, you'll see" and instead i'm like one post away from an fbi visit every day

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

...as they are trying to shape it, it's a genuinely authoritarian technology: program the dominant machines to give your version of truth, and make alternative versions illegal. For would-be fascists, that level of information control and dominance is irresistible. Meanwhile...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 30/07/2025

“That settler that Trump emboldened killed the man that Trump deported.” @premthakker.bsky.social unpacks how a violent —and previously sanctioned — Israeli Settler killed Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian teacher and crew member of the Oscar-winning film ‘No Other land.’

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

what's the best thing you've read on the rise of gambling/sports betting/the whole world feels like a casino now thing?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/07/2025

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Lmao

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 01/07/2025

there's a terrifying point in any project - solo or collaborative - when you have to stop evaluating and commit. Whether the market exists or not. Whether Steam just killed your last game, or not. Whether anyone cares, or not. You can only stop, or commit regardless, knowing it might fall flat.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/06/2025

Read this. Read about this unparalleled evil that Israel spreads without accountability. Let the anger move you to speaking, to acting, to resisting, to voting. This cannot continue. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza

A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter

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Greg Lobanov @greg.style · 26/03/2025

I've always been mystified by the process of balancing a PvP game, making balance patches, dealing with community feedback, etc. And now it's my job! So I wrote about our process and tried to answer the questions I used to have about it greglobanov.substack.com/p/balancing-...

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Balancing Beastieball

A look at what goes into tuning a PvP turn-based strategy game

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/03/2025

I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.

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Haley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Indie game devs! Worried you don't have a good publishing deal? May I present my firm's 2025 Publishing Agreement Data Report! Taken from 100+ actual Publishing Agreements ranging from 2017-2025, providing averages for rev share splits, advances, IP ownership and more! indiegamepublishing.com

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 03/03/2025

I think names are fantastic and interesting and should always be treated as an opportunity. My least favourite are names like “U-571” or “Leo”, where it’s just a name. I’m okay with “Titanic” where it’s a name that has connotations - historical, or metaphorical. But the really great names? Ah, now..

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Stephane Rappeneau @stephanerappeneau.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

How to manage studio finances when crisis is the new norm ? I've spent 20y in a major investment bank during subprimes, here's what I learned and what I think also applies to game industry 🧵

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 19/12/2024

In the meanwhile, a second investigative group has established Israel as genocidal: www.hrw.org/report/2024/... And how Facebook and Instagram made sure that a people being exterminated could not ask for help or even reach one-another: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Extermination and Acts of Genocide

In the 179-page report, “Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water,” Human Rights Watch found that Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived...

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 18/11/2024

(Since people are reposting their popular tweets here…) From my experience of drawing sound effects by hand, I realised that you can easily make font-based sound effects more exciting as well—by exercising intentionality and control. Here's some examples.

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