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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ummm.. soooo I kinda of have a book published? I was involved in a very small way, but it's wild to see my name on the listing. You can learn more about what this is here: www.friendem.net

A screenshot of an Amazon listing of the book "Friend'em in 50 Different Ways" by Michael Blackard

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Star Wars Zero Company press embargo lifted this morning and it's been absolutely amazing. I've been watching impression videos all morning. I couldn't be more proud of the team, and am thrilled for the world to finally see all their hard work.

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I understand they always sell toys for the villains but this is different. This is real. This is like if you buy a Lotso toy and it actually locked up all your other toys.

A real life Lily pad toy from Toy Story 5 on the shelf at a retail store

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

the kids are all right

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

South of Midnight is 25% off on PS5 from May 13 - May 28. Step into a haunting Southing Gothic world of folklore and mystery as Hazel’s journey unfolds. First time on sale on PS5, don't miss it! #PS5

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

what would help the games industry is if the devs who work on the game still have a job after it makes a billion dollars

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Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com · 04/05/2026

Free instructions here: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-259...

Against a background of pale blue stars and aurorae, a 3D render of a LEGO brick-built Stinger Mantis as seen from behind, with blue and gold LEGO plates for its engines

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

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A Virtual Escape for Rikers Inmates

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

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Andrew Rennie 🏳️‍🌈 @nerdy4tw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Reposting an old one cos I've been deep in NDA land and my portfolio literally hasn't been updated since...

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I know this is going to sound so pithy, but Connor Ratliff presents The Acting Class is truly becoming the Hot Ones of Improv. Back when Hot Ones was starting to blow up after the Key and Peele’s episode went viral, when each new celebrity guest was more impressive than the last. Meg freaking Ryan.

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“It can’t be that ugly,” I think to myself as I watch the interminable reveal video, “Cait is surely utilizing hyperbole” Reader, it is ugly beyond your wildest dreams

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

finally learning to draw the Nirvanna the Band boys after fifteen-odd years of staring at their faces #ntbts

likeness studies of Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol from Nirvanna the Band (the Show (the Movie))

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

‘Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie’ is the funniest movies I’ve seen in years. An absolute must-watch for anybody, but *especially* if you love Back to the Future.

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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Rose Romanova @romanova.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Any mutuals on here have a friend who works at Discord these days? I found out last night someone is impersonating me with a profile there. They took my old twitter PFP and made it theirs and are messaging folks who knows what trying to scam them. Help please 🙏

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Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

There is a rumor going around that my show this Sunday at 4pm at Dynasty Typewriter is the "secret" extra episode of Stranger Things. This is NOT true. Please don't believe it! My show is an improvised acting class with special guest D'Arcy Carden. Tix: www.dynastytypewriter.com/calendar-squ...

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 04/01/2026

i saved this before Everything Happened and god has it come true

bob's burgers bob struggling to walk up the steps and louis making fun of him

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My main takeaway from Marty Supreme was not that greatness has a high cost and what truly matters is how you treat those around you, it’s that Marty was playing with a HUGE disadvantage with his wooden paddle versus Endo’s sponge paddle.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social in return for my dedication, I demand you… continue to satisfy your curiosity and enlighten others in the process

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

At my daughter’s behest we binged the first drop of Stranger Things season 5 to avoid spoilers and I’m glad we did. No way people aren’t gonna be talking about this recklessly.

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My reaction after watching House of Dynamite

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Damn. Wasn’t prepared for that this morning. We often just internalize all of the hate as a given and move on. To have our experience be articulated and acknowledged in this way is a very strange feeling. youtu.be/uGBQwCsIhn0?...

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My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just got this gorgeous print from one of my favorite artists @kinomaniac.bsky.social - It’s dark and moody with incredible detail, capturing the rich and gothic tone of the movie perfectly (and I love the way it looks this natural wooden frame). One of my favorite pieces in my collection.

A picture of a hand illustrated poster for the movie sinners in a dark wooden frame

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Morgan Baker @momoxmia.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Happy Battlefield 6 launch day! Here’s the accessibility info, check out those remapping options and hold to toggle features… 👀 www.ea.com/able/resourc...

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BATTLEFIELD™ 6 Accessibility Resources - An Official EA Site

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Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com · 10/10/2025

Pretty sure we’re living one

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 07/10/2025

This is Chico. He is the star of this year's hottest film, Fast and the Furriest: Tokyo Drift. 13/10 (TT: mariana_rodrigues_ssilva)

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This is one of the best videos on development and UI/UX I’ve ever seen. 90% of it directly applies to video games as well. Before we can make a game fun, it has to make sense to the player and work under the hood. youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...

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How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future

YouTube video by Tantacrul

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

If you work at EA and want to talk privately about your feelings about the sale to Saudi Arabia you can reach me anonymously at ethangach@protonmail.com or via Signal/WhatsApp at +12673263042.

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Baby Steps but Sam and Frodo climbing Mt Doom

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Daanish Syed ➡️ Gamescom @daanishsyed.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Just rolled credits on Ninja Gaidrn Ragebound. Don’t know if any other game this year will match how much this game felt 100% tailored for me. Just bliss from beginning to end.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 23/08/2025

The first big publisher that decides not to spend $100m on one AAA game and instead spends $20m on five AA games, or even $10m on 10 games, is going to make so much money...and they'll all pretend it's some amazing new business model rather than just How It Used To Work Before You Broke It.

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Ruthie | RuthlessNightsister @rnightsister.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

And so Cly Kullervo from Zero Company begins! This will be my first full Mando build and I’m SO excited! The bucket felt like a perfect place to start. 🙌🪣 Time to sit and sand for the next… forever. 😂

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

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EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops

Behold, the tallest chart in Game File history. PLUS: EA execs were paid (a little) more for boosting generative AI

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sophia ♥️🎃 @sophamir.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

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