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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026
It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.
Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement
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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Snake is Back
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Cute Monster Props @cutemonster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A week ago at Dragoncon I met Richard Garriott at a panel about his new Ultima game. Long story short he wants to use AI. He already has for concept art and ChatGPT generated fantasy language. I wrote an account with the hope that this could spread to the right people. Please pass this along.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
columbo: now, i couldn't help but notice, sir, your hands are covered in blood, and there's a shotgun slung over your shoulder, and you're holding a bag that says "I <3 POISON" investment banker, condescending: what are you getting at, lieutenant. columbo: well, my wife, you see, she loves poison-
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fuck yeah
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A New Color (1/5🧵)
Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.” Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.” Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.
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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 24/08/2026
99.9% of generative AI models ONLY function (& therefore only have value) b/c the companies that create them wilfully steal the material to do so. This shouldn't be an outlandish statement! It also should be the end of any & all discussions around LLMs but, for some insane reason, it isn't!
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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No, No. Dig Up, Stupid!
ALT: No, No. Dig Up, Stupid!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026
You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to that AI "art" *can* be good (I don't) to understand the reason that the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is *they* believe they can fire workers and replace us with AI: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 1/
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Susie Esse @susieesse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who knew! #comic #susieesse
A two panel comic by Susie Esse about a little brain wheezing and dragging themself along the ground . A girl cries out “Brain! What’s wrong!? How can I help you!?” “Drink water you idiot” the brain yells!
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026
I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam
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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
AI is next level gatekeeping. Its proponents don’t just tell you that you’re incapable of doing a thing, they imply that nobody else is gonna be able to do it either, and suggest you pay them to do it for you, badly. Can’t be having with that nonsense. I’d rather learn to do things badly for myself
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 17/07/2026
imagine a world where Todd Howard paid for his crimes as much as I paid for Skyrim
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Duck AI Slop!! @duckaislop.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Slay the Spire 2 Mega Crit. No disclosure, "our programmers use AI for code reviews." Yano admits to using it as a thesaurus too. -y Misleading titled article: www.gamespot.com/articles/sla...
Slay the spire 2 steam store imageFollowing these discussions, I asked Yano if Mega Crit has a firm policy set in place against generative AI, as well as if the team uses AI in any other capacity. Yano explained that while he is against generative AI, he understands the usefulness of AI in other areas of game development and isn’t firmly anti-AI. That said, he suspects that most of the developers on the team don’t use it that often.

“Some of our programmers use AI for code reviews–it’s like a glorified spell checker. I sometimes use it as a slightly more involved thesaurus. But we don’t use generative AI,” Yano reiterated. “I think there’s a very different mentality, right? [When] you write code, you’re just trying to write code in the best way you can to achieve the objective that you want. There’s an end goal that’s definable. Art is not like that. It’s an expression.”
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nelson Tethers teaming up with Batman when the Riddler got loose again #grickledoodle #puzzleagent #batman
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Duck AI Slop!! @duckaislop.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Sony / Playstation "Beyond the games themselves, Nishino said Sony is also currently using AI for its PlayStation business, including the PlayStation Store" www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-la... www.techradar.com/gaming/plays...
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Sony lays out its AI plan for PlayStation: ‘We believe AI will unleash the creativity of our studios’ | VGC
SIE president and CEO Hideaki Nishino says AI will play a big role in the development of its games…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/07/2026
Hostess Discontinues Physical Twinkies theonion.com/hostess-discontinues-p…
Hostess Discontinues Physical Twinkies
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𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷🤘🎸💙 @redfives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New PlayStation marketing just dropped
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Greg Miller @gameovergreggy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
slow news day www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHdS...
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PlayStation is Killing Physical Games - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 07.01.26
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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🤔
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!
Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING 
The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed
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John | Video Game Canon @videogamecanon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Your friendly neighborhood librarian is once again reminding you that your public library has access to a bigger collection of films and TV on DVD and Blu-ray than Netflix ever had.
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Looks like Puzzle Agent is currently 60% OFF on Steam right now! store.steampowered.com/app/31270/Pu... #grickledoodle #games #puzzleagent
An image captured from the Puzzle Agent game showing Nelson Tethers talking to Bjorn in front of the hotel.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Microsoft stole game studios' futures to pay for AI data centers
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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
There's no such thing as free
'Does Cookie Monster even like cookies?' Girl asks. 'Nom nom nom!' says Cat, eating a cookie. 'Or does he feel compelled to eat them' continues Girl. 'Nom?' Asks Cat. 'Because it's his job - because it's his IDENTITY - or because he alone stands between is and the cookies of the world, sacrificing himself so that we may live on obliviously, cookie-less, FREE. 'Non nom nom!' says Cat. 'And who then is the real monster' says Girl. 'Nom nom nominative determinism' says Cat.
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Calligram Studio @calligramstudio.com · 12/05/2026
Hello, 

 We're *this* close to announcing our new, self-funded indie game.

 We could use your help

! If you enjoyed Phoenix Springs, please help us one last time by spreading the good word to your fellow ambiguity freaks. 

It's 50% off this week 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/1973310/...
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Save 50% on Phoenix Springs on Steam
Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I’ve had better Fridays.
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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ManMadeMovies @manmademovies.co.uk · 06/01/2026
Ok, as we’re talking MADI… how about a signed copy of the new @imagecomics.com edition? Repost this post and we’ll pick a winner at random on Sunday 11th January. Winner will get this copy signed by @manmademoon.bsky.social Open to anyone anywhere in the world!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/12/2025
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 Steam codes for Simogo Legacy Collection from @simogo.com. Giveaway closes on December 6th at 6 PM PT Game is available now for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and Steam simogo.com/work/simogol...
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Tales of Xillia Remastered courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway closes on Nov 2nd, 6:30 PM PT Game is $32.97 on Gamesplanet w/ code MILLA buff.ly/t0b4NED
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Digimon Story Time Stranger (giveaway courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway ends on Oct 1st, 6:30 PM PT) Game is currently $57.71 on Gamesplanet w/ code DIGIMON buff.ly/0d0q6NQ
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2025
it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 15 Steam codes for Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway ends on July 20th, 6 PM PT game is available now on PC and consoles store.steampowered.com/app/2738630/...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
goddammit
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 26/06/2025
Today's archive.org find: this sensational Deus Ex key art from a 2000 Eidos press kit. The pure essence of the turn of the millennium. 📀 archive.org/details/Deus...
An action movie poster-style montage of imagery from Deus Ex. JC Denton poses with a gun, a corporate agent stands looking menacing, etc.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Time for listening to Dead Kennedys intensifies
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Not sold on the voice actor for James, but I’m pretty stoked for a new 007 game.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I love the style for Sea Remnants.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m glad we’re getting another single player game with Death Stranding style asynchronous multiplayer. Such a good idea.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Thief vr looks neat.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fine. I’ll buy Final Fantasy Tactics again.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Silent Hill f just doesn’t do anything for me. Feels very generic and not very Silent Hilly. Hopefully it turns out great but I’m skeptical.
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despondaton @despondaton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Holy shit Romeo is a Deadman
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Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Reminder to check your public library to borrow stuff for free like video games, books/ebooks, movies (including digital/streaming), and possibly even free museum passes and other goodies
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