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stephan

@distractive.bsky.social
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Study doctor who (and software). Love theatre and video games. Watch Starkid musicals! Nr. 2 rated salesman 1997, he/him

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
we have achieved hell
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 09/10/2026
Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-…
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Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Last month, the US Army offered recruits four days off to play GTA 6 if they reenlist for another two years of service."
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 02/09/2026
It doesn't pacify the right, nothing will pacify the right, and nobody actually gives a shit about a non-issue. If you don't have the balls to stand up and say, "Hey these pedophile fascists are bitching about the WNBA despite there being no trans women in it, it's a scam" you're a loser.
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What a guy
4 panel comic

Panel 1: a wizard in blue robe and white beard sitting with small forg at a desk behind the computer. “Click, click” is the sound of the mouse to be heard
Panel 2: close up on the computer screen. There’s a green check mark and a full loading bar on it. From off screen someone, probably the wizard, says “boom, there it is”.
Panel 3: forg is left behind alone at his desk. There’s an open door in the background. Forg says “thanks installation wizard” and a little pink heart appears, showing his affection.
Panel 4: we see now that the wizard has already left the house after a job well done. He replies to forg watching him go from his window: “it’s what I do”
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Sherry CD-ROM 🏳️‍⚧️ @sherrycdrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue
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Razbuten @razbuten.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
anyway, go to your library--they probably have games, and like actual good ones too. I was surprised to see they had some really solid indie games like Neva.
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tine @tine5.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Theme: #path #pixelart #pixel_dailies @pixeldailies.bsky.social
Pixel art of a strange icy path filled with electric currents, winding above the storm clouds below. The path is very smooth and flat, with a sheen across the top, and sheer sides dripping down to the storm below.
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 02/12/2025
EA isn't being sold to a "consortium" of investors, it's being sold to Saudi Arabia, new filings reveal: kotaku.com/ea-saudi-arabia-ownershi…
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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Me, before watching the trailer: "Banned? This is crazy. Who doesn't like horses?" Me, after watching the trailer: "Oooooh. THOSE kinds of horses." Also me: "I want to play this game right now!"
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.

When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27/10/2025
Continents xkcd.com/3159/
Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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Kwink @kwink.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Anleitung: 1. In die USA schauen. 2. Verzweifeln. 3. Sich erinnern, dass man selbst (hoffentlich) nicht in den USA lebt. 4. Auf die deutsche Politik schauen. 5. Alles dafür tun, dass es hier nicht so weit kommt wie in den USA. Und das mindestens täglich.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2025
Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza" aftermath.site/microsoft-az...
art of a bunch of arkane characters leaping into action, shooting, and doing other video game-y things
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Roly✨ @rolywwc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Violet, circa 2025 ✨ [ #dnd #ocsky #art #characterdesign ]
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
because of the way those #undertale / #deltarune soundtracks were released one after another, I now have the track "sans." on my computer no less than 5 times
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
honest question: is it illegal that there is still no Karaoke version of Facade from cinderella's castle? I feel like we all need this tbh 🙏 #Starkid #CinderellasCastle
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
- if payment processors' current policies had always existed, huge swaths of culture, from the prestigious to the pulpy, simply wouldn't exist. Today's disturbing indie work might be tomorrow's essential text. And even if it isn't, the freedom to create and access challenging content is valuable.
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"The point cannot be retribution. The point is to help each other survive." A powerful reflection on how to deal with the worst atrocities among humans, longing for justice, and what the Nuremberg trials teach us (for better or worse). www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ay...
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Fantasies of Nuremberg
YouTube video by Jacob Geller
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
it's scary how powerful ai is getting every day. i just talked with a genie who was able to somehow guess what i was thinking of by asking a series of yes or no questions
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I love all this digital art that this one guy made in 1999 and uploaded to wikimedia commons
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2025
Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be. We have always been here.
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
i'm hardly much of a cheese man, but that cheese skit at 4:05 being based on a true thing is the best news I've had in a while (i love this silly show) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqK... #Starkid
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The Elements | Wow! Signal Space Comedy Episode 14 | Adler Planetarium
YouTube video by Adler Planetarium
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Sooo if they even remotely keep this up, current season's on track to be among the all time greats 🌌🙏 #DoctorWho #TheStoryAndTheEngine
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CyberellaDraws - Commissions Open @cyberelladraws.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Starkid: Cinderella's Castle Now I am torn if I like this one more than Neon or not. One more to go. #starkid #cinderellascastle #fanart
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Tomb Raider @tombraider.com · 05/05/2025
Lara Croft couldn’t attend the Met Gala this year, but let’s throw it back to her iconic Alexander McQueen look in The Face Magazine in 1997. #AlexanderMcQueen #MetGala #MetGala2025 #MetMonday
Image of Lara Croft wearing Alexander McQueen for The Face Magazine.
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Welonz @welonz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
i'm shopping for a new PSU and my god can brands not talk like this
Screenshot of a snippet of text reading: "The mysterious triangle is a symbolic icon of MEG's infinite power, with the triangle's slope further extending the three pillars of MEG's core characteristics: legendary, loyalty, and luxurious."
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
honest question: is it illegal that there is still no Karaoke version of Facade from cinderella's castle? I feel like we all need this tbh 🙏 #Starkid #CinderellasCastle
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Razbuten @razbuten.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I hope he played Undertale.
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Lux has a moment where a fan complains about #DoctorWho getting smth wrong. And that line is mistranslated in the German version in such a way I facepalmed for 20 seconds 😅 then I wondered: was that intentional? They now have another layer of meta joke by literally turning me into that fan!! 🙈
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
everyone should know: my favourite musical, period, has long been available for free as official pro-shot to watch on YouTube BUT also new performances are planned for this year too =) looking forward! 🤩 And wondering how it'll differ from the last decade's production 🌌 #Starkid #TGWDLM
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
New season starts well #DoctorWho The beginning 30 minutes were amazing and the rest alright verging on bonkers. The concept of the episode is the perfect amount of ludicrously silly and everyday horror. Is this the most "timey-wimey" plot of any individual RTD-written episode so far?
Picture from Doctor Who episode "The Robot Revolution" - Varada Sethu as Belinda being escorted by a threatening big red robot, with guest character Sasha 55 (Evelyn Miller) next to her.
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is all so fucked up and inhumane
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Mitch Cramer @heavyeyed.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I fear blue prince may become a victim of it's own hype. The more it gets compared to Outer Wilds and Obra Dinn the more people (me) are going to go in and get frustrated by what it isn't instead of what it is
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Oooh! Finally clip channels no longer need to butcher them, just so it's available at all...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27/03/2025
Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ubisoft feeling confident over on Twitter… (Musk notoriously reacted to AC Shadows’ reveal and its Black samurai by saying the game was proof that “DEI kills art”)
Tweet from Elon Musk: ““Sell-out” would be more accurate. 

Objectively, he is promoting a terrible game just for the money.”

Tweet by Assassins Creed account: “Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?”
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Soon visiting a Castle on a Hill. Look at this gorgeous cover and lovely colours. Not long until the YouTube release! #Stakid #Musical #CinderellasCastle Haven't spoiled myself on it since the Kickstarter, I love how vibrant it is & wonder how dark/grim it'll be in the final show in comparison :)
Cover for the musical Cinderella's Castle, with vibrant greens on Ella's dress, frog knight and babygirl mouse fighter, and a vibrant but sepia-like colour pallette in the background for a castle, a womanly creature and a stone-like troll in front of clouds and a huge setting sun.
Ella's hair has a purple tint, her dress sparkling like from magic. Some kind of butterflies are above her, but are somehow still not overcrowding this cover like magic.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/03/2025
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surasshu @surasshu.com · 13/03/2025
my favorite fidget games are both on sale for less than $2 each, you absolutely need both of these in your life egg squeeze: store.steampowered.com/app/3229170/... typecast: store.steampowered.com/app/2536650/...
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stephan @distractive.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
2 things i learned today: 1) the contrabass flute is a real thing (not sure yet whether it can hurt me) 2) it's in this cover of "Fallen Down" from #undertale and it is fucking magnificent youtu.be/X_xJXtd-5Eg?... @instrumentmaniac.bsky.social
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UNDERTALE - Fallen Down | Contrabass Flute
YouTube video by InstrumentManiac
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