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Last night's sleep was utter crap. I feel floppy, and stupid. I shall call this feeling.... Floopid.

Khan @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That was fun! Just finished speaking on an IGDA Foundation Session panel on working in AAA vs indie studios. Felt like I could have rambled for quite a lot longer! 😁

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OH HEY I gather it's bi visibility day! Hi!!!! I'm bi & ace, and I have two fantasy series starring bi/pan protagonists. Rooks & Ruin is currently on sale and you can grab the ebooks for the whole trilogy SUPER cheap! (See quoted thread for links & more info!)

Graphic showing the covers for the 3 books in the Rooks & Ruin series (THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, THE QUICKSILVER COURT, and THE IVORY TOMB)

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you’re working on your own project, you’re welcome to junk progress as often as you please but if you are past “pre-production” and burning entire teams on pivots every month, perhaps reconsider

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

too many people treat the maxim of “game dev is an iterative process” as meaning “we should salt the earth every time we have a new idea” rather than “let’s explore and improve the ideas we already agreed on”

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aaron @imaaronrobert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨

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joemag @joemag.games · 14/09/2026

I will always love how in that one raid in WoW they had Ragnaros (who up to that point had a tornado for legs) get so mad at you he had to climb out of his hot tub, put some pants on, and come over and hit you with a hammer and make it personal.

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

Dogs don't get autism, and all cats already have it, I don't see a problem here.

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work

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Will Overgard 🔥#1 Wanted: Dead Fan @willovergard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is, verbatim, from a Steam store page: "In-game AI character Ms. Second is using AI generated voice. Using humans voices for AI character would be cultural appropriation" WHAT DO YOU MEAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?!

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 15/09/2026

Visa costs are a massive additional cost to immigrants and they don't need to exist at all! The people in power could raise taxes on the wealthiest to cover the costs, but they choose to extort the immigrants instead.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 04/09/2026

Two quick Lanterns thoughts as a warm up, both concerning Laura Linney's character: Firstly it's an incredible physical performance, one parked on the line between mannered and self aware. She blinks wrong, and not the usual 'unblinking alien' way but at strange times and in patterns.

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Khan @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I wish there were 3D print shops in the UK where you could just go in and be like, I found this thing online, I do not know how to 3D print or modify a design nor do I own a 3D printer; I want it in these materials for a space with these measurements, please make me the thing, here are some moneys

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/08/2026

The word ‘titterpig’ is a colloquial adjective for movement that denotes something rolling sideways — ‘the wine bottle rolled titterpig across the porch, and I just barely avoided stepping on it with my arms full of groceries.’

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Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oh Ouch McOuch

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I grew up for most of my life playing games where the main character was a dude and I was still able to identify with the player character so like......... skill issue, I guess. Get better at using your imagination bro. Dare I say get good at using your noodle dude

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Khan @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Crow, The Saint, Mortal Kombat, Hackers, Spawn, Reality Bites -- hell, the f'in Batman Forever ost gave us Kiss From a Rose

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/04/2026

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

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Joe Fielder III: Season of the Witch @joefielder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There's rarely "a good time" for time off in the games industry, so you can't wait for that. Take time when it's best for you, plan ahead, and get support from your colleagues.

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Khan @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI; that’s at least two months away… It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. [1/2]

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CynicalTherapist @cynicaltherapist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In hell there's always a mystery hair caught in the hinge of your glasses

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We've reached the level of GenAI saturation where a perfectly pleasant colleague spent 30 minutes inadvertently (I hope) telling me (a lead writer) how my role is essentially redundant now thanks to LLMs.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

SAM NEILL

GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR

If you were to commit a murder,

how would you do it?

It's got to be big! No slipping

something into someones drink, that's just

pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a

stain on the road. There's probably a couple

of people I'd put under a steamroller,

but I won't say who they are, otherwise

when they see a steamroller coming

their way they'll be on full alert. And

steamrollers don't go very fast...

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Any mention of target shooting in France reminds me of the time when I was about 13 and already a pretty good shot (10m air rifle mainly). We were on holiday in Brittany and went to a country fair where there was a .22 rifle shooting gallery. Other teenagers were having a go, so I paid 10 francs-

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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm not a liar. I have an English degree. I'm an unreliable narrator.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/04/2026

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

A screenshot of a Facebook post by CBS 2 Boise. The post text reads: "A new state law required the City of Boise to take down the Pride flag outside City Hall. Tuesday morning, the City wrapped flag poles in Pride colors and added a new sign to the window on City Hall. CBS2 reached out to the Mayor and Governor’s office for comment."
Below the text is a collage of three photos showing these updates:
Left: A tall metallic flagpole in a plaza at night, with its lower section wrapped in horizontal stripes matching the colors of the Progress Pride flag (black, brown, light blue, pink, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).
Top Right: A closer view of a flagpole base, also wrapped in horizontal Progress Pride flag colors.
Bottom Right: A large window on City Hall featuring a graphic with diagonal stripes in the Progress Pride colors alongside the text, "Creating a city for everyone."

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Nick Slawicz @ellingtonelms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Your honor, we're having a hell of a meet cute right now

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid? dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Do you have cat food in the apocalypse kit? If so what kind and what if I stop liking it

an orange cat is sitting alertly in a slightly squashed storage basket. he has a sweet and simple expression

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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 08/04/2026

sometimes i think about how much comedy has changed over the decades and am fucking just, stunned at not just how well looney tunes gags hold up but at how fresh they feel

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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 08/04/2026

[at the orgy] “car!” … “ok, game on!”

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

[at the orgy] and now a moment of silence

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Alix Markman @markwoman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I once worked on a game show where they had a graphic that said “tow the line” and I had to tell them it’s “toe the line” and a producer started arguing with me about how it’s actually tow because it involves a tow truck. What.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

my personal goal right now is to do my part to make sure my representatives have the same kind of day I’m having

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Limit Break Mentorship @limitbreak.co.uk · 30/03/2026

Limit Break, the award winning mentorship program for marginalised people working in the UK games industry returns! 💖 Part of a marginalised group in games looking for a mentor? 💖 Want to help level up the next gen of game devs? Apply to be a mentor &/or mentee now! ⤵️ limitbreak.co.uk/apply

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Luke Hebblethwaite @lukethehebble.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Had a brilliant couple of days in Hull at From Player To Page, helping teach kids and teachers from local schools all about the games industry and the many kinds of writing and literacy skills involved! 👋 @coreybrotherson.bsky.social 👋 @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social 👋 @scottishhannah.bsky.social

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23/03/2026

Your options for placeholders: - Make them yourself (difficult, takes time) - Slop (monthly sub, kills the planet, enriches oligarchs, bad assets, everyone hates you and they're right) - Incredibly made game assets by @kenney.nl ($19.95, one-time, supports give-aways to those who can't afford it)

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Jordan Mychal Lockhart (Lemos) @extrajordanary.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I would prefer a developer who has never voice acted before, while using an XBOX 360 mic, and doing every voice in the game poorly than genAI. I would prefer FMV of the developer to pop up and tell me what the scene is about or what will happen during a cinematic. I would prefer silence.

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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 23/03/2026

I remember, a while back, asking if when Rome fell if it was this utterly stupid. It wasn't asked AT anyone. I was just throwing that question into the ether as a way of just venting, really. I still think about how every historian who saw that post answered with an unequivocable "YES."

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Jordan Mychal Lockhart (Lemos) @extrajordanary.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'll gladly (and easily) keep adding games to my "never buy this" list. I have enough games in my backlog that I could not play a new release for the next decade and still game every single day.

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