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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By the way, I offboarded my affiliation last month. They sent an email confirming my offboarding.... followed by an email informing me that I am now an affiliate. I even got a Twitch notification. Weird. I should probably send them an email.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This sucks for a lot of people. I'm lucky, a silver lining to having never made it 'big' on Twitch is that my livelihood didn't depend on ad revenue, or even streaming. Streaming was a hobby, I met a lot of great people, and I did make a few bucks. But I'm glad I don't *need* to deal with this shit.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would absolutely be willing to give it up. Because I'm not brainrotted enough to have forgotten what life was like a half a decade ago.

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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is an excellent analysis by Richard Wolff, part of it explains why I'm not fully onboard the Mark Carney train despite his ostensible opposition to Trump's insanity, and I probably never will be. youtu.be/o7hatZcwjn8

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Richard Wolff Decimates Trump’s ‘Language of War’

YouTube video by Dialogue Works

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Nubzombie @nubzombie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a small, local clinic in 1996. Anyone who was alive in that era knows that posters made with Wordart and printed out were everywhere. My school, grocery store, local restaurants etc were full of things just like this.

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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September, but I lost my 45 adapter

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

President Pezeshkian is cooking. It's good to see someone call out the double standards of the international community. #UNGA

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've been weirdly depressed lately. It sucks.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm more or less only interested in old games, yet I've never browsed the Retro category on Twitch. I feel like the term "retro" is so nebulous and broad that it doesn't really narrow down the search much. Might as well just call it the "Video Game" category.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ed sheeran has certainly not covered himself in glory but he’s at best a miniboss here. if his concert get canceled but everyone pours into Gillette Stadium for the next pop star or nfl game, then Robert Kraft and his pals still effectively got what they wanted.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

No, We're Not Having The "It's Not Genocide" Conversation Anymore It’s so undignified how Zionists keep trying to resurrect the “stop calling it a genocide” conversation about Gaza when every relevant human rights group on earth says that’s exactly what it is. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/no-were-no...

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No, We're Not Having The "It's Not Genocide" Conversation Anymore

Video reading by Tim Foley:

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This seems extremely gimmicky, even by Twitch standards. Coach Clanker can't possibly give everybody optimal advice for their own unique situation. People are more likely to receive paint-by-numbers tips which will only make the medium of streaming more homogenous.

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Nubzombie @nubzombie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Man I'm so glad Twitch can afford to roll out all these very expensive and experimental AI tools that nobody asked for and most partners (like myself) still only get 50% revenue share.

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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Nubzombie @nubzombie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every day, more and more false claims. I try to dispute every false claim as they happen, but they just keep coming, its overwhelming. I have essentially lost half of my overall income because Youtube just doesn't care about these scammers taking advantage of their broken copyright systems.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Twitch is doing this thing again where I cannot log in because they suddenly decided that my browser isn't supported. I've only been using the same browser for the past eight years, guys. It's not like I've logged in hundreds of times with no problem or anything.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good thread. I couldn't agree more.

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V.S. McGrath/Vicki Essex @vsmcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Visit the US! The food will give you explosive diarrhea and masked slave catchers will assault you with electric gloves and throw you into concentration camps! But the discounts are great!

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The last paragraph might seem harsh but I find it hard to disagree.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At the end of ads for gambling sites, we get a message from the Government of Alberta telling us to seek help if we develop a problem. These would seem more credible if every second ad weren't a goddamn commercial for a gambling site.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

GTA is a series I'll never really "get." I've played more than half of the main series games and always walked away with a hollow feeling. I can't say they were bad, but the sense of enjoyment was fleeting at best. They were never enjoyable enough for me to devote significant time to.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spite is great, but Canadians should be avoiding US travel because Trump is not above telling ICE to start going after Canadian tourists.

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Big Crime Nerd @yinsed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I find this defense particularly funny because what’s demonstrably true is literally the opposite.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Carney was right to walk away. The United States isn't a serious country in 2026, and their absurd demands proved it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

January: “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” August: “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What is going on with Bluesky today?

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all cass or no cass @aronia.neocities.org · 16/08/2026

slopoligists on this app like to be all "☝️🤓 you hate ai, yet the bluesky devs use ai to make it!" like yeah lmao we can tell

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh damn, William Orbit died. RIP

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Slitterhead soundtrack is quite good.

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Riok Ollivier Ulfsson @riok-ulfsson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyone else see Mega Man trending, only to find a bunch of unrelated crap, mostly about Amazon?

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Ed the Rando @edtherando.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If this becomes a thing and I cannot opt out, I'll probably just quit streaming altogether.

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AnEternalEnigma @aneternalenigma.com · 31/07/2026

Razer has acquired StreamElements, saving them from shutting down which was widely expected to happen in mid-June. No financial terms of the acquisition were given. Razer said SE will continue to operate as normal and backed up creator payments are now going out. gamesbeat.com/razer-acquir...

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Razer acquires StreamElements

After months of uncertainty, the creator livestreaming tools platform StreamElements has been acquired by Razer.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How To Be An Empire Propagandist "Pretend the protesters killed in Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with the known US-Israeli agendas to foment violence in that country and arm insurgent factions in order to topple Tehran." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-be-...

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How To Be An Empire Propagandist

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Marc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

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DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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