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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

makes sense. i dont have the money right now soz

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what are you doing with the remaining cash.

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what are you planning to do with this. house

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Erin Rose @erinrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh you’re under an NDA? well I’m under a cosy weighted blanket

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Song (It/Its) @ayresilversoul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This. Good code should make you go "oh...Oh that's CLEVER" Or "Oh shit... that's how that works!" These responses are genuine and human, and the same sort of 'oh that's how that brush stroke works!' from art. It's creative writing that DOES COOL THINGS.

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We just released Tiny Life 0.50.7, which includes a lot of rendering changes to increase performance on lower-end devices! Check out the full changelog: tinylifegame.com/changelog/#0... #indiedev #indie #indiegame #gamedev #gamedevelopment #monogame #pixelart #isometric

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Tiny Life Changelog

The full changelog for Tiny Life

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hi Tiny Life players! We just released an update with some small quality-of-life additions, as well as a lot of improvements and autonomy fixes! See the full changelog here: tinylifegame.com/changelog/#0... ❤️ #indiedev #indie #indiegame #gamedev #gamedevelopment #monogame #pixelart #isometric

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Tiny Life Changelog

The full changelog for Tiny Life

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hi Minecraft people! After *a full year since the last update*, I just released a new Nature's Aura build for Minecraft 1.21.1 with a variety of improvements and fixes! Get it on Modrinth: modrinth.com/mod/natures-... Or on CurseForge: www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc... (public soon)

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41.10 - Nature's Aura

Download Nature's Aura 41.10 on Modrinth. Supports 1.21.1 Neoforge. Published on Sep 4, 2026. 1 downloads.

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it's bleh! @blur.gay · 18/08/2026

for context, this is what it says outside the EU

[A shield icon]
Ask Coach is avalable in your account now
To keep your experience unsafe and harmful, AI features are currently available. This usually happens because we suck <3

Learn more

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ask Coach is available in your account now

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

aren't they literally implying that users outside the EU are getting a less safe and less helpful experience???

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

such a shame. i hoped to enable this feature so my experience could be less safe and less helpful

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Tiny Life will be featured in this year’s Tiny Teams Festival @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social starting later today! Join the week-long celebration of games by buying them on sale and checking out streams and videos by various creators! #indie #indiegame #monogame #pixelart #isometric

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Parody] @nintendooamerica.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

All the people who are anti-Wii U or want to slow Wii U progress, we have one question: if the Wii U disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through a work day without Ultra Smash, Amiibo Festival, or any other Wii U title? Imagine the Wii U was suddenly banned. Would you actually give it up?

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My projects have a strict no-AI policy! :) feel free to let me know on the discord (linked in the readme) if you have any questions about the lib

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After an overwhelming amount of support for the creation of an AI-generated content policy for mods and community-contributed localizations, we have officially implemented such a policy! You can read it in the Content and Community Policy and in the localization documentation, see below.

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We've created a small survey about whether AI-generated community content for Tiny Life should be allowed. If you can, please read the introduction carefully and fill it out! Thanks ❤️ Please keep in mind that the game itself *does not* use any AI-generated content. link.tinylifegame.com/tinylifeai

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Tiny Life: AI-Generated Community Content

At Ellpeck Games, we're staunchly against using AI-generated content, which (in this context) is anything created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) or large language models (LLMs). To en...

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We just released a medium-sized Tiny Life update that includes a new lot type, various gardening improvements, and a few new decorative and clutter items. #indiedev #indie #indiegame #gamedev #monogame #pixelart #isometric Read the full changelog here: tinylifegame.com/changelog/#0...

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The full changelog for Tiny Life

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

there are no words for what went down in berlin last night. i sat scrolling for hours refreshing news feeds, begging for the victims to end up alright. our chancellor jumped in immediately, when a year earlier and a kilometer away, he didn't want the reichstag building to "look like a circus tent".

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

i always wanna "get back into streaming" but then i fall out of love with it again really quickly because of my anxiety

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

maybe i should stream again some time. like a chill tiny life dev stream or some gaming i dunno

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Tiny Life @tinylifegame.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Tiny Life 0.50.0 was just released, which features the new Gardening system with an accompanying skill, life goal, job and foraging system! 🌱 Read the devlog for all the info: tinylifegame.com/devlogs/0.50... #indiedev #indie #indiegame #gamedev #gamedevelopment #monogame #pixelart #isometric

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Stephan @polarizedions.net · 31/10/2025

Man I love having anxiety

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

it's running pretty well on my machine on medium settings! high is a bit low fps for me, but i don't mind taking it down a bit :)

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

as someone who also makes an indie life simulation game, i think this is easily one of the most impressive indie projects in a long time

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

yall paralives is so fcking fun omg

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

i've been feeling both a lack of motivation and a certain sort of anxious motivation due to the upcoming paralives launch, which is why i'm suddenly so motivated-slash-panicky about getting this update finished

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I really hope yall are excited for this update & you'll enjoy playing it once it's out! I've been spending most of my free time on it but since there hasn't been that much of it, it still took a lot longer than I would've liked. It's not fully done yet, but it's slowly getting there!

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

also if somehow someone from the paralives team reads this: my insecurity comes from nothing but awe & deep respect for what yall have created. it looks incredible and i'm genuinely excited for the game to come out

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i know it's super irrational but there's a small, insecure part of me that is like "well if paralives looks this good already, i might as well just give up on tiny life now to avoid the embarrassment"

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

at the same time, paralives' gameplay is clearly very different from tiny life's because it deviates from the sims much more, and paralives obviously has a very different graphical style from tiny life. but i'm not sure that'll be "enough" for potential players to be interested in & play both games

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

the budget & development situation is also just so different that there wouldn't possibly be a way for me to be able to "catch up" to paralives' progress in terms of content

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

paralives looks shockingly amazing so far & as a player i'm incredibly excited, but as a game dev i'm getting more and more worried that no one will like or care about tiny life anymore after next week

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

though (& i guess this is as good a place to talk about this as any) i've been thinking about this more recently (partly inspired by my partner's gender discovery journey) and i do quite like the demiboy label for myself, because i don't really feel like "a man" most of the time

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

also i'm usually very lady gaga about this but i'm not trans

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

also thanks for ordering for me, but i already have plenty of sources in my life

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

guess it's my own fault for checking steam right after waking up

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

users can generally report any reviews for violating steam community guidelines. developers can further flag reviews as violating community guidelines, being spam or off-topic, but that's generally discouraged since it can have a "silencing criticism" vibe to it

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Salmence @salmence.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I LOVE ALLERGIES. I LOVE BEING ALLERGIC TO A BEAUTIFUL BLOSSOMING WORLD. WHEN THE GREEN RETURNS TO THE TREES IT ALSO RETURNS TO MY NOSE. SUCH IS LIFE

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Dana / STAR-H1006 "Wölfin" @blusunrize.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The implication that TinyLife resulted in the death of Charlie Kirk... wild. Here's hoping that TinyLife keeps being a positive influence on the world :3

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ell @ellpeck.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

next update is adding guns & charlie kirk so the woke mind virus people can relive their favorite moment in history that they definitely still think about

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