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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 15m

"I didn't... ask you to get me Chex did I?" "No." "Then you full on read my mind." "We do like to throw the word 'witch' around."

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 53m

This is why I'm so anti-AI. You can trust photos I post. You can trust words I write. You can trust my game to be genuine human, not slop.

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J. Kyle Pittman @piratehearts.com · 1h

Look at this hyper girl who was just So Excited the weather was finally cool enough to get out again. Absolutely zero chill. 😅

Zoey, a white and brown chihuahua-terrier mix, with her tongue out and one ear flopped over, looking so happy and excited to be out in public.

Zoey sitting on my lap in the car, her eyes wide with excitement.

Zoey popping up next to our table to beg for food.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1h

This is the part that feels like going insane daily. "lol oh no we can't stop our product from doing crimes aren't we cheeky?" FUCKING JAIL FOR THE CEO THEN

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 2h

We celebrate Cagemas where we watch a Cage movie every week in December. He always seems to give it his best effort, no matter how silly or cheesy the movie is. And I love that.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 21h

not sure how i'm feeling at seeing a lot of people who are anti-AI reposting a game coded and voice acted with AI

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 2h

It's the Milkshake Duck problem all over again. I've become a delayed person. Something happens? Wait and see. Some new game from someone no one knows? Wait and see. Someone seems real cool? Wait and see.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 4h

My religious trauma is varied and deep. I don't talk about it much because it usually makes the people around me so upset I have to comfort them. Anyway, I refuse to step foot in that church again and I prefer use my knowledge for memes and funny tweets.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 4h

I went to Logos. I went to Youth Group. I definitely heard some insane things. To top this all off, I attended a Christian college which required me to take old and New Testament. My teacher for those was excellent, I learned how the Bible was compiled and slowly stopped believing.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 4h

For those who are new to me: I am not religious. I was religious growing up. I attended church every Sunday in itchy clothes that made me want to claw my skin off, fidgeted in my pew spot for an hour, and usually struggled to pay attention. No one realized I had adhd.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 4h

"Why is it a dragon though?" "That was one of the names given to Lucifer, if I remember correctly." "Oh. So you liked the Dragon part." "Yes!" "Very on brand."

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 4h

"Revelation 12:7, and there was war in Heaven." "Wait, that's fucking weird, how do YOU know that?" "Well... let's start with I've actually read the whole Bible and end with, this was my favorite verse because it always caught hypocritical Evangelical ministers." "Okay that's on brand."

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The Secret Lantern: Books & Games @thesecretlantern.bsky.social · 4h

Y'ALL. WHAT A DAY. Yesterday was absolutely WILD, and we are still recovering (in the best way possible). First THANK YOU to everyone who came out to celebrated! We were SLAMMED, and seeing so many familiar faces, new friends, and folks just hanging out and enjoying the space meant the world to us

Flyer for The Secret Lantern's 1st Anniversary Celebration with event details and discounts.

Two people smiling and holding a framed certificate in a cozy indoor setting.

Person in glasses holding a baby goat in their arms.

People socializing under a pavilion with a mural in the background.

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Kageyama Satsuki @kagesatsuki.com · 7h

Just a reminder… if I see any reposted or screen-grabbed picture/video of that livestream execution I am unfollowing immediately. 1 dictatorship deciding that for 1 country does not mean the rest of the civilised world has to witness this utter fuckery.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 15h

#LastFourWatched It's real funny watch the Lion King with someone who's favorite character is Rafiki. It changes everything. XD

Curse of Frankenstein x2, Lion King, and Ryan Hamilton

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 16h

The prayer of the writer and/or game dev.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 16h

*squeezes bridge of nose* So instead of universal healthcare, we're paying for both sides of two wars? K.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18h

It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 17h

At this point the other version could be considered more correct because most people use it now.

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Nina Marotta ☢️💙 @mrschief7.bsky.social · 18h

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 17h

I'm in book 5. Which is where it starts to *drag*. But I also remembered <that one character> "dying" at the end of book 4 and she's still alive like... there's so much here. Every time Uno curses I realize why he was the sticking point for me. Justice for Uno.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 18h

I appreciate Robert Jordan properly using the idiom "they've got another think coming."

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 21h

Except they just said "harassment can be worse for remote employees" and that's so inaccurate, lol.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 21h

Over the course of my almost 20 years in games, I've seen the things that happen to me slowly but surely be added to the annual Anti-Harassment training.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your aura is soothing and calming to everyone!

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It also crashes safari on iPhones so I just can't read it at all.

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Meagan G @m00gart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A French Bulldog standing in a sunny yard and smiling

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How does every picture make him look more evil and even more like a reptilian?!?

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A better industry for anyone “beneath” you on the ladder is an industry that is better for us all.

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Take This @takethis.org · 08/10/2026

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Take This Talks. Supporting the games industry. Side Quests: Building good habits when you're unemployed. Free! Thursday, October 15th at 8 PM eastern, 5 PM pacific. give butter dot com slash take this talks 1 0 2026

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Annarchy is very chatty. I joke I speak cat pretty well. XD

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"You can tell what kind of person someone is based on how they treat service employees!" You can also tell based on if they try to make things better for those following them in their career or if they feel "I did it, they should have to as well." That second one is a huge red flag.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That last one is definitely a "you promise?!?" XD

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They were also the people who didn't understand what I was paying in rent, what I was paying in childcare (they all had stay at home wives), and couldn't understand why I didn't like being called "honey".

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Based on my experience I can almost bet everyone who was anti-union is a 45+ year old white dude who owns their house and could retire if they couldn't find another job. They were the exact dudes early in my career when I said we needed to unionize like SAG did that would tell me how naive I was.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Its time to start collecting nominations for my 2026 games awards. We'll keep nominations open through mod November and announce winners soon after. We're doing multiple awards again this year. Some are decided by jury, and others through ranked ballot. No AI. One nomination per game per award.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the last time i bought anything at target was almost two years ago and i am ready to keep not buying things from target

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026

it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm gonna request some. We have a protest this upcoming week and we're going. I also want to hand them out to my kid's school. You all are the best.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026

We can still get 3k+ whistles out the door to people in need in under 24 hours and they are free.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

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Jayme "Danger" Howard @gimpy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ian's one of the most legit, genuine humans out there, who truly takes care of those around them. Let's get them the help they need.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone have links to good articles to give to literal boomer parents about how dangerous AI is in leading you down far right rabbit holes? Because I just got home from my parents house and I heard some very alarming things.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh

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