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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women

@epistellar.bsky.social
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game developer | current: split fate + first bite + nda studio project | past: narrative on unannounced IP + south of midnight + viewfinder + armatus | email: dee @ epistellar . net | Anti-GenAI

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 13/07/2026
Play as a woman who's an axe murderer, who kidnaps men, locks them in a basement, and decapitates them (in this light-hearted puzzle game) store.steampowered.com/app/4756010/...
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
While I love the success story (and own the game myself), this has, unfortunately, become fuel for sexists and misogynists to argue the following: "See? When you make games for GIRLS and KEEP THEM OUT of our BOYS GAMES, everybody wins!"
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Juan Vaca @juancow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am part of this round of layoffs and am seeking new opportunities. If your team needs a narrative director / storyteller, please reach out.
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What on earth has happened to Polygon? I know it's tough to get clicks in 2026, but my god. It's difficult to not feel sad about the state of this outlet, and games journalism in general.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We'd like to welcome the newest advisory board members to the GDC Family! Welcome Amir Satvat, Alexa Ray Corriea, Lucien Parsons, and Perrin Kaplan! We're thrilled with the wealth of experience and knowledge all our new members bring to share with GDC. bit.ly/3TdPTfI
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The Triple-i Initiative @iii-initiative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Triple-i Initiative showcase is back! 45 minutes of pure back-to-back game announcements with zero fluff. World premieres. Gameplay reveals. Release dates. Demos. No hosts. No ads. Just games. Be there - October 8th - 9am PDT / noon EDT / 6pm CEST.
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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 14/09/2026
🔓Full decryption complete! Turns out all you needed was launch day 👀 The 2026 GDoCExpo merch collection is here! T-shirt, our first-ever hoodie, enamel pin, keycap keychain (made with MKRO), & a diecut sticker pack - all live now at @theyetee.com! #gdocexpo
Full collection for game devs of color expo merch!
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Carli Velocci 👽 @carlivelocci.com · 14/09/2026
I don't know what you'd call this (sanewashing?) but companies like Anthropic and Microsoft make these research-forward moves to make their AI work seem more nuanced and critical than it actually is. It's a marketing tactic that won't actually change a thing.
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The FWS ruling & the English government's meddling in Scottish law over trans folk being able to change birth cert, the pausing of trans healthcare in Wales and the UK SC ruling's incompatibility with NI law proves trans folk will eventually unite Ireland and lead to Scots/Welsh independence.
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And she's right. J.K. Rowling IS the anti-trans lobby in Britain. She advocates for policies that marginalize trans people, and she does so without remorse. Supporting Harry Potter directly funds the erosion of trans rights in the UK, full stop.
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Stunting early childhood brain development to cater to the sad beige moms What stage of capitalism is this
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Ervo @ervo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fun fact: this is not a festival, not even a 3rd party one, this is a curator and they have tried to make the page look as much like a festival as possible They have to lie, they're always lying, if they don't lie nobody buys their shit If AI is so good, if it's the inevitable future, why lie?
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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Extremely heartbroken to say that I'm one of the affected members. Working at KO_OP for four and a half years has been one of the best things to ever happen to me and I really hope that my teammates can land a pitch that can bring us all back together again.
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.
gamedeveloper.com
Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees
Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
found this in the top posts and it succeeds in being very funny while also inducing a borderline homicidal rage
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I worked for The Onion, practically everyone who visited the office would ask how they could submit headlines. This one stoner delivery guy was so persistent, we finally told him he could submit 10 headlines on spec and we'd take a look. First one on his list was "Shit and poop are Stinky!!!"
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026
1. So, at the Worldcon this year there was a person who was going from panel to panel, bothering panelists by trying to get them to "collaborate" with them on a project and sliding the proposed project to them on a piece of paper. Folks, I cannot stress to you how obnoxious this sort of thing is.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 02/09/2026
Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states
Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.
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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pull your work off of Webtoon right now if you've put anything on there, allowing AI to be trained off their platform's work so "fans" can make AI "fancomics" is horrible, horrible. Pull it right now.
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Causeway Studios | The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham @ PAX West @causewaystudios.com · 01/09/2026
To escape your guilt, what… and who… would you leave on the cutting room floor? Welcome to The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham, coming 2027.
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When I say I'm excited to kick this man's ass Like, I'm coming for you, Brent It will not be pretty when I get my hands on you
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Started reading The Tainted Cup yesterday! Def happy I did.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I wrote about a group of Black dads who are building community by meeting up for yoga, and a instructor who randomly drives up to people on the street for on the spot yoga sessions
huffpost.com
These Black Men Are Forging Meaningful Bonds Through Yoga
A yoga session for Black dads takes place on Saturdays at the Barack Obama Presidential Center.
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is extremely frustrating to me, personally! We're losing the whole concept of the Unreliable Narrator in real time. Whole literary devices disappearing because self-inserts sell a lil too well these days. Sacrificing literacy and complex thought at the altar of escapism is real bad, actually.
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draculaderonda @scanningtwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The videogame guy I'm controlling? That's not me; I'm me. The main character in a novel I'm reading isn't me either. More and more I feel like this is an unusual attitude towards art.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/08/2026
Game developers devastated by Gamescom laptop theft spree aftermath.site/gamescom-lapto...
Attendees in a convention center at Gamescom
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do it!!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/08/2026
So I’m gathering up my weird nature facts for the Hugo ceremony—I am the toastmaster, and this is gonna be EDUCATIONAL—and I found one that was actually a little more unsettling than I wanted. You all prepared?
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dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women @epistellar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
HMMM, interestinnnnng 👀
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Causeway Studios | The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham @ PAX West @causewaystudios.com · 25/08/2026
eher owy raeu hy
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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deantak.bsky.social @deantak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Exclusive: It's official. Compulsion Games has successfully pulled off a management buyout and is no longer part of Microsoft. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...
gamesbeat.com
Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive
Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.
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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks to @deantak.bsky.social for sitting down with Guillaume Provost to talk about Compulsion’s independence. Every game you buy now directly supports Compulsion and helps fund our next project. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...
gamesbeat.com
Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive
Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.
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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 20/08/2026
"We would rather eat rocks and drink gasoline than be split up" - Compulsion Games has officially completed its buyout from Xbox and now owns all its IP. Players who buy games like South of Midnight are now supporting the studio directly, its CEO says. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-woul...
videogameschronicle.com
‘We would rather eat rocks and drink gasoline than be split up’: Compulsion Games has completed its buyout from Xbox | VGC
The South of Midnight studio now officially owns all its IP…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026
Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬
middleeasteye.net
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 20/08/2026
1000xRESIST is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2. After all the compromises made on Switch 1, this feels like a full circle moment. PC quality, high resolutions, and haptics have come to the portable experience.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026
i have done what many said is impossible. i have made an order guide for playing the entire kingdom hearts series, for normal people. i hope this can be a helpful resource to at least one person out there:
docs.google.com
Kingdom Hearts: Normal Person Order
Normal Person Order A complete guide for the entire Kingdom Hearts series, in release order, as simply as possible, without missing anything. by headfallsoff Introduction It may feel intimidating to...
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Nozomu @nozomugames.com · 17/08/2026
We've launched an indie publisher label!!! Behold: Inner Pocket, home of curiosity games! inner-pocket.com During the last two years, universe brought together 4 cool people with different skills, but common love for such games... And here we are! Saying "I'm excited" is an understatement :D
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Control Resonant has gone gold. Physical release delayed to Oct 15th. Game is still releasing digitally on Sept 24th
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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026
AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
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Kemedriels wife💍 @galadrielswife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A group of Gandalfs at Peter Thiel’s house protesting against mass surveillance😭
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