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Spooky ✨🔜 LONDON CC A453 @spookynest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A MAGPIE IN MY RASPBERRIES! THE BUGGER 🍓🫐💛

A magpie surrounded by different coloured raspberries on a yellow background

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Instant Transmission

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things can never just work huh 😅? Glad it got caught but that's a silly one #Gamedev #Indiegame

A Trello task card saying: Fix falling through floor if you jump with a box on your head

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Dreamcube Games @dreamcube.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New trailer for Chirax's Fortress! An indie game inspired by Yoshi's Island where you play as a hydra! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3798540/... #indiegame #gamedev #yoshisisland #snes #platformer #godot #pixelart #noai #dragons #steam

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dupreedraws @dupreedraws.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SONIC!! 35 years old already? Holy Unc status - #sonicthehedgehog #sonic35th #art #fanart

Sonic running along a grassy cliffside, with Tails piloting the tornado flying alongside him. Amy Rose is riding passenger in the back, waving at Sonic excitedly. The background is filled with floating islands with hanging vines and folliage. A windmill sits atop one of them. Seagulls fly across the sky in the background, making for a breathtaking scene.

Sonic racing along a grassy cliffside, with Tails piloting the tornado flying alongside him. Amy Rose is riding passenger in the back, waving at Sonic excitedly. The background is filled with floating islands with hanging vines and folliage. A windmill sits atop one of them. Seagulls fly across the sky in the background, making for a breathtaking scene.

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Order Rodentia @orodentia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Your regular reminder not to call bad people "rats." Rats deserve better.

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Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

barrier to entry for making videogame was once Very High,, we would spend entire weekend figuring out how to use Rpgmaker thankfully now for low price of PLANET NOT INHABITABLE you can instruct mr computer to copy someone’s code from github and put your name on it and He will tell you did a good job

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Nabil Samandari @nabilsamandari.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just as a reminder, genAI images and videos aren't bad because they look bad. How close they get to the real thing is irrelevant. The reason they're bad is because ultimately genAI exists to put the creative process itself into the hands of corporations instead of actual creatives.

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Rat Squinks 🐀 @ratsquinks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

grisped like a freshly plucked spud

fizzgig the grey and white hooded rat being held up in one hand by her owner as she munches on a tasty treat

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would object to LLMs even if they weren't planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines because students need to learn core skills and how to do the work themselves. Also, they are planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines that give answer-shaped nonsense.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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Rat Squinks 🐀 @ratsquinks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh she is my whole heart

yuzu the black and white hooded rat leaning in curiously towards the camera. she wants to give you a kiss!!

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How I like to word it, as someone generally pro tech but anti "AI". Specific and purpose trained machine learning (with ethical training data) for things humans can't easily do (or takes an unreasonable amount of time) like complex data processing, can be good, and that existed before the hype boom.

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm fine with machine learning with the correct conditions, but anything labeled AI I will assume the worst. That's the industry's own doing and they can lie in that bed. To me "AI" is a mindset, an attitude, a shitty movement, something we should 100% be against. Say you're not anti ML instead imo.

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Messy desk photo while I work hard on wrapping up the design of my big Lego project. Been a combined 4+ months at this point cause I keep looking for improvements but I think it's time to finish! Will be released with instructions in the hopefully near future. #Lego #LegoMOC #RockRaiders

A desk filled with Lego pieces and partially completed Lego Moc's

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Mamono World @mamonoworld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

UNITY. DUTY. DESTINY.

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shadowtherat.bsky.social @shadowtherat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Here was Shadow doing her "rob a purse" trick! This one will always be one of my favorites, and was one of the tricks that really taught me what amazing learners rats are! . I have a rat training book available here! www.etsy.com/listing/1605... amzn.to/484u2Mv

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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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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

part of why I don't like AI is bc it's so often the antithesis of caring for the little things, the appreciation of the mundane, of seeing beauty where others haven't yet been able to, and seeking genuine fundamental understanding all in the name of "get product faster" I find it so disheartening

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Anyway I'm just going to say it outright: if you're an indie dev using AI for coding, above and beyond any other objections, what you're telling me is that you have no solidarity with anyone else in games. Not artists, not writers, not other coders. You beleive in personal convenience at all costs.

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

So a consequence of making a picross game is that I now have to make hundreds of pixel art pictures 😵 I've barely ever touched pixel art, but after having made a bit over 30 now I have to say I'm doing pretty good I think?!? These are some of my favorite so far! #PixelArt #GameDev #IndieDev #Picross

Pixel art of a fish bowl in my picross game

Pixel art of a cow and a milk carton in my picross game

Pixel art of water and lily pads in my picross game

Pixel art of a delicious slice of peperoni pizza in my picross game

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Made a nice little catapult system for my current game project, got some nice editor previews so you can see how and where a physics object will be flung before running the game. Also works and previews with gravity volumes which took some extra work, but is neat I think! #gamedev #indiedev

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Achilles Tzamtzis @finalpunchgames.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I bit the bullet and finally modeled and animated the main enemy for the portal-like game i am making with @funcmathias.bsky.social It is the first time ever i made a 3D animation and i think it came out pretty good. Let me know what you think! #indiedev #gamedev #Portal youtu.be/gFjHsTNO4Wk

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Lab Rats Catcore Animations 1

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 13/06/2026

it's still insane to me that valve never invest in game development outside their little studio. it's straightforwardly good business to start doing dev grants, or at least lower their cut until a dev makes a million bucks or whatever. the industry is falling apart and they wouldn't feel it at all

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/06/2026

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah. About whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Not whether some people deserve rights.

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MirnAAH! @goodbye.computer · 08/06/2026

hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

Some time ago, I decided to add my thoughts about "AI" to my site… #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #GenAI #AISlop

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 02/06/2026

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

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ITR @itr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

AAAA🪸LIFE BELOW IS OUT🪸🪸I HAVE SPENT 3.5 YEARS OF MY LIFE ON THIS GAME🪸PLEASE CHECK IT OUT🪸🪸🪸 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Very well done video about delaunay triangulation by a new creator, currently sitting at 4 views after a day, give it some deserved attention!

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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func_Mathias @funcmathias.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Needed a break from my big game dev project and been obsessed with Squeakross lately (@alblune.bsky.social), so I had a go at making a Picross game over the last month and it's going well! A bit different from what I usually make, so learned a few new things. #GameDev #IndieDev #Picross #Nonogram

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🎃 Undead-Kate 🦇 @corpsebod.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This video kinda sucks like it's bad lighting and stuff but I just can't handle how cute this guy is. What do you mean I can cuddle in a blanket with the living beanie baby who also loves the interaction as much as me 😭😭😭 look at his boggles 🥹 I love rats man come ON

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 29/04/2026

For the past 3 years I've been making yet-another™ 3D file-format, called STF. Find out why, and how it compares to glTF, FBX, and others: youtu.be/DDQjbSaDbkM #stf #stf3d #gamedev #programming #opensource #foss #interoperability #3dart #b3d #blender3d #godot #godotengine #madewithunity

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Why do we need Yet-Another™ File-Format for 3D Models

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MariEsposeets @mariesposeets.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Send this one to the weird bug-lovers in your life.

Twyla, an owl, is sitting on sidewalk.
Twy (thinking): The worst people alive control everything, hoard the wealth, poison the world, bomb innocent people, destroy lives and our future to feed their unending greed. And so many people around me don't even care! They tell me to shut up and "be polite" and don't mention "politics." They'd rather let the world burn and thousands of people die than have to think about anything outside their comfort bubbles.

I guess I gotta try to find little pieces of happiness wherever I can. Gotta try to have hope... I just don't know where to look anymore.
(Voice behind Twyla): Hey.

Twy turns around and sees a Achrioptera manga, a brightly colored stick insect.
Twy: Uh, hey?
A. manga: I'm a big, weird bug. I'm just gonna crawl on you and waggle around, ok?
Twy: Um. Ok. (The bug crawls up Twy's body)

The A. manga reaches Twy's head and just waggles around. Twy smiles.

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arborix.bsky.social @arborix.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

to make up for the lack of art have some sleeve rats

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The Edge of Water / Wishlist now! @bigmoodgames.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We have a new trailer!! 🙌 Just in time for #trailertuesday 😉 Could this be a teaser for something else we're preparing? 👀 Stay tuned! #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev

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Achilles Tzamtzis @finalpunchgames.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Made a new level of Lab Rats to introduce portals to the player. It was tricky to create something simple understandable and original without making it too similar to portal 1 and 2 but i think i did it with this design. #screenshosunday #indiedev #gamedev #Portal

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