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Kate Compton

@galaxykate.bsky.social
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Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 4h
I wish there were therapist matchmakers
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Common misconception, theres only one narrative designer but they have 50 tarot decks
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have an opening for a tenured Professor / Associate Professor of Interactive Media "with an emphasis on interactive storytelling, worldbuilding, and/or playful design in the public interest". I'm on the hiring committee and happy to answer questions.
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Associate or Full Professor of Interactive Media Film and Media Arts School of Communication
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder if you are not Phoenician do not say cheeky Nando's
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is especially bizarre for Denmark because here “burger” means anything between buns instead of bread (eg a fried chicken breast sando is a burger), rather than the US implication of “burger”= ground meat in any form
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AlbaBG 👽 @albabbgg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Welcome, to the CURSED RELICS 2026 OFFICIAL LIST 💀⚔️🧿🪲 LET’S GO ☝🏻🌝 so excited, this is the best time of the year!!! Cannot wait to see what we’ll create together once again 🙌🏻 🧿 Will you be able to collect all the cursed relics? ⚔️ 👽 Info on second slide #cursedrelics #cursedrelics2026
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The games are lovingly sorted into categories by yours truly, like "Be A Bird", "Birdwatching", and "Birds On The Case" (there are a weird amount of bird detective games!). Genuinely there is something for everyone... unless you hate birds, but like, nobody hates birds!!
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!
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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 07/09/2026
We're now taking talk submissions for ThinkyCon 2026! 🎉
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ThinkyCon is back for 2026! Talk submissions now open · Thinky Games
Our annual digital convention is back for a third year: on October 26th-28th you can tune in for 3 days of live talks from the makers and enthusiasts of the thinky games world.
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I got myself some GenZ giant jeans and yeah they are very comfy
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
History FACT: Henry VIII's sixth wife did not 'survive'. She's definitely dead
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
tiny one-page html/JS games are the format most likely to run on any hardware in the next 10 years
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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 18/09/2026
if you want your software to last forever making an exe wont work. making a linux executable definitely wont work. who the fuck knows if web shit will work. your best options are releasing source code (in a language like C), or a GBA rom
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philpax @philpax.me · 18/09/2026
im afraid that it is very funny to me to be precious about ai-tainted code in indie games, a field of endeavour famously known for shipping superfund codebases
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am, yet again, negging a butterfly.
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daniel wraith @danielroe.dev · 14/09/2026
🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it
getair.space
airspace
The database you already have.
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm applying to professorships in both Fairy Tales, and Robotics Innovation.
"Now thats what I call *Interdisciplinarity*" album cover
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Memes are fucking disgusting and won't exist under anarcho-primitivism
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Always worth being reminded that Kids These Days/This New Generation is Cooked lamentations are as old as humanity. Probably older.
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Call for short papers: The Language Games We Play: Opportunities and Obstacles in Studying Macro-Level Phenomena with Computational Methods EGOS 2027 (in Liverpool, UK) www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
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EGOS - CALL for Short Papers - European Group for Organizational Studies
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I got a new (with tags on!) sweater from the thrift store and i just want to wear it forever
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thunder is fake. It doesn't even sync up properly with lightning. There's some guy who waits till he sees lightning and then he presses the thunder button.
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Man, this *gets* San Francisco. Sometimes i felt dizzy there.
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Libraries, DH centers, other folks w/printer access 🖨️ who can make a stack of free-zine copies: there's a "take one!" poster you can print to go alongside them on our zine page! zinebakery.com//homemade-zi...
Zine cover for "DIY Web Archiving" poster with additional text allowing it to be posted over a stack of the zines encouraging taking some. "Things disappear* from the internet. (*sometimes, are deliberately disappeared)
Care about stuff on the web?
art zines fan fic
videos/tiktoks photo galleries social media hashtags departed loved ones' posts museum & archival materials
that we have always existed
what really happened
cultural memory
human rights
resistance
joy
*YOU* need to act to archive it.
Anyone can do it-this zine shows you how.
Free! Take a bunch! Take more & share with friends!
DIY Web Archiving Zine
Daedel, Kijas, Kreymer, Walsh, Visconti
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 02/09/2026
if i had emperor power i would blow up computer science and make it process science and be like "sure i guess you could use computers to model processes if you want"
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I unironically love that women get to compete in the “academic who can hold a grudge like a paintbrush” field finally
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
⭐️ Big life news: I've parted ways with the LEGO Group, for now ⭐️ though I still think the LEGO system is one of the best toys in the world (after crayons)
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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
good morning I hope that you are all primed and ready to enjoy the monster owl destroying a village I created in a quilting workshop a couple of weekends ago & have finally finished
a quilting of an orange and yellow owl perched / grabbing at two tiny blue houses
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post something random or you’ll have an awful September
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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is hanging by my door. I think a lot of us need him by the door
I am not in trouble and no one is mad at me
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ooh, hey, making my site (in progress) entirely JSON data-driven has the nice side effect of giving me an easy way to update collaborators on old papers to their most current names
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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is amazing! SimCopter had a great soundtrack by Jerry Martin but the game’s files were highly compressed. So LucasVB got in touch with Mr. Martin and he was able to find most of the original high quality tracks! Awesome to hear “Hangar” in such clarity after 30 years archive.org/details/SimC...
archive.org
SimCopter original soundtrack (high quality)
SimCopter is a somewhat obscure game released in 1996 by Maxis, the studio behind the SimCity and The Sims franchises.In the game, the player controls a helicopter pilot in various missions across a c...
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Look, Ive made fun of Bruce Banner for having seven PhDs but honestly, I would ride that carousel again
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I didn’t think Dolly would be reincarnated this fast, nor that she would take this form, but the evidence is clear.
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Huh, duck quacks *do* echo
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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3
A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hollering “GRAS!” at the Starbucks blending powder news like someone spotting a celebrity cameo in a movie Thanks @planetmoney.bsky.social for making me unreasonably excited to spot curséd regulatory classifications www.npr.org/2026/05/29/n...
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The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food : Planet Money
99% of chemicals in our food right now were added without FDA approval. Many were added in secret, through a sneaky loophole built into the 1958 Food Additives Amendment.It was supposed to require FDA...
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ice water is so good
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Duck video for @chrisdeleon.bsky.social
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tyler robertson 👈 @tryagaintyler.com · 26/08/2026
Hi! I’m Tyler (they/them) and I‘m best known for making spreadsheets do things they shouldn’t. I want to talk to YOU (and your classrooms, and your offices, and your conferences) about not just spreadsheets, but why/how everyone should be making fun things with boring software!
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gay sunrise
A sunrise over peaceful recently harvested fields, a pink strip under a broad periwinkle blanket of clouds
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don't cite the deep magic to me, witch. I straight-up don't remember writing that shit. I don't know how it runs when it calls on a non-existent .txt called deepmmagic. Yeah two Ms I missed it. And yes I know it always crashes to desktop on exit. No I won't help you mod it for "deeper magic"
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
the fda has recalled e. coli due to salmonella
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