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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ben Quadinaros is peak character design

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

that one guy with 2 skeletons inside really messed up the statistics for everyone else

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

furries, stewards of the ancient web

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

predictably, webrings seem to still be going strong with the furries

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we really need to bring webrings back now that more and more people are returning to blogs and small websites

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beating my chest and making monkey noises as i type all of my code by hand as a show of fitness and dominance in front of frontier LLM models slowly circling around me

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i thought this was about patching analogue synths at first

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"artist working with claude" doesn't quite have the same ring to it :)

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i think that genAI art will have a net positive effect on human art. there is now an objective benchmark for uninteresting soulless slop. look at all the game devs literally hand making assets for their games now to differentiate themselves from the slop machine!

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe. tens of thousands of tokens burned to increment a single integer in a config file by sending the contents of an entire directory to an LLM on a daily basis.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

as long as they have little trees on em, im in!

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Jeremy Jayne @jeremybjayne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this discussion between myself and Danny is one of my favorite things we've ever recorded, so please consider giving it a listen even if you're not a usual podcast person! genuinely one of my favorite conversations I've had about art and it having been recorded is a lovely bonus

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

having a game out in early access is so frustrating because the new version you're working on is always so much better than the last thing you felt comfortable releasing and you have to watch people play the inferior version

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's important to remind everyone that some absolute madlad, before LLMs ruined all mod voice acting forever, got a girl into a recording booth and redid every single voice line in Deus Ex to let you play as a girl www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay...

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The Lay D Denton Project mod for Deus Ex

The Lay D Denton project is an effort to provide a FULL seamless female JC Denton experience. Features include: -A complete female JC voiceover -Female JC model -All pronouns and gender references mod...

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I always wondered if that was intentional.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

heard my first "lowkirkuinely" in the wild

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 10/05/2026

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

after the initial shock, icon-only vertical tabs in Firefox work really well. i just wish you could group tabs by website under one icon like channels in Discord

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ive seen that face more times this week than my son's

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

neeeewwwww ggaaammmeee WHAT oh yuck this one is callled SEPSIS - adamatomic.itch.io/sepsis 🔬 1023 bytes of slightly gross arcade good times ⚡️ zap stuff with your ~very~ short range laser 🧪 eventually get Gobbled By Orbs 💖 big appreciate to @mixolumia.com for inspo !

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i feel like there are two modes of LLM usage that get conflated in an unhelpful way: as an information lookup method vs a thing that produces wholesale end-product output. the former being a useful learning tool and the latter being intellectually lazy and orders of magnitude more wasteful.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

im starting to think my own desktop littering is small potatoes

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

any fellow desktop litterers? how littered are your desktops?

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it's really ok to buy a game, play it for 10 minutes and go 'neat!' and then never play it again in your life

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DLSS5 makes every game look like a Christian pamphlet from the 90s and I think that's beautiful

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

you can play my overtly and unapologetically political game about hunting nazis for free adamatomic.itch.io/prince

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Prince of Prussia by Adam Saltsman

Rated M for nazi stabbin'

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

everything is going into the style blender one way or another, but the hope is that there will be more focused neural style mods that will do interesting things

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

yes, a lot of it is going to be slop, but there will also be tons of custom mods using the same tech to reimagine large swathes of older games

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i'm actually pretty excited about DLSS5. yes it looks stupid a lot of the time, but i think we're on the brink of an era where we can replay all of the games in existence coherently restyled into just about any art style.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i like how Brogue embraces that it's a genre game and just does what it's supposed to do really really well. it's like watching a horror movie where you know all the tropes that are coming and the comfort of that is what's enjoyable.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this is the first game i remember seeing that did environmental damage. blew my mind as a kid that a level can be impacted by the player.

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

porch pirates stole my zipline ronnie keychain :(

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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 22/08/2026

The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

they haven't fully disintegrated yet??

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

EVERYONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELTEN HAULEN CHAIN'S IN HELL "EVERYONE SHOULD BE PAID DOUBLE WHAT THERE MAKING NOW AND HOT DOGS SHOULD BE FREE,THE ZOO SHOULD HAVE CATS YOU CAN PET, OUTLAW LEAF BLOWERS" JUST USE A FUCKEN RAKE , BURNING GASOLINE TO MOVE LEAFS SLOWER AND LOUDER THAN A RAKE IS SOMETHING AN AI DIPSHIT WOULD DO - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anbernic RG SP plays pico8 games and it might just be the best way to play pico8 games. also you better believe i put @adamatomic.bsky.social ‘s CorgiSpace on it immediately!

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

great excuse to play all the Sega Genesis jank i never go to play as a kid

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

finally got my Anbernic RG SP and it just comes preloaded with like every ROM for every game system ever (gotta love China). feels like keeping a major chunk of video game history in your pocket. incredible piece of hardware!

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🌿 ivan safrin 🌱 @ivansafrin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

lol did this really need to be a paper?

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