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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 13h

We've been selected by Launch Good to participate in their one-week fundraising campaign for Palestine. Launch Good will match every $ we raise for Dreams on a Pillow. This will take Khadra one stop closer to her next destination Atilit! launchgood.com/1948

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 18h

I was moderately hoping he was doing the right thing, but a week after this video went live he laid off about a hundred of his employees, citing AI and profit incentives as the primary drivers. He may be one of the less bad ones but he's still a San Francisco based tech CEO submerged in AI culture.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 18h

Genuinely concerned about the engineers at YouTube who work on the "Show me fewer shorts" button feature. Are they OK? Has anyone fed or watered them in a while? Did they get enough sleep? I'm really rooting for them but I'm losing hope. 😭

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Marion Allard @marlard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some research today into how to illustrate the books for Marsozoic. Trying my hand at sketching + watercolor. I'm absolutely over the moon with the in-game result!!

A photo of my desk, covered with newspaper, with watercolor supplies on it - a palette with various mixed colors, some dirty paint water, a brush. On the left, a scrap of paper covered with dabs of watercolor, to test out the hues. In the middle, a WIP watercolored sketch of a frog, nearly finished.

Scanned version of the finished watercolored sketch of a frog. It's hopping to the right, leaving a faint shadow on the ground. The frog is colored with a soft mix of green, orange-y and brown watercolors, with some black spots and white highlights.

A screenshot of my paleontology game, Marsozoic, with the frog sketch integrated into an in-game book. The screen is split between a workspace on the left that is strewn about with alien fossils, and a table on the right with an open book. The book contains information about animals moving through a series of hops. The frog sketch now illustrates the bottom of the page.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Damn, that hurts to read :( Wishing the best to everyone affected ❤️

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The [s]factory[/s] cluster must grow!

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Marion Allard @marlard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New Marsozoic devlog!! In which we lock in to deliver the first early playable build of the game. Fossils examination, X-ray scanner, map system and more! ENG/FR subtitles available :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgs4...

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Marsozoic's first playable build ! Fossils examination, X-rays, Map system and more | Devlog

YouTube video by Marion Allard

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last time I couldn't figure out how to properly visualize something using tools, I ended up doing all the (log) positioning calculations in a spreadsheet and drew them in Inkscape with 4 decimal exact positioning 😂 Sometimes doing it by hand is the least overwhelming option 🤷

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love finding new artists through artist collaborations. It's like finding out your friends are friends with pretty cool people at a mutual hangout and you become friends as well

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(legitimate use-case is anytime you want to assert anything to be true, and crash in dev builds if it's not)

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Defining a macro that does (*int)0 = 0; for when you want a game to crash and burn

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I woke up, and want to clarify: Note that none of my arguments were - AI output is ugly/I can always tell - AI can't do my job well - AI looks different from human output These are not sustainable arguments. As AI evolves they will likely erode. That's why I wrote a huge list of DURABLE arguments:

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This thread was written out of pure frustration with the state of the industry, at 4am. I might have gotten things wrong but I'm pretty confident I can back all of these up with sources if pressed.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Above all: YOU CAN DO WITHOUT You do not need to participate. You're not falling behind. It's manufactured FOMO to get you addicted to the products. Your brain will thank you, and you'll be doing a good thing for society, culture, the environment and most likely; your career.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Product: - AI products are extremely interchangeable; AI product selecting will be almost exclusively done by price point. Leads to a race to the bottom, or alternatively rely on (illegal) industry price fixing. - Local models also have many of the above problems, but are generally cheaper.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

- Data centers are built where land is cheap and permits are easy to get, which are often areas vulnerable to exploitation, pollution and disruption of nature (ground water level, for example) - The last thing we need right now is an arms race to build power-hungry data centers

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Environmental: - AI requires some of the most power-hungry chips, much more so than most other applications - The mining and production for hardware heavily pollutes, disproportionately affects the global south - High-end servers are not built to last more than a few years before they are scrapped

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

- AI coders report 'atrophy' of their own programming skills - A significant portion of code on the internet by now is AI generated. Given that most AI code sucks and makes common errors, AI models are likely to repeat these errors unless explicitly prompted not to ("model collapse")

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

- AI tools lead to less stable architecture/interfaces, which increases risk of instability/regressions/bugs - AI reduces the cost of low-impact tasks, increasing productivity metrics while lowering overall impact - AI coders are extremely replaceable, which I imagine will affect career prospects

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Programming-specific: - AI products have destroyed the chain of mentorship in companies and open-source projects - AI tools externalize responsibility for code quality: "the model messed up" etc. - Automated code reviews devalue human understanding of the code

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Political reasons: - Allocating scarce resources to benefit the few is unethical and unsustainable - AI infrastructure disproportionately hurts marginalized communities while benefiting the wealthy - AI companies concentrate information, wealth and power

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Creativity/skill: - Effort is part of the process; it leads to better and more meaningful results - Individual experience and expression induces variance in outcome and moves culture and tech forward - Discovery and execution leads to a better understanding than reading a AI's solution ever could

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit

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Renee! DEVIL'S LIMINAL out NOW @studiointerlude.com · 03/10/2026

The Full Version of DEVIL'S LIMINAL is now on Google Play! It also has a free demo, and the entire game is available with one purchase. (It's also cheaper than Steam, because that's the nature of mobile 🤷) When yuri is on a mobile game, you can have yuri anytime. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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DEVIL'S LIMINAL - Apps on Google Play

A demon's pact, a final summer. Yuri horror visual novel.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also really like this picture of my old cat Pepper. It was one of the last photos I took of him, earlier this year. ❤️

photo of a 18-year-old senior cat, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on his final day

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't think there's anything I have that would top the mutual face-punch of our kittens, so here you go 😄

photo of two white/orange cats punching each other in the face at the same time, indoors on a rug.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Growing old is realizing adding lime in recipies is peak

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ohh *that's* why my phone keeps pushing Gemini 😭 I was wondering what funky AI setting I must've butt-dialed and couldn't be bothered to check yet, turns out it wasn't me! Ugh.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ooh I just realized its officially the best month of the year! 🎃🥧🍂🪾🕯️🍲🕸️

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

optimist: the glass is half full pessimist: the glass is half empty backend engineer: we've set up a horizontal autoscaler, when the average glass utilization exceeds 50%, it'll add new glasses and redistribute the load. When the average utilization drops, we'll eliminate glasses to save on cost.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting seeing this after having played Devil's Liminal 😄

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

someone should really put an effort into standardizing these things

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last hobby gamedev project I worked on seriously was over 10 years ago.. Who do I talk to, to change the number of hours in a day to 32?

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to make stuff again, and I want to have energy to make stuff again. I also want to be social, keep up with friends and make new ones! While I like my job, it just takes up so much of my energy, creativity, and time.. I'm in a privileged position even having this job, but it's a struggle :(

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm very happy with Beyerdynamic DT 990 PRO. They're open-backed over-ear, so they bleed through environment sound, and your headphones will be a bit audible to your surroundings, but the comfort is great. Allows me to wear them all day with glasses, without getting annoyed. Great audio quality. 🙂

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A v1 of anything isn't meant to be perfect. If it's worth improving you'll come back to it. I find that a difficult mindset to adopt but when you're there it really does speed things along 🙂

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And this one to keep the internet free and open, without mandatory ID / age verification checks: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And also while you're here and have figured out how to sign petitions. Sign this one for affordable transportation! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

Image of the yellow EU stars on a white background, with a train crossing the European Map in the center, also in yellow.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey! 👋 If you live in the EU 🇪🇺 And like affordable housing 🏠💶 Maybe you 🫵 Should sign 🖋️ This EU initiative 👀 citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

"We demand the RIght to Housing! Now and Forever" in black letters on a white background, surrounded by a yellow border. A big blue "Sign now" button below.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Monthly cost down is insane 😂 Congrats! 🎉

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not a good day to keep up with game news, I'll be quiet or I'm going to say things that'll get me cancelled 🙃

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