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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 FINAL 24 HOURS 🚨 Only one day left to become a backer of Amnesia Fortnight: Indie Reboot! Get cool swag, play prototypes, vote on your favorite project, and support our indie studio by becoming a backer. Head to Kickstarter to join the campaign! kck.st/4gu8zAF
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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 07/07/2026
Love As A Foreign Language Now In Stores!
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 30/06/2026
their feet on the ground. That way they can get the bike up to speed before they need to start pedalling. Without that, we found getting the pedal bike moving from a full stop without falling over was the toughest part of the transition.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 30/06/2026
We went the balance bike route, and that worked. Once they were good at scooting around on the balance bike, they were able to transition to the pedal bike without ever needing training wheels. When you make transition, it helps to lower the seat on the pedal bike so they can still scoot with...
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Cariad Heather @cariad.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you are Canadian, please sign this.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 12/02/2026
Ominous bird valentines.
A collection of six ominous bird valentines set against a background of pink hearts. In the first one, a Canada Goose looks angry and hisses and the text says "Baby, I'll make you fall head over heels if you approach within 10m of my nest." In the second, an American white pelican opens its mouth to eat the reader and the text says "There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I want this one." In the third valentine, a Black Vulture looks suspiciously at the reader and the text says "I will love you until you die. And after that, I'll love you even more." A Southern Cassowary stands proudly against the heart-covered background. The text says "My wattles are red. My head is blue. My deadly reputation has been somewhat overblown, but I'd kill for you." In the fifth valentine, a Northern Giant-Petrel stands open-billed next to a large brown furry object, and the text says "Let's seal the deal by sharing a 3000 kg elephant seal carcass." In panel 6, a happy-looking Bearded Vulture holds a bone in its beak, and the text says "I love every part of you, especially your bones."
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 20/12/2025
There should be a requirement in law that any children's toy that makes noise must have a volume control concealed in the battery compartment.
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Catherine @whitequark.org · 27/10/2025
advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: bsky.app/profile/pyth...
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 25/10/2025
Cross Game
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Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Steam sale is winding down! Eternal Strands is still on sale until it's over at 65% off. Romance, adventure, magically launching broken landscape at massive creatures, and one (1) overly complicated sock sorting system all included! store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...
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Save 65% on Eternal Strands on Steam
A next-generation action experience where the elements obey you, the terrain bends to your will, and every victory is entirely your own.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Really enjoyed this Articles of Interest episode on the history of zippers. IMO, this is the best clothing-related podcast. Smart, but accessible, and very engaging. New season coming Oct 22nd on how the military and outdoor industry shape what we wear. www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/epis...
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EPISODES | Articles Of Interest
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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This from Air Canada CEO makes absolutely clear the consequences of Canadian Liberals’ repeated abuse of back-to-work legislation. Federally regulated corporations no longer assume that they need to bargain in good faith if workers’ right to strike has been gutted. Shame on @pattyhajdu.bsky.social
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/08/2025
Bird abilities I wish I had. Buy my new book here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A nine panel comic called "Bird abilities I wish I had." In panel 1, labeled flying, a woman in a red tshirt and blue jeans soars through the air with 2 mourning doves. In panel 2, labeled singing complex songs, the woman sings with a magnolia warbler. In panel 3, labeled carving wood with my face, the woman has carved a hole in a tree and is covered in wood chips, while a pileated woodpecker pecks on a tree behind her. In panel 4, labeled eating shrimp to become pink, the woman has turned pink and is standing next to two flamingos. In panel 5, labeled storing food in a gular pouch, the woman has a throat pouch with an apple and a fish in it, and two pelicans fly by. In panel 6, labeled not needing winter legwear, the woman is bundled up but has bare legs and is standing in a snowy landscape next to a mallard duck. In panel 7, labeled being a symbol of peace, the woman looks peaceful and is wearing a shirt with a peace sign, and there's a mourning dove on her hand. In panel 8, labeled being an omen, the woman is in a spooky tree next to a crow or raven and a crescent moon. In panel 8, labeled stealing chips with no criminal repercussions, the woman and a herring gull are flying through the air carrying chip bags in their mouth while someone on the ground says "hey!".
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Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games @spookysquid.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
For #screenshotsaturday this week, I have a mockup of a campsite area. If you discovered enough secrets on the floors before, you'll be able to bank your new items and use the camp as a shortcut/save spot. If not you can still continue on to later floors. #GoblinGirlGame #pixelart #ドット絵 #indiedev
Top down 16-bit style pixel art of a dungeon. A larger room with a campsite set up in one corner with a lit fire. Cooking equipment and a butchered giant bug monster corpse.5 torches line the top wall with some sort of inscription beneath them. 
Near the center are two statues of winged eggs, the left one has a crack running through it. A grand doorway opens to the North. To the East is a passage blocked by rubble. 

The goblin girl walks around. An elf is examining one of the statues.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 24/07/2025
My dad (a boat owner) once described owning a boat to me as "like standing in a cold shower tearing up $100 bills".
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/05/2025
Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
A chart that explains what to do If You Find A Baby Songbird Out Of The Nest. Is it hurt or did a cat get it? (Cat bites & scratches cause deadly infections.) or, Has a person kept it for over a day, given it food or water, or gotten it wet? If yes, Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator 
or wildlife care center near you. An online search can help. If no, what does it look like? Eyes not yet open. You have a hatchling. It's very young. Eyes open; feathers few & may be in tube-like sheaths. You have a nestling. Feathered; awkwardly hops or flutters; tail & wings short. You have a fledgling. Many sharp teeth; large claw on second toe. You have a velociraptor. If a hatchling or nestling, can you see the nest? If yes, Return it to its nest. The parents won’t care if they can smell you. If no, Make a nest from a basket & dried grass. Wire it to a tree. (Note: A few species, like Juncos, need a nest on the ground.) If a fledgling, is it in immediate danger? If yes, carefully move it to a safer spot nearby. If no, DO NOT INTERVENE! Though the bird looks awkward, it’s in a natural stage & the parents are still feeding it. If a velociraptor, has it seen you? If yes, back away slowly. Do not show fear. If no, run. Watch for others that may attack from the sides. FYI: Some babies (eg. swifts, most woodpeckers) only sit on the ground if in trouble. When in doubt, keep watch & contact a wildlife rehabilitator if needed!
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/05/2025
Do you like birds? My new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is out today wherever you buy books! This little book is deeply silly and full of love, and I hope you'll laugh and maybe enjoy an obscure fact or two.
The cover of a book called The Birding Dictionary: A Tongue-in-cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds, with a quote from David Sibley that says "Best. Dictionary. Ever" and a drawing of a Vermilion Flycatcher pooping on a pair of binoculars.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 04/05/2025
Try teaching someone to play cribbage. The number of times you need to say "pegging" is unreal.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 25/04/2025
If you're about to use an LLM to send me an email: stop. Just take whatever you were putting in the prompt, and send me that instead. I would much rather read your informal point form notes than wade through LLM generated slop.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Certain partisans have been citing Canada's performance on per capita GDP as evidence of a supposed 'lost decade' and economic mismanagement. In @irpp.org's Policy Options, I deconstruct this arbitrary and misleading statistic, in two parts. #cdnecon #cdnpoli. /2
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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 02/04/2025
I should've said something about this sooner, but...well, I didn't know it was public! But I have a book coming out soon: www.cbc.ca/books/zeroed... #comicsky
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Zeroed Out by Jim Munroe, illustrated by Eric Kim | CBC Books
A sci-fi rom-com.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hey! A little news from me! I'm back to talking about games (video and otherwise), twice a month, on a new podcast I'm hosting with the crew from @friends-table.bsky.social!
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 09/03/2025
Entrepreneurial mystery book lovers in Toronto! The owner Toronto's mystery bookstore, SLEUTH OF BAKER STREET, is retiring. He is looking for someone interested in taking over the bookshop, gave me permission to post publicly about this. sleuthofbakerstreet.ca #Toronto #IndieBookstores
A woman in a long coat and scarf stands outside Sleuth of Baker Street, a mystery bookstore in Toronto, holding a book and smiling at the camera. The storefront features a large black and gold sign with the store’s name, website, and phone number. The window display showcases various books, with reflections of trees and buildings visible in the glass. A small sign on the door indicates that the store is open.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 28/02/2025
... who craft your gear, handle logistics, do research, etc, and the narrative treats your other team members and their skills as integral to your success
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 28/02/2025
A recent game that handles this really well is Eternal Strands. Your character is very much one part of a team. You're the part that goes out into the world to do video game protagonist stuff (enact violence, take anything that's not nailed down) and the rest of the team are various specialists...
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 19/02/2025
Interesting stuff. Why this approach instead of a per-user rate-limit on timeline writes (e.g. backed with a token bucket or something)? I mean, my guess would be performance, since this approach just requires reads and maintaining a token bucket requires writes, but are there other considerations?
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 15/02/2025
If you're looking for a Civ-like to fill the gap, you could try Old World. It's by the lead designer on Civ IV, and does a lot of interesting stuff with the formula.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15/02/2025
I took a very long drive for some round birds. These are Willow Ptarmigans up in Quebec, aka Awebo birds. I love them so much.
A willow ptarmigan in a blizzard perched in some branches.A willow ptarmigan in a blizzard perched in some branches, facing the camera.A willow ptarmigan in a blizzard perched in some branches, standing behind some of the branches and showing off its fluffy feet.Two willow ptarmigans standing in the snow. One is nibbling a bud from a branch.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today: If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question. Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I did a VERY brief playtest of this and the central mechanic is the absolute coolest thing I've ever seen in a game ever and I think about it basically constantly
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 13/01/2025
It’s Budget Launch day at city hall, and — surprise! — the presentation has been posted early. Staff are proposing a 5.4% residential prop tax increase to support the $18.8 billion operating budget + another 1.5% increase for the City Building Levy. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis... (PDF)
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 03/01/2025
This dream was a reminder to make sure you've got the free iodine pills we're entitled to because of the Pickering nuclear power plant.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 28/11/2024
It's pretty old, so maybe you've listened to it already, but www.idlethumbs.net/somethingtrue was pretty good.
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Something True
Stories from the footnotes of history.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 25/11/2024
The closure of the Ontario Science Centre, Alison Motluk writes, was a murder. Then devastated staff were given four months to dispose of the body. A former Science Centre employee takes readers inside the final days of a beloved institution. thelocal.to/ontario-scie...
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The Killing of the Science Centre | The Local
The 55-year old museum shuttered without warning one Friday in June. Then devastated staff were given four months to dismantle it. A former employee on the last days of a beloved institution.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024
💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:
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How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
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Brian Mitsoda @bmitsoda.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Happy 20rh anniversary to all the Bloodlines fans and everyone on the Troika team!
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
check out this podcast my pals and i do about genre literature! most recently i have been making us read a now semi-obscure but groundbreaking early 90s trilogy about gay wizards dealing with family dysfunction and domestic abuse, which is somehow both weirder and more affirming than it sounds
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 29/10/2024
He also has this whole wall of Betamax cassettes he'd use to record movies off of City TV. He tried to cut out the commercials, but didn't always succeed, so there's these fragments of, like, soup commercials from the 80s I watched a hundred times as a kid because it was on the copy of Ghostbusters.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 29/10/2024
Yeah, I have these memories of going with to blockbuster with my dad on Fridays to grab a couple random movies and a video game for the weekend.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 28/10/2024
Now I'm remembering what it was like to watch movies over and over because that's what you had on DVD (or VHS) 😅
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 28/10/2024
Have you seen The Rock? It's the movie Bay made right after Bad Boys, when they started giving him much bigger budgets. It's pretty wild.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 22/10/2024
Nice. My go-to for a new audio setup is always Jurassic Park. It just sounds cool as hell.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 11/10/2024
My first introduction to Macross was those books and the Robotech TTRPG.
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 28/08/2024
spacing.ca/toronto/2024...
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OP-ED: The lessons of the Dundas St. building collapse - Spacing Toronto
Like a lot of Kensington residents, when I walk by the metal hoarding around the collapsed buildings at 606-614 Dundas West, I feel a mixture of grief and rage. The sight of the roof torn off, the dis...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 19/08/2024
Inspiring animals I have seen. Thank you Patrons for your support: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
A 6 panel comic called "inspiring animals I have seen". Panel 1 is labeled "humpback whales breaching in unison" and shows two whales leaping out of the water, one saying "Behold our skill and power!" Panel 2 is labeled "Osprey that caught a huge fish" and shows an osprey flying with a fish, saying "I am majesty incarnate." Panel 3 is labeled "gull that found a huge dead fish at sea and dragged it all the way to shore" and shows a herring gull dragging a dead fish and grunting "Hnngh". Panel 4 is labeled "Squirrel that missed a jump and fell into a small pond but bravely swam to safety" and shows a damp eastern gray squirrel saying "You saw nothing." Panel 5 is labeled "Crow standing on a no trespassing sign" and shows a crow standing on the sign and declaring "Your pitiful human laws are arbitrary at best." Panel 6 is labeled "Tiny pseudoscorpion clinging to an enormous beetle with one claw" and shows a pseudoscorpion on a beetle's leg saying "I'm going to ride this thing to space!"
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Jonathan Doda @jdoda.ca · 29/07/2024
This was, I think, hugely important for the classic Star Wars video games (think X-Wing or Dark Forces). The technology didn't exist yet for them to *look* like the movies, but they could *sound* exactly like the movies, and that really sold the experience.
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