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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

turns out *thinking* about writing a book is way, way easier than actually writing it

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Deconstructeam makes games that are, at times, upsetting. Which is to say, I think more people should play them, and we should make upsetting games more often.

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I did go to the other cornell and this is kind of a weird week

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my actual teens read my actual young adult book about baking and then were inspired to make actual macarons which they did, and they're delicious I think I've finally made it

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with AI anybody can experience the magic of the dunning-kruger effect

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hell is watching your web apps get converted into WordPress sites

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've become one of those stereotypical dudes who knows how to play Wonderwall On the ukulele Along with half of the Decemberists discography And like two Nickel Creek songs

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's tuesday, time for shitposting

a screenshot of a spotify playlist with the tracks:
What About Everything? by Carbon Leaf
everything sucks by vaultboy
Everything Is Awful by The Decemberists

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

entering my second Silversun Pickups era like I was actually cool enough to listen to them the first time around

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One BILLION players a day? With what games??

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's an expensive hobby, to be sure, but there are few pleasures in life quite like watching the horror unfold across on your therapist's face as you explain how the publishing industry works

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The existence of Bruno Mars implies the existence of Bruno Moon, Bruno Mercury, Bruno Jupiter, and Bruno Venus

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Everyone is SO SURE they know, they run their mouth and they don't know shit.

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I just saw someone claim that Heated Rivalry, the book, published in 2019, had
"obvious ChatGPT red flags". And so l have crawled out of my deadline cave to say this to people who were apparently just born yesterday:
Babes. Sweethearts. Lights of my increasingly dim patience. ChatGPT learned to write by eating romance novels like a feral raccoon in a dumpster.
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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

because of course they are if microsoft could close arkane austin without blinking an eye, nobody is safe

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When I picked up my new med I got a warning from the pharmacist that was basically "don't take the old one and the new one at the same time" I did *not* get the "yeah you'll be crying over nothing at 9am in the morning for a while" and I think that's the bigger miss

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

with all due respect, I'm over survival games as a concept my brother in sid meier, I already struggle to drink enough water in a day, what makes you think I also want to do this in your videogame??

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

You've been hearing about The Demon Star by Jesse Aragon, and now you can get a sneak peek! Download the preview of the first 100 pages onto your e-reader wherever ebooks are sold. Preorder now, available July 28

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

if ZERO PARADES is any indication of reality I would make a very, very bad spy I already suspected this, but we have further proven the theory though I walk around in game the same way I do IRL: fatigued, anxious, halfway to delirium, and wearing a jacket way cooler than I am 10/10 no notes

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

some games are just waiting for the *right time* to be played (is what I keep telling myself)

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

the richest americans skew economic numbers across the board, full stop. high earners drive a massive amount of consumer spending. normal people aren't cutting back spending to pull one over on your spreadsheets, Jan

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a woman in a blue and white dress with a braid on her hair

ALT: a woman in a blue and white dress with a braid on her hair

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

normalize lying to your coworkers about having a panic attack and nearly melting down over the last-minute socialization plans you whoopsied yourself into with strangers "yeah it a was pretty chill weekend, didn't do much of anything"

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I discovered this emoji recently and I'm obsessed now partly because this is pretty much how I feel on any given day

the distorted face emoji against a light blue background

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

if there was anything left of my psyche after injecting the noah kahan album into my bloodstream it looks like olivia rodrigo is going to finish the job thank you very cool

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

spiraling more than a large order of curly fries

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

today in sick burns I wish I came up with "you look like someone who knows how to play half of wonderwall and that's it"

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

if it wasn't for the fact that this representation of maslow's pyramid is horribly inverted this would be an even better joke as it is, I still don't see the lie

an image of a man gesturing toward a graphic resembling maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid, but slotted in between "love and belonging" and "self-actualization" in jazzy blue graphic emphasis is "new mountain dew blueberry cyclone"

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

one of the top 10 greatest lyrics of all time Chaise Longue - Wet Leg

a screenshot from Spotify of lyrics from the song Chaise Longue by Wet Leg. The lyrics are: "Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?"

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have been wildly resistant to this in the past but I miss goofy social media Ya'll are missing some unhinged content that I put only on my shadow account and I am very tired so maybe we just pull the wheels off and see what happens

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

after about 12 hours I am finally having my lightbulb moment about what I think Titanium Court is actually about I started out going "this game is insane" and now I'm at "this game is a masterpiece" ffs I can't type anymore

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

also in addition to getting hit by an emotional freight train, titanium court is about to be my entire identity for the next several weeks

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

As a board-certified member of the Sad Boys Club (tm), it is finally Noah Kahan day and I am extremely here for it.

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I had an arepa for dinner last night and now all I can think today is 1) that was amazing 2) WHAT ABOUT MIRABEL!? so yeah that's my thursday

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's actually kind of wild how much stress you can hold thinking it's normal until you're actually in an entirely different situation where it doesn't exist and you look back and go "oh... huh" anyway the new job is great

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I think so far my favorite thing about Slay the Spire 2 is learning that I'm still cosmically bad at Slay the Spire no matter how many new mechanics you throw at me.

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kai daiju 👹 @kaidaiju.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I like when something gets so overhyped over a long enough timeline that I end up with zero expectations and then end up unironically liking it if this is reverse psychology, superfans, it's working

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Happy new The Format album day to all who celebrate

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The "too cold -> hot shower -> immediately cold again" pipeline torments me Brb going to bake five hundred loaves of bread or something

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This is so much what I needed to hear today. And a lot of what I need to internalize. Highly recommended read.

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I knew today's Bandle in my soul but second guessed myself into getting it horribly late instead of right on par. :|

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Pitch: A multiplayer game where you and three friends just sit around arguing over where to go for dinner for three hours

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

*leans in real real intimidatingly close to your face* even if they're a protagonist

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Spending the weekend alone means treating myself to the fluffiest towel in the house

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

the giant robots have come for our content so they can mix it all together and sell it back to us super great

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Josh Raymond @joshraymond.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

All respect to Hard Magic System with Rules, but please more magic that's actually magical and unexplainable reactormag.com/magic-doesnt...

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Magic Doesn't Have to Make Sense - Reactor

In praise of fantasy that embraces rebellious, lawless, and delightfully un-rulebound magic.

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