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Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist [Official Version]

Not for nothing, but this post made me go and watch Erik Wernquist's "Wanderers" again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c...

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YouTube video by Erik Wernquist - Digital Artist

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Conor Caulfield @cptcorallis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As someone who has been both union and a manager, as a manager, you *absolutely have to* support the unionization of your reports. Reading that article I was so angry with the people who very clearly got theirs and pulled the ladder up after them.

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Fascinating story about how the social dynamics of people who don't think of themselves as a management class torpedoed the unionisation efforts at Double Fine, and how that meant the majority of the staff fired this summer were attempted union members.

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Dana Fried (@tess@mastodon.social)

Had a thread over on masto about talking with my kiddo about misinformation but the paragraphs are too big to post here and I don't feel like trying to edit them down. So, uh, here it is if you wanna read it: mastodon.social/@tess/117411... (gods I hate this fucking site sometimes)

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My kiddo and I started talking about vaccines and then had a conversation about how misinformation and fear are used to influence people. "There are some good things like vaccines that bad people wan...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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George @hannahtempler.com · 09/10/2026

Dreambound/Fanatic

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No, you GET to go to Canadian Tire

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 08/10/2026

This game changed my brain; one of the absolute greatest games of all time.

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Iconoclasts has such a special spot in my heart because it's the best example I can give of the soul a game retains when it's one person just putting in their game whatever they find cool, without trendchasers whispering in their ear "you have to do this to make it sell".

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ngl I assumed this was sinfest

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In some ways, sticking them in a room and letting them talk to chatbots is more humane than anything they did in the early days of Origin/EA. Still won't buy the game, if one ever comes out (it won't).

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been watching some videos that do historical and gameplay analysis of the Ultima games and it's clear that these guys both: - Always wanted to be responsible for everything themselves - Were entirely happy chewing people up and spitting them out to see those visions realized

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one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm also a tech oldhead and I don't download shit.

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Let him die”: the repeated phrase of the Sages when brought the case of a man who has become sick with passion for a woman. For me, the story holds important wisdom about whose problem it is when a man desires a certain woman — and it’s not the woman 🙂 (Sanhedrin 75a)

A grey ornately decorated gate on a white background. The repeated Talmudic phrase is integrated into the curves of the gate in Aramaic/Hebrew letters. The gate is covered in large green snakes, and smaller red snakes surround the place where the gate would open. The left side is watermarked with “@maimonides_nutz”

A grey ornately decorated gate on a black background. The repeated Talmudic phrase is integrated into the curves of the gate in Aramaic/Hebrew letters. The gate is covered in large green snakes, and smaller red snakes surround the place where the gate would open. The left side is watermarked with “@maimonides_nutz”

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Canadian public transit agencies should work more with the uitp (the international public transport association) and less with apta (the American public transport association), we just have so much to learn from the world and a lot of our mistakes are common with the US.

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Also, IIRC (and it has been decades), I believe that at Cornell and MIT at least some fraternity and sorority housing was on-campus housing? Like if your club had enough people you were allocated a floor/building to yourself. That has to open up new avenues of risk/liability for the schools, right?

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For contrast only about a fifth of undergrads at Illinois joined PHC/IFC orgs and most of the partying happened at bars (which were open to 19-year-olds; everyone understood this was by design to keep underage people drinking safely in plain view instead of behind closed doors at frat parties).

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Cornell's campus (like MIT's) has a culture that is especially focused on membership in clubs, affinity groups, etc. Even when I was considering going there decades ago a huge focus of campus life was the "Greek" system and adjacent stuff. Should have squicked me more than it did, ngl.

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Secret societies (including fraternities and sororities) should be banned from direct participation in/recognition by American universities. However, that's going to be a tough sell at Cornell, where up to a third of students are members (and many more live in frat-like special interest housing).

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...and then I saw the trailer with Bloody Tears and, yup, they know their audience.

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Like the prominence of the dodge in gameplay without it being the primary way of negating attacks. A little concerned that the music won't hold up to the earlier games, but we'll see if any of the old tracks get brought back with a modern twist.

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Castlevania looks and feels good. Interesting (but not at all surprising) that they drew a lot of stylistic inspiration from the Netflix shows. Much more in line with contemporary metroidvanias tho.

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Nobody on that show has anything resembling an Eastern New England accent, never mind Down-Easter. It's disappointing but I've heard enough absolutely mangled attempts at ENE that I'm also kind of glad they didn't try it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Oh, you need your precious Chatbot to help you be creative? These freaks made a giant, tactile troll by hand that has taken up residence as my new sleep paralysis demon, born of their own sick minds.” The best review I’ve ever received. 😭🤌🏼

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Has this back to school season been especially bad for colds?

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finished #Quartet today. Really good tie-up, respectably hard final boss, really enjoyed it. Can absolutely recommend the game if you're a fan of turn-based RPGs, and with a surprisingly good soundtrack to boot.

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The breakfast cereal that eats you!

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The corollary to this is that no celebrity, world leader, or captain of industry should ever - EVER - be the one running or reading the replies on their own social media account. It's an express train to crazytown.

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Used to be a time that kind of behavior got you beheaded. Not saying we should go back, but also not saying we shouldn't consider it.

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I'm sure I'm not the first to say it, but I think one of the worst things to come out of the modern era is that any fucking yahoo can just yap directly at the people who actually run stuff. Might be unpopular but I don't think Some Dipshit from Ohio should be able to talk shit to the actual Pope.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Me, looking at the first board (Like, why didn't he resign three moves ago?)

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So if you actually care about restorative justice, the thing I beg you to start doing in these cases is CENTERING THE FUCKING VICTIMS. And not demanding that people immediately jump to how they can best not ruin the man's life.

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