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The Arab League of Misfits | Wishlist on Steam @arabmisfits.com · 16/10/2026

Did you know that wishlisting our game wards off the evil eye and keeps the aunties happy. It also happens to be the single best way to help us push The Arab League of Misfits into full production. Give us a #wishlist will ya: go.arabmisfits.com/steam #indiegames

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

You can say you have "a stiff neck" (but how infuriatingly generic is that?) or also "a crick in the neck". However, nothing beats the amazing "torcicollo" (which is how we spell it in Italian!).

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Visai Games | Venba is Available now!! @visaigames.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We're Visai Games! 👋 We made Venba, an award winning narrative cooking game. As outsiders to the industry, we found our following in twitter but logging into it now means coming face to face with a lot of South Asian racism. If you like Venba, Follow us here so we don't have to login to twitter!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

BBC announces Leni Riefenstahl documentary exploring her views on Untermenschen rights

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I thought it would take me a while to read through @summereternal.com's beautiful anthology, but I'm already 1/3 through it after what feels like 10 minutes of reading (complimentary). Go get yourself a copy and support what game development should be.

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

The joy of randomly spotting another fan in your feed!

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Iguana Localize @iguanalocalize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wrote a Reddit post, and people are not hating it (yet). In case someone finds it useful: www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

reddit.com

From the IndieDev community on Reddit: 13 localization tips to help indies navigate it

Explore this post and more from the IndieDev community

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Unfortunately, I woke up just before the big reveal, but given how coherent the average dream is, it probably would have turned out to be "Ilo, Milo and the Laser Eyes" (which I now feel compelled to draw).

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Dreamt a new @simogo.com game was being announced today. Me madly opening Bluesky dressed as Galadriel: I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 15/09/2026

The 24 proposed hyper-scale data centres in Scotland would use over 1.5 times the country's total peak power use. That would mean higher prices for the rest of us. Tomorrow we're bringing a vote to the Scottish Parliament to urgently stop new applications.

bbc.co.uk

Building more data centres could push up electricity prices, expert warns

Scotland has been identified as a key location for building hyperscale AI data centres because of the high potential for renewable energy.

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Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!! @nenilein.com · 09/09/2026

Fun fact: "Reviewing an AI made translation" is more work for translators than just translating it themselves, because AI translations do not pass the sniff test beyond the most superficial. It's a loophole companies use as an excuse to underpay translators, and nothing else.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Sure, but it's a book about Italian hand gestures, not American hand gestures!

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

The book is correct. I'm confused by all the comments saying it isn't. It might not be a particularly polite gesture, but it absolutely does not mean "f*** off".

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

It might work for games with little-to-no text and whose focus is gameplay, but using it for narrative games is shooting yourself in the foot.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

This is not uncommon, but the results are generally appalling. There's a reason why translation is a profession. It requires skills and knowledge that go well beyond speaking two languages.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

People: lol r u stupid? fish don't feel pain Also people: my AI girlfriend is A REAL PERSON and HAS FEELINGS

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

A brilliant analysis! Wish we had access to something like this every time we translate a Japanese game using English as a pivot language. (Obviously, spoiler warnings for the 25-year-old game.)

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

Perhaps I misread you, but autism is not a mental illness.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

Why does the geniality of the people of Edinburgh seem to be inversely proportional to the integrity of those who lead its big game companies?

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

I only read "Secondhand Time" by her, but very much enjoyed it!

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social and Nanna Inie! So many great alts to anthropomorphism in this piece! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

You are not! 🤜🤛 Everything is geared towards making us believe we are, but I don't.

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 25/05/2026

I'm asking every cis person who follows me to read this article and take it in. It's a sobering account of how quickly things turned in the UK - with detail that often doesn't make the news - and, yes, what it means for you www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

liberalcurrents.com

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I find that it helps a lot, when working with a new editor, to first include a page of words and spellings that are idiosyncratic or important to you: or just to say to them that you use certain words and spellings for a reason, and not to alter them...

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

Sadly, I can't think of an equivalent idiom in Italian!

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

Jesus Christ, this is all kinds of embarrassing. Why would anyone pay for that?

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

Yeah, this was one of the most disappointing things I've read all year and that's saying something. I can't believe someone who won a Nobel prize for literature succumbed so easily.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise
By Emily Herring

On a painting of young 19th-century men looking drunk and sad around a table with cigarettes and drinks

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

^ Seconding Christian & co., they're amazing people!

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LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization @locquest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

How about this for a creature feature? 🦝 @therat.zone have released their new game: Creature Kitchen. And here at LocQuest, we were really cooking with gas. 🔥 We localized the game into 10 languages, including handwriting and in-game textures. Crawl on over to Steam to get it now! 🐦‍⬛

Creature Kitchen by The Rat Zone is out now on Steam, with localisation by LocQuest.

Creature Kitchen is a creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun. LocQuest localized the game into 10 languages, including handwriting and in-game textures.

A quote from Chris Onorati, Founder at The Rat Zone: “LocQuest was the perfect partner for our localization needs. From the first emails to project conclusion, LocQuest was a joy to work with given how communicative, transparent, and professional they are. If game developers are artists than the same must be true about LocQuest’s team, who expertly adapted everything from the mundane to the bizarre to work for players all over the globe. With their extreme care and attention to detail, LocQuest will be our first stop for future localization support."

The names and roles of all the localization managers, handwriting and graphic designers, translators, and LQA specialists involved in localizing the game.

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

When looking for several good translators in a specific field, often your best bet is to find a couple of experienced ones that fit the profile (like me, hi!) and ask them to recommend colleagues that work in other languages - after a few years, we tend to know who's reliable!

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 07/05/2026

Attention please, we have an 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 for developers & publishers: Studio Fugu posted a comprehensive Localization Kit Guide to help teams manage the translation of their games and it's pretty awesome. A must read that should help everyone 📝👇 www.studio-fugu.com/blog-posts/v...

studio-fugu.com

Video Game Localization Kit: Your Ultimate Guide

Learn how a to build a Game Localization Kit (Lockit) and efficiently manage your translation workflow to make your global launch a success.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Morning, all. Mind you _don't_ need photo ID to vote in Scottish Parliament elections, but you _do_ need to watch out for a nasty wee fash outfit calling itself "Independent Green Voice", which is nothing to do with the Greens.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you’re a politician who believes in equality and human rights, we’d love you to add your name. If you're a woman in the UK, sign our here: notinourname.org.uk And if you're a trans-ally, please share 🙏 🩷

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 14/04/2026

54% - That's the percentage of translators (out of 235 respondents) who only receive minimal or no reference material whatsoever for the games they're working on. Remember that figure next time you read a translation that sounds off in context!

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people.
• Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election.
• Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I tell people this about writing all the time. Ideas are the easy part. Turning the idea into a story people will enjoy reading - that's what's difficult.

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kay taylor rea but spooky 👻 @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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