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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/10/2026

Right now the Yale administration is trying to cut a deal with the white supremacist Trump administration over admissions policies. An institution that cuts deals with white supremacists is a white supremacist institution, and you're heroes for coming out here to protest that.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

are supposed to be, so they can try and use the LLM to speed up real tasks AND KNOW HOW TO DOUBLE CHECK THE WORK. You don't have to be a Luddite to oppose handing children tools they are incapable of using reasonably or well. You should, in fact, oppose that, even if you are in support of the tool.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seems to me that the UAE threatening to withdraw all investments in the UK is pretty consistent with the findings that City used state money to cheat.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In case anyone was wondering, yes I am interested in the movie about vampires at a carnival called Vampire Carnival, yes I will be watching it as soon as it is available, and yes that Jason Isaacs wig is unnecessarily magnificent.

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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Baz Luhrmann's THE ODYSSEY

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This has been true for a while but I will never take claims of an interest in small government seriously again.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I believe, if I understand my rules of baseball correctly, that if you lose a series to the Mets this close to the end of the season you are barred from the playoffs regardless of your final record.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Back in the KSSR": The Imperial Control Regime and the Institutionalisation of Klingon Soft Power, 2261-2273

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘The Significance of Space, The Final Frontier, in Federation History.’ By Lieutenant-Commander FJ Turner.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Having instant access to the all-star 1% of every area of human endeavor is cool but also it creates this vast insecurity complex in a sizeable chunk of that other 99%, resulting in performative shenanigans. It's OK to be OK at guitar. It's OK to "take a stab at game design." It's OK to sing.

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026

Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning y'all. <3 A JRPG protag's start to a new week with greets. Hope the week ahead treats you kindly.

"Come on, sleepy head! Get up!" says Chrono's mom at the start of the game in his bedroom.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I look forward to seeing who got ‘most n00bs ganked in an hour’ and ‘longest time spent on character designer for a first person game where you never see the character’s face.’

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Realizing, with some degree of horror, that the few modern country music songs I enjoy are all from the "ugh, I SAID I was sorry!" subgenre. There is also overlap with the horny cowboy genre. Please come back, I have done nothing to address the reasons you left but I miss you.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 15/09/2026

Folks ask me a lot whether TikTok/Instagram/Shorts make trailers less relevant. The answer is kind of yes, but trailers are still super duper important! In this video I explain the differences between the formats and how they fit into your marketing tool belt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_J8...

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Marketing Your Game in 2026 - Trailers or TikTok?

YouTube video by Derek Lieu

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WildArts Games @wildartsdevs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our action survival horror roguelite is OUT NOW!!! Fight hordes of monsters aboard a train speeding through Antarctica and maintain its parts to avoid freezing to death 🐶❄️

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Writing an eight page dissent to a decision like this feels very Live Journal ca. 2003 to me.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We could easily convince RFK Jr that Phoebe Bridgers' new album is about him, and that would be funny. She sings about "Bobby" a lot on Lost Weekend. I feel like if you told RFK Jr that this attractive talented young blonde woman was obsessed with him, he'd think "well, obviously."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I see the zelda discourse has wound around to "support indie games instead" so, good news, it's never been easier: a new game from the King of Dragon Pass dev came out literally today store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

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Save 10% on Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists on Steam

Recruit your team, choose your path, and descend into hell. Four heroes must overcome the trials of the underworlds in tactical narrative encounters. A new systemic storybook experience blending mytho...

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As I've said before, you can be snooty jerks about fears around water prices and the like all you want, the reality is people are justifiably upset that we're being asked to pay for a thing making you rich.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How many people have an accurate understanding of what LLMs are, and aren't; what they can and can't do? The true costs and benefits? That's a result of the relentless hype big tech has been pumping out for years. Now that it's causing backlash they're bemoaning uninformed criticism. Sowing, reaping

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Couldn't agree more. Also the fears of it "going rogue" are the product of said relentless hype. We should start prosecuting people who spin a tale of AI hacks as the coming of Skynet when in reality they should have turned their software off.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Kind of wild the US government's economic policy is "protectionism, except for farmers."

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am close to having a functioning tape deck, and I am THIS close to repairing a 1990s walkman. I'm going to use this stuff for class. I should probably make a video about it.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyone loves the Investiture Controversy. If you’re going to beef with the Pope, can’t go wrong with this classic.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Decided to do a 2026 roundup of video games set in or inspired by antiquity. Hope it's useful to some. A lot of really interesting ideas in recently released and upcoming games! From reimaginings of myths to HD versions of classics to Pokémon! anotherclassicsblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/2...

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2026 Classics Summer Video Games Roundup

A collection of recently announced and released games and modifications set in or inspired by Mediterranean antiquity The ancient Mediterranean continues to be fertile ground for developers creatin…

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Really frustrated with this framing by our most important newspaper. We (the US) are the bad guys here. We started a trade war out of nothing for no reason.

Screenshot of the New York Times front page. Coverage of US-Canada negotiations on Trump's tariffs bear the headline "Canada-US Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.

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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 20/08/2026

British press planning to write 150 articles in the next 9 days about this bigoted, poisonous, ignorant clown? Planning to stake out his house, maybe? I mean, they have to be careful about the possible consequences, right? This jackass should never be within 100 miles of a place of learning again.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm rather annoyed with the increasingly common smart person caveat of concerns over data centers being "overblown." For one thing, some concerns (I.e. water use) may seem overblown now, but only after a stink was made about it. These companies could have avoided the water use complaint entirely.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You say there's a God, huh? A divine being who loves us? Then why have I got Phil Collins's "Easy Lover" stuck in my head? Huh? HUH?

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I talk about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle! Specifically, how I think it interacts with the films of the 1980s, how it depicts Nazis, and how I find it valuable as a professor. youtu.be/MvLDrHdvrzE

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What if we kissed at the—

90s news Screen grab states: liberty university gay sex command center

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/08/2026

I get asked this a lot so as a reminder: if you're new to Bluesky and looking to get your feed up to speed on game dev, do check out my "background radiation" starter pack - it basically adds 150 hand-picked accounts to your follow list from every games discipline & every perspective on game dev.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/08/2026

Must be great to work on an aircraft carrier right now. You get to hang out next to Iran without fresh food for months on end and meanwhile they're going to have to gut the whole ship to make the launch catapults work on steam like in the olden days because the president is scared of magnets

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey, if you're worried about AI and hacks, I'd like to remind you that these various systems are not sentient and nefarious, they are ultimately software the creators of which have chosen not to bother making sure won't go hog wild over the Internet. The issue here is irresponsible programmers.

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New Spider-Man movie was fun. Though the fact a large part of it took place in the building where I wrote most of my PhD thesis was slightly distracting.

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I worked in a video rental store in college, and I wish to share my favorite home video cover of all time, because I think of it often.

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So, history educators (and humanities educators that are comfortable riffing off of history examples): here we are, August, school year coming soon. A perfect time to improve your game (hah) and check out my new book. Amazon has a decent reading sample:

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Read a sample: “Designing Historical Games for Classrooms”

Jeremiah McCall

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

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John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I loved it, agree with Parker here it's the best of the Holland Spiderman films. People can disagree of course, but for the second time this summer (Supergirl was the first one) I find myself wondering if the critics complaining watched the same movie I did.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 31/07/2026

I just grabbed this boxed copy of X-Men II: Fall of the Mutants (1990) for five bucks! This game's roster was insane at the time: Wolverine, Psylocke, Colossus, Rogue, Longshot, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Dazzler, Havok, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Archangel, and Iceman.

Character select screen from X-Men II: Fall of the Mutants.

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