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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yes Bro. Yes I will Play your Vibecoded Daily Game. Yes Bro i Think "AcrosticDle" will be in my Daily Rotation. Look at Those Rounded Corners and Bullet POints
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minicircle @minicircle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I recommend `tdf` by @june.cat if you haven't tried it already (PDF reader with optional EPUB support, AI-generated code not accepted): github.com/itsjunetime/...
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GitHub - itsjunetime/tdf: A tui-based PDF viewer
A tui-based PDF viewer. Contribute to itsjunetime/tdf development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Michael Kamm @michaelkamm.games · 26/05/2026
Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/03/2026
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
theverge.com
Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling.
We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I hope Donald Trump dies. Moderators: I hope Donald Trump dies.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES
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Tyler Mandry @tmandry.dev · 14/01/2026
Announcing Glide, a tiling window manager I've been working on for macOS. glidewm.org
glidewm.org
Glide
A breezy tiling window manager for macOS.
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minicircle @minicircle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I drew a Cool S in 1.83 seconds, rating 🥶 Absolute Zero! vole.wtf/cool-s/
vole.wtf
Can You Draw a Cool S ? 🆒⚡️
Only the coolest people can doodle it fast.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
apmreports.org
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles
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minicircle @minicircle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@hebelkins.bsky.social @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social replies are disabled in that thread, but the piece is by Emily Witt (London Review of Books): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
this exists it is called thinking
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 16/09/2025
I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/
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Ache @acheunderscore.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Le chanteur de Clair Obscur est un anti-avortement fan du neo-nazi Charlie Kirk.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/09/2025
Already, the US measles case count for the year is at a 33-year high.
arstechnica.com
Child dies of horrifying measles complication in Los Angeles
SSPE is a rare but always fatal disease that destroys a child’s brain.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The whole point of computers was to not be unpredictable unreliable black boxes. I'm going crazy every day. Everything that originally interested me in computers is being starved. I'm stuck in an industry where no one wants what I care about. My life is a mistake.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I used to love computers. Computers reify math/logic into reality. Silicon Valley exists to chase money but at least it offered a living working on math/logic. Now not even that. Hard logic is old-fashioned. Silicon Valley is for vibe coding with $$$s in your eyes and little else.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 11/07/2025
I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high. jsdate.wtf
jsdate.wtf
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social: [AI-generated image of a man with glasses draped in a blanket alongside some kind of green mannequin head]
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minicircle @minicircle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
are there any blocklists/labelers you’d recommend checking out by any chance? intentional false positives in a non-automated blocklist due to the list’s creator being petty is definitely concerning
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
everyone should do this, the guy running it currently is a full on fraud, ppl you like and haven't seen in a bit are probably missing from your feed because he put them on his lists to settle a personal score
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025
vance has the absolute worst case of "i am the smartest person in every room" syndrome i have ever seen.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025
the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about a terrible idea I had that makes terrible sense of a certain terrible type of guy: defector.com/toward-a-the...
defector.com
Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector
“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in ...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand. This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point addressHeadline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
honestly speechless “Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.” like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
Charlie Stadtlander 1:03 PM
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Julia- Charlie here from The Times's
communications team, your note made its way to me and thank you for reaching out. As The Times's story makes clear, multiple people familiar with Apple's production facilities is China have put forward their observations on the workforce there.
Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.
I can also point you to the comments of Patrick McGee, the author of the new book "Apple In China" , on a recent podcast appearance said: "The tasks that often are being done to make iPhones require little fingers. The fact that it's young Chinese women with little fingers like that actually matters. Apple engineers will talk about this."
Charlie Stadtlander
Managing Director, External Communications, Newsroom and Opinion
The New Work Times
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.
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ceej @ceej.online · 01/05/2025
this program could have saved my baby brother's life. the republican party is an enemy of humanity
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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minicircle @minicircle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
also, SoundSource is excellent. thank you for your hard work!
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