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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interested in game writing or narrative design? I put together my favorite narrative-focused resources FOR FREE for your viewing pleasure. You'll find gems from legends including Mary Kenney, Anna Megill, Emily Short, Susan O'Connor, and Toiya Kristen Finley. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1xIvw...

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ashleyPoprik_NarrativeResources.pdf

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the haunting of andrea🔜nygw @asaraviapt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just because i've realized this is not common knowledge--no, your co-workers on a visa can't just marry someone and immediately win a citizenship. it is a lengthy, arduous and draining process. if you're an American citizen, curious about what the process *really* is like for your colleagues-- 🧵

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

“I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if you end up seeing this game make a whole lot of top tens - including mine.” - Video Game Town videogame.town/2026/09/22/n...

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‘Nighthawks’ Is A Sultry Vampire RPG That Doesn’t Get Bogged Down In Annoying Lore

It’s often sexy and funny, but don’t think for one second you can’t get your neck snapped by a vampire.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

I grew up in a family that was actively under surveillance and had security concerns because of the organizing work my parents and grandparents did. I am begging parents of children under 18 to be thoughtful about their children's privacy with respect to social media, journalism, &etc

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

me too actually

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/

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This is Us

Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

throwback to the time I tried to bring up what a serious issue this is and had my boss insist we have to protect women from HEARING about stories like this while he mansplained miscarriages to me

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Will always remember working catering at a tech event (???) where GWB was the featured speaker. His entire talk was: 1. I wasn't THAT bad of a president, was I? 😢 2. Into painting now, should've funded the arts, lol. Why no comments on my technique? 😢😢 3. I wish I could make my mommy like me 😢😢😢

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 14/09/2026

The "Adults Only" ranking has been removed from Nighthawks! Everything is set for launch on the 22nd! Phew. What a roller coaster. Thank you everyone for your amazing support while we got this sorted. If you weren't able to wishlist before, now you can! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 14/09/2026

As we passed this building, @jesshaskins.bsky.social remarked, “I think a level designer lives here.”

The outside of an apartment building with bright yellow gates, window bars, and a fire escape. The gate and bars feature pointing arrows.

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 13/09/2026

We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches (and delisted it entirely in certain countries). We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.

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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

never underestimate the number of might makes right asskissers in this industry. when times get tough cowards show their ass

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 08/09/2026

these are real game dev problems on Thousand Hells launch day, thanks Reddit

A red warning with exclamation point, saying "hell can't be targeted because it violates our targeting policy"

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Something I haven’t seen discussed is how hard the relationship building is, when you’re a gig work developer. All those people in all those teams needing to figure out each others’ styles and preferences, over and over, just to let go and start over again and again. Huge overhead. Much exhausting.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I made something stupid

Meowslow's Hierarchy of Kneads. It's all cats kneading.

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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 28/08/2026

Hey, if you know anyone in Brooklyn, Sunset Park specifically, who recently lost a cat, I found this very personable (and LOUD) little polydactyl on 53rd and 2nd. She's unbelievably sweet. I would love to reunite her with her people

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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‘aesthetically terrifying’ @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a good question and I recommend folks check out the following on bystander intervention: righttobe.org/guides/bysta...

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The 5Ds of Bystander Intervention - Right To Be

WE TURN THE CARE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER INTO SIMPLE, CREATIVE, AND EFFECTIVE ACTION

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

isn’t it nice how you boys can find the energy to correct me but somehow never the energy to say ‘hey back off man’ lol

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

one constant i’ve noticed is when some man is getting in my face in public or whatever, AFTER he goes away, other men in the vicinity will come up to me all concerned like ‘hey you ok? that was messed up.’ oh so you did see it. well cool man thanks for stepping in

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I picked a REALLY good time to start playing Cast n' Chill

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

literally just finished watching Hello Tomorrow! on Apple only to find out they're prepping the LARP

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm not going to tag Ursula in this (though she's welcome to reply) because my thread isn't going to be about the Astarion book or if BG3 is a "horny" game or any of that nonsense. Instead, this is about the online demands for the perfect rape victim in fiction. (thread)

Just chiming in on this. Astarion is very much loved by people bc of this trauma and SA survival. Reducing the audience to just horny poeple and its a horny game comes across as a bit disrespectful. Why did you make it smutty during a time when he was gtting SD'd like A LOT?

Ursula: the book also covers large chunks of his youth.

reply: while you ask us to give the book a chance, some current reviews raise concerns about asterion being out of character, esp the choice to give him intimate moments during a period when he's heavily affected by SA. I'd genuinely like to understand why.

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You're saying Sam Barlow's releasing a prequel to the award-winning mobile game released in 2016 as part of NYU's Incubator Center by a group of recently matriculated MFAs??? /s

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

We only tell kids about the tooth fairy to distract from knowledge of the fairies who accept larger bones for greater rewards

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I remember being dismissively assured it wasn’t true, that this crank zillionaire is funding basically unlimited vexatious litigation

J.K. Rowling O
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Then the lawsuits will keep coming.
Should any female patient or member of staff require funding to fight this assault on their legal rights, apply to jkrwf.org
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BREAKING >> Staff at an NHS trust received an email on Wednesday telling them there would be "no immediate changes" to its policies following new statutory EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces....
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like. Do we WANT a toxic culture of doubling down, coverups, & never admitting mistakes? Because "any admission of error can fuck you up worse than pretending you never messed up at all" is how you GET a toxic culture of doubling down, coverups, & never admitting mistakes.

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thirsty Suitors is such a delightfully fun game, one of my all-time faves. I would die for Auntie Chandra 💕

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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Protip: feeling sorry for yourself because you got caught doing something harmful is not the same thing as feeling sorry you did harm.

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Said goodbye to our sweet little Izzy cat after fifteen years today. Honoring her by remembering the time she helped us win Global Game Jam at the NYC/Microsoft location right before COVID hit poodle-cult.itch.io/lost-in-tran...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 04/07/2026

Old Skies is 25% off during the Steam Summer Sale! Journey through seven time periods of New York history in our critically acclaimed time-travel adventure game, which the AV Club called "One of the best time travel games we ever played." store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Had reason to be reminded of this piece on writing in collaboration with others, about voice and generosity. Highly recommend reading, if you write for (or want to write for) video games.

blog.lauramichet.com

Some thoughts about ego, flexibility, and imitation in writing for money

I think my biggest recommendation to someone new to the career of writing for money, specifically in a field like games where you so often write with a team ...

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Havilah McGinnis @mwahahavilah.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Weird, I don't remember putting "watch a bat give birth to multiple babies" on my to-do list for today...

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 29/06/2026

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Cloak and Dagger is 55% off during the Steam Summer Sale! Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. What lies beneath the soil? Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026

Why would Meta be so intent on destroying this one high-profile whistleblower? Surely they've heard of the Streisand Effect. There is no better way to ensure that Wynn-Williams' book (already a NYT #1 bestseller) continues to attract readers than to continue to escalate these threats. 34/

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