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Emma

@neomc.bsky.social
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Senior Technical Game Designer @ Astrid Entertainment | Previously Sumo Digital, IOI, PlayStation and Avalanche Studios | She/Her 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14h
If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.
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🌑 @fell.energy · 12h
id rather live in a beautiful world but your thing is cool too
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not an accident. Hegseth is a disgrace to every American who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the Nazis and fascism.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 06/10/2026
Another useful comparison: if any "traditional industry" had seen job losses comparable to the UK games industry in the last few years, it'd be treated as a national crisis on the front of every newspaper for months and months, because those are considered Proper Jobs and making games is not.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Emma @neomc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My favorite genre of love: Loving to the point of intention.
There was once a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her - immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife's hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine  and uninspired medicine is love. 
When I met Ana I knew:
I loved her to the point of intention. 

Sarah Ruhl, The clean house
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Starcaller ⛓️ working on comms @voidmagexiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
sobbing 😭
Screenshot from wikipedia

Concept and prototype

Jonathan Hau-Yoon conceived Dressmaker after looking for a project with a personal subject. His partner, Sabrina Becker, was an experienced dressmaker with an interest in fashion history who had considered pursuing costume design professionally before
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome prevented her from doing so. She had worn a dress of her own doing so. making on the couple's first date. The pair based the game on decisions involved in actual garment construction, including fitting pattern pieces onto a limited quantity of fabric, working with the grain of the material, choosing trims and buttons, and responding to commissions from clients.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
ec.europa.eu
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · 03/10/2026
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crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Experience develops intuition. It's only after you've come to understand the soul of the work that you know which parts of convention are critical and which parts are just common expressions.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Okay, Steam Sale time! Who'd like some recommendations? Let's get the ball rolling with one of my favourite games of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor! A positively genius detective game steeped in Irish history and mythology with a striking comicbook artstyle and authentic turnip jack 'o lanterns. 🎃
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Save 40% on The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...
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Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please support Lost in Cult by buying their beautiful books and games. Pulling luxuriously printed and meticulously designed books from sale is a much bigger deal than deleting YouTube videos or podcast episodes.
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AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let's do a Steam Autumn sale rec thread, shall we? Shares welcome. 1. Desktop Explorer A cursed program has affected your old uncle's PC, and it is up to you to solve outside-the-box puzzles to unravel the mystery through a classic OS interface. Some of the most eerie vibes this year.
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Save 20% on Desktop Explorer on Steam
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And ...
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 03/10/2026
We have yet to measure how much better the world would be if people could just do work that MATTERED to them without having to worry at all if it was profitable.
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
games industry
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 01/10/2026
I desperately want Democrats to pay attention and acknowledge that THIS is the "center" or "moderate" position, in agreement with the majority, not the "radical left", and to act accordingly.
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Mentalt handikappat boskap @toebias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bara 12 % av riksdagsledamöterna har någon gång haft ett arbetaryrke. Det är riktigt jävla dåligt för demokratin att så många är så långt ifrån den verklighet dom sitter och bestämmer över.
Så många arbetare har partierna iriksdagen
Socialdemokraterna: 24 av 99 ledamöter - 24 %
Vänsterpartiet: 5 av 30 - 17 %
Sverigedemokraterna: 10 av 62 - 16 %
Kristdemokraterna: 1 av 22 - 5 %
Moderaterna:1av70-1%
Centerpartiet: 0 av 25 -0 %
Miljöpartiet: 0 av 22 - 0 %
Liberalerna: 0 av 19 - 0 %
Totalt: 41 av 349 ledamöter - 12 %
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 01/10/2026
That is a very coherent argument.
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𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮𝔂 𝓣𝓸𝓹𝓪𝔃 @fireytopaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eat shit. 🤡
A drawing of a linear chart measuring the degrees to which men think rape and sexual assault are okay.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And that five of them claim to be devout adherents of a religion whose doctrine makes clear that capital punishment is immoral and must be forbidden all while they rub their claims of devout adherence in everyone's faces.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry
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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME
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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Goth girl knight I sketched today:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Anthropic's numbers are as bad as my worst expectations, and it's impossible to see how it manages to make good on its spending commitments. OpenAI and Anthropic are toxic companies with rotten economics, and should not be allowed to go public. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
In any case, these numbers are as bad as I’ve always thought they’d be, if not a little worse. I don’t see how this company becomes one that can afford its $518 billion in compute commitments, nor do I see how it magically works its way out of the economic equivalent of septic tank. 

This company will, if allowed to go public, likely lean on the very same junk-grade/high-yield debt that AI data centers and neoclouds like CoreWeave currently need, and it will do so at volumes of somewhere between $50 billion and $100 billion a year for a company with few assets, endless losses and a CEO with the grace of a drunk elephant. 

Anthropic is not the future of technology, nor is it the next Google, nor is it the next Microsoft, nor is it, to quote Reuters, capable of “[transforming] the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet.” It is impossible to rationally argue that the economics of OpenAI and Anthropic make any real sense. To claim that this is “just like Uber” or “just like Amazon Web Services” or “just like the Dot Com Bubble” is to bury one’s head in the sand or, on some level, want to know less about the world. This is serious, dangerous, and should not be seen as “business as usual.”

We must treat OpenAI and Anthropic as what they are: economic disasters waiting to happen. 

To do anything less is to directly invite danger to the door of every investor that’s allowed to believe that they’re funding the next industrial revolution.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
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Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/09/2026
more trains? NO better roads? NO affordable housing? NO better public transportation? NO more solar+wind infrastructure? NO ^ these things that would provably make people’s lives better are expensive and would take too long data centers? NO PROBLEM, HOW MANY DO YOU WANT?
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David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Long before you knew me, I was a poet. It's what brought me to Colorado. It's not a voice I use much anymore, but last night provided some inspiration:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/09/2026
And people say the humanities are useless, part 12346
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 24/09/2026
meme of simple monochrome character with a tired expression saying "jesus christ."
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta wil niet dat je deze video ziet. Ik herhaal: Meta wil níet dat je deze video ziet.
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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lady knight sketch:
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026
There is no plan aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
master chief looking sad (even though he has a helmet on and you can't see his face; it's the body language, I think)
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🌱Lore @amaretta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my commercial projects got pushed back to next year so if you can help me get out of this little ✨crisis✨ I'm currently in I'd super appreciate it! 💖 (Just sharing this helps a lot as well!) 🍵KoFi: ko-fi.com/amaretta 🎨Comms: www.lorenala-art.com/commissions 🖼️Store: www.lorenala-art.com/shop
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Madeleine Fjäll @madeleinefjall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the worst uses for AI, in my opinion, is for historical museums, websites, and anything that needs that first-hand source-material. Places where we go to get correct information about things that happened in the past, and how it looked like. Now all I see is slop and lies.
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Kenan Habul @kenanhabul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jag ÄLSKADE Jamie, men nu känner jag mig typ som gäst hos Jerry Springer som får veta att han är adopterad eller att barnen inte är hans, utan grannens. WTF.
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Just Stuff @juststuff101.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's a petition against mandatory age verification. eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#...
eci.ec.europa.eu
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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