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Cailín Walsh 🍀 @cailin.dev · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton is a legit inspiration and a true legend. RIP.

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 08/10/2026

sharing for the rest of the class

responding sincerely to this even though i don't think you meant it that way. my answer is no, not really. or, well, not on its own in my universe of what paying respect to someone (in this case a woman, but anyone too) means (literally 'looking again' in latin).
i'm not saying expression of desire is bad, i get overwhelmed by it sometimes. being openly, joyfully desirous can be lovely. but there's a way of doing it narrowly which makes seeing another person about yourself, flattening them in the process. i don't want you not to want, but to want *bigger*.
a bigger wanting in your whole being that can coexist with another person's sovereignty instead of overriding it with your lust in a narrow, self-directed focus that makes someone a thing to possess. a wanting so big that you cannot contain it; so big it cannot be held by you for even a moment.
i want you to *see well*. i want you to see women and look again a second time (pay respect) and a third, past the point where your initial impression dissolves. i want you to attend to the women if your life for an uncomfortably long time, and come back to that attending again and again and again.
in seeing well i want you to be seeing what is put on offer for you her, seeing of her what she would endorse, and not just seeing what you wish to take from her. i want you to see in her what she would give you to hold with care and reverence and admiration.
and in loving well i want you to be unmade by her, and to suffer—truly suffer—in the realization that someone other than yourself is as real as you are. in loving well i want you to scream and laugh and cry in agonizing delight that there's someone real in front of you who you can never fully know.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Would like to point out that I and my Kotaku colleagues called this in 2021 kotaku.com/fortnite-x-b...

Fornite x Beowulf
Fortnite x Wuthering Heights
Fortnite x The Outsiders
Fortnite x Of Mice And Men
Fortnite x The Great Gatsby
Fortnite x Pride And Prejudice

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean why bother with all of this? Why even bother with the pretense of art and media? just hook an electrode up to the dopamine center in your brain and keep pressing the button like you're a rat in a fucking skinner machine. Go sit in a dark box hooked up to hoses forever

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Mr. Thee @mrthee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

out for blood today

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

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Non-place - Wikipedia

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Barry's Furry Corner @mendinso.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I was relooking through my conversations and found a legendary tweet that is sadly gone from time, but the video has remained alive. And I can't

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around

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John-Charles Holmes @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 29/09/2026

girls night out 🥊🪑

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Mouse - it may be a lil bit of disassociation @lilmouserpg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey guys, just a gentle note. If you have to tell us that the reason you're upset is because you have a mom, sister, girlfriend, wife, daughter, you're missing the point. Empathy shouldn't exist in a vacuum where you have to know someone. You shouldn't have to have a sister to speak up for women.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I enjoyed the new Resident Evil movie! Been a fan of the game series since day 1, and loved this take on it :) (really realllllly like his hat!)

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of my job involves thinking about what players are going to do when presented with a mechanic or a choice. Even if players wouldn't consciously articulate why they would blast locks with a shotgun rather than invest in Lockpicking (admittedly a skill tax), they would veer toward that behavior.

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Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca · 27/09/2026

discovering weird little guys in weird new places

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

back in 2016 i made a mesoamerican riff on the oneill cylinder/bernal sphere in "HABITAT"- i love every mossy tube city in space

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hellojed @hellojed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

given that hardware will become prohibitively expensive you'd think writing optimized code for lower spec platforms would be ideal, but instead we're handing it off to AI models

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 24/09/2026

i fucking hate the 2020s man

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Parody] @nintendooamerica.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You asked, we listened. The Nintendo Switch 2 is available now for bisexuals as of today.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A tiny selection of the many, many, fantastic buildings in Stamford, Lincolnshire 😍

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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it pains me how almost every layoff with a name placed to it that i've encountered is in a "non-technical" field - artists, composers, content designers, and most of all writers/narrative designers. not only is the bleeding bad, but it's super lopsided and confirms the biases in mgmt we already knew

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 21/09/2026

When we dreamed of a Deluxe Edition, we never thought it would feel this right. Thank you, Kat. Thank you, Fangamer. 💙

A picture of the 1000xRESIST Deluxe Edition with all of its goodies included in the box!

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I stay awake for 30 hours while traveling and hit the hay, my brain should let me sleep for 8 hours and I should wake up completely acclimated to the new time zone and I should receive a medal for valor.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I agree. Illustration is NOT art. [JDAMs the Sistine Chapel]

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

things could be worse. at least we're not de facto ruled by a sex cult of guys who worship the computer and think its going to make them immortal if they feed enough poor people to it

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow he looks a lot like Batman 1

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18/09/2026

Even though it's 75 years old today, The Day the Earth Stood Still remains one of the classics I invariably recommend to those who want to discover the history of sci-fi.

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lady Knight Rei Lineart:

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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Penny Parker @snapcube.gay · 14/09/2026

they'll never know that my private obs troubleshooting uploads on snapcube 2 have a whole story arc happening in the background

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

dude it sucks that you need money to acquire goods and services what the hell

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

just going to start leaving this comment on every doc in Confluence

confluence comment

And baby, that's roleplaying.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Burger King sometimes uses one of the Fallout fonts* * Berthold Block variant

Opening narration slide from Fallout 1 intro of people hauling rubble in a tunnel. Slide text Art Director LEONARD BOYARSKY Technical Art Director JASON ANDERSON

Burger King ad with the King dancing on the Joker steps. Ad text DEAR BRONX, WE KNOW CLOWNS CAN BE ANNOYING

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wes @funnywes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

koizumi was questioned after the direct about ravenous and why the team is pushing this new ability for samus and he just earnestly chuckled and went "Girls will do this." and never elaborated further

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This was around 2010 and near E3 I was invited to a game dev party somewhere in LA. There was a photographer with a table of props. This was one of them. I picked it up and was talking to Scott Warner when they took this snap. Yes I am holding it backwards.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 09/09/2026

my stretch-guess is that persona 6 being a colour/thematic inversion of persona 5 is going to be this: where p5's friend group were "social outcasts" that wanted to rebel against an unjust state, p6's friend group are "impure foreigners" who cut through societal prejudice to support the community

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Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone's immediate reaction to the visuals in the new Ocarina Of Time remake.

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Erin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying

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