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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh damn the new Avatar show is really good.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

basically no one on here has an information environment that would pass basic hygiene standards comparable to like a restaurant

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barleybap but she's dressed as a skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Video games are rad because there are more great games than anyone could ever finish, yet there will still be a guy with a tattoo of Vector the Crocodile who does nothing but grind thousands of hours of Sonic Heroes speedruns. And deep down, you know that guy is a realer one than you will ever be.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is all very gift horse/mouth but it is not flattering to be set up as the good guy on the investigative-reporter-to-industry-shill spectrum. I think “the media is generally good” is a more useful way to think about the world of publishing than the alternative www.readergrev.com/p/bobby-koti...

At this stage in my career in journalism, I’ve developed a sort of naive professional solidarity that makes me really frustrated with imprecise media criticism. This may be an unpopular thing to say, but I think the media is good. I think the mainstream media is good. The enterprise of sharing information — some of which is exclusive and/or newsworthy (complicated investigations, breaking news, big and small scoops, reports from a place that is difficult for the ordinary reader to reach) and some of which is silly and maybe not all that important but still generally relevant enough that people tune in (a lot of contemporary video game coverage) — is good, and the vast majority of news content written and published by humans is unobjectionable.

I have problems with specific journalists and editors and pundits, as well as specific editorial positions staked out by specific outlets. I cannot enumerate all of the broad societal and ideological issues with the contemporary press. There are too many. But I’m not really flattered when people say stuff like: Well, your investigation is “good” journalism, but everything else is inaccurate and/or clickbait. That’s not true!

There’s this idea in political science called Fenno’s Paradox that describes the trend of broad dissatisfaction with Congress as an institution — even as people generally like their own congressperson. Comments like the one I describe above fall into a similar category: The media I like and pay for is good, but the media in general is bad. Dwell on that! “Congress” is an institution that produces discrete outcomes that one can dislike relative to their congressperson. “The media,” however, is a hazy and fragmented concept, made up of prospective “good” journalists and outlets you haven’t yet encountered — some of whom may just lack the resources or support to pursue “good” journalism, and instead live out small-but-unrecognized positive change on the margins.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 09/10/2026

Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor

A bearded man with his shirt open, looking exactly like the voice behind an obnoxious space crocodile

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

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Brain Dracula @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I made a video about the history of Halloween www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_9...

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Inventing Halloween

YouTube video by C.T. Kelly

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thinking of something I’m tentatively calling the Transitive Fallacy of Criticism: if someone thinks a piece of art you love is stupid, it is not implicit in that statement that *you* are stupid. They are making a claim about the work, and you are free to ignore, consider, or refute accordingly.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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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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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 06/10/2026

a lot of jobs may be disappearing and a fascist might have control of multiple major news outlets and a third of mass produced media but hey spongebob can show up in the next mortal kombat so whos to say if this is bad or good

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

jugemu, magazine, excerpt (1996) archive.org/details/juge...

cutesy illustration of a man/boy and woman/girl, hand in hand, the man/boy with a sega saturn around his face, the woman/girl with a playstation around her face. both look very happy.

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

chelsea's rules of online 1. You Don't Have to Post 2. Nobody Asked, Probably 3. Not Every Post Is About Your Thing

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Viewing this video changed the trajectory of my day earlier

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit

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Spookydoof @doofivirus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the duality of man

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.

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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Classics of "scared me as a child" with the Are You Afraid of the Dark episode Curse of the Dead Man's Float

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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Clicked on a WoW Forever stream and immediately got hit with an ad for a multivitamin. yeah, okay. I get it.

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SPine (tingling) Cellar (OOOoooo) 💀 @pinecellar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(Kicks in door) It’s OCT-FUCKING-TOBER (Throws a pumpkin at your wall)

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Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the crazy thing about making time for any creative pursuit is that you literally have to do what you have a gut-deep yearning to do or else you'll see other people doing it, and it WILL make you insane.

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dom @zerstoerer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

try again, but harder

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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the things that's probably helped my mental health a ton but has been detrimental to building any sort of digital following is basically thinking about discourse rather than posting about it. I don't need to share every take I have about something! It can just be internal thoughts!

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Just so you know, he who lives without sacrifice for someone else does not deserve to be with a crane. Maybe think about that next time.

A text Wikipedia entry for The Crane Wife. The entry reads: In The Crane Wife story, a man marries a woman who is in fact a crane disguised as a human. To make money, the crane wife plucks her own feathers to weave silk brocade, which the man sells, but she becomes increasingly ill as she does so. When the man discovers his wife's true identity and the nature of her illness, devastated by the truth, he demands her to stop. She responds that she has been doing it for love, for them. The man says that love exists without sacrifice, but he is wrong. He who lives without sacrifice for someone else does not deserve to be with a crane.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHAT HAPPEN?

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

print ad, illustration (1985) archive.org/details/micr...

creepy ass computer with a sad face on screen, big, long arms and hands, generally melting over the edge of the desk, its keyboard drooping.

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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.

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K9-17 "Ripper" Pitjob @demogorgon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

When the dude in her bio dies

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

rorschach: heard joke once. man goes to doctor. rorschach: rorschach: hold on. rorschach: rest will come to me. tip of tongue. rorschach: rorschach: man goes to doctor... says he's depressed, and... rorschach: rorschach: just forget it. forget i said anything. stupid. stupid. stupid.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

dudes rock

youtube thumbnail showing a guy pointing at the audience with a big caption that says "DONT LOSE THEM" titled wow forever prep guide for dad

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Alex @axmdoes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it's that time of the year

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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Incredibly sad! And pretty disappointed. But I am not 20 year old me, and I'm pretty happy about some of the cards I've been delt, even if they weren't what I originally dreamt of.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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Sam Eng @bysameng.com · 17/09/2026

Don't put your heart into your art
For obvious reasons,
Anyone can tell you, ask your mother or father,
If you want to stay warm and patient
Discard it discreetly
In your own walls and perhaps one day
When you've long since moved on
You will remark at at how foolish you once were

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 14/09/2026

This is a minor annoyance, totally not important, LANGUAGE CHANGES but I heard someone define (and tbf, for their own use) liminal space as always being human/urban space and that just makes me so cranky!!! LIMINAL SPACES USED TO BE SHIT LIKE THE BEACH!!! 😭

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really feels like journalism is in an extinction event. There's more news of layoffs than folks getting hired in what might be the busiest year for work. Now, there's more freelancer and contributors than fulltime staffers all fighting for the same spot. Shit sucks.

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Blasting light through cels, blurring the line between reality and artifice, is one of the sexiest things ever done in animation

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Neonstalgia 🎃🍁 @neonstalgia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm slowly coming around to the look of this freak. He looks like he eats bugs and dirt, even when you tell him to stop, and if that ain't young Link.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Young Link's weird face

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

according to aonuma, the Zelda remake’s goal was to be part realistic and part nostalgia for the original game, so I would make the argument they aren’t based on puppets, but instead the reason they have high angled eyes and strong pointed features is because they’re based on the in-game N64 models

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I like that Metroid Ravenous seems to be leaning into some Guyver-isms.

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 10/09/2026

The “Big 3” gaming platforms are actually Nintendo, PC and a Chinese emulation device of your choosing.

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