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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

One of it not the strongest Weekly Shonen Jump author comment I've ever read.

Shun Numa (Super Psychic Policeman Chojo): My editor skips all the side quests in Yakuza 0. I have no choice but to k*ll them.

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Game writing internship! There are very specific criteria so make sure you read the information. Not affiliated. Shares welcome. job-boards.greenhouse.io/crystaldynam...

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Game Writer Intern

Hybrid - San Carlos, CA

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Pairing Yuri and Nhi together was exactly as much of a blast as we thought it'd be! SO much fun to record, and we still have a lot more eps coming down the road 🔥

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 02/07/2025

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Learning from Stoppard
By Mike Fitzgerald, June 13, 2016

Comparing two drafts of a script can be hugely instructive, revealing point-by-point how a writer went about improving the story. When I stumbled upon an earlier draft of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I discovered a dazzling, glittering trove of lessons as nourishing as eternal life itself. Well, nearly so.

Last Crusade was written by Jeffrey Boam, from a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. So say the opening credits. Boam’s final draft, dated March 1, 1988 (ten weeks before production) differs drastically from the published script which reflects the released version of the film. Differences come as no shock, but with Last Crusade they aren’t just a few deleted scenes and some line changes. Whole sections of the Boam draft were reimagined, major set pieces were added, and the pacing and tone were markedly transformed. Whoever made these changes possessed a profound grasp of story craft.

Screenshot from https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-learning-from-stoppard/

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

bushido blade, development shot, level design (1996) archive.org/details/ultr...

an isometric wireframe shot of a level, showing the landscape in all its complexities.
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the complexities displayed in this bushido blade wire-frame demonstrate the ambitious level designs in the game.

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If you’re at FREAKON in Melbourne today, come see @maxfolkman.bsky.social and I talk about the most humiliating moment in our lives during the micro talks at 1PM! 👀👀👀👀👀👀

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

hate to say I told you so www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

The Republican legal mind nickels and dimes the People on their rights, and then goes, “Is this what the founders wanted?” Conveniently, and completely coincidentally, this thinking often works against women, racial minorities, immigrants, and other undesirables. Meanwhile, when the birthright citizenship EO contradicts the plain text of the Constitution, the textualists are nowhere to be found. Kinda gives the whole game away, doesn’t it?

As a result of Donald Trump’s first term in office, the right wing of the Supreme Court gained a supermajority, one it will have for the foreseeable future. The moment this happened, the fig leaf of textualism and respect for the law fell away, and the true objective became clear: to allow the most powerful people in the country to do whatever they wanted.

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

god help me, I've gotten into magic the gathering

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 05/09/2025

this article rocks

How do you confirm a fact? You ask, over and over, “How do we know?” Years ago, John McPhee wrote about a Japanese incendiary balloon that, during the Second World War, floated across the Pacific and struck an electrical cable serving a top-secret nuclear site; a reactor that enriched plutonium for the atomic bomb bound for Nagasaki was temporarily disabled. How did McPhee know? Someone had told him. How did that person know? He’d heard about it—secondhand. The checker, Sara Lippincott, spent weeks trying to track down an original source. Just before the magazine went to the printer, she got a lead. She called the source at home, in Florida. He was at the mall. How to locate him in time? She called the police. They found him and put him in a phone booth. Did he know about the incident? He did. How? He was the reactor’s site manager; he saw it happen. The detail made it in.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Asked my daughter what she thought of her first viewing of THE THING and got this in response.

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Apologies to the excited airport security worker who thought he was meeting the Property Brothers until he realized he was just meeting us

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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

On Wednesday evening, developers began to notice their games were being unceremoniously delisted or outright removed from Itch.io. Itch's founder says it's the direct result of a financial censorship campaign from Collective Shout, an org with ties to anti-porn groups www.wired.com/story/steam-...

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Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship

A conservative group is targeting payment processors as “a weapon” to get adult games deindexed in storefronts. Even games that have nothing to do with sex or abuse have been caught in the dragnet.

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Given the 616 pages, I'm assuming this is just the cine scripts, which is really cool! One day tho I hope the larger studios start publishing/posting their gameplay scripts too b/c they're the bulk of the player experience, much more unique to our medium, and sooo much more useful to learn from

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Dropped a new ep of @scriptlock.bsky.social yesterday w/ @karriebear.bsky.social & Ros Dachtler! 🔥 Lots of great discussions around who/what taught them the most about storytelling, things they've had to unlearn, changing games in response to fans, and more! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/kar...

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Karrie Shao & Ros Dachtler | Script Lock

We're over halfway through 2025 and we've got Karrie and Ros in to talk about breaking into games via Craigslist, what Ros has been up to since working on Battlefield 1, who/what taught them the most ...

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This is his time.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

the yakuza fanbase figured out years ago that as long as they don't care how similar a game looks to its predecessor, they can play a brand new game that's an instant banger roughly every two years or so, often with pretty good spin-offs on the off-years

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

ICE agents in full combat gear on the streets of Los Angeles. On top of a military vehicle is an agent with a full-ass machine gun on a tripod.

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Kelsey Pickinpaugh @spacedcadette.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

To anyone being hit by layoffs today, It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did. They fucked up. Not you.

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

IM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW IM ORDERING A PIZZA IM NOT GOING TO THE GYM TOMORROW MORNING WE’RE PARTYING ALL NIGHT LONG

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Clayt💿n @nixon.computer · 21/06/2025

[Somber David Attenborough voice] He's the last member of the DK Crew.

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Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For folks with a negative reaction to Mexican flags at LA protests, a little familiarity with the history & culture of California--and LA in particular--might change your mind. These protests are to protect local communities, not to appeal to white people watching from afar. They are organically LA.

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger. From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say LA County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone.

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ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger

From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. Over the past three days, ...

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you’re a film fan in LA from now until the middle of June, go check out the Film School art exhibition at GR2! Sooooo many pieces, all hand-painted, and all absolutely stunning!!!

Flyer for a movie art gallery exhibition in Los Angeles

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The kids are all right. Even at Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Why is figuring out how to structure scenes and the best way to fit all the story pieces together my favorite part of the writing process when so much of it is me going gggraAAASGGGHHHHH THIS PIECE DOESNT FIT (YET) OH GOD THIS ONE DOESN'T FIT EITHER

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I can never move away from Los Angeles because what if I miss Kore-eda coming into town to do Q&As for a whole series of his films

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Skin Deep is finally out!!!! I've been waiting YEARSSSSS to play it and am so so so so so stoked to run wild like a little freak in ALL of the space corridors

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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 23/04/2025

⚡ CRESCENT COUNTY IS DOING A KICKSTARTER!! ⚡ 💫 A painterly, witch-tech island to explore 🎁 Make deliveries by day, street race by night 😘 Drama! Motorbrooms! Kissing!!! ⌚ Launching in MAY 👇 SUPPORT INDIE GAMES! FOLLOW OUR KICKSTARTER!! 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann... #gamedev #indiedev

A corkboard featuring lots of paintings and stickers from the game Crescent County. It is announcing they are running a Kickstarter, and asking people to follow now.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It’s true! We’re looking to add a new writer to the team. (Onsite here in Finland only.)

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There is almost no dignity in many (most?) jobs and I don’t know why we keep letting them say shit like this. We were not put on this earth to work!! The puritans were the villains, not the protagonists!!!

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Seeing John Carpenter getting interviewed by Bong Joon-ho was def worth rushing home from GDC for

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I didn’t think it was possible to hate AI more until I learned that it’s the reason we’re not going to be getting the Andor episode scripts collider.com/andor-season...

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Katey Rich @kateyrich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Todd Phillips, of all people, was right about this. Unless you are a Warner Bros Discovery shareholder, whether or not Mickey 17 or Joker 2 or anything else recoups its budget is not relevant to you!

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 26/02/2025

We're looking to hire a mid-level or senior Writer and Narrative Designer to work on Fallen London. Full time, permanent, remote! Full spec and details of how to apply: www.failbettergames.com/jobs/writer-...

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Writer and Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)

Failbetter are an independent games studio, creating games and stories mostly set in the Fallen London Universe.

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natalie watson @nataliewatson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

we are hiring again here at @halfmermaid.co !! apply at halfmermaid.co/jobs for one of these exciting new roles on Project D :) ➡️ Senior Character Artist ➡️ Cinematic Manager ➡️ Senior Environment Artist (European timezones preferred) ➡️ Level Designer (European timezones preferred) please share!

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I swear we’ll release more episodes this year than last year!!!! Also this was such a fun ep to record!!!

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Iain Hendry @iainhendry.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

enough fires!!! get new material!!!

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Nick Folkman @nickfolkman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Best studio head I've ever worked under. Genuinely cares about the wellbeing of his employees, is incredibly honest, open to changing his mind on things, and admits when mistakes were made. No studio's perfect, but a lot of the things I love about Insom are b/c of the values Ted instilled into it

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