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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h
little paws. little curled up paws
orange cat loafing with his paws tucked in
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the bapper
closeup on my cat's giant fucking paw
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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 08/09/2026
what zelda will look like in 2026
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A New Color (1/5🧵)
Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.” Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.” Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Doggie paddle
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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
*need*
Maslow's hierarchy pyramid filled with "games where your mouse turns into a little gauntlet"
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: young man in a hoodie looking morose and sitting on a swing set. He says “she’s breaking up with me…” Panel 2: next to him is a glyptodon, an early ancestor of armadillos. With his head in his hands, the young man says “what do I do glyptodon?” Panel 3: the glyptodon says “I’m like an early ancestor of armadillos. The young man angrily replies, “are you even listening man?”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
look at this little animal
orange cat in the middle of scratching his neck, looking silly willy
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two friends are playing cards. There is a birdcage hanging behind them, just peaking out of frame. Friend 1 asks, “does your bird talk?” To which friend 2 replies, “Please… don’t.” Panel 2: friend 2 continues, head in hand, “he’s on this alpha male influencer thing right now.” Behind him, the bird - posed and wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket - is leaning forward on a tiny easy chair in his enclosure. Panel 3: with his hands clasped, easing back into his chair, the bird says, “stops eating seeds. Focus on your net worth.”
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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 14/07/2026
Video game fact! Though there are hundreds of video games of many genres and styles, there are only three possible “sizes” a video game can come in. Those sizes are: “Small” (16.00 MB) “Medium” (374.26 MB) “Large” (154.44 GB)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Okay, it's time for a Moist Owlette™ timeline cleanse. Today's moist owlette is "Owlfredo" at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She's an Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) & Animal Ambassador with a big personality. (📷: @zoonewengland.bsky.social via IG)
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pc2000s @pc2000s.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Insomniac will likely launch 4 games this generation in the gap between Naughty Dog's last and next release, and all I can think about is a podcast episode where Tim Schafer interviewed Ted Price (before he left Insomniac) and Ted talking about how much work they did to reduce crunch at Insomniac.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I dreamt of the beach (1/4)
Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The sheer scale of a billion dollars can be hard to understand. Let me put it in perspective for you. You would have to earn a dollar a day for a billion days straight to have that much money.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 15/01/2026
Happy for them 😊
wapo.st
World’s fattest parrots set for mating bonanza after bumper berry crop
After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding. Fewer than 300 of the parrots exist.
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Ryan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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Sebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
You feeling okay, man? I’ve noticed you developing some darker themes that contrast with the whimsy of your earlier installments.
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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE! this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like: docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
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some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I write middle-grade whodunnits, so you might want to dismiss my opinion out of hand. But I think cosy games/crime sometimes miss the fact that blankets are only cosy when it's cold outside. A world without conflict / a story without stakes isn't cosy, it's just safe.
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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Citadel and storm
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
update: male loneliness epidemic solved
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the strawberry-wanter has logged on
close up shot of a box of strawberries. a small black cat’s ears, eyes, and nose are visible, peering over the back of the box
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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 04/07/2025
Here's a mini fireworks show I found in the slow motion details of a marine flare. I set this up to capture smoke patterns, but was delighted to find that what look like sparks to the naked eye are tiny perfect fireballs streaking through the sky when seen in close-up at 42x slower than real-time.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable
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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
cool new development, the cat has started lying like this. Stupid little loaf. I gasp every time
Norm the cat (an orange and white tubby cat) lying down on the ground face up with his paws tucked on his chest looking adorable
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 20/04/2025
It's a weird world where the shittier a piece of software looks, the more I trust it. The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work. Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.
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Courtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast 2 Furiosa @hexadecibelle.fyi · 23/08/2024
the "I wake up, there is..." meme

photo of a tabby cat with stubby little legs, standing and looking at the camera, on a white background.

top text: "I wake up"
bottom text: "there is something wronger with Britain"

there are two circular arrows between the text, going around the cat
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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to all who celebrate
Photo of bald rat Neil next to a tiny toy rainbow keyboard with the caption “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006”
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 04/04/2025
One of the superpowers of coming up on late 90s / early 00s forums is an ingrained sense of a barrier between IRL life & The Internet, which is a place, its own distinct hellworld where nothing is real. Makes it easy to not fall for all the fake BS when you inherently view Online as 99% shenanigans
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Max @mad-max.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
lol
Ai saying 1+2=4 and 1+1 isn’t 2
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
this really is what it’s like
Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 09/03/2025
Happy 31st anniversary to Nine Inch Nails’ classic album, “The Downward Spiral,” released on this day in 1994
The classic cover art for NIN’s “The Downward Spiral”
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It took this guy 5 years to figure out where the heat comes from but now he's up to speed and on it.
A black cat staring at the camera while sitting atop a heating vent in the floor.
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Bohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · 26/12/2024
if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Entirely transfixed by this.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
why is there a feline urge to yeet
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What are they even collecting our data for. Are there rare data. Are there data shinies
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
One time ChatGPT told me you can make risotto with orange juice
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Carolyn Page @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We turned our face from the divine the day Yoda stopped being a puppet
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