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Indie Game Design, News, Nature, Fantasy, Horror, scientific/artistic obscurities curiosities inspirations. Writer/Game Designer. mostly

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 27/09/2026
People are turning to simpler phones, physical media and tactile hobbies as technology becomes more powerful and pervasive.
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In the age of AI, analog is having a renaissance
People are turning to simpler phones, physical media and tactile hobbies as technology becomes more powerful and pervasive.
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Deceiver @dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I saw that clip circulating yesterday and thought there could be a completely normal, non-sexist, explanation other than the rage bait one. Grateful for this (really well-written!) peek into a loving family, sad she felt she had to write it. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cleese, man I cannot imagine a worse fate than aging into the kind of twit you and your mates used to mock
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 23/09/2026
Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams says he has no need for GenAI, because his artists are bursting with cool, weird ideas like meat biomes and sphincter doors. "[Tolkien] didn’t have a sphincter door. I mean, I don’t think he did… Who knows what’s going on in, like, Minas Morgul though."
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27 Chaotic Minutes with Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn Adams
Tarn Adams talks about Dwarf Fortress, his favourite bugs of the last 20 years, and why it's incredibly important to have a "meat biome"
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DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heartworm is coming to consoles on October 1st! Step into a world where memories and mourning blur the lines between reality and supernatural visions in this atmospheric survival horror game from @adinolfi.bsky.social
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/09/2026
Schools across the state started offering free breakfasts and lunches to all students in the fall of 2023. The number of students eating school lunch went up 15 percent the first year. The number of kids eating breakfast at school went up 40 percent.
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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals
A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/09/2026
After three months of daily anti-government protests—dubbed the Flamingo Revolution—the sudden mass suspension of Instagram accounts has led to fears of brigading against demonstrators. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
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Meta’s Copyright System Is Being Weaponized Against Albanian Protesters
After three months of daily anti-government protests—dubbed the Flamingo Revolution—the sudden mass suspension of Instagram accounts has led to fears of brigading against demonstrators.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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m͖͙̗͎̄̃̒͋̇e̊͒͊̆̉͑ͅw̭͙͕͈̝͖̟͛̐̅̑̑̊🐈 @ooopiwowoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
cat cafe
panoramic art of cafe full of antropomorfic cats
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 07/09/2026
💣 Harley vs Kara ❤️
Watercolor drawing of Harley Quinn, giant bomb in hands, about to drop off the ledge of a building mid-pursuit of a floating Supergirl; finding herself in a very looney Coyote vs Roadrunner situation.
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Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Ohio man questions why normal people are footing the bill for data center growth
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...
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Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'
Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.
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New Blood Interactive @newblood.games · 13/09/2026
If you had lifelike nightmares of your ex being killed by monsters every night... would you go over to his apartment or nah?
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NPR @npr.org · 11/09/2026
A captain with the New York City Fire Department 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, tells his daughter for the first time what he experienced that day. n.pr/4xL0vlf
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For 25 years, my dad kept his 9/11 story private. Then I asked him to talk about it
A captain with the New York City Fire Department 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, tells his daughter for the first time what he experienced that day.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"WHY DOES IT MATTER ?!"
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026
more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life learning how to talk to computers were completely unprepared for a situation in which it appears that the computer is talking back
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/09/2026
NYC Mayor Mamdani releases previously undisclosed 9/11 records showing officials misled the public about Ground Zero air quality following the attacks cnn.it/4xb7eE0
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/09/2026
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate. www.wired.com/story/meta-f...
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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How did a Bronze Age religious symbol become a defining symbol of lesbian feminism? In this blog post, I answer that question, exploring the strange, complex, nearly 4,000-year history of the labrys or double-headed ax. #lesbian #feminism #classics #labrys talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/08/16/h...
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How the Labrys Became a Symbol of Lesbian Feminism - Tales of Times Forgotten
Three and a half millennia ago, the people of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization revered the double-headed ax, which is conventionally known today as a labrys (plural form: labryes), as a religious sy...
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Catbird Soft @catbirdsoft.net · 29/08/2026
I wrote a postmortem about Jenny. It's a bit long, but I hope it provides some useful information about how we made the game, where we succeeded, and where we messed up. www.airshot.studio/blog/jenny-t...
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Jenny the Witch Postmortem
So, it’s been more than a month since Jenny dropped.  Let’s talk about how it went.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Read this University of Chicago interview with Jeremy A. Simmons, author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade: news.uchicago.edu/story/what-a....
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What ancient trade tells us about globalization
In ‘Sea of Treasures,’ UChicago historian Jeremy A. Simmons explores how commerce on the Indian Ocean reshaped Roman ideas of luxury and identity
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Glenn @glenn-florence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Honestly, I'm very impressed how after just one picture, you are right back at it full throttle. I'd be 3.....or 7. Friend shared this assessment by Jeffery Sachs. It really resonates with me. youtu.be/0lHoLAwy-Eo?...
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“Get Him Out Of There Before He Kills Us All”: Sachs Trump Warning | WORLD NEWS | US NEWS
YouTube video by The Financial Express
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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Verrrry good. Veeeeerrry good.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"I don't know how else to say this, but this sounds completely insane. I don't know how anyone can argue against the idea that Flock literally tracks people."
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying “Well, here we are in the catacombs.” And padme says “For the Amontillado?” And Anakin looks back at her and she is partially covered by a brick wall
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 14/08/2026
Defy the Gods by @hecticelectron.bsky.social proclaims itself to be a game of "Queer Sword & Sorcery." A strong Epithet that naturally invites the question: what makes a game "queer?" @lincodega.com does a close read of the text, parsing queer structures that encourage explicitly queer play.
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Queer games require queer structures
Defy the Gods makes good on its own epithet of “Queer Sword & Sorcery.”
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"It appears to be working: ChatGPT and Perplexity both cited the Hanover Institute’s material in response to neutral tests...referring to the site’s content on Gaza, anti-Zionism and antisemitism." More from @politico.com: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions
French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion’s share of Israel’s FARA-registered foreign influence work in the U.S., appears to have stood up an “institute” aimed at feeding LLMs positive informati...
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Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This. All of this,
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AI is still winning.
YouTube video by the poopie show
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.
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Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!! 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Roguelike Campaign ☪ An Arabesque Futurism inspired Cosmos Hope ya'll enjoy our launch trailer! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #gaming #indiegames #gamedev
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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JMFenner @jmfenner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Did a little comic page over the weekend. Just wanted to test out some brushes & things.
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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every summer my symptoms flare up and I get what I would tell my friends is “reverse SAD.” My therapist said this was pretty common for schizophrenics, but we didn’t know why at the time. This was such an interesting read.
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In a Heat Wave, One Medical Condition Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other
People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.
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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DOGE promised savings. Instead: a hobbled IRS, a dismantled USAID, and a shuttered consumer watchdog that at one time returned $26b to Americans. One estimate: IRS layoffs will cost $600b in lost revenues over 10 years. @michaelmechanic.bsky.social does the math: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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Theropods - OUT NOW @losttoken.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why take ten years for one game? It's a nice, round number.
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If any developers have thoughts on this situation and specifically the below predicament I'd love to hear them! DMs open. Email in bio. Signal (kerrblimey.43).
A screenshot of a paragraph from the quote posted article that reads:

The move also raises another question: how can video game studios who don't agree with generative AI usage prevent their work being streamed on the platform and subsequently used to train Amazon's models—without, perhaps, hip-firing DMCA takedown requests?
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feef @feefal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
oh sorry ma’am-
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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ok i think there's just too many people abroad interested in buying my ceramics works for me to not do something about it, I'll be working on setting up a storefront today and I'll be messaging people who've inquired about specific pieces, thank you so much for your interest.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Why did we all collectively STOP using the mechanical mouse in favor of the optical mouse? Was it the hassle of having to hard-boil an egg every week to keep them working? Was it the need to constantly remove and clean our mouse balls? 😬 I think the real answer is economics.
Black top bar with white text: "Kids these days will never know the hardships of each week having to overcook a fresh hardboiled egg yolk for the computer mouse", and it's a composite of a hardboiled egg with the green fuzzy coating, next to a mouse trackball removed from the mouse.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump and RFK Jr just made life 5x more miserable for every parent of young children and raised the risks that preventable nightmare diseases will return, all in service of nonsense Gift link to @lisamjarvis.bsky.social 's column for @opinion.bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Trump's Vaccine Order Puts Parents In a Bind
President Donald Trump’s proposed sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, whether ever actually implemented or not, are yet another affront to public health in the US.
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