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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 5h
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2h
More than 250,000 protesters rallied Tuesday across France, an escalation of weeks of protests against what they describe as inequalities in the country’s education system.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 04/10/2026
Amid the current swell of vilification, exploitation, and brutalization directed at immigrants of all demographics residing in the United States, a public art initiative in New Jersey carves out space to celebrate the cultural diversity and contributions of its own immigrant community.
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Artists Honor Immigrants in Monuments Across New Jersey
New public commissions by artists Michelle Angela Ortiz, Chat Travieso, and Immanuel Oni are part of the New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor initiative.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"While the CPC Network asserts it is applying existing laws, it appears to be extending them, potentially beyond permissible limits," says lawyer Dr Andreas Lober, responding to a coordinated action against nine game companies, including King, Supercell, and Riot Games bit.ly/4hZUcER
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
"This young woman was failed by many people. She was clearly failed by people who took advantage of her state of incapacitation. She clearly was failed by the district attorney, and she was failed by the law of New York State."
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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started
Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.
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Media News @media-news.at.thenote.app · 02/10/2026
Mark Ruffalo Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will ‘Stifle Creativity’ and ‘Weaken Free Speech’: It ‘Should Never Have Been Approved’ Mark Ruffalo is speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger once again, this time following the news on Wednesday that th… #media #paramount #warnerbros
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Mark Ruffalo Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will ‘Stifle Creativity’ and ‘Weaken Free Speech’: It ‘Should Never Have Been Approved’
Mark Ruffalo is speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger once again, this time following the news on Wednesday that the deal has been approved and is tentatively set to close next week. “This merger will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs — it is a bad deal for this country […]
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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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Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Bring in the dog and put out the cat"
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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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cat cafe
panoramic art of cafe full of antropomorfic cats
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gamera obscura october edition @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
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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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
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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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Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you, very helpful/insightful in those distinctions,
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Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I like both directions, alleviating loss and analyzing performance. Performance-based highlights, as well as letting the player know it's ok to rest/take a break "deal with the ego issues of losing" What about prep, talking strategy or technique beforehand, how to situationally respond to things?
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Partial Portent @partialportent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm curious as to how you mean, being facilitated, Not another human advising/giving suggestions to the player as they go, But by some optional or encouraged in-game "coaching" mechanic? Would love any examples, AAA or indie, for scale comparison
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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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