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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 05/10/2026

Elm 0.19.3 is out today! ✨ elm-lang.org/news/another... ✨ Check out the roadmap for the next few releases too. We are preparing the compiler for some exciting improvements and features 😊

Rough road map describing what to expect from the next few releases.

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merman1974 @merman1974.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s depressing to see how many homebrew games for old computers and consoles are now resorting to AI art - especially for loading screens/cutscenes. Get a pixel artist who CREATES something . Oh, and while we’re at it, stop all these “Claude” ports of games. Code it yourself or don’t bother.

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 02/09/2026

We have fucked around for a decade and now we're finding out. Net Zero by 2050 was predicated on reductions starting from 2016 – instead we've *increased* emissions every year since. We're are now so far behind the 8-ball, no one in power seems to get how truly bad the situation has gotten.

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Ojiro Fumoto @moppin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Truly honored to be compared to one of the GOATs

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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 18/08/2026

Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of Elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/rethink...

acadia.engineering

Rethinking Database Programming

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Pita @pita-m.com · 16/07/2026

I've just set up the pre-launch page for a potential KS campaign for my little RPG. Any 'Notify me on launch' clicks are deeply appreciated. \o/ Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pit...

A pixel art landscape featuring an ancient fortress...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Although honestly, starting an indie-oriented strictly 100%-no-AI engine might be a valuable effort to service people looking for that, although it might be redundant if AI collapses in the next year or two.

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Just Jackie @doesnotcare.lol · 20/06/2026

They want you to rent cloud computing from them. It’s all a grift.

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Cat 🌻🌾 Tbubs 🔜 2000AD @tsundernova.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

An update from Scottish Greens. Please use this tempate to write to Fife council and get this UGLY BEAST outta here!! greens.scot/stopfifeaida...

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Stop the Fife Mega AI Data Centre

Stop the Fife Mega AI Data Centre -

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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is the data centre they're planning on building 10 miles from our home... It will use the same amount of energy in a year than half of Scotland’s households, or 20% of Scotland’s total energy use. aprs.scot/auchtertool-...

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It’s quite something that in the UK it’s still illegal under almost any circumstances to rip a legally owned CD to your computer, and yet the government is trying very hard to push back against the idea AI companies that ingest and regurgitate all creative work ever should have to pay for any of it.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 13/01/2026

Do you have mental health and money problems? Then I really need your help at the @moneyandmentalhealth.org charity. Real world feedback on how to improve things is core to what we do, to up to help out go to moneyandmentalhealth.org/community/ . Thanks, I look forward to working with you

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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NamaTakahashi @namataka.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sometimes I see reviews that use strong slang that sound insulting at first, but actually mean something positive. If I don’t know the slang, I get confused about whether they’re praising or criticizing the game.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just credit fed the Mikado Star Blade cabinet until I beat it and, presentationally, god damn, it might still just be the coolest fucking video game Namco ever developed. It cost me all of 400 yen to hit the end; if you ever see one of these yourself, just pony up and play it all the way through.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/10/2025

i could actually kind of respect if AI boosters said that one of their biggest issues in 2025 was to demonstrate or prove the worthiness of all of the apparent costs and harms of LLMs and of "AI", but this derision for people not knowing enough is really contemptible shit.

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Gendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk · 17/10/2025

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women. The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence. Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Background with cream, blue and yellow curved shapes with purple text over it, reading "Not in Our Name

Over fifty thousand cis women have signed an open letter rejecting the false narrative that trans women are a danger to women.

Add your name"

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Optimal Phonetic Alphabet: Aye Bee Cue Double Ewe Faze Gnome Heir Isle Jalapeno Know Lieu Mnemonic Noel One Phase Queue Right See Trite UFO View Write Xanadu You Zsa-Zsa

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 12/10/2025

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop. We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts. ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918 youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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charliefar.bsky.social @charliefar.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Farcade Friday! Longplay Auditions - Part 3. Come along and suggest a game with substance. This is the final stream before I pick a couple to play through in depth. 8pm UK today twitch.tv/charliefar

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 03/10/2025

Just noticed that the Seventia Collection - a duo of top notch shmups - is down to £1.50/$2 again. If you have enjoyed a side or vertically scrolling shooter ever before, this is a no-brainer. Pocket change goodness.

store.steampowered.com

Save 95% on The Seventia Collection on Steam

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We are looking for a Godot consultant to help us investigate and fix an issue with long load times on iOS. It seems like Godot 4.5's shader baker might not be working on iOS only. If you're interested, please email hello@draknek.org with your experience and rates. #godot #madewithgodot

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I am honored to support the UK Together for Palestine concert

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

@retroreversing.bsky.social Hi, some of the pages on the site appear to display source code, such as www.retroreversing.com/games/

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

We're at the point where it is a news story that a company which sells articles of clothing is not refusing to cater to certain categories of people who need those articles of clothing. The transphobic moral panic not just evil, it is objectively insane.

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Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org · 17/08/2025

If you're like me and can't remember if it's RCX or R8 for the fourth parameter... Get the Compiler Explorer ABI Mug: actual calling conventions for x86-64 System V, Windows, and ARM64. Support @godbolt.org: grab yours here -> shop.compiler-explorer.com/collections/...

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I run AmigaVision on my MiSTer. Should work fine in FS-UAE

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Reminder: the only number that matters to them is users. Blueberry has seventeen Bs if that makes the metrics go up

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Peter Mackay @petmac.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

AI companies would come in their baggy clown pants if they thought they could sell AI tools to governments, for them to provide it as a tax-funded state benefit.

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Katt @sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material." So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?" I think it clicked for him then.

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes,you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action,seen by two people only There's no public apology. They don't send this to media or post it on police accounts We will continue to fight. We will continue to win.

One element of the political policing intimidation attempt is over.

We played a historic set at Glastonbury. Whole area closed an hour before due to crowds. A celebration of love and solidarity. A sea of good people at the world's most famous festival.

Shortly afterwards we learn of an active police investigation. An investigation that followed after the Prime Minister himself said it "was not appropriate" we played Glastonbury.

Walk off stage to the rapturous sounds of good people and into the creaking scheming sounds of the establishment.

This "investigation" was reported across the world's media often with wildly misleading headlines.

Every single person who saw our set knew no law was broken, not even close....yet the police saw fit to publicly announce they were opening an investigation.

Why open and publicise an investigation into fuck all?

This is political.

This is targetted.

This is state intimidation.

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes - you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action - that is seen by two people only.

There is no public apology, they don't send this to media or post it on police accounts.

We will continue to fight.

We will continue to win.

Email from Avon and Somerset Police to Kneecap legal team: "I am Senior Investigating Officer for Avon and Somerset Police's investigation into Kneecap's performance at the Glastonbury Festival on 28th June 2025. Following a review of the evidence, I have determined there will be no further action.

I would be grateful if you could communicate this to your clients, and/or advise me of an alternative way if contacting them.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,

Detective Superintendent [Name redacted]"

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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sunteam @sunteam.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I have now fixed a shedload of bad/outdated links on the site that prevented embedded videos from showing. They SHOULD all work now. If you spot any duff ones, please let me know! www.pcengine.co.uk/index.htm

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The PC Engine Software Bible by Sunteam

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