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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 26/09/2026
Why would you hide Stephen Root being in your game? I would be like on the roof banging pots and pans, naked, pissing on the people below while a jet flies overhead that drops a giant firework bomb that explodes and spells out in the sky WE GOT ROOT, BABY
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Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI @liambme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine thinking you think you know anything about, or are a "voice" for games or the industry. When this very fundamental level of misunderstanding is how you present yourself. If you think anything even in life is this simple, you are indeed a moron.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One step closer to the dream of being able to have an extremely unsatisfying customer service experience anywhere in the solar system.
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026
There is no plan aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
master chief looking sad (even though he has a helmet on and you can't see his face; it's the body language, I think)
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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Actually, dammit, that's not all. The burrito is the most perfect convenient food ever devised. You can have a full, nutrious meal inside that wrap, perfectly sealed to minimise mess and leakage until you get to the very end. It's a miracle of food engineering. It's wonderful. And I want one.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026
Nothing will ever be enough for these people.
Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.
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Brad Lynch @marinov1.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
September 21, 2004 And now “Lonely Rolling Star” is stuck in your head.
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Endless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is right and just to constantly talk about how much things were *supposed* to cost if AI shitheads weren't constantly making everything worse
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every right-wing Facebook post is, "Don't you remember how it used to be, before everything changed?" with an AI image of how it used to be, that looks like this
Homer Simpson has a photographic memory
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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI will take over the world, but it doesn't know The Odyssey exists
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/09/2026
There are more video games coming out than we can ever hope to see or play: aftermath.site/steam-number-g...
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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I used to be really excited about technology. I don't think it's me that's changed.
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lott @lott24m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What happens a lot on social media is when someone (Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman now Ed Brubaker) has allegations thrown at them people tend to leap out the woodwork saying "their work was never good." That helps no one as it's irrelevant. What matters is their actions and what they did.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 03/09/2026
Letting a machine write your emails or spin up a PowerPoint presentation isn't cutting corners, those tasks are what you're being paid for. 'The work is the work' aftermath.site/ai-work-office...
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Grand Theft Auto VI - An Extended Look reached 31.1 million views on Netflix in 4 days - the most-viewed Netflix title last week variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We tell people that everyone has a book in them but when they write that book we throw them in prison 🙄
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 01/09/2026
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis convicted in 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur
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Breaking: Duane 'Keffe D' Davis convicted in 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur
Jurors have reached a guilty verdict after less than three hours of deliberations in the trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Something we'll be hearing more and more I think
Why is everything a scam now
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Already an absolute race to the bottom happening to see who can be the coolest and most above GTA VI, discourse so insufferable they literally asked me about it on network TV
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 27/08/2026
I am begging websites to remember they are read by human beings, who possess at least some small amount of dignity: aftermath.site/video-game-mov...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s Lake Ontario.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Same. This was a craven act of capitulation that should be embarrassing for everyone involved.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Remember when they sold us the slogan, "Go paperless, save trees, save the planet"? Now we've gone digital, and it's consuming enormous amounts of water, destroying ecosystems, harming bees, and contributing to environmental damage on a scale paper never did.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/08/2026
Rockstar’s latest epic is almost here, and it seems nothing can stop it. www.theverge.com/column/98341...
theverge.com
Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
Rockstar’s latest epic is almost here, and it seems nothing can stop it.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 21/08/2026
Nothing about GTA VI's launch can be normal aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
gta 6 characters partying on top of and around a car
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Josh W @mariobones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh my god, there’s so many of them Gotta be an AI ouroboros right?
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
liberalcurrents.com
Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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AnEternalEnigma @aneternalenigma.com · 13/08/2026
The more I ponder what Mary said here, I think it is VERY important for those who don't like this EVEN IF YOU DON'T STREAM and want to send a message to Amazon on where the Twitch community falls in the genAI discussion to go in their settings and turn this off. The metrics are what speaks to them.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026
Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2026
Amazon wants to use Twitch streams to train AI aftermath.site/amazon-twitch-...
Twitch
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Daniel Vuckovic @vook64.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
these ps5 revisions are getting a bit crap
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I recently watched Iron Man (2008) for the first time in over a decade, and it's a real lightbulb moment to realize that every executive, business bro and tech guy currently obsessed with using ChatGPT or Claude or whatever thinks they're like Tony Stark talking to Jarvis
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The modern conservative hates winning more than losing. There are no games journalists left, all the devs have been fired and everyone in a position of influence is terrified of offending reactionaries. They got what they asked for, and they still hate it! Because a woman said a thing!
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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The DF Retro Super Show returns, focusing on brilliant and clever graphics tech and visual effects in retro games we don't really see any more... youtu.be/I7p0Wv0Wy0I
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DF Retro Super Show #020: Brilliant Graphics Tech + Visual Effects We Don't See Anymore
YouTube video by Digital Foundry
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Yeah, this absolutely drives me crazy. This is not my job. I'm not a reporter and I'm not an elected official. I do this when and how I feel like it. Not only am I under no obligation to anyone to publish a take about every single subject, it would be grossly irresponsible for me to do that.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wrote about the stolen valor behind the racist backlash to Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
But of course neither Kelly nor Miller “built this country,” and they have as much to do with, say, the writing of The Odyssey or the painting of the Sistine Chapel as I do—the fact that Kelly and Miller are white does not make these accomplishments theirs. People who espouse these views do not value the classics for what they can teach us about the ancient world or our own, but as bleached marble monuments to their own superiority.

There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s ancestors (although Miller’s were actually poor persecuted Jews from Eastern Europe, not ancient Roman senators). Honoring and celebrating the past achievements of those ancestors, however, is different from taking credit for them. All Kelly and Miller did was win the lottery of being born in the richest country ever, one whose institutions and traditions they are busy helping destroy with as much zeal as the Greeks in Nolan’s film defiled the temple of Athena.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/07/2026
“Ai could” who cares sorry. This doomsaying exists based on imaginary scenarios that exist entirely to pump demand for an industry that sells itself on lies
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Jolts Reviews @joltsreview.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"we blew the budget hyping up something that doesn't even work. So we'll be firing the people who could have made something great. That way we can still afford to give a huge bonus to the idiots that decided to waste money on a broken machine!"
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 18/07/2026
A reminder, if you're even a moderately big account -- *never, ever*, no matter how stupid you think a take is, quote-skeet it to dunk it. Past a certain size account (a size I'm past and I'm far from a big account) doing this will ruin someone's day or possibly life, for no benefit to you.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/07/2026
Workers protest MindsEye playtest for bringing in fans to 'do jobs that would otherwise have been theirs' aftermath.site/mindseye-prote...
People with protest signs outside Build A Rocket Boy's offices in Edinburgh. Credit: IWGB
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 13/07/2026
Actor Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park, dies
abc.net.au
Breaking: Actor Sam Neill dies aged 78
New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tweet from shen the bird (@Shen_the_Bird):

wikipedia: please. please just give me one dollar i'm begging you give me anything

me: [trying to look up the hamburglar's full name] shut the fuck up
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
BUY NOW! HUMMUS AND A
WOW!! 
EXTRA LARGE FALAFEL MEAL FOR 2!!!
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