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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh man, our video game has both locations AND places!

A screenshot of links to some of our back-end creation tools, displayed as a list of words: item, recipe, adventure, monster, location, familiar, choice, outfit, place, fx, skill, breakfasts, shop, word buckets, misc code, and pvp minis.

Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anybody else getting approached by companies who want to pay for access to your games' codebase so they can train AIs on it? Short term capital at the cost of having to compete with more AI-made games in the future. Ugh. Feels so predatory given how rough things are for most studios right now.

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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It has been 193 days since we've had an IRS Commissioner. That position has never been vacant. Not once since 1862, when the Bureau of Internal Revenue began collecting the revenue to help the United States put down the Confederacy. www.brookings.edu/projects/the...

Days Without an IRS Commissioner: 193. After Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's term as acting commissioner expired on March 6, 2026, the administration left the position unfilled. The Internal Revenue Service now has neither a Senate-confirmed nor an acting commissioner. Since the advent of the position in 1862, the IRS commissioner position has never previously been vacant.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

it's wild his full name was entertainment entertainment cummings

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Two different approaches to games

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Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com · 14/08/2026

Reminder that I’m available for video editing work. Services include capture, motion graphics and maybe my voice? Temporary or otherwise. Maybe I’ll get a decent microphone next time!

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Zack “Several Bones” Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is true: I once passed a kidney stone at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert. Imagine. The most painful thing that can happen to a guy, and also a kidney stone.

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

35 hours average playtime is just statistical error; Pardners-Georg plays for thousands of hours every day and should be ignored.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So the corgi nationals race happened ..

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Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A few nights ago, I watched Project Hail Mary without knowing anything about it. I experienced the kind of genuine awe and excitement that I don't really get with movies anymore. I stopped watching trailers or following movie release schedules a few years ago and it greatly increased my enjoyment.

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today is Dependence Day in the Kingdom of Loathing, an annual holiday that celebrates how we are dependent upon you to spread the word about our goofy games so that we can make more of them. Later tonight we'll set off a lot of fireworks to celebrate what a good job you did telling your friends!

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angela ✨ @astoldbyangela.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i finally worked my way through a mystery theme RADDLE *on time* and i feel incredible puzzler power within me! thanks @pzlr.org!! you can still play the archive and puzzle out the mystery at raddle.quest 🙂‍↕️

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Raddle — Word transformation game

A daily word game by Sandy Weisz

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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My New Year’s resolution is to stop procrastinating.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It’s another Mystery Theme over at raddle.quest — this one has two more weeks of puzzles left, though it’s possible to solve now…

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Raddle — Word transformation game

A daily word game by Sandy Weisz

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

All I can see is Sloth from the Goonies

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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A Dead Sinking Rory @zealousagain.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Some friend of a housemate wrote “kingdomofloathing.com” on our kitchen whiteboard in the spring of 2004.

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Zack “Several Bones” Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I collected all of my #EnigMarch puzzles and made it so you can check answers in the browser. horrible.farm/games/puzzle...

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#enigmarch

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This game is real good! Goes places! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156...

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Carrot Kingdom!

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Blue Prince (2025)

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Dog sitting a friend’s pug. (Bonus appearance by Moxie!)

A squashed telephoto image of a pug that looks more like a slug.

Moxie (my corgi) and Ellie (the pug I am dog sitting) posing for a photo on my couch.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Expanse The Good Place The Americans Deadwood Firefly 30 Rock Rick and Morty Parks and Rec Schitt’s Creek The Office Gravity Falls Freaks and Geeks The West Wing House Taskmaster

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MC Frontalot @mc.frontalot.com · 01/05/2026

New for your May Day: I wrote a song about when IT happens. frontalot.bandcamp.com/track/common... And there's a playable RPG music video for it. frontalot.com/loot

an album cover for the digital single.
The text MC FRONTALOT is at top, COMMON LOOT at bottom.
Center is a large pixel-art inventory grid loaded with vendor trash.

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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 29/04/2026

This is incredibly charming. I highly recommend using it on desktop, where you have a real cursor.

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 17/04/2026

After a length of development that - if I truly, deeply thought about it, I would instantly go insane as if I'd opened some Lovecraftian skin-bound tome - our narrative city-builder Generation Exile has launched out of Early Access into full 1.0 today! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

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Save 35% on Generation Exile on Steam

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choi...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

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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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Christopher Yudichak @theoddlinguist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The days of #EnigMarch are dwindling away, but we still have some #cryptic clues to get through. For today's prompt of CUBE, I present: Squares of easily-digested cheese, all stacked into a cube (5) Check your answer here: www.callingit.in/1/#02mS1gACh...

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enclose.horse @enclose.horse · 24/03/2026

Almost every day someone writes in on how they can donate/support the site, so I set up a Ko-fi page. ko-fi.com/enclosehorse Completely optional/zero obligation.

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Support enclose.horse ❤️

Become a supporter of enclose.horse today!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Full disclosure: sometimes I say “All the best,” but I’ve actually retained some of the best for myself.

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 07/03/2026

Hmm I’m not sure about this new plumber 🤔

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

LinkedIn trying to lure me into their ecosystem with puzzle games seems like it'd work, except for the fact that they are straight-up lying in their (seemingly constant) emails about it. I don't even *have* 15 colleagues at my company!

A screenshot from an email (one of many similar emails!) from LinkedIn to me claiming "15 colleagues from your company already solved LinkedIn puzzle games" with a link to some of their puzzle games.

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jake rodkin @rodkin.online · 09/02/2026

Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Isles of Sea and Sky is $4.99 on Steam buff.ly/3Zc8eFI Deck verified

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

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SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"Well, looks like we’re gonna turn into a buncha condos," say the owners of Potrero Hill music venue Thee Parkside in an Instagram post featuring a video of graffiti being written saying "This Will Be Condos You Can't Afford." buff.ly/EhUINsq

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Like Bottom of the Hill, Thee Parkside Is Also Now Going to Close

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This game has a daily challenge now, and it's often genuinely tricky. Highly recommend adding it to your list of morning puzzles. (You do have a list of morning puzzles, right?) enclose.horse

enclose.horse

A puzzle game about enclosing horses.

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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 08/01/2026

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's Crimbo over in the Kingdom of Loathing, and it's the Winter Sale (with our lowest prices ever on West and Shadows) over on Steam and the Switch! You and your friends can have SO MUCH LOATHING for the holidays if you want. store.steampowered.com/developer/Asym www.nintendo.com/us/search/#c...

Cover images for Shadows Over Loathing and West of Loathing

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/11/2025

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

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Jeff Mangan @jmangan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We've filed 'The Montana Plan' with the Montana SOS. This is your Constitutional Initiative to make Citizens United irrelevant by simply removing a corporation's power to spend in elections.

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Basic Books Group @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We are so excited to announce that "THE PRICE OF DEMOCRACY: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History," by @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social, is now available! Learn why battles over taxation have always been battles over democracy itself: bit.ly/4nK7J3N

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