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2 Mello @2mello.net · 6h
I think it's great that devs can go with different musicians across their development careers and introduce new colors to the work. But boy, it sure would be great for composer morale and institutional knowledge if there was such a thing as in-house sound teams again.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
But maybe he doesn't do this. Maybe its just a cosmic coincidence that these sort of wrecker posts constantly filter to the top there, driven by organic demand for this message that just happened to start around late 2022. Maybe Elon has too much integrity to put his finger on the scale.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
I don't know what the X algorithm looks like on the inside but I do know if I were Elon Musk this is exactly the kind of sentiment I'd filter for (trivially easy to do even before AI) and show to left-wing users of the site (again trivially easy to ID even before AI)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Laffodile @laffodile.bsky.social · 8h
Think a lot about how the animators are like huge fans of hotel transylvania. Which like yeah no shit look at it but its funny seeing it referenced a lot.
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 10h
Public benefit corporations have different fiduciary duties, maybe we should understand them?
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 7h
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.

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@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed
and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does
not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an
emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes
it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded
hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of
which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in
office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses
to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He
has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups
have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant
to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds
gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the
same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his
anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to
Jewish New Yorkers.
Our expectations have not changed: zero tolerance for
antisemitism and extremism in city government, real
protection for Jewish institutions, a clear and formal
definition of antisemitism that the city actually uses, and city
contracts, pensions and procurement kept free of ideological
boycotts. ADL will keep tracking and fighting antisemitism in
New York City and across the country, whether or not this
mayor is willing to do the same.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani © @NYCMayor - 6h
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has
sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers
have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever
municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Over the last vear, I've met with
Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs.
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LynxGriffin - Sept Comms OPEN! (15/15 slots FULL) @lynxgriffin.bsky.social · 7h
Soooooon!...
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James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 13h
No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form. It's just the anime nerds who insist on being obtuse.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 8h
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
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CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Cloud ☆彡 @cloudboyo.bsky.social · 7h
Mon-Star you fucking idiot
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 7h
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 7h
What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵
Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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Peterline6 tracks new VGM releases @nowplaying.cool · 16h
EXCLUSIVE: 2026 is shaping up to become one of the most nefarious years for video game layoffs. I spent the last couple of months asking game music composers a very simple question: how are you holding up? nowplaying.cool/how-indie-ga...
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How Indie Game Composers Are Surviving the Layoff Storm
As 2026 shapes up to be another record year for video game layoffs, composers find themselves on the front lines. Feeling the squeeze, they open up about how they keep their heads above water.
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2 Mello @2mello.net · 7h
I think you would have to be doing a couple full soundtracks a year to survive off game music alone, and besides that opportunity only existing for very few composers, that's also a brutal hustle. I have to switch it up and have a few lanes. Bottom line is most of us virtually have at least 3 jobs.
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2 Mello @2mello.net · 7h
Good article. For my part, I've never been able to survive on game work alone, from 2013 to now. It's always been the side thing. Everyone I work with is great and we're trying to do the best for each other. I often rely on people wanting to repeat work with me cuz new opps are slim.
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SexTheHex @sexthehex.bsky.social · 6h
Today it's horny posting on Bluesky. Yesterday, it was mini-fics on a pre-vbulletin green-and-black message board. The humanity burns just as warm.
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SexTheHex @sexthehex.bsky.social · 6h
Theres such a human beauty looking at old porn. Nothing else makes me feel this sense of belonging. There's something in my soul that sings seeing my drives in sync with the works of perverts past.
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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 10h
Everyone’s already making jokes about them doing a straight Heated Rivalry (which I think Amazon was already doing anyway) so I’ll just point out that they’re clearly trying to soft launch Noah Centineo 2.0 here
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 29/09/2026
lmfao
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 29/09/2026
I genuinely don't see how it can be anything else unless part of why it's taking this long is a massive pivot in the last couple years
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DitzyFlama @ditzyflama.com · 28/09/2026
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senpai MD @senpaimd.bsky.social · 10h
People can be funny as fuck sometimes
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10h
With Andy Burnham's speech, the left has unequivocally won the argument - on the rhetoric, at least. The substance is rather more complicated. But this government is more susceptible to popular pressure to go in a more progressive direction than Starmerism. Should embolden us!
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Kiahl: Fëanor's strongest defender @kiahl.bsky.social · 13h
Dick Rider is a hero in this house, that man pulled Annihilus inside out, that man fought Thanos in a dying universe as the portal home closed behind him to keep Thanos from getting back
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12h
Chainstaff asks the question, what if 70s and 80s prog rock album covers were playable levels? The levels even start as Vinyl LPs that fold out! It's immeasurably cool, the Roger Dean worship is off the chart. And the music is also unfathomably cool. Have I convinced you yet?
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Deon van Heerden - The Ultimate Weapon | From the Official ChainStaff Soundtrack
YouTube video by MommysBestGames
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よん @yonprmr.bsky.social · 12h
リハビリに短め軽めの漫画描いてるんだけど副業入ってきちゃったのでいつ出来るかはわからないんだけどのんびりやります🫠
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h
Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant...
The company said it plans to spend at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, $110 billion ​with Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and $31.4 billion with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab under long-term infrastructure service obligations over the next seven to 10 years "regardless of ⁠usage."
Anthropic is separately carrying about $161.2 billion of Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab-related equipment lease obligations that are largely non-cancelable, according to the prospectus. Anthropic filed for an ​IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June but its paperwork has not been publicly disclosed.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request ​for comment about the filing.
The company said it committed to pay Google between April 2026 and July 2033 and Amazon between May 2026 and April 2036.
"If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference," the company said, adding that similar terms apply to its Amazon agreement.
It added its commitment with Microsoft of $31.4 billion ​between November 2026 and May 2033 "is non-cancelable except in the event of Microsoft's uncured material breach."
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ZHUGE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 🌈 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 12h
Old whites and suburban libs, communism is just a word that means "evil" they're totally brainwashed
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ZHUGE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 🌈 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 12h
Dumb boomer bait
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah, some good stuff here and some frankly dubious bits. I’d wait and see what happens, because if you generally assume you are being cynically bullshat in Britain, then you are seldom pleasantly surprised.
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It's easy to be cynical, but it would be false.
Something extraordinary is happening here.
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No ifs and no buts, no caveats or provisos.
Things are happening here which we haven't ever really seen before. Burnham is saying the things that are considered unsayable and doing the things which are considered undoable.
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 11h
Everytime I draw someone being evil it’s because I agree. I’m nodding my head the whole time.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h
We have the chance to cut bills, end the sewage scandal and stop the rampant profiteering. But instead it's more half-measures, and kicking the issue into the long grass.
Prime Minister stops short of nationalising water companies
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h
wow they really got him
Senate Republicans account: UNEARTHED AUDIO: Abdul El-Sayed fought to protect illegals over Michiganders during COVID:

"Undocumented people are among the most vulnerable in our society, particularly during this pandemic... this pandemic has hit undocumented Americans hard."
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Zullie @zulliethewitch.bsky.social · 11h
The Dragon's Dogma II VODs continue, where we break into places we shouldn't be and experience the comedic timing of nature. youtu.be/yIpMTE4Ojxk
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Dragon's Dogma II [3] - Places I'm not supposed to be
YouTube video by Zullie the Twitch
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ZHUGE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 🌈 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 11h
This is why the American police departments all have to be defunded Theyre all mafia protection rackets
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ZHUGE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 🌈 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 11h
Mayors allowing police to act like gangsters who collude with la migra. Governors doing nothing.
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11h
Links used in post: x.com/SpriteCell/s..., ew.com/article/2012..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=untL..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2K..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNUc...
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SpriteCell (@SpriteCell) on X
There are three videos where Shigeru Miyamoto plays Mario Kart 8 with YouTubers. He picked Toad each time. Of the four races he comes in 4th, 6th, and 10th place, with the end of one race not included, though he was in 4th place in the last part of the footage.
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11h
Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed that Toad is his least favorite character in Mario Kart. Despite this, in all footage of him playing Mario Kart 8, he picked Toad every time. Whether he was joking or specifically picking a character he hates to challenge himself is unknown.
I have an important question. Nintendo has also just released Mariokart 7 for the 3DS. In every iteration of Mariokart, I've always preferred to play as Toad. Who's your favorite character?
That's the most challenging question! I'm sorry that I cannot come up with an interesting answer. Somehow, it's habit to me, but I play with Mario. He's a very balanced character.
Who's your least favorite character?
Toad. [Laughs]
My favorite character is your least favorite character?
I understand that he has some popularity. Somehow.
In a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed Toad is his least favorite Mario Kart character.
In December 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto and Bill Trinen played Mario Kart 8 against YouTuber Rosanna Pansino. Miyamoto picked Toad.
Also in December 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto and Bill Trinen played Mario Kart 8 against YouTuber iJustine. Miyamoto picked Toad again.
Finally, in January 2015, the two played Mario Kart 8 against YouTube group Smosh Games. Miyamoto picked Toad again.
Whether Miyamoto simply had an enormous change of heart about Toad in the intervening 2 years, or whether he was picking his least favorite to challenge or punish himself, is unknown.
Source: information compiled by @SpriteCell, x.com/SpriteCell/status/1653842781897474048 ew.com/article/2012/02/10/shigeru-miyamoto-zelda, youtu.be/DNUcDkNI24o, youtu.be/3Q2KxS32Q1g, youtu.be/untLD6z6aql
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h
“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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mew ❤️‍🔥 katamaren @mewtides.bsky.social · 17h
save a horse. ride a cowboy (?)
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🦇🍰🍰 @vampiregateaux.bsky.social · 18h
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¿Mr.Whatshisname? (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @bridgeoffaust.bsky.social · 15h
Rewatching the Real Ghostbusters and this bit from TMS' "The Cabinet Of Calamari" is quite blatantly Lupin III-esque.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 15h
its so fucked up and evil that stalin sent people to torture prison, thats so unlike every single us president in my lifetime
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15h
Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15h
Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something
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📉𝙇𝙤𝙬-𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮 📈𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝-𝙍𝙚𝙨 @lowpolyhighres.bsky.social · 14h
The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling 1/4
Mr. Slate, Fred's boss is breaking his stones again (giggidy), telling him that he has to finish digging a trench by tomorrow morning or he's fired, while Barney rolls along and tells Fred they have to practice for the bowling tournament.

Fred wishes that he could somehow work and bowl at the same time and a tiny floating green alien guy with a big helmet pops in, called the Great Gazoo, snaps his fingers and creates numerous trenches and canyons, populating them with gems and bowling pins, and gives Fred a hollowed out half-bowl to sit in as he slides down the levels, hitting sparsely placed bowling pins and other obstacles in something that has almost nothing to do with bowling.

Here we have Fred sliding down the neck of a big orange dinosaur as he approaches the finish flag.Fred and Barney, as the irresponsible fathers that they are, let their infant children take a roll down the dangerous trenches, with Pebbles here goo-gooing and ga-gaaing to the right towards a big purple flower and past a small pond with a geyser and a cute pink elephant that's just having a nice shower.Barney rolls into the boney mouth of a giant dinosaur skeleton with its spine and ribs visible yonder.Bamm-Bamm sliding through the Crystal Caves and into a dimly lit chamber with several small pockets of glowing green goo, creating an eerie atmosphere while bowling pins and purple crystals float all willy nilly around the level.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20h
Almost as if the rich keep trying to get back to a system of aristocracy where they get unlimited privileges while the rest of us eat dirt.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20h
Forgive me if I don't see how decreasing the income of poor pensioners doesn't really feel like a solution to the problem.
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