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Valérie Bettaque

@reified-systems.itch.io
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Theoretical physicist (quantum gravity and information) Postdoc @ University of Calgary 🇨🇦 Aspiring Godot game developer and technical artist Queer, neurodivergent, anarchist (she/they)

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
4.8 will be the strongest godot release in a while texture streaming, contact shadows, multi-bounce AO, lightmap specular, 3d trails, mesh buffers on gpu, visual shader groups, label text fitting, symbol renaming, more flexible editor layout and a lot of ui improvements what are you still missing?
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 29/09/2026
My partner and I have reached the point in our relationship where we are exclusively communicating with Tim Robinson gifs.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 28/09/2026
 So just to re-state, that is  something we'll never know.
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 28/09/2026
I think the greatest puzzle in theoretical physics for me is the question why time evolution in quantum mechanics is just statistical mechanics when analytically continued to the complex plane. I don’t know any reason why it should be this way.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 24/04/2024
Shōgun Yabushige death poem scene edit based on I Think You Should Leave

YABUSHIGE: My death poem.
OMI: *reading aloud*
“Load my fricking lard carcass into the mud.”
OMI: *reading aloud* “No coffin please! Just wet, wet mud.”
OMI: *reading aloud* “Bae.”
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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a girl says to a guy, “my homegirl thinks you’re cute.” Panel 2: the guy looks over to the left at the alleged homegirl, who is standing in the corner of the room, dripped out head-to-toe in SpongeBob SquarePants-related merchandise, including but not limited to: a t-shirt that reads: “IF YOU SEE DA POLICE… KRUSTY KRAB”, a best friends forever watch, spongebobs signature black shoes, and Mermaid Man’s belt set to “W” for Wumbo
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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
godot 4.8 exposed mesh buffers to gpu compute. all sorts of cool procedural shit is possible now
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 22/09/2026
Whenever I see Paul Rudd, my second brain forces me to watch Celery Man.
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Someone should make a Parasite Eve spiritual successor, but instead with one brain half wanting to set you on fire.
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Inside you are two brains.
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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 21/09/2026
We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸
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EoinBT @eoinbt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please watch this show. Top three of all time for me. Maybe top two. Oh God, maybe No. 1.
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Void Stranger 🤝 House of Leaves "She breasted boobily, despite the Eldritch horrors."
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est. 1997 @molenaide.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
DO YOU REMEMBER
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 21/09/2026
Bite me.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 21/09/2026
Greetings, traveller.
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Mom @milph.mom · 19/09/2026
Learning where most of Shogun was shot.
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 14/11/2023
You incomplete me.
Black and white flyer with photo of Kurt Gödel and text “You incomplete me”.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 16/09/2026
*takes notes*
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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026
A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 15/09/2026
Leave it to Ed Sheeran to create Divide.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She’s an Emmy winner!!!
@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)
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Vas @vastonik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Living well @thebestrevenge.info · 15/09/2026
I’m glad for her. The montage of her character escorting a jason-like slasher’s corpse to be cremated with a shotgun is the funniest thing I’ve seen on tv in years
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A manager says "you're fired!" to an employee. The employee says "uh, I'm not sure if I understand. I'm Millennial, so could you frame this as a Bluey reference." The manager gets on the phone, sighs and says "see if the human resources Bluey is available." A person in a Bluey costume says "yer fired, mate." The ex-employee smiles and says "I am sad, but reassured by your gentle, non-judgemental simplicity." The manager watches the ex-employee leave and says to the HR Bluey "honestly, we have so many Millennial employees now, we should just hire you on full time."
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mickey 17 (2025)
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 13/09/2026
Was Half and Catch Fire intentionally trying to make Mackenzie Davis’ character seem like Johnathan Blow? Because they sure succeeded (derogatory).
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☘💀CROM CRUACH💀☘ @dr4i0chtdvbh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is he so good at this, man
Chris Hansen Rob hansen
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I want to apologize for having called generative AI users sloppers many times this year... It was wrong of me and I feel bad for the misnomer. I meant to call them "fucko demon sloppers." So sorry.
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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think this is the best thumbnail i've ever made
matt bery is a bookshelf
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 10/09/2026
How do people actually have fruitful collaborations as a postdoc (or any collaborations at all)? It’s so hard to network if you’re not an extrovert.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A dejected man puts his hand on his head and says "jeez, my 9/11 novelty shirts just aren't selling like they used to." Next to him is a shirt that says "6-7, 9-11" with the twin towers being held by hands doing the 6-7 weighing gesture." He observes another man successfully selling t-shirts and says "The Charlie Kirk guy is raking it in." The shirt he is selling depicts Charlie Kirk as Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender. The caption is "Counting or not counting Aang Violence."
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 08/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: My bones
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Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker @garyjkings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Outside of 4k remasters (which in most cases are a restoration of detail that was already captured on film), we simply accept that old movies just look like that, even animated movies. Nobody is remaking Toy Story every time there's a leap in tech. We just watch that movie. Why are games different?
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 08/09/2026
dude this The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remaster is baller
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 08/09/2026
Halt and Catch Fire? More like Halt and Go to Therapy.
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 07/09/2026
Halt and Catch Fire is so good, I wish having fun with computers was real.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 07/09/2026
You just killed like 20 guys.
TV saying “ONLY THROUGH THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE CAN WE ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE”
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the most sophisticated large language model is no closer to artificial general intelligence than an alarm clock, and it will never get any closer
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
how is this real
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Valérie Bettaque @reified-systems.itch.io · 06/09/2026
Penguin on ice? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it is!
Picture of Drew Gooden from the “Road work ahead” vine.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 06/09/2026
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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 04/09/2026
Did a sneaky Godot stream yesterday to test out the setup and everything, so for those of you who missed it: ⚠️ Godot Tomorrow is coming back!! Tuesday at 18:00 CEST www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq0N...
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Godot Tomorrow #20 - Are we back?
YouTube video by Godot Engine
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