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LA-based Video Game Dude | Photographer Currently @ Ripple Effect Studios (EA) Previously: Activision | R* | The Optional

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 21/09/2026
Elon has already spent over $5 million backing Ken Paxton. Nearly all of it is filling Texans' feeds and mailboxes with vile anti-trans slop. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”
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Roman France @romanmf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AAA development is so impossible these days, I don’t know how @insomniac.games has managed to put out FIVE titles this gen. #WolverinePS5 feels like a design throwback to a generation where it was more common for studios to release games at this pace. A miracle worth celebrating in today’s industry.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
that's right, Bruce Campbell www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...
When asked how it’s been for him to see the series transform since its indie beginnings way back in 1981 with director Sam Raimi, Campbell revealed his one issue with the recent installments. 

“I’d like more humor back in. The three features have been mostly humorless, and I personally have a problem with that,” he said, echoing a sentiment shared among some of the franchise’s fans. “There’s no point for these to get too grim. You can be scary without being grim.”

“A little more humor wouldn’t kill you,” he added. “And one hero that you really can root for. Ash is an idiot, but you want him to survive.”

“Modern filmmakers love to color their movies like a David Fincher movie, like a hospital room, you know?” Campbell continued. “Gray-green, like a garage. Garage lighting. And so, okay, it’s a choice. It’s not mine. I think even a horror movie can look pretty. Why not throw them off? Make it all look pretty and wonderful, and then let them have it.”
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John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is an absolutely psychotic statement.
Weighing in for the first time on the lawsuit, Becerra said at a Politico conference on Tuesday, “I hope it settles before court. It is easier to stand in a conference room and settle than it is to stand in a courtroom. I say that having had to stand both in the conference room and in the courtroom. You get way more done in the conference room than you do in the courtroom.
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Roman France @romanmf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is the realest shit I've seen written about the games industry, especially for AAA-level productions, in a long time. I feel all of this so much. www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
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Roman France @romanmf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nithya & Kenneth brought the people out Monday evening! It felt good to be surrounded by folks who want to build a more equitable city for all Angelenos.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/08/2026
NEW: A series of issues in Apple’s web browser engine — the tech underlying all browsers on iOS — means that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool, which is supposed to hide a user’s IP address, in many cases doesn’t actually work. In fact, its exposing users' real IP addresses.
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Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
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Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/07/2026
Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about Google burning through cash for the first time since going public decades ago as it raised its spending forecast for AI infrastructure. ft.trib.al/9z6a5Ym
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You don't have to post the rw freakout about The Odyssey. Those people don't have taste or sense
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/07/2026
I feel like people have this idea in their heads that "shareholders" are this monolithic group of evil rich people, and certainly evil rich people own a lot of stock, but big publicly-traded companies often have a lot of their shares held by pension funds and the like.
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 06/07/2026
Once again, Double Fine Productions will be an independent studio.

We're thankful to Xbox for seven great years together, and for working with us to reach an outcome which preserves our history and culture, and returns ownership of our games to us.

To everyone who reached out to us these past few weeks: Thank you for all your kind words, we've been deeply touched by your messages. We will share more soon on what comes next.

Your continued support is greatly appreciated,

Tim & Double Fine
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 26/06/2026
The US AI industry is now crippled by a federal "oversight" that is three bribe-seeking fascists in a trenchcoat. The Chinese AI industry shipped GLM 5.2 last week. Open source, cheaper, and equal in benchmarks to the best of the Western models. 欢迎来到美国的“百年国耻”时代。
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
RIP to the legend who saved and/or improved on a heap of classics - Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, and more
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Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning Editor Behind ‘Star Wars’, Dies at 80
Lucas also worked with her then-husband, George Lucas, on ‘Return of the Jedi’ and ‘American Graffiti’.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 05/05/2026
The best time to leave Substack is when the Nazis showed up, which was years ago. Every day after is a bit worse, so the best time still available to Substack publishers is right now. There's countless not-openly-welcoming-to-Nazis options, including Ghost, beehiiv, Kit, Keila, and many more.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
when @masnick.com is on, he's on: "The skulls were always on that hat." www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/p...
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Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/05/2026
Paste ends the games coverage that gave so many writers their start aftermath.site/paste-games-en...
Paste Games
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm a conspiracist now, and there's no way you can convince me this isn't the dumbest false flag of all time
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
incredible day for stories about cheating tbh
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There is currently no information about the shooter, much less their motive.
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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
okay now figure in how many weren't thinking of leaving the industry but having that decision imposed upon them. Lets also be clear this isn't just a shame for those people, but it will manifest as worse games being more expensive to make, and making less money overall. This is a problem.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shooter opened fire inside the hotel where Trump was attending dinner, a law enforcement official says.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
zaslav tried to take this from us but he COULDNT it is too powerful
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Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
End of an era www.theverge.com/tech/915213/...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down
Cook will move into the role of executive chairman of the board.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."
Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"
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wesley b @wesburt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"The new administration will prosecute and convict the old, criminal administration" is a winning argument!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/04/2026
look at these schmucks screwing around while they plunge the world into a depression
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Daily Memo: The 15th Death In ICE Detention and ICE is Slowly Escalating ICE’s slow increase in operations is now averaging about 30 kidnappings per week in Southern California.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I’m sorry to put this in the timeline but Clavicular walking out of a Channel 5 (Andrew Callaghan) interview because Callaghan says he’s satisfied with his own appearance is so funny
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
An unthinkable situation compounded by a bureaucratic nightmare. My thoughts are with Mike and his family.
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Epic Lays Off Terminally Ill Employee Who Can't Get Life Insurance
The family is asking for help as it navigates the unthinkable
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I don’t recall this framing for Tea Party protests
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Thanks to AI, Google has become perhaps the largest source of misinformation in the world. This one is just completely made up!
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Roman France @romanmf.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Los Angeles always comes correct. #NoKings
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/03/2026
This is honestly borderline racist framing of events. Iran isn't "fighting like an insurgency" or even engaging in what you'd classically understand as asymmetric warfare. They're just employing, you know, strategy.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now
Even developers who successfully release big hits, like Fortnite and Battlefield, are losing their jobs
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Roman France @romanmf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
GIVE PABLO (and team!) EVERY AWARD.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Senator Eric Schmitt’s book "How To Beat The Left In Court" isn't ab law. It’s about using courts as stages for political spectacle. He brazenly lies about deposition testimony and omits losses. This is litigation as narrative warfare: the filing is the victory, truth is someone else’s problem.
confess that I wanted to read Sen. Eric Schmitt's (R- Mo.) book, "The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court, because I appear in it as a villain. Not by name-Schmitt prefers to invoke "the global NGO nexus" or "so-called researchers" or "The Censorship Industrial Complex" when describing the fantasy cabal he claims ran a government censorship operation out of university research centers... including mine. I started paying attention to Schmitt prior to his election to the Senate in 2022, when he and D. John Sauer (now solicitor general of the United States) demanded the names of Stanford undergraduate colleagues while deposing civil servants as they hunted for evidence of this "complex." A man who believes that the "deep state" staffs its secret operations with undergraduate interns
is a special kind of thinker. It's because I'm familiar with those depositions that I'm writing this review: Sen. Schmitt lies about their contents in his book, brazenly and repeatedly. That alone would justify a critique. But it's also important for readers to understand "The Last Line of Defense" in the context of the worldview that justifies and rewards those actions.Consider the deposition of former FBI agent Elvis Chan, who was tasked with communicating with social media platforms leading into the 2020 election. In his book, Schmitt claims the FBI "encouraged platforms to adopt policies requiring them to censor 'hacked' materials- which the platforms did." He writes, "Chan basically admitted that the FBI had tricked and deceived social media platforms into censoring" the Hunter Biden Laptop story "- an act of censorship so egregious that it could very well have swayed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election." The word "basically" is doing a lot of work there; it converts explicit denials into the opposite of their
meaning. Twitter's hacked materials policy was developed in 2018, primarily in response to hack-and-leaks of nonconsensual intimate images, and independent of government involvement. What Chan actually says, verbatim, is, "we never told the companies to modify their terms of service or community standards." Chan also clearly states that he was personally unaware that another part of the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop in its possession, and that Hunter Biden was "not referred to" in his meetings with the companies prior to the laptop story breaking. He doesn't "basically admit" any of what Schmitt claims; he denies it.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
in an energy crisis we’re using $1 billion of taxpayer money to pay a company to not make local, renewable energy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 23/03/2026
Again I would like to reiterate, as something of an expert on the man and his work: there is actually nothing funnier or less film-literate than accusing someone of *ripping off Quentin Tarantino*
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