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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 23m

Kate Bush, Experiment IV. The video gave me recurring nightmares. youtu.be/NTUcoR8_pyE?...

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Kate Bush - Experiment IV - Official Music Video

YouTube video by KateBushMusic

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 9h

“Just because I don’t believe in 124 genders does that make me a Nazi?” No. This does. You absolute boob

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 3h

Spent yesterday with friends eating birria tacos in 100 degree heat while watching lucha libre and listening to Mariachi bands. It was very LA. Today, I am tired.

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What's wild is seeing people finally engage the philosophy of restorative justice...for this guy. Not in the context of prison abolition or the incarceration of Black men, of the Black Lives Matter movement or defunding the military police state Nope let's talk about it for a rapist YouTuber

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11h

"Look at this guy. What’s not to trust? His skin looks like fresh snow. His clothes are covered in cobwebs. Direct eye contact with him sends a shiver down your spine, but if you look at his eyes from the side, they’re actually a very lovely shade of bog green." buff.ly/g4Miegw

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My Trusted Royal Advisor, Conniving Worm. Would Never Lead Me Astray

“Ever since Conniving Worm joined my Royal Council, he has proven to be highly competent, fiercely loyal, and constantly laughing to himself while rubbing hi...

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks Gavin Newsom!!!

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Best Of 2000AD cover what I did #dayofdredd

Digital painting, cover illustration for Best Of 2000AD book. A scene on the mean streets of Mega City One

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Kyle Tharp @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👀 NEW: In Q3 2025, right-wing YouTuber Benny Johnson gained over 570,000 new subscribers. During the same period this year, he net just 10,000 new subs. Is the partisan YouTube boom finally cooling off? www.chaoticera.news/p/is-the-par...

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes it makes the art bad

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

heather mac donald is one of the biggest racists in the public sphere, what a disgrace this is

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."

welcometohellworld.com

Waiting for the next Mr. Death

I don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured

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DayOne @playday.one · 30/09/2026

The debut release from the team at Section 9 may have flown under your radar, but this new oppressive metroidvania is worth a look. Our End of Abyss Review. playday.one/2026/09/30/end-of-abyss…

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

theyre just all so fucking stupid and lazy

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rather lovely glammed up version of PSBs Rent with Suede backing Neil Tennant. Found via the Suede Coming Up 30th Anniversary collection. youtu.be/pVwd2EEFEJk?...

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Suede & Neil Tennant - RENT (Live 1996)

YouTube video by massielchirinos

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess I’ll take the vaguely obnoxious country music discourse over whatever fresh hell is being unleashed on threads, but get a grip, people. Meanwhile, here’s a song I like… youtu.be/ADfHrteW-QE?...

youtu.be

CMAT - When A Good Man Cries (Official Video)

YouTube video by CMATVEVO

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wrapped up Wolverine, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Well told, tightly designed with next to no AAA bloat and it looked and sounded absolutely phenomenal. Next is either the new Silent Hill or Control Resonant, both of which seem really appealing.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My wonderful father, who instilled in me the love of computer and comics and weird cartoons, has passed away. Any support you could give to help our family would be appreciated. gofund.me/a724331e4

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Donate to Help William Florence's Family With Farewell Costs, organized by T. Florence

We are heartbroken at the passing of William Florence at the age of 7… T. Florence needs your support for Help William Florence's Family With Farewell Costs

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

semafor.com

Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment

A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

we were once approached by a company that wanted to buy inkle and i couldn't understand *why*: our back catalogue isn't especially valuable and our future projects aren't likely to be either. They explained quite cheerfully the following points:

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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SeverLink crowdfunding campaign is LIVE We have a playable prototype - just grab it at: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... If you long for early 2000s stealth revival and you like what you see in our build - GO FUND US and make it happen! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #y2k

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026

Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets

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Jurrien Timmer @TimmerFidelity
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On the Al front, the trade has been dead money for more than 3 months now. The metrics I am following (token expenditures and GPU lease rates) are all flat to down. The price of memory (DRAM) seems to be the only thing that is still going up.
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Yes, Al will change our lives (for the better l trust) and down the road it may well unleash a productivity miracle that raises the economy's non-inflationary speed limit enough to keep the world's mounting debt burden sustainable. But until then the buildout is inflationary with an unknown return for the companies who are investing trillions into compute. The demand fo capital (equity and debt) from corporates is rising at a $3.3 trillion clip.
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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fallout of the ongoing Xbox re-alignment is deep dispiriting, what a loss to the games industry.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Either Star Raiders - not so much the space combat but the open ended strategy game framework that surrounds it - or Zork - for the sense of a world where you could do anything in if you thought it through.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

youre not gonna lose your job to magic beans, you'll lose your job to someone who traded their cow for magic beans

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Played more Wolverine and my belief that the negative discourse is more driven by people being frustrated with Sony than the game itself continues to feel pretty accurate. Not so much the reviews but the sheer anger at what is a well made, well written but very straightforward game.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.com

Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've taken to muting the names of new games I'm looking forward to playing but haven't had to the time yet. I love you all but I don't need the discourse.

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Random thought I could probably write a whole essay about some time: the fact that there aren‘t more mainstream Romance video games is such a bizarre failure, like don‘t you people wanna make money? Why not cater to the infamously ever hungry audience of Romance book readers in another medium?

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is my humble duty to explain: The parts of marketing that are super visible, like ARGs, flashy stands at Gamescom, or deluxe boxes of merch sent to creators are lovely. but they're the tip of the iceberg of what marketing work is, and they don't do anything without the foundations:

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Laura Loomer teams up with fake, classist genius and disgraced professor, Curtis Yarvin, in a new podcast which promises to be as shitty as you're imagining it to be.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Drop is exceptionally good television. Even if you don’t have much interest in 90s hip hop, it is immediately gripping in the same way Snowfall was.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social and @connectwithjacob.bsky.social for highlighting our newest venture: the L.A. TACO POST. With help from the legendary artist Robbie Conal, we are turning to print to take a stance against Rupert Murdoch’s incursion into our city.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/09/2026

One teen said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, “I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.” trib.al/YQTcfYI

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ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines

The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe a hot take, but 9 year olds shouldn't be YouTubing.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Haute & Freddy played a phenomenal show at the Fonda last night. Great songs beautifully performed, charming presentation and an incredibly enthusiasti, well dressed crowd.

A crowd bathed in bisexual lighting in a beautiful vintage theater.

A woman in a very tall conical hat singing and a man playing drums, both dressed in vaguely circus themed attire.

A stage crowded with gaudily clad people, somewhere between Renaissance and new wave themed, in front of an excited audience. A old timey circus wagon in the background reads Haute & Freddy

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A WHOLE LOT of trans people are citing to the last decade of UK politics as a reason they think anti-trans Dems winning is worse FOR THEM than anti-trans Repubs. And a whole lot of US liberals aren't engaging with that example at all while pontificating about why trans people are wrong and stupid.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Getting my AC unit replaced and it's shockingly expensive, but still less than two NVIDIA RTX 5090s.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In a Los Angeles courtroom this winter, after a back-and-forth with a judge about estimating the number of people likely to die from exposure to silica, Hyundai L&C lawyer Rey Yang mused, “You could live life without any risk, and then where would you be?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.com

‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers

Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...

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Edward Harrison @edwardnh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kennedy Center: "Officials say Washington, D.C., venue faces bankruptcy and won’t be able to pay employees unless Trump’s name is put back on building" www.wsj.com/us-news/kenn... It might close permanently today (and eventually be torn down)

wsj.com

Kennedy Center Could Close as Soon as Tuesday

Officials warned that the venue faces bankruptcy and won’t be able to pay employees unless Trump’s name is put back on building.

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sam, ominous @samuelbass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So, maybe a hot take, but I'm really enjoying Wolverine. It feels like a 360-era game - as a positive - but with phenomenal contemporary production values. No crafting system, no open world bloat, just tight plotting and sharp combat. It's pretty refreshing, honestly.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 15/09/2026

RIP Bob Mackie the world is less fabulous without you

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 SIGNAL BOOST 🚨 This is my worst nightmare. My PC had been glitching for 2 weeks. Today, it stopped working. I can’t do 80% of my work without a PC. I don’t even know what to do. I’m the only one in my household with a job. 🔁 Please RT & Donate! 🔁 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive #SignalBoost

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