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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the bright side, this might make using AI so embarrassing that the military will stop.

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026

Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com didn't write the phrase "from whence." It was extracted from him, unwilling. "We require more Vespene Gas," they hissed as they took it.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Firing the 10 guys that prevented lettuce from giving everyone diarrhea was a bad idea, in retrospect. But to be fair at the time nobody knew if lettuce giving everyone diarrhea would be a good thing or a bad thing

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somebody set out to prove that there actually ARE bad ideas in brainstorming...

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!

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Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

LLMs are not dangerous because of AGI or it becoming Skynet or anything like that, it won't and cannot. It is dangerous because people in power don't understand what it is, they believe the Silicon Valley press releases. They are going to use it in deeply stupid ways. This is the actual danger.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here are the initial recruitment ads - please spread widely and encourage talented candidates to apply! Postdoc: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... PhD students: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... More rounds of recruitment to follow!

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Vacancies

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'Cause I've seen blue skies through the tears in my eyes And I realize I'm going home. 🖤

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Torment Nexus Gun next to the printer RIP to hubris Moon's haunted

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stack Overflow was so great for 5 years because people would just answer your questions. Tried to use it yesterday, and I was reminded why AI is killing it so completely. The only thing it seems to be able to offer is the kind of annoying pedantry that AI agents are instructed to avoid.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has the constitutional authority to temporarily appoint someone to fill Mitch McConnell’s seat. If GOP lawmakers want to challenge that, they can do so. This will be the first big test to see whether Beshear really is presidential material. I hope he passes the test.

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Haven't seen The Odyssey yet. No spoilers y'all.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/07/2026

based on the trailer alone I don't think Chris Nolan even played Mario Odyssey

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Think about a star student from another country. Intellect off the chart who wants to get a masters in computer science, and paying out of state tuition subsidizing American born students who pay a cheaper rate. And we are saying, no. Stabbing ourselves in the foot to do a racism.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have not eaten the plums that were in the freezer you told me not to and I just know You would have posted about it online. Don't set me up.

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As someone who's sponsored this event for a few years (and can't any longer), I have to say if you're at all interested in access to some of the most gifted thinkers at the intersection of (real-not-bullshit) AI and Games, this is the event you should be putting your money into

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Top 10 games in no order; let's rock. Minecraft Secret of Monkey Island Loom Mario 3 Mario 64 Team Fortress II Pokemon Red and Blue Kirby and the Forgotten Land Super Metroid Party House (UFO 50)

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

if you want people to mourn, live a life that will be mourned when it passes

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is the kindest way I've ever heard someone say "Let's shit out some code."

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

what if the real video games industry was the people who made the games along the way

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I’ve rarely used LLMs in my coding, but last week a friend who manages a software engineering team at a major company convinced me to try it. I used Clause Opus 4.8, and he bought me a month’s subscription to the Max plan. Here’s how it went. TLDR: It failed, but I can see the appeal.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Americans when they hear Europeans don't have air conditioning

Matthew McConaughey in dazed and confused looking out the window of his car saying be a lot cooler if you did

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Lizzlepants 🐒 @lizzlepants.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

bless yourself before you mess yourself

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My copy of Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social arrived just in time to start it as a bedtime story yesterday. So far, getting big Roald Dahl vibes from the writing style in the best way. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

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Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home

From New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith comes a cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel starring a ferociously inactiv...

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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

JUNE 10 is the * last day * to sign up for online NarraScope talks, which is stream on the @iftechfoundation.org Discord channel. You have to join that channel and get an attendee role by Thursday to access the conference channels. Here's the @narrascope.org schedule (see June 13-14) narrascope.org

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NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

WOMAN: is mansplaining a crime GOOD COP: sadly no PUN COP: actually it's a *lowers shades* miss demean her GOOD COP: did u just fucken actually me

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A skeet that makes the game designers say "Hell yeah!"

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

(yelling over the roar of a huge building that provides no jobs and spikes utility prices to power a bad, unpopular product being forced into everyone's lives with the promise that it will soon replace them) YOU RUBES ONLY THINK THIS SUCKS BECAUSE YOUR FEEBLE INTELLECTS ARE UNDER THE THRALL OF MEMES

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 27/05/2026

Nighthawks, our vampire RPG, is coming in FALL OF 2026!! Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. See our new trailer below, and wishlist here: bit.ly/4o36HRx

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This was in reference to gen ML games, but I have a feeling this could become evergreen for a lot of gen ML stuff.

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

AI Consultant: *takes huge bong rip* Oh shit, is that proposal to Adobe due today?

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Sometimes it's hard to explain why I love Dungeon Crawler Carl so much, and sometimes there's chapter 57 of the Parade of Horribles audiobook. (very minor spoiler for book 8 ahead)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/05/2026

Erase every congressional map, pass a constitutional amendment against gerrymandering, redraw fair maps that actually reflect and respect the intent of the 14th amendment, and start the fuck over. No it'll never fucking happen, but it goddam well should.

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Attended this for the first time last year, and it was as great as everyone told me it was!

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 04/05/2026

The Call for Proposals for Roguelike Celebration 2026 is OPEN! We're looking for speakers to deliver cool talks about procedural content, roguelike game design, generative art, and more! Roguelike Celebration is a virtual conference, no physical attendance required. Check it out and tell a friend!

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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

To the reporters always asking physicists if we should be worried about computers, I'm a computer scientist who's available to give you my options on whether we should be worried about black holes!

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Stephen Ware @sgware.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Secret of Monkey Island CD-ROM soundtrack followed by In the End by Linkin Park

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