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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Tower of Zeldaga is a mashup of the Legend of Zelda and Tower of Druaga. Every room has a secret puzzle and the puzzles get more obtuse as you go on. It's free, runs in your browser (incl mobile), supports controllers, and I'd really love for you to try it out! legitimatebusiness.biz/tower/

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A pro-union game journalist would be explaining the history of Japanese labor unions & strikes to readers. Telling them this is why no one at Nintendo can be easily fired. Instead we get this limp dick "I wish Iwata saved us all 😭" demobilizing nonsense

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These things really bother me because games journalists are always saying they're pro-union. Well, Japan's game industry doesn't has mass layoffs because of the work of labor unions! Of strikes! But here we are, rewriting that history into "Japanese CEOs are nicer". Kill the neoliberal inside you.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Real talk, why half of the remaining games media is in Japan this week but no one can ever find a Japanese dev, consultant, journo or researcher to talk about Japan? Especially when we then get these experts who ignore the well-know fact that Japan has laws which make firing people extremely hard.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

One of my biggest gripes with how we tell video game history is how we erase cool stuff like this - usually because it's "local" or isn't "a real game" So much of 90s and 2000s gaming was just derping around with freeware, browser & Flash games, emulators, and these sort of weird independent games

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🌭 Sid Oozeley 🌭 @oozeley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the house of ideas needs to put this up in the EIC's office as the guiding light of both "any time we do a swimsuit issue" and just in general

Dear Marvel,
I just saw your issue of MARVEL SWIMSUIT SPECIAL 1994. It was very cool because it was 50/50 male/female. For once, someone was fair! It's usually 98% female.
I am a black female, late 20s. I want to see Thor NUDE! The Dan Panosian/Tom Smith picture didn't do him justice (in fact, 60% of all Thor pictures don't do him justice). THOR is truly a godsend! Please draw him much more handsome and NUDE in next year's issue! Thank you!

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

So… the reason it’s not smart for a government to nuke social trust to nonexistence is sometimes you need to convince the public a suicide note from a guy who said he wasn’t going to commit suicide uncovered over half a decade later a quadruple murderer said he found was real.

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𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I theorize that Blender implemented Light Linking in EEVEE solely because they knew I would need it to emulate 6th gen videogame shadows. Anyway, it's been a blessing... a blenderssing?

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 28/04/2026

Starting May 9th, 7-Eleven Japan will sell a fresh Philly Cheesesteak roll with beef, onions, and two types of cheese inside of a baguette roll. It'll retail for 429 yen ($2.69). I'm sure Philly residents will have a lot to say (judgmental) about this but I'm so there.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 28/04/2026

Yuzuki Asako's novel Butter has sold 1.7 million copies in 40 countries. Here's why she's yanked the publishing rights from publisher Shinchosha and gave them to Kawade Bunko, which will release a paperback in mid-June 2026.

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[Insider] A Famous Japanese Novelist Dumps Her Publisher After Discriminatory Column

Yuzuki Asako's former publisher has a history of running inflammatory columns. The latest was the last straw for the author.

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I take a deep, deep pride in doing this job. But boy howdy does it grate when I see hundreds of elite "colleagues" crow half-heartedly about press freedom as they sit and dine off gilded plates, and then some of them yell at us for having no sympathy when the violence comes to their front door

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/04/2026

In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, polluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions. The NAACP is suing xAI for violating the Clean Air Act.

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“Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis

As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Mu...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Wayne Barlowe. Front and rear cover illustrations from Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series published by Gregg Press, 1977. #WayneBarlowe #FritzLeiber

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Chris Rasa @spinningskull.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I just want to confirm for anyone unsure that this is absolutely canon.

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TaurenceBell @taurbell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Happy 30th Anniversary Metal Slug Another case of saw it, dug it, doodled, 💥 #ralfjones #whip #kofxv #metalslug #メタスラ30th

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

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Sam Derboo @samderboo.com · 19/04/2026

Here's an addendum to an older page. Aside from Michael Whelan, Clyde Caldwell and Frank Frazetta, turns out this cover also takes from Boris Vallejo and Larry Elmore, for a massive who's who of classic fantasy illustrators. samderboo.com/tracing.php?... #TracingTheInfluence

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

When a game drops sick euro-beats mixed with lore drops about the sunken 3DFX Voodoo-rendered world you're in as you play. “They call it… Aqua.” 🎶 📺: Archimedean Dynasty, Blue Byte, 1996 (PC DOS)

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/04/2026

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is why there is no giving a single inch on “AI.” I do not give a fuck if “it actually is helpful for some things.”

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 06/04/2026

My actual answer to this prompt comes from the 1976 Alan Dean Foster novelization of the first Star Wars:

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."

--Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

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IGN @ign.com · 05/04/2026

A ramen shop in Japan has proudly declared it has become an official Warhammer retailer, selling Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar miniatures alongside noodle soup. t.co/ZYoME1kk4Y

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter!

Sunday Sport headline: Easter world record. I STUCK 9 CREME EGGS UP MY BUM

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smirkingcat @smirkingcat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Talon in Primal Rage

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iroai.jp @iroai.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Shimachō (縞帳), 1893 www.instagram.com/p/DUIn_J8Eo6... Shimachō are sample books used as design references for weaving striped textiles. They were carefully preserved because they served as valuable resources for weavers.

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MP83 @mp83.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Masanori Miyamoto, who used to compose music for many Compile games (Guardic, Aleste, Zanac, etc.), has uploaded something very interesting to YouTube -- the original source sketches he composed on a synthesizer, before they were converted to chiptunes! Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S_U...

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蔵出し音源　Game Music [ ガーディック外伝 (The Guardian Legend)、アレスタ (ALESTE)、他 ] 作曲スケッチ

YouTube video by Zzz... _myamo

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Ell @ellhusky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This one has become a permanent fixture in my mind palace

A tweet from @ImSmilingRn

“Me driving to the store: Yeah i'm a total storepilled foodcel. I'm basically going store mode and i'm giving producecore vibes

My 8 year old son Doban: Daddy l think God should kill you”

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

FANUC needs to care that war crimes are being committed thanks to their robots & take action to prevent further complicity. Listen and let us know if you need more advice about how to get involved 🙌🏻🇵🇸 #StopFANUCNow www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/01/b...

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Battling Killer Robots w/ BDS Japan Bulletin & Engineers Against Apartheid

Industrial robotics company, FANUC, was the only Japanese company named in the Albanese report on Israel’s “economy of genocide." This week on

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Chris Rasa @spinningskull.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is an incredible achievement:

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A snippet of an earlier attempt to bring over subbed anime in a big way to NA - by a Japanese company. Gaga Communications shopped around a hype reel of OVAs with new names in 1987 to anyone who they figured might be interested in licensing them. Bubblegum Crisis? Futurescape! #VideoBytes

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