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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22h

I thought I played a lot more than 37h of Control Resonant, given how much fun I'm having. But I have kids, a life, and other games :)

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nothing shows how selfish and uncivil Americans are than car traffic. Special shoutout to the old Indian lady in a Californian white Tesla who indicates her turns when she's 50% through them.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watching a (recorded) DJ Livestream that was done in freezing temperature and unsurprisingly this happened (but they were prepared): youtu.be/TbloZ8rmux4?...

DJ mixing music in cold environment with the message on screen "Weather induced audio recording device failure status: imminent"

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love that Control Resonant gives me Descent (the 1195 Parallax Software space shooting game) vibes. Guild Wars 2 also gives this with the amazing mounts. Enjoying being lost in a very complex map is a very lovely feeling.

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Chron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 30/09/2026

Listen to The Board, folks

The Board from Control says "Support independent/lonely media as they are underfunded/poor yet essential"

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026

Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026

Is the air too clean? Are you spending too little on gas? Boy, do I have a solution for you! bsky.app/profile/lega...

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The solar panels, electric vehicles, EV batteries and wind turbines exported by China in 2025 will avoid annual emissions equal to those of the UK and Portugal combined, according to my new estimates. Avoided emissions increased 30% compared with 2024 exports.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TIL there's a French live action of the old anime Cat's Eyes. Lucky that it's on Hulu!

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

<Ice Cream/Saxophone/Kitten> I'm in Control :D

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's ok, I'll be staring at this screen for 13 hours

Loading screen of Control Resonant with the main character swinging a hammer and a countdown under it, counting 13 hours

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you like Dev Patel, Welsh folklore movies and have Amazon Prime, watch Rabbit Trap before it's gone soon. That eerie tale was a very enjoyable 80 minutes

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The future of automation is here!

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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 18/09/2026

My eldest girl's 16th birthday is very soon and since we recently played most of the @remedygames.com games this summer together (Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake 2), she wanted an Alan Wake themed cake. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you... Alan Cake. (Please tell @samlakewrites.bsky.social)

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

15 minutes left in the Manchester derby and there's still a ton of drama potential. Foden's red card at 22 mins, Haaland's goal at 60, Man City is in the driver's seat.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026

Australia Bans AI Music From Charts theonion.com/australia-bans-ai-musi…

“Real AI music fans don’t care about the charts. Or the music. Or anything really.”

Maurice Atkins, Tuber Peeler

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been hoping for 6 months now that I could attend my first ABGT at The Gorge but alas it won't happen. Happy to listen to the stream, but sad to know that some of my favorite DJs (Nourey, Amy Wiles, Marsh, Durante) are a few hours away

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very busy September! 15: Guild Wars 2: Code of Creation 24: Magic the Gathering: Reality Fractured pre-release 25: Control Resonant 30: Aion 2

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was very excited last weekend to get my first Hall of Monuments point in over a decade! Excited to get back into Guild Wars Reforged <3

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We all have cool stories to tell, this is one of mine

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Favorite moment from PAX in a very long time: a panel from 5 NASA people talking about Artemis 2 and 3. Three of them were communication, one was visualization coder, and there was the lead of the Closeout crew, who got to manage the 3h27m to get the astronauts into Artemis 2.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An hour into PAX (the Summit). Very few masks. I think I saw Wizard of the Coast's Mark Rosewater. All riftbound's products and events are sold out (typical). Are these businesses farming us for money?

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When you plan a productive Friday but the day fights back and chooses what you're going to do

Car turning at a highway exit, tires burning, with a sign indicating exit

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

USA: let's rename them to the Golf of and Lake America! The World: we're renaming you Dumbland.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Le Bureau des Legendes (The Bureau on Paramount+, the source material for The Agency) has never felt more real than at this moment in episode S4E3 (this is from 2018)

Two people in a room, with the subtitles saying "Proof the Russians recruited Donald Trump"

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Logged in to Disney+ while I don't have a subscription but I have a Hulu sub so it shows me Hulu content. They really are showing you that they're going to merge them

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The Saint of Sinners! @thesaintofsinn1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Caturday 😹

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 29/08/2026

Hideo Kojima talking about The Voice of Hind Rajab, which depicts the final moments of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl murdered by Israel.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is hilarious! Straight from the description of Control Resonant on Steam :D

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.

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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms

Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have seen several versions of this video floating around. Can't find an original source yet, but if this is legit umm... going to need some sedimentologists in the chat 🧪⚒️ via www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Friends...it's Friday! So here, for your enjoyment, is a 15th C. marginal fellow is off to have a good time with an amazing eel. I hope that your weekend plans include fun and amazing things, too! 🗃️🧪

Medieval marginal art showing a man holding a very large eel, and looking somewhat lustily at it. He is waring a blue robe, and he is bald on the top of his head. He's cradling the eel, and holding it up as if to kiss it, or study it closely. Or bite it. His mouth is open, so you never know.

The man doesn't have legs, and the drawing ends in something that looks like an interlinear octopus tentacle. Is this an early form of tentacle porn? * Reasonable scholars will all agree that it is. In any event, you should never trust this man with either your eel or your child. It will end badly, no matter what.

At the top of the page is another smaller drawing of a man's head at the end of something that looks like the body of a snake that ate a capybara. The man has a beard, and is looking back at his body as if to say, "WTF happened here?"

* If you don't already know what this is, don't look it up. Trust me.

Source: Bodleian Library, MS Douce 6, f 74r

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do NOT come down hard on federal government agencies that change Lake Ontario to Lake America. Trump can order them to do so. DO come down hard on any company, state government, or other group that makes that change. Trump's order has NO legal power over them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War — leading to a $93B windfall for the eight biggest oil companies in Q2 2026 alone. Meanwhile, Trump himself has raked in up to $15.5M from his fossil fuel investments since January. Don't forget what this was really all about.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Shut it down. Now.

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