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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a hypothesis that a lot of entertainment is being "ruined" by optimization on the part of the people consuming it because the finite amount of time combined with the sheer amount of content means people have this psychological urge to accelerate to the end state as quickly as possible

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have lost someone who made the world a better place.-

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's impact wasn't her music--though it was obviously that!--it was her love of humanity and her willingness to show it, to put in the work and money and effort and time and energy to show it, locally and far away.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When we say Dolly Parton changed lives, she did, it was clear, it was evident, it was everywhere. The Imagination Library was a supreme act of loving children and families and showing it through books and money and effort. The Moderna vaccines she funded. The money she poured into her hometown.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Imagination Library was a gift, a gift that meant anyone could have books delivered to their house, for their kids, for YEARS. Your kids would have books that were THEIRS, in THEIR room, so they would grow up knowing what it was like to live in a house where reading was valued.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The first step towards normalizing imperialism is normalizing jokes about doing imperialism

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/08/2026

this is the same exact shit as well-off muscovite vatniks going "why would putin attack ukraine, it's going to make my [INSERT IMPORTED LUXURY GOOD] so much more expensive

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 14/07/2026

Still doing interviews. Still writing Four Corners puzzles. Any help here is deeply appreciated, even boosting it, tysm.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham thinking it's heaven they're seeing as they walk into the light

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

When Matt Stoller, Gallego, Sanders, the Pod Save Bros, Ryan Grim, and MattY were all on team Platner, you cannot possibly argue that this was one specific faction unless that faction is "misogynists" and no one wants to admit they have those in their camp, let alone do anything about it

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There's way too many people, including a lot of anti-Platner types, who are revealing themselves to just be campists by attempting to pass the buck to a faction they don't like and it makes you look like enormous fucking clowns

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Build a world where all Confederate generals are hung for treason and all Confederate politicians for sedition and all organizations trying to memorialize them are treated as terrorist groups and we have a VERY different 20th century.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I mean the Confederacy and the Civil War.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is what happens when seditious racism doesn't end in the execution of its leadership and sufficient fear and punishment in its base.

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

the studio that made the most important fps games of all time just got nuked into being a support studio you cant hate microsoft enough

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

dude what the absolute fuck

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 09/07/2026

I wanted to write something thoughtful about XBOX's wanton destruction spree of their talent, portfolio, and future - on how XBOX has destroyed so much trust from both of its audiences - from developers and players. But how can I write anything thoughtful about such thoughtless greed?

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

i feel like drop site should remind us that ryan grim used to support platner openly because platner was his bartender in dc and that grim would find it personally advantageous to clear platner's name in order to not have to apologize for his lack of judgement and support for someone based on bias

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Imprisoning Kennedy, despite his family connections, would be a powerful signal that Democrats are serious about imposing harsh consequences for corruption and misrule. It would send a shiver of fear down the spine of Trump cronies, precisely what you want for future deterrence.

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Mx. Dizzy — Human Generated Em Dash @emexdizzy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As a reminder, everyone needs to thank Jenny Racicot. Her courage was not making us choose between women's safety and progressive politics, she saved us from a very dangerous man with her bravery. She isn't simply a victim, nor survivor. She's our hero right now.

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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

the gall of this man. "the dream" is dead? he is lucky he's not in prison, lucky to live in a society that privileges the dreams of white men over the nightmares of the women they hurt. enough is fucking enough. The time has long come to end male impunity before it ends us all.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/07/2026

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Imagine doing this to id and saying with a straight face "grow and extend an enduring portfolio of franchises players love"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

there is no new deal without the influence of actual socialists and communists within the larger roosevelt political coalition

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com · 06/07/2026

If you need a pixel artist for anything at all, long term, short term, or some secret third thing, I'm available for work! I've worked previously on titles like Songs of Conquest, Blasphemous 2, Perfect Tides Station to Station, and Scott Pilgrim EX! 📧 hunter@hrpixelart.com 🎨 www.hrpixelart.com

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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this is fucking wrecker shit. are you fucking kidding me

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com

There is also the elementary truth that Platner is but one man among millions; we are no more condemned to him than we are to Susan Collins. Neither has a right to rule; that is what democracy means. To say that we should have standards for those who govern us, and hold them to higher ones than we may hold a private citizen, is not elitism. It is a bulwark against everything we’re now fighting against—who can deny that Trump’s dictatorial streak is downstream of his violent entitlement, personal bigotry, and utter lack of moral restraint? His solipsism is a cataclysmic personal flaw, and has proven fatal when applied to the mighty instruments of American power. His personal flaws have a body count that may already number in the millions.

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's really remarkable how the entire U.S. political and economic establishment is playing with a load gun with no safety so confident it couldn't actually ever go off

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Manda Farough @ PAX Aus | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca · 07/07/2026

So, @futterish.fsquared.biz and I spoke to CNET about what the hell is going on over at Xbox. www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/... I wanted to be spicier but I figured I’d save that for today’s @virtualeconcast.com episode.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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

Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all, or if he moves will he fall? Is he alive or dead? Has he thoughts within his head? We'll just pass him there. Why should we even care? Donald tariffed steel Mitch was his legal shield. Elected a second time, dooming all mankind.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is a more personal piece than usual, and I'm really grateful to @liberalcurrents.com for giving me the space for it.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/07/2026

“A society that is threatened by children playing is a worthless society. A philosophy that can be threatened by children playing has no value to a free people.” www.liberalcurrents.com/there-is-no-...

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There Is No Such Thing as Society

Today it is not revolutionary communists but so-called conservatives who wish to trample on human individuality in service of dreams of a remade society.

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you are affected by the layoffs today, apply for this fund: bsky.app/profile/vide...

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Cori 🦝 (DemShenaniganss) #TDST⚡️ @demshenaniganss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Twitch.tv/Demshenaniganss Only 6 more 75 CCV Streams to partner GET IN HERE AND WATCH ME SUFFER AGAINST A FINAL FANTASY SUPERBOSS INSTEAD OF SAVING THE PLANET!

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 07/07/2026

Mierdas Touch.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 07/07/2026

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here. Fine. I wrote about drones. I hope you're all happy. othermeans.substack.com/p/generating...

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How To Consider Strike Options

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

donald trump attempted to make matt gaetz, a coke-addicted serial pedophile, his attorney general

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If the U.S. wins tonight it will be because we’re a multiracial, cosmopolitan nation that brings together people from all over the world to enjoy the light of freedom and the Nazis who hate that can suck it!

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World of Warcraft Gamemakers Guild - CWA @wowgg-cwa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A Statement from WoWGG-CWA on Today's Layoffs at Microsoft.

Full text:

As the gaming industry shrinks, Microsoft Gaming is uniquely positioned to take responsibility for the pressures it created and agree to much-needed job security measures for game workers.

Disappointingly, leadership has instead decided once again that their mistakes should be paid for by the workers.

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, id Software, Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, and all other affected studios today.

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