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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 09/02/2025

oh u like warhammer? name all 40k of them

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Stand by for a DATABLAST! Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine! Or read very, very fast! 😅 #VideoBytes

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Gal Haimovich ☣ 🧪🔬🎗 @grnfluoresceblg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🧪 Check out this very interesting thread of @altmetric.com mentions of papers on twitter vs bluesky. Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter. #פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...

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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA

Scary Beast Security

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Late to the party but finally reading Matthew Ball’s state of the industry and man alive, there are some eye-opening slides in there. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

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PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 — MatthewBall.co

A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 04/02/2025

Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: bit.ly/4hcX52n 🔭 🧪

A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy, nicknamed the Bullseye, is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I used to think this episode was a bit too weird but here we are in 2025

Chang from Community, dressed as Napoleon, leading a group of children equipped with tasers and wearing black shirts

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the desktop?

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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)

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Zara 🏳️‍🌈 @zaravarin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

FYI for everyone curious to know what sort of stuff has come of the group sessions with the Copyright Office folks have been doing for the last few years (me included!!): this 😌 Glad to see this step toward more good news!

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We are only days away from a Temu Grok

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Before playtesting: "level design should follow narrative" After playtesting:

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Brendan Ford @brendanford.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Horrendous day. I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections #ubisoft

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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here’s the researcher who studied rats driving cars. Long after they were very familiar with the cars and how they worked, the rats would use the cars even when they’re weren’t necessary to get to a treat. theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...

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I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life

Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

'Critter Café X Lofi Girl - 'Chill Beats for Serving Treats' 🍰 Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership. Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW... #crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Share if you’re Gen X and you grew up: - Licking lead paint off the walls - Drinking leaded gasoline straight from the pump - Chewing on a big bar of lead whenever you were bored And you turned out fine!!!!

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A game I once worked on was getting poor test scores towards the end of the main campaign. The wisdom from above was that the game should be progressively harder so the last few levels were the toughest. I made the last 90 minutes easier and the test scores shot up 🤷

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Geneviève Routhier @genrouthier.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

People like to throw in Truths like “hire more people of this craft” and “focus less on this bullshit” and it’s all very glitzy on social media but the real truth is that making massive games with many moving parts and hundreds of devs is just a fucking nightmare.

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Morning Song @aubade.itch.io · 24/01/2025

The Buoys are Back in Town

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I feel like there’s something similar going on in games, except the dominant phrase is “the data says this genre of game will find a market” instead of “this is fun, people might like this”

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 24/01/2025

Just turned on Big Jet TV. First 30 seconds he disses the mainstream tv broadcasters for only planning to turn up at his spot after dawn when there’s something to actually see, then says “it’s like the Somme out there”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=egwa...

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LIVE: Storm Éowyn at London Heathrow Airport

YouTube video by BIG JET TV

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Total worth of the UK games industry in 2024: GBP£4.6bn

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

‘A Simple Ban on Political Lying Could Radically Transform Our Politics’ Just one small step would trigger a whole series of positive changes to democratic life in the UK, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/a...

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'A Simple Ban on Political Lying Could Radically Transform Our Politics'

Just one small step would trigger a whole series of positive changes to democratic life in the UK, argues Neal Lawson

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

75% of the way through Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and the schtick is wearing thin…

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Reminder that the bluesky app lets you do this

Screenshot of the bluesky muting function

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It seems like a small W but it’s one that will improve lives. Still more to do but it will make renting in the UK suck slightly less.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 17/01/2025

The abandoned ending of Predators (2010) "A ship lands, smoke comes out, Predators start walking out, you’re entirely f***ed. You don’t have a chance (...) These guys are coming out, the smoke clears, [one of them] pulls off his helmet, and it’s Schwarzenegger."

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arnold schwarzenegger is the name of the actor featured in this movie

ALT: arnold schwarzenegger is the name of the actor featured in this movie

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Dr. Heloise Stevance @sydonahi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

If NASA failed at this rate there would be protests to cut the budget..... Failure in science and engineering is inevitable, but the private tech approach of "move fast and break things" (not to quote the berg) has very questionable ethics given the resources required for space faring. 🔭🧪🚀

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Rod Hunt @rodhuntdraws.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

URGENT: AI Consultation Survey. Help Association of Illustrators respond to Copyright & Artificial Intelligence UK Gov consultation. AI developers want free legal access to all creators' content online unless you 'opt out'. We believe this is unfair & unworkable www.surveymonkey.com/r/ai_consult...

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AI and Copyright Consultation Survey for Illustrators

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 16/01/2025

Judging by user reviews, the average Steam user believes that an Early Access game should be fully complete and stable, while complete and stable games should be constantly updating and adding new experimental features. I think something has gone wrong here.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Something many of us know but still it's useful to have it rigorously established and formalized in this manner:

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Natizilda on VGen - Commissions open! @natizilda.art.br · 15/01/2025

Assassin's Creed devs seeing this: GODDAMMIT

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

This is about as embarrassing as when people said the Silicon Roundabout was a rival to Silicon Valley

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