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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4h

It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The bit about always having a short employee car parked in the spot that would otherwise block the Internet connection made me LOL.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After 18 years, as of 5pm EST today, I am no longer employed by Zenimax Online Studios. Over almost two decades I contributed to the game's content, both in pre-production and expansions. The team at ZOS, both those still there and those laid off, were brilliant. It was an honor to work with them.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ha, someone's batch changes went rogue.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes, the mind is boggled by immigrants and tourists who don’t want to get abused and thrown into a secret nightmare prison for weeks or months before eventually being whisked away to a country they didn’t come from in the first fucking place. What a mystery!

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After getting fixed, this big doofus has already Houdini'd his way out of one cone of shame and now I need to go get him another because he chewed it up. He is way too smart and determined to rip his stitches out.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026

Nivalis Nights is now available on Steam! "Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing, maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds." By the makers of Cloudpunk (2020) 💪

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was thinking Tuxedo Mask, but that's a great comparison. 😀

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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Book hype! Once upon a time, I joined the military. It sucked. I liked sci-fi and I realized most military sci-fi is about leaders and hotshots. It's rarely about the guy at the bottom who never accepts the military life. So I wrote it. It's punchy, it's real, and it's fun. tinyurl.com/35cwwasu

Cover for Poor Man's Fight by Elliott Kay.
Art by Lee Moyer.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't worry. If the Dems do retake the House and or Senate in 2026, and *definitely* if we get a Dem president in 2028, the GOP and MAGA will magically and instantly remember that the national debt is bad and be all in on reducing it. Preferably by continuing to cut taxes for billionaires.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me and my perspective grid against the world

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

what percentage of supposed 'centrist' goofs who long ago accused folks of TROMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME will ever actually address their own misread? address that actually everyone who said it would be very bad was not 'deranged', but much more in tune than they were. i have yet to see it happen once

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sure, the Dems will ask a bunch of funny questions and get some zingers in that make great Bluesky and X clips. Then after that this unqualified sycophant will get the post anyway, just like all the others. I could take these Q&A sessions more seriously if they actually disqualified these people.

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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 22/09/2026

The only advice I give anymore when it comes to longevity in the video game industry is “never go public, and never sell.” If you go public, the shareholders and MBAs will rot you from the inside. If you sell, they’ll throw you out with the gypsum once they’ve stripped the copper out of the walls.

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Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com · 22/09/2026

i know something's happened whenever this starts popping off again

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Go read a book. Watch your favorite comfort show. Eat a thing that tastes good. This is not about avoiding the horrors or sticking your head in the sand. It’s about protecting yourself from being tormented so constantly that you can’t make level headed decisions.

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Crunch is bullshit and typically a sign of poor planning and/or a failure to address issues early. Indies, co-ops and employee-owned studios notwithstanding. Somehow, I'll manage to survive spending time with my family even if I sacrifice the opportunity to make millions for Tencent.

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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 14/09/2026

🎮🚨 New stick steering control options on main! 🎮🚨 Drive like a monster with the Dpad or tank controls on the stick, we won't judge you. This and more awaits you. Check out the patch notes for our latest update for the demo on GOG and Steam.

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Free Stars: Children of Infinity - Patch Notes 6484 - September 14, 2026 - Steam News

Patch notes for the new build.

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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are tired of posting statements like these.

Today was an awful day at IGN. We were blindsided by the layoff of four union members and many more people across the organization who contributed years of their careers to making IGN an unparalleled voice in games and entertainment.

With each successive layoff, core parts of IGN’s operation continue to be stripped away. Today, IGN has decided to do away with many of our talented producers, editors, hosts, and other crucial roles, both within and out of the union. How many layoffs will occur before we no longer recognize the company we work for and the content that we make?

While we recognize the challenges the media industry is facing as a whole, it is difficult to understand how laying off valuable employees better positions us to meet those challenges. In turn, remaining employees bear additional workloads worsened by anxiety over the ever-looming threat of another layoff.

We are devastated, angry, and heartbroken for our colleagues.

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Billy put decades of his life into a career in game development. Now, he questions if he can continue to weather an industry that is becoming increasingly hostile to its workers. Follow the link in our bio to demand better of employers like Microsoft and #SaveGameWorkers.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

First thing the Blizzcon attendees see as they join the queue for this year’s show.

The Blizzard union stall set up outside of Blizzcon 2026

A sign reading “Unionized Blizzard Gamemakers. We make the games!”

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Consider the trope of an “AI escaping containment” and distributing itself across lots of computers around the world. VRAM moves data incredibly quickly; replacing that with bottlenecked distributed computing would slow things down by orders of magnitude. There are reasons they need data centers.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You're in the majority, which is why these AI companies are so desperate to convince us their product is "going rogue"... which implies it's advanced enough to do so. If LLMs could actually do all they claim, they would keep them for themselves instead of desperately trying to sell them to us.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My wife has used it to write code snippets for an obscure geo-mapping program that her university uses. I've also used it to write example code while learning Godot script, for example. And it can do basic image editing with prompts. Small stuff, but useful. But it's spell check, not Skynet.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This. Certain functions of LLMs are great for speeding up small, person-driven tasks with human oversight. I see them as the same as spell check, grammar check, and "magic wand" in Photoshop. But they don't and cannot replace human workers, nor can the results be trusted without human oversight.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Totally awesome to hear this is running in Godot! It's such a well-designed game engine.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If companies like Patreon and Android would stop changing their entire effing interface with every update that would be great, thanks. Just moving buttons around randomly doesn't improve usability.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet

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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026

"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful"

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The 40 hour work week. Compensation for overtime. The right to organize and strike. These were not inherent rights given to all in the US and Canada. They were fought for by the courageous workers who came before us. On Labor Day, we remember how far we've come, as well as our fight left ahead.

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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

WANDERING MONSTERS is moving to Royal Road—and Patreon, where advance chapters are going up today! I can't think of a better time than Labor Day to kick off a story that is, at its heart, a labor revolt. Chapters 1-2 are FREE on Patreon now! www.patreon.com/elliottkay/p...

Cover for WANDERING MONSTERS: RUN LIKE HELL.
Scars of No-Clan and DigDig flee from a pack of "heroic" adventures, driving them deeper into the dungeon.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I also did a narrative/fiction pass on the new ability/passive names and mastery flavor text (for Warden and all the refreshed classes).

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Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 04/09/2026

Saw this quote elsewhere: "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." That just hits the nail on the head, doesn't it?

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ZOS United-CWA @zosunited.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You may have heard ESO’s great-looking Warden Refresh got delayed. You may not have heard who was among those bringing it to life. Christina Cornett, Senior Concept Artist, worked on the storyboards, and Vincent Wong, Senior Animator, worked on the animations. Microsoft laid them off on July 6

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of my favorite bands used to show up as "Five Finger Death Pun" on my radio and I loved it.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Speaking of Godot, if you haven't tried to use it yet to make games yet, this tutorial was super useful and well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhf...

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How to make a Video Game - Godot Beginner Tutorial

YouTube video by Brackeys

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 03/09/2026

10 years in Unreal has been fun (love me some Blueprint), but I think I might officially be a Godot convert for all my own stuff from here on out. Really impressed with it, love that it's open source, really just seems like the Blender of game engines (adulatory)

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

OMG yes! I just started playing with it recently and it's such a well-designed engine. Everything just makes sense without being complicated.

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Devs like Marie want to make great games. But with the sword of layoffs poised over our heads, we are forced to split our attention between our work and the campaign to save our industry. #SaveGameWorkers by going to the link in our bio and telling Microsoft to take bargaining seriously.

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