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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳

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Democratic Socialist web developer and I work on Godot games on the side. I hope to one day create a cooperative game studio/tech company.

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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Got waitlisted for the steam frame, I was hoping I'd get my hands on it before my birthday next month but it looks like I'll be lucky to get it before next year. Oh well at least I still have my index for now.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Starbucks Workers United have officially called for a boycott of Starbucks! Support union members and shop local at least until Starbucks starts treating their workers fairly. www.boycottstarbucks.net#pledge-now
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/08/2026
My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Went out and volunteered with my DSA chapter for some yardwork for someone who couldn't do it themselves and then we went to support our local Starbucks United Workers who are on strike by holding signs with them to raise awareness. Pretty good day, tonight I might phonebank for Oliver Larkin.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
David Graeber on the definition of Capitalism Ayn Rand fans may be offended.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This next Monday has got to be it, right?
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
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Christophe is making Prerolled! @qaqelol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My new free interactive guide on #Godot Control Nodes and #UI is out!! qaqelol.itch.io/gui My free #Tween guide also gets a new update! qaqelol.itch.io/tweens AND You can now get the All-in-One version, that regroups all my guides + extra features to support me!! qaqelol.itch.io/guides #GameDev
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 30/07/2026
Planning on giving the City Kit asset packs small updates soon based on user feedback; • Suburban will get trees and parks • Commercial will get specialized buildings like police • Industrial will get renewable energy like solar & wind kenney.nl/assets/serie...
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Someone needs to make a Mesopotamian game jam where you have to code in Akkadian Cuneiform. Call it GilgaJam or something.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Behold, a parasite draining the lifeblood from our industry.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Steam frame Monday you heard it here first
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 22/07/2026
Young Suns features dynamic storytelling that looks to the future with a radically optimistic viewpoint, focusing on the work that comes after liberation. You can help support a queer- and trans-led indie studio by wishlisting Young Suns on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4149610/...
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Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
One of my biggest pet peeves is people saying that "Socialism doesn't mean anything anymore" and that all that these naive young socialists want is for capitalism to work for them.
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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Profit is something that should be shared, not something to hoard. We have a vampire economy that sucks prosperity out of shared goods and services and gives it to owners who don't create anything themselves. Owners aren't required but workers and consumers are.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Public banking is awesome because it cuts out private banks as middlemen that extract profit from public services. Imo it doesn't make sense for banking to be a for-profit endeavor unless those profits are used for public or account holders' benefit like with credit unions.
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This video about the current red scare and DSA was really interesting youtu.be/sEBP7ebUIkw?...
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A Resistance History PSA: Sorting Out Communism, Socialists, and Democracy
YouTube video by Resistance History with Tad Stoermer
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"The games industry will never unionize" even the gaming-related YouTubers are unionizing!
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NotNite @notnite.com · 24/07/2026
presenting what I've been working on with @katie.cat for the last ~year: GDPatch, a versatile Godot mod loader! we've built a mod loader for all Godot 4.x games with a focus on script patching and runtime hooking docs: gdpatch.dev code: github.com/GDPatch/GDPa... blog: notnite.com/blog/gdpatch
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GDPatch: a versatile Godot mod loader
It only took 15 months for me to write another interesting blog post!
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Why are VR games so hard to make?" Exhibit A: trigger shapes for an ivy plant.👇
A comparison between the the trigger zones on the same ivy plant if it were a flat game, vs if it were in a VR game. The flat version has one single sphere encompassing the entire plant. The VR version has dozens of detailed capsules and cylinders that closely match the visuals.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I've been chatting with a bunch of video game contractors who have recently worked with major AAA companies about how the relentless budget cuts are affecting them (spoiler: badly)
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Bethesda Games Studios’ Montreal workers are being treated especially poorly by XBOX and we won’t stand for it. Here are the details. If this upsets you let Microsoft know: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The fine wasn't nearly high enough to deter future wrongdoing and make an example out of them for other AI companies. The judicial system prioritizes keeping unethical businesses afloat over achieving real justice.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 21/07/2026
New Guide: How to get SteamOS to always boot into Desktop Mode #SteamOS #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamMachine
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How to get SteamOS to always boot into Desktop Mode
If you want your SteamOS Linux machine like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine to automatically boot into Desktop Mode - that is actually possible.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social Shortly after this announcement I and other members of my DSA chapter received a spoofed DSA text message asking for donations to aid Cuba. The Trump administration is currently trying to frame DSA and its members as Cuban foreign agents.
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What if union membership tripled? It would deliver a 14.5% raise for the median worker. It would shift $1.2 trillion to workers annually. It would significantly narrow racial wage gaps. It would increase the number of people with health insurance. This is the power of economic democracy.
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The case for tripling union membership: How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy
Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. Th...
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The next stage of capitalism once enough capital is consolidated will be rent seeking for every good and service but it'll probably be even more authoritarian and dystopian than it was during the feudalist era. That'll be the "You will own nothing" phase of capitalism but I doubt many will be happy
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Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Good morning readers and writers! We are starting a new essay jam today that'll run until August 19! We're calling it the Blogs of the Round Table: Friendslop Jam! Check out the details here: critical-distance.com/2026/07/20/b...
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Blogs of the Round Table: Friendslop Jam
Happy Monday, Readers (and Writers)! We’re practicing some necromancy today by bringing back a beloved and long-running feature to Critical Distance: the Blogs of the Round Table! Originally …
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
When the Trump admin comes after DSA members for being socialist, Democrats should remember that until recently Democrats have been routinely called communists so they likely won't stop at us. So if you're going to embrace the next red scare, you will actually be embracing and strengthening fascism
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Is it better for experts to try to calculate the effect of policies and reduce harm in a technocratic way or is it better for people to come together to make rules that they exist within and tweak them as issues arise with the assistance of experts?
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Tibo @heytibo.com · 07/11/2024
New blog post online :)! "Fake 3D Top-Down character in Godot" gotibo.fr/blog/fake-3d... #godotengine #tutorial
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey was really good. It was interesting watching a society collapse when you're living in a collapsing empire and how treating people without hospitality caused that. I really liked how they incorporated the real history of the bronze age collapse/sea people.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So what do people do if Trump sends ICE to threaten polling places, demands voter rolls, and undermines state authority on elections? People have been saying "He can't do that" and are now saying "We'll punish him if he does" but if he can do those things anyway then what?
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 17/07/2026
This feels gross. kotaku.com/this-feels-gross-2000717…
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Xbox Is Begging Us To Think About Fallout 5 Instead Of Layoffs
'What matters the most is that the games are good'
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Bandwagon @bandwagongame.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Introducing Bandwagon! An open-world survivors-lite adventure about building a band and restoring joy to a grumpy world. Sign up for our playtest on Steam now!🎺
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Jettelly @jettelly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
SingerLuch broke down how their beam VFX asset works in Godot. Spiral strands, depth-based impacts, GPU particles. ⚡ See the full process: jettelly.com/blog/breakin... #godotengine #VFX #indiedev #gamedev
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This post by GitHub is blowing up again so remember that they're owned by Microsoft and will push for AI however they can. I recommend Codeberg with the Forgejo theme, it's open source and has all the features most devs need. #gamedev #softwaredev #antiAI codeberg.org
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Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 16/07/2026
Inspired by @meredithgran.com's writing on attending game conferences as a parent, @exalclaw.com interviewed devs who are also caretakers about balancing their careers in games with their loved ones' needs.
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The games industry isn't taking care of its caretakers
We spoke with over a dozen devs who take care of children, aging parents, and sick family members
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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 16/07/2026
The 2026 Godot Community Poll is here: Takes about ten minutes to complete, and it's one of the more direct ways to influence where things head next. We want to hear from you! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...
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Godot Community Poll 2026 – Godot Engine
We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I was reading some Caves of Qud reviews and it's funny whenever someone says something along the lines of "The game let me break it and I decided that I should ruin my fun by repeating that exploit every run which is boring" Do min/maxers have 0 self control? Like dawg you chose to make it boring.
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Some photographs from the 'Save Our Devs' rallies in Rockville, Montreal, Dallas, Austin, and Redmond—held yesterday in protest of the latest mass layoffs at Xbox. I'm told by a union organiser that over 150 employees turned out in Rockville alone.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: three friends sit around a table. The guy in the middle looks downtrodden and his friends are trying to comfort him. The friend to the left says, “look man— I know you’re sad about the breakup.” Panel 2: “So I invited the Bongo Dolphin.” Entering stage right is a dolphin standing upright, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, a Cuba Vera patterned shirt, and is playing the bongos. Panel 3: the sad friend is coyly looking away trying to hide a smile. His two friends and the Bongo Dolphin are smiling with him. The friend on the left says, “I see a smile…”
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