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Bundist|Reconstruction 2|UltraDavid @ultradavid.bsky.social · 23h
SoCal FGC: this Saturday is @dsa.la's Big Ass Canvass & I want YOU to come knock doors for progressive & democratic socialist candidates! We'll have canvasses all over the LA area, but let's show up big together at 11am at Echo Park for mutual FGC support! Sign up: 2026.dsa-la.org/big-ass-canv...
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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Bundist|Reconstruction 2|UltraDavid @ultradavid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Harm reduction politics is over for me. The harm is here, the harmers are in power & doing tremendous harm. No, in an era of fascist control the way to end harm is by being anti-fascist. I don't need ideological purity, but if we're gonna make an anti-fascist coalition here, it can't include harmers
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 17/09/2026
jfc dude, you can just say "we won't tolerate transphobia on bsky." It's ok if you can't assign a mathematical proof to every moderation decision. All you're doing here is the same shit that makes people say "unalived" on TikTok. It's busy work, just to avoid having an opinion on anything.
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Bundist|Reconstruction 2|UltraDavid @ultradavid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cracking up at AI devs saying AI will kill all humans but they can't stop because someone else might make it worse You can't raise the stakes from "it'll kill all humans" dude, that's already the max. Like "it'll kill all humans but in CHINESE" ok now I think poorly of you for a whole new reason
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 15/09/2026
Derek continues to give away crazy game all for free. Great watch if you touch game marketing at all.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We were racing the setting sun here and only had enough light for one take but this was one of my favorite sessions with Toni Lindgren ever. Those turtles move fast. 170bpm if I remember right. 🎵 Come Back Home by Trampled By Turtles
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 09/09/2026
🎵🎶 I'm rockin the suburbs just like Motorola did 🎶🎵
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 07/09/2026
rare los angeles rainbow, just now
a faint rainbow against stormy clouds; toward the bottom of the frame, the tops of a couple palm trees silhouetted against the sky
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 06/09/2026
Biblically accurate SF
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Re-upping this call for folks to talk to me about a time they ordered gaming apparel or merch only to receive a cheap knock off
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 25/08/2026
AI will usher in a utopia! Universal income, disease has been cured! But also it will be super petty and retaliatory if you're mean to me.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Thank you, 2XKO" I wrote about my thoughts and feelings about 2XKO's announced end of development. Thank you to the team, thanks to the players, and thanks for giving me a chance to learn how to make fighting games. Interactions on this post limited for my sanity. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 21/08/2026
If you're a coffee nerd you owe it to yourself to check out the Fermentation Project tasting set. It's a harvest of coffee processed 4 different ways, exploring the impact of fermentation. www.yesplz.coffee/product/ferm...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
*laughs in Bluesky*
Sidewalk sign with photo of pancakes and text:
Pancakes
Something we can all agree on
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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
They haven't posted about it yet but this year's GDC State of the Game Industry Survey is available to fill out should any of you desire. You've seen all the articles and that the results end up driving, so may as well make them reflective of your contributions too. gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26eoy
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2026 State of the Game Industry
The gaming industry's most comprehensive annual survey is back, and we're casting a wider net than ever before. Whether you're a developer, executive, investor, marketer, educator, or any other profes...
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 16/08/2026
#CEO2026 day 2
wide angle photo of the venue, a wrestling ring is in the middle, where two players face off in 2XKOtwo people playing ddr, in the middle distance; in the foreground spectators sit around on the floorUMVC3 player rayray, on his way up to the stagea wide angle match of the venue; a match ends with a KO
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 16/08/2026
#CEO2026 day 2
wide angle photo of the venue, a wrestling ring is in the middle, where two players face off in 2XKOtwo people playing ddr, in the middle distance; in the foreground spectators sit around on the floorUMVC3 player rayray, on his way up to the stagea wide angle match of the venue; a match ends with a KO
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 14/08/2026
hopped in the pool for some @ceogaming.org merch shots
very bald photographer in chest-deep pool water holding a DSLR with a flash; two subjects sit at the edge of the pool with their feet in the waterclose-up of CEO-branded shorts; the model can be seen sitting at the edge of a pool, kicking their legs in the watertwo models sit at the edge of the pool, splashing water
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AnEternalEnigma @aneternalenigma.com · 13/08/2026
The more I ponder what Mary said here, I think it is VERY important for those who don't like this EVEN IF YOU DON'T STREAM and want to send a message to Amazon on where the Twitch community falls in the genAI discussion to go in their settings and turn this off. The metrics are what speaks to them.
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 12/08/2026
Twitch has added GenAI training opt-out at www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... There's also additional info in their FAQ: help.twitch.tv/s/article/tw...
Screenshot of Twitch account settings:

Toggle button labeled "Training for Generative AI"

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod).
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 11/08/2026
The hilarious thing about all the indignant replies is that they basically amount to "but entire cities would have to be better designed" ... and, well, yeah. So you agree, then?
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 10/08/2026
I think my cat had a nightmare? Was watching a movie, he was on the back of the couch, sleeping. Suddenly he "gasps" and is on his feet, hissing at me. This went on for a couple minutes. *Very* upset about something. Nothing I or the movie would have done to startle him, either. Odd! Cat tax ⬇️
Gray maine coon / tabby mix laying elegantly on a patio sofa, the sun shining on his face.
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 10/08/2026
"I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future." Couldn't get past this part ... like dude, that's all AI CEOs can talk about.
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 08/08/2026
Also snagged a haul of coffee beans up in Portland, from PDX Coffee Club. Started with the Proud Mary since it's already a month off roast. Getting Earl Gray / black tea vibes, which tastes OK-ish, but clearly too astringent. Not sure how to adjust tho. 1:16, 90c, 3:00 TBT (v60).
Photo of 3 coffee bags. Sunday Coffee, Proud Mary, and Cosmopolis Coffee. As well as a "PDX Coffee Club" sticker depicting a pine tree drinking a cup of coffee.Closeup of the Sunday Coffee notes: 

Ethiopia Guji Megadu
Anaerobic Natural, Log 25.12
Orange Creamcicle, Cherry Compote, CreamyCloseup of the Proud Mary coffee details:

Ethiopia
Abana Estate - Anderacha
Heirloom varietal, Natural processCloseup of the Cosmopolis Coffee details

light-medium roast
varietyu: striped bourbon
Process: anaerobic
elevation: 1850m
note: watermelon, fig, almond butter, root beer
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 08/08/2026
Spent a few days along the Oregon / NorCal coast.
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SFLDOJO | ConvictedofFun 🔜 🇯🇵 @convictedoffun.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Had a sick conversation with Juju about the FGC and my outlook on all of it. Tap in if the vibes make sense.
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 05/08/2026
The only thing I use voice commands for on my Pixel is setting timers and alarms. The last time they tried to push Gemini, it couldn't even do that. 🙄
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 31/07/2026
If you're looking for a direct way to help laid-off devs, check this out kotaku.com/itchio-game-developer-ha…
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Game Devs Put Together An Itch.io Bundle Of Over 100 Games With Proceeds Going To Help Laid-Off Colleagues - Kotaku
The Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle contains over 100 games and will be on sale for the next two weeks
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 31/07/2026
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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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 30/07/2026
The speech bubble meme format is, hands down, my favorite in years.
Screenshot of a post by @richardvhirst.bsky.social. Simpsons character Martin Prince striking a dramatic pose, with a speech bubble, quoting a Guardian article titled "I thought Nolan's Odyssey was a bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!"
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PolarBair 🔜 SQXL @polarbair.neocities.org · 28/07/2026
I'm beyond excited to share that Under The Counter is back, now a charity event benefiting Trans Lifeline! Join us all week August 10-16, 2026 for all the fighting games you can handle, by and for the community. For us. Register: challonge.com/communities/... Donate: tiltify.com/@polarbair/u...
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Robert Paul @tempusrob.com · 28/07/2026
cat.
Cat with tabby markings, white neck, and white paws, laying in an elevated, carpet-covered cat bed. The very front of his legs hang over the edge of the cat bed, he is looking directly at the camera.
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Juju, Ovaltine Papi @ovaltinepapi.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026
What do a blizzard during Frosty Faustings at Nickel City, professional bass fishing tournaments, and flannel shirts have in common? All part of the @thehadou.com's journey. Join us for a chat with the man of Minnesota roots and Midwest dreams. shows.acast.com/cultural-com...
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Cultural Combos
Histories in the Fighting Game Community
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 20/07/2026
I wrote about the game
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Ode to Spain, Our Competent Kings of the World Cup
Spain’s style may be dull, but their logistical excellence is strangely inspiring
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Barista Magazine @baristamagazine.com · 20/07/2026
A familiar shape, a radically different interior: Hario's NEO is a new take on a classic design, reimagined from the inside out. We took it for a Test Drive to see how it performed compared to the classic V60. www.baristamagazine.com/test-drive-h... #CoffeeFeed
a black Hario NEO brewer
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/07/2026
Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com
courses.ramiismail.com
Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
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Flex @mechamacgyver.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Screenshot of the show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction with a fake subtitle that reads

"Do you ever know the overhead is coming, but still block low?"
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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years
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slop enjoyer @slop.guru · 03/07/2026
(on a date with a guy who might be a termite) date: i’ll have the house salad
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