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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 11h

just really spelling out that the primary use case of AI is largely to spread and perpetuate disinformation at scale, huh?

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Game developer opting out of collision events for a physics object that messes with a dramatic sequence:

Sherlock Holmes movie "this musn't register on an emotional level" meme

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This isn't part of #fallingblockjam as we were working on it before, but how about some seafood with your spaghetti? Stack and squish as many fish as possible into each tin! Look forward to Stackerel and follow @cantgetenoughgames.bsky.social for updates!

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sincerely I thought this was a European city at first glance. Chicago could be so nice and all it would take is clearing the one inch tall barrier of banning cars from certain streets

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

now here's an alarmingly common sentiment among engineering students

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unclear why people on here give the nyt any oxygen at all. Their real news stories are stolen and their original stories are propaganda. The only thing you need to say about the nyt is to tell your friends and family to unsubscribe

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got married last weekend! In case anyone wants to buy, review, and share my time traveling tower defense switchboard game in celebration... (My wife shouted out Cold Calling in her vows <3 so I feel justified shilling for it like this) store.steampowered.com/app/2627660/...

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Cold Calling on Steam

Operate a telephone switchboard, meet caricatured historical figures, and avert a nuclear war in this alternate history Cold War comedy. Use tactile point-and-click controls to drag wires and install ...

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inventing the first cozy survival horror game, like Animal Crossing x Look Outside. It'll be called Zombies Are My Neighbors

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Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night!

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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Alice made The Death Generator, one of the best sites on the internet that you've probably either used yourself or enjoyed through the work of others. Please donate some money if you can afford it.

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The Death Generator

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thoughts: more well-organised premade code repositories to discourage noobs from using AI

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👁️ @abyssalaquarist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i am so so so serious if you are going to go to the art institute of chicago PLEASE SUBMIT A COMPLAINT TO MANAGEMENT about the treatment of their custodial staff! keep up with their union, too www.aicwu.org chicago is a union town, surely this hasnt lost meaning??

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Art Institute of Chicago Workers United

Art Institute of Chicago Workers United advocates for an equitable, sustainable, and transparent workplace for all employees. To achieve these values, staff at the museum have decided to form our unio...

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👁️ @abyssalaquarist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

chicagoans should know that james rondeau, the president of the art institute of chicago, was arrested last year for stripping naked while drunk on a flight from chicago to munich and sexually harassed a flight attendant. then this year, he remained president and fired the entire custodial staff

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thinking once again about Peter Capaldi in Lair of the White Worm

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Update: Rev. Eaddy is remotely attending the CTA board meeting **from the backseat of a car**

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

REPUBLICANS: We will kill you and your children DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children BOTH: And Gaza obviously

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went to galloping ghost yesterday and came away wondering why more people on here aren't talking about Space Bomber 1998 youtu.be/4AGzBkiZJ_k?...

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Space Bomber (1998) (Shoot Em Up) (Arcade) [GAMEPLAY] [EN] [HD]

YouTube video by Johnny Game Over

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

llms only “exist” to give one reply at a turn you: x llm: y then the whole process starts over. there is no continuity. each reply is 100% fresh. the context of your previous “conversation” is included, hidden from you, in every request you make. continuity is an illusion

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like that this variant has him colored like Ed Edd n Eddie

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fuck fascism (she/her 🏳️‍⚧️) @sillywah.cc · 19/09/2026

i dont respect you if you use generative ai or support the military in any capacity. straight up

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Doesn't seem like anyone to Brandon Johnson's left has a shot at winning, so I guess we can only hope the 500 centrists in the race split enough votes away from Giannoulias

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lower the budget, no story arcs, let anyone submit scripts a la 90s trek

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026

this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.

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ᵐʲ @sketchmaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i thought everyone knew this already, but for those who might not... when they say israel is an apartheid state, it's not hyperbole.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Emily (She/Her/Hers/Elle) @emilyyoung8.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again Bluesky's users and management are deeply transphobic and Aaron is a nazi with a stupid name

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Can't Get Enough Games - COLD CALLING on Sale Now! @cantgetenoughgames.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We're fishing and squishing at CIGS! If you're in Ravenswood for the art walk, come by Ravenswood Event Center to play single player or versus. Get on the high score board to win a Steam key or some real tinned fish! #indiegames #ravenswoodartwalk

Photo of guy tabling with a video game called Stackerel

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Think about the lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, the horrors we perpetrated there for no reason beyond fundamentalist bloodthirst, corporate greed, and racist hysteria. Over a million people dead, for nothing. Think about that

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/09/2026

As it turns September 11th here where I live, I commemorate the 2,997 victims murdered by the hijackers and what would be an estimated 5,000,000 victims murdered by the US's relentless slide into militarism, authoritarianism, fascism, and genocide that started that day. Each lost life was equal.

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Scrutes Ma Glutes @opossumos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The boss has a gun to your head every second of the day and that fundamental violence to starve and displace you is the bedrock of our society

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No idea why people are engaging with a certain cto so much. He clearly enjoys trolling his user base and does not have any beliefs or principles. Plus why would you want to continually see one of the most punchable pfps on this site

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Headline doesn't mention this article's source is an AI company. Block Club be serious for once challenge, difficulty impossible

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ZeDo @zedogica.neocities.org · 09/09/2026

the actual thing is that most people simply won't play a game that looks like its About Anything, but that isn't unique to video games (tho id argue its especially bad here)

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 09/09/2026

"but the developers always had this vision, they were just limited by hardware and had to adapt" Wow, you mean constraints actually create space for making meaningful creative decisions? Imagine that.

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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Many Chicago leaders today seem to treat our transit system as just another piece of infrastructure, rather than the biggest reason young people move/stay here and the reason we're not in the same boat as Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo (no shade, I love those cities & they do have some trains).

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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 07/09/2026

[guy whose entire life is staring at a computer screen] AI changes the nature of humanity

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

He'll figure it out eventually

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 07/09/2026

And like, the experience of talking to these people is one where I find that to really do it I would have to believe in nothing and care about nothing, like they do. If you have skin in the game you will eventually dig into something that is so toxic to any sense of truth that the mind recoils.

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 07/09/2026

Cars are famously a great technology to have redesigned civilization around

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Thom Cote ☎️ Get my game "COLD CALLING" today! @thomcote.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🚆 Metra alert: UP-N trains operating with delays due to unauthorized Big Ed on the tracks

Model Metra locomotive with a cat in the background

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026

The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 06/09/2026

It feels very much like you are all emotionally invested in insisting that an at-best marginal gain (at a comically large cost in terms of externalities) that doesn't actually address the real bottlenecks in the way of good software existing is a revolution, because you're priced into it now.

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