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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 16/06/2026
A month later and I’m even more depressed than I was then
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 20/05/2026
Being into tech and videogames my whole life was a huge mistake. It sucks man.
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Chris Marlow @chrismarlow666.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Just to clear things up. This cover artwork was definitely not created by AI, but by the incredibly talented Pete Hentze, a long time Rare artist, and one of the concept artists on Conker: Live and Reloaded! 🙂
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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 31/01/2026
Went to the opening of the Ghost in The Shell exhibit in Tokyo, on now until April.
A nighttime aerial view of a futuristic coastal megacity from Ghost in the Shell (1995), with dense skyscrapers, illuminated bridges, and waterways stretching toward a glowing skyline under a dark, cloudy sky. Original artwork at the exhibit in tokyo Rough animation sketch from Ghost in the Shell showing a man (Batou) falling backward while holding a handgun, drawn in loose pencil lines with construction marks visible.Detailed pencil drawing from Ghost in the Shell inside a military vehicle, holding a rifle, surrounded by mechanical panels and cables.Urban cityscape from Ghost in the Shell depicting tall, weathered Hong Kong styled apartment buildings with scaffolding, signage, and dense industrial detail under a hazy sky.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it
3 panel comic

Panel 1: 
Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500”
Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign.

Panel 2:
Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected

Panel 3: 
Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 06/12/2025
My 20 dollar Mac and cheese has arrived
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Rocco Botte @roccobotte.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
TRON: ARES post credit scene is dividing audiences… how do we feel about this?
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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
hup
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 02/07/2025
do you desire a world where indie developers are able to succeed financially and make additional indie games? prove it by buying my dang ol' game for half price
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 03/07/2025
This is an Xbox
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 30/06/2025
did you know: the major character in this game besides the ball is a whale animated by Jay Benson, who you might know from the first and last pages of The Final Hours Of Half-Life Alyx! if YOU found this piece of trivia sort of weird and left field, consider buying InFlux Redux
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DK Vine @dkvine.com · 18/06/2025
media.tenor.com
a sign that says he 's coming on it
Alt: White text that reads "HE'S COMING" flashes on a black screen before cutting to Donkey Kong, circa 1994, raising his brow cheekily. GIF from the first North American Donkey Kong Country commercial.
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 07/06/2025
This is that “deprofessionalization” shit front and center. Devaluing developer labor so everyone around the studio can profit in some way. Rage-bait content creators, Outsourcers, localization companies, toolmakers, publishers, platforms, investors—they all have a lot to gain!
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Mega64 @mega64official.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
As announced yesterday, we’re giving away a Nintendo Switch 2 in celebration of Mega64 Day! Contest opens at 12pm PST at the 🔗 below and closes at 5:30pm PST where we’ll be announcing the winner live during our Mega64 Day stream! bit.ly/mega64switch2
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
the sims online, official website, excerpt (2003) web.archive.org/web/20030208...
text:
valentine's day in the sims online
join your friends in the sims online on valentine's day and flirt your little sim heart out
(isometric screenshot of a female and male sim in a hot tub where the female is saying to the male 'you are quite precious' and the male is saying 'thanks!'
text:
heat things up in the new, highly anticipated love tub.
flirt your way to a cuddle, massage, or maybe even a little kiss - all while soaking in the heart-shaped tub coming on february 14th.
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This sobering quote from Akiman about the time some of the street fighter team visited the home of the president of Incredible Technologies, the subcontracted US studio that made the Street Fighter: The Movie game
Quote by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, head of Capcom illustration.

"Okamoto was so angry with the game that the CEO of Incredible Technologies tried to patch things up by inviting us over to her home. The house was humongous — it had a basement area, a huge 200-inch projection screen TV, a game room ... it was an impressively luxurious house.

Seeing that house actually made my heart sink further, just with how big it was, and how little money I had myself. I mean, we'd created this huge hit with Street Fighter 2, but I didn't get rich off of it. It wasn't until much later, long after the development of Street Fighter 2, that we actually started to see some money come in. It wasn't until it looked like we all might quit, and then Capcom brought in a consulting group and we were finally given raises. But before that, we didn't see a lot of money from the games we made."
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NeoDement @neodement.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
rayman rayman 2 as well. why not
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Bruno de Figueiredo @dieubussy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yesterday, I uploaded the ISO image of one of the rarest videogames known to exist, of which a single copy is known to exist in the online world. After years of appeals, its owner finally agreed to share it with me so that I could in turn share it with the world.
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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 19/05/2025
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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/05/2025
average comment section in 2025
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 16/05/2025
it a trumpet world...
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 10/05/2025
Thrift store score @frankhowley.bsky.social
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Mohammad Rasoul @mohammadrasoul.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The speed at which corporations shed their respectable reputations cultivated over decades and transformed into predatory werewolves is stunning. It is a betrayal and an all-out war on artists.
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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Kong doodles 🦧
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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
St Georges stairs, London SE8 Brick wall on the bank of the river Thames at low tide with ladder and allege #reference #buildingreference #materialreference
Brick wall on the bank of the river Thames at low tide with ladder and allege Brick wall on the bank of the river Thames at low tide with ladder and allege Brick wall on the bank of the river Thames at low tide with ladder and allege
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This, actually .
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Skyweaver @skyweaver.nekoweb.org · 19/04/2025
Bluesky UI concept
A Bluesky feed redesign to have glass textured UI elements and clouds as postsMenu as one large sheet of glassPost viewProfile view
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Blairexmachina 🗣️🚮 @blairexmachina.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Japanese politician Shinji Oguma cuts through the doublespeak and calls what Trump is doing with tariffs exactly what it is - extortion. Countries yield to such thuggery at their own existential peril.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”
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about a cayce in the kinki region @cayce.zone · 14/04/2025
like just look at this six-year run. nearly every one of these is an immense banger. insane stretch of features.
screenshot of letterboxd showing kinji fukasaku films released 1972-1978. Folks it's wall to wall bangers
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Lucasfilm Computer Division's (later Pixar) "1984". A 3d rendered image done for the paper "Distributed Ray Tracing" by Robert Cook, Thomas Porter, and Loren Carpenter from July 1984. Original image was rendered at 4096 x 3550 x 32 bits in 200 hours on a DEC VAX-11/750.
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Niko @lethalguitar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Here's a preview of what I've been up to the last year and a bit, together with @bartjaah.bsky.social and a few others! youtu.be/eoz2Al5ekzU?... I also wrote a blog post with a bit of background info: lethalguitar.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/b...
youtu.be
BioMenace Remastered - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by Rigel Gameworks
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Azure Midsummer @millenia3d.net · 08/04/2025
felt like posting some textures i've made for quake in the past, 128x128
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 06/04/2025
Played some SPLINTER CELL 3 SPIES VS MERCS with the discord gang in the MGS1 level "shadow moses"
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
On hatred.
I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.
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Rocco Botte @roccobotte.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Enjoy some Xizor content
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Sean @himeya.art · 04/04/2025
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"
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JAQQQLN 🐇 🔞 @jaqqqln.gay · 03/04/2025
add this outfit to Mario Kart
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 02/04/2025
I need you all to apologize to George Lucas
The Star Wars Episode 1 opening crawl
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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No smart people are ever coming to this broken country again. Until we bash the fash of course. We should start that soon.
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 28/03/2025
Daily “Fuck Elon” and “Fuck Tesla” here!
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Tom @tomrausch.com · 28/03/2025
How does everyone keep posting. I’m just utterly post-less. I have nothing good to say about anything these days holy fack
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