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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I really need Paris Paloma to stop writing songs that make me feel *incredibly* seen... Because it's fucking Paris Paloma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRDh...

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Paris Paloma - get her the fucking flowers [Official Visualizer]

YouTube video by Paris Paloma

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And again, we have reached a time in which no comment is now seen as the commentary that it is, and I am here for it.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am actually (accidentally) studying the incredible cultural relevance of smut and romance in resisting the rise of fascism and misogynistic practices, and the role that informed consent, content warnings, and trigger warnings plays in that is huge.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NO ONE PANIC. NO ONE PANIC *WHEEZE*

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pink was my favourite singer as a child. I loved her music. I listened to it constantly. It got me through a lot. It means a lot to me. I've thrown out every bit and will never consume her work again. It's not fucking hard at all. Meanwhile I am going to stream Macklemore on every device I have.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ms Rachel has always been an incredible voice for black and brown children in America, and has always shown support for Palestinian children and children taken by ICE. She is proof that silence has never been neutrality. There is no neutrality. There is resistance or there is complicity.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Melbourne-based game dev vets. A group of burgeoning developers have taken it upon themselves to start a small emergent game dev conference on Oct 3rd. Date: 03/10/26 Time: 10 AM - 5 PM Location: South Melbourne Community Centre Tickets: events.humanitix.com/emergent-2026

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dear world If you use generative AI in your advertisements, I will not use your service kthnxbai~

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I wish I could convey to you how heartbreaking these last few days have been. I escaped a domestic situation before I was hurt, and before I was truly endangered, but because of that I must go down in priority of protection. All the services are overwhelmed. Meanwhile, a woman dies every 4 days.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I need to say this to make it real. I am currently escaping from an unsafe domestic situation, and the way that fucks your life up, and how little the police can do until you are physically harmed is utterly mind-boggling. I am safe, for now, but I am so scared and I hate how vulnerable I am now.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SAE Australia is hosting a competition for any current or ex students and staff to showcase their game at PAX 26. Tickets, flights, accom paid for. If your team has 1 alumni or student on it, it qualifies to enter. Closes 5:00pm AEST, 16 August 2026. Winners announced 31 August 2026.

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PAX Australia Competition - SAE University College

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have discovered whimsigoth aesthetic and I am so, so scared. Mostly because I am about to make it my whole personality....

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Kym ⋅ Zigarot @zigarot.live · 04/08/2026

THIS. I'm just a streamery dude, but I've pivoted this year to try to organise more collaboration because we already have such nice friendships in this space that I reckon the rest of the world would be jealous. BTW if any devs in QLD have a game with a demo, can I can come to you to do some videos?

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I need the Aussie and NZ game dev industry to realise how utterly phenomenal their collaborative and supportive nature is. How utterly singular, and precious it is, and how much it must be protected and preserved. Zero exaggeration, it is absolutely astounding how supportive the scene is.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Listen, what if I went into politics (I won't) and basically promised everything Mamdani promised (I can't), and campaigned off of that (I won't). But what if. WHAT IF.

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days. bit.ly/4w0uow7

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

More games need to just be unrepentantly 'ok', and we need to be ok with games that are just 'ok'. Also games need to stop being treated as money sources for the super rich for fuck's sake.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Anyway. Back to our regularly scheduled existential dread.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It kind of fucks me up that all of the absolutely batshit conspiracy theories about global politics... are starting to be revealed to not be batshit conspiracy theories. Just directed at the dumbest shit. I feel like we were fucking... Palovian trained for this shit.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Holy shit I have so many things to say about this, but whilst this is a funny, sexy, raunchy film, the social commentary in it is so fucking on point and I am watching it happen in real time in my own research. Oh my god I want to talk about this so much. I don't know howwwwwwww....

youtube.com

WICKER | Official UK Trailer

YouTube video by Black Bear UK

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I am beginning to be concerned with the absolute pit of despair I seem to have found myself in because... er. I can't find the ladder anymore...

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have reached full circle. I am now seeing advertisements for live service games that boast 'no sign-in tasks, no pay to win, just play the game'. SO LIKE A NOT LIVE SERVICE GAME? I feel like those people who have nepo baby silicon valley ceo's pitching buses at them...

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don't know where else to put this. Not sure why I need to say it. Maybe to make it real? I'm just having a hard time. Home life, work life, game life, world life. It's a struggle, folks. Trying not to pack it in and just move from paycheck to paycheck these days.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Australians have no issue going to north America... it's just the USA they're not as enamoured with as before...

Charts showing index of numbers of Australians travelling to USA and Canada since Jan 2024 and they both going up at the same rate, and then from June 2025 the number to the USA diving while Canada keeps going up

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disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is actually profoundly true. I have never seen a whole audience not only reject a pushed technology, but deliberately and defiantly do things that cannot be corrupted by that technology. Seeking human-made creations, rejecting AI manufacturing. Turning to analogue. It's incredible.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's always amusing when people discover we have always let our daughter swear as long as she understands the consequences. And also it produces amazing moments like yesterday: 5yo: "Dad. Why is the bag of chocolates empty?" Dad: "I ate them." 5yo: "Fuck's sake."

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 14/07/2026

warhammer is great because you can have a conversation like "well they don't have bene gesserit" orders framulous "ok well they don't have gundams" imperial knights "ok well they don't have dinotopia" you're not gonna believe this

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Voidra, you have piles of tiny fabric squares on your desk. Voidra quilt. Voidra. Don't sew a ruffle skirt. IT'S A NON VYVANSE DAY.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Remember when streaming was the next big revolutionary thing and within ten years it's degraded in to paying a monthyl subscription fee for the honour of going back to watching old fashioned telly with adverts.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You know the most awful part of making games? It's that insidious insinuation that if you come up with a game, and it's not the most break out, amazing, makes headlines game, then somehow that's a failure. The kind that guts studios and lays off jobs.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I wish every multimillion dollar company using AI advertisements a very merry bankruptcy.

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Something that often goes unsaid: We're against using genAI in our work, and we've also blocked AI crawlers from finding and stealing our work. Even Google. We're not traffic-driven, but in 2026 this has a big impact on how people find us. So, simply following us and sharing our work means a lot 🙏

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have discovered quilting. Not... you know. It's existence. But the activity. I'm in so much trouble.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I pivoted to UE5 after Unity's business choices made me feel uneasy (and I was validated in their choices afterwards). This is making me feel worse, especially with UE6 apparently doing away with blueprints and potentially moving toward vibecoding...

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The current state of AAA games is a result of capitalist cowardice and a refusal to treat gamers as mature adults capable of nuance, and has left the audience vulnerable to those who have used video games to drive collective culture into a narrow, hateful, controlled landscape.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I am so fucking over this bullshit line that apparently Israel's militant force is so trained, and so armed, and so deliberate, yet somehow keep 'missing' the correct targets and hitting such specific individuals. Fuck off. Fuck OFF. Fuck off. Fuck off.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Feels like a 'throw in the towel' kind of day, honestly.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 29/06/2026

Reminder that memory manufacturers (including Samsung, Hynix, and Micron) were found to be an actual dictionary definition "cartel" back in the 2000s and were accused of illegal price fixing again in the late 2010s. They have been trying to screw you for literal decades.

en.wikipedia.org

DRAM price fixing scandal - Wikipedia

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seeeeew @seeeeew.de · 20/06/2026

With the newly released AI warning for Steam v1.1.0 you can turn the AI disclosure on Steam store pages into an unmissable popup and blur or hide games with an AI disclosure in the search results! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa... addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Watching people begin to pay attention to the way that games might be a dogwhistle for fascist and misogynistic training at a cultural level *deliberately* is both amazing and heartbreaking that it fucking took this long to realise it.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A casual reminder that game developers were required to treat male players as incredibly delicate and fragile, so much so that Lara Croft was designed to reinforce her sexual objectification for fear of upsetting the boys too much.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ninja Theory created Hellblade: Senua's sacrifice as one of the most visceral experiences of PTSD and psychosis that someone without those conditions might experience. Don't argue games are art when you don't defend the ones that are designed to generate conversation.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I participated in a research project about the Australian creative industries and when I told them that games that don't overwhelmingly financially succeed are considered failures, they genuinely could not believe it. This is not 'normal'. This does not have to happen.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I will fucking eat someone's eyeballs if they say the words 'late-term abortion' to me unironically. There's no. Such. Fucking. Thing. It's NOT A FUCKING THING.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

AI generated shit has even infiltrated sewing and honestly, it is yet another creative industry that has flat said, 'It's shit and we don't want it'.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Casual reminder that this is the disaster elf MMC of my romantasy I am writing to get away from the world. Hi Mhaleroth. You're an asshole.

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