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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 8h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 5h

Happy Indigenous People’s Day.

A beautiful Indigenous woman holding her middle finger up with a caption that says, “Fuck Christopher Columbus.”

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Sushi @sushifur.live · 3h

It's getting progressively more spooky in here! 👻

🐼 Mon - Scary or Nice (Halloween segment)
🦝 Tue - Shenmue 3
🦊 Thu - Guest stream with @gachapantv.bsky.social
🐺 Fri - Community Night (VRC)
🐱 Sun - Dwarf Fortress

🔗 sushifur.live | discord.gg/sushifur

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Flicky @flickybirb.bsky.social · 3h

how most talks about Star Trek between me and @gachapantv.bsky.social end up

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 17h

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 15h

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 12h

Using modern technology to achieve the same results in a fraction of the time at an NFT event

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Dec 20

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Shrum on Twitch 🔜 TwitchCon SD @therealshrum.bsky.social · 21h

Straight from the Twitch Partner Discord, posted on 10/10/25

If you lurk more than a couple of streams, you won't be counted as a viewer in any of them.

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about viewership and the impact of our viewbot mitigations. And, we’ve heard from some creators that they’ve observed unusual drops in their viewcounts. When we made updates to our viewbot detection tools earlier this year, our goal was to make sure that viewcounts represent actual viewership, and aren’t artificially inflated in any way. Having accurate viewcounts is important for streamers who are trying to build their audiences, and for the livestream industry more broadly.

We recognize that for a lot of our creators, Twitch is a livelihood, and we don’t take that lightly. Addressing viewbots is a balancing act — we want to identify artificial views without affecting real viewers, and that’s a constant tension. We continue to evolve our systems to get better at spotting and removing viewbots, while making sure we’re counting real views accurately. We really appreciate the feedback and questions, as they help us keep improving how we do this.

We’ve seen a lot of different theories about why some viewcounts may have shifted and want to address some of the most prominent directly.

There’s been a lot of conversation about how lurkers are counted. A lot of factors can impact viewership over time, including ad blockers, seasonality, and whether you recently hosted an event on your channel. After some investigation by our teams, we’ve identified one factor that may be impacting several streamers:
Some viewers use third party browser extensions to view streams.,
For example, with one plug in, you feed in your Twitch follower list, and when a streamer from that list goes live, the plug in opens a tab for that stream.
For years, we’ve counted a limited number of sessions per IP address towards viewcount. If you have a lot of streams (more than a normal viewer could reasonably watch) open in many different tabs, our systems may determine you are not actively watching, and you will not be counted in any of those streams as a viewer.

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 16h

This is what it feels like to play Road to Empress on stream

a thumbnail of the video "Fujian Xiamen. John Peck" by John Peck

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 1d

5-0 lmao

Yeah the ball did the talking alright

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 2d

My doctor told me Dr Wily keeps subverting his robots so I asked how many robots he has and he said he just goes to the workshop to build a new son afterwards but doesn't actually teach him anything so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding robots to Dr Wily and then he started crying

GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 2d

Loving No Way Back, despite the name of the track we are in fact incredibly back

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 3d

If you're in Mark Gerhard or Leslie Benzies' families then run for the fucking hills, holy shit

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 3d

This should be bigger news than it is - turns out that working at the Mindseye Dev Build a Rocket Boy is pretty much an encapsulation of everything wrong with gamedev in 2025

Hellish crunch, constant layoffs and incompetent execs stating they're "a family" to justify horrific abuse

IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 3d

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 25d

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders.
But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

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Fell Specter @beamposter.bsky.social · 4d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 5d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 5d

That being said the fact swifties don't seem to really be coming out in full force really does make it seem like Taylor's lost the mandate of heaven

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 5d

Criticisms against Taylor Swift for Wood are overblown imo, considering how many masc artists have made songs about crushing pussy I feel like some of this is just people finding feminine sexuality icky

The thing that you absolutely SHOULD be criticising it for is the cash grabbing and AI stuff

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

"the Twitter accounts @Anarseldain and @realMattForney have been openly and repeatedly doxxing left-wing posters...publishing real names, addresses, phone numbers...Anarseldain is even fundraising off of it... they are completely candid about what they are paying for"

Twitter is a one-way doxxing machine for the right

You probably should not post there if you value your privacy!

www.peoplesline.org

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 5d

High definition Hyperactivity Disorder....

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 5d

Finally watched Weapons (2025)

Banger movie, go in blind if you can

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 6d

"Department of Defense is for sissies, we should be The Department of WAR" absolutely lil man, you're twelve

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