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Jo Berry

@joberry.bsky.social

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English gal in Montreal and Senior Game Writer at Motive Studio (Star Wars: Squadrons, Dead Space Remake); formerly at BioWare. Short stories and novellas (latest here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW2Y5WH1) She / her. Opinions are mine.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · Apr 11

A master of the dark arts is hosting a victory banquet, but the guests are bringing their own ambitions to the table.

Mercenaries, socialites, assassins, and a spymaster determined to defend his master...for some to feast, others must fall.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW2Y5WH1

#booksky #fantasy #novella

A novella cover showing a sinister-looking table setting of metallic plates and crossed utensils. The title "Dining with the Demon-Eater" is in the middle, and the author's name (Joanna Berry) underneath

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 13h

developer: put it down. we don't need another one

concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 19h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 11h

The Onimusha Netflix series is pretty fun. A Toshiro Mifune-designed Miyamoto Musashi who fights demons, it’s a good time 👍🏻

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23d

The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege
(www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

And so we choose to do battle against the forces of darkness,
#ghting back against a malevolent movement that represents all that
is bad in the world— fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny,
and bigotry— a movement that uses antiscienti#c disinformation as
its preferred weapon. We do this not because our success is guaranteed.
Given the forces mobilized against us, we are clearly the underdog.
And no white wizard will come to our rescue. But we have truth
and justice on our side. And the stakes simply couldn’t be greater. We
#ght for a livable planet, for us, our children, and future generations.
Because it’s worth #ghting for.8

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you! 💙

Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you!

Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 16h

Hope you enjoy it 🧡

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16h

This is amazing. Every time I think I’m done crying someone does something kind like this and I’m in tears again. A weird mixture of happiness and gratitude and just missing him so bad.

Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 22h

He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑

A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.

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Ryan Pancoast - Illustrator/Artist @rpancoast.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello Bluesky! I’m Ryan and I do oil paintings, mostly for Magic: the Gathering and occasionally for myself

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Morgan Baker @momoxmia.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Battlefield 6 launch day! Here’s the accessibility info, check out those remapping options and hold to toggle features… 👀

www.ea.com/able/resourc...

BATTLEFIELD™ 6 Accessibility Resources - An Official EA Site

www.ea.com

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 17h

"I wonder what psychic damage feels like in real life"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 19h

Launch daaaaaay 🥂 #Battlefield6

A copy of Battlefield 6 Phantom Edition showing a black and orange cover, leaning up against a mimosa glass 🥂

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

www.vulture.com

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Nearly 100 current and former developers at MindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy slam Leslie Benzies and the rest of studio leadership for poor management and botched layoffs.

They say crunch was mandated leading up to release only for 250 people to be sacked afterwards.

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Bridgit Connell @bridgitconnell.com · 20h

Next week... 👀💢 #dragonage #redtemplars #samson @joberry.bsky.social

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 21h

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 22h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

Photos from today's walk at the Seattle Japanese Garden (thread). I was quite taken with these red leaves, dangling by a bit of spiderweb in a way that made them look like they were falling.

#photography #PNW #autumn #FallColors #nature #red #31DaysOfHalloween #SeattleJapaneseGarden

Closeup of half a dozen red maple leaves, suspended mid-air by (near-invisible) spider web threads in a vertical line such that it looks almost like a composite image of a leaf tumbling down from the tree, twirling as it falls. Dark greenery blurry in the background.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 1d

Also: so he's C. Raven as in "craven"? 🤦🏻

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 1d

Me: Is fish and chips fast food?
Melville:

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants,—a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.