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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 16h

it's called Spirit City: Lofi Sessions! store.steampowered.com/app/2113850/...

and i'm gonna check out finch!

Save 40% on Spirit City: Lofi Sessions on Steam

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool, set to a soothing lofi soundtrack. Discover and collect Spirits, customize your cozy virtual space, and facilitate your real-life tasks with a coll...

store.steampowered.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 19h

there are a lot of things that are caves of qud tho

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 1d

drinking coffee out of the exact same mug rn

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 1d

god what a frustrating and disappointing start 🙃

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 1d

suddenly very intrigued by Skate Story

also i saw what u did 🔍

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 1d

tragic: i've collected all the creatures in this lo-fi girl to-do list game. how am i supposed to complete my little tasks now

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victor @windienine.bsky.social · 2d

i'll be uncharacteristically direct this time and say that the KS is 10k out with ONE week left and i need everyone on this game's team to make rent and have enough to eat. i can't overstate the importance of trans gamedevs continuing to create in a hostile industry. please support if you can!

Blanksword ⚔️ Kickstarter live NOW!! @blanksword.bsky.social · 23d

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️

Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW!

Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...

Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...

Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

they’re perfect 😭💖

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 3d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 2d

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

imagine being this militarized and getting this riled up by someone in an inflatable frog costume that renders them completely harmless to you lol

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Fiona @fionawh.im · 3d

Caves of Qud (2024)

sri (but spooky) @sri.plur.ca · 3d

tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3d

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 3d

😭

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 3d

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 3d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 3d

blue prince

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 3d

weeks ago i saw an older woman standing alone on a busy street corner with a sign that said “KRISTI GO NOEM” — but Kristi Noem wasn’t even here

now’s your time to shine, lady

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting for more info, but Portland Police Bureau has S Bancroft St blocked off, presumably in anticipation of Kristi Noem's visit to the ICE facility.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 3d

what was health insurance

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 4d

audibly groaned imagining the pivots 🙃

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