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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 15h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Warmanda 40K @pandacabra.bsky.social · 11h

Bluebeard's Bride game themed around early-mid Aughts emo and alternative music.

Been listening to a playlist, and yeah, on top of real life stories of how many abusers were in the scene, I never realized how many lyrics and songs use symbolism of the tragic death of a beautiful young woman.

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HoneyandDice @honeyanddice.bsky.social · 1d

If you crochet or knit and want a place to send baby scarves, blankets, and other accessories...please reach out to me and I can send you some details on donating to Honey Bunches of Hope. I will probably send something out...in a few weeks for the formal kick-off of the drive.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 1d

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

screenshot from article, 4 short paragraphs: Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.

Analysts — and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself — have acknowledged that AI companies are struggling to make enough money to cover their exorbitant expenses, concerns that drove a major tech selloff earlier this year.

And whether they’ll ever be able to produce enough revenue is a looming question. A startling report by researchers at MIT spooked investors in August, finding that only a measly five percent of AI pilot programs help businesses succeed at “rapid revenue acceleration,” with the vast majority falling flat.

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

older man tim gunn wearing rimless glasses has hand on chin saying that concerns me enormously.

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Glaiza @classicalglaiza.com · 2d

HAVING SAID ALL THAT,

I do want to point out the treatment that Chicago is getting compared to Portland.

Like really sit in it and think about the difference in treatments that the city of Chicago is getting compared to Portland.

What could be the difference, I wonder - hmmmmm.

Glaiza @classicalglaiza.com · 2d

Living in the Portland area, I have had zero, ZERO, people reaching out to me to see if we're war ravaged, compared to other times when I lived in "turbulent" areas.

And I do think it's because of the dancing frogs.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2d

God it's so cool how this guy is one of the most influential and powerful people on earth

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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SouzaGM @asouzagm.bsky.social · 2d

Just so we all know. I have until the 13th to vacate my current home and nowhere to go lined up. So, if you have good energy to spare I need it because I really don’t know what I’m going to do.

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Warmanda 40K @pandacabra.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for those who helped!! Was able to grab a lunch and stock up on cat food for Milo!! 💜💜💜

Warmanda 40K @pandacabra.bsky.social · 3d

Yo can someone spot me like $10-15 until I get paid tomorrow?

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Warmanda 40K @pandacabra.bsky.social · 3d

Yo can someone spot me like $10-15 until I get paid tomorrow?

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Warmanda 40K @pandacabra.bsky.social · 3d

Once wrote a paper on the role of the house wife in sci-fi through a feminist lens comparing the struggles of Sarah Connor to the Stepford Wives on nothing but spite and coffee 5 hours before it was due.

Lyndon "Tadpole" (they) @poliwag.bsky.social · 3d

Blasted out multiple 30-page essays on world history and dissections of A Streetcar Named Desire and Othello for school the night before its submissions and was also tested on the material, y'all are weak for using AI lol

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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S. Kaiya J. || Mirror-lock Atelier @mirror-lock.bsky.social · 4d

Who's excited for spooky season? 🎃✋

Who's also struggling with SAD and and feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of small tasks to juggle every day? ✋✋

If you're interested in a tiny game that encourages mutual accountability through hexing your friends, keep a sharp eye out here next week... 👀

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9d

"They put her in hand shackles and in leg shackles, and around the waist as well, like she's some hardened criminal. She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 4d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Warmanda 40K @pandacabra.bsky.social · 3d

I was made a mentor at work (without me even signing up for that program) AND got an email confirming I'm in the shortlist for the full time project with regular M-F hours (assuming I can pass the training test)

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〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 4d

much of the culture in AAA development and its indignities has been justified by a mandate of excellence; that _____ you had to suffer was the price of greatness, and maybe you just couldn't cut it.

stuff like this, combined w financial implosion from overleveraged scale, shatters that illusion

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

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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HoneyandDice @honeyanddice.bsky.social · 5d

I am also looking for 3 DMs to send a free copy of MMM as a gift if they want to try running it for their group. MMM is a cooking ttrpg. The offer comes with a pre-game q&a session with said DM to answer any questions or give them any advice. If you are interested plz email [email protected]

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 5d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 6d

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Gallows Corner is the next game from Three Sails Studios after the success of Mappa Mundi, our debut release.

But what IS Gallows Corner? What is a Peasants' Revolt RPG? This week, you'll find out. Today, we're talking setting!

The front cover of Gallows Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG.

A gallows and noose are silhouetted against a full moon. An ornate border of thorns and brambles extends around the edge of the cover.

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Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 6d

A bunch of new Halloween-themed Fish and Beetle Guys will be coming to my shop on Tuesday (October 7) at 12 pm PST!
www.hannahcomstock.com/store

Photo of multiple beetle and fish inspired creature figurines on a table. They are painted with various colors and patterns inspired by Halloween, things such as Jack o lanterns and skeletons

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Nox Tenholder |🎙️🏳️‍⚧️ @noxthevox.bsky.social · 6d

"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein but literally everyone is trans" is something I didn't know I needed until now.

Tal | TAFCON @starplanes.bsky.social · 8d

Wouldn't it be cool if someone adapted Frankenstein with an entire cast of trans actors?

Oh hey, we're doing that! But we need your help to fund it!

igg.me/at/refrank

Re: Frankenstein

An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, from the team behind Re: Dracula! | Check out 'Re: Frankenstein' on Indiegogo.

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Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · 7d

💐 #art

A portrait of Ipomoea resting against a bush of ipomoea flowers. Her hair is spread across the blooms and the leaves, and her left hand gently touches a flower close to the shoulder.

Ipomoea is a blue tiefling with gem horns, and long, wavy white hair that sparkles in the shadow. Her eyes have a dark sclera with a white iris. Three small stars shine between the horns.

A portrait of Thalia surrounded by a magnolia tree's blooms, with her hair hanging from some of the branches.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d

I know a lot of people really really do not want to have to care about the Jay Madness Discourse.

But it is actually a really bad thing that the CEO of the platform we all decamped to because Elon got transphobic mod madness...

...is now doing transphobic mod madness.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d

FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 7d

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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