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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 3h

Someone who works in a creative industry asked for my opinion about a logo for his new project.

He used GPT to AI slop it.

The irony and insensitivity of a full-time creative approaching me, a designer, with AI slop and then dismissing glaring issues as "people won't notice" is twisting my brain.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 1d

Good. It would not be Friends without Matthew Perry and recasting Chandler would be inacceptable.

Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 2d

might be worth checking out #portfolioday and to write a post with who and what you are looking for on the 14th when the next portfolio day will take place

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 2d

Cowards. A French company bowing to fascists is more than just shameful, but I guess that's what you do when you get high on Saudi money-juice.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 2d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 3d

WCAG-EM 2.0, a process to evaluate accessibility, is coming! We (me, @stevefaulkner.bsky.social and Jeroen) are updating it to:

- make the scope broader (from “websites” to any digital product)
- make it more readable
- bring it up to date (mentions design systems now)

w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/

W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0

This document describes a procedure to evaluate how well digital products conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.

w3c.github.io

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 3d

Nope. Merz can't decide any of that, can't order a boycott or cut funding.

These decisions are made by a committee of German public broadcasters, which are funded by compulsory fees paid directly to them by citizens.
The chancellor has no official influence over public media for historical reasons.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 4d

The Irish are kicking ass again! A gov investing in human made art in current times AND proving that it's profitable is the kind of news we need more of.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 4d

Catching up on the whole Jay vs. waffles thing and... yeah, can't wait until Eurosky takes off.

"Bsky is decentralized" is still kind of useless if there are no other publicly available apps.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5d

Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 5d

from watching friends and family: just the lingo used in onboarding is confusing + too much text, even in German. It's not a localization issue.

The ones who finish sign up give up the moment they have to chose a server. Unintuitive, restrictive, full of implied penalties for doing anything wrong.

Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 5d

I guess that's a personal taste thing. For me 2025 is the first year since PS5 release in which I bought so many games first week of release that I can't finish them all this year and have even more on my wishlist.

Just what I bought this year will keep me busy till GTA6.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 9d

your friendly reminder that Google is not a neutral party and its results are often barely usable since they forced AI into everything.

European alternatives like Qwandt respect your privacy, are free from fascist influences and censorship, have a kid friendly mode AND deliver results.

Try it 👇

Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 9d

Compensated stress with buying art supplies and now I'm stuck with a full set of oil paints and at least 3 different Gessos.

I don't even like oil paint.

Anything else you can do with it, besides painting and slow-poisoning yourself?

#art #painting #oilpaint

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 11d

I love Hell is Us, especially because it's so fearless without being sensationalist or turning violence and grief into voyeuristic entertainment while having these topics front and center.

A piece of weird fiction that feels real and convincing in all the right places in all the right ways.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 12d

It's noteworthy that there are no male equivalents. It's female influencers, models, actresses. And the men behind them never tire of telling us that they'd do anything they want them to do, no talking back.

They just want obedient, controllable women they don't need to pay.

Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 13d

I remember an old Reddit threat from years ago where someone asked nurses what kind of secrets patients on their death bed tell them.

So many said a lot of old ladies confessed to murdering an abusive husband, some more than one, because freeing themselves through divorce was not in the cards.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 16d

In deiner Bubble. Aber dass es auch außerhalb Wellen schlägt, zeigt, dass es für Andere wichtig ist.

Wenn es dich nicht anspricht oder betrifft, bist du einfach nicht Zielgruppe. Das macht die Aktion nicht dumm.

Viele sind auch einfach wegen dem Werbespam von X weg und brauchen den kleinen Schock

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 16d

warum denkst du, dass es auf Bluesky dumm ist?

Bluesky ist ein amerikanisches Unternehmen, dass sich an die US Gesetze halten muss. Käme eine Kennzeichnungspflicht, müssten sie es machen.

Daran ändert auch AT-Proto nichts, die App selbst ist nicht Open Source.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 16d

Dass man nicht sofort denkt "haha lustig" sondern erstmal recherchieren und prüfen muss, ob es echt ist, zeigt uns doch ganz genau wie weit der Faschismus schon ist.

Wir können sowas nicht mehr sofort als Witz erkennen und ausschließen, weil er längst wieder da ist.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 19d

We do have Gamescom in Cologne and the industry focused Devcon that happens at the same venue directly before Gamescom opens for gamers.

I don't think we need GDC, tbh.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 19d

I don't know if rentals are available where you are, but any chance you can rent an iPhone 15 Pro or 16 Pro for travel? Add a 30 buck clip on CPL filter and you have a more than decent travel cam that lets you shoot in RAW.

Or maybe a used old Sony Alpha mirrorless model + a zoom lens in automode.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 21d

Mit Enzymreiniger z.B. BactoDes. Zersetzt alle geruchsbildenden Bakterien durch natürliche Prozesse und ist umweltfreundlich. Bei starkem Geruch ein paar mal nass einsprühen und über ein paar Tage feucht halten. Wenn sich doch was hält, dann noch ein neutralisierendes Enzymsäckchen drauflegen.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 26d

definition of soulslike on Wikipedia says high difficulty, repeated player death driving mastery, environmental storytelling in a dark fantasy setting.

Checks out.

Should it have options? Yes. But it also didn’t hide that it’ll mop the floor with the player. It was not marketed as metroidvania.

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Stefanie @steffi.bsky.social · 26d

it is tagged as soulslike on Steam, it’s also heralded as soulslike metroidvania by the game’s press.

I agree on difficulty options, no
need to exclude players. But I still find the complaints weird when the marketing, genre placement and professional critiques are all about soulslike difficulty.

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