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Tom De Roeck

@tomderoeck.bsky.social

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Producer, "Generalist Everything" (AKA a little bit of everything, poorly) & Cocktailrobot Handler

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · Dec 15

As it says, quote post your first and latest game, game devs.
brilliant art for my first game done by the wonderful @pixeloccult.bsky.social btw

key art for The Shopkeeper, a game from 2014

Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2h

you couldve just said yes

Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2h

sexily?

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2h

*everything sexual*

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 6h

sounds brilliant :D
have fun!

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 11h

an ex was a field archaeologist and her job consisted of sitting in the shade at construction sites for 8 hrs while workers hollered at her inappropriately until they found something in the ground and she would walk over and touch it with her tongue and say "this is a rock" and go back to the shade.

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 11h

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 13h

dont worry itll get badder

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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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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 20h

one of the best things I learned on here (courtesy of @simoroth.bsky.social I think) is that you can just disable the steam forums with no downsides.

Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 22h

it will definitely fix you

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23h

i really have nothing to post about so uh space is cool and look at these pretty pictures of it thank you

$A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.$

A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.

A star cluster within a nebula. The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink gas that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink gas expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are more of these white stars and galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image.

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.$

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 23h

sounds like youre not enough @lv29ninetails.bsky.social

back to the dickpic mines with you, lassie!

a cartoon character is sitting in a chair wearing a red hat and kilt

ALT: a cartoon character is sitting in a chair wearing a red hat and kilt

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 23h

I love you(r snippets from streams because I cant watch most of it D:)

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Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 3d

Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) is doubling down on its mission to uplift, inspire, and spotlight the brilliance of Black women in theatre with the launch of two transformative programs one for the next generation of storytellers, and one for emerging playwrights ready to take center stage.

Black Women on Broadway Launches Two Groundbreaking Initiatives Celebrating Black Women’s Voices in Theatre | Black Girl Nerds

Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) is doubling down on its mission to uplift, inspire, and spotlight the brilliance of Black women in theatre

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

Maria Corina Machado – awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize – has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

incidentally I enjoyed the interview on BBC News last night with a woman from the Nobel committee who pointed that so long as Trump was using the judicial system to go after his enemies and sending troops into peaceful cities, he probably wasn't a strong candidate for the Nobel peace prize

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

all of them because it was an ace book expertly written?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

Economic sanctions don’t work? Why don’t you live in Russia then, Yulia?

Russian propaganda comes from a variety of sources, as you see. And the Western elites still don’t understand how the Russian propaganda machine works.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 3d

It's prime day alright on CNN!

courtesy of the brilliant @filmcow.bsky.social

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_5...

cnn.com breaking news

YouTube video by FilmCow

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 4d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 3d

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 3d

Loved @mattgreencomedy.com showing up in Slow Horses

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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