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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 1h

Explicit pronoun declarations always seem like such an inelegant solution until you're at a all-genders women in games event and you realise you might be misgendering folks.

Yeah, it's inelegant, but it saves so much embarrassment.

(There'll be stickers next time. The badges had too little space)

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👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 5h

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

youtu.be

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 17h

guy who always posts spicy takes after their game release posts a spicy take after their game release

I guess it works? People do be talking. Smart. I didn't actually know about the release.

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 21h

HOT TAKE: Sometimes, I feel like the people saying this mean why isn't anyone with lots of power covering my game. When smaller folks ARE covering indie games and you're not uplifting them. You just want others to lift you up without giving back to the community.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 23h

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 23h

No one told me running a business mostly means you get to format the same information in a hundred different bespoke pitch application boxes

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 23h

Application boxes are out of control and must be culled. That's the political platform I'm running on

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 23h

No one told me running a business mostly means you get to format the same information in a hundred different bespoke pitch application boxes

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to reading this soon!

Great job to René and the team!!

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 1d

I have Opinions

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see a conservative complain about Bad Bunny they just show why they'll lose the culture war.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

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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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly all government initiatives that put money right in the hands of the individual is profitable to the country.

But right wing governments are pound-foolish and mostly remove these programs because they ideologically refuse to believe supporting the individual is a net benefit.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

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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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 3d

Writing this game was its own lovecraftian nightmare and I'm pretty sure it caused me to develop non-euclidean synapse connections in my brain.

plz buy so I can go and untangle it

At Eve's Wake @ateveswake.bsky.social · 8d

Enjoy #Autumn with this #Lovecraftian #Horror story! Watch the madness and see your family fall like the leaves.

Twist time and decide to save or bring damnation.

⭐️50% off store.steampowered.com/app/1395120/...

#indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame #indiegames #indiehorror #Steam #SteamAutumnSale

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

📣 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 · 6d

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...

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 4d

If you make a puzzle game and after finishing a level you tell me how well I did and show other players did better, I will simply stop playing your game

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 6d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

Because I had other things to do, I also only just learned about Paul.

Paul.

Really.

Paul.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

trying to keep up with marvel comics has always been hard because I'm pretty sure they really don't understand why and when their characters work and they absolutely refuse to learn

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

There are a lot of reasons to feel old, but I was just reminded One More Day was released in 2007 and I will never let go you hear that MJ&Pete foreverrrr

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Signal @signal.org · 6d

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...

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

yknow early bsky was funny in the way that you occasionally would see an early adopter with a sudden big following crash and burn in public in a most spectacular way and for a while I thought it would never happen, but lo and behold the CEO answered my prayers

got some real early internet vibes

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

I can't remember who said it, but basically if a movement gets just as rage hyped over a company logo as over the assassination of an actual person, it's prone to burn out and not build actual lasting staying power.
And I think that's what we're seeing here.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

You can't technical design your way out of a human interaction design problem.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

Not quoting this to dunk, but to highlight that this sentiment is why bsky's overall UX is so poor

If a team does not include soft skills like UX design as a core skill for system architecture, they'll keep on making these mistakes

If the moderation policy feels 'thoughtless', yeah, because it is

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 6d

Like, again, is Bluesky a minimally-moderated space where you're supposed to use the provided tools to build your own moderation out of legos, or is it a platform that'll ban people for saying lol the wrong way? You can't have it both ways!

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