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Bennett C.
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benoitblank.bsky.social
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social pleeeeeease do Seattle for your next live show 😭😭😭
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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riibrego.bsky.social
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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bobacupcake.bsky.social
happy mint and basil monday everyone
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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tobyfox.undertale.com
October 31, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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tobyfox.undertale.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
benoitblank.bsky.social
inaugural seattle indie dev conference down. hopefully next year I can do another 12 hours of being awkward and frequently embarrassing myself
August 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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bobacupcake.bsky.social
its mint and basil monday ! mint loves to look
August 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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tomwarren.co.uk
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts
It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.
www.theverge.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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bobacupcake.bsky.social
happy mint and basil monday everyone !!
August 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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itch.io
itch.io/t/5149036/re...
Reindexing adult NSFW content - Developer Updates
Today, we are re-indexing free adult NSFW content . We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be re-introducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the
itch.io
July 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Pedro Pascal spoke up for trans rights and has been targeted with a smear campaign as a result. False allegations lobbed by TERFs have since become a meme and entered the YouTube podcast sphere—not unlike the previous anti-MeToo smear campaigns I’ve covered.
spitfirenews.com/p/pedro-pasc...
The Pedro Pascal smear campaign
And sexual harassment allegations against a leftist influencer.
spitfirenews.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech
In the last two weeks, we have seen a wave of censorship sweep across online retailers, particularly Steam and Itch.io. This is because of demands from payment processors as well as sex-negative activist groups like Collective Shout (originally reported by journalist Ana Valens, and then censored by VICE’s parent company). UVW affirms that sex and sexuality belong in games. Games are works of art, created by workers who should be free to express themselves. It's important to encourage a healthy and critical discourse about the media we consume. One vocal minority cannot have the power to categorically silence creative expression, just because some sexual themes make some people uncomfortable. Sexual art is art, sex work is work. Any attempt to suppress sexual art is an attempt to suppress all art. Any attempt to deny sex workers their dignity is an attempt to deny all workers their dignity. Workers rely on platforms like Steam and itch.io to distribute their games, and it is workers who are suffering at the behest of this vocal minority. We call on the payment processors Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and any other companies demanding compliance with this unjust action to reverse their policies and stand with the workers who have lined their pockets for years with their labor. We call on Valve and the Itch.io leadership to reverse their policies and stand with game developers. We encourage our members and the general games community to use the resources in the quoted post to contact these payment processors directly and express how strongly we object to their actions.
July 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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undertale.wiki
July 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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annacwebs.bsky.social
LinkedIn is an elaborate ARG I’ve decided
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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acvalens.com
If you work for MasterCard or Visa and want to blow the whistle on the situation internally toward Steam / itchio, create a ProtonMail for E2E encrypted conversation and email me at: [email protected]
July 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
Ralph "SkillUp" Panebianco has built a successful YouTube career with more than one million subscribers. So naturally, his next move is... to start a video game website?

I spoke to Panebianco about his new venture ("no ads, no AI") and why he's doing it: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
As Video-Game Media Struggles, Star YouTuber Launches New Outlet
Websites like Polygon and Kotaku are facing huge challenges, opening opportunities for newcomers
www.bloomberg.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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radiantg.bsky.social
📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
July 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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claystorks.bsky.social
instead of vowing to take itch down with your justified anger, redirect that anger at the institutions who are directly responsible for strong arming every single platform that sells adult and/or queer art:
iantos.bsky.social Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24
Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
mrpecu.bsky.social Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?
July 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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unstablebill.bsky.social
Corp accountant here, Investor Relations is the team that is legally obligated to handle investor concerns.
If you have a fund with MC or Visa in it, I suggest calling and demanding to know what your compensation will be for the reduction in Earnings Per Share caused by cutting off income streams (:
July 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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lekroox.bsky.social
This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies.
So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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glitchykitsch.art
A low quality screenshot of Alec from Technology Connections with glitter text that says "Sparkle on! It's Wednesday! Don't forget to be yourself!" Sparkles and glowing hearts are sprinkled around the edges of the image.
June 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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themoonis.gay
yes uvw-cwa.org
July 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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edmondtran.bsky.social
Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website.

We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.
This Week in Videogames - TWIV
Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.
thisweekinvideogames.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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annacwebs.bsky.social
Not to be hyperbolic but this is literally how i'm trying to be
A picture from a trail cam of a black bear soakin' it up in a bog, his little back feeties, head, and paws can be seen up over the top of the water. He is surrounded by reeds and appears to not have a care in the world. God i wish that were me at all times.
July 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM