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The Bonsai Treehouse

@bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social

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Greetings, and welcome to the me: I'm a cheeky 31 year-old poly autistic demi-boy (he/they). I make games with @ppu512.bsky.social and I enjoy annoying people by reading too much into everything. Whatever “fun times” may bring, let it be brought!

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · May 14

Thanks to everyone for their patience: our demo is now compatible with PC, Mac, Linux AND Steam Deck!

Tahitian Driftin' @tahitiandriftin.bsky.social · May 14

Do you have a need?

...a need for speed?

We know you do, and you're in luck, race fans, because the Tahitian Driftin demo has been released just in time for #SteamNextFest!

Download it today!

#indiedev #gamedev #racing #arcade #pixelart #lowpoly

store.steampowered.com/app/3565460/...

Tahitian Driftin' on Steam

A tropical anti-gravity racing game from the depths of a long-lost arcade cabinet that will have you cruising through lush, remote Polynesian islands with a draft-based boost system that fosters tight...

store.steampowered.com

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 3m

Never heard of it before, but now that I have, I’m 100% confident in saying that it’s definitely bad and you are totally wrong for liking it

The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 10m

And yes, that includes the one YOU are thinking of right now.

The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 11m

Every single rogue-like ever made is bad and rubbish and you’re all dummie dumb stupid heads for liking them and letting them set the bar for indie gaming accolades.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10h

You would think maybe one media outlet could not only assert that this isn't true, but also make a big, multi-day story out of the fact the U.S. president believes a perfectly fine, major American city is a burning, dystopian hellscape

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 2h

In other words: being a good person should not be a contest.

The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 2h

Hot take: we should get rid of all Nobel Prizes in their entirety.

I want to live in a world where being good and doing the right thing is considered the average everyday normal expectation for all humanity, not just a rare exception handed out to the questionable few of a high-enough profile.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 9h

Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.

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Mom @milph.mom · 1d

I had to check the original source on twitter to make sure it wasn’t a homie being sarcastic and unfortunately the OP is a 100% Trump-lovin’ anti-DEI gooner.

I’m a fucking sex worker and these guys think about jerking off more than me.

Ricardo Regis @ricardonauts.bsky.social · 1d

pensando muito nisso aqui

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 2h

So at this rate, how soon will God be able to travel into houses not marked by the blood of a lamb and smite all of the first born?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 4h

Regardless of what one thinks of the Greens and Zack Polanski, there is something refreshing and much needed about seeing a politician name far-right discourse as it is

No more euphemising, no more "populism", "legitimate concerns" etc - accurate & damning depictions instead as needed

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 4h

Caste supremacists are fascists and genAI is an infoweapon/toy for fascists.

RR📷 @roshn.me · 6h

I am not surprised. Majority of Indian content on the internet have caste biases. Majority of Indian GenAI users also display a caste-biased behavior.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

www.technologyreview.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4h

She's still in Israeli captivity
#Speirgorm

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Government Spookdown @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 3h

People need to stop pretending that everyone falling for a deepfake is stupid or a liberal or a Boomer or whatever. No one is immune to falling for AI slop; you will eventually be fooled too, not because you are dumb but because you weren't paying attention or tired or something else.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

she is getting her two hands cuffed behind her back and still has one hand holding a mic in front of her. and people are sharing this as if it's real

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 3h

I love me a good ball-roller! The BoC vibes grabbed me right by the attention span lol

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 19h

Just a reminder, find joy in the resistance anywhere you can!

Sign up to find your community for the No Kings on October 18th!

#ProudBlue

Video credit: kris.and.mike/IG

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 13h

First there’s jesters, then clowns, then fools and oafs and DUNCES…

And then there’s Starmer.

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Valerie 🔞 @phantosanucca.bsky.social · 18h

The United Kingdom is not a valid country, and it deserves mockery on an international scale.

Calling their government "clown shit" would be unfair to something with that much colour and whimsy.

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 18h

Please donate to Abo Jameel's fundraiser or share it

Abo jameel @engabojameel37.bsky.social · 23h

I send you in a faint voice full of fatigue and despair. If you stop donations, we will waste our lives inside our worn-out tent. No food, no clothing, no blankets, no work. Do not break my kids hearts. They need $250 urgently to secure them.
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@mommunism.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hcCSb

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 14h

FPS game with spud guns, spit wads and elastic band flingers

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 23h

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, I’m just sayin’…

(Awkwardly shuffles away while whistling nonchalantly)

The Bonsai Treehouse @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social · 14h

You know, repeated blowing will only corrode the port over time with small particles of moisture and I could be financially reprimanded for potential damage to hardware.

Basically, I don’t want to make you wet…

…I suggest you invest in an anti-dust cover instead.

To like…plug that port up?

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