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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 14h

*boom goes the micdrop*

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 17h

The game industry mistakes authority for leadership.

There's precious little actual leadership.

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Break My Game @breakmygame.com · 18h

BMG is hosting a game jam! Make a game using 3 unique mechanics, one of which is voted on by the community. Be sure to join the Discord to vote on which mechanic you wanna see! 🎃

www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 1d

It's that time again, friends! Our monthly art installation slots are now open for 2026! Have you always wanted your pieces to hang on the walls of a lovely witchy tea house? This is your chance!⁠

Call for PNW artists! Our Seattle-based queer nerd witch tea house is accepting applications for 2026 visual art installations! Email portfolio links to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com

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Alex V @alexvalente.fyi · 2d

one of the various things i have my hands in is Andrea's Adventurers, which was set up by @wisdomcheck.ca to support Cancer Research

which means we get to play games, people get to donate to make things more exciting, and there are also goodies in a silent auction! including signed Delta Green?!

Andrea's Adventurers 2025

Silent auction 'Andrea's Adventurers 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

www.32auctions.com

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Vancouver Game Expo - Tickets on sale now! 🍁 @vangameconnect.ca · 2d

Hey Vancouver Game Devs! 👋

We’re hosting a Games From Vancouver Steam event with @bbigames.bsky.social from Nov 21 - 30!

Games that can discount during the event have priority, but unreleased and non-discounted games will also be admitted on a case-by-case basis.

Apply below ⬇️

A pic of Granville Bridge at dawn with a text below that reads, “Join Our Upcoming Games from Vancouver Steam Event”.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, and Caveat: learn the difference between Competitor and Future Collaborator 😁 why fight when you can work together and do more??

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 3d

Don't let Imposter Syndrome drag you in. Take the time. Investigate the competition.

Realize they're not as intimidating as they look.

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 3d

Me: "There are already so many places out there doing the thing I want to do. I'm gonna be crushed."

Me, after investigating them:
"... Ok, so actually, none of them are offering what I'm going to do. Got it. Oh and look, AI use..."

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 3d

If y'all need even more reasons for why AI is a bad idea...
youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg?...

It Begins: An AI Literally Attempted Murder To Avoid Shutdown

YouTube video by Species | Documenting AGI

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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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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 3d

The push to use AI is bonkers to me, like...

I thought it was a free market? Which means people are free to dislike something, and AI projects lose money 95% of the time apparently.

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Mike, Débrouillard @grizzledyoungvet.bsky.social · 3d

Which one is it, Jay?

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 10d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 10d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Dave @houseatlantic.bsky.social · 4d

Grievance politics fuel far right extremism and work to instill a narrative in the target demographic (Christians, especially white ones in this case) that they are under attack and mobilized them. @charlieangus104.bsky.social makes it easy to understand. Very important work.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d

Don't be suckered in by Poilievre's campaign to launch a campaign over Canadian Christians suffering "persecution." He is running the same playbook as the AfD in Germany, Trump in the States and Farage in the UK.
My latest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesH...

POILIEVRE BRINGS THE MAGA HATE BOOK TO CANADA

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 5d

We're still looking for volunteers!

ProtoCON BC - November 7th-9th, 2025! @protocon-bc.bsky.social · 8d

Are you interested in volunteering for ProtoCON BC? While you will have shifts to fill, you'll also have time to play all the amazing games that will be available!

Reach out at www.protoconbc.ca/contact if you'd like to volunteer!

Contact — ProtoCON BC

Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 6d

They used a military helicopter to raid & terrorize an entire apartment complex full of sleeping families then posted a sizzle reel about it. The government is shut down but ICE is exempt. While the opposition plays by the rules this is where we are on the fascism timeline. 👇🏻

ICE must be destroyed.

white text on black background. The text reads "As of now, Anne Frank Rules Apply.

1. Protect targeted people and make sure they dont disappear.

2. hide targeted people and make sire they are informed.

3. deliver no usable information to any official person.

4. offer no help or facilitation to any official person.

5. surround yourself with trusted people who feel the same.

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Rain City Games @raincity.games · 6d

The first price drop has happened - everything is now 40% off!
www.raincity.games/used-game-sa...

Used Game Sale

We carry board games, party games, D&D, Magic: The Gathering, jigsaw puzzles, gundam, dice and more in downtown Vancouver and New Westminster, BC.

www.raincity.games

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🇨🇦 CCUTTRPG @ccuttrpg.ca · 6d

Do you want to know how you can support your favorite creator (Canadian or not) without spending a loonie?

Follow the guide!

How to Support Canadian Indie Creators (without spending ...

Join now to unlock exclusive Canadian Creators United content

ccuttrpg.ca

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 6d

Cyn is spot on, and as a CM, it's concerning how many companies are starting up social platforms (or social/CM agencies....) without this very basic Community Building 101 concept.

💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social · 6d

The Bluesky team being unable to separate ‘legitimate feedback en masse’ & dog piling or harassment is a trip to watch. The tone they have with everything* is that all the users are wrong, there can’t possibly be legitimate concerns or hypocrisy, & it’s honestly a bit funny to see the childishness

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CJae 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 🔜ProtoCON BC 2025! @cjae.bsky.social · 6d

I see someone hasn't caught on to "If the service is free, you are the product."

Shame it had to be the CEO.

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