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Gadget Patch
@gadgetpatch.bsky.social
aka Dana. Scrappy goblin, weathering the collapse. Technical Artist • Game Dev • Low-spec art and music dabbler • Errant Domino Clubber

(She/They)

Socials:
🐘 https://tech.lgbt/@danana_dread
Games:
🎮 https://gadgetpatch.itch.io/
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this is really just the tip of the iceberg.

if you are in minneapolis please continue to spread the word about Defend612.com ans the Monarcha line
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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編み物錯視展
January 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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I am looking into this, I've reached out to Steam directly, and I'm actively pitching stories on this subject of the platform's shaky moderation. If any other devs have experienced something similar with reviews and moderation, do reach out.
the Steam team responded to my support request and said they will not remove the review calling me a liar and ridiculing my sexual assault because of censorship concerns.
steamcommunity.com/profiles/765...
if Steam refuses to enforce their community guidelines and allows harassment, what can i do?
January 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
It worked.

Updating my Mint partition now.
Linux Propaganda
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Hmm.

Maybe I will reinstall Linux Mint this weekend. Get my Godot Dev setup migrated over.
January 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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some resources for protestors

A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them

crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions
An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their effects.
crimethinc.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Left my Twitter account on private for a year, which I figure is enough time for people to connect here or on Masto.

Finally bought it a ticket to a farm up state. Farewell.
January 10, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Recently reminded of the gal I would hang out with after programming classes at the Community College. Very clever. Always wore a cornflower blue cloak. Only name I knew her by was Dice Ferret.

I never told her, but I always thought she was cool as hell.
January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The existence of the Honmoon implies the existence of the Passteroid.
January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
We used to have a tool for this.

It's called having friends and older siblings. Or favorite streamers.
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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I see a lot of this from armchair designer players with a smug air of like, 'silly developer, didn't you realize this design space was already solved?' and it mystifies me because if that's your attitude why are you even bothering to play new games.
January 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Negative reviews of my work with good points are like.. fair! But sometimes the reviews are very genre-normative and it's hard not to feel I'm reading an opinion from the Immune Response for Keeping Games Mid. In conclusion, eat an apple before writing reviews everyone
January 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I've never said this, but Cave Story and Pixel / 天谷 大輔 are the reason I got back into making games, after being talked out of it as a young adult.

Knowing that a hobbiest taught themselves how to make a game engine, charming art, music, and to tell a beautiful little story, was very inspirational.
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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well *I'm* choosing to interpret your son as a trans girl. it's called "death of the author" look it up
January 2, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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I've said it before but one of the most revelatory things about reading Marxist theory is seeing just how much genAI automation is just the same old business-as-usual capitalism. Here's Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism in 1972.
January 5, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
The entire apparatus of American government isn't doing anything to protect its citizens from cops.

It's only a matter of time before an oppressed, silenced, abandoned public turns to violence again. And if the past was any indication, it'd be widely supported. What other avenue for change is left?
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I think I need another another one of them Winter holidays.

Not really feeling recovered yet.
January 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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goblin was nothing but kind and respectful to those little chudlings but they still treated him like shit just because he was gay
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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O primeiro ministro do Reino Unido meteu essa aqui sem nem fazer uma sinapse.
January 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It was wild to hear teachers and professors say how lucky we are to live in this peaceful democracy. How capitalism creates the best lives and most efficient industries. All that.

And life since then has been a slow but steady revelation of the utter ignorance and cope that this worldview requires.
January 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Exhausting how history keeps happening...

But fuck it, we ball.
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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i love robinson's description of this, from memory like "i had no idea how to play this spy shit, but alexander siddig was the most beautiful man i'd ever met in my life, so i decided to just play it like i had a crush on him, and bless his heart, he picked it up immediately and rolled with it"
For the unacquainted, this is literally Garak's first on-screen appearance. It's about two minutes long, but watch until the end. Trust me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeJ...
Meeting Garak | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Past Prologue
YouTube video by Star Trek Clips
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Working on some smooth low-poly 3D tiles, for subterranean environments.

Having trouble with Blender, getting the sharp seams/normals to be shared across different tile shapes. Tricky to get the edges pointing the same kind of forward, but keep the vertical smoothing. Like the general look though!
January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM