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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 8h

they don't let you play kirby's dream course anymore, due to wokeness

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merritt @merrittk.com · Jul 14

bro i saw your palette swap at the 7/11 today. yeah he was wearing red instead of white and his hair was different but he was doing all your moves. straight shooting fireballs in the parking lot. you gotta copyright your shit man

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 3d

WWGPWGP (where we go poop we go pee, the motto of poop anon)

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 4d

a good sign about the adoption of AI is that as soon as you ask people to pay for it, they stop using it. so perhaps not as inevitable as we're all constantly being told

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4d

"The party of the proletariat must learn to catch every liberal just at the moment when he is prepared to move forward an inch, and make him move forward a yard. If he is obdurate, we will go forward without him and over him."

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 5d

read about the history of the jcp again and got sad

benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 5d

guys who think it was better when wizards were called Magic-User are going to say very mean things about this guy on forums youve never even heard of

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 5d

Salvatore being a woke lib (while pretty obvious if youve ever read drizzt) might be a crushing blow for the types of guys that think TSR coming back will """"fix tabletop gaming""""

Polygon @polygon.com · 5d

The legendary author talks about his inspirations for Icewind Dale and the fantasy he's reading now

R.A. Salvatore says an online fight about Colin Kaepernick became part of his new D&D novel

The legendary author talks about his inspirations for Icewind Dale and the fantasy he's reading now

www.polygon.com

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 5d

I want write. a comic book

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 10d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 11d

cheese of truth type press conference. the neoliberal scapegoating of "immigrants are taking american jobs" has fully morphed into the fascist "immigrants are taking your medicine and they don't deserve it"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 11d

how many people are they going to lose with this? ps+ is now cheaper than gp ultimate with much of the same selections + retro gaming. if you have PC AND PS5 there is almost no reason to stay with game pass now other than day one access (in which case you can buy for a month then cancel!)

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 11d

PC Game Pass price increased from $11.99 to $16.49 per month - continues to receive Day-1 Xbox Game Studios titles including Call of Duty & Ubisoft+ Classics

www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/...

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 11d

and every AI chatbot has now added advertising and ad data sales, most predictable shoe drop of all time

benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 12d

amazon delayed my release day delivery of FFT and I won't get it til tomorrow I'm going to go ballistic

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 12d

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 13d

damn oda is going OFF in wano this shit should just be called the manifesto arc

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13d

this feels catastrophic in ways few other big industry deals have

IGN @ign.com · 13d

EA goes private in $55 billion deal, Andrew Wilson to remain as CEO. https://bit.ly/3WaGqnc

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 13d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 16d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 17d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 15d

every legitimate research they've done on how to fix this essentially says "stop doing capitalism globally, ban oil and coal". I'm sorry but I just have zero tolerance for anyone who tries to find "compromise" solutions to climate catastrophe. the solution is total global revolution, full stop

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 16d

“The German Meteorological & Physical Societies warn: "There is already a risk of warming by 3 degrees Celsius by 2050."
Some media are interpreting this as climate researchers contradicting each other. But the IPCC already warned of up to 3C for moderate emissions and up to 3.4C for high emissions.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 16d

Die Deutschen Meteorologischen und Physikalischen Gesellschaften warnen: "Bereits bis 2050
besteht das Risiko einer Erwärmung um 3 Grad."
Manche Medien machen daraus: Klimaforscher widersprechen sich. Aber schon der IPCC-Bericht warnte bei mittleren Emissionen vor bis zu 3 Grad, bei hohen bis 3,4.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 16d

this is unfortunately more important than many things you’re focusing on right now instead of

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 16d

“The German Meteorological & Physical Societies warn: "There is already a risk of warming by 3 degrees Celsius by 2050."
Some media are interpreting this as climate researchers contradicting each other. But the IPCC already warned of up to 3C for moderate emissions and up to 3.4C for high emissions.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 16d

Die Deutschen Meteorologischen und Physikalischen Gesellschaften warnen: "Bereits bis 2050
besteht das Risiko einer Erwärmung um 3 Grad."
Manche Medien machen daraus: Klimaforscher widersprechen sich. Aber schon der IPCC-Bericht warnte bei mittleren Emissionen vor bis zu 3 Grad, bei hohen bis 3,4.

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cyber PUP-typeΘΔ @mintyfresh.bsky.social · 16d

the friend you like the least is creaming their pants right now

Dork4Short @dork4short.bsky.social · 16d

HOLY SHIT.

#MTGSecretLair

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 17d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 17d

meh

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