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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Meghann O'Neill @firkraags.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a player facing spreadsheet of 150 indie games from PAX. Aus, NZ and SE Asia. Game name, steam (or other) link, demo y/n, genre, comments (which I'm editing). Please share. Let's work together to connect people to Aussie indies. I'm going to tag people next. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

PAX 2025.xlsx

docs.google.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

we all got that one sullen homie whose leitmotif shares a chord progression and instrumention with an enemy whose identity is yet revealed

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Plain Simple Tim @mcjones.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s just the meta-shift. Although the new pope I think does have some passive team wide buffs.

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Plain Simple Tim @mcjones.bsky.social · 2d

You know you’re fucking up when you’re making the Catholics look cool.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Oli Potter 👉 fka somewhere at MIGW @olipotter.bsky.social · 2d

how good are video games

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 2d

knitting? craft. leatherwork? knife sharpening. knife making? actually, craft

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 3d

fethers 11:03 PM
check out digimon story: time stranger

stella (normal) 11:08 PM
Check out: Honse

fethers 11:09PM
umamusume??

stella (normal) 11:09 PM
No one was saying anime. You have humiliated your self.

fethers 11:10PM
anime? i'm talking about the horse game taking the world by storm

stella (normal) 11:10 PM
Laughs. Horses are no game

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 3d

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Absolute Jahn @jahnjira.bsky.social · 3d

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 3d

Tell you what “PAX Australia evacuated” would have been huge for posting on old Twitter (I hope everything and everyone is okay)

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Aria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 3d

getting reticulated must feel so good if you're a spline

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 3d

it already sold 1.6M btw

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 4d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 3d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 3d

developer: put it down. we don't need another one

concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

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Emilia (halloween name) @lazerwalker.com · 4d

someone on The Bad Site has pointed out that it will only be a few years until LLM training data has been polluted such that most Sankey diagrams they generate will by default contain the phrase “came in fluffer”, and I think that’s beautiful.

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Plain Simple Tim @mcjones.bsky.social · 4d

If it helps I’ll be drunk on the panel (just joking, sorta)

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Plain Simple Tim @mcjones.bsky.social · 4d

Oh you’re in town?! We should meet up

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André Arko @indirect.io · 4d

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

andre.arko.net

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austin @aparker.io · 7d

I have a modest proposal to address the Bluesky toxicity crisis.

First, we find a big boat.

Second? We get it stuck in a canal.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Plain Simple Tim @mcjones.bsky.social · 5d

While being in an airport always sucks, the Hobart airport at 9pm is nice and quiet at least

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 5d

honestly the ballsiest thing I’ve ever done was to turn in a 25 page Milton paper I had started & finished the night before it was due, along with my 2 friends who had done the same, AND submitted our equal-length group chat of running Milton shitposting we’d been doing while writing. we all got As

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 5d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev · 5d

Hey, #MIGW and #PAXAUS folks! The Yarn Spinner team will be hanging around MCEC on Saturday, and we're keen to chat with folks who use (or want to use) Yarn Spinner! @ or DM us and we'll grab a coffee and/or beer and/or small overpriced bag of chips

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